Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[mikal83]

FM Jacket. Royal navy wessex 5's flying over the broads?

[motorizer]

audidoody said:

The heroes have 1,000,000 bullets fired at them. They all miss. Except for one which hits our hero's shoulder and is just a flesh wound.

The heroes' bullets NEVER miss. And every hit is fatal.

Oh - and computers that make telex machine noises every time the screen displays text.

Yeah, you can get shot in the shoulder in films, it's not serious, you can recover from a shoulder shot in half an hour...

[Guvernator]

This is why I love Arnie's movie Last Action Hero and think it's an underrated gem. It takes almost every single action movie cliche and sends it up or turns it on it's head. As a satire of everything that is weird about Hollywood movies, it's way ahead of it's time.

[glazbagun]

Guvernator said:

This is why I love Arnie's movie Last Action Hero and think it's an underrated gem. It takes almost every single action movie cliche and sends it up or turns it on it's head. As a satire of everything that is weird about Hollywood movies, it's way ahead of it's time.

I love that film. Charles Dance shooting a man and waiting for the police is an amazing scene. "Hello? I've just shot somebody. I did it on purpose!"

Doesnt Arnie hurt himself breaking a car window, too? I need to rewatch it.

[Guvernator]

glazbagun said:

I love that film. Charles Dance shooting a man and waiting for the police is an amazing scene. "Hello? I've just shot somebody. I did it on purpose!"

Doesnt Arnie hurt himself breaking a car window, too? I need to rewatch it.

He certainly does. He is also really puzzled when he shoots at a car and it DOESN'T explode in a huge fireball.

[Cotty]

Helicopters that can only be heard once they are seen. The hero is alone on the roof of a building or on top of a hill and there is complete silence. Then a helicopter rises up and suddenly we can hear it.

[Issi]

Guns that make a sound like 25 spanners in a biscuit tin when they are picked up (or pointed at somebody). Guns are about as noisy as the aforementioned spanners unless you're cocking them, changing magazines or actually pulling the trigger.

[Issi]

mikal83 said:

FM Jacket. Royal navy wessex 5's flying over the broads?

Can't understand how this is annoying, as -

1.the Wessex is the UK variant of the H-34 that was in use in Vietnam
2.it was filmed in the UK

[Skii]

The Bell 47 Helicopter in Where Eagles Dare.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Bulletproof sofas.

I've never seen one for sale anywhere.

[FourWheelDrift]

Melissa McCarthy.

[Skii]

Characters who hold other characters at gunpoint, and after a while just to emphasise the threat they pull the hammer back on the gun to cock it.

Right so all this time up to this point that gun wouldn't have gone off?

[telecat]

Teeth, watch Castle or Bones or any other US TV series and the teeth are just too good. Even the tramps have brilliant teeth.

[Spice_Weasel]

All through Commando, Vernon Wells trades insults over the phone with Arnie like he's some bad-ass mofo. Then when they have their knife-fight/punch-up at the end, we have enormous, buff Arnie against a chubby, out of shape extra from the Village People, clad in a chain mail vest. His overacting and camp screams are more impressive than his fighting skills. Must be a contender for worst movie bad guy ever.

[Guvernator]

Spice_Weasel said:

All through Commando, Vernon Wells trades insults over the phone with Arnie like he's some bad-ass mofo. Then when they have their knife-fight/punch-up at the end, we have enormous, buff Arnie against a chubby, out of shape extra from the Village People, clad in a chain mail vest. His overacting and camp screams are more impressive than his fighting skills. Must be a contender for worst movie bad guy ever.

Heathen, how dare you speak ill of Bennet? Don't you know he could kill you (click) in the blink of an eye?

[FourWheelDrift]

That was some evil woollen string vest he wore too.

[Spice_Weasel]

Guvernator said:

Spice_Weasel said:

All through Commando, Vernon Wells trades insults over the phone with Arnie like he's some bad-ass mofo. Then when they have their knife-fight/punch-up at the end, we have enormous, buff Arnie against a chubby, out of shape extra from the Village People, clad in a chain mail vest. His overacting and camp screams are more impressive than his fighting skills. Must be a contender for worst movie bad guy ever.

Heathen, how dare you speak ill of Bennet? Don't you know he could kill you (click) in the blink of an eye?

Same guy from Mad Max with leather trousers and his backside hanging out? I'll take my chances.


I'll be back, Bennett.

[Guvernator]

Spice_Weasel said:

Same guy from Mad Max with leather trousers and his backside hanging out? I'll take my chances.


I'll be back, Bennett.

He was also in Weird Science playing essentially the same character from Mad Max, Inner Space and quite a few other films. He seemed to be the go-to bad guy in the 80\90's but he was generally pretty crap so not sure why he was so popular.

[andy_s]

Skii said:

Characters who hold other characters at gunpoint, and after a while just to emphasise the threat they pull the hammer back on the gun to cock it.

Right so all this time up to this point that gun wouldn't have gone off?

Double action & single action; i.e. you can fire with the hammer down but the trigger is heavy as its first bit of travel pulls the hammer back before releasing it forward. By manually pulling the hammer back and it 'locking' into place the trigger only has to release it forward, therefore the shot is smoother/more accurate.

I know what you mean though - don't look too closely into weapon drills where Hollywood is involved...!

[dudleybloke]

Guvernator said:

Heathen, how dare you speak ill of Bennet? Don't you know he could kill you (click) in the blink of an eye?

Let off some steam!