# Movie screw ups that made you chuckle **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245 "2015-01-19T02:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/1 "2015-01-19T02:11:08Z")
OK it wasn’t a movie but I was watching an old episode of Columbo and they showed the LA Airport and then a plane with it’s wheels extending. It was just filler video to show they were at the airport. The clip showed nothing but the wheels coming down so you couldn’t easily tell what kind of plane it was. Unless it was a B-52 bomber which has a very unique gear. I thought for a moment I’d switched channels or they were going to bomb the airport. I had to wonder if they did that deliberately as some kind of private Easter Egg joke among those in the industry. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/2 "2015-01-19T02:21:21Z")
Wasn’t the B-52 landing gear (pivoted to enable it to land in extreme crosswinds, IIRC) highly classified for a very long time? When would footage of it have been declassified and have a chance to make its way into stock footage? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/3 "2015-01-19T03:06:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wasn’t the B-52 landing gear (pivoted to enable it to land in extreme crosswinds, IIRC) highly classified for a very long time? When would footage of it have been declassified and have a chance to make its way into stock footage? The original episode aired 11/5/1972. It wouldn’t have shown anything special that couldn’t be seen from the ground. It was just so strange to see it. I couldn’t find any similar footage on you tube. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/4 "2015-01-19T04:05:13Z")
I liked “The Hunt for Red October” quite a bit. But even seeing it in the theater as a teenager (my very first date ever!), I wondered why the F-14 coming in for a crash landing suddenly transformed into a 50’s era fighter. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vXgJdrYss1k/maxresdefault.jpg "Wave off! Wave Off!!!!!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgJdrYss1k) I’ve never been able to definitively ID the plane in the stock footage. I kinda want to say it’s an F9F Panther, but I’m not sure. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/5 "2015-01-19T04:27:15Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I’ve never been able to definitively ID the plane in the stock footage. I kinda want to say it’s an F9F Panther, but I’m not sure. Weird! A multi-million dollar blockbuster, and they screw up like that?!? Encroyable! :smack: There were two variants of the F9F: the Panther, which had straight wings, and the Cougar, which had swept wings. You can only see the angle of the wings for a second before the plane disintegrates, but it looks to me like it was indeed a Panther. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/6 "2015-01-19T04:52:00Z")
In _Titanic,_ Jack and some other steerage passengers scuffle with a crew member for the keys to unlock a gate trapping them below deck. As the waters rise, they drop the keys. Feeling around in the water, they hear _the keys jingling._ Which must be why _Titanic_ won the 1998 Oscar® for Best Sound. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/7 "2015-01-19T05:05:34Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I liked “The Hunt for Red October” quite a bit. But even seeing it in the theater as a teenager (my very first date ever!), I wondered why the F-14 coming in for a crash landing suddenly transformed into a 50’s era fighter. > > [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgJdrYss1k](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgJdrYss1k) > > I’ve never been able to definitively ID the plane in the stock footage. I kinda want to say it’s an F9F Panther, but I’m not sure. > [@terentii](#): > > Weird! A multi-million dollar blockbuster, and they screw up like that?!? Encroyable! :smack: > > There were two variants of the F9F: the Panther, which had straight wings, and the Cougar, which had swept wings. You can only see the angle of the wings for a second before the plane disintegrates, but it looks to me like it was indeed a Panther. It was a Panther. The Cougar didn’t have tip tanks. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/8 "2015-01-19T05:25:24Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > It was a Panther. The Cougar didn’t have tip tanks. Another dead giveaway! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/9 "2015-01-19T17:32:25Z")
Well, even though you guys are talking about more obscure stuff…I definitely laughed out loud in the theater when that bus in _Speed_ made the chasm jump. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/10 "2015-01-19T18:23:39Z")
That wasn’t a screw up. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/11 "2015-01-19T18:32:40Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I wondered why the F-14 coming in for a crash landing suddenly transformed into a 50’s era fighter. _Midway_ is full of shit like this as well. Corsairs morphing into Avengers and Hellcats and such. And I remember seeing it in the theater as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing EVER! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/12 "2015-01-19T18:53:54Z")
