Serial Mom. Kathleen Turner heads out of Roland Park with the cops on her tail. Next scene shows her pulling up in front of Hammerjacks. This is a trip of about 10 miles, involving one highway (I-83) and then a trip right through the heart of downtown Baltimore. (Hammerjacks was located where the stadiums are now. It was torn down to build Ravens Stadium) With cops on her tail? (nevermind that the BCPD has a strict “do not chase” policy) Impossible! Ruined the whole movie for me.
As this is a thread devoted to nitpicking, I better be precise. Hammerjacks was torn down to build a parking lot for the Ravens’ stadium.
Obi-wan knew what was on the droid. He didn’t know where it had to be delivered to, but he knew the Rebellion existed and woudn’t have been based on Alderaan (and it wasn’t). He also knew Luke would run straight for them if he had the chance - that’s what he and Luke were attempting when they came across the Death Star.
I can understand this, actually. The imperial forces were taking prisoners in the opening scene, so we know they wanted to know what happened to the plans, and if they’d been sent to anyone. Ergo, once their search on the ship turned up nothing, they tracked the space pod precisely. Blowing it up might have meant destroying invaluable information.
Ironic isn’t it, that one of the few times the Empire didn’t take a “kill 'em all and let the Force sort it out approach,” it was the one time it was a bad move? Heh.
Sheesh. I LIVE in Louisville, and that didn’t bother me at all. I’d chalk it up to artistic license.
I wish I could remember which movie it was, but it was set in Chicago. A chase scene was going on in the Art Institute, and a character ran through a door and came out in the Field Museum! Or maybe it was the other way around. But the bottom line is that someone teleported through a doorway and ended up miles away in a different musem!
Argh!
Besides which, would two grunts manning a gun turret even know what they were looking for? I don’t see Vader making an announcement on the ship’s PA: “Alright, troops, we’re looking for the super-secret plans to our super-secret planet destroying spacestation, which the rebel spies have managed to steal from our super-secret weapons facility. Don’t tell anyone! Also, if you’re a rebel spy, please report to the bridge immediatly.” Odds are, they were told that they were capturing a traitor’s ship, and not to let anyone get off alive. There wasn’t anyone alive on the escape pod, so the crew sensibly decided to conserve their ammo.
I got IMDB to post this one I found:
In “Goonies,” set in Portland, OR, the kids end up on the beach at the end of the movie. It’s morning. The sun is RISING over the Pacific Ocean. I’ve only ever seen sunsets over the Pacific, personally.
One of my family friends noted that Jim Lovell’s car was the wrong color in Apollo 13, but this was due to his working at NASA at the time rather than being a nutcase about space history.
Being a “gun nut,” I always see guns being shown to work a way that they really don’t. Like when the weapon is empty, and the slide locks to the rear, yet the shooter keeps pulling the trigger and the gun goes, “Click! Click!”
I clearly remember Knight Rider having KITT track a car through town. Instead of creating graphics for the screen, the show used an Intellivision racing game. I knew because my friend had that game, and I had played it several times.
Then there are the times KITT took a 1G turn and didn’t even sway. Then there’s the fact that it could open combination locks from 20 yards without blowing electronics for 200 yards, including its own. Oh, and that ridiculous Turbo Boost that somehow vaulted the car into the air.
It was a train wreck, really.
I usually don’t notice mistakes in movies but as a former herpetology buff it really stuck out when in “Gladiator” they used a non-poisonous North American snake, slipped into a bed, to kill someone.
This is where my confusion over movie (and television) nitpicks comes in. Many of them, yes, I can understand why people consider them errors.
But we’re talking about a show with a car that could not only talk, but was intelligent. I can’t see how a person can suspend their disbelief that far without accepting part and parcel most of the other technological tomfoolery along with it. It wasn’t supposed to be realistic, it was supposed to be fun.
The same with the geographic nitpicking. These errors are usually intentional. You don’t think the director notices that they’ve traveled fifty miles in the the wrong direction to film something that on screen is two blocks away? As someone said, it’s creative license. Movies are hardly meant to be letter-perfect factual representations.
Honestly, moved coffee mugs, changed clothing, serious errors in geography (like putting a coastline on Kansas), etc. - I can understand why they bug people and how they get nitpicked. But nitpicking impossible situations in shows that revolve around an impossible premise? I don’t get it.
If your gun doesn’t go “Click! Click!” then you’re not pulling hard enough…
Yeah, whatever. You don’t like geographical nitpicks.
SLC Punk. The scenes downtown: The movie is set in 1985, but was filmed in 1995. They didn’t bother making sure the cars on the streets were at least 10 years old, so we have early 90’s cars in the background downtown.
Geographical nitpick: The guys are going to Evanston, Wyoming to get Mickey’s big mouth beer. That would have taken them east through Park City, then north to Wyoming, all the time heading through canyons. Instead we see them headed west, over the salt flats towards Wendover Nevada.
Here’s one: in Jumping Jack Flash, Terri’s monitor display magically changes from amber monocrhome to EGA after entering the code key.
I live in Louisville, too. And it bothered me because it could have EASILY been edited to show the correct sequence.
What area of town are you in?
Jim Lovell doesn’t look like Tom Hanks, so Jim Lovell’s car can also appear different. I think that’s fair rationale.
And even if it had the connector you still need the male-to-kloopforg adapter.
Obi-wan was also a Jedi Knight. Jedi knights have been known to see the future.
There’s a good chance he knew exactly what was going to happen.
The entire premise for the film Double Jeopardy was based on deeply flawed logic. The film makers put forth the notion that a woman tried for the crime of murder could get away with later killing the person she was tried for killing if that person was found to be alive after all.
Since double jeopardy only protects you from being tried twice for the same crime, she would not be protected from her actions in a seperate incident. The law would not retry her for the first murder (especially since it obviously never happened), but she would be charged for this separate one.
And Ashley Judd should be in jail anyway, as hotness to that extreme should be highly illegal.