Some goofs noticed in this movie
I saw this movie this afternoon. I thought it was good. The three lead characters all gave solid performances. Like in King Kong, Jack Black impressed me with his acting skills when he isn't trying to be a modern John Belushi.
I thought the movie played up the typical stereotypes of birders as slightly crazy nerds who walk about in public imitating bird calls, but at least it tried to explain people's obsessions with birds.
I noticed some goofs in the movie, none of which give away any major plot elements.
First, scenes in NYC show cars with the old blue and white plates. The new NY plates are yellow with blue lettering.
Second, when Jack Black is traveling from Baltimore to Boston after a Pink-footed Gull, he's on an Amtrak train which should have a direct route on the Northeast corridor with the only possible connection in NY city at Penn Station. An exterior shot of a train showed a Metro-North Railroad General Electric P32-9ACDM, which is mostly used for runs on the Hudson and Harlem Valley lines. I could also point out the engine has the old "stealth" paint sceme, but most of the engines have been repainted with new colors with a blue cab. Judging from the mountains and the river in the background, I'd guess the shot was taken near the New Hamburg station on the Hudson line, which isn't part of the Washington-Boston corredor.
As you may have guessed by now, I am triply cursed: I'm a birder, a rail-fan, and I nit-pick movies. You could feel pty for me, and not just because My llife-list has been stalled at 399 for the past two monthes!
I find your lack of faith disturbing.