# Movie Goofs Thread - One Per Post **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594 "2012-12-10T13:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/101 "2012-12-12T14:32:06Z")
In the Toby McGuire version of “Spiderman” when he’s practicing how to shoot his webs in his bedroom he smashes a lamp. A few seconds later you can see the lamp behind him, perfectly intact. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/102 "2012-12-12T15:37:50Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > [Gilligan's Island - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Island)🙂 > [@terentii](#): > > “Happy Days” had about as much to do with the 1950s as “Babylon 5.” :rolleyes: [QUOTE=Wiki] Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States.[3] [/quote] [QUOTE=Wiki] Gilligan’s Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to September 4, 1967. [/QUOTE] OK, so I guess we got one year overlap. But, come on! Alright. I take it back. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/103 "2012-12-12T15:38:05Z")
In _The Great Mouse Detective_, Basil deduces that Rattigan’s lair must be adjacent to the Thames because of traces of salt water in Fidget’s list. However, the Thames is not salty when it flows through London. (I sent that to IMDB recently) ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/104 "2012-12-12T15:39:49Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Not actually a goof. They filmed on the scenes on the USS Ranger CV-61, and they just took the signs into consideration. It would have been funnier if he was going the wrong way, though. Thanks - I thought it might be real signage - but as it was presented, it sure looks like instructions to Chekov to “run this way”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/105 "2012-12-12T16:19:05Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > OK, so I guess we got one year overlap. But, come on! Actually, I never watched “Happy Days” enough to know it ran into the mid-'60s. It wouldn’t have surprised me at all if they had made a goof as monumental as watching Gilligan in the '50s. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/106 "2012-12-12T16:33:47Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Thanks - I thought it might be real signage - but as it was presented, it sure looks like instructions to Chekov to “run this way”. I think that was supposed to be a sight gag. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/107 "2012-12-12T18:49:12Z")
I can’t confirm it, but me and my entire family remember seeing mountains in the background when the Army men go to visit the Ryan household in Saving Private Ryan to inform his mother of what’s happened to her sons. There are definitely no mountains in Iowa, and more’s the pity. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/108 "2012-12-12T19:42:35Z")
The ending of The Gauntlet was supposed to be downtown Phoenix. What they showed definately was **not**. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/109 "2012-12-12T19:51:41Z")
In the original (good) **Day of the Jackal** , the story starts with hard-liners in the French Foreign Legion plotting against Charles DeGaulle (the actual assassination attempt in the beginning of the moive was staged IRL by a civillian contractor to the French air force, but that’s changed to keep thing uncomplicated). As punishment, the entire FFL was banned for many years from military ceremonies. At the end, during the ceremony when the jackal plans to assassinate DeGaulle, the FFL’s marching song is clearly heard. For military buffs, it’s as if JFK had been shot not by a former Marine, but by _the_ Marines, and later hearing “From the Halls of Montezuma…” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/110 "2012-12-12T20:24:39Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > I can’t confirm it, but me and my entire family remember seeing mountains in the background when the Army men go to visit the Ryan household in Saving Private Ryan to inform his mother of what’s happened to her sons. There are definitely no mountains in Iowa, and more’s the pity. The modern telephone hanging on the kitchen wall was a far bigger giveaway that this was only a mooooovie. The fifty-star flag in Larry Hagman’s office in _The Eagle Has Landed_ was another great giveaway. (Don’t say it doesn’t matter, because it does: a 50-star flag looks very different from a 48-star flag even when it’s draped. This is one thing I HATE seeing in post-1959 war movies! :mad: ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594.md?page=5)