Real Genius

• Add to Netflix Queue
• Buy DVD from Amazon
• Rent from Blockbuster

• Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): During the laser test, the range controller clears the B-1 to Flight Level Six-Five-Zero, which is 65,000 feet. The service ceiling, or, highest altitude the B-1 can attain, is around 40,000 feet, but, given that the B-1 was not officially "released", and that this is supposed to be a specially modified aircraft, it means that the probability does exist for it to fly at that high an altitude.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): Kent smudges the optic lens to sabotage it, but the smudge is different later in the movie.
• When Chris and Mitch enter the plane, a background technician speaks "Final check: latitude 65 degrees, 19 minutes, longitude 44 degrees, 09 minutes." These coordinates lie in Russia just below the Arctic Circle near the White Sea, which was a key Soviet, now Russian Federation, naval and submarine base.
• The "liquid nitrogen" coins have baffled viewers for many years, and are considered by many to be a goof. However the very first draft of the script shows that it wasn't an error. The thermos contains liquid nitrogen, which in turn contains a column of super-cooled CO2 (dry ice), which is what Chris uses in the vending machine.