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Casablanca… why would the Nazis be powerless against letters of transit especially signed by DeGalle??
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Maybe it is because they were signed by Vichy General Maxime Weygand. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I have to disagree. I distinctly remember Ugardi saying that they were “sdigned by de Gaulle” they “cannot be revoked. Not even questioned.” It’s always bothered me, and I asked this same question a couple of years ago on this very Board. I don’t recall the answers I got, though.
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Or maybe it’s standard equiptment carried by all research/ exploration vessels. Showing another ship using it makes it a more believable plot device than simply announcing that we luckiliy just happen to have a device to solve this particular problem.
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This is what I was thinking. I can never decide if the Enterprise is a warship that doubles as a science vessel or vice-versa.
Worst ever… Die Hard 2. They were supposed to be at Dulles Airport in Northern VA, but every scene with a pay phone clearly had PAC BELL on the side of it!
If this isn’t common knowledge, it should be. Rubber tires DO NOT screech on dirt. Sometimes a burnout on pavement results in just a hiss. What really bugs me is that every time I see an airplane land in a movie, I always here the screech-screech of the wheels touching down - even if its lands on grass or dirt.
It also bugs me cars squeal around on gravel roads (Dukes of Hazzard) in a high speed chase.
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I have to disagree. I distinctly remember Ugardi saying that they were “sdigned by de Gaulle” they “cannot be revoked. Not even questioned.” It’s always bothered me, and I asked this same question a couple of years ago on this very Board. I don’t recall the answers I got, though.
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From Wikipedia:
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
Hannibal Lechter, the man who has spent the last seven years in a cell, can suddenly open a handcuff with a pen tube and paper clip lock and then overpower two cops with guns? PLEASE! :rolleyes:
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Even less proabable: that trained EMTs woldn’t notice that a person lying on the flooe is jsut wearing the face of someone else. Puh-leeze.
[QUOTE=Dob]
Worst ever.. Die Hard 2. They were supposed to be at Dulles Airport in Northern VA, but every scene with a pay phone clearly had PAC BELL on the side of it!
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That’s not the worst ever. It’s not even the worst in that movie.
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The Emperor’s Death Star throne room in Return Of The Jedi: watch the blue screen starfield out of the windows behind the throne as the stars drift lazily past. Now watch each shot which cuts back from Luke to the Emperor as the space/time continuum apparently resets and the same stars do the same slow drift again: yup, ILM have just reused the same effects shot. Repeatedly. Impossible to watch anything else in the scene once you’ve noticed it - there…they…go…again…wheee…
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Thanks, Scissorjack. This one made me titter uncontrollably… 
In the Our Gang short Helping Grandma (in which the kids keep a monstrous J. R. Ewing-type from cheating a poor old lady out of her grocery store), the two sales agents race in their car to Grandma Mack’s store, and if you watch closely they keep going around that same corner–I think it’s on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. The same eucalyptus trees and everything. Whee.
As a topper, Wheezer smacks the bad guy (Oscar Apfel) on the noggin with a hammer.
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I always though that we’re meant to suspect it was Deckard.
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I think Deckard was supposed to be a replicant,. more one more like Rachael.
All the other Replicants knew each other. Zhora didn’t know Deckard when he caught up with her at Taffy’s club.
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In the Our Gang short Helping Grandma (in which the kids keep a monstrous J. R. Ewing-type from cheating a poor old lady out of her grocery store)…
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AND Grandma does gymnastics OBVIOUSLY beyond the abilities of an overweight, elderly woman. I mean, WTF? 
A local station showed one the other day that was without dialog, just with music, singing, and the Foley effects. I wished I was high for it. God, I loves me my Our Gang!
[QUOTE=dropzone]
AND Grandma does gymnastics OBVIOUSLY beyond the abilities of an overweight, elderly woman. I mean, WTF?
A local station showed one the other day that was without dialog, just with music, singing, and the Foley effects. I wished I was high for it. God, I loves me my Our Gang!
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According to Leonard Maltin, those stunts were done by Harry Sharpe, in drag as Gandma Mack for that scene.
[QUOTE=brewha]
If this isn’t common knowledge, it should be. Rubber tires DO NOT screech on dirt.
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Hear, hear. Joel Robinson’s “Hey, no squealing on dirt!” is one of my favorite MST3000 lines.
