Almost Famous

When the band leaves Jeff Bebe behind at the gas station, as he's running towards the bus you can see a Discover Card logo on the sign above him.

Discover Card was first issued in 1985.

Throughout the movie, various albums and tracks are mentioned, heard and seen, even though they weren't released at the time the individual scenes are set.

However, they are "of the period," and suit the scenes for other reasons.

When the streets of New York are shown outside the hotel, the street signs are green and white.

In 1973, New York City street signs were still gold and black.

When the group comes to New York City, several buildings are visible in the skyline that were not yet built in 1974, most notably, the Citigroup Building, which was built in 1978-1979.

Although the film takes place in 1973, William Miller appears in underwear with the "Fruit of the Loom" name printed all around the waistband.

This style wasn't produced by the company until the 1990s.

When William meets 'Lester Bangs' (qv) for the first time and walks with him, the bag over his shoulder changes position often between angles.

The trivia book William keeps on the bus (shown in one scene behind the Roget's Thesaurus) is an edition published in 1977.

During the storm, the plane's engines are not audible, as if they were shut down.

When the engines whine up again, the piston engines have acquired turbofans.

In the final concert, as the band walks onto the stage, several modern intelligent lights (MAC600s) are visible.

The lights were first released in 1997.

In other scenes, the instruments lighting the band are halogen and metal halide lamps, which also didn't exist in the 1970s.

William's picture of Penny jumps from the left side of his typewriter to the right side before he picks it up and sets it aside.

When William is sitting in the bathtub, Penny Lane comes in to use the bathroom.

Startled, William knocks his notes off the edge of the tub.

In the next scene, where we are looking straight at Penny Lane, the notes are still lined up on the edge of the tub.

When Russell is about to be interviewed in William's room, a shirt is on the chair Russell sits on.

He turns the chair around and throws the shirt on the floor.

In the next shot, the shirt reappears on the chair.

The backstage pass on William's jacket comes and goes just before the pre-performance huddle scene.

When Dick, the band's manager, fights with the owner of the venue after Russell is shocked, his cowboy hat falls off.

In the next shot, it is back on as he boards the bus.

(This is noticeable in the "Untitled" version, but not in the theatrical release.

) When William is typing his first article, the words, "And it's not about popularity" are appearing on the paper, but he is typing T G U G H M R and N.

Penny Lane rides a plane with winglets.

The advantages of winglets weren't proven until 1976, and they were first used on commercial planes in 1985.

When 'Lester Bangs' (qv) is being interviewed at the radio station, he picks 'Yes' (qv)' album "Fragile" from the shelf, says "Yes? No !" and throws the record on the ground.

He then picks another record, "Live American Woman", and Yes' Fragile is back on the shelf.

In the Untitled version, when William and 'Lester Bangs' (qv) are alone on the San Diego corner (just after Lester refers to "his many fans") there is a 1990s 'Obey Giant' (qv) (aka "Andre Has a Posse") poster on the traffic box on the left.

One of the stops on the Stillwater tour is Greeneville, Tennessee.

The movie spells it "Greenville.

" When the sister leaves at the beginning, she puts on 'Paul Simon (I)' (qv) & 'Art Garfunkel' (qv)'s "Book Ends" album to play "America.

" We hear the song begin crisply, but on that album, "America" fades up as the tail end of "Save the Life of My Child" is fading out.

Before the lights come up at Stillwater's Cleveland show, fans are waving Chem-Lite glow sticks.

Glow sticks did not become widely available for several years after their invention, the first patent for such a device having been awarded in October, 1973.

The sticks would only become popular at concerts several years after becoming available to the public.

Most of the film presumably takes place in the early summer of 1973, months before the initial patent for the glow stick was even obtained.

When William drags Penny Lane across the floor as she's ODing, the soles of her bare feet are dirty.

When the doctor and nurse pump her stomach in the bathroom, they're clean.

When William Miller and Russell Hammond are walking outside the concert, a VW bus is driving behind them and passes them on the street.

In the next shot, the same VW bus is back 50 yards or so again.

It then passes by again less that 10 seconds later and the driver invites Russell and William to a party.

During the backstage argument in Topeka, Jeff points to Dick sitting on a couch next to Ed.

Suddenly, as the argument ends, Dick is standing behind Jeff.

The preceding shots would have shown Dick getting up from the couch to break up the fight, but he is never seen in the background.

In Topeka in 1973, some of the young party-goers by the pool are drinking from late-1990s Pepsi cans.

When Anita talks their mom into pulling over to tell William how old he really is, Elaine turns the car steering wheel one way, but the car pulls over in the opposite direction.

As William Miller and 'Lester Bangs' (qv) prepare to part ways on a street corner, several modern-day vehicles, including a recent San Diego Transit bus, are visible beyond the trees.

On the bus, when Sapphire tells William about his mother calling, she braces herself before she hits the wall.

When William Miller is in the Rolling Stone's conference room with 'Ben Fong Torres' (qv) waiting for the fact-checker to return, a black telephone is on the corner of the table, to Miller's right.

When the fact-checker returns, there are several quick cuts with the phone visible in each.

As she leaves, that corner of the table is clearly visible, but the phone is not.

In the next cut, the phone is there again.

William is standing in the hallway at the live 'Black Sabbath' (qv) show, but you hear the studio version of the song they're playing (Sweet Leaf).

When William returns home near the end of the film, he goes into his bedroom and starts to flop down on his bed, and his backpack is on his back.

It then cuts to a closer shot of him, and the backpack is gone.

The position of the 'Abraham Lincoln (I)' (qv) poster behind William's bed changes position between cuts whenever a scene is in his room.

