Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
Discussion
Beati Dogu said:
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.
Or alternatively they die instantly from a single bullet wound, never anything in between.Pesty said:
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.
telecat said:
Pesty said:
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.
Dr Jekyll said:
Beati Dogu said:
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.
Or alternatively they die instantly from a single bullet wound, never anything in between.Although I suppose watching John Mclean puking up and then fainting through blood loss, wouldn't make much of an action film.
omgus said:
telecat said:
Pesty said:
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.
Issi said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Beati Dogu said:
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.
Or alternatively they die instantly from a single bullet wound, never anything in between.Although I suppose watching John Mclean puking up and then fainting through blood loss, wouldn't make much of an action film.
Issi said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Beati Dogu said:
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.
Or alternatively they die instantly from a single bullet wound, never anything in between.Although I suppose watching John Mclean puking up and then fainting through blood loss, wouldn't make much of an action film.
Issi said:
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
Only it isn't the shadow of a big H-34 Choctaw / Westland Wessex. It's a Bell Jet Ranger, which is probably the helicopter they used for filming. Completely different shape, much smaller, etc.
People always think I am very nerdy for being annoyed by this until I point out that it is like a truck casting the shadow of a car.
More prevalent in us tv shows than films, but whenever a scene starts showing a police car either stationary/ moving in to shot you'll always hear a brief siren burst.
Just to make it clear that the police are there in case you didn't realise that's what police cars meant.
Drives me up the wall.
Just to make it clear that the police are there in case you didn't realise that's what police cars meant.
Drives me up the wall.
rehab71 said:
Never ending gear boxes! Terminator 2 specifically. When John is being chased by the T1000 on his bike he must change up about 30 times!
Also see the Fast and Furious franchise or almost any film with a car chase scene in it tbh. If the other person is catching up, look across to make eye contact then change gear for the 20th time and\or put your foot to the floor determinedly which does rather beg the question, why weren't you going flat out in the first place?Guvernator said:
rehab71 said:
Never ending gear boxes! Terminator 2 specifically. When John is being chased by the T1000 on his bike he must change up about 30 times!
Also see the Fast and Furious franchise or almost any film with a car chase scene in it tbh. If the other person is catching up, look across to make eye contact then change gear for the 20th time and\or put your foot to the floor determinedly which does rather beg the question, why weren't you going flat out in the first place?
Guvernator said:
Also see the Fast and Furious franchise or almost any film with a car chase scene in it tbh. If the other person is catching up, look across to make eye contact then change gear for the 20th time and\or put your foot to the floor determinedly which does rather beg the question, why weren't you going flat out in the first place?
The one time that worked is in The California Kid. Martin Sheen or rather his character was purposely not driving at the California Kid’s maximum to temp the chasing police car to drive faster and faster as he tried to ram him. Just as the police car thought he had him on the bend, he went for the ram only for the California Kid to accelerate to safety and the police car lost control and rolled down the bank at the side of the road. telecat said:
Schwarzenegger made a big joke of that in "Last Action Hero". At the nd of the Movie he's dying in the "real" world for it only to be a "flesh wound" on screen.
There are quite a few references to stuff like that. At one point he punches a car window to smash it and comments how it 'really hurts' I think he also shoots at a car and is surprised it doesn't just explode.
Moonhawk said:
I think he also shoots at a car and is surprised it doesn't just explode.
There was a good reference to that when Top Gear tried to make a Sweeney movie."Why are there cans of petrol in the caravan?"
"So that it will explode."
"Why would a caravan explode?"
"Because there are cans of petrol in it."
944fan said:
FourWheelDrift said:
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.
I know what you are saying but is a film, make believe init. Who wants to see Bond getting out of a Vaxhaul insignia in his Next suit?...They might get a company Ford Focus Style with satnav and that's about it.
Staying with Bond, and Skyfall, where numpty Q allows the arch-villain's PC to infect the entire network. Schoolboy error - but then he looks like one.
May I also nominate any film with Tom Cruise - where they artfully re-arrange scenes to make lofty Tom look 'normal' height, but otherwise he's more usually level with someone's bustline.
Oh, and 'binocular' vision that no-one experiences. Ever.
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