Line #43 AnachronismStew/FilmsWithNoGoodExcuse


1	Films and Film series with their own pages:
2	[[index]]
3	* ''AnachronismStew/IndianaJones''
4	* ''AnachronismStew/ThePatriot2000''
5	* ''AnachronismStew/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
6	* ''AnachronismStew/SherlockHolmes''
7	[[/index]]
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9	* Marty [=McFly=] plays a Gibson ES-345 (A variant of the ES-335 with a varitone switch) during the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. Unfortunately, this guitar was first made in 1958, three years after 1955 when the movie is set. (Note this is not Marty's guitar which he plays in 1985, it's the guitar he borrows from the band.)
10	* Film/JamesBond:
11	** In both ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|2006}}'' and ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', Bond asks for a cocktail which contains Kina Lillet (which he christens "Vesper"). The recipe was included in the 1953 novel ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', and the recipe was transplanted to the film adaptation. One problem, however, is that Lillet stopped making Kina Lillet in 1986, yet the film is a ContinuityReboot set in the 2000's.
12	** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Safin uses a CSA Sa vz. 58 Compact in Norway in the DistantPrologue, which takes place in The90s (1997 at the very least since young Madeleine plays with a ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}''). That assault rifle was introduced in 2007.
13	* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', the letter from Apple Computer, Inc. is dated September 23, 1975. Apple would not be founded until ''April 1976'', adopted the "Inc." and the "rainbow Apple" logo '''in 1977''' and would not be publicly traded '''''until 1981'''''.
14	* In ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', the term "Spaniard" is from the 14th century (though this may be the TranslationConvention way of saying that Maximus comes from ''Hispania'', which was the Roman name for the province), the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine was not completed until 312 CE, the clothing for the Germanic tribes is based on the Stone Age, and the Roman uniforms are mostly fantasy, from the wrong time period, or were used for specific situations. Maximus is a composite character based on Narcissus, Spartacus, Cincinnatus, and Marcus Nonius Macrinus. Marcus Aurelius was not killed by Commodus; they shared a three year reign, with Commodus reigning for over twelve years instead of a few months. Commodus died in his bath, strangled by Narcissus, not from gladiatorial combat.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': Historical accuracy is ignored on multiple occasions. [[http://reocities.com/Hollywood/5082/culture.html This article]] concluded that Mulan is set in "an imaginary dynasty in an imaginary part of China, based on real customs and lands".
16	** The Forbidden City (constructed during the Ming dynasty) is featured prominently in the finale, but the Huns were already integrated into Chinese society by the time of the Northern Wei.
17	** The use of fireworks suggests the Sui dynasty but their style of dress suggests a later date.
18	** GoofyPrintUnderwear with what appears to be an elastic waistband, and a modern toothbrush and toothpaste tube.
19	** During "I'll Make a Man Out of You," Ling claims to regret "cutting gym [class]," something few teenagers will start doing until the government-sponsored district schools of the Ming dynasty hundreds of years later (for those families which could afford it, which were few).
20	** Mushu makes a reference to Mongolian barbecue, which was invented in the 1950s.
21	* ''Film/Mulan2020'': The movie itself was more [[ShownTheirWork culturally authentic]] than the original, which also contained quite a lot of this trope and ArtisticLicenseHistory and as a result the film is heavily implied to take place specifically during the Tang dynasty (which lasted from 618 to 907). Nevertheless it pulls in quite a few influences from all over Chinese history:
22	** Mulan's enemies are the proto-Mongolic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouran_Khaganate Rouran Khaganate]], who existed long before the Tang dynasty's founding. They were the likely antagonists of the original Mulan poem, but Mulan would've been an inhabitant of the bordering Northern Wei Empire, thus (also proto-Mongolic) Xianbei rather than Han Chinese. The correct Northern neighbors to use for a film set in the Tang dynasty would have been one of the various neighboring Turkic empires.
23	** Mulan lives in a southern [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulou tulou]], inaccurate for both the region and time period. The Tulou structures were built from the 12th century onward, while the ''Ballad of Mulan'' which is the ultimate source material, is set between the 4th to 6th centuries. On top of that, [[ArtisticLicenseGeography these structures only exist in the Fujian province of South-Eastern China, which is as far removed from the North as one can imagine]], yet the Rourans are somehow close by. The Tulou were also inhabited by the Hakka which Mulan is not.[[note]]The last time a Nomadic army marched down south, they did so with an actual Chinese army, on foot, because cavalry is unsuitable in Southern China. Unless Mulan is drafted North, but that's difficult to believe since China was divided between North & South during that time.[[/note]]
24	** During the matchmaking scene Mulan is done up in what looks to be mostly the correct Tang makeup, but it also features elements of Qing dynasty fashion as well, on top of appearing to be more appropriate for royalty (which Mulan is not).
25	** Likewise, the attires of the characters are drawn from not one, but several dynastic fashions from different periods.
26	** In one scene, Mulan is shown practicing ''tai-chi'', which wouldn't exist until maybe the 12th century.
27	** The counterweight trebuchet used by the invaders dates back to the 12th century at the earliest.
28	** The characters use simplified Chinese characters, invented in the twentieth century, rather than the more accurate traditional characters. [[note]]Such simplified versions of the characters did exist in olden days as a form of shorthand, but were not entirely widespread.[[/note]]
29	* ''Film/BatWithoutWings'' is a murder thriller-{{Wuxia}} film set in the Ming dynasty, whose titular villain frequently appears while donning facepaint resembling Gene Simmons from KISS. Yeah, in a film set several ''centuries'' before KISS even existed.
30	* ''Film/TheBrothersBloom'' features costumes and props ranging from the 1930s to modern times, giving the world a charmingly timeless look and feel. People dress like it's the 1930s, dance like it's the 1960s, but then use cell phones and perform gangster rap.
31	* In ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'', Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" is broadcast InUniverse in one of the most famous examples of SoundtrackDissonance. The film is supposed to take place in 1965, while the song was recorded in 1967.
