Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

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matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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When a sprinkler goes off, ALL the heads operate.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Guvernator said:
I've unfortunately had a couple of occasions where I've had to review CCTV footage to try to identify a person or object. The detail and viewing angles etc where so crap they might as well not have been there tbh. To say I was a bit disappointed was an understatement when in the Enemy of the State, they were able to zoom in and follow Will Smith from a bloody satellite in orbit!
http://9gag.com/gag/2078832/zoom-in-level-csi-miam...

Spice_Weasel

2,286 posts

252 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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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?

I went to Costco in Coventry on Sunday and in the car park there was a Mk1 RRS. Where it should say 'RANGE ROVER' on the bonnet lip, it said 'BENNETT'.

I thought of this thread.

944fan

4,962 posts

184 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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The Rock. The bald guy, someone Kemp. Says to Sean Connery. "English prick, did I tell you my old man was Irish". No but did Sean tell you he is Scottish?




ofcorsa

3,527 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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ajprice said:
Yes, and it's TV, but The Big Bang Theory is the main example I can think of for this one - whoever it is on the screen looks left and right at different people in the room. Webcams don't work like that, they would be looking slightly down from the camera looking at their screen.
I assumed this was purposely done for comedy.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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944fan said:
The Rock. The bald guy, someone Kemp. Says to Sean Connery. "English prick, did I tell you my old man was Irish". No but did Sean tell you he is Scottish?
Not in so many words, but Baldy isn't going to be making the same error twice.

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Spice_Weasel said:
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?

I went to Costco in Coventry on Sunday and in the car park there was a Mk1 RRS. Where it should say 'RANGE ROVER' on the bonnet lip, it said 'BENNETT'.

I thought of this thread.
Your men make me larf and if Matrix was here, he'd larf too.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Tuesday 28th June 11:30

PaulG40

2,381 posts

224 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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In every film that has any military in it, usually a General or a young female 'high flying' officer... Their Beret shape!!! God it's awful!!! It's as though they have no military advisor at all, and 'wardrobe'is just left to what the actor/actress thinks is cool to wear.

98elise

26,376 posts

160 months

Wednesday 29th June 2016
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PaulG40 said:
In every film that has any military in it, usually a General or a young female 'high flying' officer... Their Beret shape!!! God it's awful!!! It's as though they have no military advisor at all, and 'wardrobe'is just left to what the actor/actress thinks is cool to wear.
I mentioned that early on. I don't think civilians understand just how bad it is.



yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Wednesday 29th June 2016
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98elise said:
PaulG40 said:
In every film that has any military in it, usually a General or a young female 'high flying' officer... Their Beret shape!!! God it's awful!!! It's as though they have no military advisor at all, and 'wardrobe'is just left to what the actor/actress thinks is cool to wear.
I mentioned that early on. I don't think civilians understand just how bad it is.
Fcensoredking hell, Private Jones! What the juddering fk is that on your head? A helipad? Get down, give me twenty, and get that gopping hat shrunk and shaped PROPERLY!

my old badge said:
Cap badge one inch above the centre of the left eye, with the fullness of the beret pulled down to the right rear of the head.
Being honest though, there are a few specific units who seem to do their own thing with berets. Paras, and 9 Para Sqn RE are s for wearing the badge above their left ear with the 'spare' worn like a peak over their eyes. 32 Armd Engr Regt 'tankies' were partial to wearing theirs with the badge in the centre of the forehead with the 'spare' pulled to the back of the head, à la Benny Hill. It was always funny on courses at Depot Regt when those 'special' soldiers were told to put their berets right, the same as everyone else.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Somebody just mentioned ronin in another thread


teflon coated bullets

Yep now bullets hitting a wall can then penetrate body armour because teflon ffs



Edited by Pesty on Wednesday 29th June 14:34

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Whenever someone runs away from something or an evil thing, they either trip over, or suddenly there are people in the way they have to barge past.

Guards with guns who stand around doing nothing as the good guy makes his escape, until they are on camera and then it's too late.

monamimate

838 posts

141 months

Wednesday 29th June 2016
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People on foot being chased by cars... always run down the middle of the street!

Because seeking cover behind big solid things like trees, houses etc is just too easy?

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Sunday 10th July 2016
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Underpasses and tunnels. It doesn't matter what movie or TV series it is, if a fugitive is being chased in a car and they go into a tunnel they're always guaranteed to escape hehe. And despite programmes like 24 having HD satellite imagery, drones and live traffic cam feeds at their disposal, oddly no tunnels ever have any camera coverage wobble.

Guvernator

13,105 posts

164 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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All that jazz said:
Underpasses and tunnels. It doesn't matter what movie or TV series it is, if a fugitive is being chased in a car and they go into a tunnel they're always guaranteed to escape hehe.
That's because they will ALWAYS go down it the wrong way causing traffic mayhem, chaos and a few pile-ups but the ensuing chaos is used to make good their escape. I love the way the alleged "good guys" are so willing to endanger the lives of the general public by causing massive multi car pile-ups with more than likely some fatalities judging by the destruction on display, just so they can escape.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Why does no one just shoot James Bond? Why some stupid elaborate way to kill him.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Monday 11th July 2016
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Morningside said:
Why does no one just shoot James Bond? Why some stupid elaborate way to kill him.
You need to watch some Austin Powers films.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Friday 15th July 2016
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Morningside said:
Why does no one just shoot James Bond? Why some stupid elaborate way to kill him.
Shhh!

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Thursday 11th August 2016
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Thread bump!


Watching the last couple of episodes of The Musketeers on our TiVo box, and something jarred with me in the scene where Madame D'Artagnan (the quite lovely Tamla Kari) is tending to wounded soldiers in the tavern.


Mme d'Artagnan: "there's still shrapnel in his wound"...

me: "Is there? Really? Because in this Musketeers thingy Louis XIII has just died, which makes it 1643 by my reckoning. So whilst there may be some fragments of wood or metal in that wound, there certainly won't be any 'Shrapnel' in it. Because Henry Shrapnel, who gave his name to the shell he invented to deliberately introduce 'shrapnel' onto the battlefield, won't be born for another 118 years!"

King Louis XIII of France. d.1643
Henry Shrapnel. HM Inspector of Artillery. b.1761, invented the shell that bore his name, and the effect that still bears his name to this day? 1784. d.1842.

Now I know it was 'historically based drama', and not a documentary. And I know there were so many other 'mistakes' and liberties taken with characters and events (not least the progressive attitude to, and treatment of women in the 17th century Bourbon Court), but this was one glaring error that stood out for me in (I think) the final episode.

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Thursday 11th August 2016
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^ I bet you're fun at parties =)