Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Actually, whilst we're on the subject, there is a bit in Some Like It Hot where Tony Curtis' character is caught dressed as a guy and chased as he legs it back to his hotel room, and manages to put his makeup on to present as female just in time to avert his cover being blown when the person chasing him catches up and bursts in.

It's pretty much impossible to put on makeup in that short amount of time, let alone wig etc.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

singlecoil said:

I agree, and I'm willing up to a point, but that film was a stretch too far. YMMV.

I do not in any way disagree with you. And I only wrote it in order to do the BlackAdder gag (which you didn't quote).

[singlecoil]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I do not in any way disagree with you. And I only wrote it in order to do the BlackAdder gag (which you didn't quote).

It probably needed Atkinson's delivery to make it work.

[DMN]

talksthetorque said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Must admit I'd have trouble telling a Manchester accent from a Yorkshire one, and I come from Bolton.

There’s more than one Yorkshire accent. Just like people from Bolton speak differently to people from Salford.

Indeed. There was a BBC series a few years back set in York, but all the actors used West Yorkshire accents.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

singlecoil said:

It probably needed Atkinson's delivery to make it work.

Ouch.

[Frank7]

DMN said:

talksthetorque said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Must admit I'd have trouble telling a Manchester accent from a Yorkshire one, and I come from Bolton.

There’s more than one Yorkshire accent. Just like people from Bolton speak differently to people from Salford.

Indeed. There was a BBC series a few years back set in York, but all the actors used West Yorkshire accents.

Now you know how we native Londoners feel, once we get past Bedford it’s all just white noise.

[Johnspex]

Frank7 said:

DMN said:

talksthetorque said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Must admit I'd have trouble telling a Manchester accent from a Yorkshire one, and I come from Bolton.

There’s more than one Yorkshire accent. Just like people from Bolton speak differently to people from Salford.

Indeed. There was a BBC series a few years back set in York, but all the actors used West Yorkshire accents.

Now you know how we native Londoners feel, once we get past Bedford it’s all just white noise.

And yet you seem happy in France and the States. Is that not white noise too?

I'm a native Londoner, though I'm from the much classier West, and I don't hear white noise north of Bedford. A sweeping generalisation from Frank? Surely not.

[SCEtoAUX]

Casting Sean Bean.

[kowalski655]

SCEtoAUX said:

Casting Sean Bean.

he never usually lasts long in the film

[Frank7]

Johnspex said:

And yet you seem happy in France and the States. Is that not white noise too?

I'm a native Londoner, though I'm from the much classier West, and I don't hear white noise north of Bedford. A sweeping generalisation from Frank? Surely not.

Fair enough John, perhaps I was being too clever with “white noise”, and it was indeed a sweeping generalisation as you suggest.
I’d heard of white noise somewhere, wasn’t really sure what it was, but I thought that it might fit.
With the benefit of hindsight, and your sterling input, perhaps I should have said, mish-mash of sounds, all melded together.
I’m happy enough in France and the States, because I’m reasonably competent in French, and I’ve always understood the language in the 19 or 20 States that I’ve visited, although I was sorely tested around Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Classier west of London? Can’t argue too much there, south east is good, but I always liked it in the west, I mean Chelsea, Fulham, chunks of Putney etc.

[yellowjack]

SCEtoAUX said:

Casting Sean Bean.

You been watching 'World On Fire' by any chance?

The whole series is one continuous mistake/annoying thing, or so it seems to me.

My wife is watching it, I sat through one episode the other day, and can't bear a moment more. It's just so riddled with 21st Century sensibilities, dressed up as a 1940s period piece. I was half expecting a gay wedding or something at the end. It looks good, costume and make-up wise. But there's so much in it that annoys beyond reason. The Stuka dive-bombers. Way too low, and in one scene they included a dog. Now you can train actors to react to something "we'll put in in post" but there's this dog, just been exposed to half a dozen screaming Stukas, all the humans are scattered like nine-pins and this dog is sat there wondering wtf is going on. Plus the height those Stukas came in, that young officer should have had a fresh haircut, but there wasn't even a breath of wind to part his hair.

Then there was the cafe and hotel in 'Dunkerque' that was housed in what were quite clearly industrial port/railway/factory buildings. And the relationship dynamics were just all over the place, leaving me totally unconvinced by it. I saw some of the younger cast members interviewed too, and they were so full of how great it was, and how realistic the beach scenes were. Well, I'm not wearing any of it. It's fallen flat on it's face as far as I'm concerned, by allowing the 21st Century cast to just be themselves, instead of requiring of them any effort to actually act the part of the 1940s characters they are playing...

