Most common errors found in mainstream movies?

[CZroe]

http://www.universetoday.com/81996/bad-science-in-movies/

The chart missed things like "FTL travel" in Stargate, but it's still worth reading.

 

[sdifox]

When they change a true story to make it more Hollywood.

300 was unwatchable because of this.

300 was based on the comic no?

 

[busydude]

300 was based on the comic no?

Graphic Novel.

 

[pontifex]

Graphic Novel.

wow, is history optional in schools these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

 

[SandEagle]

http://www.moviemistakes.com/

 

[jman19]

wow, is history optional in schools these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

Uh, he's right about it not being a Hollywood concoction - it is based on a graphic novel, which itself is based on the real Battle of Thermopylae. Fail.

 

[waggy]

wow, is history optional in schools these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

yes..there was a real battle.

but the movie 300 was based off a graphic novel. read it then watch the movie...

 

[busydude]

wow, is history optional in schools these days? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

Last time I checked, schools from East learn history that is vastly different from what is taught in the west.

Why are elephants from India like 50 feet high and when did man domesticate Rhinos? What kind of history is that?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Why are elephants from India like 50 feet high and when did man domesticate Rhinos? What kind of history is that?

At the risk of defending a comic book movie, many stories of old (especially about battles) were told and retold over many years/generations. Exaggerations are introduced and grow over time. To someone who has never seen an elephant and is describing one that was described to him that was described to him, etc, it would not be uncommon to call it a 50ft beast with razor-sharp tusks, etc.

As you can tell by the end of 300, most of the movie is actually being told by one-eye-guy, while rallying the troops for full-on war some time after the events at Thermopylae . You probably don't rally too many troops by saying, "Yeah, they had some animals I didn't really recognize, but since they are from a foreign land, that's perfectly understandable and they weren't really anything special." No, you say, "Holy FUCK guys - they got demons and sorcerers and unicorns with crocodiles for cocks! But we're Spartans, and just 3 of us caught and tamed the 4-ton, 12-ft tall lions and rode them into battle eating Persians on the left and and ass-fucking and then eating the ones on the right. Sparta! FUCK YEAH!"

Also, it was a movie, not a History Channel special.

 

[sandorski]

At the risk of defending a comic book movie, many stories of old (especially about battles) were told and retold over many years/generations. Exaggerations are introduced and grow over time. To someone who has never seen an elephant and is describing one that was described to him that was described to him, etc, it would not be uncommon to call it a 50ft beast with razor-sharp tusks, etc.

As you can tell by the end of 300, most of the movie is actually being told by one-eye-guy, while rallying the troops for full-on war some time after the events at Thermopylae . You probably don't rally too many troops by saying, "Yeah, they had some animals I didn't really recognize, but since they are from a foreign land, that's perfectly understandable and they weren't really anything special." No, you say, "Holy FUCK guys - they got demons and sorcerers and unicorns with crocodiles for cocks! But we're Spartans, and just 3 of us caught and tamed the 4-ton, 12-ft tall lions and rode them into battle eating Persians on the left and and ass-fucking and then eating the ones on the right. Sparta! FUCK YEAH!"

Also, it was a movie, not a History Channel special.

Lol, too true. A friends wife(GF at the time) is from Iran, so she was kinda excited/interested in watching my 300 DVD. After 10 minutes she was all "WTF is this shit". It was quite amusing, turned it off, switched movies.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

How about horribly blatant product placement (see Blade 3)

 

[SagaLore]

My wife points out that the sound of Loons around water, where there should not be loons, is very very common.

 

[CallMeJoe]

My wife points out that the sound of Loons around water, where there should not be loons, is very very common.

Why are we not surprised that your wife would be intimately familiar with the habits of loons?

 

[waggy]

Why are we not surprised that your wife would be intimately familiar with the habits of loons?

well she did merry him!

 

[Anubis]

wow, is history optional in schools these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

are you trying to be an idiot?

 

[busydude]

Also, it was a movie, not a History Channel special.

LOL.. History Channel shows are, sometimes, more baseless and inconsistent than movies.

 

[CZroe]

well she did merry him!

"merry?"

 

[TraumaRN]

CPR....as an ER/Trauma nurse I almost want to cry when I see them perform CPR in movies...I realize why, but it still gives people this idea that they barely have to press on the chest to do anything.

Real life CPR is pretty freaking violent and extremely tiring. I'm fairly in shape and after 5 minutes of CPR I'm basically sweating my ass off/feeling like I ran a mile

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Shocking a flatline. I'm not even a doctor, but I know this is dumb and retarded.

And not exactly in lots of movies, but stealth in space. Impossible. Don't try it, its impossible. There is no way to achieve visible stealth or thermal stealth or really any sort of stealth from common detection methods.

 

[Kommander_Kink]

I really hate how time gets compressed. In one scene Bond is in London and then like pi seconds later he is in Trinidad. The Concord was fast but not that fast.

Do you really expect the movie to devote 20 minutes to James Bond's flight from London to Trinidad? :facepalm:

 

[grrl]

The most famous one of all, creating a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track a killer's IP address.

 

[cKGunslinger]

And not exactly in lots of movies, but stealth in space. Impossible. Don't try it, its impossible. There is no way to achieve visible stealth or thermal stealth or really any sort of stealth from common detection methods.

Why so?

 

[Born2bwire]

As far as bullets making sparks, that's perfectly realistic. Unless you're shooting some unjacketed 22 or something, most rounds are going to have some sort of jacket over the lead core. A lot of surplus used steel instead of copper, which does tend to spark quite a bit.

If you don't believe me, take a ride down to the range at NRA HQ (I think I recall you're in Northern VA) and ask them. They will flip out if you're firing steel core there (also common in soviet surplus), but they don't always like steel jacketed either. It all sparks when it hits the backstop.

I always used milsurp ammo that had steel cores. I never saw it spark when I went to the range, even when we were shooting boiler plate targets. Sure it can, but it doesn't happen too often or just isn't noticeable in the day in my experience. The bigger problem with the steel core and jacketed rounds is that they put a lot more wear on backstops.

 

[angminas]

Shocking a flatline. I'm not even a doctor, but I know this is dumb and retarded.

And not exactly in lots of movies, but stealth in space. Impossible. Don't try it, its impossible. There is no way to achieve visible stealth or thermal stealth or really any sort of stealth from common detection methods.

Don't be in a hurry to say what's going to be impossible in the future.

 

[SagaLore]

"merry?"