"fake" things in movies that piss you off.

[crashtestdummy]

Noise in space. There should be no sounds from laser cannons or photon torpedoes or anything like that.

 

[chimaxi83]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but movie sets need an on site "how to give a proper military salute" consultant. Almost every movie that involves someone saluting shows some idiot doofus doing it as if he's shielding his eyes from the sun. It's awfully irritating to me.

I'd gladly sell my services

 

[PokerGuy]

By far the most annoying part in both movies and tv shows is the ability of the "elite" haxxor to break into anything. In seconds. Running some cool OS that nobody's ever seen.

"Oh no, we need to find out who that guy is!"
Super Hacker: "No problem, gimme a second, I'll just re-route this connection, break into the government's uber leet secret encrypted database, grab all the info and show it on my screen."

 

[arrfep]

Fake saguaros during Men in Black opening

this may not exactly fit the op,
last night watching some western that supposedly took place in texas,
in the backgrounds were saguaro cactus, i've been to texas and never saw a live saguaro, they only grow in the sonoran desert, which is arizona and old mexico.

While reading the OP, never would I have imagined that "improper representation of Cacti" was a common enough grievance to get multiple mentions.

 

[Oyeve]

555-1212

And while on the topic of phones I always hated when the other line would hang up on the on screen caller and you would instantly hear a dial tone.

 

[kalrith]

People rarely close the door to their house. They'll walk in, leave it open, and then sometimes even proceed to have sex, all with the front door standing wide open. It also seems to not matter whether someone is trying to kill them. They still leave the front door open.

Edit: I enjoyed Last Action Hero and how it made fun of many of the things in this thread.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Noise in space. There should be no sounds from laser cannons or photon torpedoes or anything like that.

They've started to get better about this but it's still inconsistent. I know in Battlestar Galactica they used muffled sounds sometimes (if you're in a spaceship and it fires a gun, you'll still hear something because the gun is attached to you), but they also had shooty noises in space scenes as well. The game Dead Space is really good, no sound in space at all except for sounds that are able to travel through the floor you're walking on or whatever (and again, they're muffled).

 

[Red Squirrel]

People who can somehow turbo clean themselves and supernaturally heal all their wounds.

Guy gets beaten up around and is bloody and dirty (landed in mud or something) then not 5 minutes later he's still at that same scene, perhaps walking away after the fight is done or something, and all clean with only a few scratches. Sometimes even a band aid! Where did you get THAT from? Do they carry them in their pockets in case they get into a fight? :awe:

 

[Rio Rebel]

My top two:

1. Madly typing for 15 seconds on a keyboard and writing an intricate computer program (first noticed this one in Revenge of the Nerds)
2. Firing a high caliber handgun and just pushing it forward with no recoil (a la John Wayne)...or a machine gun with one hand and the ammo belt in the other, a la Rambo.

 

[JimKiler]

I agree with the phone thing. I always hate how when they answer, within a second they instantly know not only who it is but what they're calling about.
ring ring..."Hello?" *less than 1 second* "What?! What hospital is she at?!"

To build upon that when people talk in movies they usually explain something that is known to the characters and repeat it for no reason. For example if I am talking to my sister about our mom who is in the hospital for 5+ years I would never say "you cannot do that you know mom is in the hospital." I would only say "you cannot do that."

If they make people work to understand the plot they will be more engaged viewers. This is why i like to watch Law and Order after the opening crime, I am spending the next 50 minutes trying to figure out what the crime was.

 

[Childs]

Karate chop to the neck = chloroform

I thought that was hilarious in Conspiracy Theory when that one agent would get hit on the head he would fake getting knocked out. I forget the name of it, but there was one movie where they hit the guy in the head to knock him out and he just screamed every time they hit him. I think they ended up shooting him to shut him up. hahaha

 

[shortylickens]

Women going after lovable nerds.

 

[K1052]

Probably shooting in well known locations and with the story saying they are in another city. I'm looking at you Canada.

