Movie Flaws that no one should notice.

Well, whatever it was, the Germans wouldn’t have had one for Indy to get his mitts on.

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.

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.

If my memory is correct it is not an RPG-7. I’m trying to find a picture but this text is the best I can come up with, from Indianajones.com.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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? :confused: 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. :smiley:

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.

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?

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.