It shouldn’t bother me but....

[mattyn1]

People not finishing their pint!

[Robb F]

I watched Greenland last night. It starts with Gerard Butler on a building site, saying he's going home early and asking if another chap is ok with sorting the concrete pour.

Very unrealistic, you'd never start a pour towards the end of the day, and they're not even ready to pour when he says it. I can suspend disbelief for a comet cluster coming to destroy the world but nonsensical construction talk is a step too far.

[marky911]

^^^^

[A Winner Is You]

Swords making a metal on metal "shing" sound when they're drawn from their leather scabbard.

[Glassman]

BawlBag said:

I’ll kick off with a motoring related one.

Mine is motoring related and I kick off everytime I see it because replacing windscreens has been my career for over a quarter of a century:

Windscreen and glass breakage in films*.

Everytime I see a laminated windscreen 'shatter' or the driver 'punch' a hole in one...

They.

Don't.

Break.

Like.

That.

As you were.

.*partly why I just stick to documentaries these days. Stuff like How Do They Do That?.

[JmatthewB]

Any scene with someone being a Pool or Snooker guru and they don't know how to do a proper bridge. Instead of creating a 'V' with their thumb next to their index finger they always hook their index finger around the cue.

[southendpier]

The Hypno-Toad said:

redandwhite said:

Assault rifles/pistols in films;

• everlasting rounds in a magazine

And the winner in this category is of course, Clint Eastwood and his inexhaustible MP40 in Where Eagles Dare. Even as war obsessed young lad I can still remember thinking “Hang on, that ain’t right,”

Loved it.

Burton getting shot through the hand and fixing it with a hanky was also good.

[rwindmill]

HD Adam said:

When drag racing your opponent and he is level with you, just change up into 13th AND push the throttle pedal all the way to the floor instead of the 3/4 you had it at.

Damn, you beat me too it.

How is it that all the cars in Hollywood chase scenes have 27 speed gearboxes.

Plus, the whole 'when the hero decides that they are going to start racing now, and push the throttle pedal all the way down'. Serious insult to anybody who has done any form of motorsport

[Halmyre]

Men who wear shorts in winter. Just stop it. You're not hard, you're just a git.

[snuffy]

People who never say "goodbye" on the phone - they just stop talking and hang up. They always do that on soaps.

[southendpier]

SCEtoAUX said:

My apologies, I thought we were in The Lounge where "Things that annoy you beyond reason" was started around 1674.

As to things that bother me in the world of TV and Films, my answer is Sean Bean.

And yet your profile name is one that he could have come up with.

once you see it etc etc

[BawlBag]

3/4 length trousers

[rwindmill]

bigandclever said:

Every time the bd Nissan advert comes on and the bloke says “ok google send work blah blah” and my google pipes up and yells “I’M SORRY I CAN’T DO THAT RIGHT NOW” I want to set fire to every Juke I can find.

God that advert annoys the cr*p out of me.

Seriously, if the guy works at the same place everyday why on earth does he need directions.

That said, when he gets in his car, he is wearing a suit. And when he gets out at the end of the ad, he is wearing casual clothing.

Maybe there is more to this man than the advert is telling us???

Also, can somebody point out the benefit of using your mobile phone to lock and unlock your car door? Especially when the small print of the ad says that the technology may not work with all smart phones

[Electronicpants]

When the protagonist visits his/her old college professor/teacher they ALWAYS turn up 1-2 mins before the end of the lecture, which is coincidentally about whatever the protagonist is dealing with, and as the bell goes and everyone starts to pack up and clear out very noisily, the professor will start shouting about paper in for next week. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[red_slr]

supacool1 said:

red_slr said:

slopes said:

redandwhite said:

Not car related , although reading some of these are another level.

Assault rifles/pistols in films;

• everlasting rounds in a magazine
• pistol guy always beats the assault rifle
• continuous muzzle flash
• ’making ready’ more than once

There are a few good films where you see people changing magazines but not many.
Heat is one

Mick Gould (ex 22 SAS) was heavily involved with Heat (and other films).

I believe they use the clip of Val Kilmers mag reload scene in the shoot out as an example of how to do so under for US marines during training. Really need to watch that film again...

If you like that check out Larry Vickers break down of the Collateral "alley" scene.

(some NSFW language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZeb5lKPkk

(for those that don't know Larry Vickers was 1st SFOD (aka Delta Force) for almost 20 years)

[motorizer]

rwindmill said:

Damn, you beat me too it.

How is it that all the cars in Hollywood chase scenes have 27 speed gearboxes.

Plus, the whole 'when the hero decides that they are going to start racing now, and push the throttle pedal all the way down'. Serious insult to anybody who has done any form of motorsport

Another one that's crept in is during a car chase, the hero (never the baddie) decides to spin the car through 180 and drive backwards for a bit....as if there is any benefit from it going REEEEEEE at 15mph.. I seem to remember drive is one example

[toon10]

Another car related one. Take a look outside. I'm sure you will see a host of cars in your street and maybe one or two will be clean, the rest not. Why then do all movies and TV shows insist that all cars from the past are highly detailed, polished and waxed? I'm sure your average suburban neighbourhood, even in the 60's and 70's didn't all enter their cars in concours competitions. If I'm buying into a current movie set in the past and be transported back in time, please show cars as they would have been. Dirty!

[generationx]

Whenever a lead character arrives at a plot point, when they get out of the car they always leave the windows open or the top down. And never lock it, unless they make the 1980s "plip plip" noise.

[98elise]

bigandclever said:

Every time the bd Nissan advert comes on and the bloke says “ok google send work blah blah” and my google pipes up and yells “I’M SORRY I CAN’T DO THAT RIGHT NOW” I want to set fire to every Juke I can find.

Mine did that for a while, now it activates but doesn't say anything.

[flyingvisit]

When the bad guy pours petrol over the stolen car/dead body/whatever, lights his Ronson, and throws it into the petrol. Who the f*** throws away a perfectly good lighter? What's wrong with using said Ronson to set flre to a piece of paper, and then throwing that into the petrol?