Movies that you stopped watching because of inaccuracies

[batguy]

I've heard that they are also being careful to use soldiers from rural areas. Supposedly the people there don't have a lot of communications so those communities aren't hearing from one another about the losses they are taking. If they get to the point of having to conscript from big cities, they will be in trouble because I guess those people don't want to fight. I think Iran, China, and North Korea are just using this as a way to keep the U.S. (and by extension NATO) busy and to spend money/munitions more than they really care about the outcome for Russia.

Militarys draw heavily from rural men by default. As a group they lean higher in patriotism/nationalism and lower in other economic opportunities.

The death tolls in Ukraine would be hard to hide in the internet era. I suspect people are pretty aware of it even in rural Russia.

 

[joberg]

Militarys draw heavily from rural men by default. As a group they lean higher in patriotism/nationalism and lower in other economic opportunities.

The death tolls in Ukraine would be hard to hide in the internet era. I suspect people are pretty aware of it even in rural Russia.

Protect the wealthy:
% of eligible men called up to serve
Sep 21st-Oct 5th 2022
Russia, selected regions with the most red dots:
6
Krasnoyarsk Krai
4
Dagestan
Kalmykia
2
Mobilisation target level
St Petersburg: 2 red dots
Moscow: 1 red dot only!
Ingushetia
Yamalo-Nenets

 

[joberg]

Going back to thread:

 

[drusselmeyer]

Any film with Alec Baldwin handling a firearm with any degree of competency.

You're kidding right? He has enough firearms training that he can now shoot two people with a single bullet! ... without even trying!

 

[drusselmeyer]

Usually, there is a tipping point where I turn off a film or TV show. This Point of Stupidity is when the story should no longer work, but for plot reasons and allotted time it has to continue.

There are fun and whimsical ideas that can be explored, but presentations of mechanically unworkable stories just get to be unbearable.

This hits all genres.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

You're kidding right? He has enough firearms training that he can now shoot two people with a single bullet! ... without even trying!

 

[drusselmeyer]

Okay, back to the topic. The last one I watched was Angels and Demons.

Too many stupid unnecessarily dramatic conflicts with only the Prof surviving.

In the final straw the Tom Hanks character has to rescue a victim from a fountain. The water is only about two feet deep, but it looks like a deep sea rescue. The victim is on a hand truck but somehow is impossible to tip up a foot and a half before drowning.

Too stupid to continue watching.

Any able-bodied man should have been easily able to lift the hand truck in seconds.

 

[dascoyne]

I never liked the climactic speech from "Independence Day." It makes no sense to declare "independence." The world wasn't being subjugated by a foreign regime - we were being exterminated. "Independence" isn't at stake in this scenario.

 

[Astyanax]

I never liked the climactic speech from "Independence Day." It makes no sense to declare "independence." The world wasn't being subjugated by a foreign regime - we were being exterminated. "Independence" isn't at stake in this scenario.

Fair point, but he actually didn't declare independence. It was the 4th of July and he said "today we celebrate our Independence Day". That works for me. And he also pointed out that we're fighting for freedom...not from tyranny but from annihilation.

 

[Solo4114]

Independence Day is an aggressively stupid film. I have always loathed it. It's not even "so bad it's good," which I can at least say about The Patriot. It's just...dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb with awful, awful writing. It's like it was written by a pack of 11-year-olds hopped up on sugary cereals and Mountain Dew.

Honestly, the only Devlin/Emmerich film I actually enjoy is Stargate, and even that is more because of what it allowed to exist (SG-1/Atlantis), rather than for the film itself.

 

[Astyanax]

Independence Day is an aggressively stupid film.

Totally agree. But I love it so much! It hit me at the right point in my life.

 

[Metalalien]

What if it makes you like them more? Baby Secret of The Lost legend is an example of the more dated it gets the more I like it.

 

[dascoyne]

Independence Day is an aggressively stupid film. I have always loathed it. It's not even "so bad it's good," which I can at least say about The Patriot. It's just...dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb with awful, awful writing. It's like it was written by a pack of 11-year-olds hopped up on sugary cereals and Mountain Dew.

That is the other reason.

 

[Clerval]

As soon as there was sound in space in that first crappy Star wars movie I was out.

 

[Riceball]

I never liked the climactic speech from "Independence Day." It makes no sense to declare "independence." The world wasn't being subjugated by a foreign regime - we were being exterminated. "Independence" isn't at stake in this scenario.

Speaking of ID4, it always gets me how in movies like this they always launch air to air missiles at these massive targets be they giant spaceships or kaijus. As if an air to air missile is going to do anything the size of the giant ships in ID4 or a monster the size of Godzilla.

 

[Metalalien]

The only movie in recent memory that was so stupid I can't enjoy it would be Battlefield Earth.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Recent?

 

[Metalalien]

Recent?

The 90s was yesterday.

 

[Treadwell]

Speaking of ID4, it always gets me how in movies like this they always launch air to air missiles at these massive targets be they giant spaceships or kaijus. As if an air to air missile is going to do anything the size of the giant ships in ID4 or a monster the size of Godzilla.

Kind of like in Last Jedi when they attack a five-mile long ship with bombers loaded with thousands of hand grenades.

 

[Astyanax]

Speaking of ID4, it always gets me how in movies like this they always launch air to air missiles at these massive targets be they giant spaceships or kaijus. As if an air to air missile is going to do anything the size of the giant ships in ID4 or a monster the size of Godzilla.

I dunno, not to defend ID4 for realism, but two thoughts come to mind:

1. You can take out a very large ocean vessel with a single well-placed torpedo.
2. I think desperation played a part here.