Moon Movie Details
Moon taglines:The last place you’d ever expect to find yourself
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| Directors: Duncan Jones | |||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 35,131 votes |
“Moon” 2009 by Duncan Jones – Movie Goofs
“Moon” Plot Summary
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.
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“Moon” Goofs List
- Factual errors: Sam realizes that he has lost a tooth when feeling around in his lower jaw. However, the tooth that he pulls out of the toilet has three roots, meaning that it is a maxillary (upper) molar. Mandibular (lower) molars only have two roots.
- Factual errors: There should be a 2.5 second lag in the two scenes where there is real-time communication with earth.
- Continuity: In the scene when Sam is working on his model and the other “Sam” is banging a ping pong against the wall, he lays his racket on the table. A few shots later a small wooden house appears beside the racket, that no one put there.
- Continuity: In the scene where Sam is wearing the yellow jumpsuit, the Sam in the background removes 2 food containers from the wall storage unit. A couple of seconds later the storage unit is full again.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Sam first launches a full canister of Helium-3 back to Earth, he repeatedly hits two keys at a time while punching in the launch code.
- Revealing mistakes: In some scenes outside the station the dust moves as if there was an earth-like atmosphere.
- Revealing mistakes: There are many shots outside the station where sunlight and stars are visible at the same time. Even without an atmosphere this is not possible because the contrast between the bright ground and the dark sky is too high.
- Factual errors: While the scenes outside of the base aim at establishing lower gravity, the internal scenes clearly happen at earth (rather than moon) gravity, which becomes obvious in the movement of Sam and the speed of falling things.
- Continuity: When the dying Sam gets up to the alarm clock he picks up a tissue to wipe his nose, but before he blows his nose we can see that the tissue is red.
- Revealing mistakes: The hook for the crane on the second rover can be seen swinging back and forth rigorously. The hook would behave quite differently in the low gravity environment.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Helium is an inert gas and does not participate in chemical reactions. However, it can participate in nuclear fusion. The isotope helium-3 is particular interesting to fusion researchers, and is more abundant on the Moon than Earth.
- Continuity: When the two Sam clones are going to put the first clone back into the crashed Rover, the second clone puts the first clones helmet on and we can see that the visor is dusty and bloody. In the next scenes the visor is spotlessly clean.
- Factual errors: After Sam has made the video call to Earth, you see a shot of the full Earth above his vehicle. Since his base is on the far side of the moon, Earth would never be visible. Being the moon about a third the diameter of the Earth, it would have been a several hours or even a couple of days drive for it to be possible to get from “the far side of the moon” to to some place where the earth is visible up in the sky.
- Continuity: When Sam first enters the rover to go to the harvester, a big apparatus is visible near the door of the rover, then it disappears.
- Continuity: When Sam makes a video call to Earth, he is sitting in the rover, but he is not wearing the G-suit – which is what he needs to get to the rover from the base – he’s wearing only the bloodied legging suit.
- Revealing mistakes: Computer monitor reads “sattelite link lost” (with “satellite” misspelled). Look for this right after GERTY tells Sam he can’t go outside, and at the first Eliza transmission
- Continuity: In the scene where Sam is wearing the yellow jumpsuit, the height of the zipper changes numerous times.
- Crew or equipment visible: The wire running to Sam Rockwell’s microphone is visible several times through his t-shirt.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Sam is marking his “time” with the faces in dry-erase marker, you can see the outlines where previous dry-erase marker has been wiped away, leaving a negative image of the smiley face in its stead. However the base is “reset” and previous markings wiped away at the end of each “shift”, so these residual markings are likely if not expected.
- Continuity: SPOILER: At the beginning of the movie there are 2 moon rovers, then Sam crashes one, after that there is only one rover for the next Sam to go inspect the harvester. This leaves one good rover, and one crashed rover. However, when both Sams go to find the jamming towers, they use 2 separate rovers, implying a third rover that was not present in the opening scenes (because the other rover is horribly wrecked beyond repair).
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