Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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The Don of Croy said:
Oh, and 'binocular' vision that no-one experiences. Ever.
You mean like this?
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/outmoded/32472/sto...
ajprice said:
The Don of Croy said:
Oh, and 'binocular' vision that no-one experiences. Ever.
You mean like this?http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/outmoded/32472/sto...
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.
I know you have to take your brain out for these things but this one really annoys me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtEQ2RBx2A
2.40 in, he swings through the drivers window of his Audi, smashed glass everywhere, then he sets off and the window is magically back and reflecting things like a window does....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtEQ2RBx2A
2.40 in, he swings through the drivers window of his Audi, smashed glass everywhere, then he sets off and the window is magically back and reflecting things like a window does....
ajprice said:
I always thought they did that so the audience would appreciate they were getting the view through binoculars rather than the naked eye.Johnspex said:
ajprice said:
I always thought they did that so the audience would appreciate they were getting the view through binoculars rather than the naked eye.Less common that it was fortunately, but representing foreigners speaking their own language as speaking English but with foreign accents. If you're going to give them English to speak it may as well be proper English.
It's the same with historical characters, I can appreciate that having Henry VIII's mates saying 'OK' or describing something as 'not fit for purpose' would jar a bit. But why can't they say 'isn't' or 'don't instead of 'is not' or 'do not'? Surely they used contractions just as we do, but there seems to be this assumption that before the invention of sound recording spoken English was the same as written, and fairly formal written English at that.
It's the same with historical characters, I can appreciate that having Henry VIII's mates saying 'OK' or describing something as 'not fit for purpose' would jar a bit. But why can't they say 'isn't' or 'don't instead of 'is not' or 'do not'? Surely they used contractions just as we do, but there seems to be this assumption that before the invention of sound recording spoken English was the same as written, and fairly formal written English at that.
shakotan said:
Johnspex said:
ajprice said:
I always thought they did that so the audience would appreciate they were getting the view through binoculars rather than the naked eye.
When anyone falls fully clothed into a river or the sea, by the next scene they have usually all but dried off! Yet when I got caught in a 20minute rain shower walking into town, my jeans were still soaking an hour later.
During scenes with thunderstorms no one mentions the weather. If a thunderstorm happens here, everyone usually remarks on it or stops what they are doing to look out the window.
24 was always a source of mistakes.
The amount of moles and double agents in CTU, they couldn't have much of a vetting and background check for employees when they started.
Jack Bauer and CTU seemed to be able to work constantly for 24 hours without, yawning, eating, going for a pee, worry about who was looking after their kids while they were staying late all night or complain they weren't getting to finish their shift on time.
In the CTU office everyone snapped at each other. No one seemed to be civil to their colleagues.
And on a different subject. Films that lazily use the Wilhelm scream, and don't use an original sound effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
During scenes with thunderstorms no one mentions the weather. If a thunderstorm happens here, everyone usually remarks on it or stops what they are doing to look out the window.
24 was always a source of mistakes.
The amount of moles and double agents in CTU, they couldn't have much of a vetting and background check for employees when they started.
Jack Bauer and CTU seemed to be able to work constantly for 24 hours without, yawning, eating, going for a pee, worry about who was looking after their kids while they were staying late all night or complain they weren't getting to finish their shift on time.
In the CTU office everyone snapped at each other. No one seemed to be civil to their colleagues.
And on a different subject. Films that lazily use the Wilhelm scream, and don't use an original sound effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
Edited by ch108 on Sunday 28th August 21:26
Not a mistake as such, but when a character confides something to another, and the confidee is either a baddie or you suspect might be a baddie, and the confidee asks "have you told anyone else of this?" and the confider replies "no, nobody - I came to you first" and then the baddie kills them.
Every single time.
It's almost a cliché now. Although the time it happened in the film LA Confidential was a genuine surprise.
Just once, could we not have someone reply "yes, and also I have deposited the information in a safety deposit box that is to be opened in the event of my death, and also on a server that will email it to Wikileaks unless I reset the timer with a password only I know"
Every single time.
It's almost a cliché now. Although the time it happened in the film LA Confidential was a genuine surprise.
Just once, could we not have someone reply "yes, and also I have deposited the information in a safety deposit box that is to be opened in the event of my death, and also on a server that will email it to Wikileaks unless I reset the timer with a password only I know"
Edited by ClockworkCupcake on Monday 22 August 12:43
ajprice said:
The Don of Croy said:
Oh, and 'binocular' vision that no-one experiences. Ever.
You mean like this?http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/outmoded/32472/sto...
Only one film has got this right, way of the gun.
OK, not a movie, but dramas, usually American, where the leading lady is playing a poor housewife, struggling to make ends meet. Why do they choose actresses who have quite clearly had their lips botoxed to the hilt, as well as other forms of (presumably very expensive, but still quite noticeable) cosmetic surgery! They just look silly and does not fit at all with the character they're supposed to portraying.
chris watton said:
OK, not a movie, but dramas, usually American, where the leading lady is playing a poor housewife, struggling to make ends meet. Why do they choose actresses who have quite clearly had their lips botoxed to the hilt, as well as other forms of (presumably very expensive, but still quite noticeable) cosmetic surgery! They just look silly and does not fit at all with the character they're supposed to portraying.
I agree. Also the shortage of ugly actresses in general. Single most annoying mistake in a specific film: Limitless, there is a scene in an apartment, there are obvious bullet holes in a door in the background in a scene set before the shooting happens. Blatant cock-up that goes well beyond any normal editing or continuity problem, and annoys me every time I see it.
Annoying thing? Try watching a film where a character has the same full name as you, it's really jarring when it pops into the dialogue...
Annoying thing? Try watching a film where a character has the same full name as you, it's really jarring when it pops into the dialogue...
Had the misfortune of seeing Transformers Dark of the Moon the other night.
The autobots revisit the Apollo 11 landing site 46 years after the moon landings, and there is the Eagle LEM ascent stage still sitting on top of the descent stage. Also in their re-enactment of the original event Armstrong and Aldrin are strapped in on their backs as they touch down on the moon.
The autobots revisit the Apollo 11 landing site 46 years after the moon landings, and there is the Eagle LEM ascent stage still sitting on top of the descent stage. Also in their re-enactment of the original event Armstrong and Aldrin are strapped in on their backs as they touch down on the moon.
glazbagun said:
I agree. Also the shortage of ugly actresses in general.
Ugly (or non movie-star) actors in general, except for the token fat guy.On of the things that made "The good, the bad, and the ugly" memorable was how ordinary the extras (and Tuco) looked, compared to the perfect teeth and cleft chins in every Hollywood movie of the time.
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