User:Titanollante/Sandbox/Goofs

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THESE SECTIONS SHOULD CATALOGUE THINGS SUCH AS ERRONEOUS STOCK FOOTAGE, ERRONEOUS STATEMENTS, INCONSISTENT SHOTS AND THINGS OF THE LIKE.

GODZILLA (1998)

THIS SECTION IS BAD, IT ONLY DOES SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM OF THE MOVIE.

  • The species that this film's Godzilla originated from, the marine iguana, is only found in the Galápagos Islands. They do not exist in French Polynesia, the location where Godzilla was mutated in the film.
    • More inaccuracies about Godzilla being a marine iguana include that marine iguanas do not eat fish, but rather flies and algae. Also, marine iguanas use their tails for defensive purposes while Godzilla used his mouth.
    • Iguanas also don't lay nearly enough eggs to fill Madison Square Garden; they lay, on average, 30 eggs. Godzilla's eggs are also far too large to even physically work; the eggs of the largest sauropods (such as Giraffatitan or Argentinosaurus) are only 2 feet long at most, and thus much smaller than the 6 foot height of a human; if they were much bigger, the embryos would be unable to hatch.
  • When the Apaches are attacking Godzilla in the city they say they are going to fire AIM-9 Sidewinders at him, but in real life sidewinders are air-to-air missiles that wouldn't have any effect, and when they use their guns on Godzilla they are shown to be next to the cockpit which is the wrong place on the design. The gun is mounted under the nose of the aircraft.
    • Likewise, the Sidewinder missiles should not have been capable of destroying the Chrysler Building, as its neighbour, the Empire State Building, was of a similar construction and survived a plane crashing into it in 1945 without collapsing.
  • Godzilla's leap through the Metlife Building should have resulted in its collapse, given that almost all of its central floors were torn away.
  • Shortly after Godzilla gets on a building to roar after the Chrysler Building is destroyed, he disappears without trace and without anyone seeing or hearing him go away. This is physically impossible, considering Godzilla's size and weight, plus the loud sounds he produces by walking.
  • During Godzilla's first attack on New York, it seems unlikely that a truck driver wearing headphones wouldn't be able to notice the creature given the ground shaking and immense noise made by the stomping.
  • The pregnancy tests that Nick uses test for the hormone HCG, or Human chorionic gonadotropin. Thus, these tests could not be used to see if Godzilla was pregnant, and in addition, reptiles are not placental animals, and thus are not able to produce similar hormones to HCG.
  • During the final chase when the taxi is trapped in Park Avenue Tunnel, Audrey says the nearest suspension bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge. However this is incorrect, as a map of New York shows that they would pass the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges before reaching the Brooklyn Bridge.