Maybe I’m naïve but I believe that a substantial portion of the U.S. population has seen lightning strikes and counted the seconds between the flash and the sound of thunder. So why does every thunderstorm depicted on screen have thunder booming simultaneously with each flash, no matter how far away the strikes are supposed to be? Just once I’d like to see a character say, “Damn, that cell has been parked right over the house for an hour! Call the Weather Channel!”
All these posts, and nobody mentioned the Pacific Bell pay phone in Die Hard 2?
From the IMDB page “Continuity: Five minutes into the movie John receives a page, when he finds a phone, it says “Pacific Bell” on the top of the phone. This is odd considering that this movie is supposed to take place at Dulles Airport in Maryland, near Washington DC.”
Now if we haven’t picked enough nits, I just re-read that quote from IMDB. Dulles airport is not in Maryland, it is in Virgina. :smack:
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[QUOTE=Dob]
Worst ever.. Die Hard 2. They were supposed to be at Dulles Airport in Northern VA, but every scene with a pay phone clearly had PAC BELL on the side of it!
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That’s not even the worst bit in the movie. The planes are circling Dulles because they can’t land there - oblivious to the fact that there are two other major airports just minutes away.
[QUOTE=Rick]
All these posts, and nobody mentioned the Pacific Bell pay phone in Die Hard 2?
From the IMDB page “Continuity: Five minutes into the movie John receives a page, when he finds a phone, it says “Pacific Bell” on the top of the phone. This is odd considering that this movie is supposed to take place at Dulles Airport in Maryland, near Washington DC.”
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Well, if you don’t count Dob, in post #84.
[QUOTE=plankter]
Maybe I’m naïve but I believe that a substantial portion of the U.S. population has seen lightning strikes and counted the seconds between the flash and the sound of thunder. So why does every thunderstorm depicted on screen have thunder booming simultaneously with each flash, no matter how far away the strikes are supposed to be? Just once I’d like to see a character say, “Damn, that cell has been parked right over the house for an hour! Call the Weather Channel!”
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Explosions, too. How many war movies have you seen with artillery landing hundreds if not thousands of yards away with an instant ka-boom*?
Perhaps not every single person, but anyone with an interest in horseracing beyond once a year for the Ky. Derby should wince at this one. In The Sting, the horse Langdon was supposed to bet on (but ‘accidently’ could not) during the setup was repeatedly quoted at odds of 3 to 1. As he’s leaving in frustration the last thing he hears over the P.A. is " . . . and <horse’s name> paid six dollars.
A three to one bet would pay eight dollars, your two dollar bet back plus the six dollars in winnings.
*[Marvin] What happened to the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom![/Marvin]
[QUOTE=plankter]
Hear, hear. Joel Robinson’s “Hey, no squealing on dirt!” is one of my favorite MST3000 lines.
Maybe I’m naïve but I believe that a substantial portion of the U.S. population has seen lightning strikes and counted the seconds between the flash and the sound of thunder. So why does every thunderstorm depicted on screen have thunder booming simultaneously with each flash, no matter how far away the strikes are supposed to be? Just once I’d like to see a character say, “Damn, that cell has been parked right over the house for an hour! Call the Weather Channel!”
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It seems like it can’t ever just rain, either. Rain must always be accompanied by thunder and lightning.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
No, it’s been established in the ST universe that even warp speed is a linear mode of travel, and has an upper speed limit. I believe it’s 1000X the speed of light, but someone will likely come in and correct me soon. 
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No, warp factors (it’s not just one speed) have never been linear, and 1000c** is matched by Warp 10 in the old system (which had no cap on warp factors), and exceeded by Warp 8 otherwise. The original system, which I believe was used just for TOS, was cubic (speed=warp factor^3**c): Warp 5 was 125c, Warp 10 was 1000c, Warp 15 was 3,375c. There were inconsistencies in many episodes with that, and the new system changed it to speed=(Warp factor)^10/3 times c, with Warp 10 being theoretically unattainable, and the 10/3 exponent increasing between Warp 9 and Warp 10. Warp 9.999 is nearly 300,000c.
(c=speed of light=~300,000 km/s)
Reference that jibes with my moderate knowledge of ST:[url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive_(Star_Trek)Warp Drive.
And complaining about FTL travel in Star Trek is ridiculous: I’ll be the first to admit that they pulled the science out of their asses, but it’s a constant theme that they can go faster than light, not a mistake. FTL flight is almost essential for space SF (and yes, I’m sure there are many counterexamples).