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A pet peeve of mine-I mean one that really gripes my ass is when famous authors or movie directors make collossal mistakes about cars and other stuff and it gets totally missed by proofreaders and quality control people and gets left in the book or the film. Often for me-it just ruins the story. Here's a few that really pissed me off lately. # 1. "The Dark Half " This was a Stephen King best-seller and a movie about a writer whose bad-ass character comes to life and starts killing people after the writer "retires" the character. Overall it's a good story-but what screwed it for me is the killer drives a black '67 Toronado with a bumper sticker that says "A High Toned Son of a Bitch". That's a cool enough description of a gangster ride. However King goes on to talk about it having a 4-speed  with a Hurst shifter and him smoking the rear tires. Except Toronados are all automatics, and are all Front-wheel drive!!!  Arrrrrrggghhhh!!!  He could have left out the comment about the 4-speed and had the guy driving a '67 Riviera. They have the same bodystyle as the Toro-( cleaner and better looking I think ) and their rear-wheel drive. Or like he said if a "Macho Man" like George Stark HAD to have a 4-speed- Why didn't he give the guy a 60's or '70s Pontiac Gran Prix? Gran Prix's had a lot of power,were rear-wheel drive, and you could get a 4-speed in one well into the '70's.  Or he could have just said he "spun the tires". With 425 cubes under that long hood-my aunt had a '66 Toro-they would easily smoke the front tires. Just leave it at that. If your going to be specific-make sure your right. # 2. "Message from Vietnam". This is a Danielle Steel novel about some young men that-duh-get sent to Viet Nam and their experiences. It's set in 1965. One of the guys wants a Camaro. Ugh!!  We all know that Camaros weren't introduced until 1967. The kid should have wanted a Mustang or a GTO-both of which were introduced in 1964 and were selling like hot cakes again in '65. How hard would that have been?  Doesn't she have someone on her staff that could say-"Hey Boss-Camaros weren't introduced until 1967" "The "It" cars in '65 were the Ford Mustang and the Pontiac GTO".  And she was an adult herself in 1965-how could she not know that???  # 3. The Shawshank Redemption." Another Stephen King story about an accountant who killed his cheating wife and her lover and gets sent to a brutal prison. The movie starred Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.  He manipulates the system and the crooked warden and the crooked guards and evetually escapes with the warden's stolen money. The story spans 19 years from 1947-1966. Except when they show him out of prison at the end happily cruising down the road-he's driving a 1969 GTO convertible!!!  For God's sake they couldn't find a '66?  Or a '67 model if it was supposed to be late '66??  At least that was at the very end so it didn't ruin it while I was watching it. But it still pissed me off.  # 4. "The Butcher". This one starred Eric Roberts as an ex-boxer turned mob enforcer. It was alright for a mindless action flick-except for one very annoying thing. Everyone he met kept talking about his badass '69 Dodge Charger and offering to buy it. Except the car he was driving in the movie was a '73!!!  If they'd had a '68 or a '70 model-I'd have forgiven the filmmaker-their at least the same bodystyle except for minor trim changes-but the '71-74 models are totally different. There's no way anyone would mistake one of those for the famous '68-70 "Bullitt / Dukes of Hazzard ( and now Fast&Furious and Drive Angry ) model!!  # 5. "Basic Instinct". Sharon Stone's "Beaver Shot" in the police station got all the attention when this flick came out. Personally I thought the scene where Micheal Douglas bends Jeanne Tripplehorn over the couch and rips her clothes off was sexier than anything he did with Sharon. But I digress. Anyhow-when the IAD prick that he had a fight with turns up dead he's called to the scene. The Coroner's there and says they recovered the bullet and it's from a .38 revolver. The captian says "Give me your gun, Nick. " Douglas hands over a Glock 19-which is a 9mm automatic!!! And worse yet-the captain smells it-like he's checking to see if it was fired recently!!!  Ugh! The director should have had Douglas hand him a Smith&Wesson or Colt or Ruger .357 Magnum-which will also chamber and fire .38 Special ammo. Or-when he handed over the Glock-the Captian should have said-"Let me see your back-up". Even though police agencies nationwide made the big switch from revolvers to autos in the '80's and '90's-a lot of cops carry 5-shot .38 snubbies as a back-up weapon in addition to their dept issued 9mm, 40 S&W, or .45 ACP autoloaders. THAT would have been realistic. But the way it came off-I was like "Is the captain a moron?" He doesn't know a revolver from a semi-automatic??!!  Ugh. #6. "Waterworld". This overlong sci-fi stinker about how global warming caused the polar ice caps to melt and put 90% of the world under water starred Kevin Costner as mutant who had gills-he could breathe under water without any scuba equipment. Anyhow he ends up with the too-sexy Jeanne Tripplehorn and a little girl who has a map tattoed on her back. The evil "Smokers" led by an eyepatch wearing Dennis Hopper want the kid because they think the map leads to "Dry Land" and tons of treasure. Tripplehorn spends the entire movie barefoot in a ripped up leather-like dress that shows her smokin' body nicely. Except for the scene where she takes it off and stands nude before Costner-offering herself to him so he won't kill the kid. ( I know. It's a weird convoluted story. And Jeanne isn't the kid's mother, or aunt or sister,So why is she so protective of the brat that she's willing to fuck a mutant to save her? This is one of many plot holes you can drive a truck through.  ) Anyhow-the one that irked the shit out of me was after much trouble and mayhem Costner and Tripplehorn and the little girl and a bunch of other nice people finally make it to "Dry Land." Now apparently "Dry Land" had a Macy's or a Nordstrom's or at least a Wal-Mart. Because in this dark-post-apocalyptic future where everything is under water and people are killing each other for stuff like food and water and toilet paper-like I said Jeanne spent the whole movie barefoot in a ripped up dress-don't get me wrong-I much prefer her this way as opposed to the staid pant-suits she wore on "Criminal Minds"- but anyway-Costner is getting his boat ready to leave-and her comes Jeanne dressed in a clean white sweater, clean jeans, and wearing white sandals!!  Where did all these clean clothes come from?  Like I said did this Island at the end of the world have a Wal-Mart?  Of all the stupid shit they wanted you to swallow in this movie- her being perfectly dressed with no explanation where she got the clothes or a shower to clean up in before putting on the clean clothes-this one irked me the most. Ok the 2nd most-I was really pissed when Costner didn't screw Jeanne when she took her dress off. Guess he's a politically correct killer-mutant. They had said he had gills-maybe they omitted that he didn't have any balls. Or brains.  # 7 "Law&Order SVU". I don't have the title of the episode-but Stabler and Benson ( Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay ) are investigating a crime scene in a warehouse. Stabler finds Benson unconcious on the floor and then keeps searching and eventually points his gun at a guy who says he's another cop. Stabler says "What did you do my partner?" The guy answers "Gently put her to sleep." "She'll be fine in a couple minutes."  Back at the station Stabler and the guy are talking in an interview room and Benson walks in,holding an Ice-pack on her head and sneers "Nice sleeperhold, asshole". The guy quips "Glad you liked it". Except- a sleeperhold is a choke-hold!! If he choked her out, and gently laid her down-which he apparently did-since Stabler didn't hear her scream or hear her body or gun hitting the floor-why would she have a bump on her head that required Ice??  He didn't hit her in the head with a nightstick!! Anyhow she holds the ice on her head through the whole interview. Stupid. Anybody that's observant is going to catch stuff like this-so why don't the proof readers or the film editors??  Mastermind