Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[SHutchinson]

robemcdonald said:

The man from uncle. Baddies driving a Land Rover defender in a film set in the early 1960s

I watched that the other day and remarked the exact thing to my girlfriend. I then realised what I sounded like.

[southendpier]

P-Jay said:

good work!

TBF - I know(n) several women and men who are exactly like this.

[oddball1313]

Red Tails & Pearl Harbor
WWII fighter planes performing manoeuvres a Harrier jump jet would be proud of (A bit like the aviation equivalent of Fast & Furious I suppose)

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

[Halmyre]

oddball1313 said:

Red Tails & Pearl Harbor
WWII fighter planes performing manoeuvres a Harrier jump jet would be proud of (A bit like the aviation equivalent of Fast & Furious I suppose)

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Nobody seems that bothered when it's the slightly built Bruce Lee doing it - only an inch taller than Jolie.

[oddball1313]

Halmyre said:

oddball1313 said:

Red Tails & Pearl Harbor
WWII fighter planes performing manoeuvres a Harrier jump jet would be proud of (A bit like the aviation equivalent of Fast & Furious I suppose)

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Nobody seems that bothered when it's the slightly built Bruce Lee doing it - only an inch taller than Jolie.

There's a bit of difference between a guy who dedicated his life to martial arts and Mrs Pitt who maybe hasn't don't you think?

[Halmyre]

oddball1313 said:

Halmyre said:

oddball1313 said:

Red Tails & Pearl Harbor
WWII fighter planes performing manoeuvres a Harrier jump jet would be proud of (A bit like the aviation equivalent of Fast & Furious I suppose)

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Nobody seems that bothered when it's the slightly built Bruce Lee doing it - only an inch taller than Jolie.

There's a bit of difference between a guy who dedicated his life to martial arts and Mrs Pitt who maybe hasn't don't you think?

OK, Tom Cruise, then.

[Antony Moxey]

oddball1313 said:

Halmyre said:

oddball1313 said:

Red Tails & Pearl Harbor
WWII fighter planes performing manoeuvres a Harrier jump jet would be proud of (A bit like the aviation equivalent of Fast & Furious I suppose)

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Nobody seems that bothered when it's the slightly built Bruce Lee doing it - only an inch taller than Jolie.

There's a bit of difference between a guy who dedicated his life to martial arts and Mrs Pitt who maybe hasn't don't you think?

For the purposes of a film how do you know she hasn't too?

[oddball1313]

I bow to your contrariness- I'm completely wrong and Mrs Pitt now I look again is clearly a bonafide professional head kicker in who must have spent at least 20 years mastering Wing Chun, Muy Thai, escrima, Kali and other eastern arts. Even Chuck Nortis would brick himself at the prospect of a one on one with her

[mikal83]

oddball1313 said:

I bow to your contrariness- I'm completely wrong and Mrs Pitt now I look again is clearly a bonafide professional head kicker in who must have spent at least 20 years mastering Wing Chun, Muy Thai, escrima, Kali and other eastern arts. Even Chuck Nortis would brick himself at the prospect of a one on one with her

Hong kong phooey was based on her. (Probably spelt wrong and I cant be assed to google it)!

[Halmyre]

oddball1313 said:

I bow to your contrariness- I'm completely wrong and Mrs Pitt now I look again is clearly a bonafide professional head kicker in who must have spent at least 20 years mastering Wing Chun, Muy Thai, escrima, Kali and other eastern arts. Even Chuck Nortis would brick himself at the prospect of a one on one with her

Tom Hanks was never an astronaut, or a prison guard, or a US Ranger, or an AIDS victim, or a detective, or a professor of religious iconography, blah blah blah...

[Antony Moxey]

oddball1313 said:

I bow to your contrariness- I'm completely wrong and Mrs Pitt now I look again is clearly a bonafide professional head kicker in who must have spent at least 20 years mastering Wing Chun, Muy Thai, escrima, Kali and other eastern arts. Even Chuck Nortis would brick himself at the prospect of a one on one with her

You do realise how films work? What they do is hire people to imitate situations mainly for entertainment purposes. The reason being it's difficult to find someone with experience of slaying dragons, fighting aliens, travelling through time, outwitting cyborgs and the such-like.

