If you’re talking about the scene where William H. Macy comes out to his car after the meeting with his father-in-law where he finds out he’s not getting the money for the parking lot, then I’d be willing to give them a pass. You have to remember that he had been under the impression earlier that day that he was finally free and clear and would even be able to call off the kidnapping. Well now he’s not getting the investment money from his FIL and his wife ended up getting kidnapped anyway, so he just wasn’t thinking straight.
I was in high school 2002-2006. Unnatural hair colors were allowed, some girls wore skirts- at least one almost exclusively-, there were no restrictions on piercings, and lots of people wore all black- though my view on that last point might be a bit biased by being on a bunch of tech crews for theatre. There was also a fake baby assignment. But nobody I knew showered after gym. I think the people who did swimming in their gym classes did, but that’s a different case.
Unless it’s aces and eights–and too little is properly documented about that famous poker game to know for sure whether the movies get that right or not!
“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” was the episode with the classic self-destruct scene, including code phrases spoken by Kirk, Spock and Scott and a dramatic countdown (material later used in the third film). “The Doomsday Machine” depicted a starship sent on a kamikaze run, and “By Any Other Name” features Scott sabotaging the Enterprise with intent to make her explode, but the aliens who’ve seized her detect and neutralize the plan .
Some are, if the building’s big enough and you hit the right duct.
What they aren’t is clean. They’re filthy. Even a pretty new building will have dust, and lint, and all kinds of crap lining the walls of the duct almost from day one. I’m sure in a huge building like in Die Hard you could find ductwork large enough to pass a Bruce Willis-sized man through, but he’s going to look like hell when he comes out.
Oh, and they’ll be dark. Not pitch black; you’ll get light coming through from the various registers, and probably a few screw-holes here and there, but it’s going to be pretty dim in there.
Mythbusters did a segment on this. Yes, there are ducts big enough for a full grown man to crawl through. But if your goal is to be stealth, you better find another way of getting into or out of the building, because you’re going to make a hell of a lot of racket climbing through those things.
One movie that got this right was the anime Akira. At one point, a character is hiding in a duct, listening in on a meeting of a revolutionary cell, and the duct is absolutely disgusting: everything is covered in dust, grime, and cobwebs.
People looking through binoculars with the black thingy around the outside. When you look through binocs, you just see a magnified image not black round edges.
Again, that’s not because the writers don’t know how binoculars work. It’s an intentional deviation in order to signal to the viewer what’s going on. It’s visual shorthand.