When William is in the tub writing and Penny Lane walks in, there are what appear to be Post-It Notes all over the tub.

The movie takes place in 1974Post-it Notes were not invented until 1977, and not released to the public until at least 1979.

However, as noted by 'Cameron Crowe (I)' (qv) in the DVD commentary for "Untitled", they are in fact not Post-It notes, but folded yellow legal paper.

When the entourage checks into the Gramercy Hotel the 'Led Zeppelin' (qv) teenaged fan is holding a Marks-A-Lot marker with a modern logo.

"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid" is actually a quote of 'Dorothea Brande' (qv) and not 'Johann Wolfgang Goethe' (qv).

In the scene on the bus where all the passengers begin singing "Tiny Dancer", the scenery outside of the bus is significantly different between each camera cut.

In the pool scene, when William goes up to Russell and asks him a question with his recorder his lips aren't moving.

On the bus when everyone is singing "Tiny Dancer", William says something to Penny.

Penny already had her mouth open to sing the next lyrics "Hold me closer.

" However, the next line is actually "Count the headlights on the highway.

" At the party that Russell takes Michael to, they are playing the song "Burn" by 'Deep Purple' (qv).

The tour happened in 1973 while the song released in 1974.

1967Double yellow center striping is valid, but yellow dashed striping isn't.

These wasn't introduced until late 1971.

Even in summer 1973, finding yellow dashed road center striping was still rare as it took several years to change them over from white.

In the 1967/8 scenes, there are plenty of modern lamp posts - which look too new to be of that era.

In the summer of 1973, the World Trade Center wasn't quite finished.

The cranes were still on the top and one of the towers still had about 20 floors to clad.

After William says goodbye to his Mom and goes to meet Penny Lane for their trip to Los Angeles, he runs across a street.

On the right side of the screen, a 1980s-style Honda sedan can be seen parked among the myriad 'period' vehicles for the film.

At the 'Black Sabbath' (qv) show where William first meets Stillwater, someone backstage can be seen wearing a 1997 Black Sabbath Reunion "Devil Twins" T-Shirt.

When Russell is electrocuted, he is reaching for the microphone as though to sing backing vocals.

However, the song itself has no backing vocals (song plays during the radio interview scene and on the "Stillwater" CD included with the Director's Cut).

However many rock bands and the fictional Stillwater (most likely as well) would alter songs during a live show (add backing vocals, change arrangement, add solo, etc.

) so the fact that the studio recording doesn't contain backing vocals does not mean the live version wouldn't as well.

A paperback version of "Trinity" by 'Leon Uris' (qv) is seen on William's bed-bookshelf.

This book was not published until 1976.

The paperback version wasn't printed until 1977.

When The Who song "Sparks" is playing on the turntable, the camera shows the vinyl record turning but it is side 4 on the label.

"Sparks" is on side 1 on the flip side of the record.

In the scene where William is looking through the albums his sister left in the bag under the bed, one of the albums he looks at is Joni Mitchell's Blue.

The scene takes place in 1969, but the album wasn't released until 1971.

The song Burn by Deep Purple was heard playing during a party sequence during the Stillwater tour of 1973.

Burn wasn't release until 1974.

There is at least one frame in the "Penny's birthday cake" scene that is a mirror image (writing on the cake is reversed).

In the Stillwater Cleveland performance intelligent lighting fixture are rigged on the truss above e stage.

These stage lights would not be developed for several more years.

The large speaker in the radio station has a polypropylene woofer.

Polypropylene was not used in speakers until the late 70's and the speaker here appears to be of 80's vintage.

When William goes to call the Desk to report Penny's 'accident' with some Quaaludes, there is a close-up of the Quaalude Bottle.

If it were a real bottle of Quaaludes in the time period of the film, the label would say'Rorer' (Pharmaceuticals), not 'Lemmon', as the Lemmon Company did not make Quaaludes until 1978.

2000's "Almost Famous" is one of those feel good film stories it's like an adventure of discovery and excitement as a young man's journey out to meet new people and new things is showcased. As you can see director Cameron Crowe really makes this a film of exploring it's like it's a coming of age film.

This movie was completely and unequivocally overrated. Not only was it boring as hell, but it was ultimately derivative of several films of the same genre: "Dazed and Confused", "The Stoned Age", "Rock and Roll High School" to name a few, along with another Cameron Crowe flick "Singles".

I was just shy of my thirteenth birthday when Almost Famous came out in 2000. I didn't know anything about it, but my dad asked me if I wanted to go see a movie with him.

This is based on the real life experiences of director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe who was, as a teenager, a rock music critic for "Rolling Stone" magazine in the early 70s. I found the movie so captivating that it totally disarmed any thoughts of criticism I might have.

From the very first time watching this film, I fell in love with the music and the idea of riding alongside the band. Whilst the main character is somewhat, unbelievable in the 'real world', I'm sure the theory behind this, was to see Rock n roll through innocent, yet wise eyes.

The movie starts well with an usual stern Frances as a single mother and her two kids in California in the 70s. As the time was wild, sure parenthood was not easy and this part is really good.

Looking through other reviews on IMDb for this movie, I am confused, but laughing so much, honestly. People on here seem to either adore this movie with all of their heart, calling it "My favourite film to watch over and over" or they find that the movie was "Almost Watchable" or left them "Almost Nauseous".

Have you ever feel the need to be alive at the 70's? Or have you lived in the 70's and wanted to just go back in time?

I personally really liked this movie I thought it had multiple aspects that made it a really good movie. I thought the soundtrack had a very big impact on the movie and the soundtrack is one major reason why I enjoyed this film.