Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[Antony Moxey]

Not a single movie but a series. If you watch X-men in the correct timeline Xavier goes from walking to shot in the spine and hence wheelchair bound to fully walking again to wheelchair bound once again.

Also, Terminator logic - just how many goes do you want at sending someone back and altering the future time line?

[Pesty]

robemcdonald said:

Esceptico said:

Hard to pick a winner from such a long list.

I think Spectre - almost the whole film - has to be up there. Just relentlessly silly all the way through. I think finding a aeroplane (ready to fly and be stolen) at the top of a Swiss mountain stands out. As does the last scenes where they old HQ has been wired with explosives and just left like that for the weekend. Really? I'm sure that's what happens in real life. You cans imagine the conversation: "so we have finished wiring in the explosives, let's do it!". "Er, I've got to pick up my kids from school and meet the lads for drinks, let's just leave it like this over the weekend and take it up on Monday - I mean, what could possibly go wrong? H&S will be fine with it....."

Don't forget the leaving of several boats with the keys in the ignition under said building, or the base in the desert that explodes after a single gunshot, or the shooting down of a helicopter from the deck of a moving speed boat at night at 300m..... With a hand gun, or the fact that when Bond found out he had a 48 hour heads start before they could track him....... He drove to Italy (efficent use of time), or the fact that when there was an out of control helicopter barrel-rolling above them no body seemed particularly interested (didn't bother even looking up), or when Bond was chasing the baddies in his crashed plane with no steering they didn't simply turn left or right (must have watched Prometheus the day before or something)
I could go on, but I think you can probably guess I wasn't that keen. Skyfall and Quantom of solace are just as bad too.

.45 acp making football sized holes in plane, super secret agent not noticing camera so hit man can and knows where he's going. Akm shooting from hip, one handed hitting people 300 yards away after being tortured and carrying bird in other hand while people actually aiming at him miss..... Extremely low sports cars doing what they were doing, massive secret bad guy agency only leaves killing up to one guy. it never ends when cars crash with super bad guys super agent doesn't make sure they are dead.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 12th June 09:47

[LimaDelta]

Crossflow Kid said:

Mothersruin said:

robemcdonald said:

Mothersruin said:

Anything military.

This surprises me a bit. Whilst Stallones exploits clearly bear no resemblance to actual combat, what about films like a bridge to far, black hawk down and more recently Fury. I went to Bovingdon last week and there was an exhibit explaining how they provided a lot of support to ensure accuracy. My feeling would be those guys know what they are talking about.

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers all ran actor boot camps prior to filming and those are four films where I'd say the action is pretty well choreographed AND the cast don't look out-of-the-bag clean either.

IIRC Platoon went one step further and had the cast living out in the jungle (rather than comfy trailers) before and throughout filming, so the actors genuinely were tired, pissed off and bitten to pieces.

[DS240]

Films with apparently trained, deadly, skilled operatives and their lack of handling skills with firearms.

But the thing that really annoys.... Said operative is already in a state of high readiness, handgun drawn. But thinks they are about to now get contact. What do they do.. Rack the action to load a round. Arrrrgh!!!

Maybe, just maybe it could be action to confirm a round is loaded or clear a stoppage, but they wouldn't have left their weapon in that state prior to that if they thought that anyway. But where it really annoys, when they do rack the action, no round ever ejects which should have already been loaded in the chamber. Arrrrgghh!!... So they were in high state of readiness, weapon drawn and they hadn't even seemingly loaded the weapon.

It happens all the time....


However.. One exception was the Strike Back series. Clearly had someone on board with tactics and weapon handling, it was very good.

[DervVW]

DS240 said:

Films with apparently trained, deadly, skilled operatives and their lack of handling skills with firearms.

But the thing that really annoys.... Said operative is already in a state of high readiness, handgun drawn. But thinks they are about to now get contact. What do they do.. Rack the action to load a round. Arrrrgh!!!

Maybe, just maybe it could be action to confirm a round is loaded or clear a stoppage, but they wouldn't have left their weapon in that state prior to that if they thought that anyway. But where it really annoys, when they do rack the action, no round ever ejects which should have already been loaded in the chamber. Arrrrgghh!!... So they were in high state of readiness, weapon drawn and they hadn't even seemingly loaded the weapon.

It happens all the time....


However.. One exception was the Strike Back series. Clearly had someone on board with tactics and weapon handling, it was very good.

Chris Ryan?

[alock]

In any period film, actors with a mouthful of perfect teeth which are bleached to a level where they almost appear to glow.

Lots of films go to great lengths to get the set, costumes and makeup authentic and then the actor smiles and the whole illusion is ruined.

[MitchT]

Beverly Hills Cop II. The Ferrari that keeps switching between a 308GTS and a 328GTS.

[Doofus]

"What colour is the boathouse at Hearford?"

[Riley Blue]

The final scene in El Cid in which Charlton Heston, having died of his wounds, is strapped into his horse's saddle and rides along the beach - tyres marks in the sand and TV aerials on the houses in the background. El Cid died in 1099.

[55palfers]

The way the chief baddie can never seem to recruit henchmen capable of hitting a barn door at twenty paces. With a machine pistol.

[AlexC1981]

It always bugs me that facial hair never grows. You can be marooned for months with no supplies, savaging for food, under constant attack, yet they always find time to shave and take razors with them.

