Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[robemcdonald]

Without wanting to wade into this particular hornets nest too far. I would have thought the average youth watching movies that referred to magazines as clips would adopt that terminology for themselves. So gang members referring to magazines as clips is probably accurate. I haven't had a lot of dealings with I US military or police, but wouldn't be surprised if they also used the same language due to exposure to the same films etc.. wether it's right or wrong is irrelevant, it's what is common parlance if you "ax" me.

[Issi]

That's my point exactly.

[glazbagun]

Spice_Weasel said:

I'm sure there was a Triumph Dolomite Sprint in the early episodes but then the swap to Ford for the reasons outlined above.
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.

Don't know about Bond, but it happened with The Saint. Jaguar claimed they didn't need the publicity for the E-Type so Moore got a Volvo. They'd changed their tune by the time of the XJ-S.

[zb]

When it's not night when they were filming, and they use some sort of filter to try and convince you it is, when it is blatantly obvious it isn't. Jaws is one of the most ludicrous examples of this nonsense.

[Mr Snrub]

zb said:

When it's not night when they were filming, and they use some sort of filter to try and convince you it is, when it is blatantly obvious it isn't. Jaws is one of the most ludicrous examples of this nonsense.

That's more to do with the technology of the time and not something you'd see today outside of Z-grade horror films

[Jazzy Jag]

At the end of Fast & Furious 6 they chase a transport plane along a runway.
The chase go on for so long that either that have the slowest cars and plane in history or the runway is 30miles long.

[davepoth]

Mr Snrub said:

That's more to do with the technology of the time and not something you'd see today outside of Z-grade horror films

You wouldn't see it today either. Even the worst films are shot on digital SLRs which are pretty good at low light shooting if you choose the right settings. You'd have to be using a film camera, which is tremendously expensive nowadays, to have to use that technique.

[glazbagun]

Something which annoys me a lot is when simple in-universe things are ignored moments later.

One example being the latest Star Trek movie where they spend a while cobbling together the transporters on a wrecked space ship half way through the film. There's actually a dramatic moment where a character with no location device is beamed out mid-fall thanks to Kirk. Yet the big climax is a fist fight at the top of a skyscraper with a bad guy who could have been transported straight into a jail cell. No, instead they try to close down the atmosphere systems of an entire starbase and wonder why it's a bit difficult!

Or how Superman in Batman vs Superman is super enough to hear Lois in trouble even in an African warzone. But can't hear his Mum being bundled into a van. Or doesn't ask his newly discovered Dad about the giant space ship that's just arrived from Crypton.

Or the whole of Prometheus.

I think it's a hard thing to write a story which views as natural individuals setting in motion and reacting to a series of consequenses instead of a bunch of wooden characters following a plot like they're on the end of a rope being pulled through a pipe, but when the budget is many millions I don't think that having an ace story should be a low priority.

[kowalski655]

davepoth said:

Mr Snrub said:

That's more to do with the technology of the time and not something you'd see today outside of Z-grade horror films

You wouldn't see it today either. Even the worst films are shot on digital SLRs which are pretty good at low light shooting if you choose the right settings. You'd have to be using a film camera, which is tremendously expensive nowadays, to have to use that technique.

They even called a film after it...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_Night_(fil...

[ClockworkCupcake]

glazbagun said:

Something which annoys me a lot is when simple in-universe things are ignored moments later.

Indeed. I've said this many times over the years in response to people saying "It's only a film". Good sci-fi (or, indeed, any fiction) should lay out the framework of its universe and then stick to it.

Ok, so we accept that Superman can fly and has super strength, but that doesn't mean he can pick an aircraft up by its wingtip because the wingtip would simply snap off, for example. However, in the Star Wars universe we can accept that Yoda can lift an entire X-Wing by telekensis because it supports the whole thing evenly.

Isaac Asimov said much the same thing. He said you couldn't set up an entire closed room "whodunnit" scenario and then have the solution being a personal teleporter unless you had previously established that personal teleporters existed. Or something like that.