It also means you can pretend to be an expert at fighting too, without actually needing to be an expert - you know when they stick that computer link into Neo's head and after a bit if jiggling he wakes up and says 'I know Kung fu' before having other fighting techniques loaded up? Well, it's just pretend, they didn't actually do that in real life. It's just a film.

[robemcdonald]

This should help clear things
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yrp6_ian-mckell...

Couldn't find it on youtube

[oddball1313]

Why is it so hard for you to accept i find it annoying, what makes you feel the need to basically write 'your personal view on a totally unimportant topic is wrong and going to try and change it'. Do you go around doing this sort of thing all day?

[glazbagun]

oddball1313 said:

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Add to this- non super people holding their own against super people/surviving lethal falls/impacts and women fighting/sprinting in heels.

I generally find this very film dependent though- if I'm enjoying myself I'll let Scarlett Johansson off with kicking unlikely amounts of ass. Fighting for the stage and screen has always been more dramatic than real fighting, so I can forgive a lot, especially when so much gets mixed in with Inverse Ninja already. If I'm not enjoying the film (Prometheus) then every flaw like this becomes unbarable.

[Halmyre]

glazbagun said:

oddball1313 said:

7 Stone women being hard as nails and beating up men the size of WWF wrestlers (Mrs Brad Pitt springs to mind) also boils my piss, she looks that emaciated she'd struggle to open a bag of cheese and onion crisps never mind throw a 16 stone guy through a window

Add to this- non super people holding their own against super people

Looking at that the other way round, there's a scene in Superman II where Superman loses his powers and gets beaten up in a diner. After regaining his powers he goes back to the diner and gets payback - which I always thought was kind of nasty.

[Beati Dogu]

Mothersruin said:

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.

Yes, It's very rare to see people flopping around screaming their heads off, and they don't make a little hole like poking a pencil through plasticine, they tumble and make a huge mess coming out the other side.

Although I suppose watching John Mclean puking up and then fainting through blood loss, wouldn't make much of an action film.

Pfffff, everyone knows you break down some rounds to get the cordite out, stuff it into the wound then ignite to cauterise.

Oh and bullet wounds are fine, as long as you get the bullet out.

I just watched "3.10 to Yuma" (the remake) and at one point Peter Fonda's character gets gut shot at close range with a 45 calibre revolver. Despite bleeding all over the place, they take him to a local vet who manages to get the lead slug out. Soon after the guy is up and around and even riding a horse.

Ronin is almost as bad.

[StevieBee]

The geography of London is often subject to creative license.

In Skyfall, James Bond is seen running down the middle or Whitehall and turns left in Trinity House by Tower Hill station, a 'real' distance of at least three miles.

And in the last 24 Series, Jack Bauer is in his helicopter heading towards Wembley Stadium but flying along over the Thames towards the west.

[FourWheelDrift]

StevieBee said:

The geography of London is often subject to creative license.

In Skyfall, James Bond is seen running down the middle or Whitehall and turns left in Trinity House by Tower Hill station, a 'real' distance of at least three miles.

And in the last 24 Series, Jack Bauer is in his helicopter heading towards Wembley Stadium but flying along over the Thames towards the west.

And in the first Robert Downey Jnr Sherlock Holmes when they go from Westminster to exiting one of the Towers of the under construction Tower Bridge.

[blade runner]

All zombie movies - for example World War Z which I watched last night.

I wouldn't mind if the zombies were just normal 'alive' people with say a very nasty disease like rabies which makes them behave in a certain way. But no, every time they apparently properly 'dead' people re-animated. Re-animated that is despite having no circulatory system, no process for oxygen to get their muscles (so they can stand up/walk/run/bite) or to their brain (so they can think/react), no way to re-hydrate their body tissues, no digestive system and therefore no process replacing lost energy etc. etc.

If zombies really were 'dead' you'd just have to hold up somewhere for a few weeks until they'd completely de-hydrated, used up any stored energy in their bodies that they were magically able to metabolise (despite not having a circulatory system that is - but let's not split hairs) and consequently all fallen over and stopped moving. None of that running around for months/years desperately trying to stay alive - just an awful lot of dead people lying around that you have to pile up and burn somewhere.

I'm all for a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I find it a bit tiresome when the whole premise manages to undermine the most basic rules of physics.

[Issi]

Surely that would be the basic rules of Biology not Physics?