 

[AstroManLuca]

People who can somehow turbo clean themselves and supernaturally heal all their wounds.

Guy gets beaten up around and is bloody and dirty (landed in mud or something) then not 5 minutes later he's still at that same scene, perhaps walking away after the fight is done or something, and all clean with only a few scratches. Sometimes even a band aid! Where did you get THAT from? Do they carry them in their pockets in case they get into a fight? :awe:

Example? I don't remember seeing anything like that. A lot of times I'll notice a character is still all bruised/bloody/dirty well after a fight scene and I don't even remember how they got that way.

 

[Gunbuster]

Character pulls fire alarm. All sprinkler heads shoot water everywhere.

 

[xavier es]

While reading the OP, never would I have imagined that "improper representation of Cacti" was a common enough grievance to get multiple mentions.

when a show or movie uses accurate gear/dress/attitudes to attempt to show life accurately for the time period of the movie you would expect them to at least get the locale correct.

 

[shortylickens]

The one I like is how, when a guy finally runs out of bullets (after firing like 40 of them from a small pistol), he'll continuously pull the trigger and it goes "click click click." That would only happen with a revolver, not a semiautomatic.

Oh and there will be someone pointing a gun at another guy and they're arguing, and then the guy with the gun "cocks" it for emphasis. So wait, the entire time before that point he wouldn't have been able to fire it (unless it's a double action revolver)?

Ummmmmm........

 

[MattCo]

While reading the OP, never would I have imagined that "improper representation of Cacti" was a common enough grievance to get multiple mentions.

Well, there is a song about it

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002JWOB48/

 

[Aikouka]

Sex scenes last 30 seconds and the woman is satisfied.

I think it's far more awkward when there's a sex scene and the girl still has her bra on. It's obvious why they do it, but it just seems so unnatural.

 

[Oyeve]

NYC subway scenes obvioulsy filmed in canada. Jason take manhattan is a perfect example. Not on scene is in NY let alone manhattan. cmon, nykers see movies! Rep us properly bitch!

Also, you shoot/stab the bad guy who killed your family, friends, everyone in town and assume hes dead and walk away. No, chop off head and limbs. White people I swear. Only Jamie Lee Curtis did this in Halloween H2O. Badass scene. Yet, the mofo came back in other movies.

I love the Wilhelm scream. Its basically in all my favorite movies right up to the Hobbit! Hell, it was in all star wars and star trak movies! And movies over 50 years old!

 

[shortylickens]

I think it's far more awkward when there's a sex scene and the girl still has her bra on. It's obvious why they do it, but it just seems so unnatural.

The only movies with natural sex are the ones nobody hears of, or are so shocking people dont like to talk about it.

Kids is the first thing that comes to mind.
That one where the boy fucks his friends hot blonde mom, I cant recall the name. In the beginning of the film some asshole shot himself.
SOME of the artsy French & Italian flicks, but not the majority.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Ummmmmm........

You're right, I was off with that second one. Cocking a gun for emphasis doesn't mean it wasn't in a ready-to-fire state beforehand. I think I even read about a time when a police officer pumped his shotgun (ejecting a perfectly good shell) just to scare a suspect into surrendering.

But the first one is definitely a movie mistake. Semiautomatic pistols will lock the slide back after you fire the last round, and that is sometimes shown correctly in movies. But oftentimes they'll pull the trigger multiple times and make the clicking noise, which wouldn't happen. Or if it was a full auto gun, it'll click a bunch of times in succession.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I think it's far more awkward when there's a sex scene and the girl still has her bra on. It's obvious why they do it, but it just seems so unnatural.

hey sometimes you don't want to take the time

 

[7window]

shooting sideways. woohoo

 

[Red Squirrel]

Example? I don't remember seeing anything like that. A lot of times I'll notice a character is still all bruised/bloody/dirty well after a fight scene and I don't even remember how they got that way.

I can't recall any specifics, but I've seen it plenty of times. It's like "wait, how did he get cleaned up so fast?" :awe: