In American Western movies:
Saguaro cactus and huge mountains are found in every State west of the Mississippi River?
Huge boulders magically appear virtually anywhere a movie character goes?
That those huge boulders move when bumped into or grabbed by a movie character?
The distance between named locations (say Dodge City, KS and Chihuahua, Mexico) shrinks such that the movie characters on horseback only need to camp out one night?
People who are held hostage or are injured such that they are unconscious for days never have need to take care of bodily elimination functions?
I always get a chuckle from the older westerns where the men manage a nice, close shave every morning and both the men's and women's hair is perfectly styled every day they are out on the trail.
Huge boulders magically appear virtually anywhere a movie character goes?
Last October while out doing a little rec-creatin', I stumbled upon this rather famous old Western movies location. Nothing phony about these boulders. Many big as houses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills
Place was an absolute wonderland.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
How about a 6 shooter can shoot way more times and never have to reload.
In a different genre, how did the Star Wars spacecraft in a vacuum perform swooping turns like airplanes do in atmosphere?
In the movie Gravity, when Sandra Bullock had grabbed onto their orbiter and the man had grabbed her leg, so that the three bodies were at rest with respect to each other, HOW did something pull the man away with what looked like about 1 g of acceleration? If he let go he should have floated nearby.
In the original Star Wars, why would they build robot R2D2 that can understand any human's speech, a capability that was not yet practical in our world at the time of release, and NOT be able to produce speech, a capability already then in use.
Brainstorm (1983) with Natalie Wood had them recording a person's consciousness on special wide tape, which must have had a huge bandwidth in the MHz. Then at one point they play the tape over a phone line and it works despite being limited to about 3 or 4 kHz.
There are reasons I don't watch many movies. I'll suspend disbelief for a few things (e.g. faster than light travel) to get a good story, but can't stand it when the other stuff violates common sense and known physics.
Hey that's where I survey. There's a wildfire webcam pointing right at a HES Stone Monument (Homestead Entry Survey). A second visit to the corner monument a few years later and someone had built a wooden cross with "RIP HES" routered into the wood and added a grave like stone outline. https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=36.5868_-118.1038_13&id=Axis-WhitneyPortal1 (check to bottom right of the photo)
JW
@j-dub That's too dang funny! Poor HES! Gorgeous country. Spent six days hiking in the Golden Trout Wilderness with my fly rod. Absolute heaven.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@williwaw Golden Trout Wilderness... So Beautiful. We did some great original sectional recovery in September 2024.
