The new Enterprise, like the TARDIS, is obviously transdimensional! 
A bit more explanation on the Panther crash. The guy lived, FWIW.
The phone calls in the war zone were a little weird for me too, watching the movie. The thing is, I’ve read of anecdotes where people claim they witnessed guys actually doing it, either during OIF or OEF. Must be nice to be able to use a satellite phone to chat with the missus.
Weirder still for me, and I don’t know if it’s explained in the book, but where the hell was Kyle’s spotter while all of this was going on? You never see him with one in the movie,instead there’s just a guy watching his back. But his ‘bodyguard’ isn’t spotting targets, reporting movements, or any of the other stuff a scout or scout/sniper team is supposed to be doing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I was the one who mentioned it as this is one of my stock answers to these type of threads. My stock answer to this rebuttal is “if he was going to Newfoundland, they should have said something.”
carry on engines.
The Mission Impossible movie that had a motorcycle chase. I want the magic tires that switched from skinny dirt bike knobbies to fat street tires and back depending on the terrain.
Specialized knowledge brings out a certain attention to detail that typical viewers miss–or at least, don’t LOOK for. For many here, it’s the planes. But for ME, it’s horses. 
There are extremely frequent screw ups that we equestrians just roll our eyes at, annoying as they are–incorrect era (or just plain wrong for the purpose) tack, REALLY bad riding, yanking the heck out of the saintedly patient horses’ mouths…that sort of thing.
But in Cowboys Vs. Aliens, the horse switching from one shot to another was really, really bad. They usually use make up to cover up/add markings of the rider’s horse for the scene, but in that flick, the make up was just BAD. It was really obvious to where it took me out of the movie a bit, although perhaps that was a good thing, considering.
There’s a scene, IIRC, where Daniel Craig is riding a bay (read: plain brown with black mane/tail) horse, then later in the scene when everyone is walking he’s leading the chestnut (bright red color, no black) with flashy white facial markings he usually rides, then when they mount up he’s back on the bay. Maybe he was, uh, helping someone with that horse.
IIRC, the chestnut is the one having atrocious make up trying to cover up all his white markings. That’s where I just have to throw my hands up and say, “It’s freakin’ Cowboys Vs. Aliens.”
(TOTALLY want Harrison Ford’s horse from that movie though. Apparently so did he–he tried to buy it, but was refused!)
Oh, also, in the 1998 Black Beauty movie–one of my favorite filmed versions of the story–the romping foal shots of young BB are very, VERY obviously that of a black FILLY. ::tail swish::: Hmm…I don’t recall BB having vulva. ::swish swish::: sigh FINE. I shall pretend I did not see that. mumble grumble
This happened again recently when I regretfully watched the abominable Young Black Stallion with my 8yro son. Again, young black “colt” was a very, very obvious filly.
In an episode of The Mentalist which is set in Sacramento, a body is found in Auburn, CA and they’re all investigating it. In the background is the Sacramento County Coroners van. The only problem is, Auburn is in Placer County.
Another thing that bothers in me in a lot of shows is when they are showing someone knitting and it is so obvious that the item they are supposed to be knitting has been crocheted.
No offense, but a quick web search doesn’t bring up any other claims to it being a dummy. Can you point to one?
In those shots you mention, he keeps very still and it is kinda funny they way is mouth is agape and framed between the rearview mirror and the roll bar, but there isn’t anything that screams out mannequin to me.
This is a good clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg
At the 10 second mark he’s real. At 11 seconds as Alan stands he’s clearly gone. At 19 and 20 he’s completely still and looks like he’s made of plastic. I have no proof that it’s a mannequin but it surely looks like one to me. I’m open to see what others see - is Goldblum real or fake?
Speaking as a former railroad employee and railfan, pretty much anything you ever see concerning railroading in a movie is likely to be wrong. I’ll just focus on a few that come to mind.
