LA geography is also laughable in Volcano. The movie more or less shows how places are located in relation to each other, but has silly time dilation effects when people travel from one place to another. Places close to each other take a long time to travel to, and places far away from each other are reached quickly. And the effects of traffic are selectively applied.

Best ever: Rumble in the Bronx, with the snowcapped Rockies visible in the distance across the Hudson River.

Not a pet peeve per se, but I'm always amused by movie geography.

Like how the cable cars run everywhere in SF?

I generally don't care if they don't do legal stuff differently, unless they could have gotten it right without sacrificing something else important to the film. Although, I do hate it when something key to the production is simply impossible, because of exactly what happens in the film. Take certain takeovers -- all the time on the screen people amass secret stakes in a company, and suddenly have a controlling stake. Both SEC regulations and company bylaws are designed to make that impossible in the normal course of events. Because secretly amassing a controlling stake is disfavored!

(Although the NYT or the WSJ did just do an article about how people are getting around that nowadays, but that is new)

Not a movie, but the favorite geography thing in my family was from the Spenser TV series -- a car drove into our local car wash, and drove out miles away.

Like how the cable cars run everywhere in SF?

Oh yeah - you can get anywhere in SF on the cable cars.

One of these days I expect to see a movie with cable cars running across the Golden Gate bridge...

I generally don't care if they don't do legal stuff differently, unless they could have gotten it right without sacrificing something else important to the film.

OK, it's literary, but Anthony Trollope used a nice workaround for that once. In an earlier novel, he explained how the hero inherited the land that allowed him to be wealthy enough to support the woman he loved -- and he got the law wrong, even though he'd consulted lawyers beforehand.

So the next time he got into that situation (one doesn't read Trollope for the wide variety of plots), he explained -- and then added something to the effect of, "At least, that's how it was explained to me. Maybe I got it wrong. But I do know that Hero inherited."

Rocky beaches and cliffs in Florida.

I don't watch CSI Miami so I have no idea how accurate that show is or if they've ever filmed in Central or North Florida but the other thing is getting the land wrong. Florida is a fairly diverse state and North/Central FL does not look like South Florida.

The other thing is characters that work at computers but the actors are obviously randomly pressing keys. Especially if they stay on the home row for the entire time they type.

not a peeve, but how did "blind murder witness" become a trope? there's a new one coming out and I swear I've seen a ton. kinda freaky, huh? I think a movie that was really about adoption would be like "The Wire"

I have to say I adore Indiana Jones, despite the fact that as a former archaeologist I never wore a fedora, used a whip, or BROKE as many damned things as he does.

I hate the rich men wear ascots trope.