Corrected entry: Cleaning 'pigs' in pipelines move at the same speed as the oil or gas in the pipelines - which is quite slow. For example, the oil in the Alaska pipeline moves at 6-9 mph. A 'pig' would not run with the speed or make the sound shown in the escape scene.
Jacob La Cour
29th May 2009
The Living Daylights (1987)
15th Jan 2008
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: The cellophane on Cara's flowers is foggy in the beginning of the chatting scene after the concert, but when Kamran Shah arrives, the cellophane is clear.
Correction: Quite simply the condensation on the cellophane has evaporated as the flowers and packaging warm up to room temperature.
7th May 2010
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: When Necros is clinging to Bond's boot hanging from the plane, and Bond starts cutting open his shoe laces - why didn't Necros just grab hold of the net again?
Correction: He could barely maintain his grip on the boot using both hands, if he took one hand off - even for a fraction of a second - he could have fallen. Apparently from his point of view he could not safely grab the net, and for all we know he was frozen in panic in the last few seconds before falling.
6th Feb 2008
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: The wheel of Bond's car is cutting no more than 4-5 cm into the ice. Nevertheless the ice cut is 15-20 cm deep. And it's not just broken off by the weight of the police car. It is a totally clean cut, so the ice was cut with a tool which reached deep into the ice.
Correction: Your conclusion is based on your knowledge of how the filmmakers produced the cut in the ice. The reality is that lake ice is treacherous and is strongest near the surface. Bond makes a cut on the surface of the ice, so the ice is weakened along this cut line. Add the weight of a car on top, and absolutely the ice might give, and cleanly at that.
15th Jan 2008
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: Q asks Bond to whistle the first bars of Rule Britannia. The part he whistles matches the words 'Rule Britannia'. But the first words of that song are 'When Britain first at Heaven's command'.
Correction: Bond whistles the first bars of the chorus, as most people would. It's the well-known part, and clearly what Q intended, as it works.
Correction: That's because most pigs are not specially designed to carry defecting Soviet citizens to the west. It would need to be faster as there is a limited air supply on board and speed is of the essence. This is also alluded to in the film as Bond has to let an unusual amount of pressure build up to 'fire' the pig down the pipeline and the supervisor's control panel goes haywire when this happens.