Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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Randy Winkman said:
That was the one I was going to say. 
So my alternative is men wet shaving with a shirt or t-shirt on. I would never do that so I'm sure nobody in the world does in real life. Only in films or on TV.
Oh, have we had baths overflowing yet? Baths have an overflow pipe, so they don't overflow.
I'll often shave in a t-shirt. But then I have the luxury of not needing to shave first thing in the morning, as I don't have a job to go to. So if I'm collecting my wife from work, for example, and she's asked me to ensure that I "don't look like a hobo" when I turn up, then I'll strip my shirt/jumper off, but keep a t-shirt on while shaving. And even if I'm shaving first thing, if I've been wearing a t-shirt instead of/as part of pyjamas, then I usually keep it on. In fact the only time I'll strip to shave is if I'm shaving straight after a bath or shower. So no, that wouldn't either surprise me, or bother me, if I noticed it in a movie at all.So my alternative is men wet shaving with a shirt or t-shirt on. I would never do that so I'm sure nobody in the world does in real life. Only in films or on TV.
Oh, have we had baths overflowing yet? Baths have an overflow pipe, so they don't overflow.
Watching the 2008 movie 'Eagle Eye' (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan) a few nights ago.
An 'AI' system gets all upset with the US Government after POTUS gives a "go order" for a mission where the AI has advised them to "abort". The AI manipulates random strangers into assisting it in an effort to uphold the US Constitution. So far so 'Big Brother (or sister in this case) has gone out of control" good. Disbelief suspended. Car chases accepted, ridiculous plot devices admired for their sheer brass neck. Sure, there's a powerful new explosive that can be detonated by a "sonic trigger" and a diamond earing's worth of the stuff can blow up Congress. It's all good, it's just an action movie/thriller after all.
Then a couple of glaring "why the feck did they do that?" moments occur. And they are annoying me even now.
Firstly, the AI starts hunting down our stars with a Reaper drone. OK. They're remotely controlled so I can buy into that. So the USAF launch an F-16 to shoot it down. So far, so good. All plausible stuff. Then the F-16 pilot has his ejection seat activated remotely, by ARIA, the now hostile AI. WTF? This is a 1970s technology fighter, and a single seater at that. Why the juddering f
k would it have a remotely operated ejection seat? The ejection handle is a mechanical device operated by the pilot, ffs!
Then we find out that the device(s) our two stars were required to steal from armed security guards in an armoured truck, and which they had to smuggle at great risk through airport security, are in fact not weapons, as we've been led to suspect, but in fact they are medical devices. They contain an experimental drug to lower the heart rate and reduce the human body's requirement for oxygen. Why? Because our two hapless pawns are to smuggle themselves aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster, secrete themselves within a transport container, and inject themselves with this experimental drug in the hope that they'll survive to carry out evil AI's plan. But the C-17 is both a cargo transporter and a passenger transport airlifter. It delivers personnel and evacuates casualties as part of it's combat role. So it is a pressurised aeroplane except when it has the ramp down or doors open at low level to drop paratroopers or cargo pallets out of the back. Why the feck would an internal cargo-only flight within the continental USA be carried out unpressurised? FFS!
Nitpicking? Sure it is. But there is a limit to my ability to suspend my disbelief. And these two howlers breached that point, I'm afraid. It was a truly ridiculous proposal from start to finish, but in Mission Impossible or Bourne Identity fashion, I accepted that certain things would stretch the definition of 'credible' right from the start. But these two individual elements were impossible for me to ignore once my brain had re-engaged itself and pointed them out to me.
Sorry...
An 'AI' system gets all upset with the US Government after POTUS gives a "go order" for a mission where the AI has advised them to "abort". The AI manipulates random strangers into assisting it in an effort to uphold the US Constitution. So far so 'Big Brother (or sister in this case) has gone out of control" good. Disbelief suspended. Car chases accepted, ridiculous plot devices admired for their sheer brass neck. Sure, there's a powerful new explosive that can be detonated by a "sonic trigger" and a diamond earing's worth of the stuff can blow up Congress. It's all good, it's just an action movie/thriller after all.
