Corrected entry: In the scene where Billy Tyne and Linda Greenlaw are in the wheelhouse of the Andrea Gail talking about the romance of being a swordboat captain, Capt. Billy (who knows all the charts by heart) says that "you head out the South channel...head NORTH, open up to twelve..." If you head north and open up to 12 out of Gloucester, you will run aground off (approx.) Ogunquit, Maine in about 3 hours. The Grand Banks are almost DEAD EAST from Gloucester.
jle
26th Mar 2002
The Perfect Storm (2000)
24th Nov 2002
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Corrected entry: The film, being based on a true story, is supposed to be set in 1991. If it is, then why does the weather man who studies the storm have a very modern flat screen monitor?
Correction: I was using monitors with flat screens in 1991 and before. They may not have been as common and cheap as they are now but the technology has been around for many years.
Correction: They were not actually available until the mid 90's.
27th Aug 2001
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Corrected entry: When the Andrea Gail's owner comes in to the Crow's Nest to tell the "loved ones" that the rescue chopper had to ditch, Ethel says "If it were good news, he would have called us." Weren't the phones dead?
Correction: Chris's phone is dead, but she doesn't live at the Crow's Nest anymore. There is nothing to suggest that the whole town's phones are out.
27th Aug 2001
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Corrected entry: At one point when they are piloting the Andrea Gale over the waves the boat crashes down smashing the front windows, the left side windows are then smashed, later on however it becomes quite obvious that the left windows are the only ones broken and the front ones are completely intact.
Correction: It is only the left window that is smashed. In the very first shot you can tell that it is the portside windows because you can see white wiring running above them, which is also seen later in a wider, clearer shot of the bridge.
24th Jun 2003
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Corrected entry: In the shot where Andrea Gail meets the gigantic wave, and thereafter sinks, the wave is moving towards the boat. However, the waves in the preceding shots were moving in the same direction as the boat.
Correction: The Andrea Gail is turned over - bow to stern - by the wave, so it is now pointing in the other direction.
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Correction: While the Grand Banks are due east of Gloucester, to get there you do not point your boat due east and sail in a 'straight line'. The shortest route between two points on a sphere is along a great circle - and the great circle route from Gloucester to the Grand Banks starts out going north-ish.
jle