Factual errors so outrageous

Do you also have a list of factual errors for the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963)?

Welcome to Hollywood nihat. It's easy to overlook the kind of errors you're talking about when you are only vaguely aware of them, but almost anytime a movie features a subject that you do know a lot about you will recognize a similar total disregard for reality. Whenever you think you are learning about something you are not familiar with in a commercial Hollywood movie -- whether it's how to steal a car, how to dogfight a fighter jet, how to publish a newspaper, how to have sex, or even how to cook a pie -- you are almost always seeing a false, often totally imaginary or highly stylized, representation of whatever it might be. At least that's been my experience.

The thing is that, unless you do know something about the topic at hand, you don't notice the flaws unless you later learn the truth or try to apply what you have "learned" from Hollywood somewhere it matters.

Hey, why not make action movies completely factual? They could have shown the Albanians making a longer journey and going through sophisticated border crossings complete with bureaucratic machinations....makes for fascinating viewing. And why doesn't any character need to take a loo break? Ridiculous! Bad guys should be better shots as well, we'd get through more characters that way.

Of course the whole embassy-should-have-been-consulate thing was a joke, particularly when there were so many more obvious places he could have parked his daughter. Wait....no there weren't.

Movies have always made a habit of ignoring time differences, usually unnecessarily as he could have as easily woken his friend up. Actually, being on the golf course might have compounded the "error" as considerate golfers turn their phones off so as to not put off someone putting or driving with the unexpected ring.

But it was an action movie. Not a documentary. Enjoy, don't enjoy, but recognize it for what it is.

I liked Taken 2, so much so that I was eagerly awaiting Taken 3 through to 23.

But now I feel cheated, deceived and demoralised about the Grand Bazaar not being where it was shown or the Not an Embassy being in another city or continent or something.

I was quite happy about all this until now because I didn't know about it, or need to.

Factual errors could be overlooked because it is fiction, if people didn't live in those regions then they wouldn't find these things you mentioned unbelievable.

What i found stupid was how he was able to shoot police officers and kill alot of people (2 blown up cars) and then after crashing into the embassy get let out to roam istanbul again.

As "tehck " said, "Welcome to Hollywood nihat."

I grew up in San Francisco and am well acquainted with the layout of the city, generally. So, when they make a movie supposedly set in San Fran, I noticed some of the weird errors. For example, in the "Dirty Harry" series, I notice him driving in one part of the city and then suddenly they're way over in another part of the city but the way the movie goes you'd think he just drove into that area. And, I'm like that street doesn't go there. How'd he get to that freeway ? What the who ???

But, that's Hollywood.

I agree with you that this movie is an insult to human intelligence. Of course Hollywood doesn't take every fact into consideration when making a movie and most go unnoticed by the general public but it should be at least semi-believable or it just becomes a joke as with this movie. The old police cars and 3rd world looking city are probably made that way because they are stereo types of the American public, just like every Russian male is either named Victor, Igor, or Ivan and on and on.

The thing that gets me more is the ludicrous chase scene with the expert teenage stunt driver, the indestructible cab, the grenades tossed around the city, the cel phones with the dial tones, Rambo Neeson fighting off wave after wave of bad guys... the things that even a child would say, "that's so phony!" When you see this generation watching shows like Third Rock and Two and a Half Men, you can see that they won't be caring about differences in time zones and where the US embassy really is :)

Be glad they actually shot the movie in Istanbul.

I remember in a movie called Hostel there was supposed to be a scene in Amsterdam, which was actually shot in some Eastern-European city (as if Eastern Europe looks anything like the characteristic architecture of Amsterdam). The same thing happened in one of the Bourne movies. Istanbul got off relatively well presented compared to that.