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I don't mean glaring plot holes, just little details that annoy you.
Watching one of the newer Star Trek films (and also noticed this in Discovery) and the size of the inside of the spaceships are massive compared to the outside. Everything outside seems fine, the inside seems to be the size of a large oil refinery.
I know it's spaceships and that, but I've been drinking
Wait til you see Dr Who...
How can you tell how big they are from the outside?
Unnecessarily dark scenes and insanely loud music / noise. The number of films where I can’t tell what’s happening because of shitty lighting or sound that drowns out the dialogue seems to be growing. Either that or my eyesight and hearing are deteriorating quicker than I thought.
According to Picard in First Contact the Enterprise E is nearly 700m long.
That’s plenty big enough for any of the internal sets that appear in in any of the TV shows.
It’s about 3 times longer than an Aircraft Carrier.
‘Night’ scenes in old black and white films that are obviously shot in broad daylight
Similar to the night scenes but when they turn the room lights out and suddenly the room gets brighter as the moon magically becomes as bright as the sun 😀
In Crocodile Dundee there is a water buffalo blocking the road . Dundee gets out of the jeep ,hypnotises the buffalo which then falls asleep.
He now has a buffalo that's fast asleep blocking the road.
Film thing, but applies to TV series too...
Nobody locks his or her car!
Nobody says “Ok, cheers, see ya...” or “Goodbye” when finishing a call on a mobile.
Continuity errors. Some major gaffs and like how hard is it to remember what someone was wearing..
Everything outside seems fine, the inside seems to be the size of a large oil refinery.
As pointed out above, the ships are humongous!
Oh, and Highlander 2. All of it.
Ronin. "Hereford". Also the smoke effects added later on the car tyres.
In 24 he never goes for a piss or shit.
Gravity just way too many to mention.
The fact that, no matter what the driving surface, the tyres squeal when a car stops. It’s the stupidest thing.
Also, no one - and I mean NO ONE - ever says goodbye on the telephone. There is no indication that a conversation has ended, other than when the two speakers hang up. One might say, “okay”, then... click.
Continuity errors. Some major gaffs and like how hard is it to remember what someone was wearing..
It’s actually exceedingly easy to forget when the shooting of the scenes are three months apart.
I absolutely ****in hate empty suitcases and cups.
In 24 he never goes for a piss or shit.
I know a few people for whom that could take up a good portion of the 24 hours.
I'm probably one of them 🙁
The express train from Edinburgh to London that goes via the Glenfinnan Viaduct
Car chases or most car scenes. For whatever reason they never sync gear changes, speed of the car in shot, and the sound. Oh, and they always have another gear and an extra 6 inches of accelerator pedal travel they’ve not yet used.
Oh, and one more thing. I know a good number of you aren’t interested in church stuff, but it’s fair to say that there are a fair few “church scenes” in film and on tv, whether it’s a funeral, a wedding, or some other service.
Anyway, the priests are never properly vested. Never. It’s the stupidest thing. How hard is it to call up a local vicar and ask “how does a priest dress when he’s doing a wedding?” Or whatever?
I have seen church scenes so inaccurate it would be like dressing police officers like fire fighters, or something equally as bad.
There’s a bit in 5th Element where he necks a drink from a Sigg bottle. When everything else is so well done it stuck like sore thing for me.
My son just said gunshots not being loud enough, and bows that creak when drawn.
The way people act eating! It’s absolutely nothing like real eating, even when they do actually chew something, I’ve never seen an actor who can make it look like real eating. Especially when they have to say a line at the same time.
They all must learn ‘eat acting’ at acting school and so all do it the same. Bugs the hell out of me.
Noise and explosions in space. People repeatedly hit by bullets but able to carry on. Instant ace: car drivers, motorbike riders, plane and or heli pilots. Too dark to see. Too loud to hear and I’m half deaf.
Pre-existing skid marks on the road surface during car chase scenes so they've obviously fluffed the first take(s).
Body work damage which miraculously fixes itself during car chase scenes...
I know that the Bond franchise has its own sound stage at pinewood... and that it can be filled with water. Thats no reason for every big action scene in every bond movie to be in a space thats exactly the same size and shape and always have water in it
Not so much these days but in the 70s/80s there were only two kinds of injury that could be sustained in a car crash:
a: A graze on your temple which meant you were going to be fine and just needed to dust yourself down and get on with it
b: A trickle of blood from your ear which meant you were either dying or already dead
Noise and explosions in space
Well, both Gravity and Interstellar fixed this gaff and to mighty good effect too...
