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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | IMDb is the {{w|Internet Movie Database}}, a | + | {{incomplete|Created by a WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | IMDb is the {{w|Internet Movie Database}}, a web site that contains detailed information about movies and TV shows. One of the sections in many entries is "Goofs". This may list bloopers, inconsistencies, implausible actions, anachronisms, etc. in the movie. The comic makes fun of this with several goofs that simply point out differences between something in the movie and reality; but since the movie is fiction (in this case, a science fiction film which includes a space detective, a cybernetic dog, blimp drones, and a hologram kissing scene), it's not expected to exactly mirror reality. | ||
− | In the first goof, | + | In the first goof, the street doesn't actually exist in the city in which the movie is set. Unless the address is important to the plot (Manhattan has a number of streets with well known character, e.g. the main theatre district is on Broadway, Fifth Avenue is a major shopping district, Wall Street is known for large financial institutions), screenwriters often just make up street names. |
− | In the second example, they point out that there's no harpoon store at the location where the characters obtain a harpoon in the movie, and the nearest actual harpoon store doesn't have a display window. Movies take liberties with details like this for plot expediency, | + | In the second example, they point out that there's no real harpoon store at the location where the characters obtain a harpoon in the movie, and the nearest actual harpoon store doesn't have a display window like the one in the movie. Movies usually take liberties with details like this for plot expediency, it's not considered a goof. The text's reference to the "nearest harpoon store" may also be a mistake in itself; when I try googling "Manhattan harpoon stores", all I get are links related to {{w|Harpoon Brewery}} -- breweries and taprooms that serve this beer. |
− | In the third example, the background of a scene is of | + | In the third example, the background of a scene is actually a view of Downtown Vancouver. For financial reasons, many movies are not filmed in the same location where they're set, and Vancouver frequently stands in for many cities. |
− | The title text describes an actual anachronism. The film is set in 2018, but there's a billboard for the movie | + | The title text describes an actual anachronism. The film is set in 2018, but there's a billboard for the movie "Avengers: Age of Ultron". That movie came out in 2015, while the next film, "Avengers: Infinity War", came out in 2018. Assuming the movie was filmed before 2018, the filmmakers wouldn't have known what films would be current at the time it would be released. They could have chosen to set it 3 years earlier, but again, unless the specific date it significant to the plot, it's common to set a film at about the same time it's released. |
− | The title text also mentions the possibility of a self-reference | + | The title text also mentions the possibility of a self-reference -- the billboard could be for this film itself, since it's being released at the same time it's set. This assertion that in-universe self-reference is plausible is probably another example of the goof's writer failing to understand the basic "premise of fiction", since most movies don't exist within the fictional world they portray. |
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+ | ===Goofs=== | ||
+ | There is no entry for a film featuring an agent Glennifer on IMDB. Randall is clearly failing to do basic research. | ||
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+ | On the real IMDb, each item in the Goofs section would be listed under a category such as "Errors in geography" (which might apply to the three goofs listed in the main cartoon) or "Anachronisms" (which might apply to the goof in the title text). However, no such category is displayed here. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[An excerpt from an Internet Movie Database web page showing a list of goofs from a film. Each item has some small illegible text below it, which on the real IMDb would say something like "7 of 72 found this interesting | Share this". The first and third items have a faint yellow | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
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+ | :[An excerpt from an Internet Movie Database web page showing a list of goofs from a film. Each item has some small illegible text below it, which on the real IMDb would say something like "7 of 72 found this interesting | Share this". The first and third items have a faint yellow tinted background. The third item is only partially visible at the bottom of the "screen".] | ||
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:[List:] | :[List:] | ||
:The space detective's office is on Chestnut Ave, but Lower Manhattan has no street by that name. Agent Glennifer pursues the cybernetic dog onto what is clearly Ludlow Street. | :The space detective's office is on Chestnut Ave, but Lower Manhattan has no street by that name. Agent Glennifer pursues the cybernetic dog onto what is clearly Ludlow Street. | ||
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:The apartment in the background of the hologram kissing scene actually exists in downtown Vancouver. We called the owners, who confirmed they had no residents named [...] | :The apartment in the background of the hologram kissing scene actually exists in downtown Vancouver. We called the owners, who confirmed they had no residents named [...] | ||
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:Sometimes the IMDB "Goofs" section really seems to struggle with the whole premise of fiction. | :Sometimes the IMDB "Goofs" section really seems to struggle with the whole premise of fiction. | ||
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