Debatable as to whether this was a screw-up or not, but I finally got around to watching the 2009 Star Trek reboot last night (it was awful) and they “shipped” Spock and Uhura. Including actual “goodbye and try not to die” smooching in the teleporter. I know it’s a reboot and they’re playing fast and loose with the timeline, but it’s firmly canon that for Vulcans, sex is a once in seven years sort of deal. That’s really going to be a disappointment for the lovely Nyota. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/13 "2015-01-19T19:00:32Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Debatable as to whether this was a screw-up or not, but I finally got around to watching the 2009 Star Trek reboot last night (it was awful) and they “shipped” Spock and Uhura. Including actual “goodbye and try not to die” smooching in the teleporter. I know it’s a reboot and they’re playing fast and loose with the timeline, but it’s firmly canon that for Vulcans, sex is a once in seven years sort of deal. Are you sure it’s not _at least_ once in seven years? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/14 "2015-01-19T19:00:48Z")
To be fair, I think the “Red October” thing is less a screw up and more that they just couldn’t put their hands on footage of an F-14 crashing. And they hoped almost no one in the theater would notice. They probably could have edited it so it wasn’t quite so obvious, though. Or written the scene so that they didn’t need to show the crash. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/15 "2015-01-19T19:07:53Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Debatable as to whether this was a screw-up or not, but I finally got around to watching the 2009 Star Trek reboot last night (it was awful) and they “shipped” Spock and Uhura. Including actual “goodbye and try not to die” smooching in the teleporter. I know it’s a reboot and they’re playing fast and loose with the timeline, but it’s firmly canon that for Vulcans, sex is a once in seven years sort of deal. That’s really going to be a disappointment for the lovely Nyota. I’m not sure how that’s a “screw-up” unless you consider Sarek marrying a human woman in the first place to also be a screw-up. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/16 "2015-01-19T19:43:31Z")
I think they established pretty clearly that Spock feels emotions just fine, he just keeps a tight lid on them… when he needs to. Pon Farr always struck me as one of those things with a seven-year lid on it. Lid wears off, Spock gets all punchy and it’s time for a new computer. I think that in the new series, the relationship is more like Worf & Dax in DS9. The screw up that I remember is from a black & white SF movie; the only bit I remember is when they’re trying to land their spaceship on the moon, and they’re coming in a little hot. Somebody is giving a countdown (of what, they don’t say, but it doesn’t matter). His line is “100… 50… Still too fast!” Um, buddy, you should have made a new crater when you said “Still…” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/17 "2015-01-19T21:34:25Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Debatable as to whether this was a screw-up or not, but I finally got around to watching the 2009 Star Trek reboot last night (it was awful) and they “shipped” Spock and Uhura. Including actual “goodbye and try not to die” smooching in the teleporter. I know it’s a reboot and they’re playing fast and loose with the timeline, but it’s firmly canon that for Vulcans, sex is a once in seven years sort of deal. That’s really going to be a disappointment for the lovely Nyota. I thought is was more screwy that the engine room appeared to be about three times the size of the \*Enterprise \*, had pipes, and looked more like a brewery. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/18 "2015-01-19T21:56:12Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I thought is was more screwy that the engine room appeared to be about three times the size of the \*Enterprise \*, had pipes, and looked more like a brewery. 🙂 They did go an awful long way for what amounted to some rather dumb and misplaced slapstick humor, didn’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/19 "2015-01-19T22:29:41Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > To be fair, I think the “Red October” thing is less a screw up and more that they just couldn’t put their hands on footage of an F-14 crashing.\*\* And they hoped almost no one in the theater would notice\*\*. They probably could have edited it so it wasn’t quite so obvious, though. Or written the scene so that they didn’t need to show the crash. Bolding mine… I’ve seen “Hunt…” about 20 times (once in the theater) and never noticed it. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245/20 "2015-01-19T23:26:03Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Midway_ is full of shit like this as well. Corsairs morphing into Avengers and Hellcats and such. > > And I remember seeing it in the theater as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing EVER! _ **Midway** _ has got to be the all-time record holder in terms of airplanes morphing. What gets me is that almost every _ **documentary** _ on Pearl Harbor that I’ve ever seen has the same shot of a squadron of Douglas Dauntlesses going into a dive; you’d think the US Navy was the one launching the sneak attack, f’rchrissakes! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-screw-ups-that-made-you-chuckle/710245.md?page=2)