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re: “Acthually that’s incorrect”- post your favorite nitpick or plothole in a movie or series
Posted on 4/2/25 at 9:33 pm to alajones
Posted on 4/2/25 at 9:33 pm to alajones
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A colonel having that level of power. Colonels are a dime a dozen. They’re everywhere.
Yeah but not all colonels are the same. A forward deployed O-6 commander is not the same as an O-6 Pentagon staff dork. A colonel in that position at that time would be extremely well connected and powerful.
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Posted on 4/2/25 at 9:54 pm to dirtsandwich
Watching S5/E20 of Murder, She Wrote (Three Strikes, You’re Out) and the manager just pinch hit a pitcher in a professional ball game (“Let’s see how good you are with the bat,”). Not sure I’ve ever seen that in real life.
Good episode. The murderer’s confession makes me sad though. Jessica is fantastic, as always.
Good episode. The murderer’s confession makes me sad though. Jessica is fantastic, as always.
Posted on 4/2/25 at 9:56 pm to sledgehammer
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Why didn’t Rose move over and let Jack lay on the door or why couldn’t they take turns?
With the amount of wooden furniture, mattresses and ropes available jack could’ve built an island to float away on.
Posted on 4/2/25 at 9:57 pm to dirtsandwich
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the manager just pinch hit a pitcher in a professional ball game (“Let’s see how good you are with the bat,”). Not sure I’ve ever seen that in real life.
Maybe it was extra innings and he’d already used all the other batters on the bench
Posted on 4/2/25 at 10:13 pm to jchamil
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Maybe it was extra innings and he’d already used all the other batters on the bench
Top of the 4th with the team down 7-0.
Posted on 4/2/25 at 10:23 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
In the Empire Strkes Back Admiral Ozzel is executed for coming out of lightspeed too close to the system, alerting the rebels to their presence.
Wouldn't coming out of lightspeed further away give the rebels even more time to prepare?
Wouldn't coming out of lightspeed further away give the rebels even more time to prepare?
Posted on 4/3/25 at 7:30 am to alajones
Not a plot hole. Nolan purposely did not explain the future (& how humans developed the technology capable of opening a wormhole, etc…)
Posted on 4/3/25 at 7:39 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
Every movie where they pump a shotgun (and no shell is ejected) before firing it. Like I wouldn't already have one in the chamber as I am walking into a firefight or standing in front of someone with a gun.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 7:41 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
Any time in a movie when someone needs to gain access to a file that's an office building: Hero/villain pulls a fire alarm pull station, immediately causing every sprinkler head on the floor to begin gushing water. Office workers scurry (someone always grabs a file folder and puts it over their head), character sneaks over to cabinet where target file is, and they waltz out with the item they needed.
That's the fire alarm equivalent of turning on the bathroom light and it causes the toilet to flush. In reality, there's very little interconnectivity of a building fire alarm system and its wet sprinklers. there's a monitor module that tells the FA panel if someone closes a sprinkler valve (shutting off the water supply to a given floor) and there's another switch that moves when water flows through an open sprinkler head (just the one(s) activated by heat/fire) that sends an alarm signal to the panel and makes the red truck show up.
That's the fire alarm equivalent of turning on the bathroom light and it causes the toilet to flush. In reality, there's very little interconnectivity of a building fire alarm system and its wet sprinklers. there's a monitor module that tells the FA panel if someone closes a sprinkler valve (shutting off the water supply to a given floor) and there's another switch that moves when water flows through an open sprinkler head (just the one(s) activated by heat/fire) that sends an alarm signal to the panel and makes the red truck show up.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 7:42 am to Master of Sinanju
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Wouldn't coming out of lightspeed further away give the rebels even more time to prepare?
Not if it's outside of the range of their planetary sensors.
ETA - Of course the internet has discussed this at length. It's the internet.
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This is addressed in some detail in the Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy factbook. Notably, Ozzel deviated from the Empire's standard battle tactics without speaking to Vader first, largely out of an abundance of caution and the impulse to win a quick victory. In practice he achieved the opposite by underestimating his opponent.
Vader was anticipating that they would approach Hoth under the cover of its extensive asteroid belt.
An extensive asteroid field snarled in-system travel, and regular asteroid impacts on Hoth created thermal signatures that would hide signs of habitation. If such signs were detected, observers would most likely conclude that yet another band of smugglers was trying to use Hoth as a bolthole.