Unstoppable was a lot of fun, but my eyes were rolling like marbles pretty much throughout. I could name twenty or thirty things, but the two that stuck out the most were:
…a derailing set of locomotives blowing up like a bomb, presumably from ignition of the diesel in the locos’ fuel tanks (to be fair, that just seems to be a rail version of the movie meme that cars blow up spectacularly every time they crash);
…my all-time favorite silly train scene, in which a several-thousand ton freight lifts up on one set of wheels as it goes too fast around a sharp curve. On a high bridge. Which happens to pass directly over an oil storage facility.
And a bit less egregious, in White Christmas, I always crack up at the scene where Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are traveling from Florida to Vermont…on Southern Pacific and Santa Fe trains in what is pretty clearly Southern California.
South Park’s “Imaginationland” story arc had Kyle running or walking all the way from the US Capitol Building to the Pentagon casually. No mention was made of crossing the Potomac river.
Did you ever see that great Burt Lancaster / Paul Scofield movie “The Train”? It’s one of my favorites. What did you think of it? The way Lancaster sabotages the train at the end seemed pretty realistic to me, but of course I really have no idea.
Hah, you sucked me back in on that one; one of my all-time favorite films. The photography is beautiful, the set pieces spectacular, Lancaster and Scofield are great and it’s actually better than most at simulating actual railroad operations, but they don’t get everything right:
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When Scofield’s character orders the art train underway, no one even attempts to get clearance to enter the main line, which, being Paris, would be occupied by commuter and long-distance trains running on headways of a few minutes. Departing without getting authorization from a dispatching station would very quickly result in disaster.
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In the scene at the railroad yard and shops just before the air raid, we see a tower operator throwing switches right in the face of an approaching locomotive. There’s no reason to do that, and in a typical interlocking plant, you can’t; you have to line all the switches first, and only then do the signals allow the train to go through.
Then, in the same scene, there are a couple of extras carrying a long board on their shoulders who cross the tracks right in front of a rapidly approaching train, clearing it only by a few meters. I have a feeling it wasn’t planned to be so close, and I shudder every time I see that one.
- Lancaster seems to do every job on the railroad. He’s referred to as an ‘Inspector’, a job classification I’m not familiar with, but in the movie seems to be roughly what would called ‘superintendent’, basically mid-level line management. At various times, however, he carries out jobs that might be done by a dispatcher, yardmaster, road foreman of engines, crew caller, engine driver and mechanic. Now, I recognize all the job-switching is necessary to make sure he’s in the right place and time to advance the plot, so no big thing.
With all that said, the authenticity of the actors playing railroaders, including Lancaster, and the general look and feel of the various operations, are spot on. Most of the scenes where the railroaders try to stop or impede the art train are at least plausible, although I doubt the whole notion of faking out the Germans on board as to which way they were going would ever have really worked. For the specific scene you mention, however, yes, if I wanted to derail a relatively slow-moving train in occupied France in 1945, that’s just the way I would have done it.
If that’s the biggest geographic/distance “screw-up” you’ve noticed on South Park, you haven’t seen many episodes.
How about the one where Cartman and Kyle ride their Big Wheels from Colorado to Hollywood?
I don’t see any evidence that’s a mannequin. And anyway, what would be the point? It’s not a stunt scene. It would be more expensive to make a mannequin than to have Goldblum sit there for two seconds.
For me it’s out of place bird calls. Every jungle scene, no matter what continent, has a Kookaburra or Screaming Piha. Every desert scene has a Red-tailed Hawk scream.
I think he’s still there.
At the 13 second mark I see what looks to me like the back of Goldblum’s black jacket.
It looks like he’s leaning forward with his head obscured by the roll bar and the small section of black, soft-top roof.
In Gladiator, Maximus is wounded in battle in Germany. He hops on his horse and rides it to Spain to visit his family. When he gets to his villa in Spain, he’s still bleeding.
In Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck is training on Long Island. With visible brown Southern California mountains in the background.
Yeah, that jump scene was ludicrous.