In “The Begining of the End” the giant crickets attack Illinois. Specifically, the Mountains of Illinois. FYI, Illinois is is SO not mountainous.
Much in the same way the Cascade mountains teleport to New York in “Rumble in the Bronx.”
LOL… I came in this thread to mention that little plot hole!
No, there’s no way you could reconcile the time zone changes between “dark in Seattle, getting dressed up to go out” and “bedtime for toddlers in England”. Unless Maggie was getting dressed to go out on the town at nearly dawn, or her children were allowed to stay up til after midnight. And even then, the timing doesn’t really work, does it?
Also Maggie (apparently) spent several years walking from Seattle to New England to try to find a boat to take her home to England. But wouldn’t it have been easier to find a ship in Seattle? Seems like there’s tons of sailboats and yachts in the vicinity that she could have sweet-talked her way aboard, or simply stolen one, and worked her way by sailboat back to England from there, rather than trying to walk across an entire continent on foot. I think I’d rather take my chances aboard a little sailboat, skirting along the coast, than walk across the northern parts of the United States alone.
Also, that most recent episode, I’m fairly certain was set at the failed Hard Rock theme park (where was it, North Carolina? South Carolina?) nowhere near Chicago at any rate.
I think the location ones are a little tenuous. Is it general knowledge if you need to have lived there to know what building is in Milwaukee or there are no mountains in Iowa. I think
bup (the heart is a giant cell) and Moonlitheriel (bedtime in both London and Seattle) are the sort of things anyone would know is wrong.
Otherwise I’d point out that in a 24 episode, Jack Bauer drives California Highway 7 in LA but that highway is not in LA. It is actuallynear the Mexico border. Honestly, does anyone not from Southern California know that?
It wasn’t a nuke. It was some sci-fi power generator that had been turned into a bomb.
Not sure that’s really an error either. Rather then saying 4 years, seven months and three days (or whatever) they just said “4 years”. Rounding dates like that is pretty standard English when there isn’t a strong need for accuracy.
In The Untouchables, Eliot Ness kills mobster Frank Nitti by throwing him off a roof.
In reality, Frank Nitti lived for quite a while after the end of Prohibition, and continued running Al Capone’s gang until 1943, when he committed suicide.
Notorious among Star Trek fans: Voyager being trapped inside a black hole, and escaping by a “crack in the event horizon”. :smack:
For those who don’t know; the event horizon is just the place where the strength of gravity means that it takes a velocity greater than light to escape the hole; it’s not an object, or even a sci-fi force field. Talking about it having a “crack” makes no sense; it’s like talking about Earth’s geosynchronous orbit having a crack. “Our satellite fell into a crack in the geosynchronous orbit!”
But “Event Horizon” is a pretty nebulous concept when you’ve got a spaceship that can travel faster than light. The event horizon is the point where objects that travel at c cannot escape from the black hole. Travel faster than c and you’re golden. Of course in the real universe nothing can travel faster than c, and so your spaceship can never escape the black hole. In the Star Trek universe all sorts of things can travel faster than c, and so the event horizon is more of an event guideline.
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is the poster child for this. The wife holds her inhaler four inches from her mouth and inhales for about one second.
Another one that always kills me is the ol’ “using a lighter under one fire sprinkler and all the sprinklers go off” thing. That’s not how buliding sprinklers work - the glass has to melt and break under each one before that one goes off. My favorite was in Frequency where Dennis Quaid starts a small fire under one sprinkler and they all go off, so they evacuates the whole building. Better still because he was a fireman.
Except that’s not the way double jeopardy works.
If that’s the way it worked then when the police come to an apartment to find a man beating his wife they’d have to let him go if he’d been convicted of beating her two years ago.
No, she gets paroled, and seeks him out, PLANNING to kill him again. But when she DOES kill him, it’s clearly in self-defense, and there’s a witness to that effect.
Moreover, there’s never a lawyer who tells her that double jeopardy will apply if she kills her husband. Ashley is following the advice of other convicts who TELL her double jeopardy will protect her.
We don’t have to believe this is true- we only have to believe that SHE might have believed it.
I remember one of the glaring ones from Die Hard II.
It takes placed at Dulles airport in Washington DC, but when he’s on one of the pay phones you can see they’re clearly marked Pacific Bell.
In Timecop, a gold bar is carbon dated to show it came from the Confederacy. Not only can you not carbon date gold(which not everyone knows)* it went through a time machine*.
AND that her ex-husband believes it, as she uses it to threaten him. Even Tommy Lee Jones’ character “confirms” her interpretation of double jeopardy, stating that he has a law degree (though I’ll admit that he may have been trying to intentionally mislead the villain).
I mean, the movie’s title is Double Jeopardy. The movie really is asking us to believe the faulty concept upon which it is built.
Speaking of gold, boy is its weight ignored in movies. Die Hard With A Vengeance, they carry them around one handed, tossing them to each other. Plus I don’t think those fully laded dump trucks would even move. Italian Job, I don’t care how much reinforcement was added to those Minis - same problem. Tower Heist, let’s not even go there.
I’ll have to look again but I seem to remember it was clear that it was manmade.
That’s hardly a fair analogy. You can beat your wife as many times as you like, and each beating is a separate crime. But you can only murder somebody once.
That may be intentional - like how movies show bad guys holding handguns sideways. I kind of like not teaching dumb jerks how to set sprinklers off the correct way.
Even worse when it’s the smoke in one corner of the building that sets off all the sprinklers in the entire building.
Yes, but murdering someone on May 4th, 1998 is a different crime than murdering the same person on September 12th, 1998.
This pretty much happened in a memorable episode of HEROES, where the eclipse seen in Kansas was simultaneously being seen in California and in Haiti.