Instead Ozzel took it upon himself to jump out of hyperspace right next to the planet, which theoretically would have been safer for his ships and more effective in catching the Rebels by surprise. They were, however, much better armed (and crucially, defended by a planetary shield) than was anticipated.
Standard tactics called for Ozzel to assemble his squadron on the edge of the Hoth system and approach using its asteroid belt as cover, but Ozzel feared the rebels would call in the Alliance fleet, catching his task force amid the chaos of the asteroids. So he opted for surprise, decanting from hyperspace close to the planet. The rebels activated a planetary shield to protect their base—a potent defense the Empire did not know they had. Furious, Vader strangled Ozzel and promoted Firmus Piett in his stead. With an orbital bombardment now impossible, General Maximilian Veers moved immediately to execute a ground assault: he would land Blizzard Force’s dozen AT-ATs beyond the shield’s perimeter, march overland to the shield generator, and destroy it
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Pablo Hidalgo addressed this failure in strategy in Star Wars Insider #72
Q. Vader said that [Ozzel] emerged from hyperspace too close to Hoth when attacking the Rebel base there. Why was that a problem?
PH: The strategy of the Imperial Death Squadron was supposed to be to emerge from hyperspace at a greater distance from Hoth, organize into attack formation, and then move inward to bombard the planet. Such regrouping is standard since maintaining combat formation over long hyperspace jumps is difficult. Ozzel brought the fleet out within Rebel sensor range, before the Imperials had organized for bombardment, thinking that the surprise would allow the Empire to easily defeat the Rebels. The Rebels were alerted to the Imperial presence and raised their planetary shields. What was to have been an easy orbital bombardment then became a costly and prolonged ground engagement. Vader corrected the strategic flaw by removing Ozzel from command, permanently.
This post was edited on 4/3/25 at 7:46 am
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:42 am to VoxDawg
The Silence of the Lambs.
Clarice tells Lecter that Buffalo Bill got his nickname as a joke by the Kansas City Homicide Department. Later on when Lecter gives Starling the map of all Buffalo Bill activity, the map shows that every murder took place east of the Mississippi River. Why is the Kansas City Homicide Department involved in a case where no crimes are committed in either Kansas or Missouri?
Clarice tells Lecter that Buffalo Bill got his nickname as a joke by the Kansas City Homicide Department. Later on when Lecter gives Starling the map of all Buffalo Bill activity, the map shows that every murder took place east of the Mississippi River. Why is the Kansas City Homicide Department involved in a case where no crimes are committed in either Kansas or Missouri?
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:51 am to Purple Spoon
Kelly's Heroes also takes a little liberty with how much gold there is and how easily it could have been transported, if I recall correctly.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 8:51 am to Kafka
Eyewitness testimony is often unreliable.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 9:15 am to VOR
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Eyewitness testimony is often unreliable.
Hell, that's true even in real life.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 10:39 am to VoxDawg
Tackling Harry was an interesting choice 
This post was edited on 4/3/25 at 10:42 am
Posted on 4/3/25 at 11:04 am to VoxDawg
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Hell, that's true even in real life.
NGT pointed out the flaws of eyewitness testimony during an interview:
For something that the legal system considers a "smoking gun", it is the least accurate form of "proof" possible.
Watching My Cousin Vinny is a good example of how bad that testimony can be and how a decent, never mind a good, lawyer can wreck it on cross examination.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 11:24 am to Purple Spoon
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Average dump truck capacity is 20k lbs
but that is for something like dirt lbs per ft3.
you could fit way more lbs of gold in the 23 yard box, or whatever they were.
but it would certainly be over the street legal weight and maybe even blowout the suspension of the truck.
So and cubic yard of gold weighs 2400lbs. A 23 yard box would weigh 55,200 lbs.
If you could pull that much weight, you would only need 528 dump trucks.
This is a very good plothole to point out!
Posted on 4/3/25 at 12:57 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
American Graffiti: during the scene where the kids were dancing to the song “At the Hop”, astute guitar nerds will notice that the guitar player was playing a Fender Stratocaster that had not been made yet. The Strat had the large 1970’’s headstock while the movie was set in the early 60’s. Completely blown continuity.
Posted on 4/3/25 at 3:21 pm to OlGrandad
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Cute nitpick: Boy sitting at table to the right of the column covers ears before gun shot.
I wonder how many takes were done before this scene.
Did they not have foley art back then?
Posted on 4/3/25 at 4:11 pm to skrayper
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My Cousin Vinny
The fact Vinny didn't know about discovery was always a big problem for me.
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