Most of the people in the films seem to have steady income without any worry in the world ... 🤣
Dreadful science, forensics, genetics, stuff I can critique
A specific one for me is Hurt Locker-they wear Peltor Comtac active ear defenders, but the ones without communication stuff in them and then use the volume button on the side like a PTT.
The use of the word ‘fire’ when referring to arrows in pre gun era films.
Than hardly anyone ever has to stop for a wee.
Nightclub scenes. Have any of them ever been to one?
Phones that only have no signal or run out of battery at important plot moments. Also when a smartphone is used but the screen doesn’t go off when it’s by their ear
How aircraft fly in CGI sequences.
Get a ****ing 1990s era flight simulator and overlay the cgi over the movement and it would still look more believable.
this kind of shit
Apparently the most common reaction to being shot is to soil yourself. You don’t see that happen in the movies - not even to the bad guys or cowardly characters.
I hate it when a character is badly wounded, then is up skipping about again a few scenes later (unless it’s Jackie Chan, as he’s probably carrying the injury for real).
I'm with thegeneralist on the empty cups thing... after I first noticed it, you end up seeing it everywhere in films and TV... you'd think actors would be able to manage carryingband drinking from cups by now!
Oh, and am not sure what the problem I drinking from a Sigg bottle...
this kind of shit
You do know that it’s fiction?
Apparently the most common reaction to being shot is to soil yourself.
Bad guys can be shot in the 'off-switch' and obediently and silently lie down.
You do know that it’s fiction?
I know that its fiction - its just lazy thinking
Empty cups
Car tyres squealing on gravel
Guns that never run out of ammo
Gunshots in enclosed spaces that don't deafen
Constant revving and endless gear changes in car chases
Car chases with massively mismatched cars, where the crap/slow ones keep up without issue.
CCTV analysis where 6 pixels are enhanced to a full colour image of a person with tattoos, hair details, make up, scars etc....
It's been years since I saw it, but I am sure there is a reference to the Challenger Shuttle disaster in the film Wall Street. The film is set in 1985.
I know that its fiction – its just lazy thinking
But a big indestructible green guy is Ok?
Just seen ad Astra. Please don’t get me started. More plot holes than an allotment with a gopher infestation!
But a big indestructible green guy is Ok?
I didn't vote for him
More plot holes than an allotment with a gopher infestation!
🙂 I've got to remeber that one.
Also, when an ugly or fearsome CGI beastie fails to dispatch a petrified hero because they are too busy bearing their teeth by letting out a roar in their face.
Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and Harry Potter are prime offenders.
Huey helicopter audio with a eurocopter in vision.
Asaarghhh!
The "onboard" shot in Senna from the 88 Monaco Grand Prix (he wasn't carrying a camera for that race) and the out of synch sound from the onboard at Jerez.
All archers have magic auto-refilling quivers.
Except when they must make that shot but it’s the only arrow left.
When there's a standoff with two guys pointing guns at each other and one of them cocks his gun to show that he's getting serious now. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that trained soldiers would cock their weapons as soon as they realized they were in a fight.
Similarly, when there's a car chase and they're flat out, but then they decide to get serious now so they change down a gear and accelerate away. I have more experience of driving like a dick than I do of armed combat, and I can testify that you can't be going flat out and then change down a gear and go faster.
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Film thing, but applies to TV series too…Nobody locks his or her car!
They never used to with old keys, but nowadays you’ll see them use the blipper key.
That’s my key related bugbear!
Bit like the use of nitrous oxide in fast and furious.. Guess they were using dry kit rather than wet kit which prevents the fuel mixture from going lean.
It's just a film though.
All cardiac arrests are shockable, even when the monitor clearly shows an asystole, PEA or even worse, complete flatline.
how everyone has a 555 phone number
https://www.urbo.com/content/this-is-why-the-fake-phone-numbers-in-movies-start-with-555/
Hero shots at bad guys car as it drives towards him, usually with a 9mm or .45 round. No cloud of steam as the rad ruptures, no car grinding to a halt as the loom gets shot out or block gets cracked open.
I have it on good authority that .45 round goes through a car door, collects the window winding mechanism which then collects the gear stick before leaving the other side of the cars door again with much of the window winding mechanism and leaves with a large exit hole. So hiding behind a car door as the baddie shots at you with an AK is pretty useless, similarly flipping tables over or empty oil drums.
Disarming a nuke, it’s easy once the case is open, no need for laptops or red wire/blue wire, just pull half a dozen random wires off the fission bomb explosive shell and whilst it’ll still go bang and be a bit radio active it won’t give you a mushroom cloud.
unless it’s a gun type nuke which
Hunter Killer. Guy is stalking deer in Scotland, helicopter appears and next minute he is at Faslane being asked “how was the flight from Portsmouth?”. Good film other than that.
