But the bag of sand was too heavy!
“You know, when you, like, you grab a gold statue and it’s, and you feel it and it feels like a bag of sand?”
In The Survivors, Jerry Reed racks his .45 at least five or six times while threatening Robin Williams. Needless to say, he never ejects a round.
Any time a movie shows movies being made, there are loads of errors, but one that particularly bothered me was in Chaplin. In every scene showing Chaplin performing a scene, the actors silently mug and leer at each other. Silent movies actually had written dialogue, and the actors spoke to each other while performing.
Another one that really pissed me off: Mrs. Doubtfire. In the first scene, Robin Williams is post-syncing dialogue on an animated cartoon. In animation, the voices are recorded first and the animation drawn to match. (The movie got no better from that point.)
It’s the trench the Xindi cut through the US in Enterprise.
Makes more sense than building the USS Enterprise on the ground, anyway.
Bullit. Classic car chase around downtown San Francisco, and suddenly they are across town near the ocean. Because I’ve traveled these areas a hundred times or more, it is very jarring on an otherwise great movie.
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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.
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I’m always spotting phone goofs. Probably the most common goof is phones with modular plugs in stories set years before Bell Labs invented them in 1975.
I saw what you did there. Nice. 
I’m too lazy to look one up, but there are maps online detailing where the cars actually were throughout the chase. All over the map. Easy to see why a local would find it jarring.
Iowa’s in Florida now? Things really change a lot in the next couple hundred years.
Yeah, that’s up there with Dustin Hoffman driving towards Berkeley on the upper span of the Bay Bridge in The Graduate. My mind boggles at that one - they really shut down traffic to film that?!
It could be the statue was hollow. Which would explain how he handled it so easily. Or that’s another error.
Actually, that whole bit with the statue has always bothered me, for lots of reasons. Even ignoring the issue of Ancient Technology in the Jungle that Still Works Without Tending, or the Mayan Photo-Cells, or the Mayan Automatic Dart Guns, that booby-trapped idol base makes zero sense. Indy feels – Og knows why he would know this – that the idol base is sensitive to the weight on it, so he carefully matches the sandbag weight to the idol. He puts the back on and the plunger goes down – evidently he guessed wrong and it’s too heavy. What if he hadn’t put a bag on at all, but simply snatched the idol? THAT is the way any designer making a booby trap would fix things – you want the alarm to go off* if the weight suddenly disappears. I’d expect him to underestimate the weight – especially after taking sand out, so the plunger should go UP! Making the plunger go down suggests a ridiculous amount of planning and sophistication. (“See, Xolotl, I figure that some tghief might try to put a weight in place of the idol, so I have it rigged to go off if the weight is too MUCH, too!” “That’s a great idea! Have it set off the Temple Self-Destruct.”)
*or whatever. Having the temple destroy itself always seemed the worst sort of overkill to me
Bonus points for the Chachapoyan / Aztec Nahuatl God-name-dropping 
That’s what I figured. It was a hollow, clay statue plated in gold. Indy, as a super-archeologist, knows this and tries to approximate with the sand. He also hunts items for their archeological value and significance, not for simple raw material content, so a solid gold idol is just an audience assumption.
I figured that the plunger going down is what sets off the traps. The weight’s off so the plunger drops to set off the ancient Mayan hydrological interloper killer. It does seem like an awful lot for just a little gold statue though, don’t it?
I always thought the only things the “plunger” was supposed to do was set off the closing doors & release the temple-sealing boulder. Everything else was just the however-old temple getting shaken to pieces as an unintentional side-effect.
He may have been doing an English dub over a foreign-language cartoon, or replacing a previously-hired actor’s voice.
Didn’t cheap (television?) animation used to do the pictures first?
No, wait, this says Fleischer did that in the 1930’s, but I guess not so much since.
Sunshine is so filled with stupid/silly science that it’s hard to pick one, but I think the most glaring one is that despite requiring a planet to slingshot you into the right trajectory, you can just park your ship into orbit around the sun [at a distance well inside the orbit of Mercury] and leave it there for seven years.
That was more glaring than Cillian Murphy touching the surface of the Sun?