[Mothersruin]

yellowjack said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Casting Sean Bean.

You been watching 'World On Fire' by any chance?

The whole series is one continuous mistake/annoying thing, or so it seems to me.

My wife is watching it, I sat through one episode the other day, and can't bear a moment more. It's just so riddled with 21st Century sensibilities, dressed up as a 1940s period piece. I was half expecting a gay wedding or something at the end. It looks good, costume and make-up wise. But there's so much in it that annoys beyond reason. The Stuka dive-bombers. Way too low, and in one scene they included a dog. Now you can train actors to react to something "we'll put in in post" but there's this dog, just been exposed to half a dozen screaming Stukas, all the humans are scattered like nine-pins and this dog is sat there wondering wtf is going on. Plus the height those Stukas came in, that young officer should have had a fresh haircut, but there wasn't even a breath of wind to part his hair.

Then there was the cafe and hotel in 'Dunkerque' that was housed in what were quite clearly industrial port/railway/factory buildings. And the relationship dynamics were just all over the place, leaving me totally unconvinced by it. I saw some of the younger cast members interviewed too, and they were so full of how great it was, and how realistic the beach scenes were. Well, I'm not wearing any of it. It's fallen flat on it's face as far as I'm concerned, by allowing the 21st Century cast to just be themselves, instead of requiring of them any effort to actually act the part of the 1940s characters they are playing...

This sort of thing is worthy of a thread of it's own. Forcing modern sensibilities into period stuff drives me nuts.

There was some drama about 19th century London policing and they cast a black guy as the sidekick to the main guy - they then had him sneaking around a market following some criminal, hiding behind stalls but standing out so badly yet no one batted an eyelid - ridiculous.

I have zero issue when it's historically correct or done in a way that is smart - but this was just daft. I find it insulting that someone was stuck in a position like this only because of their colour, I can't understand why the actors don't feel the same.

Then you have the uber-woke stuff that has a mixed race couple with their lesbian daughter who's going out with the asian trans muslim - the whole show looks like a st Benetton ad. They try so hard to squeeze all this in that any semblance of a story is completely swamped.

There's a time and a place but the more you force it down people's throats, the less impact it'll have as they'll simply turn over. It needs to be smart and progressive.

[ElectricSoup]

Mothersruin said:

yellowjack said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Casting Sean Bean.

You been watching 'World On Fire' by any chance?

The whole series is one continuous mistake/annoying thing, or so it seems to me.

My wife is watching it, I sat through one episode the other day, and can't bear a moment more. It's just so riddled with 21st Century sensibilities, dressed up as a 1940s period piece. I was half expecting a gay wedding or something at the end. It looks good, costume and make-up wise. But there's so much in it that annoys beyond reason. The Stuka dive-bombers. Way too low, and in one scene they included a dog. Now you can train actors to react to something "we'll put in in post" but there's this dog, just been exposed to half a dozen screaming Stukas, all the humans are scattered like nine-pins and this dog is sat there wondering wtf is going on. Plus the height those Stukas came in, that young officer should have had a fresh haircut, but there wasn't even a breath of wind to part his hair.

Then there was the cafe and hotel in 'Dunkerque' that was housed in what were quite clearly industrial port/railway/factory buildings. And the relationship dynamics were just all over the place, leaving me totally unconvinced by it. I saw some of the younger cast members interviewed too, and they were so full of how great it was, and how realistic the beach scenes were. Well, I'm not wearing any of it. It's fallen flat on it's face as far as I'm concerned, by allowing the 21st Century cast to just be themselves, instead of requiring of them any effort to actually act the part of the 1940s characters they are playing...

This sort of thing is worthy of a thread of it's own. Forcing modern sensibilities into period stuff drives me nuts.

There was some drama about 19th century London policing and they cast a black guy as the sidekick to the main guy - they then had him sneaking around a market following some criminal, hiding behind stalls but standing out so badly yet no one batted an eyelid - ridiculous.

I have zero issue when it's historically correct or done in a way that is smart - but this was just daft. I find it insulting that someone was stuck in a position like this only because of their colour, I can't understand why the actors don't feel the same.

Then you have the uber-woke stuff that has a mixed race couple with their lesbian daughter who's going out with the asian trans muslim - the whole show looks like a st Benetton ad. They try so hard to squeeze all this in that any semblance of a story is completely swamped.

There's a time and a place but the more you force it down people's throats, the less impact it'll have as they'll simply turn over. It needs to be smart and progressive.

