Goofiest or Most Inaccurate Movie Scenes

[Dr. Cheese]

Some times movie scenes or scenarios are so inaccurate that they are just goofy. One I really remember is the set up for the Cotton Bowl game in the move, The Express. The Express is a movie about Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman Trophy winner. The movies shows the Syracuse University football team going to Dallas by bus for the Cotton Bowl. On the way to Dallas, they go through Arkansas, and they see Black folks chopping and picking cotton in the fields.
Then they finally get to Dallas, where they play the Cotton Bowl in a warm and sunny stadium.

The problem with this is that the Cotton Bowl takes place on New Years Day, a good 2-2.5 months after all the cotton has been been picked! As someone who grew up in the South, and who remembers when cotton was picked by hand, no one is picking cotton in Arkansas and North Texas in late December! As someone who likes college football, I also know that warm Cotton Bowl games are pretty rare. Dallas can get pretty chilly in the winter, even if the cold days tend not to linger like they do in the north.

This may seem like a minor point, but a movie about football should have gotten the weather part right. If they wanted to show racial injustice, they should have put more imagination in it, and come with something that makes sense for the season.

I didn't mean to write so long, but if anyone else can come up with a goofy scene or scenario in movie, post it here.

[DigMe]

Cheese,

I sat through a couple of cold, wet Cotton Bowls myself when the Aggies played in them during the early 90's. The cotton fields are definitely long bare by then.

bc

[nutdog]

Almost every movie involving aviation has moments of absurdity. But my favorite would have to be at the end of Diehard 2 when Willis is on the wing of the jet taking off. He pops the defuel cap (plane manufacturers want you to be able to empty an aircraft of fuel easily, since it's not very important), then falls off the wing at high speed (just a 10 or 15 feet onto pavement in motion). He whips out his lighter and sets the fuel on fire. The flames follow the plane and then it explodes (try lighting jetA with a lighter or a match--it can't be done). Then there's the fact that had he survived the fall injury free, he would have been laying in the trail of fuel that he set on fire.

My wife hates to watch movies with me. Don't get me started on 24, where Jack can travel to another country, experience torture to the point of death, have the strength to defeat multiple captors in hand to hand combat and escape, then return to the US in the course of 60 minutes.

[etoncrow]

Firearms inaccuracies. Many times they place firearms in the wrong historical setting but also inaccurate handling techniques. For example, finishing a scene by racking the slide of a pump shotgun and then beginning the next scene by doing it again which would eject a perfectly good, unfired round from the chamber. Then there are the never endng magazines on handguns that shoot forever without reloading....

[Woodchuck]

There's a scene in "Bird" (Charlie Parker's bio) where the bassist is playing a Stingray and the guitarist is playing an Ibanez. Btw, Bird died in 1955. Also, Cheese, speaking of Ernie Davis, there's a statue of him on the campus of Syracuse, where they have him wearing Nikes! LOL!

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by Woodchuck

There's a scene in "Bird" (Charlie Parker's bio) where the bassist is playing a Stingray and the guitarist is playing an Ibanez. Btw, Bird died in 1955. Also, Cheese, speaking of Ernie Davis, there's a statue of him on the campus of Syracuse, where they have him wearing Nikes! LOL!

I posted about htat same scene in Bird! Just a little research could have straightened that up! As for the Davis statue, the Nike bit is pitiful.

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by DigMe

Cheese,

I sat through a couple of cold, wet Cotton Bowls myself when the Aggies played in them during the early 90's. The cotton fields are definitely long bare by then.

bc

+100

[Absentia]

Romantic Comedy

... that is all.

[Woodchuck]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Firearms inaccuracies. Many times they place firearms in the wrong historical setting but also inaccurate handling techniques. For example, finishing a scene by racking the slide of a pump shotgun and then beginning the next scene by doing it again which would eject a perfectly good, unfired round from the chamber. Then there are the never endng magazines on handguns that shoot forever without reloading....

As an Army vet, I get a kick out of seeing people blow stuff up with an incendiary grenade.

[Mark Latimour]

In the Hunt for Red October there was a Russian submarine captain with a Scottish accent.

[Woodchuck]

Originally Posted by Mark Latimour

In the Hunt for Red October there was a Russian submarine captain with a Scottish accent.

On a related note, I had no idea that the ancient Roman army were really from England!

[Vorago]

Vertical Limit

the entire movie...


This sums it up pretty well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtg7raPDYo

[sloasdaylight]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Firearms inaccuracies. Many times they place firearms in the wrong historical setting but also inaccurate handling techniques. For example, finishing a scene by racking the slide of a pump shotgun and then beginning the next scene by doing it again which would eject a perfectly good, unfired round from the chamber. Then there are the never endng magazines on handguns that shoot forever without reloading....

What I always love is that every time there's an auto pistol, and some one brings it up to fire, or moves it, they're instantly racking it, just so you know that they've got a pistol in their hand, as opposed to a squirt gun or something.

And Vorago, that has got to be one of the worst pieces of film I've ever seen.

[P. Aaron]

Was watching a chick-flick w/the missus. It was a rainy scene w/cars. No windshield wipers were on.

A small thing. The important thing was that; I was there for her.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

[Hoover]

In Glengarry Glen Ross (which btw is an awesomely intense film if you like David Mamet, and awesomely incomprehensible if you don't) there's a scene which purportedly takes place in Manhattan's midtown/west area, somewhere between the theater district & Hell's Kitchen -- I think they may even specifically refer to it as West 46th Street, or thereabouts.

An elevated train passes in the background!

[Pilgrim]

Any scene from The Conqueror, in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

I'm a big Duke fan, but that movie was, to quote Mr. Spock, "An error."

[iamlowsound]

Originally Posted by Hoover

In Glengarry Glen Ross (which btw is an awesomely intense film if you like David Mamet, and awesomely incomprehensible if you don't) there's a scene which purportedly takes place in Manhattan's midtown/west area, somewhere between the theater district & Hell's Kitchen -- I think they may even specifically refer to it as West 46th Street, or thereabouts.

An elevated train passes in the background!

Shot in Chicago was it?

lowsound

[shadowtippy]

Does anyone in a car in a movie have a rear view mirror? It seems that most of the time the windshield is free from that "obstruction".

[C.Linton]

A pet peeve of mine, is Sci-Fi movies that have space battles wth all kinds of sounds like explosions, spaceships whizzing by, the noise of beam weapons, etc., when in fact you would hear absolutely NOTHING due to the vacuum, you need some kind of atmosphere to transmit sound waves. Perhaps the sound effects are more dramatic, but it's wholly unrealistic.