Then a couple of glaring "why the feck did they do that?" moments occur. And they are annoying me even now.
Firstly, the AI starts hunting down our stars with a Reaper drone. OK. They're remotely controlled so I can buy into that. So the USAF launch an F-16 to shoot it down. So far, so good. All plausible stuff. Then the F-16 pilot has his ejection seat activated remotely, by ARIA, the now hostile AI. WTF? This is a 1970s technology fighter, and a single seater at that. Why the juddering f
k would it have a remotely operated ejection seat? The ejection handle is a mechanical device operated by the pilot, ffs!Then we find out that the device(s) our two stars were required to steal from armed security guards in an armoured truck, and which they had to smuggle at great risk through airport security, are in fact not weapons, as we've been led to suspect, but in fact they are medical devices. They contain an experimental drug to lower the heart rate and reduce the human body's requirement for oxygen. Why? Because our two hapless pawns are to smuggle themselves aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster, secrete themselves within a transport container, and inject themselves with this experimental drug in the hope that they'll survive to carry out evil AI's plan. But the C-17 is both a cargo transporter and a passenger transport airlifter. It delivers personnel and evacuates casualties as part of it's combat role. So it is a pressurised aeroplane except when it has the ramp down or doors open at low level to drop paratroopers or cargo pallets out of the back. Why the feck would an internal cargo-only flight within the continental USA be carried out unpressurised? FFS!
Nitpicking? Sure it is. But there is a limit to my ability to suspend my disbelief. And these two howlers breached that point, I'm afraid. It was a truly ridiculous proposal from start to finish, but in Mission Impossible or Bourne Identity fashion, I accepted that certain things would stretch the definition of 'credible' right from the start. But these two individual elements were impossible for me to ignore once my brain had re-engaged itself and pointed them out to me.
Sorry...
Any film where someone walks away from their car and remotely locks it and it makes the same stupid noise its done for 30 years!! Cars don't do that FFS!
Silencers on guns do not turn gunfire into whisper quite sounds!! I believe they reduce echo or something but nothing more (so may army mates tell me).
Not an error but why do we now need to see people puking up? We can work out what's happening. No-one like to be or see sick, even animals don't like it (one bird uses it as a defence mechanism!). It's just horrible and unnecessary.
Silencers on guns do not turn gunfire into whisper quite sounds!! I believe they reduce echo or something but nothing more (so may army mates tell me).
Not an error but why do we now need to see people puking up? We can work out what's happening. No-one like to be or see sick, even animals don't like it (one bird uses it as a defence mechanism!). It's just horrible and unnecessary.
Frimley111R said:
Any film where someone walks away from their car and remotely locks it and it makes the same stupid noise its done for 30 years!! Cars don't do that FFS!
It's been explained why the movie cars do it, but it's no less annoying. The last car I had that made the stupid "whoop" and "whoop-whoop" noise when it unlocked and locked was a 1993 Vauxhall Cavalier. And even then there was an option to disarm the noise, so it was getting rare to hear it even around 1996 when I first bought it.singlecoil said:
Speaking of bathroom matters, in films and on TV especially apparently people can shag all evening, sleep all night and not need to go to the toilet as soon as they wake up. Apparently it's also commonplace for ladies to enjoy vigorous rumpy-pumpy with their bras on.
Exactly, to paraphrase singlecoil, in films and on TV, apparently people can shag all evening, sleep all night and wake up with the woman wearing bra and knickers, and the guy in boxers.I’m not asking to see their boobs and asses, (although I wouldn’t say no), but let’s be honest here, it’s hardly realistic to to go from biting lumps out of each other’s necks, then bestowing kisses from head to navel before sliding under the duvet, then wake up complete with your underwear still on.
Frank7 said:
Exactly, to paraphrase singlecoil, in films and on TV, apparently people can shag all evening, sleep all night and wake up with the woman wearing bra and knickers, and the guy in boxers.