Leaving aside the car stuff that has already been mentioned, it’s mostly gunplay that annoys me in films.
Things like full auto being used by professional soldiers when shooting at distance, or basically anything other than close combat. 13 Hours at least did that bit right with the GRS guys using mostly single shot.
Magazines never running out, or having endless spares... I mean, WTF? Most people carry between four and six, plus one on, so that’s about 200 rounds. Yet they seem to be able to go full auto all day without running out or having to stop, ask their mates for spare 4BIT and then spend 20 minutes sitting on a daysack reloading mags.
Oh, and dumping mags. Grrrrrr. You don’t do that if you want to actually use them again. Put them back in a pouch or in a dump bag FFS.
Not having to shout in each others ears in a night club.
...oh, and I haven't seen it but everything in the upcoming Downton Abbey film will be s##t.
Sex...movies gloss over some convenient details about all of it, but especially morning sex when they wake up from their perfect peaceful sleep looking like they've just come out of a beauty salon with perfect hair and makeup, having eating a pack of polos.
When a car crashes, one of two things happens. Either the horn locks on or you get a fire ball.
Parking. There is always a space right outside.
henchmen who apparently can't hit a barn door when shooting. Hero runs close by and they hit everything but...
Django Unchained takes this irritation to the nth degree.
Not a detail, more of the major end sequence that seems to happen in most if not all action /hero v baddie movies. The bad guy is a master villain owning mega weapons /ship/planet /shotguns whatever yet so so often it seems to come down to a straight mano a mano fist fight /grapple /choke sequence for our hero to do away with the top baddie.... Weapons all chucked away for some reason.....
A lot of these are things where they’ve been so over used in the history of film that it feels weird and wooden if they leave it realistic and don’t include them.
Using SCUBA in The Abyss.
Most people carry between four and six, plus one on, so that’s about 200 rounds
Endless ammo in ww2 movies especially. Saw an interview with a guy that’s was on the landing boats at Dunkirk ‘we were given six bullets each. I’m pretty sure I used all my ones’
Endless ammo in ww2 movies especially. Saw an interview with a guy that’s was on the landing boats at Dunkirk ‘we were given six bullets each. I’m pretty sure I used all my ones’
What landing boats at Dunkirk? They were getting off.
The British Army in WW2 did not send their soldiers into battle with 6 bullets.
An early scene in a recent King Arthur film where two characters were in bed. The bed was better made than mine with bigger, fluffier pillows that looked like they were from Habitat and had been freshly laundered that morning. In Dark Age Britain.
Non-diegetic sound.
There is a whole youtube channel dedicated to all this shit: Cinemasins.
( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUQQgogVeQY8cMQamhHJcg)
Here's an example right here:
Search for your favourite movie and it's likely on there. Beware though, this is one of those youtube holes that once you venture down you'll be a while climbing back out.
how everyone has a 555 phone number
Sally Dibbs doesn't
Cars that supposidly have come some distance yet have water droplets dripping from the exhaust because they have just been started for the scene.
Airbags which don't go off when the car crashes unless it's for comical effect.
Matthew McConaughey's character was an Apollo astronaut in Interstellar but the youngest one ever was Charlie Duke born in 1935 which would make him 84 now let alone the 10-20 years in the future when Interstellar was set. Why the hell didn't Nolan make him a space shuttle pilot I don't know just because he wanted to make some stupid inference about the moon landings being a hoax. I couldn't get over that and ruined the whole film for me.
Motorbikes that have the wrong engine sound, 4 strokes with 2 stroke sound and visa versa 😡😡
Scenes with space or diving suits - the helmets always have an internal light shining in the actors eyes. I know it’s so we can see their faces but real life it would be impossible to see out!
Similar in some driving scenes, the instrument lights shining on their faces are like searchlights
Shooting bullets into water to make sure the good guy is dead.
Scenes with space or diving suits – the helmets always have an internal light shining in the actors eyes. I know it’s so we can see their faces but real life it would be impossible to see out!
I know I slagged The Abyss earlier but those helmets were cool as ****!
Made by Kirby Morgan and cost an absolute fortune.
Sex…movies gloss over some convenient details about all of it
Mainly though- BRAS! So many sex scenes where the woman keeps her bra on! Dunno about anyone else, but I like a boob and if, you know, doing it, I am gonna make sure I see a boob or 2!
Semi-auto pistols where a specific point has been made of a full mag going in, a round chambered then fired. Then what happens? The ****ing slide lock.