CONTINUITY CONTINUED

While everyone seems to love a continuity error or an obvious gaffe in films (Arnie’s self-fixing Porsche in Commando, for example, or a visible overhead mike in Manhunter), I have no time for mistakes in today’s CGI-heavy films! If you’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a film to then still release it littered with easily fixable mistakes is unforgivable!

I’d like to respond to Greg’s letter [TF268] about continuity issues, as I’ve identified similar consistency problems with a certain secret agent who has a licence to kill. You see, one minute he’s Scottish, then he’s a suave Aussie, an eyebrow-raising Englishman, broodingly Welsh, a dashing Irishman and now an intensely macho English mystery man. What next?

Well, they’re apparently sticking with the intensely macho English mystery guy for one more go-around, but after that, it’s anyone’s guess. Maybe a CGI hydra of all previous 007s, to keep everyone happy? Mind you, Dialogue’s not sure Miss Moneypenny’s hat stand would be able to cope with all the chapeauchucking. As for CGI-made mistakes, we know exactly what you mean; all those chances Gollum had to mend his ways, or seek counselling, or learn to fish with his hands not his face, and he still carried on, biting hands like an overtired toddler. If you haven’t settled down by the time Dialogue’s counted to three, you’re going in the lava!