Corrected entry: Right before Bond detonates the C-4 in the briefcase of diamonds, all the soldiers are scrambling to get the weapons out of the location and the firing squad is just about to fire at Bond. People are rushing around, there are fires in the background, and there is STILL someone examining the diamonds with an eyepiece. Why continue to examine the diamonds at this moment? (00:08:05)
Corrected entry: In the fencing scene, Gustav Graves says "Positions...play...en garde". He should say "Positions...en garde...play/fence".
Correction: Actually Gustav Graves only says "en garde", it's the caller/referee that says "positions... play".
Corrected entry: Why didn't the British/Americans fire missiles at the plane carrying Graves and the controls for Icarus instead of firing at the Icarus itself? Surely between the U.S. and British armed forces, they would have enough firepower to destroy a single bulky, poorly maneuverable jet. For that matter, why didn't they just fire missiles at it before it took off from the airfield?
Correction: The Icarus was targeted because it was a weapon located in space, owned by a known socio-path. The plane was not a legitimate target since it stayed in North Korean territory. They could not strike the plane since this would be an unprovoked act of war. Notice how Falco commented on a counter-strike AFTER the beam crossed the DMZ?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bond has just used his ring to break the glass floor and Miranda Frost is chasing him though the trees and plants, he gets to the rope (of sorts) which I assume is connected to a electronic pulley system. So as far as I can see, Jinx would have a remote control or something to control when the rope goes down, up, stops, etc. Bond obviously doesn't have this, but manages to grab the rope and shoot upwards on it. (01:26:50)
Correction: The pulley could work by a tug of the line which activates the winch upwards.
Corrected entry: M tells Falco that if he had disclosed that Frost and Moon were on the fencing team at Harvard together, this all could have been avoided. Considering that nobody knew that Graves and Moon were the same person until Bond discovered it, how would that have helped?
Correction: It would not have mattered if M knew that Moon and Graves were the same person; she would have still been able to identify Frost as the mole within MI6.
Corrected entry: Helicopters do not need to have their engines running in order to avoid crashing. At the end of the film, Bond is desperately trying to start the helicopters engine to stop crashing. In reality, all he needed to have done was to perform an autorotation. This is a maneuvre which is used to arrest the decent rate in an engine-out emergency in helicopters, and allows a smooth landing. (01:59:15)
Correction: Autorotation is used when the engine has failed. If the engine can work it is better to try and use that. Autorotation is an emergency procedure and a risk in itself.
Corrected entry: James Bond is a highly trained, highly skilled secret agent/assassin. After he sleeps with Agent Frost, she removes the bullets from the magazine of his gun. Later in the film he seems surprised and shocked that this could have happened. Every handgun is significantly heavier with rounds in it. Surely 007 would be able to feel the weight of his empty gun was different when he picked it up the next morning.
Correction: According to the novelization of the film, the gun has not been emptied of bullets, but has had its firing pin bent. Therefore, there will not be any difference in weight, just a gun that cannot fire.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, M says something along the lines of, 'Well, if you had disclosed that Frost and Moon were on the fencing team at Harvard together, this all could have been avoided'. I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt that the U.S. government would/could have had any reason to prevent MI-6 from getting a roster of any university fencing club for one of their own agents. Just as a little test, I found out the current members of the Harvard fencing team in less than 2 minutes by hitting Harvard's athletics web page. MI-6 is in serious, serious trouble if they can't find a roster form, given the ages of Moon and Frost, at most 6 or 7 years ago.
Correction: M isn't saying that MI6 couldn't find out. They didn't know to look in the first place. M is saying that the CIA knew tha Moon and Frost were acquainted before Frost joined MI6 and that the CIA didn't inform MI6 of this. Which caused MI6 to miss find out about her role as the mole.
Corrected entry: We see James turn his car invisible near the ice palace. When the villain with the diamonds in his face switches on the heat sensor thing in his car we see James Bond's car glow red. Would that actually happen? Not likely, only the engine would show red along with James Bond's body, not the whole car. Especially right after it was started after staying in the cold for a long time.
Correction: It could be that the whole car is heated to prevent frost from forming and ruining the adaptive camouflage.
Corrected entry: When Bond is talking to the General, he has his handcuffs on behind his back. When he starts walking down to the other side of the boardwalk his hands are at his sides without any restraints, and no-one undid them.
