Yes, thank you.
My wife, who lived in SF for 25 years, always laughs at the Bullitt chase scene, because each scene is in a different part of the city (other than the ones shot with the VW).
Yes, thank you.
My wife, who lived in SF for 25 years, always laughs at the Bullitt chase scene, because each scene is in a different part of the city (other than the ones shot with the VW).
The Saint
If you knew Moscow like I know Moscow, you’d know Val Kilmer couldn’t possibly get from the Hotel Ukraina to Red Square in under ten seconds! :eek:
Star Wars - Episode IV
After [spoiler alert] they blow up the Death Star and return to the spaceship-staging-area-field-thingie, Leia dashes toward Luke’s fighter and calls “Luke!” Luke jumps out of the cockpit and shouts, “Carrie!”
It’s probably long since been fixed, but the VHS copy I owned c. 1990 had it intact.
ETA: I’m surprised no one’s mentioned this yet. I’d think there’d be dozens of Dopers who are familiar with it.
EATA: Of course, maybe that makes it not fit the OP.
I recall many early episodes of Stargate SG-1 where people’s breath was creating frost as they spoke. Apparently all those alien planets were in Canada and it was very cold. 
What kind of rainfall you got that cuts grooves in iron?
I don’t think this really happened. I think this is just a meme that has a lot of legs.
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t852052/
http://jedinat.chez.com/Int1.html
The geography in the two Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes films is also ridiculous – he manages to get from the House of Commons to Tower Bridge in about 30 seconds when they’re two miles apart. He also manages to get to Switzerland pretty damn fast for going on a horse.
But the champion for bad geography is The Day After Tomorrow. The trailer shot of the tidal wave hitting Manhattan shows no sign of Long Island (which would block it if it were coming from that direction) – Manhattan is shown right on the ocean. Then the water is shown moving up the avenues, but from that angle, the wave had to have originated in New Jersey. Finally, the big killer ice storm is coming from the north, yet it hits the Empire State Building (34th Street) before it gets to the New York Public Library (42nd Street*).
*NYC Streets are named so that lower numbers are to the south.
Grin! You, I like!
There’s a non-zero chance that “Mr. Glass’s” insanity means the whole damn thing was just insane rantings that suckered in a not too intelligent Willis.
So Willis never gets sick, can lift a lot and take a hell of a pounding. Very likely he is “Unbreakable”, but there’s a small chance he already could have done those things.
Besides, if Mr.Glass has brittle bones, doesn’t that only mean that Willis has Unbreakable ones? Not that Willis is invulnerable.
Several things:
[ol]
[li]France is the slightly smaller than Texas, so traveling on a horse really would have taken some time.[/li][li]The wave that washes over the New York Public Library in The Day After Tomorrow comes from the direction of the East River. Trying imaginig that if you have ever been in Manhattan.[/li][li]The mall in that same film where one of the scientists traveling with Dennis Quaid to New York to rescue son falls to his death is apparently buried under about 40-50 FEET of snow in less than 24 hours. That has to be a record.;)[/li][li]How did a ocean-going ship traverse Fifth Ave, all the way Uptown as far as the library? Even in a record flood? Especially considering that a vessel the size of the one shown would have to be anchored at the Port of Elizabeth in NJ about 10 miles away?[/li][/ol]
I can normally forgive this, but Justified is so deeply rooted in Appalachia that it’s especially egregious. The other night we were watching an episode in which the characters are going to visit the Hill Folk, making jokes about how they’re cannibals and such, and the establishing shot shows them driving by a slope covered in sagebrush. Sagebrush, people!
They need to get a crew to Appalachia, spend three weeks just getting footage of hills and forests and windy mountain roads, and then greenscreen as necessary.
OK, here’s one I spotted. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, during the final duel between Obi-wan and Darth Maul, just before Obi-wan is knocked into the shaft via a force push. Darth Maul blocks with both hands on his (now single-bladed) lightsaber, releases the hilt with his left hand, does a force push with his empty right hand (in close-up) and then the POV shifts to a medium shot with the saber back in his right hand and his left extended from delivering the force push.
Something bothered me about this scene for a long time until I finally figured it out.
At 4:22 in this clip
That was filmed in the Eastern Kentucky Desert. A very remote area that and not well-known to outsiders…
I would guess that most people missed the fact that the helicopter crash in “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” was unintentional (and real).
Anything filmed in LA is full of location errors. One that drives locals nuts was in Lethal Weapon, where Mel Gibson starts a foot chase of a car in the Valley, turns a corner and is suddenly on Sunset Blvd. Nice running, Mel. And you aren’t even out of breath.
There is a region of eastern North Carolina that is nearly devoid of vegetation. No sagebrush, but very desert looking in parts. Far from forested.
Persistent pollution from old gold smelters.
To be fair, though, eastern North Carolina is not Appalachia.
To be fairer still, based on the map linked, ftg meant western North Carolina.
HA! Good catch. I didn’t bother to look at the link.
In the Bourne Ultimatum, Pamela Landy is reviewing Jason Bourne’s file and sees a record of the assassination of Vladimir Nesky, a plot point from the previous film. But in that same film, Nicky Parsons says the Nesky mission is “not in [Bourne’s] file”; unbeknownst to Bourne, it was done off the record as part of a scheme to make Conklin and Abbott rich. The record should not be there for Landy to see.