32	* ''Film/KingArthur2004'':
33	** ''King Arthur'' does not contain really blatant anachronistic cross-overs with other time periods, but it mashes together kings and invasions from several Dark Age centuries... and Guinevere is a bow-wielding woad-covered warrior princess, clad in a leather bra and leather outfit more suitable as a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' costume?
34	** Meanwhile, Tristan's carrying a Chinese dao (maybe it was meant to be a falchion?) but wields it kenjutsu-style.
35	** In the FinalBattle, the Picts (depicted as the BarbarianTribe throughout the film) somehow pull counterweight trebuchets (first mentioned in the 12th century) from... [[HammerSpace somewhere]]... and use them as field artillery against the Saxon forces, no less. Of all pre-gunpowder siege weapons, they chose ''the only one'' that was invented after the fall of Rome!
36	* By contrast, as previously noted, there was no such regard for minimising anachronisms in Arthurian movies back in the old days of Hollywood. The HollywoodHistory version of the High Middle Ages was obviously deemed believable enough for the reign of a hypothetical 5th-6th century king.
37	** Take for example the 1954 film ''The Black Knight'' starring Alan Ladd. So stereotypical "medieval" (chain mail) armour, costumes and elaborate stone castles form the backdrop a Britain where Christians are still doing battle with pagans performing sacrifices at a surprisingly-intact Stonehenge (probably disused for centuries already, yet still [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge#/media/File:Stonehenge2007_07_30.jpg more intact today]] than what the film leaves it with every stone toppled!), Saracens and raiding HornyVikings. Yes, you read that right: not Saxons, but ''Vikings''.
38	*** Though ''{{Literature/BretaSögur}}'', a medieval story, has vikings even earlier, so it's not as if they weren't already drawing from a very temporally muddled source material.
39	* The two ''{{Literature/Eloise}}'' films starring Creator/SofiaVassilieva are ''supposed'' to be set in the 1950s, at least based on the clothing and some vehicles, but the producers haven't been keeping to the era -- [[http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_102460-Ford-Crown-Victoria-1999.html cars from the 1990s and early 21st century]] appear in some scenes, and it didn't help that what appears to be Times Square in its present rendition[[note]]By present we meant as it was when the films were shot[[/note]] was shown in the film. Some of the toys Eloise played with in the ''Christmas'' film also appeared to be out of place in the setting.
40	* The actors in the 1939 American adaptation of ''Film/{{Wuthering Heights\|1939}}'' are dressed the way producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted, and nothing about the costumes is contemporary to the setting. The movie is set in the period 1780-1810, yet the hair and clothing date from the mid-19th century. Worse, the female characters look like they were hit with a 6-inch makeup cannon. At the time the only Englishwomen who would have worn makeup at all (and it would ''not'' have been makeup like you see in the film) were cheap street prostitutes.
41	** The same could be said for the costumes worn for the 1940 adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''. Check out the inch-long false eyelashes on Elizabeth!
42	* ''Film/TenThousandBC'' is one of the most blatant examples, featuring, among other things, woolly mammoths, saber tooth tigers, metalworking (developed in 5500 BC), domestication of horses (first done in 4000 BC), papyrus (estimated at around 2560 BC), the telescope (invented in 1609), and the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. And the Terror Birds, 2 million years out of place. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiWLm7ASxL4 See]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1s&v=vdVMpl0fBDU here]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpTnVo2xw7Q for]] an in-depth look.
43	** Some of the anachronisms are justified by the fact that the movie is based on an idea that some {{Atlantis}}-styled civilization invented various technologies that were then forgotten because of the events of the movie, but all animal-related anachronisms still stand firm.
44	** It was a homage to ''1,000,000 BC'', also anachronism stew.
45	* ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' managed to feature "Celts" hundreds of years after they existed as a distinct ethnic grouping. (The "Celts" are also ridiculously, even offensively, portrayed as mindless Orc-like barbarians, but [[DiscreditedTrope that's]] [[HollywoodHistory another matter...]])
46	** This is actually just one of the things they ripped off from ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' and bastardized. In ''Robin of Sherwood'', the "barbaric" Celts are Welsh tribesmen (and aren't referred to as Celts). But that's Hollywood (see BritainIsOnlyLondon).
47	** Azeem carries a telescope that would not be invented until the 1600's, as well as an exaggeratedly curved fantasy scimitar despite Middle Eastern swords of the Crusades era being overwhelmingly straight-bladed.
48	** It also had an anachronistically advanced and accurate clock, and obviously medical care even better than the present day, to judge by the ultra-quick recovery from a Caesarian childbirth.
49	** The opening credits feature the famous [[Art/TheBayeuxTapestry Bayeux Tapestry]], which dates from the 11th century (Norman Conquest, etc.). The film is set in the 12th century (Crusades, etc.). This is akin to showing images from UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution in the opening to a movie about UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Granted, maybe they intended to show the impact of the Norman conquest on the country, with the English peasantry ruled over by a Norman aristocracy.
50	** Creator/AlanRickman's Sheriff makes use of the term "hired thugs." This did not enter usage until Philip Meadows Taylor's novel ''Confessions of a Thug'', 1839, in reference to the Thuggee cult of assassins in India, a cult which did not come into existence until the 16th century.
51	* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'': The film adaptation is based in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when AIDS was much closer to home for the types of people featured (not that it's anything to sneeze at today). However, Benny must have been some kind of prophet to conceive of a cyber studio when the Internet wasn't mainstream yet, and the references to ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', the Oklahoma City bombing, and the gentrification of the East Village are anachronisms. Considering that the original stage play was also conceived and written before the Internet became mainstream, the cyber studio was likely an oblique reference to how [[RuleOfCool awesome]] Benny is.
52	* While most of the 1996 movie ''Film/{{Twister}}'' took place in the modern-day (thus {{av\|ertedTrope}}oiding this trope, for the most part), the beginning scenes, set in 1969, have some level of AnachronismStew to them. In one scene, character Jo's father warns that the approaching tornado is "probably an F-5;" the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale Fujita scale]], from whence the rating is taken, was developed in 1971, two years later. Plus, the meteorologist shown on the TV giving the warning is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_England Gary England]], head meteorologist of Oklahoma City TV station KWTV; while the footage is actual archived footage of one of England's tornado warnings, England did not join KWTV until 1972.
