Am I the only coin geek who likes to do this?

Go on YouTube and search Cinema Sins they do all of this stuff.

 

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Same here...I like to look for errors the directors make or when the movie crew take breaks and you see an actor's hair messed up in one scene and then combed and fresh in the next scene. Obviously the make-up artist comes in during the breaks. I also look at car races and how much the car gets damaged with all the bumping going on and then when the scene is over the car is basically brand NEW!!! Don't worry I do it too.

 

Now THAT'S a geek.

 

I'm a former Air Force member who worked in the bomb dump. Every movie that has military weapons, I have to nitpick. Spotting practice weapons being used as live weapons is a big pet peeve of mine. I do see several movies that get it correct.

 

I read a thread on the dime used in Titanic and was shaking my head. They get into the details - 1892 Barber, AU, cleaned, and Kate Winslet does not know how to handle a coin. I think there were some more interesting parts in that scene besides Kate handing off the dime to DiCaprio.

 

I did notice on OZ the Great and Powerful, Indian head cents were used. Wonder where they got them or if they were on set already?

 

Watch it again, they used a 1912 dime in AU. James Cameron now carries it in a bezel on his keychain.

 

Ouch, on a key chain? Why not just throw it into a garbage disposal and get it over with..

 

Yep.

I watch very little television but when I do watch, I certainly examine the coins using zoom & slow motion.

When Hollywood put coins on the eyes of the dead in the movie Troy, I was darn curious what coins they used 500 years before the invention of coins.