"fake" things in movies that piss you off.

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Svnla

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Nov 10, 2003
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A few things.

In the movie, the hacker just took a few minutes to crack the password code/firewall because of his mad skillz yo.

I can't stand it when the movies have fake/totally wrong foreign langues/dialog.

After a horrible car crash, the main character just climbed out, shook his head, dust his shirt, and went on his business with only a few cuts here and there.
 

SandEagle

Lifer
Aug 4, 2007
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i really hate when some device is going to blow up and the protagonist diffuses it with 00:00:01 left on the clock. so dumb.
 

CountZero

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Jul 10, 2001
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Any time someone puts something in a microwave to cause an explosion it always explodes when the microwave beeps that it is done. This isn't some kind of foreign technology to people like hacking so it just feels lazy and stupid.

Also hate that every crime database search flashes through pictures of suspects while searching for the match.
 

Paratus

Lifer
Jun 4, 2004
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Basically for me it's the unrealistic way space travel is portrayed. So basically Arma fuckin geddon

Sound in space
Shuttles flying like airplanes
Spinning MIR before docking
Spinning a not round space station for gravity.
Astronauts going up the elevator and some going left and others going right when the two pads are a fucking mile apart.

And Bay had access to all of our facilities at JSC and that's the crap he produced?!
 

Pray To Jesus

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The star always finding the parking spot open right in front of the place they need to go to.

The slow motion walk away from an explosion where the star does not even flinch. (some how they are so badass that they are not concerned about shrapnel in the least) I really hate this one the most.

Video game players where they hold the controller with the arms straight out in front of them twisting it around all spastic.

Jumping through glass windows and the windows easily just break away and the star does not get a single cut. Don't most people have dual pane glass now. I would love to see a movie where the guy runs and jumps at the window and he just bounces back off of it.

Scenes where they are eating dinner, they take one or two bites and they are done. This happens most often at breakfast. You just wonder why the mom even bothers. Plus they seem to have time to make these huge breakfasts in the first place.

Finally the poor guy living in an apartment or home they obviously could never afford in real life. They always live in some huge place. This happens a lot in movies based in New York.

This song is for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo
 

middlehead

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Jul 11, 2004
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The ladyparts is watching Grey's Anatomy, which I'd have sworn was already off the air a few months ago, and they just now had a doctor use a tablet to delete a patient's records. So very many things wrong with that.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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For those of you whining about the guns: Plenty of models do NOT lock back on the last round.

Also, many guns easily get worn and sometimes slip forward on the last round even if they arent supposed to.

And all SA/DA's and most DAO's (those without a half-cock) will click-click-click under that circumstance.
 

TheSlamma

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Sep 6, 2005
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Cars in horror movies never start.. it could be a brand new Toyota right off the lot.. guy with a chainsaw comes along.. that bitch ain't startin'
 

ProchargeMe

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I get annoyed when someone gets pistol whipped and they remain unconscious for hours. If you didn't wake up within minutes you're either dead or dead.
 

Gibsons

Lifer
Aug 14, 2001
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i really hate when some device is going to blow up and the protagonist diffuses it with 00:00:01 left on the clock. so dumb.

You have to admit it's really helpful of the bad guys to put a gigantic digital timer on the bomb.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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You have to admit it's really helpful of the bad guys to put a gigantic digital timer on the bomb.
And helpful of them to leave all the critical wires accessible.

Note to self: If I need to make a bomb, be sure to stock up on epoxy ahead of time, and pot the entire assembly. Good luck extracting any of that stuff from its tomb. :D
 

Gibsons

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And helpful of them to leave all the critical wires accessible.

Note to self: If I need to make a bomb, be sure to stock up on epoxy ahead of time, and pot the entire assembly. Good luck extracting any of that stuff from its tomb. :D

And put 30 other wires going in every direction that do nothing. All red. :)

Then set the bomb to go off when the timer hits 1:37.
 
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And helpful of them to leave all the critical wires accessible.

Note to self: If I need to make a bomb, be sure to stock up on epoxy ahead of time, and pot the entire assembly. Good luck extracting any of that stuff from its tomb. :D

That's where the terrorists in True Lies did well. Set a nuke, then cover that shit in concrete. Ain't nobody defusin' this bitch. Fortunately they made up for that with incompetence in every other conceivable area (except getting motorcycles to defy gravity, because why bother outrunning a horse on a motorcycle on the ground when you can do it in the sky?).
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

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Sep 15, 2000
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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
Are you talking about the traffic warden in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
 

bunnyfubbles

Lifer
Sep 3, 2001
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When people are obviously NOT actually driving a car or motorcycle. I'm almost certain that in acting school there is an actual lesson entitled "How to move the steering wheel back and forth to attempt to give the illusion that you're actually steering."

the thing I hate most about driving scenes are the times when the driver basically stares at whomever he is talking to in the passenger seat and can somehow keep driving without veering off the road