Deep Impact

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• Movie Goof (continuity error): After the Biederman portion of the comet hits, there is a shot of the larger Wolf comet as it approaches the earth. The earth is seen with North and South America visible, and clouds throughout the atmosphere. The devastation of the clouds and even the "shifted" East Coast shore from the Biederman impact should be seen, but is not.
• Movie Goof (errors in geography): The direction of the wave varies in several shots during the New York destruction sequence. Examples: - When the wave hits the Statue of Liberty it is observed coming from behind it, which in reality would have been coming from the Jersey City side. The problem is that that the wave would be coming from a northwesterly direction as it is shown. The wave was really supposed to be coming from the southeast. So the wave should have hit the front of the statue instead of the back. - When the wave reaches Washington Square Park. (The Washington Square arch is actually on the uptown side of the park, while the wave should be coming from farther downtown. But it makes for a nicer shot that way.) - In the overhead shot of the Chrysler Building the wave is shown impacting it directly from the east whereas it should have been coming from a more southernly direction. - The head of the Statue of Liberty and the debris is shown advancing underwater by the current in a southeasterly direction on Wall Street even though the wave came from that direction.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): During the first scene at the Star Party, Anybody who has ever actually been to a star party knows that a white flashlight is taboo. It should be a dim, red light to protect your night vision.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): We are told that Wolf was blown "into a million pieces" and that the fragments entering the atmosphere "lit up the sky for over an hour". Ignoring the accuracy or lack thereof of "a million pieces," the effect of that much mass entering the atmosphere would have been far from harmless. While they may have been smaller, they would not be traveling any slower when they entered the atmosphere. Any pieces big enough to get any distance would create an ionization trail resulting in a 20,000-degree jet of flame shooting up the piece's trajectory. Most damaging, however, would have been heating caused by atmospheric friction as all those pieces descended into the atmosphere. This would have generated millions of kilowatts and heated thousands of cubic miles of the upper atmosphere to at least the temperature of a pizza oven, cooking any exposed ground below it.