Friday, 25 February 2022

Newspaper Goofs in Films

Four categories. One epic post.

Let the geekery begin.

Conflicting information

The following headlines (and sub-headings) have absolutely nothing to do with articles.

Read all about it.

Child's Play 3
Max Payne
Batman Returns
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Monster in the Closet
Sliver
The Karate Kid Part III
The Violent Kind
Maniac Cop



Rocky III






Rocky IV



Rocky V



Repetition

Sentences, and even paragraphs are reprinted.

FYI, revisit Rocky III for more.

Anyway, follow the 'dots'.

D-Tox
The facts...
Thus at this conference...
Of no less importance...
Scarily, some shit is repeated in another film.

Monster in the Closet
Of no less importance...
Thus at this conference...
Many persons...
Future plans...
Okay then.

Child's Play 3
A suggestion...
Many persons...
An immediate investigation...
Death Sentence
Although the surface....
Natural Born Killers
The Knoxes... and Mickey and Mallory Knox...
Resident Evil
S.T.A.R.S...
The Omen (2006)
The post became available...
Max Payne
This is the third such murder...
Though the area was cordoned off...
"There was blood everywhere"...
Spider-Man

Police spokesman John Young...
NYPD spokesperson...
Misery

In what is being viewed...
Mr. Wilkes, who was a...
Local pediatrician Michael Banks...
On August 2...
Lucie was the daughter of...
Tragedy struck once again...
The search for famed romance...
Days and confused

Calendars were apparently unavailable.

Batman (1989)
November 7 1989 fell on a Tuesday, not Friday.
Brahms: The Boy II
October 30 1958 fell on a Thursday, not Wednesday.
Captain America: Civil War
March 22 2016 fell on a Tuesday, not Sunday.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Parody is set in 1893, but in that year, November 10 fell on a Thursday, not Wednesday.
Fear Street Part One: 1994
July 23rd 1666 fell on a Friday, not Thursday.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
November 3 1959 fell on a Tuesday, not Friday.
K-Shop
May 7th 2005 fell on a Saturday, not Friday.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
March 2, 1980 fell on a Sunday, not Tuesday.
Misery
March 23, 1978 fell on a Thursday, not Monday.
Pain & Gain
May 22 1998 fell on a Friday, not Tuesday.
Rocky III
May 15, 1982 fell on a Saturday, not Wednesday.
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th
April 21 1999 fell on a Wednesday, not Tuesday.
Superman Returns
February 13 2005 fell on a Sunday, not Tuesday.
Taking Lives
August 6th 1983 fell on a Saturday, not Tuesday.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
June 9, 1969 fell on a Monday, not Friday.
The Violent Kind
July 30, 2006 fell on a Sunday, not Wednesday.
The Wrestler
April 6 1989 fell on a Thursday, not Saturday.
My Name Is Lenny
5 April, 1975 fell on a Saturday, not Monday.
9th, 10th & 11th November 1974 fell on Saturday, Sunday and Monday respectively, not Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The Devil Below

February 6, 1969 fell on a Thursday, not Tuesday.
January 5, 1976 fell on a Monday, not Sunday.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

26 November 1926 fell on a Friday, not Sunday.
24 December 1926 fell on a Friday, not Thursday.
We Are Still Here

November 28 1949 fell on a Monday, not Wednesday.
November 12 1949 fell on a Saturday, not Friday.
November 13 1859 fell on a Sunday, not Thursday.
July 8 1919 fell on a Tuesday, not Wednesday.
December 27 1859 fell on a Tuesday, not Friday.
Trailer Park of Terror

May 9th, 1997 fell on a Friday, not Sunday.
July 12th, 2002 fell on a Friday, not Saturday.
September 28, 2005 fell on a Wednesday, not Monday.
Why is date suddenly 'th' racist?

And.