I’m not asking to see their boobs and asses, (although I wouldn’t say no), but let’s be honest here, it’s hardly realistic to to go from biting lumps out of each other’s necks, then bestowing kisses from head to navel before sliding under the duvet, then wake up complete with your underwear still on.
Likewise the lady (supposedly naked) gets up in the morning and covers themselves with a sheet etc. Like the guy hasn't seen everything during the night. I realise its to get around the age rating but still annoying. I’m not asking to see their boobs and asses, (although I wouldn’t say no), but let’s be honest here, it’s hardly realistic to to go from biting lumps out of each other’s necks, then bestowing kisses from head to navel before sliding under the duvet, then wake up complete with your underwear still on.
yellowjack said:
Then we find out that the device(s) our two stars were required to steal from armed security guards in an armoured truck, and which they had to smuggle at great risk through airport security, are in fact not weapons, as we've been led to suspect, but in fact they are medical devices. They contain an experimental drug to lower the heart rate and reduce the human body's requirement for oxygen. Why? Because our two hapless pawns are to smuggle themselves aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster, secrete themselves within a transport container, and inject themselves with this experimental drug in the hope that they'll survive to carry out evil AI's plan. But the C-17 is both a cargo transporter and a passenger transport airlifter. It delivers personnel and evacuates casualties as part of it's combat role. So it is a pressurised aeroplane except when it has the ramp down or doors open at low level to drop paratroopers or cargo pallets out of the back. Why the feck would an internal cargo-only flight within the continental USA be carried out unpressurised? FFS!
Reminds me of the Halo jump Bond does in Tomorrow Never Dies, the military guy telling Bond he freefalls for 5 miles (so the plane will be at 26,000ft+) and he needs to use his oxygen or he will die of asphyxiation. Meanwhile the ramp is open and everyone would be getting asphyxiated including the 'funny' CIA guy who's only wearing a Hawaiian short sleeved shirt but they still spend a minute or two with the ramp open and even keep it open to watch him go down.Frimley111R said:
Any film where someone walks away from their car and remotely locks it and it makes the same stupid noise its done for 30 years!! Cars don't do that FFS!
Silencers on guns do not turn gunfire into whisper quite sounds!! I believe they reduce echo or something but nothing more (so may army mates tell me).
Not an error but why do we now need to see people puking up? We can work out what's happening. No-one like to be or see sick, even animals don't like it (one bird uses it as a defence mechanism!). It's just horrible and unnecessary.
Also mobile phones in films, that make the same kinds of noises now as mobile phones did 20 years ago. Likewise computers that make an audible beep when a webpage is loaded. Only in the movies.Silencers on guns do not turn gunfire into whisper quite sounds!! I believe they reduce echo or something but nothing more (so may army mates tell me).
Not an error but why do we now need to see people puking up? We can work out what's happening. No-one like to be or see sick, even animals don't like it (one bird uses it as a defence mechanism!). It's just horrible and unnecessary.
Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread:
Dirty feet
The amount of movies or TV shows where someone is in there lounge or even worse their bedroom and their feet are dirty drives me insane, lol
Sometimes they aren't even dirty, but absolutely filthy like they have been living rough for a year with no footwear.
It surely can't be that much effort to give them a wipe instead of making it blatantly obvious they have just walked from their trailer, through the studio to the set.
Dirty feet
The amount of movies or TV shows where someone is in there lounge or even worse their bedroom and their feet are dirty drives me insane, lol
Sometimes they aren't even dirty, but absolutely filthy like they have been living rough for a year with no footwear.
It surely can't be that much effort to give them a wipe instead of making it blatantly obvious they have just walked from their trailer, through the studio to the set.
valiant said:
When someone knocks on the door and it’s opened almost immediately.
Do people just hang around their front door just in case?
Or they think there is someone strange there like a murderer and ask in a voice shaking way "Who's there"? Do people just hang around their front door just in case?
Why would you think that someone knocking would be someone out to kill you?
Same goes for answering the phone. I thought 99% of people have caller display?
Talking about phones can we please stop the out of "cell" phone range or the classic dying battery.
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