Thursday, October 4, 2012

T.V screw ups!!

Watched the new show "Vegas" with Dennis Quaid and Micheal Chiklis of "The Shield" fame. Good stories, and the always sexy Carrie Anne Moss ( The Matrix ) as the District Attorney is good. However I expected much better quality control from producer Nicholas Pileggi- ("Goodfellas" and "American Gangster".)  The show is set in 1960. Yet Carrie Anne Moss drives a 1963 Thunderbird, Micheal Chiklis has a 1962 Lincoln with the suicide doors, and Dennis Quaid drives a 1964 Dodge Pickup. Like Ditka says on Monday Night Football- "Come on, Man!!".  Hollywood is notorious for these vehicular bungles-just this past weekend the Stephen King Blockbuster-"The Shawshank Redemption" was on one of the cable channels. It's about a guy that goes to prison for 19 years for a crime he didn't committ. It's set from 1947-1966. At the triumphant finale-the hero- Tim Robbins- is driving down the Pacific coast highway in a 1969 GTO convertible. Aaaauuuuggghhh!! In the recent revenge flick "Faster" the Rock has what appears to be a 1970 SS396 Chevelle as that's the front end it has. However it also has the round taillights in the bumper like the '71-72 models!!  The rip-off of the Oscar Bonavena / Joe Conforte beef that resulted in Bonavena's death-"Love Ranch" starring Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren-has the boxer driving a 1979 Trans-Am. Except the movie is set in 1976!!  ( 1976 is also when the real-life event happened .) This kind of stuff can drive the observant person up the wall. On an episode of  "Cold Case" the teenage-boy murder victim had a poster of a barefoot Farrah-Fawcett Majors sitting on the hood of a white and blue 1976 Mustang II. This was obviously a "Charlie's Angels" promo poster-that's the car Farrah and later- Cheryl Ladd's character both drove on the show. No problem there, unless you remember that "Charlie's Angels" debuted in September 1976, and this particular "Cold Case" episode was set in 1972!!  The show only lasted 8 episodes before it was cancelled-but several years back they tried to have a "Walking Tall" TV series. It starred Bo Svenson who had been in the 2 sequels-( Joe Don Baker was in the original movie ) and it had good writing and good action, but everyone was driving late 1970's cars. This is huge problem because Buford Pusser was sheriiff of McNairy County Tennessee from 1962-1970, and the show alluded to timely world events like Martin Luther King's assasination. So how did Buford have a 1977 Dodge police car in 1968? I could go on, but you get the drift. People that aren't into cars don't see why it makes us so angry. Here's why-how'd you like to watch a western set in the Civil War and have the gunfighter pull a WWI era .45 Auto instead of a revolver?  How'd you like to watch a movie about WWII fighter pilots and see an F14 or a Vietnam era Huey helicopter go by? Would that be ok? Mastermind         

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