53	* ''The Other Side of Midnight'', which is set in the time frame just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, has a scene where Catherine is taking a taxi from Union Station in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. She mentions in conversation with the cabbie that if the taxi meter goes over a dollar she's in trouble. But no cab in Washington DC would have had a meter at the time; the city cabs worked exclusively on a zone-fare system.
54	* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', there is a beach umbrella that would be out of place in 11-12th century BCE.
55	* The film of ''Literature/TheCiderHouseRules'' is surprisingly careful, taking advantage of the fact that the drive-in theater was invented in the 1930's and thus, around in the 1940's. It never explicitly states that drive-in has become a huge phenomenon, which ''would'' be anachronistic as that did not happen until the 1950s. However, its depiction of widespread favorable attitudes about abortion and choice of haircuts and characterizations of female protagonists bears a strong 1970s air to it that seems out of place for 1940s Maine. Supposedly justified in that it was part of Creator/LasseHallstrom and Creator/JohnIrving's visions.
56	* In Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's movie ''A Knight in Camelot'', the main character gets sent back in time to the Middle Ages. OK. She takes her boom box and laptop with her. Then she somehow manages to [[TheWebAlwaysExisted check the Internet]] for information on how to build an electrical generator using a waterwheel, despite there ''being'' no internet to browse nor the infrastructure to connect to it.
57	* The 2008 film ''Theatre/MammaMia'' is another casual mishmash. Although Sky intends to set up a website to draw customers to Donna's Villa (not possible before 1996, not likely before 2000), the lyrics to the song "Our Last Summer", related dialogue and the photographs of the fathers indicate that 20-year-old Sophie had to have been born somewhere between 1970 and 1972. And the "Donna and the Dynamo" stage costumes -- implied in dialogue to be the original outfits they wore during their (brief?) stage career years before -- are clearly late 1970s disco-era in style, long after Donna would have been retired and raising Sophie. Harry's car early in the film is clearly from the year the film was made, as are the styles worn by everyone from off the island when they arrive.
58	* ''Lymelife'' is set in 1979, yet contains a reference to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', released in 1980, and the Falklands War, from 1982.
59	* In ''Film/{{Titus}}'', the film version of ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', Julie Taymor deliberately uses anachronisms as a part of the stylistic choice. She's clearly making no effort to be historically accurate -- she's given lavishing care and attention to the ingredients of her anachronism stew. Even though it takes place in ancient Rome, we see 1950s era kitchens, Nazi symbolism, motorcycles, and designs from the 19th century, champagne bottles at an orgy, bound books, and 1920s-style microphones at a political rally. When you see Titus' severed hand delivered in a Zip-Loc bag, you know that the director's not going for historical accuracy.
60	* ''Film/RobinHood2010'' has taken a lot of flak for featuring what essentially looks like the medieval [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCVP Higgins boat]], a design that would have certainly been impossible for people of that era to keep watertight. (The invasion itself also never actually happened, but [[HollywoodHistory that's a whole other trope]]).
61	** The main character in the final battle using a war hammer about 100 years before it was invented or even needed. The war hammer was invented to deal with plate armour, especially full plate armour, that became prevalent in Europe after the invention of the firearm, seeing as it was the only form of amour that offered a modicum of protection against them. The anachronistic war hammer even appeared on several posters, that featured still from the final battle.
62	** Troop transports with lowerable ramps at the front were in use in this period -- the ramp even allowed horsemen to charge directly off the deck. They were used for exactly this purpose at the battle of the Tower of Galata (1203) during the siege of Constantinople in the fourth crusade. (Also, the French did actually invade England during the reign of King John, as part of the First Barons' War. It wasn't much like in the film, though).
63	** [[spoiler:Sir Walter Locksley]] is given a funeral pyre by the peasants, even though in the UK you couldn't legally dispose of your dead by burning them until Welsh physician William Price successfully challenged corpse disposal laws after being arrested for trying to burn his deceased infant son; thus, until 1902 you rarely, if ever, saw a dead Brit on fire (the most notable being Percy Shelley, whose ashes were buried with his heart, which was quickly salvaged from his funeral pyre, in Rome's Protestant cemetery after his decomposing remains were recovered on the shore of Italy by close friends, and even then his body was burned only because of strict local quarantine laws where he washed ashore).
64	* ''Film/TheScorpionKing''. It supposedly takes place "before the pyramids", but, yeah. For example, a merchant in Gomorrah sells "swords made by the monks in Pompeii". And then we have the gunpowder...
65	** The prequel takes this [[ExaggeratedTrope much further]]. Besides ignoring internal continuity (a character wants to go visit the pyramids), we have a character who's a fan of [[Literature/TheHistories Herodotus]] adventuring with the Akkadian main character, and a reference to Mahjong, among other things.
66	* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' depicts the medieval Scots as wearing both blue woad face paint (which was characteristic of the ancient Picts and is seen in general use no later than the Roman occupation) and kilts (which [[NewerThanTheyThink didn't come into fashion in Scotland until the 16th century]]).
67	* ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'' are practically crammed with anachronisms -- although it's understandable, since both films were directed by Creator/TimBurton, who is fond of this trope. The original movie is clearly meant to be set either in 1989 or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the organized-crime characters and some of the reporters at the Gotham Globe dress as if it's some point between the 1920s and the 1940s. ''Batman Returns'' is a ''little'' more justified, since it's set at Christmastime and so gets to employ various elements of Norman Rockwell/Frank Capra imagery - though that still doesn't explain why a newspaper being hawked in the early 1990s (and by an [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt "wuxtry paper, suh"-style paperboy]], no less!) would cost not only less than half a dollar, but a dime, something practically unimaginable for an American paper published after 1972 or so (in the original movie, the ''Globe'' cost two cents at the time the Waynes were murdered, and a quarter later on).
68	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is meant to be deliberately anachronistic and is ambiguous in its time setting, combining computer and other technological advances with old-fashioned dressing, mostly vintage automobiles and sometimes anachronistic dialogue. This is meant to evoke a noir-ish feel reminiscent of old gangster movies. A [[FreezeFrameBonus People Magazine cover]] in the episode "Beware the Grey Ghost" does give the year as "1993", though.
