Continuity mistake: When Joe meets the President he is wearing orange Crocs, but when the President grabs his head he is wearing black flip flops.
Idiocracy (2006)
1 continuity mistake
Directed by: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard
Continuity mistake: When Joe meets the President he is wearing orange Crocs, but when the President grabs his head he is wearing black flip flops.
Pvt. Joe Bowers: Why me? Every time Metsler says, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way," I get out of the way.
Sgt. Keller: Yeah, when he says that, you're not supposed to choose "get out of the way." It's supposed to embarrass you into leading - or at least following.
Pvt. Joe Bowers: That doesn't embarrass me.
Trivia: None of the shirts or pants have buttons or zippers. This was intended to illustrate humanity's inability to operate something as simple as a zipper or a button.
Question: How did they stay frozen the whole time if they demolished the building? Wouldn't something that can keep a person frozen, require a lot of power? Did they just decide to demolish the building without checking that the power was out? Didn't they put a fudruckers on top of it? How did they remain frozen so long?
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Answer: The science in this movie is far-fetched at best. Assumedly the pods had some sort of battery backup for emergencies. If the battery lasted 500 years, we can just assume it was secret government technology.
Brian Katcher