How did they not notice this?
In the scene where Cole and Claire go to Rowdy's house and meet Rowdy's wife, I swear his wife says, "Hi Tom". She certainly didn't call him Cole. Did anybody else notice that?
shareI noticed it after a VH1 special pointed it out to me. But lots of movies have small mistakes where actors are mentioned by name. And I think it hardly compares to the weak editing of the race scenes.
shareI also noticed this I think. I didn't see it as an error on the goofs section.
In the final race when Cole drives through the smoke of the wreck on turn 3 (which is a rather big one) there is never a caution flag called. They just keep on racing, because who cares about a caution right?
Also the camera angle suggests that he would smash right into the #15 car which is on fire BTW or the #25 car which is later spun out (supposed to be Gant in #33)!!! The whole scene is a mess. As much as I love the movie. It is a continuity and factual error nightmare!! Happy viewing!
The rules were different pertaining to the caution flag. I presume that this was 1990's Nascar rules and back then all competitiors raced back to the line for a caution. There was no caution light and no 'freezing the field'
In order to hold position they raced back to the line...That meant that you had to avoid cars all stalled vehicles at your own risk. Had to get back to the line.
True, but in the movie, they're not just racing back to the line.
It was probably just a stylistic choice as to not break the momentum of the scene. Getting through the wreck is one of the climactic, most dramatic points of the film......they kept the momentum going as oppose to being more "realistic" and having a caution come out and breaking the momentum.
There are definitely some continuity issues with the film, but to be fair, what movie doesn't?
The movie is definitely exaggerated, and not realistic.......it's a movie. It's a fairly campy movie to begin with (remember this is a sequel of sorts to Top Gun), and I don't think Tony Scott ever tries to hide that. Racing wheel chairs in a hospital? This movie is just about entertainment. To a point, it's almost a little tongue-in-cheek........I'm not sure if people grasp that.
To Tony Scott's credit, I think he has a great eye for action, and many of the shots in this movie are pretty awesome - particularly in the racing scenes.
Bottom line, I do think it entertains.
Since Harry Gant was a household name back then, not Brett Bodine, they continued to film the #33 Harry Gant Skoal Oldsmobile from a 1989 leftover and unfortunately after wrecking it three times they must have ran out of cars on loan from the Jackson Brothers & Gant and borrowed Brett Bodine's #26 Quaker State King Racing car to finish the shot of Cole's #51 pulling the draft on #18, forgetting that the continuity issue from #33 to #26 and sponsors as well. Apparently, it just mattered they had a green & white car going straight at full speed for 2 seconds and they figured that's close enough.