The 100 is especially bad for this.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Any spaceship in space that goes woooooooooosh (sound is the vibration of air)

[robemcdonald]

Antony Moxey said:

98elise said:

robemcdonald said:

Mothersruin said:

As above really, actors don't move and carry themselves like soldiers regardless of the accuracy of the props etc... It's not their fault, just the way it is.

You are obviously speaking from experience and based on your location I guess you know what you are talking about. I suppose if they ever bothered to do a movie about sales reps I would be in the same boat as you.

Imagine that in every sales rep film blockbuster the hero sales rep always wears a poorly fitting Burtons suit, with the top button of his shirt undone, and his tie at an odd angle. When he picks up a phone its either upside down, or held to his nose.

It'd be bang on the money then. What's your point.

I haven't worn a tie for years

[nicanary]

We've had cars that burst into flames for no apparent reason - don't forget those that have a mild collision with another vehicle, but then proceeed to flip up 20 feet into the air and barrel roll 6 times.

Oh - and jump off a raised motorway bridge and land on all 4 wheels with a slight bang and proceed to drive away with just a mangled bumper.

Best of all is the high-speed motorway chase with one car weaving in and out of the traffic, all of which is moving at a steady 20mph. They often don't even bother to speed-up the film.

[Moonhawk]

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Jetfire smashes open the hangar door of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum which is located on a tree lined street, right in the centre of Washington DC, They run out of this door and end up in the aircraft graveyard known as "the Boneyard" which is located in the Arizona Desert........2,200 miles away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_AXv_mkR8

Got to be one of the most glaring and jarring continuity errors of any movie.

[Dr Jekyll]

The Memphis Belle being escorted by P51Ds.
The whole reason it was such an achievement for Memphis Belle to complete all it's missions was because at that stage in the war there were no P51s available let alone P51Ds so it couldn't be escorted all the way to the target.
The reason the P51 was so special was that it could escort the bombers all the way there and back.

Computer links that transfer money a penny at a time so a bar goes across the screen showing how much has gone and the more money is involved the longer it takes. It's a simple calculation at each end FFS. If you want some tension make the connection difficult to set up in the first place, that would be realistic.

[AndrewEH1]

Moonhawk said:

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Jetfire smashes open the hangar door of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum which is located on a tree lined street, right in the centre of Washington DC, They run out of this door and end up in the aircraft graveyard known as "the Boneyard" which is located in the Arizona Desert........2,200 miles away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_AXv_mkR8

Got to be one of the most glaring and jarring continuity errors of any movie.

You're half wrong there I'm afraid. There are two Smithsonian Air and Space Museums in DC, one on the Mall and the other near Dulles Airport where the Blackbird actually is and the first part was filmed https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center...

...still doesn't explain the jump to the Arizona Desert though.

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Sunday 12th June 11:26

[FourWheelDrift]

AlexC1981 said:

It always bugs me that facial hair never grows. You can be marooned for months with no supplies, savaging for food, under constant attack, yet they always find time to shave and take razors with them.

The 100 is especially bad for this.

Ladies leg hair. They don't change their clothes, they don't seem to wash but the shorts wearing ladies never get fluffy. Example being The Walking Dead.

[LimaDelta]

AndrewEH1 said:

Moonhawk said:

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Jetfire smashes open the hangar door of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum which is located on a tree lined street, right in the centre of Washington DC, They run out of this door and end up in the aircraft graveyard known as "the Boneyard" which is located in the Arizona Desert........2,200 miles away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_AXv_mkR8

Got to be one of the most glaring and jarring continuity errors of any movie.

You're half wrong there I'm afraid. There are two Smithsonian Air and Space Museums in DC, one on the Mall and the other near Dulles Airport where the Blackbird actually is and the first part was filmed https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center...

...still doesn't explain the jump to the Arizona Desert though.

Edited by AndrewEH1 on Sunday 12th June 11:26

On a similar note, there was a Robin Hood movie (I think the Kevin Costner one) Where he arrives ashore on the south coast of England and after about 5 minutes of riding is at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland.

[Brigand]

Dr Jekyll said:

The Memphis Belle being escorted by P51Ds.
The whole reason it was such an achievement for Memphis Belle to complete all it's missions was because at that stage in the war there were no P51s available let alone P51Ds so it couldn't be escorted all the way to the target.
The reason the P51 was so special was that it could escort the bombers all the way there and back.

If memory serves the P51's in the movie don't escort them all the way there, near the target they peel off with the 'Belles pilots commenting on the "little friends" getting to turn home now. As for timescales though I don't know enough about the topic off the top of my head to know whether or not the Mustangs were in theatre by that point to actually escort the bombers.

Whilst we're on the subject though, whenever any aircraft goes into a dive and you hear the "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW" as it hurtles to the ground. (The engine fire scene in Memphis Belle for example) The only aircraft to make that noise was the Stuka from WW2, and that was because it had a siren attached to it, but that noise seems to have become the default "diving" noise in Hollywood. In the same measure, helicopters that have the classic "WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA" noise - again, Hollywood have taken the noise from Vietnam's Bell UH-1H Huey which was a noise created by the design of the rotor blades and used that as default helicopter noise. Anyone who's heard their regional police or air ambulance helicopters will know that most helicopters don't make the Hollywood noise!