# Movie Flaws that no one should notice. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895 "2006-10-25T20:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/141 "2006-11-01T09:15:48Z")
[QUOTE=bryanmaguire] Its been a while since I watched the movie but i seem to recall it was a russian RPG-7. [RPG-7](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rpg-7.jpg) [/QUOTE] Well, whatever it was, the Germans wouldn’t have had one for Indy to get his mitts on. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/142 "2006-11-01T11:40:07Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Well, whatever it was, the Germans wouldn’t have had one for Indy to get his mitts on. [/QUOTE] True, but then that German plane that’s kicking about the place (for Indy to have a fist-fight on and around) is a mite imaginary too, though no further off the wall than some of the stuff they were dreaming up at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/143 "2006-11-01T12:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] Well living in Southern California I found it quite humorous in _Charlie’s Angeles_ that a high speed race car car chase started at the California Speedway in Fontana and ended on the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, 70 miles and several Freeways interchanges away. [/QUOTE] IANAE, but in a similar vein I thought it amusing that the driving in the film Divorcing Jack took them on a rather tortuous route through Belfast that seemed soley for the purpose of showing us the city than getting anywhere quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/144 "2006-11-01T17:40:48Z")
[QUOTE=bryanmaguire] Its been a while since I watched the movie but i seem to recall it was a russian RPG-7. [RPG-7](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rpg-7.jpg) [/QUOTE] If my memory is correct it is not an RPG-7. I’m trying to find a picture but this [text](http://www.indianajones.com/marshall/character/belloq/) is the best I can come up with, from [Indianajones.com](http://Indianajones.com). > [@](#): > > Jones followed them to Geheimhaven, a secret submarine pen on an island north of Crete, where he disguised himself as a German soldier. Armed with a Panzerfaust rocket launcher, Jones threatened to destroy the Ark unless Belloq freed Marion. Belloq called Jones’ bluff; he knew Jones well enough that he could not destroy such a holy artifact. The Germans captured Jones and Ravenwood, and tied them to a stake to witness the triumphant opening of the Ark. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/145 "2006-11-01T22:03:03Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] However, if I understand the timeframe correctly, Parker is in his first or at most second year; any course involving calculating the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for voltage is would be at least an upper division if not graduate level E&M course. Even assuming that Parker is somewhat advanced, it doesn’t really make sense that he’d be covering that material. [/QUOTE] Parker is more than somewhat advanced; if I recall correctly, he’s up there with the smartest characters in the Marvel Universe. Keep in mind that contrary to what the movies said, he invented all of his equipment: the webshooters and the fluid itself. I have very little trouble believing that he could be four or five years ahead of his peers in science. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/146 "2006-11-29T13:53:19Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] True, but then that German plane that’s kicking about the place (for Indy to have a fist-fight on and around) is a mite imaginary too, though no further off the wall than some of the stuff they were dreaming up at the time. [/QUOTE] I’m still trying to work out what on earth entire Legions of Nazis and Deutsche Afrika Korps (or their predecessors) were doing in Egypt- a _British Protectorate_, for Smeg’s sake- in 1936. You’d think someone from the Foreign Office- or perhaps the British Military- might have something to say about all those Germans wandering around in full uniform with rifles and SMGs. And on a related note, it’s very annoying to see period movies getting the issued firearms of a given military spectacularly wrong- the worst offenders are _Lawrence of Arabia_, in which the Turkish Army have British-made SMLE Mk III rifles (instead of the Mauser K98s they carried in reality), and _The Blue Max_, in which the German Army are shown advancing across the Western Front in WWI, armed with British-made Lee-Enfield No 4 Mk 2 rifles. Wrong rifle, wrong war. (The No 4 Mk 2 didn’t enter service until c. 1950, well after even WWII.) And in _Zulu_, the British Officers are shown using a model of pistol not introduced until 1915, some 36 years after the film was set! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/147 "2006-11-30T02:33:48Z")
On the one hand, Parker in the movies didn’t invent anything. His webshooters were biological, in his wrists. But on the other hand, that wouldn’t have been an upper-level E&M class, it would have been a mid-level quantum class. Electron volts are units of energy, and 3.6 electron volts is a reasonable value for an energy one might encounter in the electrons of an atom. For Peter at his age to be in a class covering such material, he’d have to be somewhat further along than average (perhaps some AP credits), but he wouldn’t have to be a supergenius. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/148 "2006-11-30T03:41:03Z")
In the opening scenes of Land of the Dead the Dead Reckoning crew are raiding stores in Uniontown, PA. Cholo raids a liquor store and on his way out takes cigars from a display on the counter. However in Pennsylvania all liquor stores are owned and operated by the government and cannot sell tobacco products. As someone who’s spent his adult life living in PA Romero must have known this, but simply didn’t think it was an important enough detail to get right. I noticed it the first time I saw it, but it doesn’t detract from the film in anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/149 "2006-11-30T04:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=longhair75] It is rarely possible to get all of the sprinkler heads in a building pouring out water by setting off the fire alarm system. This would require the system to be set up with open heads. This type of sprinkler system is called a deluge system and is not very common at all in office buildings, schools and the like. The deluge systems I have worked on have all been in industrial settings. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and even in the few instances in which those types of sprinklers are used, they’d have to be triggered by the alarm system’s smoke detector’s. Holding burning material under the sprinkler head wouldn’t help since open heads are, well, open… the burning material only works on closed heads and only on that particular sprinkler head. It doesn’t trigger them all. I usta service alarm systems back in the 80’s and this particular plot trick always pissed me off. My complaint is in the movie **Caddyshack**. Dunno about golf, so correct me if I’m wrong. If Danny sinks the shot at the end, he and Ty win. If he doesn’t, they lose. How can this be? 😕 Wouldn’t they tie? I mean, a tie is possible in golf, no? How is this resolved? Some sorta sudden death golf? Ooh…band name: _Sudden Death Golf_. 😃 Another thing that bothers me is the use of free-running untriggered oscilloscopes in anything tech-oriented. Good god, man, adjust your trigger level! Lock that bad boy in! BTW, for those praising the realistic hand motions of the actor in _Ray_: AFAIK, Jamie Fox went to Julliard. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/150 "2006-11-30T04:27:42Z")
Damn, I forgot my $.02 about the _Spiderman_ movies. The real scandal: in _Spiderman II_, elevated trains are shown in _Manhattan._ WTF? Did they really think no one would notice? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895/151 "2006-11-30T04:50:54Z")
In _Friday Night Lights_, Billingsley gets a cut/welt during the championship game that runs down the bridge of his nose. Sure, anyone who blocks will get a welt there, but the mark will be horizontal, not vertical. It’s where the helmet crushes the skin during a hit. For a couple of more obvious errors, they play a preseason game against Marshall High, who decided for some reason to travel 500 miles for a game that has no bearing on whether they get into the playoffs. They also play a district game against “crosstown rival Northshore Galena.” I’ts a tip of the hat to 5A powerhouse Galena Park, but Galena Park is across Houston and (again) 500 miles of Texas. Besides, there is no shore anywhere near Odessa. Even the Pecos River is seventy five miles away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-no-one-should-notice/377895.md?page=7)