I’m not talking about sci-fi that handwave technical issues aside talking about Heisenburg resonators and I’m not talking about obsure facts that only you and 3 other people know like that the movie took place in 1868 but Chubb safes were not painted green like in the movie until 1871. These are errors that stand out as just so obviously wrong you think the writer had a brain spasm.
Like this example: Mrs. Cad was watching a TV movie about a year ago (I can’t remember the name) but everyone is watching the Moon because of a comet or something. And when I say eveyone I mean EVERYONE. People were looking at the Moon in the middle of the night on the USA west coast, USA east coast, London and Moscow simultaneously because thay all saw the Moon explode at the same time.
I had a really hard time swallowing the nuke going off six miles away from New York City in the latest Batman movie, but everybody being okay with that because it was “outside the blast radius.”
Actually, I had a hard time swallowing a lot of that movie, but that was the biggest one for me.
The Amazing Colossal Man - “Now, the reason for this is rather technical, Carol, but to give you a simplified layman’s explanation, it might be explained that, since the heart is made up of a single cell for all practical purposes, instead of millions of cells like the rest of the organs of the body, it’s reacting in an entirely different manner to this unknown stimulus or forces behind this whole thing.”
The amphibious aircraft in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Really obvious physical impossibility: nothing designed to move so well in air could possibly do so in water.
There were so many things so very wrong in that abortion of a movie.
Sean Connery gets his rifle out to shoot a man running away in the distance. He pulls out his glasses and puts them on. Then he looks over the top of them so he can aim.
Was he planning on doing a little light reading while he was killing the guy?
A few years ago I watched the movie Dahmer. It opened with an aerial shot of downtown Milwaukee. What bugged me though was that it showed the US Bank building. But when Dahmer was active it was the First Wisconsin and then the Firststar Building.
On the one hand, I wouldn’t expect people outside of Wisconsin to notice that, OTOH, people that have had a checking account with Firststar which is now US Bank might have caught that one.
It just bugged me that if they were gonna grab some stock footage, they could have found some from the right era. I assume (but didn’t look that closely) that there were other buildings in the skyline that also didn’t match.
Note my sig, from the movie “Unknown World,” in response to a layman asking a scientist, “Isn’t the center of the Earth a flaming ball of molten rock?”
Atonement opens in 1935, and then four years later (as we’re told on-screen), a character is in Dunkirk as the British Army is retreating. But the Battle of Dunkirk was actually in 1940.
Double Jeopardy. Ashley Judd goes to prison for killing her husband, who framed her and is still alive. So she breaks out of prison and kills him again, since according to the movie she can’t go to jail for killing him again due to Double Jeopardy. :smack:
We’ve had many threads about this already, but they’re always fun.
I like the REALLY out-of-place geographic features, especially those that are introduced purely for the sake of a quick plot device. Like the Great Canyon of Egypt that shows up during the truck-carrying-the-Ark chase in raiders of the Lost Ark just to let a carful of Nazis drive off into it, then conveniently disappears.
Or the Great Canyon of Iowa that pre-Captain kirk’s brother’s car falls into in the recent Star Trek movie.
These are way different from the Austin powers "Southern England Doesn’t look Anything like southern California mem that comes from the disagreement betwen the scenery and the supposed setting, beca=use the above cases are interactive, but not really necessary – they could’ve written something else in there, but they wanted the cheap visual thrill.
Sorta like it are the Great Waterfaklls of the Virginia Coast that Pocahontas and John Smith go diving off in Disney’s Pocahantas.
No, it wouldn’t. She was tried for the original (faked) murder. If it turns out he wasn’t really murdered and she goes and actually murders him, that’s a completely new crime that she can now be tried for. It’s like saying that if you rob a convenience store and go to jail, when you get out you can go rob that same store again freely since you can’t be tried for the same crime twice.
This is probably one of the less glaring ones, but I have never in my life seen anyone use an asthma inhaler correctly. Related to this are scenes where someone uses one to breathe underwater, someone decides he no longer needs it, or when, without access to it, is made to lay down or lean back. You need to sit up, lean forward, and raise your shoulders to fill the lungs with as much air as you can get in there. And you’re supposed to have a preventative that you take daily so you don’t need to puff that thing every 5 minutes, dumbass.
Same error different show - Revolution this week English lady was talking to her kids and asking the nanny why they were still up. It was bedtime in England and she was getting ready to head out for the evening in Seattle. It should have been midday in Seattle.
Well, it’s true that a fellow inmate and former lawyer, in the movie, did TELL her about the (incorrect) Double Jeopardy thing. And Ashley Judd’s character did seem to act as though she believed it.
But she didn’t wind up exactly murdering her ex-husband - it was more of a defense thing, wasn’t it? Been awhile since I saw it, but I kind of remember the ex-husband shot Tommy Lee Jones character, or maybe was just about to? And Ashley Judd shot him before he could actually finish the job. I think it would have been pretty difficult to convict her on murder charges.
I seem to remember that she told the ex-husband that she wanted her son, and offered him the chance to disappear again, I think. She didn’t just show up and start shooting.
