Well, for the scenes on the moving train, they were probably just using a look-alike prop helicopter, so that if anything went wrong and it got damaged, it wouldn’t be too expensive of time-consuming to fix (that’s assuming there was ever a real working helicopter used. I don’t remember the movie that well). If that were the case, the tail rotor would spin freely since there was nothing inside for it to attach to, and the film-makers simply wouldn’t notice that that was wrong.
Granted, it’s a dumb mistake, but probably not so dumb that they had to go out their way to make it.
Fortunately, YMCA has added this vital knowledge to its babysitters’ CPR classes. In Advanced Lifesaving, they include, “I’m not gonna lose you!!”
I think you need a Certificate before they teach you the Flop Onto Body In Anguish, Thus Providing The One Final Thump Necessary For Breathing To Resume. It’s a pretty difficult move, and I think they want to make sure people are really ready for it.
That Chris Farley movie (I think it’s Tommy Boy, but could be mistaken) where he’s supposed to be at Marquette University? That’s not Marquette University. Even worse is that Farley knew that, having attended Marquette University (like me!) himself.
In Dogma, when Ben and Matt are walking through the Milwaukee airport? That’s not General Mitchell (Milwaukee’s finest airport!). There’s far, far too many people.
In Titanic, when Leo’s prattling on about a lake near Chippewa Falls? That lake’s a manmade lake that wasn’t constructed until after the Titanic sank. Leo’s character never would’ve seen that lake. And it’s Wisconsin - there’s thousands of lakes to choose from, at least several of which are in the Chippewa Falls/Eau Claire area! Couldn’t you have done a little research?
In Alex and Emma, there are a lot of stupid things that are even somewhat central to the plot!
Alex idn’t going to get paid over a hundred thousand dollars for a cheesy romance novel. Even assuming that his ‘book’ is a hell of a lot longer than it sounds, that’s maybe 300,000 words (more like 100,000 in real life), which means roughly 30 cents a word. That is some god-like contract, to get that rate! (Plus, that’s after his stenographer gets paid $25,000!) And why does Alex have no agent? The guy he talks to about money for his work is high in the publishing company, so that isn’t feasible .
No stenographer from a ‘service’ is going to go to an author’s house for personal dictation unless he’s paying her a whole lot of money, and payment after the book is done isn’t going to work for that.
And hey, why is there a Cuban Mafia in New York?! That doesn’t make any sense! (That bit’s not from personal knowledge, actually)
The precordial thump WAS a part of basic CPR training. As I recall, it was used only in the case where the patient coded right in front of you. Thus, there were two separate procedures to be followed, depending on whether it was a “witnessed” or “unwitnessed” arrest. This was so confusing that the Powers That Be eliminated the precordial thump, and the attending procedure around 1975 or so.
Well, Nelson was already a god among men before Trafalgar. There was the Battle of the Nile (in which both Captain Aubrey and Lt. Pullings “had the honor of serving under him,” which would itself account for the worshipful attitude aboard the Surprise specifically, with her two highest-ranking officers having personal experience with him), the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the Battle of Copenhagen… he was pretty much kicking ass and taking names from 1797 onward, and the only mark against him had to do with his marital misconduct. Sea-officers don’t much care about that. Trafalgar was just more frosting on the well-decorated cake.
Oh yeah, in Spiderman 2, you know the bit on the train? That’s not New York, it’s Chicago. That’s the el whizzing around the Loop. (Although the Loop, of course, doesn’t have a dropoff, cause it’s…loop-shaped.) It’s not really a secret, since neither New York or Chicago are obscure locations, but it was really startling to see Chicago purporting to be New York.
I know more about tropical plants than most people, and it bugs me for instance when I see a common phalaenopsis orchid referred to as a carnivorous plant. Or, in The Professional, when the little girl stuck a tropical plant in the ground in the fall in the Northeast US. First frost, and it’s a goner.
I also always watch people’s fingers when they’re typing on a computer in the movies. They’re typing gibberish and the number of keystrokes in no way corresponds to the number of words appearing on the computer screen.
I figured maybe she was inferring “ya podoidu k krateru,” meaning going up to or approaching the crater, in which case she could have used the dative case, and it would just sound like “krateru.” But if not, then you’re right of course.