I think my favourite so far, and I’ve referred to this before, has been Taking Lives, in which a scene was shown to be in Montreal by the establishing shot of the Château Frontenac.
The Château Frontenac is the most prominent building of Quebec City. That’s sort of like showing that it’s Boston with a shot of the Empire State Building.
Also, everyone was speaking France French.
In When Harry Met Sally, they are shown leaving the University of Chicago campus (which is on the south side of the city), and then driving down the north end of Lake Shore Drive to get to New York. This would be an extremely circuitous route to get to NY from U of C! You would have to drive about 15 miles north, turn around, and drive south again. Maybe for just one last look at the nice scenery before leaving for NY? 
I always wonder when I see that scene…why didn’t they just set the initial scene at Northwestern University, which IS north of the city, and which you WOULD get on Lake Shore Drive to go to New York?
I think I’ve mentioned The Terminator before. Arnold can’t take any ray guns with him, because of “the field generated by living tissue”. But his magic metal endo-skeleton can make it just fine. And he can cut out his eye with an X-Acto knife to reveal the lens behind it.
Why didn’t they put a ray gun into his abdomen, and then send him thru the time barrier? He gets to LA, cuts open his belly and pulls out the ray gun, and Sarah Connor is toast.
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Shodan
Well, it’s obvious – 'cause then the movie’s over in 5 minutes.
More to the point, how does the T-1000 get through in Terminator II? He doesn’t have asny flesh on him – he’s all liquid metal.
Then there’s the entire premise of both The Matrix and Waterworld. Waterworld didn’t bug me that much; I could suspend my disbelief enough to get through the movie. But The Matrix bugged me because they could have easily thought of another reason for the premise that didn’t violate any laws of physics.
Crap. I didn’t get that any of BB was in Grover’s Mill at all. (I’m going to need to watch it again.) I used to pass through Grover’s Mill all the time on my way to Cranbury to go to the book store there. For those who haven’t been there, Grover’s Mill, like lots of places in this part of NJ, is hardly a town anymore, but used to be. Near me there was a town called Marshall’s Corner where the guy who discovered gold in California came from. It’s basically a bowling alley and a little shopping center now. Some signs around Princeton point to towns that really don’t exist anymore.
As for odd mountains, the old monster movie Beginning of the End had giant grasshoppers on the road from Champaign Illinois to Chicago with mountains in the background. Coastal Virginia is the frickin’ Alps compared to there.
Don’t forget about the lovely Georgia pine forests subbing for the jungles of VietNam in The Green Berets.
My boyfriend is really into the Hellraiser movies and just bought the entire series, so I’ve been subjected to them this past week.
Aside from all the obvious, I noticed two things in one of the films. In Hellraiser III (Hell on Earth, the one with Terry Farrell) there’s a scene where she runs into a church. Pinhead follows her and the priest raises his silver cross toward Pinhead to try and ward him off. Pinhead then makes the cross melt and the priests hand basically melts off. In the very next scene you can clearly see both of the priests hands…with no damage whatsoever.
A bit later Farrell’s character gets hit with one of those hooked chains and the front of her sweatshirt rips. Not two minutes later, while still running down the street her shirt has no damage.
In Children of Men, our protagonist push-starts a car with an automatic transmission, which is an impossibility.
In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, set in the early 70s, a Rubik’s Cube is sitting on the desk. Hadn’t been invented yet.
Voyager writes:
It’s a fairly important plot point – the reason there are those Red Lectroids on Earth is that they came through the portal Dr. Lizardo opened when he activated his device at Yoyodyne in Grovers Mill. The sudden influx of aliens lead to that whole “War of the Worlds” thing*, and the government hushed it up and gave all the aliens false IDs (that all had the first name “John”). The point is that there really was a sort of invasion by aliens on October 31, 1938.
Pepper mill has a secret ID, as do all her friends, the first name of which is “John”. They took to calling that weird building on Princeton-Hightstown Road (the one with the external brightly-painted pipes and the giant orange LifeSaver on top) “Yoyodyne”.
Great used book shop, that Cranbury Book Worm, eh? I picked up a copy of the Dover reprint of the original edition of Joe Miller’s Jokes there. Also some interesting Ophthalmics books.
Was that really an issue? It’s not like you need a raygun to kill people. From the video of the future they show, the rayguns work pretty much like normal guns. You still have to point and shoot.
Now, Reese might have wanted a raygun, so he could kill the Terminator, but he’d also be a little less able to handle the emergency surgery such a plan would require.
I’ll be 40 in a little over a month and hardly anyone I know my age or younger has the smallpox vaccination scar on their arm.
They were going from Miami to Vermont.
Huh. I’ve seen that movie twice in the past month and somehow missed that point. 
In the “Boys and Girls” episode of The Office, Jan tells the warehouse staff that if management hears talk about unionization, then the entire Scranton operation will be shut down. Such a statement would be a blatant violation of U.S. labor law. With so many witnesses, it would get Dunder-Mifflin into huge legal problems.
'Cause Odysseus, the professional soldier, lover and con man, couldn’t have acquired a round scar on his arm any other way? Arrow? Spear? Flaming saganaki accident?
I do have one age mate who has a smallpox vaccine scar (she’s 32) because her doctor was older than God and didn’t get the memo that it was no longer needed, but Pitt (43) does seem on the young end for one.
And he never played Odysseus.
And he wasn’t in “The Trojan War”.
He did play Achilles in Troy, though.
(Yes, I know flaming saganaki isn’t really Greek. Sue me, it sounds better.)
Probably the only mistake that ever truly reached out and slapped me: Big Night- When Ann arrives at the restaurant and stands at the bar, she’s wearing black heels. Then, as she walks over to look at the paintings with Primo, she’s wearing what looks like flat white slip-ons. Then when she’s dancing later, she’s wearing black heels again.
I’m 39 and I have one, and as a kid in school we all used to compare our scars. I think I’ve seen them on plenty of people (currently) in their mid-30’s.
Even if they didn’t know chess, you’d still expect better. A lot of boards have a fold in the middle, and most folks who have ever played any board game would correctly put the fold horizontal to the players’ view (so each player has es own rigid half of the board).
And of course, the Wizard Chess scene in Harry Potter is still problematic, in that a capturing piece doesn’t occupy the space of the piece it captured. You could probably play an interesting game using those rules, but it wouldn’t be chess.
Oh, and a smallpox vaccination scar isn’t just a circle. It’s a very distinctive flower-like pattern.
Thank you for this information. I feel much better now.
They showed a shirt running down the street? That does stretch the imagination. 