Saturday afternoon while laying around trying to nurse this cold, I came across the old movie "Run Silent Run Deep" on Turner Classic Movies. And being in the middle of my build of the Revell 1/72 Gato class Submarine I thought why not. Watching this movie now I had a good time laughing at al the things I never noticed before. I cannot believe Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster were even able to hit a single ship, let alone several in this film when firing their torpedo's in such tight patterns. But my biggest chuckles came during the scene when they have figured out there is a Japanese Sub following the convoy, first the enemy sub fires a torpedo set to run at 90 feet trying to hit our sub as it is diving, what guts. Then as both subs are sitting motionless under water waiting for the other to make a move you see the depth gauges on both subs, those crafty Japanese spy's, stealing the design for our depth gauge right down to copying the numbers. They speak a different language, they write a different way I just don't see them using that gauge. Another highlight was during an attack on a convoy the radar operator announces enemy planes approaching fast, enemy dive bombers attacking in the middle of the night??? Wait those spy's have done it again, now they have stolen and copied the plans for Grumman TBF Avenger Torpedo Bombers, where will it end. But with it being night time I can see why everyone of their bombs missed the sub. Then twice in the movie a Japanese Destroyer as Burt say's 'It's headed right for us". Looking through his binoculars you clearly watch the ship cut across the field of view, the first time right to left then the second time left to right presenting a wonderful broadside view of the ship, which is moving to fast to shoot anyway. But fear not our heroes take the destroyer on head to head, they lure it in to within 1500 yards and fire two right down the lane blowing the ship to pieces, the hardest shot to take a bow shot and both torpedo's hit the target, was that a destroyer or a super tanker? Hollywood the stuff dreams are made of.
So what's your favorite old movie to nit pick on?

...was that a destroyer or a super tanker?

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Indiana Jones and the Temple Doom: The bad guys sabotage the Ford Trimotor our heroes are flying in by dumping all the fuel. The engines quit when they run out of gas. Indy and the gang bail out in the life raft. The fuelless airplane crashes and blows up into a massive fireball! HOW!?!? What blew up!?!?

One of the Lethal Weapon films (they all blend together in my head): Riggs is chasing bad guys in a motorcycle. He suddenly comes to the end of the under-construction elevated highway, which drops 20 feet to the construction yard below. He bails out of the bike, which falls off the end, hits the ground, and explodes. Not only is the explosion massively bigger than the tiny fuel tank of a motorcycle could produce, we see the bike thrown up in the air WITH THE FUEL TANK COMPLETELY INTACT! :eek:

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Family Guy did a great spoof of the movie-crash-explosion syndrome once: an Amish horse-and-buggy goes over the cliff. The empty wooden buggy hits the ground and explodes like a 1,000-pound bomb. The camera pans over to see the horse standing there looking confused. It looks at us with a worried expression, and the horse explodes! :lol:

My favorite Star Trek set failure, from Day of the Dove - A plasma conduit turns into a spitoon in the middle of a sword fight, then back into wall sculpture in the next scene:

http://inpayne.com/temp/spitoon.jpg

Two Kevin Costner films always bug me.

First is Waterworld. It's a bad movie, but it shouldn't be such a stupid one. one of the movies main conceits is fresh water is precious and valuable because the oceans rose and flooded the Earth. I learned how to distill salt water to fresh in fourth grade myself, but it's too complicated for the folks in Waterworld!

And this wouldn't bug anybody that hadn't been in the Navy and wore dress whites, but the chase scene in No Way Out, where Kevin is running, climbing, sliding, and shooting in a pair of dress whites that are still pristine 20 minutes later is total science fiction.

Not that there's much reality portrayed in "Pearl Harbor," but having pur heroes zip apround buildings in P-40s like they did was insane. What dogfights there were took place at altitude. I showed that scene to my Dad the fighter pilot, and just sat there shaking his head. Also the scene where Tom Sizemore grabs a handy-talky and tells the pilots what to do? Dad says they weren't on any frequency a fighter could tune to.

"The Flying Leatherneacks" with John Wayne and Robert Ryan. They were flying F4F Wildcats. During attacks on the japanese ground troops you can see the planes dropping bombs and firing rockets with no ordenance visible.

And this wouldn't bug anybody that hadn't been in the Navy and wore dress whites, but the chase scene in No Way Out, where Kevin is running, climbing, sliding, and shooting in a pair of dress whites that are still pristine 20 minutes later is total science fiction.

I think they sprayed his suit with the same stuff that they put on heroine's hair to keep it in place after she's: a. Fallen out of a gondolier, b. careened off a cliff in a convertible, c. ran out of a rainstorm, d. hung off of Washington's nose at Mt. Rushmore, etc., etc., etc...

I think they sprayed his suit with the same stuff that they put on heroine's hair to keep it in place after she's: a. Fallen out of a gondolier, b. careened off a cliff in a convertible, c. ran out of a rainstorm, d. hung off of Washington's nose at Mt. Rushmore, etc., etc., etc...That must be what they used on Jack Lord's hair in Hawaii Five-O!

BTW, a gondolier is a guy who rows a gondola (as in Venetian boat).

After she's fallen off a gondolier.....

James Bond used to have tons of that spray. He must have run out,because he mussed up his suit last time.

In the second Die Hard a plane crashes because it ran out of fuel. Big Fireball.

When any car crashes the gas tank instantly explodes.

You can find a whole bunch of those "only-in-the-movies" rules here:

Roger Ebert's Movie Glossary (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&SearchType=1&Class=62&FromDate=19150101&ToDate=20071231&SortOrder=Title)

"The Flying Leatherneacks" with John Wayne and Robert Ryan. They were flying F4F Wildcats. During attacks on the japanese ground troops you can see the planes dropping bombs and firing rockets with no ordenance visible.

Actually they were flying F6F Hellcats. But Wayne's kid in the film said "Are you flying Wildcats?" because nobody wanted a 7-year-old kid to say "hell" in a movie.