# Movie inaccuracies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293 "2000-10-02T01:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/41 "2000-10-03T04:04:45Z")
To anyone who’s actually used military radio communications…we all cringe when we hear: “Over and Out” Hmmm… I’m done sending and I’m waiting for a reply and I’m ending the transmission, so don’t bother replying. Also: “Roger Wilco.” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jman ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/42 "2000-10-03T05:16:05Z")
The all-time killer for me (as a Trident-class submarine Sailor) was _Crimson Tide_. AAgh! Where to start? [list=1][li]At 1875 feet and still alive? HAHAHAHAHA![_]The officer in the bus yelling at the enlisted guy to drop for pushups?!?![_]“Bilge Bay?” WTF is Bilge Bay? And it’s got a watertight door, yet! [_]Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s run a drill during an actual fire! That seems like a good idea… [_]Now we’re going to “crawl through the outboards” to get to Control… real good idea, if you’re a f\*%ing MOUSE. [\*]And when we get there, it will be lit by rotating yellow caution lights! [\*]Hi, I'm a Radioman. I'm going to solder on this live equipment. ZZZTT! Ow, f#@!!! Oh, wait, I forgot we’re not trained to solder. Or ever allowed to touch live gear.[/list=1][/li] _sigh_ I could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/43 "2000-10-03T07:26:42Z")
And what’s up with all this “midichlorian” crap?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/44 "2000-10-03T07:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revedge \* > **Damn Yankees! 🙂** Them’s Fightin’ Words, Punk! I’m a Canuck, dammit, I ain’t no Yankee! ::Grumble:: Bloody Yanks…think everybody’s American… ^\_\_~ ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/45 "2000-10-03T07:49:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > \*\*Jackie Chan film “Rumble in the Bronx”? set in NY - see mountains in the background (hello, Vancouver) > > \*\* Wonderful movie that Rumble in The Bronx, but it being filmed in Vancouver, Canada results in some amusing bloopers. My favorite: There’s a scene where some kids are on a school bus in “the Bronx”. If you look carefully at the inside rear door of the bus, IIRC, it has a safety message in English and French! ---
**Author:** ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/46 "2000-10-03T08:14:03Z")
how about rambo firing a LAW inside a UH-1, and not frying the guys behind him? True Lies, Arnold fires a missle with the terrorist hanging on the end and still hit the other helo ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/47 "2000-10-03T12:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Also: “Roger Wilco.” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I actually hear “Wilco” (but not “Roger, wilco”) occasionally when I fly. For those who don’t know, “wilco” means “will comply”. But it just sounds too silly for me to say it. I also don’t say “out” on the radio. If I’m changing frequency, I’ll say “413, G’day.” ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/48 "2000-10-03T13:03:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Also: “Roger Wilco.” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > > I actually hear “Wilco” (but not “Roger, wilco”) occasionally when I fly. For those who don’t know, “wilco” means “will comply”. > \*\* Yup…Roger is ok, by itself. And Wilco is ok by itself, but not together. Roger: I understand. (roughly). Wilco: I will Comply. So saying: I understand, I will comply is pointless…it just wastes air time. If you will comply, you obviously understood, otherwise you would not have agreed to comply. Over and out is the worst, though. Jman ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/49 "2000-10-03T20:12:35Z")
Ugh, First Knight. Malegant was NOT the big time villain! He was one, to be sure-he raped, or attempted to rape Guinevere in many many stories, but was killed by Lancelot. MORDRED was the big time villain. Dammit (although the soundtrack was great…) The Nitpicker’s site is great, although some people don’t know shit from shinola over there. One person complained that the goof in Titanic was all of the children dying-because “Only one child died, and she was in First Class.” Um, not quite. Only one first class child died, but many more did in Third. Another thing in Titanic-Cora’s doll. That type of doll would’ve been awfully expensive for a steerage passenger. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/50 "2000-10-03T20:39:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > \*\*[http://www.nitpickers.com](http://www.nitpickers.com) > is a good site to look at for this. \*\* I’ve been spending some time at this site, because I love film flubs, and there is absolutely no shortage of cites at this site. But, for those who haven’t checked it out yet, it is basically a weak message board. The cites are user submitted, with little to no fact checking going on, although other users comment on the posts. This is a pretty cool idea, I suppose, but some of the people there are just too friggin’ stupid to be allowed to watch movies. Peruse the “Plot” category or read all the nitpicks on “The Sixth Sense”. One of the posts was commenting on the McDowells restaurant in “Coming to America” saying {paraphrasing} “they would never be allowed to be open. McDonalds would sue them”. :rolleyes: Hey, you, yeah you, the guy with no sense of humor or intelligence. Hand over your card. You are hereby banned from offering your opinions on anything ever again. Oh, if I only had that power. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/51 "2000-10-03T20:42:44Z")