69	** Justified in that the team was likely trying to capture the pulp/noir feel of UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age\|OfComicBooks}} Batman comic books.
70	** ''Film/BatmanForever'' attempted to follow in the footsteps of its two, far more serious predecessors and added an ''Manga/{{Akira}}''-esque neon aesthetic to the mix. There is a scene where Two-Face's goons chase Batman in town cars and wield old-fashioned tommy guns, and in the DVD commentary, director Creator/JoelSchumacher states that this was to add to the ambiguity of the time setting. Other than that, though, the only really anachronistic touches in ''Batman Forever'' were Commissioner Gordon's bowler hat (which had become TheArtifact by that time) and the Victorian (one might even say "Lovecraftian") appearance of Arkham Asylum (which is justified by RuleOfCool and that such institutions can still be found in use around North America).
71	* There's a jarring revealing mistake in ''Scrooge'', where a car can be seen driving by in the background during young Scrooge and Isabel's romance which takes place in the early 19th century.
72	* ''Film/TheHairyBird'': The cherry-picker truck used by the Flat Critters to get to Tinka's window was a Ford C-Series cab-over. While this truck was manufactured between 1957 and 1990, the cowl insignia combined with reflectors indicates this is a model made after 1968, five years after the movie takes place.
73	* It's a slight case, but in Rob Zombie's ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' and ''Film/HalloweenII2009'' it's utterly baffling to try and figure out just when they take place. The openings with Michael Myers as a child are definitely somewhere in the early 1980s judging from the clothing and hair styles, but after the TimeSkip to "Seventeen Years Later" (which should put the events with Laurie somewhere in the mid to late-nineties), people talk on post-2004 cellphones, make references to ''Film/AustinPowers'', and watch flatscreen televisions like they're in 2007 (when the film was made). To confuse things even more, no one references music beyond 1990, all the cars are pre-2000, and nearly all the things seen on TV are pre-1970. No one at all seems to know [[AmbiguousTimePeriod when the movie actually takes place]].
74	* The ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans\|2010}}'' remake from 2010 features the Greek gods wearing medieval European suits of armor. Curiously, the goddesses are wearing classic Grecian attire. Also, Zeus' totem is a bald eagle--which lives in North America and thus was unknown in Ancient Greece. Wonder how many subjects were failed.
75	* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' takes place in 1914, but for some reason a fish tank full of [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute coelacanths]] can be seen near the very beginning of the film! (in real life, coelacanths -- live ones, at least -- weren't even discovered until 1938).
76	** Justified both in the movie's own logic (the man owning the coelacanths is a millionaire and the purpose of the shot is a GeniusBonus foreshadowing that he has the means and will to uncover the secrets lost to the world, but deliberately keeps them only for himself) and thematically (at the time the continued existence of coelacanths was thought as fictional as Atlantis itself).
77	** Mole uses a Soviet [=PPSh=]-41 submachine gun, which was not adopted by the Red Army until 1941.
78	* The 2003 animated ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas''. Sinbad, a figure of medieval Muslim legend, is somehow turned into a native of a Classical Greek setting (complete with converting him from Islam to polytheism). However, his ship remains more or less 10th-century Middle-eastern in design, as does the clothing of his crew. And one member of his crew appears to be Latino.
79	* ''Deuces Wild'' has a violent gang rumble in a park set to heavy metal music. We hear the rock music on the soundtrack rather than within the movie's universe, but it's still jarring to hear guitars that loud and growly in a film set in 1958.
80	* Similar to ''Deuces'' Wild above, ''Film/{{Maverick}}'', while surprisingly accurate in general, has a sudden soundtrack shift from the usual western atmospheric instrumentals to country-western once the poker tournament starts.
81	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
82	** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' became notorious for its glaring historical errors:
83	*** The film is set during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis]], but characters walk around sporting fashions and hairstyles from the mid-late 1960s and even ''the early 70s'', while warships (some of which weren't active in 1962) fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at them.
84	*** Shaw/Schmidt plays "La Vie en rose" by Édith Piaf in the concentration camp in 1944, despite the song not being written until 1945 or released as a single until 1947.
85	*** Despite taking place at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, nobody ever comments on Angel's or Darwin's race, although them being a double minority is subtly alluded to by Shaw.
86	** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' did a far better job on depicting the 1970s, but still had a couple of sore spots:
87	*** Mystique ends up getting hit with a Taser in both the original and altered events of 1973, a year before Jack Cover invented the device.
88	*** Hank has created a serum capable of both restoring Charles' mobility and specifically silencing a gene; both feats are still being researched today, and this film takes place in 1973, when genomics was just starting to grow as a field. It's implied that Hank has a boost from Raven's DNA.
89	** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': A minor example occurs in a [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4euik8 tie-in commercial,]] which suggests that the students have access to fiber-optic internet, widescreen computers and modern cars in The80s.
90	* ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'' has several. The movie (based on a true story) is set in 2001 and 2002. One of the characters sings a song that wasn't released until 2008. Another character wears Nike+ (Nike Plus) shoes, which also weren't out yet. Some of the team logos and a stadium name are also out of place.
91	* ''Film/TheBigShort'': One of the outdoor scenes shows billboards with ads clearly from after the Recession, such as a modern-looking Website/YouTube ad and an ad for {{Series/Stitchers}}, which premiered in 2015.
92	* Creator/TheAsylum film ''Halloween Night'' is set in 1992. Absolutely no attempt is made to make it look like it is. Not surprising, given that it's Creator/TheAsylum. They make absolutely no attempt to make anything look like anything.[[note]]Except to make their films look like other, more well-known films.[[/note]]
93	** Of course, 1992 didn't look ''that'' much different from nowadays, except for some EightiesHair still hanging around.
