Back on the original Top Gun—I can certainly (and willingly!) make allowances for them not being physically able to have real Russian fighters participate in filming.
But also, maybe it’s just me, it earns the filmmakers some respect from me by the filmmakers at least making the effort of worldbuilding in an explanation to band-aid the substitution—“they’re actually [completely fictional] MiG-28s. We don’t know much about them, but they’re brand new, very scary!”
See? At least that’s some creativity you can fanwank around (“they look just like F-5s, because they were reverse-engineered from captured US planes, and then upgraded with fiendish Soviet Super Science.”), rather than if they just called them a generic “MiGs,” or (even worse) explicitly called them a real, but completely, obviously, inconcealably dissimilar looking, jet’s name (“MiG-29s, on our six!” [Fokker Triplane with a red star spray-painted over the Iron Crosses sputters menacingly onscreen]).
I will, to keep up my testy pedant cred, still note that it’s still an out of sequence fictional MiG designation number…grumble, grumble, damn kids.
I’m talking about on-campus housing. I don’t know if management is contracted out , but I do know Queens College students pay the college. I actually know someone who lived there - apparently commuting from Westbury (a 30 minute drive) was too difficult.
In case this dips into accents…I’m halfway through The Boyz and I didn’t realize until the fourth episode that Billy is supposed to be English. (He got better.)
Speaking of inconsistencies within a fictional universe there is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation “Realm of Fear” which shows the point of view of someone being teleported. Apparently he remains conscious and aware the entire time,
Which makes no sense with the techno-babble they use to explain how the teleporters work–A person is de-materialized at a sub-atomic level, then re-materialized at a sub-atomic level in another place. How exactly is a person supposed to remain conscious when their atoms are being scattered?
One of my best friends used to live in Rantoul, which is in precisely the area of Illinois where that movie is set. Someone obviously at least looked at a map of Illinois, because the town names are accurate. I have driven many times down the exactly highway that the characters are supposedly driving on in the opening scenes, and somehow I never encountered the mountains that should have been looming behind me.
There is a thread in Factual Question about how long it takes a doctor to become a specialist in a certain field.
Which leads to another inaccuracy I see on TV-doctors that are too young.
In the show HOUSE two of the doctors were 26 in the first season–one specialized in Immunology, the other in Trauma Medicine. Since being a doctor takes 4 years of college and 4 of medical school an ordinary person would have been 26 finishing med school if they graduated high school at the normal age of 18. Not enough time to become board certified in either field.
TV Tropes call this Improbable Age and it sticks out to me when a character seems way to young achieve multiple degrees that they espouse on their show.
Zulu is one of my all-time favorite movies. But it has two big inaccuracies, one of which bothers me a lot, one of which bothers me not at all.
The portrayal of Private Hook is slanderous. The movie depicts him as a drunk, a malingerer, a “barracks-room lawyer”, and we are told that he only joined the army to avoid debtors’ prison. In real life, he was a career soldier, a regular church-goer, may have been a teetotaler, and he had received a commendation for good conduct shortly before the battle.
In another sub-plot, there is the singing duel. The Zulus perform a war-chant, drumming on their shields, while the British sing “Men of Harlech”. In the real world, that never happened. But, by Og, it should have. Someday, if Zulus and Welshmen ever face each other across No Man’s Land, their commanders had better remedy their ancestors’ oversight.
I think they wanted foils for Dr. House that were prodigies to show that no one was immune to his soul-crushing scorn and scrutiny. If he bullied stupid people, he wouldn’t have been as appealing.
Oh thank you…House reminded me of my other big TV nitpick. Christ a lot of early 2000’s TV sucked.
Does his hospital have only five people working there?? How the **** are some of the lead actors sifting through a sandbox looking for cat shit? And all the other dirty dirty grunt work they had to do? Are there not others to do that?
That’s a common thing in Star Trek too. In a ship with hundreds of crewman it’s the main members of the cast and the Top officers on the ship who always in the away teams that visit the surface of planet.
What accent did you think he had?