“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema — and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.” (I was slack-jawed by the end of this.)
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This is the kind of investigative journalism we need in this country today. Next year's Pulitzer guaranteed.
I grew up wondering why so many TV shows with settings in Africa and South America had kookaburra sound effects. After all I’d hear them outside my bedroom window. But they were not jungle birds.
It always took me out of the action when watching Tarzan.
Living in LA for a long time, and being fairly map/geographically oriented (ha!), edits where movies would jump miles and miles would drive me nuts. Until I learned to settle down, not unlike the cited 555 in phone numbers.
Besides, there’s a bigger principle at work, one Hollywood regards as it’s Prime Directive: “Does it look cool?” Everything else will be sacrificed on that altar.
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