Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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Beati Dogu said:
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.
Yep it's Rediculous. Anyone that got shot before the 1920s would have quickly died from blood poisoning if the initial gun shot didn't kill them. That's why so many people had amputations immediately after a bullet wound to the arm or leg, because they were recognised as fatal injuries if the blood became infected. A gut shot would be a death sentance I the 1800s 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.
Antony Moxey said:
Guvernator said:
Antony Moxey said:
Yes, but the point being in space why can't the attacking ship come down from vertically above, or up from vertically below? Space battles are always in 2d, when you'd think you could attack from literally any angle.
In Star Trek the ships spot each other on scanners from a long way out so an intercept course could be plotted so that they end up face on. The shields and weapon fields of fire on most of the ships are mostly concentrated to the front of the ships so it makes sense that you meet the enemy head on plus it makes for a more dramatic face-off.Also in Star Trek II, Kirk uses the very fact that space is 3d to devastating effect against Khan.
In Wrath of Khan he doesn't actually. You see him 'below' (or is it above, I forget which) but he still swings round and attacks in the same plane, i.e. both ships still have the same 'up', and it's still a 2d attack. Why not simply attack from above and point your ship directly at the top of your opponent (so that viewed from outside the field of combat it would look like you're diving onto the top of your enemy) instead of swinging up and around. Also, why do two ships never face each other with one being upside down to the other? It'd be something of a coincidence if every space journey from all points in the galaxy had the ships the same way up all the time.
SilverSpur said:
Dr Jekyll said:
I seem to remember a 70s series set on a moonbase where the astronauts would jump around the moons surface in vaguely realistic style, but as soon as they entered the base gravity was earth normal with no explanation.
SilverSpur said:
Beati Dogu said:
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.
Yep it's Rediculous. Anyone that got shot before the 1920s would have quickly died from blood poisoning if the initial gun shot didn't kill them. That's why so many people had amputations immediately after a bullet wound to the arm or leg, because they were recognised as fatal injuries if the blood became infected. A gut shot would be a death sentance I the 1800s 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.
droopsnoot said:
Power cuts / outages, and specifically the way that taking out the power to an entire city block by blowing up the substation somehow has lights in skyscrapers going out a floor at a time.
Not to mention that a lot of decent sized businesses\offices will have a backup generator that will automatically kick in during a power outage so you won't actually get a total blackout of entire blocks\regions that you see in a lot of movies.Guvernator said:
droopsnoot said:
Power cuts / outages, and specifically the way that taking out the power to an entire city block by blowing up the substation somehow has lights in skyscrapers going out a floor at a time.
Not to mention that a lot of decent sized businesses\offices will have a backup generator that will automatically kick in during a power outage so you won't actually get a total blackout of entire blocks\regions that you see in a lot of movies.Surely, the biggest mistake in every movie, is the villian's inability to just get on and kill the protagonist without some long protracted monologue first of all to explain their motive.
Although, yes, it would rather shorten the length of any movie and miss out on part of the enjoyment.
Although, yes, it would rather shorten the length of any movie and miss out on part of the enjoyment.
Shakermaker said:
Surely, the biggest mistake in every movie, is the villian's inability to just get on and kill the protagonist without some long protracted monologue first of all to explain their motive.
Although, yes, it would rather shorten the length of any movie and miss out on part of the enjoyment.
One film where that sort of happened was 'The Departed' when they stepped out of the lift.Although, yes, it would rather shorten the length of any movie and miss out on part of the enjoyment.
kowalski655 said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
I'm pretty sure Mythbusters tackled the "shooting a lock to open the door" thing, although I can't remember the outcome.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/mega-movie-myths-shootin-locks/Myth busted,unless you have a big f
k-off gun!Product placement of cars, Audi seem to be the worst at this. They've done a deal with Audi so EVERY car the hero uses in the film is an Audi, even if he just picks a car at random in a parking lot\street to hijack, it just happens to be of that same marque. Too obvious and totally unrealistic.
Also sticking to the Audi theme, driving scenes where the hero is driving a car which is obviously an auto model and yet the hero is changing gear as if it was a manual using the big auto gear-lever (why?). I've seen this in at least 4 or 5 films now. Most people might not notice or care but for a petrolhead it's very jarring.
Also doing burnouts in the same car with relative ease. How? It's an auto so you can't dump the clutch AND it's a Quattro. Anyone who has driven an auto Quattro will know it is almost impossible in the dry as it will either just grip and go or the electronics will put a stop to your antics by throwing a strop in very short order before the transmission brakes and yet they are able to burn perfect 11's on every standing start.
Also sticking to the Audi theme, driving scenes where the hero is driving a car which is obviously an auto model and yet the hero is changing gear as if it was a manual using the big auto gear-lever (why?). I've seen this in at least 4 or 5 films now. Most people might not notice or care but for a petrolhead it's very jarring.
Also doing burnouts in the same car with relative ease. How? It's an auto so you can't dump the clutch AND it's a Quattro. Anyone who has driven an auto Quattro will know it is almost impossible in the dry as it will either just grip and go or the electronics will put a stop to your antics by throwing a strop in very short order before the transmission brakes and yet they are able to burn perfect 11's on every standing start.
Guvernator said:
Product placement of cars, Audi seem to be the worst at this. They've done a deal with Audi so EVERY car the hero uses in the film is an Audi, even if he just picks a car at random in a parking lot\street to hijack, it just happens to be of that same marque. Too obvious and totally unrealistic.
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