94	* 2011's ''Film/RedRidingHood'' takes place in what appears to be Europe in the Middle Ages, yet features modern hair styles that would require a trip to Ulta to maintain, and American accents before there was an America. However, linguists currently believe that medieval British accents sounded much closer to modern American accents then they did modern British accents, [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting but there's no reason to suspect the filmmakers knew that]]
95	* ''Film/{{Chicago}}'' (2002):
96	** The radio in Mama Morton's office is from the early 1930s. Table radios from that era -- the original play was first staged in 1926, so it was probably set around 1923-26 -- came in three basic styles: wooden [[http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/~robinson/Information/CCFD09/CCFD09_HRSA1s.jpg "coffins"]], metal [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lxkjk-H7Puk/TXVgComZouI/AAAAAAAABGs/Tfs7JrkTCsg/s1600/1926%2BCrosleyRadio1.jpg "jewel boxes"]] and, for the truly stylish, [[http://www.atwaterkentradio.com/wcpict26-21.gif Atwater Kent breadboards]]. The radio would also have [[http://mediaspin.com/blog/wp-images/Grebe-Radio-Ad-1921-04-CR-5.jpg two]] or [[http://home.comcast.net/~btse1/vintrad/tube/dayton4.jpg three]] individually tuned dials and a separate speaker, possibly [[http://www.warci.org/articles/globe/Fig%2011%20-%20Globe%20Radio%20Bulletin%2021%20cover_lg.jpg shaped like a horn.]] Also, the radio would've been powered by three or more storage batteries, so it would've been used sparingly. (AC powered home radios weren't introduced until 1927).
97	* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', the [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Eaters of the Dead'' is set in the 10th century. In addition to the anachronisms carried over from the novel (relatively few, but see the Literature section), the main characters are HornyVikings. One wears a Murmillo helmet, another wears a 16th-century Spanish helmet and breastplate.
98	* The direct-to-video animated film ''Easter Egg Adventure'' appears to take place in the early 19th century or so (there are many scenes depicting characters riding in carriages pulled by horses, and there are many places that look old-fashioned), but yet there are boomboxes and rap music.
99	* ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': In the climax, we see a boiler room with a very modern steam pressure gauge. But as if that's not enough, it's measured in kilograms per square centimeter!
100	* ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'': Mostly, not so noticeable, but there's a few real bad ones:
101	** A map of the United States...with the state borders as they will be after 1925.
102	** An officer from the Confederate Army... in 1850 (the Confederacy isn't even formed until ''1861'').
103	** Surprisingly, the nitroglycerine they're making isn't an example as often commented, as it was invented in 1847. It's also far too unstable to be usable in any sort of battlefield weapon.
104	* The Creator/ShawBrothers epic ''Film/TheEightDiagramPoleFighter'' is set in the Song Dynasty, and involves the Yang family of warrior patriots being set up and led into a trap by the EvilChancellor. The sixth brother [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes mad from the revelation]], and never learns that their fifth brother, played by Creator/GordonLiu, also survived the massacre. Thus he found his own way home, a battered shell of a man, until he calms down and stops lashing at everyone around him - whereupon he describes the massacre ''in mad glee'', and at one point ''carries his spear over his shoulders and makes MACHINE-GUN NOISES.'' This may have been intended as a {{pun}}, since the Chinese word for 'spear' is also a loan-word for 'gun'.
105	* The 1984 cult film ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' throws [[The50s 1950s]] and [[The80s 1980s]] pop culture elements into a blender. Subverted by the fact the film is set in "Another Time, Another Place".
106	* An example in ''Film/TheArtist''. For the most part the creators have ShownTheirWork, but two songs that were used weren't written until The30s, while the film took place in TheRoaring20s.
107	** Another example taken on women's clothing. They still wore 1927 clothing in 1932, where the current silhouette had longer skirts and natural waistlines.
108	** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655442/goofs#anachronism This link]] provides more.
109	** It makes sense if you take into account that many movies made in the early 1930s did often try to pretend that it was still the '20s, primarily as a way of trying to make audiences forget the Great Depression was going on.
110	* Various Chinese war films and TV shows [[http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/anachronisms-in-chinese-war-films-television-serial-dramas.html have this]], many of which are very blatant. It's bad enough that the AK-47 is shown being used in the UsefulNotes/ChineseCivilWar (1945-1949), but a 21st-century AWM sniper rifle (and calling it a ''Mauser'') and digital camouflage?
111	* ''Film/SavingMrBanks'':
112	** P.L. Travers is greeted into her room with a bunch of Disney character plushes, one of which is a WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh\|2011}} doll. Disney's version of Pooh didn't hit the screen until 1966, though Disney had been trying to make a movie of the character for about five years prior.
113	** Zig-zagged in regards to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]. Several changes were made to the real one to make it look as how it was during Walt's time (e.g., the area in front of the train station is lined with attraction posters). However, Fantasyland remains unchanged despite going through a complete renovation in 1983, less than 20 years after the release of ''Mary Poppins''. You can also sometimes see a boy wearing a Woody hat. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' did not come out until 1995.
114	* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'': Several anachronisms with the 2003 time period: the Samsung [=SyncMaster=] 941BW was not available in 2003, Serato Scratch Live wasn't released until 2004, a can of Mountain Dew uses a newer logo introduced in 2005, the site "Cats That Look Like Hitler" wasn't there until 2006, Windows XP Service Pack 3, ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', and Dennis de Laat's "The Sound Of Violence" weren't released until 2008, Bing wasn't around until 2009, Harvard had a "@fas.harvard.edu" e-mail address instead of "@harvard.edu", Harvard dorms at the time required swiping a keycard instead of keyless entry, and the film's ending claims Facebook is available in [[WritersCannotDoMath 207 countries]] when the last count was 196.
115	* ''Film/LordOfWar'': Soviet troops in 1991 Ukraine are shown holding Chinese copies of the AKM, years after the AKM was removed from service in the Soviet armed forces.
116	* ''Film/WhichWayToTheFront?'': Obscure 1970 Creator/JerryLewis comedy in which Lewis plays a rich playboy who starts his own army to fight the Nazis in WWII. Among the anachronisms: Lewis listens to a 33 rpm long-playing record album (a format not introduced until 1948) on a 1960s-style stereo (stereos not introduced until the late 1950s). His haircut and demeanor also are not consistent with someone in the early to mid-1940s.
