What film has the most egregious violation of “Chekhov's Gun”?

What’s a film where they bring attention to a needless detail early in the film, and ultimately nothing becomes of it later in the film?

One that comes to mind is in Goldeneye, early in the film, when 007 is going through Q labs, they discuss 007’s car, and Q mentions that it has “all the usual refinements” including machine guns and “stinger missiles behind the headlights”.

Ultimately, the car barely has any screen time in the film, and doesn’t really use any of the weapons mentioned in the scene in Q labs.

Contrast this with Tomorrow Never Dies where Q shows James the remote control for the car, which ultimately James uses later in the film.

Submitted December 02, 2023 at 12:34AM by 3720-To-One https://ift.tt/pGWqIEi