Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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Am watching The Conjuring 2 right now, about the Enfield haunting in 1977. Have only watched around 20 minutes so far, but the historical inaccuracies are grating.
To start with, they play The Clash, London Calling, not released until 1979, Thatcher is on the TV a lot. Again, not Prime Minister until 1979.
The family who are suffering the haunting are very poor, with a single mom looking after three kids, yet they have a TV with a remote control. In 1977! I didn't have a remote control until 1983, and that was wired and for the VCR!
This kind of sloppiness really takes you out of the zone....
ETA - When the Lights Went Out, based on the same incident is far superior..
To start with, they play The Clash, London Calling, not released until 1979, Thatcher is on the TV a lot. Again, not Prime Minister until 1979.
The family who are suffering the haunting are very poor, with a single mom looking after three kids, yet they have a TV with a remote control. In 1977! I didn't have a remote control until 1983, and that was wired and for the VCR!
This kind of sloppiness really takes you out of the zone....
ETA - When the Lights Went Out, based on the same incident is far superior..
Edited by chris watton on Thursday 6th October 21:24
We were poor in the 70s, but my dad had a remote control for our TV...
..."go and put the telly on ITV boy!" - and up I'd get, over to the wood grain cabinet Bush telly, and push in the third (of four!!!) buttons on the front right of the set. That would 'pop out' the button of the channel it had been on. You could also turn these 'buttons' to tune the TV if the picture was a bit fuzzy.
Even in the 80s, when we kids had a telly in our bedroom, it was black & white, had a loop aerial on top, and had to be tuned to each channel if you wanted to swap - no presets at all. You learned where the best reception on the dial was, although it often changed depending on the time of day.
When I got married in 1991, me and the wife weren't that 'into' television. I'd just come back from Germany, a choice of single channel BFBS or German language free-to-air channels meant I had nothing I watched regularly. So we made do with her small black & white set on an upturned packing case when we first set up home together. That resulted in an interesting encounter with the TV licensing men, who came to demand to know why we were watching colour TV broadcasts on a B&W licence. It was no great shakes to let them in to check, and there was some confusion when they failed to find a colour TV set. Then a 'knowing wink' as they left, when they twigged that we were newly married. "Sorry to have bothered you, sir. Not much call for a TV at all, eh?"
..."go and put the telly on ITV boy!" - and up I'd get, over to the wood grain cabinet Bush telly, and push in the third (of four!!!) buttons on the front right of the set. That would 'pop out' the button of the channel it had been on. You could also turn these 'buttons' to tune the TV if the picture was a bit fuzzy.
Even in the 80s, when we kids had a telly in our bedroom, it was black & white, had a loop aerial on top, and had to be tuned to each channel if you wanted to swap - no presets at all. You learned where the best reception on the dial was, although it often changed depending on the time of day.
When I got married in 1991, me and the wife weren't that 'into' television. I'd just come back from Germany, a choice of single channel BFBS or German language free-to-air channels meant I had nothing I watched regularly. So we made do with her small black & white set on an upturned packing case when we first set up home together. That resulted in an interesting encounter with the TV licensing men, who came to demand to know why we were watching colour TV broadcasts on a B&W licence. It was no great shakes to let them in to check, and there was some confusion when they failed to find a colour TV set. Then a 'knowing wink' as they left, when they twigged that we were newly married. "Sorry to have bothered you, sir. Not much call for a TV at all, eh?"
Not a movie mistake, but from TV I watched t'other night.
'Rosewood'. He's a private pathologist, teamed up with a hot detective who likes to rock the 'vest and jeans' look.
Anyway, his girlfriend's husband pays him a visit. They exchange words, something is said that triggers the husband to throw a punch at 'Rosie'. He ducks out of the way,and the husband's punch contacts the glass in the door to the pathology lab.
Boom! Hand straight through the glass, and it breaks in large jagged sheets, resulting in a cut needing "at least twelve stitches". WTF? Do American building regulations not require the use of safety glass in glazed doors now? We've all seen 'You've Been Framed' clips where folk run full tilt into a glass door and simply bounce off it, FFS!
For a start punching through a glass door shouldn't be possible at all. If he'd punched it like he meant it, he'd certainly be heading to the ER, but to have broken bones set, rather than stitches in a laceration caused by broken glass. Secondly, even if he had a punch like a steam hammer and titanium fingers, the glass would have broken into smaller, more regular pieces, and pretty much dropped onto the floor with a sound resembling a thud, more than the traditional 'tinkling glass' sound effect.