117	* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': The film takes place in the late 1920s at the very start of the sound era, however the "Beautiful Girl" segment, supposedly being shot for a movie of the era, is technologically too advanced for what was possible at the time (compare the real-life film of the era, ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody''). The closing musical segment is also supposed to theoretically be part of a film within the film, however it too is far more advanced than would have been possible in the late 1920s, however it is presented as a fantasy sequence, so does not necessarily count as an anachronism.
118	* A couple of period-set Music/ElvisPresley films contain this. Likely the most overt is the 1969 film ''The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)'' which is set in the 1920s, however Presley's sideburn-dominated hairstyle is completely anachronistic for the period. In addition, a soul song performed on screen titled "Clean Up Your Own Backyard", aside from being musically anachronistic, contains references to "armchair quarterbacks", a television-specific reference that didn't come into use until at least the 1950s, if not later. (While it was common for only portions of songs to be performed on screen in Presley films, this lyric is featured in the movie.)
119	* ''Film/WildWildWest'': despite the film being set a number of years after the Civil War/Emancipation, there is no way an African-American like James West would be in his particular job at this point in American history. And to say nothing of that giant mechanical spider....
120	* ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' is supposed to be set in 1958, and plays this up with the beatnik bar and a plot driven by the invention of the Hula Hoop. However, almost all of the scenes set in New York City have a heavy 1930s air about them: the clothing the characters wear, the slang, the speech patterns, and above all a drab, Depression-like palette that borders on DeliberatelyMonochrome (when 1950s culture was ''a little'' more colorful than that). Of course, many younger viewers didn't notice [[MedievalStasis (everything prior to the '60s looked the same, right?)]], and in the late '50s there were still plenty of '30s and '40s cultural influences kicking around, but the movie still seems designed to give connoisseurs of pop-culture history the fits.
121	* ''Film/DirtyDancing'':
122	** The road in the beginning has a yellow centerline, but early 1960's centerlines were white.
123	** Baby and several other women have obvious EightiesHair.
124	** The song during Johnny and Baby's first dance with the other staff is Otis Redding's "Love Man", which wasn't recorded until 1967.
125	** Tito's drummer has a Ludwig drum kit with a 1970's-style logo.
126	** Baby wears 1980's Keds shoes while practicing for the performance.
127	** While Baby is getting ready for the final dance, she is wearing a seamless bra, which wasn't available in 1963.
128	* The time period for ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' is quite vague. They seem to be aiming for about the 1920s, but blatant anachronisms keep turning up, such as Mrs. Mavilda's henchman Mel watching a television set. Perhaps they were trying for a Retro Universe, but that's probably giving the creators too much credit.
129	* WordOfGod is that ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'' is meant to take place somewhere in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, albeit in a reality where magic can still be present. Due to this vague setting, various anachronisms crop up:
130	** The fashion in this film is ''all'' over the place. Most of the characters wear 19th-century style clothes, but Cinderella's step-family - perhaps as a nod to the fact that [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the animated version]] was released in 1950 - boast plenty of 50s-style outfits. Including sleeveless/strapless ball gowns.
131	** Despite the film's apparent vaguely 19th-century setting, there are princesses at the ball from, among other states, the Seljuks (last Seljuk state disintegrated 1307) and Zaragoza (which was only an independent kingdom until 1110).
132	** At one point, Lady Tremaine taunts Cinderella that the prince would never marry a peasant girl, but with a gentlewoman like ''herself'' backing her it might be feasible, in a bid to blackmail Cinderella into making her Queen Dowager. If Cinderella's father was a peasant (albeit a rich one) Lady Tremaine would have lost whatever title and privilege she had when she married him. Of course, this is only said in a throw-away line; it’s possible Cinderella's father was a minor noble and Lady Tremaine meant she would lie that Cinderella is nothing more than an orphaned peasant girl she took in. Or she could lie that she is still a gentlewoman.
133	* ''Film/StraightOuttaCompton'' has a couple of examples:
134	** In the opening scenes, set in 1986, Music/EazyE is seen wearing his iconic [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Chicago White Sox]] cap. Unfortunately, [[http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25272835/important-wrong-white-sox-hat-appears-in-straight-outta-compton?ftag=YHR6f8d662 that cap design didn't exist until 1990]]. In real life, Eazy did wear the cap shown in the opening, but it was after Music/{{NWA}} had broken up, and shortly before his death.
135	** Near the end, [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]] is seen at Death Row Records' studios recording "Hail Mary" for his ''Don Killuminati'' album with Dr. Dre present, and Eazy is still alive. In real life, Dre had left Death Row before the ''Don Killuminati'' sessions, and Eazy had already passed on.
136	* Tupac's issues with anachronism didn't end with ''Straight Outta Compton''. ''Film/AllEyezOnMe'' featured several instances of this, including instances of people playing the Platform/PlayStation in scenes set ''in 1992'', and Pac and a few other characters carrying around '''iPhones''', of all things during the 90s, long before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. But the most glaring example would be the inclusion of "Hail Mary" in Tupac's House of Blues performance, which never happened in real life because the song wasn't released '''''until after his death'''''.
137	* ''Film/{{Invictus}}'':
138	** The opening scenes show Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from prison, with a group of marchers waving the South African flag... ''the modern'' South African flag, which wasn't introduced until 1994. (In real life, the marchers would almost certainly have waved the flag of the African National Congress, which is easily distinguishable.)
139	** The first match scene features the Springboks (South Africa's national rugby union team) hosting England in 1992. Advertising boards prominently feature South African wireless phone provider Vodacom... which wasn't founded until 1993, and didn't begin offering service until 1994. On top of that, Vodacom boardings are prominent in the film's 1995 final, at a time when mobile phones were largely a luxury.
140	** The registration plates of the cars Mandela is driven in, as well as those of Springboks captain François Pienaar, end in "GP", for Gauteng Province, home to Johannesburg. Those plates weren't introduced until 1997.
141	** A scene depicting fans entering Ellis Park, site of the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, in Johannesburg shows signage for "Coca-Cola Park". The stadium didn't pick up that name until 2008 (it's now known commercially as Emirates Airline Park). Also, World Rugby (known in 1995 as the International Rugby Football Board), the sport's governing body that runs the World Cup, has never allowed World Cup stadiums to use corporate names during the competition.
