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.
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Jesse - Jan 18, 2008 9:23:03 am PST #3415 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2008 9:23:27 am PST #3416 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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...
Fred Pete - Jan 18, 2008 9:27:15 am PST #3417 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
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."
askye - Jan 18, 2008 9:29:35 am PST #3418 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
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.
erikaj - Jan 18, 2008 9:31:37 am PST #3419 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
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"
flea - Jan 18, 2008 9:32:46 am PST #3420 of 10000
information libertarian
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.
Scrappy - Jan 18, 2008 9:44:19 am PST #3421 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I hate the rich men wear ascots trope.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 18, 2008 9:45:54 am PST #3422 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I hate the rish men wear ascots trope.
Bwah-Ha-Ha-- although it is kinda a great shorthand when working with high school actors, for some reason.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2008 9:47:37 am PST #3423 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I once dated someone who wore an ascot.
Sue - Jan 18, 2008 9:52:59 am PST #3424 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I went to college with a guy who occasionally wore and ascot. And yes, he was rich, but even the other rich kids thought he was OTT.