Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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ClockworkCupcake said:
jogger1976 said:
Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some s
tty 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. tty 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!!!
OH was watching one the other day that I hadn't clocked was directed by him, and it just annoyed me more and more until I blurted out "is this a Richard Curtis film?".
I think she was only watching it to annoy me.
Runaway trains. Trains (as anyone who's travelled on Southern will know all too bitterly) are not designed to go. They're designed to stop. Anything that makes them unhappy... from the driver being shot to the rear carriage being blown up to going round a corner a bit fast to even looking like it might approach a red signal a bit sharpsih... will result in one or more of several failsafes kicking in and putting a full service brake application right through the middle of the plotline
Dog Soldiers. End scene. Army boys' last stand against scary werewolves.
Farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, earlier the squaddies have been rolling LPG bottles around so clearly not on mains.
At the end, the protagonist crawls through a hatch into the cellar/space under house floor to get away from the scary werewolves while Sean Pertwee pulls the gas feed off the cooker to fill the house up with gas and blow up said scary werewolves.
LPG is liquid and will pour like water if released. It would've run straight down through the old floor, pooled and blown our hero to smithereens first rather than blow the house up and leave him unscathed.
Farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, earlier the squaddies have been rolling LPG bottles around so clearly not on mains.
At the end, the protagonist crawls through a hatch into the cellar/space under house floor to get away from the scary werewolves while Sean Pertwee pulls the gas feed off the cooker to fill the house up with gas and blow up said scary werewolves.
LPG is liquid and will pour like water if released. It would've run straight down through the old floor, pooled and blown our hero to smithereens first rather than blow the house up and leave him unscathed.
The Black Baron said:
Dog Soldiers. End scene. Army boys' last stand against scary werewolves.
Farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, earlier the squaddies have been rolling LPG bottles around so clearly not on mains.
At the end, the protagonist crawls through a hatch into the cellar/space under house floor to get away from the scary werewolves while Sean Pertwee pulls the gas feed off the cooker to fill the house up with gas and blow up said scary werewolves.
LPG is liquid and will pour like water if released. It would've run straight down through the old floor, pooled and blown our hero to smithereens first rather than blow the house up and leave him unscathed.
You might need to brush up on the properties of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) the gas bit is a hintFarmhouse in the middle of nowhere, earlier the squaddies have been rolling LPG bottles around so clearly not on mains.
At the end, the protagonist crawls through a hatch into the cellar/space under house floor to get away from the scary werewolves while Sean Pertwee pulls the gas feed off the cooker to fill the house up with gas and blow up said scary werewolves.
LPG is liquid and will pour like water if released. It would've run straight down through the old floor, pooled and blown our hero to smithereens first rather than blow the house up and leave him unscathed.
"As its boiling point is below room temperature, LPG will evaporate quickly at normal temperatures and pressures"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_petroleum_...
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 mindIt's fine when you don't notice, but as soon as you realise what's going on you can no longer enjoy the movie for what it is because you are constantly distracted by the statistical impossibility of what's been placed in front of you.
DoctorX said:
Steve Murty? Had a stunt truck that could do that. It's been mentioned before...but watching Transporter again the other day (I love his gaff on the Riveira, OK?) I failed to understand why the baddies always queue up to try to beat the crap out of the hero individually, rather than collectively.
Reminds me of that scene in Airplane where they're queuing up to reassure the panicking passenger...each one with a more deadly weapon...
Reminds me of that scene in Airplane where they're queuing up to reassure the panicking passenger...each one with a more deadly weapon...
rubystone said:
It's been mentioned before...but watching Transporter again the other day (I love his gaff on the Riveira, OK?) I failed to understand why the baddies always queue up to try to beat the crap out of the hero individually, rather than collectively.
Those two bits (the house, and the sequential fight) are the only two things I can remember from that film.Edited by droopsnoot on Monday 3rd October 11:53
jogger1976 said:
Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto
On of my favorite movies - Aliens, drops a clanger like that.After the drop ship crash Hicks states that they have 4 pulse rifles with "about 50 rounds each" - yet have an epic shootout with the Aliens that invade later in the movie. They must have expended hundreds of rounds each.
Moonhawk said:
jogger1976 said:
Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto
On of my favorite movies - Aliens, drops a clanger like that.After the drop ship crash Hicks states that they have 4 pulse rifles with "about 50 rounds each" - yet have an epic shootout with the Aliens that invade later in the movie. They must have expended hundreds of rounds each.
Moonhawk said:
On of my favorite movies - Aliens, drops a clanger like that.
After the drop ship crash Hicks states that they have 4 pulse rifles with "about 50 rounds each" - yet have an epic shootout with the Aliens that invade later in the movie. They must have expended hundreds of rounds each.
That's easy, it's because Hick reminds them to fire in "Short controlled bursts". After the drop ship crash Hicks states that they have 4 pulse rifles with "about 50 rounds each" - yet have an epic shootout with the Aliens that invade later in the movie. They must have expended hundreds of rounds each.
Re-watched Bullitt the other night, mainly due to gentle peer pressure from the elder statesmen of the Trivia Towers. Still don't get it... still leaves me cold... still have no clue as to why every goddamned pundit claims it as the best car chase ever. Still, had fun counting the number of times the green Beetle makes it into shot. And the white early Firebird. And how many hubcaps the Charger sheds yet still has a full complement when it crashes.
Help me out, in what way is this film not utter turd?
Even Steve's ( 
) "brooding monkey" faces aren't enough to lift it
Help me out, in what way is this film not utter turd?
Even Steve's ( ) "brooding monkey" faces aren't enough to lift itNik da Greek said:
Re-watched Bullitt the other night, mainly due to gentle peer pressure from the elder statesmen of the Trivia Towers. Still don't get it... still leaves me cold... still have no clue as to why every goddamned pundit claims it as the best car chase ever. Still, had fun counting the number of times the green Beetle makes it into shot. And the white early Firebird. And how many hubcaps the Charger sheds yet still has a full complement when it crashes.
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