142	** A shot of a 747 pilot looking over the stadium while preparing to do a fly-by shows a Vodacom sign on Ponty Tower, one of the most iconic buildings in Jo'burg. However, in 1995, the building bore a sign for Coca-Cola instead.
143	** Some details of rugby gameplay are also anachronistic. For starters, the film depicts the Boks teaching a group of children in the line-out, instructing them to lift the line-out receiver. Back in 1995, the line-out rule only allowed "supporting" the receiver, not the lifting now allowed.
144	** Another gameplay anachronism: The referee instructs the players forming a scrum to "crouch, touch, pause, engage". That set of instructions wasn't introduced until 2007.
145	* ''Film/AirAmerica'' takes place in 1969 but has songs from The70s. In one scene, for example, two Asian men sing [[Music/{{America}} America's]] "A Horse with no Name", which is a 1971 song.
146	* ''Film/WorldTradeCenter'' may have been released only five years after 9/11, but it had quite a lot of anachronisms:
147	** Towards the end, when an empty Staten Island Ferry is moving towards downtown Manhattan, the Ferry Terminal is shown in its renovated state, which had not yet occurred in 2001.
148	** Bud Light bottles with clear plastic labels, not seen until 2004, appear in some scenes.
149	** In scenes outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, concrete planters are clearly visible surrounding the building. The planters were added to the bus terminal after 9/11.
150	** During a scene in the hospital near the end of the film, a can of Sierra Mist can be seen on a table. Although this drink existed in 2001, it used a different logo in the 2000-2002 time frame. This logo is from the 2003-2006 time frame.
151	** Plenty of post-2001 model vehicles in 2001.
152	* Another 9/11-related film, an establishing shot of New York in ''Film/United93'' shows a billboard advertising ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' - which was released in 2005.
153	* Another New York City setting, ''Film/{{Sully}}'' is set in 2009. The filmmakers were careful to only show shots of midtown Manhattan, as any downtown shots would show the new World Trade Center tower (completed in 2013). However several midtown skyscrapers that did not exist at the time are present, including 432 Park Avenue (completed in 2015, construction started 2012).
154	* ''The Jesse Ventura Story'', a 1999 TV movie about the life of the wrestling legend, is littered with examples of this trope.
155	** The film starts with Ventura (played by Nils Allen Stewart) facing Chris Kanyon in 1984, though Kanyon would have only been 14 at the time that match would have taken place.
156	** The actor who plays Jesse's real-life son Tyrel Janos (who would have been five in 1984) looks at least 12 to 13 years old.
157	** Ventura vs Kanyon in 1984 has nothing on Ventura's 1975 match against -- believe it or not -- Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who would have been NINE YEARS OLD at that time.
158	** The film has references to a Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob-style event taking place in the 1980s, well before the actual Screwjob took place in 1997. With Wrestling/{{Raven}} playing the Wrestling/ShawnMichaels role.
159	** Some scenes show Ventura openly discussing the wrestling business to outsiders in the 1970s, well before it was acceptable to do so.
160	* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', there's a scene where Riley gives cookies to her family as a toddler (which takes place in 2006 or 2007 given her age) and mutters "I'm gonna be Rapunzel!" while doing so. The Disney version of the story, ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', has baking as one of Rapunzel's favorite hobbies, but that version of the story did not come out until 2010.
161	* In the British UsefulNotes/WorldWarI film ''Film/TestamentOfYouth'', Creator/KitHarington's character is sick before he departs for France in 1914. When asked about it, he says that it is "[[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish Influenza]]", that everyone in the Army has it and that it is in all the newspapers. If one had to describe "Spanish Flu" in three sentences, they would probably be "it killed a lot of people", "it began in the last year of the war, 1918" and "it was called 'Spanish Flu' because reporting on it was censored in the press of the belligerent nations before the peace was signed, giving the wrong impression that neutral Spain was hit harder than the countries around it".
162	* The costumes, accessories, and weapons carried by various characters in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' date to anywhere between the Heian and Edo eras, an eight-hundred-year spread. Possibly justified in that Kubo's mother, grandfather, and aunts are supernatural beings (akin to how TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson).
163	* ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc'' has fairly accurate character designs for TheLateMiddleAges. However, just before Joan is burned you can spot a man wearing modern day glasses.
164	* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'': Okay, so it's a ''Muppet'' movie--most of the examples in the movie can be excused based on RuleOfFunny. There is one apparently unintentional example, though; Bean Bunny shows up at as a caroler at Scrooge's business, singing "Good King Wenceslas". The music for the carol dates back to 1582, but the "Wenceslas" lyrics weren't written until 1853, a full decade after the book was published.
165	* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': The soldiers in the Siberian base with the Winter Soldier has a badge on their sleeves with the Russian flag when he is sent on his mission to kill Tony Stark's parents. That happened on 16 December 1991, nine days before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
166	* ''Legend of Pocahontas'', the Creator/DingoPictures MockBuster of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', doesn't even try to be period accurate. Pocahontas and her tribe are riding horses before the white settlers introduced them and practicing archery with European-style bullseye targets, both the Indians and Englishmen drink booze from modern-style beer bottles, the soon-to-be-colonists mention UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, and their settlement is a town straight out of TheWildWest, complete with a saloon sporting [[FamilyFriendlyStripper dancing showgirls]], modern-day garbage cans, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking fish 'n chips]].
167	* ''Film/ItHappenedInAthens'' is set at the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames of 1896, which it portrays with traditions that were only added to the modern Olympics later on. The movie's version of the 1896 opening ceremony includes the Parade of Nations (introduced at the 1908 Olympics) and the lighting of the Olympic flame (introduced at the 1928 Olympics). The movie also features winning athletes being honored with a rendition of their country's NationalAnthem, a tradition that started at the 1932 games (moreover, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is explicitly identified as the U.S. national anthem, which it didn't become until 1931).
