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Corrections about Europe

posted 18 years ago by l_hoornaert
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Some Major errors about Europe in the movie:

1. Why Manchester United Supporters in London? Why didn't they pick Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall...hooligans? Manchester is situated about 330km north of London.

2. Crans-sur-Mer doesn't exsist and the location shows the landscape of southern France (St-Tropez) while they actually are on the location of Calais or Boulogne-sur-Mer in Northern France.

3. While going from Bratislava to Berlin, the map on the dinertable shows a representation of the Black forest (Schwartzwald). The Black Forest actually is located in South-Western Germany (at the frontier with Alsace, France).

4. It's impossible to see as many trees next to the Louvre in Paris.

5. It's not possible to announce the death of the pope and having a new one on the same day. They're must be a conclave with all of the cardinals of the world under the age of 80 to elect a new one...so nobody would actually believe that Scott is the new pope.

6. The map on the table showd Rome to be on the east of Berlin....Rome is to the south of Berlin.

7. Scotty says they're's no drinking age in England...The drinking age is 18 in England (16 in my country, Belgium).

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[–] mikeyg24 14 years ago

Look, at the the end of the day Americans are either too arrogant or too stupid to get right anything beyond their own shores. At the beginning, the map of Europe has the Union Jack incorporated onto both Britain and the Republic of Ireland. I'd like to bring the editor to a pub in West Belfast to explain why and see if he gets out alive. But it's a movie so just enjoy it.

Good guys may not finish last but they sure as sh*t don't finish first!

[–] dtechba 14 years ago

Kind of like Euro's think everyone living the Chicago is a gangster and we all live real close to any of the major American cities they have heard of in TV? You label someone as arrogant or stupid and proceed to be so yourself.

[–] mikeyg24 14 years ago

Kind of like Euro's think everyone living the Chicago is a gangster and we all live real close to any of the major American cities they have heard of in TV? You label someone as arrogant or stupid and proceed to be so yourself.

At least I provided evidence where's yours? I'm waiting! Didn't think you had any. Lie down before you hurt yourself.

Your's sincerely, General Joseph Liebgott

[–] dtechba 14 years ago

I lived in Europe for 12 years and was married to a Euro for 10 years with all the assorted Euro inlaws. Virtually every time I mentioned I was from Illinois the response would be, "Oh, Chicago". Sometimes they would reference the gangsters. I grew up as far from Chicago as a person in Munich did from Hamburg but they didn't get that and in their mind Hamburg was a total different culture than theirs (it was in many ways). You people who don't get out much make my teeth hurt. Back to your uninformed little existence. Evidence don't work with your ilk anyway, the Internet has made you bleeping geniuses..

[–] mikeyg24 14 years ago

You have no idea where I've been and what I've seen. At least when people say Chicago they have the right state. To drape the British flag on The Republic of Ireland is like you saying Illinois and someone saying 'Oh New York city!' By the way

Evidence don't work with your ilk anyway, the Internet has made you bleeping geniuses..

Is extremely childish. Don't spit your pacifier out just because you're not getting your way.

Your's sincerely, General Joseph Liebgott

[–] EmilyNoy 14 years ago

The only reason he says there is no drinking age is because he was ABOVE europes drinking age, but BELOW America's.

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[–] dtechba 14 years ago

I didn't someone else did, back to your uninformed little existence. And even if it was the right state it was about 60 years time difference. Either way it is evidence, something you have none of....

[–] trisis 14 years ago

well the main thing about the united thing is that why would they have a game away in paris in the summer? that wouldnt happen.

[–] summer_wine7 13 years ago

Am Dutch. Did not really appreciate the sloppy bullsh!t on Europe in this.

I'm fine with the stereotyping - that's all in the name of comedy. If all that's shown of The Netherlands is a prostitute and weed, I get that, that's what the audience wants to see, you can create funny situations with that. I WOULD appreciate if the New Zealand actress playing a Dutch woman would actually bother to attempt a more Dutch sounding accent rather than an accent that is literally half German half Russian.

I personally also didn't appreciate the Hitler imitation the kid in Germany did. I realize it's different around the world (I know because I've lived in the States and now live in Australia) how people handle the nazi history of Germany but within Europe I consider it to still be a bit delicate. German schoolkids are constantly reminded of what their grandparents did, if not by their own school then through exchanges with other European countries. Germany already knows Hitler happened and that everyone knows that... I think two generations onwards they deserve to be represented and stereotyped in a different way that doesn't link them to a massmurdering racist dictator.

[–] Alpinestar 13 years ago

Get over it people. It is a freaking COMEDY MOVIE!

It's one thing if the movie is supposed to be a historical one. But it's not. The whole purpose of watching a movie is to have fun. If you take every movie seriously, of course you will find a flaw in every single one of them. Besides, Europeans aren't the only ones that are made fun of. EVERY film starring an Asian involves martial arts, as if all Asians know is karate. Name one Hollywood movie that stars an Asian male as the romantic lead. Not ONE.

[–] hbfilmz 12 years ago

I hope you freaking understand that what he meant was that there is no separate drinking age in europe and it coincides with becoming an adult.
In America, 21 is a strict drinking age and nothing else.

[–] herjabram 12 years ago

-----that there is no separate drinking age in europe and it coincides with becoming an adult. ------

Uhm, and where do you come from?
This kind of thinking is what brought the mistakes into the movie in the first place.
First of all, Europe isn't a country, it consists of numerous countries each with individual laws and cultures; we are no United States of Europe.
There are countries where you can drink beer at 14 and hard liquor from age 16; some countries have the alcohol consuming age set to 18, and in my country, we never had a law about it in the past. When I was teenager I could buy a drink at 14, no ID or questions asked. In the last 10 years however they passed a law that prohibited alcohol use below the age of 16.
So the age varies in each and every European country, there ARE seperate laws about it, and it does NOT in every country in Europe coincide with becoming an adult.

[–] GeoDude 12 years ago

It's a comedy, portraying how stupid some Americans are, and how ignorant they can be about Europe. (I am an American who has lived in England, Germany and Hong Kong.) The only part I actually did laugh at was in the Vatican.

The whole thing is a joke intended for the amusement of American teenagers, and to amuse Europeans about how stupid some American teenagers are. Don't take it seriously. At the worst, this farce was just a very, very stupid movie. At best, it was satire in very poor taste.

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[–] rigo-armienta 11 years ago

Well, aren't you just a bag of sunshine?

[–] clark_gillies 10 years ago

1) Actually if you are from the UK you would probably get this accidental joke (think the producers/writers would probably have no idea about it though, and just got lucky) that very few Manchester United fans come from Manchester, and a lot come from southern England (most folk in the city will support Man City).

Being from the UK, the London and Amsterdam scenes really did stick out as poor location subs (even the Paris scenes I was thinking "that's not Paris" somewhat...... I know the movie was shot in Prague, and they just blue screened Big Ben and Paris into the background, but I think to most Europeans it would punch them in the face the moment they saw it.

[–] Xsplizzle 9 years ago

1) Actually if you are from the UK you would probably get this accidental joke (think the producers/writers would probably have no idea about it though, and just got lucky) that very few Manchester United fans come from Manchester, and a lot come from southern England (most folk in the city will support Man City).

That is total *beep* i am from manchester, and a red, just like a lot of my friends and family are, most folk in manchester do not support city, its about a 60-40 split.

the saying that most people from manchester dont support united is just drivel spouted by southerners or anti united people

[–] Mikee333 8 years ago

They go to a techno club, which still plays Americanized rock/pop. A real techno club would never play this garbage.