Having recently watched 'Moon', a film from 2009 starring Sam Rockwell. Someone I had only previously known as Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2, and also someone I now know to be 44! Wow, the guy's aged well. I felt compelled to write something about such an interesting, intelligent and understated film. When it was originally released I completely over looked it, under the impression that it would be slow, boring, and weighed down by a lack of characters. I was wrong. So I'm reading around about Sam Rockwell, and Duncan Jones (who also directed Source Code), when I stumbled upon this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/trivia?tab=gf
Now I realise that this is a section that IMDB has on any film you choose to look up, and that it is on the main page. I suppose I have just never scrolled down far enough. I also realise that there are entire TV Shows dedicated to showing us all the goofs and blunders that occur in films. Take the one on the BBC, 'Great Movie Mistakes'. With Robert Webb presenting, they brought us movie mistake classics such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxDYlYZxI7E
But if you go back to the first link, which will take you to the IMDB site listing all the mistakes in the film Moon, you will see that there are 42 in total! It's not the number I find staggering, just the attention to detail that some people have put into the film whilst watching it. A great example of this is when they list the mistake where Sam pulls a tooth out of his mouth, and due to the number of roots it has, point out that he pulled it out of the wrong area.
I must say that I only notice 2 of the mistakes when I watched the film. One, where Sam is punching the numbers of the keypad 2 at a time to launch the HE3 canister at the beginning of the film. The other, when he is sick in the toilet and you can see the crew member's reflection in the metal.
Not that I needed a reason to watch Moon again, I think I've found one all the same...
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