'Rosewood'. He's a private pathologist, teamed up with a hot detective who likes to rock the 'vest and jeans' look.
Anyway, his girlfriend's husband pays him a visit. They exchange words, something is said that triggers the husband to throw a punch at 'Rosie'. He ducks out of the way,and the husband's punch contacts the glass in the door to the pathology lab.
Boom! Hand straight through the glass, and it breaks in large jagged sheets, resulting in a cut needing "at least twelve stitches". WTF? Do American building regulations not require the use of safety glass in glazed doors now? We've all seen 'You've Been Framed' clips where folk run full tilt into a glass door and simply bounce off it, FFS!
For a start punching through a glass door shouldn't be possible at all. If he'd punched it like he meant it, he'd certainly be heading to the ER, but to have broken bones set, rather than stitches in a laceration caused by broken glass. Secondly, even if he had a punch like a steam hammer and titanium fingers, the glass would have broken into smaller, more regular pieces, and pretty much dropped onto the floor with a sound resembling a thud, more than the traditional 'tinkling glass' sound effect.
Pesty said:
jogger1976 said:
Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto 
Films where the characters swap languages willy nilly. Hunt for Red October is a good example. Most of the stuff Sean Connery says in Russian isn't even grammatically correct either. Just pick a language and stick to it FFS
Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some s
tty job can afford to liven in a £4 million London townhouse and everyone is bezzy mates. I know it's a film, but it boils my piss as it's a load of old st!!!
People in movies who say clip instead of magazine Films where the characters swap languages willy nilly. Hunt for Red October is a good example. Most of the stuff Sean Connery says in Russian isn't even grammatically correct either. Just pick a language and stick to it FFS
Any Richards Curtis film where it snows at Christmas and people who work in some s
tty job can afford to liven in a £4 million London townhouse and everyone is bezzy mates. I know it's a film, but it boils my piss as it's a load of old st!!!
Issi said:
Pesty said:
jogger1976 said:
Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto ...
People in movies who say clip instead of magazine ... 
"Taking you a stage further in your skill-at-arms training. Today I will teach you how to charge a 30 round magazine using ammunition supplied in clips, 10 rounds per clip..."
Alternatively, if you are an 'advanced' level student...
...you're welcome!
It's probably been noted on this thread but I watched the Spooks film last week and the main hero is being chased by the bad guys in Russia and nearly gets run over by a car. The car door opens and it is his partner and as they are speeding away there is a growl of a V8 with multiple gear shifts but the car they are in is a Tesla...
AW111 said:
- What's so special about the m1 garand then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLyViUAN6E
Tycho said:
It's probably been noted on this thread but I watched the Spooks film last week and the main hero is being chased by the bad guys in Russia and nearly gets run over by a car. The car door opens and it is his partner and as they are speeding away there is a growl of a V8 with multiple gear shifts but the car they are in is a Tesla...
Same with the current round of adverts for insurance featuring Harvey Kietel reprising his Winston Wolf character from Pulp Fiction. He arrives in a GT86 complete with V8 sound.
AW111 said:
- What's so special about the m1 garand then?
It was certainly designed to be a lot easier to maintain a high rate of fire with the gas operated (semi-automatic) M1, when compared with the bolt action Enfield in British service at the time, but it was an overly complex system designed specifically by John Garand in response to the US Army's insistence on not having a detachable magazine on their new rifle. In that respect I think it was fairly unique, as subsequent designs (including Garand's own M1 carbine) have all tended to use a detachable box (or, rarely, a rotary drum) magazine to load and reload the weapon.
M1 Garand rifle with it's 8-round en bloc clips.
En-bloc clips originated in the late 19th century and were used by several WW1 era rifles. Generally the clip would drop out of a slot in the underside once the last round had been fired. This turned out to be less than optimal, as it allowed dirt to get into the gun from the underside.
Here's a handy weapons guide for journalists:
Here's a handy weapons guide for journalists:
Iva Barchetta said:
Professionals first series had British Leyland stuff ,Doyle had a TR7 .
I believe they changed to Ford because BL press fleet couldn't supply the same car all the time,
possibly due to reliability issues.
