Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[Fastchas]

monamimate said:

This, from Mission Impossible



Bike magically swaps between road and knobbly tyres several times (without passing by Tyrefit)...

I remember going to the flicks to watch this and remember this scene. The camera cutting to two bikes racing flat out towards each other for about 5-6 secs then Ethan (Tom Cruise) and the other baddie launching themselves off their bikes to hit each other in mid-air. So, 5-6 secs flat out...on performance bikes...prob 80-90mph (conservative) so a closing speed of around 160-180mph? And they expect to get up and kick the st out of each other?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Action films like Terminator and suchlike. There's a huge chase scene, maybe an motorcycle and a truck, and they've been going for ages causing all kinds of mayhem on the road. They can't possibly know where they are. One of them crashes and runs into the closest building, followed by the pursuer. And it's always just conveniently a steel plant, or something similar.

Why is it never Asda, or a pillow factory, or a library. A biscuit packing firm perhaps. But no...it's a fking steel plant.

[Pesty]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Action films like Terminator and suchlike. There's a huge chase scene, maybe an motorcycle and a truck, and they've been going for ages causing all kinds of mayhem on the road. They can't possibly know where they are. One of them crashes and runs into the closest building, followed by the pursuer. And it's always just conveniently a steel plant, or something similar.

Why is it never Asda, or a pillow factory, or a library. A biscuit packing firm perhaps. But no...it's a fking steel plant.

Terminator lets freeze and shatter the t1000

Then watch it as it all melts again and joins together instead of scooping the bits up and throwing them in the furnace next to them.

[Halmyre]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Action films like Terminator and suchlike. There's a huge chase scene, maybe an motorcycle and a truck, and they've been going for ages causing all kinds of mayhem on the road. They can't possibly know where they are. One of them crashes and runs into the closest building, followed by the pursuer. And it's always just conveniently a steel plant, or something similar.

Why is it never Asda, or a pillow factory, or a library. A biscuit packing firm perhaps. But no...it's a fking steel plant.

It's like the Bond films where, at the start of a mission, he always got the gadgets he would need later on to get himself out of a tight spot.

[Ste1987]

Fastchas said:

monamimate said:

This, from Mission Impossible



Bike magically swaps between road and knobbly tyres several times (without passing by Tyrefit)...

I remember going to the flicks to watch this and remember this scene. The camera cutting to two bikes racing flat out towards each other for about 5-6 secs then Ethan (Tom Cruise) and the other baddie launching themselves off their bikes to hit each other in mid-air. So, 5-6 secs flat out...on performance bikes...prob 80-90mph (conservative) so a closing speed of around 160-180mph? And they expect to get up and kick the st out of each other?

Ooh that reminds me about Mission Impossible: where they have a TGV going through the Channel Tunnel rather than a Eurostar. I wonder why that was?

[Vocal Minority]

Halmyre said:

It's like the Bond films where, at the start of a mission, he always got the gadgets he would need later on to get himself out of a tight spot.

They were always nice and niche

[FourWheelDrift]

Or that MI6 has the money to splurge on limited edition Aston Martins full of extra expensive gadgetry for it's agents.

They might get a company Ford Focus Style with satnav and that's about it.

[Timmy40]

The Llama running through the market at the beginning of Troy. A Llama FFS.

[anonymous-user]

LimaDelta said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Mothersruin said:

robemcdonald said:

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

This surprises me a bit. Whilst Stallones exploits clearly bear no resemblance to actual combat, what about films like a bridge to far, black hawk down and more recently Fury. I went to Bovingdon last week and there was an exhibit explaining how they provided a lot of support to ensure accuracy. My feeling would be those guys know what they are talking about.

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers all ran actor boot camps prior to filming and those are four films where I'd say the action is pretty well choreographed AND the cast don't look out-of-the-bag clean either.

IIRC Platoon went one step further and had the cast living out in the jungle (rather than comfy trailers) before and throughout filming, so the actors genuinely were tired, pissed off and bitten to pieces.

Indeed. IIRC what they thought was the bus taking them back to the hotel after boot camp was in fact the bus taking them to the set.

[Hackney]

Ste1987 said:

Ooh that reminds me about Mission Impossible: where they have a TGV going through the Channel Tunnel rather than a Eurostar. I wonder why that was?

TGV Atlantique if memory serves.

[glazbagun]

Fastchas said:

monamimate said:

This, from Mission Impossible



Bike magically swaps between road and knobbly tyres several times (without passing by Tyrefit)...

I remember going to the flicks to watch this and remember this scene. The camera cutting to two bikes racing flat out towards each other for about 5-6 secs then Ethan (Tom Cruise) and the other baddie launching themselves off their bikes to hit each other in mid-air. So, 5-6 secs flat out...on performance bikes...prob 80-90mph (conservative) so a closing speed of around 160-180mph? And they expect to get up and kick the st out of each other?

The worst part about the tyre sin in MI2 was the fact that they actually had loads of slow motion jumps with sand falling from the obvious-off-road tyre. I don't think they could actually draw more attention to what they'd done.

Iirc, this film starts with Tom Cruise solo climbing a route with his back to the cliff face, too. A technique utilized by no rock climber ever.

I can barely watch the film which is a real shame as I generally love John Woo stuff, but this was the directing equivelent of drowning your dinner in your favourite sauce.

[glazbagun]

Also every time a protagonist is falling to his death, only to grab a ledge/convenient thing with his fingertips. Not. Going. To. Happen.

[gl20]

MitchT said:

Beverly Hills Cop II. The Ferrari that keeps switching between a 308GTS and a 328GTS.

Dammit, you beat me to it. Seems it's only the stunt/fast driving sequences where it's the 08 and the 28 for the bits of Eddie getting in out. We're they less concerned about damaging the older model?

[poing]

Johnnytheboy said:

Morningside said:

computers...

Making bleeping noises when a key is pressed...

Does anyone here have the misfortune to be exposed to NCIS? My OH watches it as a daily religious duty.

Every single computer bleeps every time anyone touches it. Drives me to despair.

Along with everything else about that damn franchise

NCIS is the worst thing in the world for the computer tech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ&sp...

[Pesty]

Anybody mentioned enhance yet

[grumbledoak]

Drinking from cups that are clearly empty.

[surveyor]

Reacher....

The build of Jack Reacher is clearly explained in all of his books.

And it ain't nothing like Tom bloody Cruise.

[Beati Dogu]

People never ever lock their car doors when they leave them.


"It's OK, the bullet went all the way through" So all they need to do is bandage it. pfffffttt


Nightmare sequences always end with the sweat-soaked actor shooting bolt upright.

[ajprice]

poing said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Morningside said:

computers...

Making bleeping noises when a key is pressed...

Does anyone here have the misfortune to be exposed to NCIS? My OH watches it as a daily religious duty.

Every single computer bleeps every time anyone touches it. Drives me to despair.

Along with everything else about that damn franchise

NCIS is the worst thing in the world for the computer tech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ&sp...

Computer tech stuff: This tumblr site posts screenshots of code on computer screens in movies or TV shows and tries to work out what the code is from https://moviecode.tumblr.com

It is often real code, something like C, Java or Python, or copied from a coding tutorial site. Sometimes its a really neat easter egg like the one for Ex Machina on page 6, but the next post after it is a silly one from CSI Cyber

[Beati Dogu]

Yes go to

http://hackertyper.com/

Mash random crap on the keyboard and amaze your friends with you hacker skills.

Don't forget to shout "we're in!" at some point.