Incongruous Movie/TV shite

[Pilkicadadoodle]

Anything that's glaringly out of place, anachronisms etc.

The cobbled together London shot from the dreadful 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.





Set in the 1970s, the Gervais/Merchant film Cemetery Junction features an anachronistic Mini Mayfair in a few scenes: 



 

[DSdriver]

UPVC window frames as well.

[dugong]

There was a Star Trek episode set during WW2 with an 80s 2CV in it, I remember that.

[chaseracer]

^ Also, in 'A Bridge Too Far', the Dutch resistance hide behind an overturned car that very definitely has a distinctive curved trailing arm and three studs on the outboard brake drum...

[Ghosty]

Not this again...

 

The entirety of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes.

 

So many post-2001 numberplates used to 'correct' ages of vehicles.

Series 3 Allegro outside the police station in 1973.

The Quattro (the wheel offset changes sometimes!)

Sure a Rover 800 appears in the side of a shot at one point.

 

Last episode, Quattro's dead. Gene comes back to his office and there's a Merc 190D brochure on his desk IIRC.

190D? Effing diesel? I assume they were thinking of a 2.3-16 or something and couldn't find that brochure.

 

So much went on getting little details right, and they just didn't care for cars in a show where the cars mattered.

[Junkman]

DKW Munga in The Eye Of The Needle.

 

[Pilkicadadoodle]

Not this again...

 

The entirety of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes.

 

So many post-2001 numberplates used to 'correct' ages of vehicles.

Series 3 Allegro outside the police station in 1973.

The Quattro (the wheel offset changes sometimes!)

Sure a Rover 800 appears in the side of a shot at one point.

 

Last episode, Quattro's dead. Gene comes back to his office and there's a Merc 190D brochure on his desk IIRC.

190D? Effing diesel? I assume they were thinking of a 2.3-16 or something and couldn't find that brochure.

 

So much went on getting little details right, and they just didn't care for cars in a show where the cars mattered.

Sorry if it's an annoyingly repeated subject, I'm new to the forum. 

 

Surely Ashes to Ashes' most unforgivable moment: 

 

[PiperCub]

The Land Rover at the end of 'Ice cold in Alex'

[motormatt]

Not this again...

 

The entirety of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes.

 

So many post-2001 numberplates used to 'correct' ages of vehicles.

Series 3 Allegro outside the police station in 1973.

The Quattro (the wheel offset changes sometimes!)

Sure a Rover 800 appears in the side of a shot at one point.

 

Last episode, Quattro's dead. Gene comes back to his office and there's a Merc 190D brochure on his desk IIRC.

190D? Effing diesel? I assume they were thinking of a 2.3-16 or something and couldn't find that brochure.

 

So much went on getting little details right, and they just didn't care for cars in a show where the cars mattered.

I found the idea of Gene Hunt driving a diseasel quite shocking.

[Ghosty]

Should've been an E28 528i.

[Bren]

The Krays - when Kate Hardie runs away from the shop, you can see a metro and a range rover IIRC.

Likewise Mc Vicar - the convoy at the beginning passes renault 5's and other cars later than the 1960's.

[richardthestag]

Stag on Brighton seafont in Quadrophenia

 

[brickwall]

The Land Rover at the end of 'Ice cold in Alex'

 

The LAnd Rover in all ww2 movies.

[captain_70s]

Surely Ashes to Ashes' most unforgivable moment: 

 

Nah, they've got the excuse that "none of it was real" for the ultimate cop out. (no pun intended).

 

Even the Cortina was a 1974 on false plates, and don't forget the knackered and rusty Avenger estate that would have been a mere one year old!

 

[richardthestag]

aside from a Jag that would be max 9 years old at the time

 

 

What about inapropriate road furniture?

 

 

 

[AndyW201]

190D? Effing diesel? I assume they were thinking of a 2.3-16 or something and couldn't find that brochure.

They'd have had a job getting hold of a 2.3-16 brochure in 1982. It didn't come out in the UK till '85... Still wouldn't have been the biggest balls-up they committed I suppose.

[twosmoke300]

Nah, they've got the excuse that "none of it was real" for the ultimate cop out. (no pun intended).

 

Even the Cortina was a 1974 on false plates, and don't forget the knackered and rusty Avenger estate that would have been a mere one year old!

 

 

Avenger rusty at a year old , sounds bob on to me😃

[chaseracer]

Aye.  I helped the Owd Giffer with major body repairs on his, before its fifth birthday.

[Junkman]

This scene in Goodfellas is set in 1963:

 

 

Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and Tommy DeVitto (Joe Pesci) stand behind this clearly identifiable 1965 Chevrolet Impala.

Also note the 1965 Cadillac on the billboard above the diner.

[Junkman]

In Beverly Hills Cop II, Axel Foley (Eddy Murphy) uses a Ferrari 328GTS

 

 

in the sedate and a Ferrari 308 GTS

 

 

in the tyre smoking scenes.

[Junkman]

In Indiana Jones And the Last Crusade, set in the pretext to WWII, the Germans have 1977 Honda 500 XLs:

 

 

Had they been able to time travel, you would be speaking my language now, believe me.

[Junkman]

Moonrise Kingdom is set in 1965, yet the cops have a '68 Plymouth wagon:

 

 

There is also a '71 VW 1302:

 

[Junkman]

On one and the same road trip in Driving Miss Daisy, her black Cadillac switches from a 1955 Fleetwood 60 Special

 

 

to a 1956 Series 62 Sedan De Ville

 

 

and back several times.

[martc]

 

What about inapropriate road furniture?

 

 

Sort of related - the otherwise excellent Battle of Britain film featured a cottage with a 1960's glass panelled door, plastic bell push and an up-and-over metal garage door. As well as 60's adornments to the buildings, lots of the women had 1960's hair cuts. The interweb is awash with inaccuracies regarding the aircraft (to summarise the Spitfires are too "young" and the 109's, being Spanish, built have completely different engines/cowls).

 

And car related - there is at least one Land Rover to be seen, and, in the German scenes there are several post war US built lorries and half-tracks.

 

When this subject was discussed before I mentioned the GWR Pannier Tank engine being used on a Yorkshire railway in the Railway Children. I won't mention it this time.

[Junkman]

In Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, they had

 

- a 1949 Jeep M35:

 

 

- 1949 M35s:

 

 

- a 1944 M26:

 

[Junkman]

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery took place in 1953. When they made a film about it in 1958, which is indeed set in 1953, they didn't give a toss about

period correctness. Consequently, it's awash with mid to late 50s finporn to make the ones with a fin-fetish (I know you are out there and you know who you are)

ejaculate repeatedly.

 

 

Bonus: A Mopar dealership is prominently featured:

 

[anonymous user]

The 1990 film Let Him Have It, set in the 1950s, a scene set in the bus station café where they are looking out of the window as a local big-shot drives past in his yank convertible, in the background a nice blue Allegro

[Negative Creep]

In Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, they had

 

- a 1949 Jeep M35:

 

 

- 1949 M35s:

 

 

- a 1944 M26:

 

 

 

And Ben Affleck flew a Spitfire V, not introduced until a good year after The Battle of Britain. Could point out lots of anachronisms with the likes of Tora Tora Tora or The Battle Britain but they get a pass since it was use either aircraft that looked close to the real thing or models

[eifion]

There's at least one post-'67 final front Citroen DS in The Day of The Jackal, set in 1963.

 

[Junkman]

In Dr. No James Bond is chased by this 1939 La Salle hearse:
 

 
When it goes over a cliff, it miraculously had morphed into a Humber Super Snipe hearse: