Oh god, aye…and Ibn Warraq’s quite right otherwise – if Bond could have chucked that gold bar that distance, Oddjob wouldn’t have shrugged it off.
It’s not just gold, though, thinking about it – film-makers seem to have a persistent problem with weighty objects. I can understand them not appreciating just how heavy a gold bar is (because how often do you get to heft one?), but it’s amazing how many film and TV characters go traveling with apparently empty suitcases, for instance.
These threads always make me think of that movie where somebody is trying to save the outmoded cavalry horses by driving them up to Canada or something instead of them being put to death. Anyway, he has to shoot a bunch of them, so he pulls out what is clearly a 1911A1 (45 auto), jacks a round into the chamber and BAM! shoots the first horse. Then he jacks the slide again and shoots the next horse, and so on down the line until all seven are dead. Problem is, the gun would have been empty by horse number four and he’d have had several live cartridges lying on the ground.
Northern Exposure: a snake in the well. There are no snakes in Alaska; it annoyed me to the point of not watching the show.
Gray: wolves roaring like lions and exhibiting completely unwolflike behavior. Forests in Arctic Alaska. They didn’t even try with this one.
We moved during rerun season once and to occupy ourselves we discovered shows we had previously not bothered with… We fell in love with NCIS. So unrealisitic (Hubby was Navy, said he’d never seen an NCIS agent that looked like Tony or Zeva) but fun…
The are stationed in DC but manage to get to Hampton Roads in 20 minutes instead of the 2 hours + it would take to drive in non rush hour traffic. And no one on the show seems to know how to pronounce Little Creek as in Little Creek Amphibious Base. Regardless of where you may have come from, regardless of your accent, it is not pronounced ‘Lit tle Creek’. It’s more like ‘Li lCreek’, the two words run together.
Two scenes that stand out… Huge boulders on the beach in Ocean View - Norfolk (where Little Creek is). And a case out in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the mountains are tall jagged things, some with snow caps, instead of millennially (I made up a new word!) eroded mountains of the Appalachians.
Spent a lot of time in Norfolk and the area so I tend to notice errors involving it.
CSI: Insert City Here
As the crime scene techs are kicking down doors, arresting suspects, and interrogating them, I have to wonder what the homicide detectives and SWAT team officers are for.
The crime scene tech I knew only gathered evidence and ran evidence storage.
There was an episode of Monk where he got under way on a submarine. I don’t ordinarily watch TV, but I noticed this one because my wife was commenting on inaccuracies (as well as on things they’d gotten right).
There is also a submarine episode of NCIS … which mrAru finds personally rather funny. He had never seen any sub headed out for a cruise that didn’t have food stashed pretty much everywhere there was a nook or cranny. Hell, he used to hot rack with spare parts. 
The climax of the movie Evolution hinges on the heroes using Selenium to defeat the aliens so they attack them with Head & Shoulders shampoo. Problem is the active ingredient of H&S is zinc. Selsun Blue uses selenium. My guess is product placement trumped accuracy here.
Also the giant dam in The Fugitive. Pretty rugged landscape for Illinois.
That’s “glaring”?
Never had to share my rack with spare parts, but a lot of paperwork seemed to end up in it. And I’ve spent plenty of time walking around on #10 cans…
As much as I enjoyed that movie (I do like the occasional no-brainer comedy), I really don’t think the writers cared about technical accuracy. 
It was a fusion generator that could be converted to a bomb, which is about as close to a nuke as you can get. That’s not really that important, though, since it is directly referred to as a 4 Megaton device with a “blast radius” of 6 miles.
Which isn’t totally inaccurate, except all those schoolkids on the bus would be severely burned and probably blind unless he got more than twice that far out. He had about two minutes, so the Bat would have to be going pretty fast, but not inconceivably so.
It would have made more sense for him to drop it in the water. I was more bothered by the ‘unstable core’ = ‘A man who has no idea how to weaponize put an exactly precise timer on it’. I think that Bruce was right to keep it secret, consider that it takes about five seconds to convert it to a bomb.
There was some made-for-cable, sci-fi-esque movie series that my daughter used to watch. I think it was called ‘Xenon’ or something like that. One show took place on the Moon. Me and my then 9yo daughter both groaned when it turned out that the villain had set as a deadline: when the earth rises!
We didn’t need to see any more after that.
24 did this same one and it drove me crazy. In season 2, a nuke goes off in the desert just east of LA and it never affects anyone because “all the fallout was trapped in a canyon”.
Then in season 6, a nuke goes off in the middle of the LA urban area itself (Valencia, specifically - which is a bit north of LA, but not so north that it isn’t part of the LA area) and nobody seems to notice at all - planes are still in the air, the farmer’s market is still open, people are still drinking at bars on the beach, traffic is flowing smoothly despite the fact that a large section of I-5 is now smoldering radioactive rubble, etc.
The flaws I always bring up…
In Spiderman 2, Doc Ock is fighting Spiderman on the train. In one 3-second sequence, Doc Ock threw Spidey forward, whereupon Spidey’s momentum allows him to catch up to Doc Ock on the other side of a walkway. It’s such a blatant violation of Newton that I have to give the director/editor credit for it. You can see it starting at 1:40 here: Spider-Man 2.1 Extended Train Fight Scene (HD) - YouTube
Transformers 2 called your “glaring errors” bet and raised it to “retarded mistakes”. Of special note was the sequence where Shia and Megan are in downtown Washington, DC and enter the Smithsonian Air and Space museum whereupon they find that one of the planes is a Transformer.
Shit happens, stuff explodes, Shia and Megan run out of the museum to the crowded streets of the city of… no, they run out into a field, with mountains in the distance, the city of Washington DC apparently having been replaced by an airplane graveyard in the middle of a desert. Amazingly enough, the disappearance of the capital of the US goes unremarked upon through the rest of the movie.
If a movie isn’t even out on DVD yet, I think spoilers should be applied. It’s a whole lot soon for you to be throwing plot points out on that one.
In the episode Asylum of the Daleks, unless I missed the explanation both times I watched it, there was a glaring, terrible mistake that really ruined the episode for me…
We are led to believe that a girl has been contacting the others, when it really turns out to be a Dalek who had been converted from a girl, who still believed she was a human being female. However, when we see the dalek talking to The Doctor, it sounds exactly like a Dalek. How was it transmitting a human female voice?
Not really glaring, but in The Verdict, there’s a scene where Paul Newman opens a beer by pulling off the pull tab. Massachusetts didn’t have pull tabs in those days.
The Verdict had enough legal BS to this non-lawyer that were glaring.
Everything hinges on a xerox copy of a hospital document, that the defendants in the trial get successfully removed from evidence (the reason is a glaring error itself - altered copies aren’t allowed - that’s exactly the point! the original had been altered! but leave that aside). So the plaintiff (Newman’s side) has no evidence. The case should have been dismissed.
Considering how important it was to the plot, I stand by it 