[SpeckledJim]

glazbagun said:

For Goldfinger, Cubby Broccoli wanted an E-Type but Jaguar wouldn't provide a car. Aston were only too happy to help.

Best and worst thing that ever happened to Aston Martin. Probably secured the company's continued existence.

And whilst lots of people buy the cars in order to sit in Bond's shadow (good thing for the company) the active courting of that by the firm makes me cringe.

Q by Aston Martin makes me want to poke my eyes out. How does any self-respecting customer (those who don't think buying an Aston Martin has transported them to a higher plane of existence) sit down to spend any money with them without wishing the earth to just swallow them up?

"Q, like James Bond, geddit? Well, we don't do smoke-screens, we just do different stitching really, but's it's fun, isn't it!? Like Spies! I gather you're buying the car to celebrate opening the third branch of your lettings agency, which I often think is a bit like being a spy! Fancy some espionage-style stitching? Hello? Helloooo?"

Edited by SpeckledJim on Sunday 16th October 10:44

[FourWheelDrift]

Se7en.

Just watching it on Sky One (again). The Captain (Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), Somerset and Mills are sitting in the Captain's office discussing the first murder of the fat guy who was force fed to death and as he is looking at a receipt the Captain says the murderer had the time to leave the house and go to the supermarket again to buy more food. What detectives wouldn't note the time and day on the receipt and then go to the supermarket and check the CCTV. Bingo.....creepy perv Kevin Spacey caught before he can molest anyone else or finish his movie murder special. It's 1995 they had CCTV in US shops back then.

Most annoying no, but it saves starting a new thread just for this.

[Halb]

Would it have been a thing big enough to have been thought of back then? I recall in The Wire (00s), that was a petrol station, they could have gotten cctv, but the tape was reused daily and basically useless. I also think if John Doe had shopped at a place with CCTV (90s), he would have hid his face, considering his burned his fingers with acid weekly/daily.

[Cantaloupe]

Just how in the name of God was Jimmy Stewart's character rescued, and by whom, at the start of Vertigo ?

[Halmyre]

Cantaloupe said:

Just how in the name of God was Jimmy Stewart's character rescued, and by whom, at the start of Vertigo ?

One theory is that the subsequent events are all just a fantasy playing in his head. Or a flashback.

[Europa1]

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.

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.

I can remember an interview that went with Iva Barchetta's take on it - BL would supply a white car one day, a brown one the next.

[Troubleatmill]

Lord of the Rings.

Our protagonists go on a multi year quest.

But in the final movie it is revealed that Gandalf knows some fk off huge eagles that could transport the Hobbit's to Mordor and back in time for tea.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Troubleatmill said:

Lord of the Rings.

Our protagonists go on a multi year quest.

But in the final movie it is revealed that Gandalf knows some fk off huge eagles that could transport the Hobbit's to Mordor and back in time for tea.

Gosh, just like all those wartime commando raids where they could have likewise just flown into the nearest enemy-occupied airport and saved themselves the journey? Sounds like a plan.

D-day would have been so much simpler if we'd just flown everyone into Berlin airport.

[FourWheelDrift]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Troubleatmill said:

Lord of the Rings.

Our protagonists go on a multi year quest.

But in the final movie it is revealed that Gandalf knows some fk off huge eagles that could transport the Hobbit's to Mordor and back in time for tea.

Gosh, just like all those wartime commando raids where they could have likewise just flown into the nearest enemy-occupied airport and saved themselves the journey? Sounds like a plan.

D-day would have been so much simpler if we'd just flown everyone into Berlin airport.

Sauron didn't have flak guns though.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

FourWheelDrift said:

Sauron didn't have flak guns though.

No, but he did have ability to detect (The Eye) and the ability to intercept (the Nazgul) so they wouldn't have made it through on the eagles. That's why they had to go in "under the radar" on foot.