Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[Cotty]

Johnnytheboy said:

Nothing new. I can think of 70s TV series where every single car is a Ford.

The Sweeney and The Professionals spring to mind

[omgus]

Guvernator said:

Also doing burnouts in the same car with relative ease. How? It's an auto so you can't dump the clutch AND it's a Quattro. Anyone who has driven an auto Quattro will know it is almost impossible in the dry as it will either just grip and go or the electronics will put a stop to your antics by throwing a strop in very short order before the transmission brakes and yet they are able to burn perfect 11's on every standing start.

I have a friend whose job it is to make things like that happen, the work that has gone into some cars that then end up with 20 seconds screen time is crazy.

[Guvernator]

omgus said:

Guvernator said:

Also doing burnouts in the same car with relative ease. How? It's an auto so you can't dump the clutch AND it's a Quattro. Anyone who has driven an auto Quattro will know it is almost impossible in the dry as it will either just grip and go or the electronics will put a stop to your antics by throwing a strop in very short order before the transmission brakes and yet they are able to burn perfect 11's on every standing start.

I have a friend whose job it is to make things like that happen, the work that has gone into some cars that then end up with 20 seconds screen time is crazy.

Yep I'd imagine you'd have to somehow disengage the Quattro and all the nanny systems permanently which isn't an easy task on most modern cars. Then add some sort of line lock feature to hold the car on the brakes while it spun it's wheels. I know other cars have to have chassis strengthening\welding etc to handle the stunts\jumps too. Pretty interesting job I'd dare say.

[SilverSpur]

One of the jags used in the bond films was retro fitted with manual gear box and American v8 engine....

This one I think....

[Iva Barchetta]

Cotty said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Nothing new. I can think of 70s TV series where every single car is a Ford.

The Sweeney and The Professionals spring to mind

Professionals first series had British Leyland stuff ,Doyle had a TR7 .

I believe they changed to Ford because BL press fleet couldn't supply the same car all the time,

possibly due to reliability issues.

[droopsnoot]

robbiekhan said:

Lack of technical accuracy.

Like in the new Mechanic film, Stratham's watch (a Speedmaster) is shown on the bedside cabinet, the alarm on it goes off.

How? It doesn't even have an alarm.

And Bond's watch in the start of The Spy Who Loved Me, which seems to have some kind of Dymo label-maker embedded in it, even though there's nowhere the reel of tape could go.

[jimmyjimjim]

HTP99 said:

When someone gets out of a car and shuts the door, it always shuts with a nice and reassuring thud, no matter the car or the age.

The one exception to that I can think of is Supernatural, where the Impala's doors creak whenever opened or closed.

[98elise]

SilverSpur said:

One of the jags used in the bond films was retro fitted with manual gear box and American v8 engine....

This one I think....

I'm pretty sure I saw a program where they said most of the stunt cars had american V8's. They had a number of different cars for different purposes so were all heavily modified under the bodywork. I suspect its because american crate motors can be bought quite cheaply and ready to run so work well in what is essentially rolling chassis.

[Zad]

They also had to have 4WD fitted to make filming on an ice lake practical, there wasn't enough room with the existing drivetrains.

[ClockworkCupcake]

98elise said:

I'm pretty sure I saw a program where they said most of the stunt cars had american V8's. They had a number of different cars for different purposes so were all heavily modified under the bodywork. I suspect its because american crate motors can be bought quite cheaply and ready to run so work well in what is essentially rolling chassis.

The reason I heard was that the V8s they were using were a lot shorter than the engines that came out, freeing up room for gadgetry.

Edit: And the aforementioned 4WD

[jogger1976]

Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto

Films where the characters swap languages willy nilly. Hunt for Red October is a good example. Most of the stuff Sean Connery says in Russian isn't even grammatically correct either. Just pick a language and stick to it FFS

Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some stty job can afford to liven in a £4 million London townhouse and everyone is bezzy mates. I know it's a film, but it boils my piss as it's a load of old st!!!

[Blib]

For rest Gump.
"Life is just a box of chocolates. You never know which one you're gonna get".

Bullocks!

Every box of chocolates I've ever seen has a little insert or booklet that tells you exactly what's what.

[SilverSpur]

Blib said:

For rest Gump.
"Life is just a box of chocolates. You never know which one you're gonna get".

Bullocks!

Every box of chocolates I've ever seen has a little insert or booklet that tells you exactly what's what.

A box of maltesers doesn't.

[anonymous-user]

London Has Fallen. Exit Somreset House heading for St Paul's, but turn left. Drive away from St Paul's back to Somerset House but head to the City. Oddly pissed me off much more than the catalogue of preposterousness either side of that error.

But particularly liked Paddington where the taxi ride from Paddington Stn back to the Browns' house went all over London in no particular order, and Mr Brown said on arrival "bit of a long way round", and the cabbie (Matt Lucas) responds "well yum said he wanted to see the sights!"

[Dr Jekyll]

jogger1976 said:

:

Films where the characters swap languages willy nilly.

I don't find that as bad as films where it's denoted that people are speaking foreign languages to each by them speaking English in foreign accents.

[Blib]

SilverSpur said:

Blib said:

For rest Gump.
"Life is just a box of chocolates. You never know which one you're gonna get".

Bullocks!

Every box of chocolates I've ever seen has a little insert or booklet that tells you exactly what's what.

A box of maltesers doesn't.

You need to think that through.

[Evolved]

Halmyre said:

Don't know if it's a mistake as such, but in 'Heat' there's a scene where they break into a bank computer room through the floor, to swap out the security alarm circuit boards. The backplane PCB has these ridiculously long ribbon cables, just the right length to enable them to drop the backplane down to swap out the circuit boards.

GEEK!

[SilverSixer]

Greg66 said:

London Has Fallen. Exit Somreset House heading for St Paul's, but turn left. Drive away from St Paul's back to Somerset House but head to the City. Oddly pissed me off much more than the catalogue of preposterousness either side of that error.

But particularly liked Paddington where the taxi ride from Paddington Stn back to the Browns' house went all over London in no particular order, and Mr Brown said on arrival "bit of a long way round", and the cabbie (Matt Lucas) responds "well yum said he wanted to see the sights!"

There's a similar one in Patriot Games. They're transporting Sean Bean from Wandsworth nick to the one on the Isle of Wight, Parkhurst. Bean gets sprung as the prison van attempts to cross Tower Bridge on the way.

Gah.

Edited by SilverSixer on Friday 30th September 15:12

[Pesty]

jogger1976 said:

Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto

Films where the characters swap languages willy nilly. Hunt for Red October is a good example. Most of the stuff Sean Connery says in Russian isn't even grammatically correct either. Just pick a language and stick to it FFS

Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some stty job can afford to liven in a £4 million London townhouse and everyone is bezzy mates. I know it's a film, but it boils my piss as it's a load of old st!!!

People in movies who say clip instead of magazine

[ClockworkCupcake]

jogger1976 said:

Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some stty job can afford to liven in a £4 million London townhouse and everyone is bezzy mates. I know it's a film, but it boils my piss as it's a load of old st!!!

It's a Richard Curtis feel-good film. What do you expect? If you want grey, gritty, depressing realism then go watch EastEnders.