April 22th, 1984
First off, said day fell on a Sunday, not Saturday, but what the 'th' is going on with ordinal indicator, as the twenty-second day of any month is followed by 'nd'.

Still, they did get something right.

April 3rd, 2008 did fall on a Thursday.
The mind boggles.

Miscellany

Strangeland
"justice was definately not served."
I agree Angelic, it definitely wasn't.  
Q - The Winged Serpent
Photographs Fail to Prove Existance of Giant Bird
Hoax or Mass Hysteria?
You decide.
Son
There's something severaly wrong here, and I'm holding physicaians wholly responsible.
Taxi Driver
Pittsburgh is a city in western Pennsylvania.
However, fictitious reporter Michael Cross was the only person to discover Pittsburg.
The Dark Knight Rises
POLICE SUSPECT 'CAT' BURGLAR IN JEWEL HIEST
The Devil Below
Any kind of fire that causes an enviromental disaster deserves the utmost respect.
Misery
Headline states Anne, but article declares the daughter of Carl and Nancy Wilkes is Annie.
Caption under photograph goes one better, as she's now called Annie C. Wilkes.
Oh yeah, blurb repeats itself.
Ready Player One
Article on the left states Mrs. Underwood died after a long battle with cancer and was Fifty Six at the time of her death.  As she was born in 1975, this means she died in 2031.
However, ignoring the unusual decision of capital F and S, adjacent clipping states she was Fifty Nine (correct).
Obituary of Karen Underwood Morrow becomes Karen-Morrow Underwood.
Finally, sentence beginning with Karen-Morrow Underwood, wife of Ogden Morrow, repeats until ending with cancer
The Conjuring 2
200 National Front protestors arrested in London
Good, but then goes on to say 'More than' 200 protestors.
You can't have it both ways.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
MORE BODIES DISCOVERED ONSLAUGHTERPROPERTY!
'Spacing' was obviously an issue.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Longtime (should be hyphenated) Haddonfield resident Laurie Strode, survivor of the so-called "Halloween" mass murders in 1968, was killed yesterday in an auto accident.
What a shame meat of John Carpenter's classic occurred in the real-time year of 1978
The Midnight Meat Train
Erika Sakaki is initially described as a 'Local' woman, but is later said to be a 'Metropolis' woman.
Amidst odd contradiction, paragraphs frequently repeat.
Rocky V

Rocky is now in the management business and doing it very well.
Nothing sinister.

However.

A completely different headline copies and pastes the above.
Sliver

Horror High Rise Claims Third Victim
Again, no issues, but.

HORROR HIGH RISE
Naomi Singer, 33, plunged to her death on July 13, making the second fatality to be connected to called (not so-called? "Horror High-Rise" in the past year.
Err.

Wrinkles the Clown

June 5, 1981 did indeed fall on a Friday. 
See, it's not difficult to spell Pittsburgh.

Yes Taxi Driver - I'm talking to you.

But in the same article.

We magically jump forward in time to 05/11/84.
The Virginia Free Lance-Star is dated 05/23/81, but opening paragraph 'recalls' the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch in 1982.
Polaroid

The community of Locust Harbor is in shock and mourning this week after the loss of three teens. Their brutal abduction and murder has taken this town completly off guard and has had a rippling effect all the way from friends and family down to strangers on the street with no conenction to the victims.
Strangely, article repeats out of sync.
Content is reused elsewhere.
tourtured
victums
Casino

Headline correctly states Rothstein, but article shortens surname to Roth.
Among the factors that will contribute to the size of the demand and the military of unions at bargining (not bargaining) tables are early bird settlements. 
And immediately after.

A magazine article begins the same, but omits The.
Spinning on.
Ace Roth (again) in an interview from his spacious penthouse office overlooking the Tangiers the Tangiers Casino says he is the real behind the Tangiers gaming empire.
Ace Rothstein in an interview from his spacious penthouse office overlooking the Tangiers Casino
.
Just WHAT? 

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