Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[talksthetorque]

h0b0 said:

The English think of themselves as learned word travelers but sometimes you are not far removed from colonial times. Local customs, "don't like them so will scoff and ignore". Local geography "boooooring! But woe betide those that don't know where Windsor UK is" (the museum is not in Detroit). When explaining to a foreign national where you live one would reasonably expect the locals in Detroit to have detailed knowledge of the Queen's many residences? I am English and the answer to "Where does the queen live?" would not be Windsor.

Simply the fact we have 2 people thinking that saying you come from Windsor would not cause some confusion when there is one 30 minutes away demonstrates my point.

Look at the map including the tunnel......



To most people in the world, England is not important and does not form majority of the School's curriculum.

Looks like I misread/misunderstood the OP and thought that as she was asking what the traffic was like in the tunnel she was from the Canadian side, which is a commonwealth country and therefore the queen is their ceremonial head of state.

[crofty1984]

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.

The only accurate sales rep film is Falling Down. And he's not even a sales rep.

[Frank7]

Not really an annoying thing, just a “why did that happen, or not happen” moment.
In “Saving Private Ryan”, when the Waffen SS soldier has killed Pvt. Mellish, the Jewish U.S. Ranger, in the tower in the town of Ramelle, he encounters Cpl. Upham coming up the stairs, as he, (the German), is descending.
He kind of sneers at him, but doesn’t shoot him, just keeps descending, then leaves.
My supposition was that he considered Upham a coward, not worth a bullet, anyone else think so?

[Big-Bo-Beep]

Frank7 said:

Not really an annoying thing, just a “why did that happen, or not happen” moment.
In “Saving Private Ryan”, when the Waffen SS soldier has killed Pvt. Mellish, the Jewish U.S. Ranger, in the tower in the town of Ramelle, he encounters Cpl. Upham coming up the stairs, as he, (the German), is descending.
He kind of sneers at him, but doesn’t shoot him, just keeps descending, then leaves.
My supposition was that he considered Upham a coward, not worth a bullet, anyone else think so?

probably
i thought that mini plotline was unnecessary
ok war is brutal
a retelling of androcles and the lion fable but with the ungrateful lion eating androcles

anyway what was the long chances of the two soldiers meeting up again
thats film for you
unlikely coincidences abound

[Morningside]

Odd bump here but transparent display screens. Seems to be a "must have" of the future but what the hell is the point of a display where you can see the background? Hard to read, lack of security but seems as popular as ever in films.

[Cheeses of Nazareth]

Always bike soundtrack

2 stroke bike, 4 stroke sound track, twin cylinder bike, 4 cylinder soundtrack.

And don't start me on bikes that turn into offroaders and back to road bikes again.

[robemcdonald]

I think it’s like lights inside helmets. Not practical and would never happen in the real world, but done so the audience can see what is going on.

[Mikebentley]

Every scene filmed in a car they remove the blinking headrests.

[motorizer]

Spaceships that thrust towards their destination all the way there, and then arrive at a speed that would have taken tens, if not hundreds or thousands of years to get there.

The expanse does it properly, the ships rotate and thrust away from their destination for half the journey to slow down

Edited by motorizer on Thursday 13th February 20:03

[Halb]

motorizer said:

Spaceships that thrust towards their destination all the way there, and then arrive at a speed that would have taken tens, if not hundreds or thousands of years to get there.

The expanse does it properly, the ships rotate and thrust away from their destination for half the journey to slow down

Edited by motorizer on Thursday 13th February 20:03

Which do that? Most I can think of use hyperspace/FTL/warpbks or something

[motorizer]

Halb said:

Which do that? Most I can think of use hyperspace/FTL/warpbks or something

even with the FTL.....
happens loads of times in this star wars video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54KvnPWdO8

they come out of warp millions of miles from planets, thrust towards it at what looks like about the speed of a jet fighter and never reverse thrust... either they are going fast enough to reach the planet before the pilot starves, in which case they will smash into like a meteor... or they aren't, and he's hopefully packed a lunch.....


Although to be honest it's the not slowing down that FTL shenanigans doesn't explain.

Having said that I'd better not start picking plot holes in star wars or I'll be here all night

Edited by motorizer on Thursday 13th February 20:53

[WilliamWoollard]

That fking blip-blip noise that every car makes when being locked. Why do they do it? Winds me right up it does! fking stupid pointless ahole sound engineer wk stain st heads.

