The rifles carried by Ben and Ralph change. Ben is initially shown shooting at Ralph with a bolt action rifle. Later, he is armed with a Remington pump action. Ralph grabs a tube fed Winchester lever action from the sporting goods store, but when he throws his rifle down, it has changed into a Winchester 1895 with a box magazine.
When Ralph exits the mine, his previously soaking-wet clothing is completely dry.
When Ralph throws the mannequin off his balcony, the overhead shots show the sidewalk and street are dry, but all of the ground level shots show everything wet.
The books on the shelf behind the bed Ben is in change order between shots.
Ralph throws the mannequin from his apartment, and its leg is at least three feet from the curb. When he gets down to the street, the mannequin's foot is on the curb.
Someone says over the radio that the radioactive poison was an isotope of sodium with a half-life of 53 hours. There is no isotope of sodium with that half-life.
After Ralph comes ashore in lower Manhattan, amid scenes of him wandering around the vicinity of Wall Street, a shot looking up at him from street level shows the Empire State Building towering above him. The Empire State Building is approximately five miles north of where Ralph had been shown standing.
Per IMDb guidelines, this is not a Goof: "We do not list 'you can't get there from here' goofs. If a character steps out of a building in one part of town and walks a block down the street to another building that you know is three miles away, this is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device. "Similarly, things like the use of the wrong railway station for the stated destination and other things that only a local would spot, but that don't alter the "reality" of the movie, are excluded."
Per IMDb guidelines, this is not a Goof: "We do not list 'you can't get there from here' goofs. If a character steps out of a building in one part of town and walks a block down the street to another building that you know is three miles away, this is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device. "Similarly, things like the use of the wrong railway station for the stated destination and other things that only a local would spot, but that don't alter the "reality" of the movie, are excluded."
One of the first things Ralph does upon reaching the surface is to drink a bottle of milk, which would have likely given him an upset stomach with the refrigerator being out of order.
As the bottle Ralph drinks was taken from the front window display of the grocery, it is unlikely that it was milk.
As the bottle Ralph drinks was taken from the front window display of the grocery, it is unlikely that it was milk.
The newspaper reporting the end of the world has no printing on the back.
There actually is printing on the back of that newspaper; it is somewhat faint, but it definitely is there.
There actually is printing on the back of that newspaper; it is somewhat faint, but it definitely is there.
No explanation is ever given as to how Ben survived the radiation.
This is not a Goof as there is no requirement for a movie to explain everything a viewer might question. It's indicated that people other than Ralph, Sarah, and Ben are also alive.
This is not a Goof as there is no requirement for a movie to explain everything a viewer might question. It's indicated that people other than Ralph, Sarah, and Ben are also alive.
Throughout the climactic chase scene between Ralph and Ben, the two repeatedly are shown walking on streets and turning corners onto others many miles away from where they had been a moment before.
Per IMDb guidelines, this is not a Goof: "We do not list 'you can't get there from here' goofs. If a character steps out of a building in one part of town and walks a block down the street to another building that you know is three miles away, this is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device. "Similarly, things like the use of the wrong railway station for the stated destination and other things that only a local would spot, but that don't alter the "reality" of the movie, are excluded."
Per IMDb guidelines, this is not a Goof: "We do not list 'you can't get there from here' goofs. If a character steps out of a building in one part of town and walks a block down the street to another building that you know is three miles away, this is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device. "Similarly, things like the use of the wrong railway station for the stated destination and other things that only a local would spot, but that don't alter the "reality" of the movie, are excluded."
While Ralph is being pursued by Ben near the end, he comes to the United Nations complex. Although there is no electric power in the city, except where Ralph has installed a generator, lights can be seen through the windows of the Secretariat building.
There are no bodies, With 8 million people in NYC, there is not one dead body seen anywhere.
After Ralph telephones Sarah, he tells her to turn on her radio. When she does, Ralph's voice is heard coming through. This occurs without him telling her the frequency he is transmitting on or her adjusting the radio's tuner.
When the characters run through the street, the sound of their footsteps does not synchronize exactly with their footfalls; they are a bit off. It's a subtle effect but noticeable.
While Ralph walks around singing and playing the guitar, the whistle on the electric train is sounding without Ralph activating the whistle button on the transformer.
Not only does Ralph wait for five days before (easily) escaping, his ability to do so, including climbing the shaft ladder, is little impaired by his lack of food and clean water.
The recording Ralph listens to states the radioactive sodium half-life is just over two days and that it is deadly for about five days. If they were aware of this, many people would have taken refuge in bomb shelters, basements, caves, etc. and survived. Many families in the cold war era had plans for surviving nuclear fallout, and five days is not an excessive time.
In his kitchen, Ralph shows Sarah how he's been throwing his dirty dishes out his apartment window because there's no water to wash them with. Sarah simply turns on the faucet and water flows, thanks to the water tower on top of Ralph's building. Ralph should not have been surprised by this, as he should have noticed that his toilet was still working.
In addition, both they and their hair look spotlessly clean, with Sarah's hair being particularly shiny.
In addition, both they and their hair look spotlessly clean, with Sarah's hair being particularly shiny.