How about Swayze turning a gas pump into a flame thrower in Point Break.
I just looked. It was a quarry, and the gate had been opened so he just drove right through.
Of course, Kirk still should have slid off the cliff and died, but that’s a different error.
In the movie Pearl Harbor…didn’t he board a train in New York to go to London?
Same in Goldfinger. Bond actually throws one of the bricks at Oddjob and it bounces off Oddjob harmlessly.
A brick that size probably would have weighed around two or three hundred pounds and Bond couldn’t possibly have thrown it easily and no matter how strong Oddjob was it wouldn’t have bounced off him like that.
Scene in question. At time stamp 2:13 you can see the brick in his hand.
It appears to be 3 inches wide, 9 inches long, 2 inches thick.
That would be 200 to 300 pounds?
I noticed this in the theater, but then thought maybe I imagined it because they fixed it when it was released on video.
Which still doesn’t explain how something that is just a distance can have a “crack”. Or why it was problem for a ship that can travel faster than light in the first place.
Here’s a quote from IMDB’s “goofs” section of the film:
IIRC, quite a few really do, bad an idea as it is. I’ve heard it claimed that the practice started with Russian soldiers; when wanting to send a lot of bullets in an arc for covering fire and such, they’d tilt their guns sideways and let the recoil force the gun to fire in an arc. Somehow it spread to the criminal/popular subculture; but what can make a certain amount of sense for soldiers using automatic weapons doesn’t work with a handgun.
Meh, its pretend physics from the 24th century. They don’t have to explain it, they just have to say that’s the way it works and then remain consistent. I agree with lemur, its not an error in the sense of the OP.
I’ve been there and it is indeed a quarry (the granite quarry in Barre, VT, to be specific). So again, not an error.
That’s what I thought.
The standard gold ingot weighs 400 troy ounces, or 27.4 pounds and is about 39 cubic inches. A standard brick is 36 cubic inches (6" * 3" * 2"). Oddjob would have been really, really pissed.
Star Trek ships don’t travel FTL, they “warp space” instead. Whole different set of issues.
Of course, nobody gets black holes right…the event horizon is just the radius where a massless particle can’t escape…anything with a mass is screwed much, much farther away.
More likely somewhere around 25 pounds. Or possibly less – the one in the movie looks a bit smaller than the Wiki picture.
Two or three hundred pounds is ridiculous.
If I recall correctly, in the ST:TNG episode The Royale, Data states that the surface of a planet is “negative <something something> Celsius” where the value he gives is below -273 and therefore below absolute zero.
Not quite glaring, but not an error I’d expect a Star Trek writer to make.
Fair enough but 25 pounds is still a fairly significant weight - the standard weight for a man’s shot put is only 16 pounds for example. Throwing something half as heavy again one handed is pretty impressive.
The one I always wonder about is in “Jurassic Park.” The “levitating T-Rex.” The two cars are stopped on the track outside the T-Rex paddock, right next to the place where the goat is on a rope. The T-Rex crashes through the unpowered electric fence. Later in the scene, Dr. Grant, the kids and one car go over the concrete part of the fence into a GIANT CHASM right where the T-Rex crashed through the electric fence. What is it with Spielberg and giant chasms from nowhere?
Event horizons are not. And a “crack in the event horizon” isn’t just a “we don’t know how to do it” or even a “known physics says it’s impossible” claim; it’s a “that doesn’t make any sense” claim. It would be like a character claiming they can stop a vehicle by “shooting it with a phaser in the miles-per-hour”.
My mistake. I remembered the bar being bigger and thought gold was denser than it is.
Nevertheless, it would be pretty difficult for anyone to throw a 25 pound weight as easily and with as much force as Bond does and no matter how strong Oddjob was, the bar wouldn’t just bounce harmlessly off him.
To be fair, Connery actually makes it look like the gold is heavy. He throws it more or less like a shotput. Oddjob just shrugs it off, but that’s sort of the point, the scene is supposed to make Oddjob look unstoppable.