The way I always thought it happened was BL were proper ar5ey about lending their cars out, wanting them back all the time. Ford realised it was onto a good bit of advertising and gave them what they wanted.I believe they changed to Ford because BL press fleet couldn't supply the same car all the time,
possibly due to reliability issues.
Honda were approached for a motorbike for a series (possibly The Avengers) in a very short space of time came back the answer of what do you need and for how long, couldn't be more helpful.
Noone ever does anything remotely mundane whilst trying to be realistic.
Like, noone ever has to stop and tie their shoelace because its come undone, or never idly checks their appearance in a nearby mirror, or sits back and scratches their back, or tries to make the longest chain of paperclips in the office whilst their supposed to be "analysing some data"
Like, noone ever has to stop and tie their shoelace because its come undone, or never idly checks their appearance in a nearby mirror, or sits back and scratches their back, or tries to make the longest chain of paperclips in the office whilst their supposed to be "analysing some data"
Arrrrrgh!
'The Missing' last night.
They even had a "military adviser" listed in the credits, FFS!
By all means, invent a regiment, a garrison town, a formation, whatever. But in the name of all that is Holy, how the juddering fk was that Military Police sergeant allowed to get away with going in front of the camera with that absolute abortion of a beret??????? And if you're going to make her a Military Police sergeant, why not just use the correct RMP capbadge?
I won't even bother with the Mark 2 (not a 2/1) FV 432, or the Brigadier being driven away in an MT pool Land Rover. Even a humble Lt Col commanding a single regiment has a car for his sole use. And if a Brigadier had a Land Rover, you can bet it'd be a civilian spec ten seater in a fetching shade of something other than green. It had callsign 11A painted on the door, FFS! A Brigadier isn't likely to respond to anything less than callsign 0 (zero) in any situation I can imagine.
There were many other niggles, on top of how impenetrable the screenplay was on first watch. It took two attempts to fully understand the flashbacks properly.
'The Missing' last night.
They even had a "military adviser" listed in the credits, FFS!
By all means, invent a regiment, a garrison town, a formation, whatever. But in the name of all that is Holy, how the juddering f
k was that Military Police sergeant allowed to get away with going in front of the camera with that absolute abortion of a beret??????? And if you're going to make her a Military Police sergeant, why not just use the correct RMP capbadge?I won't even bother with the Mark 2 (not a 2/1) FV 432, or the Brigadier being driven away in an MT pool Land Rover. Even a humble Lt Col commanding a single regiment has a car for his sole use. And if a Brigadier had a Land Rover, you can bet it'd be a civilian spec ten seater in a fetching shade of something other than green. It had callsign 11A painted on the door, FFS! A Brigadier isn't likely to respond to anything less than callsign 0 (zero) in any situation I can imagine.
There were many other niggles, on top of how impenetrable the screenplay was on first watch. It took two attempts to fully understand the flashbacks properly.
everyeggabird said:
Iva Barchetta said:
Professionals first series had British Leyland stuff ,Doyle had a TR7 .
I believe they changed to Ford because BL press fleet couldn't supply the same car all the time,
possibly due to reliability issues.
The way I always thought it happened was BL were proper ar5ey about lending their cars out, wanting them back all the time. Ford realised it was onto a good bit of advertising and gave them what they wanted.I believe they changed to Ford because BL press fleet couldn't supply the same car all the time,
possibly due to reliability issues.
Honda were approached for a motorbike for a series (possibly The Avengers) in a very short space of time came back the answer of what do you need and for how long, couldn't be more helpful.
Wasn't there a similar story in the Bond films? For Goldfinger, Cubby Broccoli wanted an E-Type but Jaguar wouldn't provide a car. Aston were only too happy to help.
yellowjack said:
Issi said:
Pesty said:
jogger1976 said:
Unlimited ammo in shoot outs. One clip seems to contain about eleventy billion rounds and last for ages, even on full auto ...
People in movies who say clip instead of magazine ... "Taking you a stage further in your skill-at-arms training. Today I will teach you how to charge a 30 round magazine using ammunition supplied in clips, 10 rounds per clip..."
Alternatively, if you are an 'advanced' level student...
...you're welcome!
I don't really understand what you're trying to prove with your reply.
A chap doesn't like the fact that people sometimes say clip instead of,magazine. I point it that many Americans do.
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