Those Movie Mistakes

Before we got married, I spent most of my Sunday afternoons curled up in the fat chair watching sappy movies on either Hallmark or Lifetime. I'd eat my gas station single serving pizza, guzzle my polar pop {what?? Is that not normal Sunday lunch cuisine?} and sob over these highly predictable movies.

And while they aren't his 100% favorite, Ryan is a hero and not only agrees to watching predictable love movies, but sometimes you guys...he actually picks them. Swoon.

Last weekend, we watched a Hallmark movie live, and the one that followed it intrigued him, so he recorded it, and this week, in a moment of love-hero-of-the-world, he suggested we watch it.

OKAY!!!!

The movie we watched was called Autumn Dreams, and it is the cutest little romantic movie. It really is. I loved the lead actor and actress, I thought the supporting roles were great as well, I LOVED the coffee cups they drank from, and if I could just move INTO that house...yes please! So please know in what I'm about to say, I'm not condemning the movie. Cute, cute, cute...watch it!

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Movies always have mistakes hidden in them, and it annoys me to no end that I always miss them until I read some article online that says something like "15 mistakes you didn't see while you watched the movie." As soon as they point them out, I think DUH!! How could I have missed that??

So I always figure if I notice something, it's probably glaring.

After this movie, Ryan and I had a couple of good laughs over some big missteps, and we're still laughing about them, so I thought I would tell you. {And I promise, these things aren't storyline spoilers.}

Annie, the main girl in the movie, runs a farm in Iowa. Right at the beginning of the movie, she's called to New York to take care of some business, so she goes alone. She calls home at what appears to be fairly soon after dinner the first night and apologizes to her mom for calling so late. Ryan looked at me and said, "Where is she from? How late is it?" I said, "Well, she's from Iowa and she's in New York, so it's a one hour time difference, and it's actually EARLIER in Iowa." I don't know -  maybe her mom goes to sleep about 5 p.m.

A little later, she receives a call from her fiance back in Iowa, and he's standing out in a field, the crops whipping in the wind around him, and he says to her, "There's a storm coming in! They're afraid we're going to lose the crops to flooding!" She tells him she'll be right home, and in the next scene, she is home, filling sand bags.

I said to Ryan, "So she got the call that the storm was coming...when it was already close enough to be windy on the farm...and she booked a flight from New York City, got home, got back to the farm, changed her clothes, and had time to fill sand bags before the storm began?" That's some lead time! I bet farmers everywhere wish they had that much warning.

Eventually you see Annie and her mom crouched in the mud next to the tall, green corn stalks, surveying the flood damage, and her mom tells her everything will be okay after the harvest tomorrow.

Ryan and I sat straight up on the couch. Harvest TOMORROW? The corn is July corn! Hasn't even turned brown yet! {I'm no farmer, but I know that much!} But, sure enough, in the next scene, Annie and her mom get up in the light of the full sun, climb in combines and harvest mature corn from green stalks. She gathers the farm hands - still in the full light of day and thanks them for their hard work in finishing the harvest, tells them they met their quota, and sends them home to prepare for the harvest festival that night.

Now.

I have only been related to a farming family for something like 34 months, but I have heard stories of the harvest, and I know these farmers do not begin at brunch time and finish in the daylight AND have their quota already figured. IN ONE DAY. I mean they wish they could, but they can't.

So for the rest of the night, Ryan ran around the house saying "Let me go fix some pancakes for brunch and then we'll go harvest the crops. We'll be home before dinner and go to the dance together...."

Well...despite those errors, the movie really was darling. I'd watch it again. I want to see her beat the storm home again!

And if you know any good movie mistakes, tell me. Unless I've read about them in an article, I guarantee you I'll have missed them, and I want to know what I've not seen!