[robemcdonald]

WilliamWoollard said:

That fking blip-blip noise that every car makes when being locked. Why do they do it? Winds me right up it does! fking stupid pointless ahole sound engineer wk stain st heads.

That’s for partially sighted or blind people.

[A Winner Is You]

Mikebentley said:

Every scene filmed in a car they remove the blinking headrests.

Or are driving on a straight road but keep moving the wheel side to side.

Another thing in any historical film is all the cars they use would have been new at the time it was set, and in perfect condition. For example if it was set in 50's America everyone would have a pristine Bel Air or similar, and not a knackered old Model A, which would have been common at the time. It would be like setting a film in the present day and every car being on a 69 plate.

[Halb]

motorizer said:

even with the FTL.....
happens loads of times in this star wars video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54KvnPWdO8
they come out of warp millions of miles from planets, thrust towards it at what looks like about the speed of a jet fighter and never reverse thrust... either they are going fast enough to reach the planet before the pilot starves, in which case they will smash into like a meteor... or they aren't, and he's hopefully packed a lunch.....
Although to be honest it's the not slowing down that FTL shenanigans doesn't explain.
Having said that I'd better not start picking plot holes in star wars or I'll be here all night

Edited by motorizer on Thursday 13th February 20:53

At first I thought you were wrong, then I thought you might have a point, and then I think you were wrong again. I can see what you mean though, but I just figure they were dabbing the breaks as they got closer, as in a car, so long as the 'rules' stay the same, I don't mind, it's all space twaddle as far as real life goes from trek to wars and everything else. What I don't like is how the later disney ones change the rules so it breaks the line.
Can't recall how BSG handled it, but at the time I recall people saying it was more realistic.
People, talk about plot holes in the original Star Wars, but often they say stuff that aren't plot holes, though plot hole is a massively overused and misused term these days

[Flumpo]

robemcdonald said:

WilliamWoollard said:

That fking blip-blip noise that every car makes when being locked. Why do they do it? Winds me right up it does! fking stupid pointless ahole sound engineer wk stain st heads.

That’s for partially sighted or blind people.

What? Is this a parrot thing?

[FourWheelDrift]

Flumpo said:

robemcdonald said:

WilliamWoollard said:

That fking blip-blip noise that every car makes when being locked. Why do they do it? Winds me right up it does! fking stupid pointless ahole sound engineer wk stain st heads.

That’s for partially sighted or blind people.

What? Is this a parrot thing?

Partially sighted or blind car thieves, so they can home in on an unattended car.

[Robster]

Cheeses of Nazareth said:

Always bike soundtrack

2 stroke bike, 4 stroke sound track, twin cylinder bike, 4 cylinder soundtrack.

And don't start me on bikes that turn into offroaders and back to road bikes again.

Mission impossible?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

motorizer said:

even with the FTL.....
happens loads of times in this star wars video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54KvnPWdO8

they come out of warp millions of miles from planets, thrust towards it at what looks like about the speed of a jet fighter and never reverse thrust... either they are going fast enough to reach the planet before the pilot starves, in which case they will smash into like a meteor... or they aren't, and he's hopefully packed a lunch.....


Although to be honest it's the not slowing down that FTL shenanigans doesn't explain.

Having said that I'd better not start picking plot holes in star wars or I'll be here all night

I think that, in the case of Star Wars, we just have to accept that it's WW2 Aircraft in Spaaaaaaaace and leave it there. Any attempt to apply real world physics to the Star Wars universe is ultimately fruitless.

There have been a few films and shows that have tried to get things right - 2001, Robot Jox (no, really), The Expanse, Babylon 5, and to some extent BSG, but on the whole it's a poor offering from most.

[Halb]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

There have been a few films and shows that have tried to get things right - 2001, Robot Jox (no, really), The Expanse, Babylon 5, and to some extent BSG, but on the whole it's a poor offering from most.

I'd never thought about the fighter ace aspect of SW as a kid, but now I see it obvs. When I watched BSG and saw the twilt, point and squirt movement of the Vipers, it was pretty cool. ANd possibly what 'fighters' would look like, if it goes that way, who knows.

2001 is interesting, parts of it are guesswork on a very shot range, so it feels real, but it's got as much fantasy in it as SW.
I'm not talking about the movement of stuff in space obviously.

Edited by Halb on Thursday 13th February 22:01