Mistakes?

Those wouldn't be consistency mistakes though, but could be said to be mistakes made by people who thought they knew something and didn't. People are wrong sometimes about what they remember, or what they think they know about astronomy.

i'm really surprised no one noticed the massive reflection of the camera boom and all its operators during the long crane backstory bit (chapter 12, on the criterion version). watch and you'll see the rig and all its operators blatantly flash over the glass of the truck that the men are following behind as they try to make it out of the hat factory. hilarious.

How about when the insurance boss is reading the article about the big robbery and he says that the guard was shot in the groin, but the actor in the flashback is clearly holding his chest.

Unfortunately the poster is mistaken about the car. It is a Cadillac. It looks to me to be a 1941 60 Special. There used to be one like it running around my neighborhood a few years ago.

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His prounciation of Betelgeuse and other objects was wrong, but understandable in someone who had probably never heard the words pronounced.

I noticed the Astronomy mistakes right away. I think that it had to have been on purpose, a mistake made by the character, not the writers. Even people who know only a few constellations can tell the difference between Orion and Ursa Major (which also contains the stars making up the well-known "big dipper"). Those are probably the two most recognizable constellations in the sky. I find it almost impossible to believe that this would have slipped past everyone involved in the making of the film.

How about during the caper you have four guys walking out the main gate beside a truck and they run to get in their cars... couldn't they just be happy to be getting off work and in a hurry to go have a beer? There was no indication that an alarm had been sounded and besides, the point was made that all the payroll workers were tied up. The gatekeeper seemed pretty determined to stop them. As soon as he steps into the street he starts shooting at them!

Also, and I don't want to go too far because I realize this was a stylistic touch by the director but the killers are clearly not firing weapons at the Sweede. They are simply moving their right arms in simulation with no discernable recoil (or flinching) as someone flashes a light to represent the muzzelblast. Personally, I think it would have been cool to have them pull out real guns and blast away with real bullets (not shooting Burt of course) but I'm aware that Hollywood shooting is often more accepted by audiences than real shooting. Sometimes you just have to accept that "It's only a movie."