{"id":831,"date":"2003-01-18T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=831"},"modified":"2021-05-19T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:50:35","slug":"picking-on-towers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/01\/18\/picking-on-towers-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking on <i>Towers<\/i> Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotrbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It must seem like I have a grudge against this movie, since I pick on it so much.  I swear I don&#8217;t &#8212; in fact, I&#8217;m probably overly obsessed by it. But the thing is, I discovered another goof-up in <i>The Two Towers<\/i>. First it was last year&#8217;s car in the cornfield. Most recently, it was finding out Liv Tyler showing up at Helm&#8217;s Deep. And now, I just spotted a bit of film equipment showing up in a battle scene.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Any film is bound to have mistakes and continuity errors, and it&#8217;s a testament to the filmmakers that a movie as ambitious as <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> doesn&#8217;t have more. That said, pay close attention to the bottom left corner of this movie clip of the Orcs revealing their battering ram. You can plainly see the lens flags of a secondary camera as it dollies out of shot.<video width=\"720\" height=\"360\" controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/helmsdeep.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/helmsdeep.ogv\" type=\"video\/ogg\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It must seem like I have a grudge against this movie, since I pick on it so much. I swear I don&#8217;t &#8212; in fact, I&#8217;m probably overly obsessed by it. But the thing is, I discovered another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/01\/18\/picking-on-towers-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr","category-movies","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}