Things that are out of place in movies

[Finn]

Die Hard 4, when they tried to sell Baltimore for Washington D.C.

That reminds me. There was that Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan movie, with the jarring football game, with nighttime while on the field, but daytime from the shots taken over the city.

 

[captcalhoun]

In one episode of Stargate SG-1, Carter's boyfriend is trying to get her to skip work and he says "let's go to the zoo" and Carter's reply is "Colorado Springs doesn't have a zoo"

The problem is it does have a zoo, it's called the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and it's on Cheyenne Mountain, the home of Stargate Command. She would even have to go past a whole bunch of signs on her drive in each day pointing out how to get to the zoo.

I read that they did that on purpose to show that she has no life. I've seen educated people ignorant of a landmark or something that should be very noticable to them on a daily basis.

Oh yeah... I've seen people not realizing that the leaves had been changing colors and even falling off the trees for weeks.

friend of mine completely failed to notice the CCTV cameras in our town despite the appearance of 20ft tall green metal poles to support the damn things and them being on several major street corners.

which of course makes all the protests about how intrusive they are hysterical.

 

[Starkers]

Similarly the Nazi helicopter in Where Eagles Dare.

Foke-Wulf Fa 223 Drache ("Dragon" in English)

Focke-Wulf Fw 61(aka Fa 61)

I didn't say there weren't helicopters in service with the Germans in WW2, but they sure as heck didn't look like the one shown in Where Eagles Dare...

Then again love it though I do, it isn't the most realistic of WW2 films!

 

[JarodRussell]

The modern day Navy ships in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor anyone?