Hollywood Physics

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/a112c1ed610e4110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

(this is related to an earlier blog post called "Hollywood hurts students' understanding of science" and also references the blog mentioning Adam Weiner's new book Don't Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies)

Hollywood Physics
Take a look at a few of cinema's most mind-boggling moments of scientific inaccuracy—plus a few rare films that manage to get things (mostly) right

"As we reach the close of the summer blockbuster season, reports of a recent paper by two professors at the University of Central Florida recently caught our eye. In it, the physicists Costas Efthimiou and R.A. Llewellyn assert that movies are making their students dumber. ""Sure, people say everyone knows the movies are not real," says Efthimoiou, "but my experience is many of the students believe what they see on the screen.""
"Whether you believe them or not, it's always fun to take a scientist's eye to the silver screen to see just how ridiculous things can get when directors and screenwriters set poetic license against physical reality. High-school physics teacher Adam Weiner does just that in his great new book Don't Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies. Here, we take a look at a few of the worst offenders, and at the actual science behind them."

From the Popular Science Hollywood Physics link above, there is a slideshow at the bottom of the article discussing a few movies where hollywood got it wrong...and right

Slideshow mentions:
Wrong:
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: The Fizzy Lifting Drinks
The Day After Tomorrow: deep freeze
Mission Impossible II: mid-air collision
Batman: grappling hook wrapped around a gargoyle, bringing Batman and Kim Basinger to an abrupt stop and saving them from a painful death
Armageddon: Nuclear warhead to blow apart an asteroid the size of Texas (among other things)
XXX: Vin Diesel outruns an avalanche
Speed: The bus jumps a 50 ft gap in a freeway
Right:
2001: A Space Odyssey: Artificial rotational gravity
Enemy of the State: Copper cancels out most electrical fields...keeping the NSA's prying eyes off Will Smith because of it's "imperviousness to radio frequencies"

The most frequent inaccuracy is sound in space.