Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Movies I Have Seen - August 2025 (1 movie)

 


4 Movies


Rescue Dawn. 2006, Starring 



Hollywood Suite, August 7, 2025. Soundtrack: "



Anachronisms: 
In the supply scene, before setting out for the mission, the U.S. passport Dieter shows is not only the wrong color (blue rather than green), but is also the smaller size in use today rather than the larger size in use at the time.

A Pelican case is visible during the first briefing. Pelican cases were not introduced until 1976.

When flying the Skyraider, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is wearing a SPH-4 Helicopter pilot helmet that is missing it's visor assembly. In addition to missing a major portion of the helmet, this helmet was not in use during the time period of the film (it wasn't seen until the 1970s), and was not used by the pilots of fixed wing aircraft.

At the beginning (set in 1966), the pilots are making fun of a survival film. However, the survival film was made in 1967 according to the documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly".

In the supply scene, the supply sailors are wearing modern blue utility shirts that were not in use until the 1990s.

In the supply room scene, the sailors are shown with name tapes, and "U.S. NAVY" tapes on their dungaree uniform shirts. The US Navy did not use these until 1992. During the Viet Nam Era, Sailors either stenciled or hand printed their last name above their left breast pocket.

Dengler has a navy blue passport; U.S. passports of the time were green. Near the end, a nurse removes clear tape from the IV in his hand; clear medical tape was not in use at the time.

The aircraft carrier presented in the opening sequence is supposedly the USS Ranger, however Dengler's plane takes off from an entirely different vessel.

The blue truck taking Dengler from the village in the beginning is clearly a contemporary model, not a 1960-era model.

When Dieter is captured by the Pathet Lao, the leader is wearing woodland camouflage pattern Battle Dress Uniform pants, which were not issued until 1981.

The SKS rifles carried by the Pathet Lao have had their bayonets removed, something not seen in a wartime rifle. However, many SKSs imported to the United States had the bayonets removed in order to make them legal for sale in California.

The rescue helicopter that lands at the base is a UH-1N, a variant that did not see service until 1970.

The protagonist's funny and "inspiring" words at the close of the film sound like a Zen or Confucian quote picked up in captivity but, a) they were spoken first by an American (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt), and, b) Alice didn't say those words until 1974, 8 years after Dengler was rescued.


The Abyss. 1989, Starring 


Super Seal Rover is credited as Big Geek and Mini Rover Mk II is credited as Little Geek


Hollywood Suite, August 6, 2025. Soundtrack: "



End Of Days, Inc. 2015 (Canadian), Starring 



Hollywood Suite, August 5, 2025. Soundtrack: Composers - Maria Molinari and Rohan Staton. 


Looper. 2012, Starring 



Hollywood Suite, August 7, 2025. Soundtrack: "



Anachronism: 

Joe tells Sara in no uncertain terms that Abe's gang or his loop or both would arrive in 15 minutes, so she had just that much time to take Cid and run far away. Then, Kid Blue captures old Joe and takes him to Abe where all that fight and killings takes place, then old Joe escapes, then young Joe kills Kid Blue after all that shooting, then young Joe takes the van and silver and reaches Sara's farm, all this must have taken some hours. That 15-minute deadline, however, meant nothing for Sara, and she was still packing things after all these hours are gone by and leaves just in the nick of time when both Joes arrive.

















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