Oops, I guess I gotta start paying a little closer attention to things. Guinistasia just laid the same thing I did. I hereby revoke my own privelege of offering my opinion on anything (for the rest of the day anyway). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/52 "2000-10-03T21:05:44Z")
The thing that drives me nuts about movies and TV (too many examples to mention) is the squealing of tires on gravel roads. I spend a lot of time driving on gravel and dirt roads, and I’m telling you, it can’t be done. You can’t squeal your tires as you jam on your brakes on a gravel road, no matter how hard you hit them. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/53 "2000-10-03T21:14:29Z")
The one that gets me is in _Serial Mom_. Kathleen Turner starts running from the cops in Roland Park, and 5 minutes later pulls up to Hammerjacks. Uh-uh, no way. She would have to drive all the way throught the entire city of Baltimore to do this, with cops in persuit( another thing, Baltimore cops are forbidden to engage in high speed chases) and never encounter a roadblock or anything on all those narrow downtown streets. Nevermind I-83, the cops still would have had that blocked long before she got downtown. Look at a map. Roland Park is the affluent area in the extreme north part of the city itself. Hammerjacks was a concert hall/bar torn down to build the Ravens new stadium. Look at the distance. Forget it. Oh, and Sofa King-FYI, the scenes in the non-existant Georgetown Metro stop in _No Way Out_ were filmed in the Baltimore subway. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/54 "2000-10-04T18:58:57Z")
One of my first threads on this board was on this very subject: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=21244](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=21244) ---
**Author:** ![Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intriguing_Question_Mark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/55 "2000-10-05T00:31:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*And what’s up with all this “midichlorian” crap?!?!? \*\* I know! From what I can remember from all the star wars novles I’ve read (and I’ve read most of them) there’s no such thing and all of them say that there’s no biological way to see if someone is a jedi. You cant just test their blood! I love star wars but I don’t like that movie. Also VH1’s monkee movie. A lot of it was right but a lot was wrong too. That happy ending made sick. MIKE WOULDNT LET HIS WIFE STAY IN THE HOSPITAL! I wont get into it though, it’ll just get me worked up. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/56 "2000-10-05T04:19:38Z")
If I had to pick the single worst inaccuracy from this trilogy, it would be when Old Biff steals the DeLorean, goes back in time, changes the past, and then returns to the future to drop the car back off! You can’t. You just changed the past. Doc and Marty are either stranded there in an alternate reality or completely wiped from existence. Either way, they’re screwed. On a side note, for those of you watching the West Wing tonight, Donna, the assistant, claimed to have gone through five majors and two minors at the University of Wisconsin. They don’t offer minors at UW. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/57 "2000-10-05T04:50:55Z")
**U-571** = inaccuracy (for starters, the Yanks had zilch to do with the salvaging of German _Enigma_ machines) **Dolores Clairborne** : I’ve always been amazed that they could show a beautiful full moon rising on the evening before a solar eclipse (in fact, it’s the opposite - there is no moon visible on the night before a solar eclipse). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/58 "2000-10-05T06:01:40Z")
> [@](#): > > U-571 = inaccuracy (for starters, the Yanks had zilch to do with the salvaging of German Enigma machines) Although the Yanks had zilch to do with the operation that the movie was based on (it was an entirely British operation), I’m pretty sure the capture of **U-505** was an all-American operation, and it did recover an Enigma machine. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/59 "2000-10-05T07:05:02Z")
> [@](#): > > From what I can remember from all the star wars novles I’ve read (and I’ve read most of them) there’s no such thing and all of them say that there’s no biological way to see if someone is a jedi. As had been shown in _The Jedi Academy Trilogy_, the only way to determine if someone has Force potential (short of being skilled therein yourself) was with a special device that the late Emperor had developed for the purpose of hunting down the Jedi… it scanned the person then showed a holographic display which approximated how much potential a person had. Of course, it was never explained exactly HOW these things work… Anyway, another movie inaccuracy… I absolutely can’t stand when a movie uses standard Minidiscs to “store data”. \*Minidiscs can only hold audio information!! [/quote] (at least, earlier ones). Most prominent was in _The Matrix_… Neo gives one of his “customers” a Minidisc which, one assumes, is supposed to be holding some sort of illegal programming (of course, it could have just been music, but who the hell would shell out more than a couple bucks to record onto a Minidisc?!?). Besides, I have one of the exact same brand of Minidiscs that they use. I repeat… Minidiscs do not hold anything other than audio information! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293/60 "2000-10-05T07:06:57Z")
Gah… that’s the worst job of screwing up a post I’ve ever made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-inaccuracies/35293.md?page=4)