Um, there was a population of black people in Britain well before the 20th Century. Going back to Roman times and maybe even further.

[Mothersruin]

ElectricSoup said:

Mothersruin said:

yellowjack said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Casting Sean Bean.

You been watching 'World On Fire' by any chance?

The whole series is one continuous mistake/annoying thing, or so it seems to me.

My wife is watching it, I sat through one episode the other day, and can't bear a moment more. It's just so riddled with 21st Century sensibilities, dressed up as a 1940s period piece. I was half expecting a gay wedding or something at the end. It looks good, costume and make-up wise. But there's so much in it that annoys beyond reason. The Stuka dive-bombers. Way too low, and in one scene they included a dog. Now you can train actors to react to something "we'll put in in post" but there's this dog, just been exposed to half a dozen screaming Stukas, all the humans are scattered like nine-pins and this dog is sat there wondering wtf is going on. Plus the height those Stukas came in, that young officer should have had a fresh haircut, but there wasn't even a breath of wind to part his hair.

Then there was the cafe and hotel in 'Dunkerque' that was housed in what were quite clearly industrial port/railway/factory buildings. And the relationship dynamics were just all over the place, leaving me totally unconvinced by it. I saw some of the younger cast members interviewed too, and they were so full of how great it was, and how realistic the beach scenes were. Well, I'm not wearing any of it. It's fallen flat on it's face as far as I'm concerned, by allowing the 21st Century cast to just be themselves, instead of requiring of them any effort to actually act the part of the 1940s characters they are playing...

This sort of thing is worthy of a thread of it's own. Forcing modern sensibilities into period stuff drives me nuts.

There was some drama about 19th century London policing and they cast a black guy as the sidekick to the main guy - they then had him sneaking around a market following some criminal, hiding behind stalls but standing out so badly yet no one batted an eyelid - ridiculous.

I have zero issue when it's historically correct or done in a way that is smart - but this was just daft. I find it insulting that someone was stuck in a position like this only because of their colour, I can't understand why the actors don't feel the same.

Then you have the uber-woke stuff that has a mixed race couple with their lesbian daughter who's going out with the asian trans muslim - the whole show looks like a st Benetton ad. They try so hard to squeeze all this in that any semblance of a story is completely swamped.

There's a time and a place but the more you force it down people's throats, the less impact it'll have as they'll simply turn over. It needs to be smart and progressive.

Um, there was a population of black people in Britain well before the 20th Century. Going back to Roman times and maybe even further.

Yeah, I know, I didn't say there wasn't - I said using a black guy as an undercover agent to tail someone when every single other person around him was white was stupid.

[Nimby]

Mothersruin said:

Yeah, I know, I didn't say there wasn't - I said using a black guy as an undercover agent to tail someone when every single other person around him was white was stupid.

That reminds me of the brilliant Pitch Meeting for Return of the Jedi at about 3:20 :

In the forest on Endor:

"The rebels get all camoed up .."
"I guess they really need to blend in with the background".
"Yes. And C3P0..."
"Wait - they all dress in camouflage but they bring a big shiny gold robot with them?"

[SCEtoAUX]

Not thinking anything particular of Sean Bean's, he's just a bloody awful actor.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Nimby said:

That reminds me of the brilliant Pitch Meeting for Return of the Jedi at about 3:20 :

In the forest on Endor:

"The rebels get all camoed up .."
"I guess they really need to blend in with the background".
"Yes. And C3P0..."
"Wait - they all dress in camouflage but they bring a big shiny gold robot with them?"

"Yeah yeah yeah."
"Oops"
"Oopsie"

[Halb]

Love Pitch meeting, and love the oopsie.
3po is part of the flight crew, not the strike team.

[Frank7]

SCEtoAUX said:

Not thinking anything particular of Sean Bean's, he's just a bloody awful actor.

I was channel surfing on Sunday, while my wife was putting up a pot of coffee in the kitchen, and I landed on “World on Fire” just as it started, so I froze the picture.
She came in, and asked what I’d frozen, I told her that it looked like some WW2 thing, did she want to check it out?
She said, “Who’s in it?”
I pressed information, and it listed Sean Bean, (among others).
She said, “No thanks, he’s a good looking guy, but have you heard him speak? Eew!”
I said, “How shallow can you get?”
She said, “Dunno, I wound up with you, didn’t I?”

[Flumpo]

In gone in 60 seconds, one of the cars on the board is a jaguar xj220. Yet they steal a Jaguar xj308.

As there is no scene of them arguing that the wrong car has been stolen, then it’s annoying mistake.

Ruins the film.