Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[yellowjack]

Some Gump said:

^ I bet you're fun at parties =)

Yup. At parties I tend not to be using Google to confirm exact dates of useless knowledge that I "just know" for some bizarre reason or other.

Carry on...

[DMN]

Mr Snrub said:

Zulu - although it was defended by a Welsh regiment most of them weren't actually Welsh

Cracking film, but riddled with errors. The Colour Sergeant was not the old gruff time-served veteran of the film, but a 24 year old named "The kid" by the older men he commanded.

Theres a good breakdown of the errors here:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/feb/11/reel-...

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

The business, set in the 80's. The 928 featured in it has 968 (I think) wheels, which weren't in production at the time.

[Beati Dogu]

PurpleMoonlight said:

Bulletproof sofas.

I've never seen one for sale anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7NH4y93FU

[chris watton]

DMN said:

Mr Snrub said:

Zulu - although it was defended by a Welsh regiment most of them weren't actually Welsh

Cracking film, but riddled with errors. The Colour Sergeant was not the old gruff time-served veteran of the film, but a 24 year old named "The kid" by the older men he commanded.

Theres a good breakdown of the errors here:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/feb/11/reel-...

I have just bought the special edition BR of this film - first time I have owned this classic.

The only thing I wished they'd changed, or rather added, are gun shot wounds in CGI - nothing fancy or OTT, but just a small dot perhaps, to show the bullet connected, rather than people just pretending to fall down with no visible wounds like they're acting in a school play. Love everything else about the film.

[Dr Jekyll]

yellowjack said:

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.

If the characters are going to speak English, it may as well be modern English.

[Eric Mc]

It would be more fun if it was in period French - with period English subtitles

[TwigtheWonderkid]

UK police dramas, such as The Sweeney and Morse (and others), the hero's boss is always an idiot. Haskins in the Sweeney, Strange in Morse, both complete morons, who could never see the truth of the investigation and who are nothing but a hindrance to our man trying to catch the baddie. It's the same in nearly all police dramas.

So....how the hell did these idiots rise to a position of one above whoever the show is named after?

[Dr Jekyll]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

UK police dramas, such as The Sweeney and Morse (and others), the hero's boss is always an idiot. Haskins in the Sweeney, Strange in Morse, both complete morons, who could never see the truth of the investigation and who are nothing but a hindrance to our man trying to catch the baddie. It's the same in nearly all police dramas.

So....how the hell did these idiots rise to a position of one above whoever the show is named after?

The same way idiots often do in real life presumably. Seriously, I can well believe that higher management might be reluctant to promote an excellent detective because he might then spend less time detecting, while promoting a mediocrity in the hope of finding something they are good at.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Dr Jekyll said:

The same way idiots often do in real life presumably. Seriously, I can well believe that higher management might be reluctant to promote an excellent detective because he might then spend less time detecting, while promoting a mediocrity in the hope of finding something they are good at.

If that were true, I'd be running the country by now!

[markcoznottz]

Dr Jekyll said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

UK police dramas, such as The Sweeney and Morse (and others), the hero's boss is always an idiot. Haskins in the Sweeney, Strange in Morse, both complete morons, who could never see the truth of the investigation and who are nothing but a hindrance to our man trying to catch the baddie. It's the same in nearly all police dramas.

So....how the hell did these idiots rise to a position of one above whoever the show is named after?

The same way idiots often do in real life presumably. Seriously, I can well believe that higher management might be reluctant to promote an excellent detective because he might then spend less time detecting, while promoting a mediocrity in the hope of finding something they are good at.

Peter Principle.

[Funkycoldribena]

Baddies always seem to stand out in the open to get shot.

Watching a Segal film the other night,baddies just about to stab him in the back,then shouts "arghhhh" at the last second giving him time to get out the way.

Fight scenes where the baddies take the good guy on one buy one.Why not just have a pile on?

Bad guy and good guy are only ones left at the end.Both throw down weapons for man fight.

Always a parking space right outside the building the detective wants to go to.

No-one ever turns the lights on in horror films and its always a storm outside.

[Mothersruin]

People go into their house in the dead of night when all is creepy, they turn on the light, there's a dude sat in their comfy chair and they don't st themselves - what's that about?

[Halmyre]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

UK police dramas, such as The Sweeney and Morse (and others), the hero's boss is always an idiot. Haskins in the Sweeney, Strange in Morse, both complete morons, who could never see the truth of the investigation and who are nothing but a hindrance to our man trying to catch the baddie. It's the same in nearly all police dramas.

So....how the hell did these idiots rise to a position of one above whoever the show is named after?

Haskins wasn't all bad IIRC; there was another superior (Maynard?) who he occasionally shielded Regan from. Besides, it won't work as a drama if they're all singing from the same hymn sheet.

[kowalski655]

Star Trek:The Voyage Home, where Scotty is showing the formula for see through Aluminium(Aloominum)
As he types its not text on the screen but page after page of diagrams!
I wonder what the Windows shortcut for the chemical diagram of Aluminium is? Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A?

[slipstream 1985]

hello computer

[glazbagun]

kowalski655 said:

Star Trek:The Voyage Home, where Scotty is showing the formula for see through Aluminium(Aloominum)
As he types its not text on the screen but page after page of diagrams!
I wonder what the Windows shortcut for the chemical diagram of Aluminium is? Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A?

More generally almost every computer screen in any kind of action film seems to be running some kind of bespoke OS/obviously just a video that only ever needs to pause when the plot requires it for dramatic effect. Do they need to pay Microsoft royalties to use XP?

Special mention for Clear and Present Danger where Harrison Ford is furiously spamming the Prt Scn button whilst the other guy deletes files. No wikileaks there!

[Cotty]

PurpleMoonlight said:

Bulletproof sofas.

I've never seen one for sale anywhere.

Isn't that more a case of if you can't see someone you can't shoot them. If you are trying to shoot someone and they run behind a wooden fence, its no protection but how many bullets are you going to fire though it hoping to hit someone who could be lying on the floor.

[Pesty]

Cotty said:

Isn't that more a case of if you can't see someone you can't shoot them. If you are trying to shoot someone and they run behind a wooden fence, its no protection but how many bullets are you going to fire though it hoping to hit someone who could be lying on the floor.

Yes cover vs concealment however the number of times people tip over a table to receive a full magazine from an automatic rifle/s which stops bullets dead. Ditto car doors.

These people in the moves are clearly in the path of the bullets.

[Beati Dogu]

When someone gets shot and they say "It's OK, the bullet went straight through", as if that's a good thing. No time for hours of surgery and weeks of rest and rehabilitation. No, just a simple bandage with a dab of red on it and they're up & running again in 5 minutes.