Correction: He doesn't have handcuffs on here, he just keeps his hand behind his back. Just look at the point where he is 'helped' out of the truck: two people hold his arms, but without him wearing cuffs.
Corrected entry: Why can the lasers burn through metal in an instant, but take a few split seconds to burn through Mr. Kill's skull?
Correction: The lasers only burn away the surface of the metal floor and therefore the laser would take a while longer to burn through a whole skull.
Corrected entry: In the Cuban clinic, Bond unplugs a wire from a camera that's covering the secret entrance. However, he only unplugs the wire that controls the zoom/focus (you can see the wire goes to a small motor or something on top of the lens). The power and video feed comes/goes from the thicker cable coming out the back of the camera into the wall.
Correction: With that cable pulled out, the shutter will close to protect the optics. Hence the camera will work but the image will be black.
Corrected entry: At the very beginning of the big car chase, when bond gets in the Aston Martin. We see that the car is invisible when it's struck by a guy riding a skidoo. But when the Aston reappears visible, the rear of the car is completely undamaged.
Correction: Come on, this is James Bond! I would assume that the car's makers in the film from the "Q Branch" would have fitted super-strong armoured plating as standard, following on from Tomorrow Never Dies where a big deal was made out of the hard armoured skin.
Corrected entry: When James and Jinx enter the Antonov, they climb through a door in the cargobelly-floor. In a pressurized aircraft there is absolutely no connection between the pressurised cabin and the wheelwells.
Correction: The Antonov 124 (An-124-100M) has a passage between the wheelwell and the cargo bay. In there are the controls for adjusting the kneeling mechanism for the landing gear. This compartment is pressurized.
Corrected entry: When James Bond is about to jump into the hole he has made in the ice, he takes off his jacket. When he re-emerges in the tropical garden area, he takes his jacket off again.
Correction: They are not the same jacket. Look when Bond takes off his jacket before jumps into the hole, he is wearing another jacket underneath. It's this one that he takes off in the tropical garden area.
Corrected entry: For Frost to empty Bond's gun, she would have had to eject the clip, remove six bullets, rack the slide to clear the one from the chamber, replace it, lock the slide back into place and hide the bullets. How could she have done all this without Bond noticing?
Correction: She could have just replaced the clip with an empty one, making the process a bit easier to do while he's asleep.
Corrected entry: Bond cuts a hole in the ice so that he can swim across to the huge greenhouse. He pushes the circular section that he just cut out down then drops into the hole and starts swimming. Two problems with this - first, the entire area is sitting on a frozen lake. If he pushed the circular block of ice down, it should have just bobbed back up to the surface. Second, when we see the underwater shot of him entering the frozen lake the circular piece of ice he cut out is nowhere to be seen.
Correction: If he'd kicked it at any kind of angle, it would have bobbed up under a layer of ice, not right back into the hole - we never see the very top from underneath.
Corrected entry: In the car chase scene between Bond and Zao you can see a diamond falling off Zao's face.
Correction: It's not a diamond, but a chunk of snow from his coat.
Corrected entry: In the sexy scene where Jinx exits the water in the bikini, when the wave goes down you can see her bikini bottom and that there is no white belt, then it cuts to Bond briefly, then back to Jinx still walking through the water, and the belt is on her now.
Correction: The belt is always visible - you can see it poking just above the surface of the water. In widescreen, anyway.
Corrected entry: I can understand how they got the car's body invisible - it's explained by microscopic cameras and a light emitting coating (a technology that's actually being experimented with). But how did they get the windows invisible? There can be nothing mounted on those because then you would not be able to see through them. And if there was nothing on them, the bad guys would see Bond's upper body floating around. This also applies to the headlights, brake lights, etc...
Correction: The windows could be double-faced - ie. have projectors and cameras on both sides of each window. When the car is visible, one side of the pane displays what the other side sees and vice-versa. When the car is invisible, the passenger-side outer pane displays what the driver-side outer pane sees. The passenger-side inner pane displays what the passenger-side outer pane sees. Therefore, the bad guys "see through" Bond, but Bond can see the bad guys.
Correction: It's his job. The diamond expert has nothing to do with regard to removing the weapons, nor to do with Bond. And given his boss's violent temper, it would undoubtedly be wise for him to finish the examination of the diamonds immediately, rather than stop and have to explain why to the Colonel.
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