Tomb Raider Movie Trivia

I'll start with a great post by Ms.Croft on TR Movie Mistakes. Feel free to add any mistakes or trivia from either TR movies.

Tomb Raider:

Revealing mistakes: When Powell pulls the knife out of his shoulder, the blade is obviously retractable.

Continuity: When Powell pulls out the knife and throws it at Alex, it is spinning. When Lara has time reverse, the knife is moving straight.

Revealing mistakes: In various scenes you can see a medium-to-dark skin patch covering Angelina Jolie's "Billy Bob"[Thornton] and dragon tattoo on her left shoulder.

Continuity: When Alex is counting down to get the first half of the triangle, he reaches 28 seconds. Lara then interrupts and has a conversation that lasts over 28 seconds. When Alex resumes his countdown he begins at 12 seconds again.

Continuity: During the final action scene Lara puts her guns on the ground. In the following sequence, when she is running from the room, she has her guns holstered at her hips yet she had no opportunity to pick them up.

Continuity: Burning cigars appear and disappear in Alex Marshall's mouth several times, e.g. during the Venice scene with Lara or in the Siberian ice cave.

Factual errors: The nine planets in our solar system all orbit in the same direction and in the same plane (with the exception of Pluto). The orrery in the final scene has the planets orbiting in all directions, on a number of planes.

Continuity: When they're in the Cambodian ancient ruins, Lara places the clock mechanism in the eye of the statue. In one of the wide shots, however, the clock is missing.

Continuity: As the locals are trying to pull down the wall to find the first piece of the triangle, Alex West takes off his shirt and starts to pull on the rope with the rest of the gang. In the next shot he is clearly seen to the left of the screen with his shirt back on as the wall topples down, jumping up and down and shouting something.

Continuity: The position of Lara's hair braid changes during the final dog sled sequence.

Continuity: Dust and tears appear/reappear and change position on Lara's clothing during the opening fight sequence with "Simon".

Continuity: When Lara touches her father's hand, her arm is up. In the close-up, it is down. A few seconds later, the arm is up again.

Revealing mistakes: During the attack on her mansion, Lara picks up a commando between her legs, and with the help of her bungee cord, throws him into two other commandos. When they fall, you can clearly see that the HK G36's they're carrying are rubber, because one of the barrels bends as it hits the ground and stays at an awkward angle.

Factual errors: Manfred Powell uses an Ericsson mobile phone without opening the "flip" mouthpiece. One cannot make/receive voice calls on that model unless the flip is opened.

Revealing mistakes: Before the attack in Lara's mansion she receives a letter from her father. Before she opens the letter she looks at it and appears to be reading something on the front of the paper, however she then flips the paper over and the paper can be clearly seen as blank.

Continuity: When Manfred Powell is laying on the tomb floor at the end of the movie, with a knife stuck in his chest, he is laying down using a small step as a "pillow" and in the next shot the step is up under the small of his back. The next shot he is using it as a "pillow" again.

Continuity: In the morning after the attack on Lara's mansion when the delivery service guy comes in to deliver mail, he comes upon Lara's mansion doors open and then as he proceeds and the camera angle changes, it now appears that both doors are shut. (Note: This is because the exteriors were shot at a real mansion, but no permission was given to film inside.)

Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life:

Continuity: During Lara and Kosa's Jeep ride to Mt. Kilamanjaro, we see the Jeep getting covered with mud, yet when they arrive at the village the Jeep is clean.

Continuity: Lara's face is forced down onto broken glass by Reiss' henchman Sean causing her to bleed on the table. When she comes up there are no marks, scratches or blood on her face.

Revealing mistakes: When Lara is kissing Terry on the boat, a piece of tape is visible holding up her towel.

Continuity: Lara cuts her arm to attract a shark, but later when she is picked up by a submarine, her wetsuit's arm is unmarred.

Continuity: When Lara reaches the boat at the beginning of the film, two men on the boat reach out and one grabs her hand. In the next shot, she is too far below for them to reach her. Next, when Lara is climbing up the boat ladder, she steps up to the top and stands up fully. In the next shot, she is further down and stepping up again.

Continuity: When Lara is shooting targets on horseback, she is shown riding sidesaddle, after the helicopter flies over she is riding astride, which is impossible on a sidesaddle.

Continuity: During the Shadow Guardian sequence a soldier that wets himself is killed by one of the beasts. A few shots later he re-appears.

Continuity: After Lara is hit by Terry in the Cradle of Life cavern, she wipes blood onto her lip, but in the next shot it isn't there. We see her the whole time and she doesn't wipe it off.

Factual errors: Sharks don't have vocal cords.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Lara claims that the Lunar Temple on Santorini was buried in a volcanic eruption around 333 BC. In fact, the explosion that destroyed most of Santorini has been dated to about 1645 BC.

Revealing mistakes: When Lara is in the Luna temple getting the orb from the ceiling there are fingerprints on the base which holds the orb before she even touches anything around it. Also the finger prints are on the opposite side than where she rolls up to.

Continuity: When Lara is fighting the guy where all the terracotta warriors are, she throws two sticks at him pinning him to a large crate. The crate can not be seen at all while they are running through the warriors. The crate appears in the background and gets closer with each scene. He isn't standing directly in front of it, until the sticks are thrown.

Continuity: They are almost touching the water when parachuting off the skyscraper, but the next close-up scene shows them coming straight down onto the ship. When Lara and Terry land on the ship, their parachutes are supposed to come down after them. You can see the chutes in their hands from the next far shot, but it happens too quickly.

Continuity: The episode of SpongeBob SquarePants playing on the television has one minute edited from the middle of it.

Factual errors: When Lara shoots the computers in Reiss' lab, she only shoots the monitors. All this does is stop displaying what the computer is doing. A knowledgeable woman like Lara should know to shoot the processor, not the monitor.

Some of these are a bit over the top.....but meh! I got these from IMDB.com!

Here's one of mine.

In tje Cradle of Life the computer monitors have black lines running through them...this only happens when computer monitors are recorded or photographed and can be edited out!

enjoy!

MsC