168	* ''Film/TheRaven2012'': There are some minors ones with regards to terms. "OK" might be defensible, since it's been recorded first around a decade prior to the events of the film, but "fan" is used for an admirer about four decades early.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'' was an AnimatedMusical that had the main story take place in the late 1950s and its songs were based on on rock-and-roll and doo-wop hits from that era. The titular Big Paw gets a song called "I'm a Puppy, Too", modified from the Gene Chandler song "Duke of Earl". "Duke of Earl" does sound much like a catchy 1950's doo-wop, but was first released in 1962.
170	* ''Film/RobinHood2018'' doesn't hold back. You have Crusaders using modern small-unit tactics and sending in archers for close-combat operations, Saracens using rapid-fire ballistae and acting an awful lot like the Taliban, medieval vests looking like flak jackets, Molotov cocktails, printed letters, casinos. The list goes on. Not to mention they essentially mixed Robin Hood and ''Series/{{Arrow}}''.
171	* ''Film/LadyNinjaKaede'': Most fashion historians agree that fishnet body stockings did not exist in Edo period Japan. Several male characters are shown wearing era-appropriate {{Fundoshi}}, so this is in play for RuleOfSexy and nothing else.
172	* ''Film/PrettyBaby'' is set in 1917 at a small village in Louisiana. Violet is photographed by E.J. Bellocq using a Kodak Nº 2 Portrait Brownie, which was not introduced to the market until 1929, a dozen years after the movie takes place.
173	* ''{{Film/Anna}}'': The film is set in the early 90's but the technology depicted seems to skew more towards the late 90's or above.
174	** A lengthy scene involves a robbery at an ATM in the latter half of the 1980s, but the first ATM (bankomat) was not installed in Russia until 1994.
175	** The USB interface was first introduced in 1996, well after the Cold War ended.
176	** While laptops did exist then, Vassiliev's is far too modern looking.
177	** Anna is sent in to assassinate a target and retrieve his phone. Such a trope would not really be necessary in a time when all phones did was make phone calls, as call logs by themselves are easy to retrieve.
178	* ''Film/TheFarmerTakesAWife'': While no exact year is ever specified, most of the period references point strongly in the direction of circa 1850, especially when the Erie Canal is said to have been built "twenty-five years ago."[[note]]It was completed in 1825.[[/note]] However, we see a world map with a united Germany (1870), a united Italy (ditto), and modern-day U.S. state borders (as of 1935, the year of the film's release). Also, characters repeatedly sing the iconic Erie Canal song, which wasn't written until 1905.
179	* ''Film/TheBladeMaster''. Three words: Cavemen and samurai! And the samurai are supposed to be Huns? Also a [[Franchise/{{ConanTheBarbarian}} Conan]]-knockoff-but-not-a-BarbarianHero hero '''hang gliding''' over a castle that has to be very late Medieval at the oldest. While the film isn't explicitly set in a fantasy world, it's utterly impossible to say ''when'' in real-world history it might be taking place. That's not even touching on the outright mistakes, like that the filmmakers didn't notice a set of modern tire tracks in the background of an outdoor location before filming.
180	* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' appears to be set in the 1300s or possibly the early 1400s, yet Mechtild mentions she got snake venom "from the New World". The New World was the term used by Europeans to refer to North America, yet Europeans didn't begin exploring and settling in America until the very end of the 15th century (Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492).[[note]]discounting Viking explorers several centuries earlier[[/note]]
181	* ''Film/FridayNightLights'' has a few.
182	** The [[https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/File:Bank_of_America_logo.svg 1998-2018 logo]] for Bank of America is seen below the scoreboard, when the film is set in 1988. (The logo would have looked like [[https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/File:Bank_of_America_old.svg this]].)
183	** In 1988, Permian High's home of Ratliff Stadium was on the outskirts of town in a fairly unpopulated area, with few houses nearby, making it unlikely that the film's depiction of children playing touch football near the stadium actually happened at that time. The area surrounding the stadium has since dramatically grown, meaning that the houses seen near the stadium in the film didn't exist in 1988.
184	** Ratliff Stadium has had artificial turf since its 1982 opening, but still had its original Astroturf field, instead of the [=FieldTurf=] surface it had at the time of filming (it's since changed to another modern artificial surface, Matrix Turf).
185	** A few scenes show players wearing facemask shields and Under Armour apparel. In 1988, visors for football helmets had yet to be introduced, and UA wasn't founded until 1996. Incidentally, UA founder Kevin Plank was playing high school football in the Washington, DC area in 1988.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': The ambulance that takes young Carl away after he falls is fitted with a modern electronic siren, rather than the old motor-driven type.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': Somewhat. The dance party scene is very distinctly 2010s-ish, with regards to the music and general atmosphere, but the first movie was made in 2001 and looked like it, and this film as a whole is meant to be a tribute to '80s college flicks. Some have calculated from Mike's calendar and the technology (for instance, the Scare Floors are shown using old Solari boards instead of digital monitors) that the film is set around 1987-1988.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'':
189	** A school rumor is passed quickly throughout Mei's middle school via text messages. In 2002, the vast majority of middle school students would not have had cell phones at all, and text messages were priced individually, making them rarely used. Texting would not become common until unlimited texting cell plans, up to a decade after the film's setting.
190	** The sprinkle Timbits (donut holes) at the top of the the Tim Hortons box are "birthday cake" flavour. This flavour was not available until 2014 when the Tim Hortons company launched it as part of its 50th anniversary.
191	** When Mei is talking to her friends just before catching a streetcar, a person in a wheelchair is seen in the background using a lift on a TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcar. The streetcars of the time, i.e. [=CLRVs=] (Canadian Light Rail Vehicles), did not have chair lifts.
192	* ''Film/Tetris2023'': When Henk mentions [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda and Link]], we see footage of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'', which was made in 2002 while the movie is set in the 80s.
193	* ''Film/CynaraPoetryInMotion'': Byron smokes a filter cigarette in 1883. These were only invented in 1927.
194	* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'':
195	** At the meeting in the church hall, Godfrey gives Mr. Mainwaring a message from his wife to bring home a pound of Brussels sprouts. However, the meeting started at 6 pm, the time shops would've closed in The40s.
196	** Four modern (by '70s standards) cars can be spotted at the roadblock.

Context AnachronismStew / FilmsWithNoGoodExcuse