Most movies and TV shows simply don’t care about geography, being more concerned about interesting visuals than consistencuy. The car chase sequence in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever makes zero sense. Pepper Mill and I were watching a movbie set in Boston not long ago, and laughed when we saw the landmarks a car was passing – they would’ve had to have been driving in big backtracking loops.
My favorite Syupid Geoghraphy movie is 10,000 B.C. – a movie that is suyperlatively stupid on masny levels, even after you grant them the basic asumptions. It starts out in some practically arctic frozen wasteland, with cavemen and mammoths, which would seem to be northern Europe, then goes through hot and steamy lowland swamps and wetlands before ending up in a desert with a single river in it that leads to another desert place having pyramids, which is supposed to be (one guesses) Egypt. They cross no major bodies of water (the ships the slavers are shown using appear to be the height of technology, and they only go on rivers). Whgere the hell is this supposed to be taking place? Where, for that matter, could you engage in a chase that will take you through such vast changes in terrain and climate in the few days it seems to?
In Romy and Michelle’s HS Reunion, R&M are traveling from LA to Tuscon, and they are shown to be on some desert two lane road. Silly girls, you get on the 10 and don’t turn off until Tuscon. No wonder you didn’t invent Post-its.
The worst I saw was in a movie (I forget which, maybe Someone to Watch Over Me?). In a scene set in a NYC high rise, the characters get on an elevator, and get off in the 2nd class pool of the Queen Mary! Holy turbolifts, batman!
It goes both ways.
It’s the Anne Heche Highway
Ba-Ding!
No, seriously, 62 starts at 1-10 and goes up to Twentynine Palms.
it’s a pretty crappy rod so even if they weren’t in a hurry to get out of PS it makes you wonder why they would have taken that route.
And I have taken both the PCH and I-5 to LA. While the 5 is faster, the PCH is much more scenic.
Or you can split the difference and travel U.S. 101, which is more scenic than I-5 but only takes an extra hour or two (whereas PCH is a pretty slow drive.)
Not exactly wrong geography since the river is there, but in Rambo III I believe it was, when Stallone paddles his boat all the way down to Bangkok from northern Thailand, we were wondering why the fuck he didn’t hop a bus and use the perfectly good highway that runs all the way down the country not far from the river.
IIRC, his Skyhawk is hit and disintegrates over the desert hills (described as rocky terrain), and the bomb continues on its own momentum to land in the farmer’s garden.
Nitpick about The Green Berets: Wayne was walking with a little boy, not a girl.
