12 Stupid Mistakes That Somehow Made It Into 2013 Movies

10. Die Hard Without A Map - A Good Day To Die Hard

If you're going to move one of the most American movie franchises of all time wholesale to a different country in order to spice things up (or more appropriately to attempt to pull in some of the money of one of the world's strongest emerging cinema markets) you should probably do your homework into the geography of the country. But in A Good Day To Die Hard, the film-makers showed the same kind of commitment to their Ukrainian setting as they did to the fundamental appeal of John McClane as a character, and just smushed things up to suit their new purpose. In the film, the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl can be seen from Pripyat, despite the fact that the two locations are some 4km apart in real life, and such a Herculean feat of seeing would be made impossible by the considerable amount of forest land that a location scout would have immediately seen around Pripyat. And then there's the fact that both Pripyat and Chernobyl are tightly controlled by the military, and just driving into them, as John and Jack do, would be impossible.