Mistakes


Anybody notice that when the dragons first attack a stall of sweetcorn (maize) is turned over and set on fire. Good trick considering that the film was set in the Carpathians in the late middle ages and maize wasn't introduced to Europe until well after Chris Columbus crossed the ocean blue.

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I'm a little more concerned about the Chinese guy who spoke fluent English in Medieval Europe...

Also there was a guy who dies face-down but is then shown face-up when they gather 'round his body.

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how about when nessa is demonstratiing the ballista; she cocks, aims, and fires the weapon, yet when asked what she needs for it, she says a team of horses to move it and 3 men to pull the cocking arm. am i missing something or didn't the frail little bitch cock it all by herself?

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But the dragon is central to the plot of the movie; the other aspects are not. I guess the thread COULD have been called "unecessary mistakes".

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And they found evidence in a potato field, also a crop unknown outside of the Western Hemisphere until after Columbus. I mistook this and other anachronisms in the movie for a clue that this might be taking place in the future rather than the past. Silly me. It was just hack writing.

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Gasp! Are you implying there are mistakes in a $1 million B-movie that had to be shot in Bulgaria in modern day?

Hey, where are all the people who kill in the name of Darwin?

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What about the Crossbow wich was used first in the Hundred Years' War by the british?

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Let us not overlook the huntsman's longbow, which was a flatbow; his new longbow, which appeared to be a modern recurve with canvas bound around it; and the fact that they kept shouting "fire", a command that belongs to firearms.

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