Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Mottrex]

In real life if we applied Tony Stark Tech he'd not have survived even his Caveman mk1 version after that fall from the Sky...He would prollt be lacerated decapitated Dead!

Real world tech and Comic book tech make no sense together...
The Laws of Nature and Science don't really apply.

For every Nasa inspired Space exploration disaster movie there is always the reply from Nasa going..
Well you can't do that
That wouldn't be possible
You'd be toast... etc etc.

 

[PHArchivist]

Have we talked about how the heroes are always absolute experts on the matter at hand? More so than sub-characters that realistically would have far more knowledge?

Case-in-point:
Jurassic Park; Ellie Satler who is an expert in plants (extinct plants), is able to immediately diagnose a living breathing triceratops with far greater ease and accuracy that a man whom has physically worked with live specimens.

Makes no sense...

Then again, Jurassic Park is fraught with piss-poor acting and ridiculousness all around...

 

[Mottrex]

Contemporary music in period pieces (completely destroyed A Knight's Tale... that and the Nike Armor).

Dance scenes where apparently everyone is not only a professional dancer, but they have perfect choreography as well.

Stupid bad guys that REALLY need to read the Evil Overlord List.

People who cannot do accents correctly (I'm looking at you, Kevin Costner...)

Oh I love a Knights Tale..it was one of the first to implement modern music at least it doesn't date it like a lot of 80s synth music soundtracks.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

As I thought I said back when that was posted, but apparently didn't, I angrily refused to watch A Knight's Tale for a long time specifically because of that. It wasn't until I saw something elsewhere with the creators where they said the vernacular and music were deliberate choices as, at the time, that's what the way they talked and the music they listened to sounded like to them, and it clicked for me. Now it's one of my favorite movies, even though it wrecks me every time.

 

[Mottrex]

As I thought I said back when that was posted, but apparently didn't, I angrily refused to watch A Knight's Tale for a long time specifically because of that. It wasn't until I saw something elsewhere with the creators where they said the vernacular and music were deliberate choices as, at the time, that's what the way they talked and the music they listened to sounded like to them, and it clicked for me. Now it's one of my favorite movies, even though it wrecks me every time.

Same..I thought the Trailer really did a disservice to the Movie..
It was a family favorite for a long time in our house..

 

[The Goon]

Have we talked about how the heroes are always absolute experts on the matter at hand? More so than sub-characters that realistically would have far more knowledge?

Right. Remember that James Bond movie where he didn't know what to do so he just froze up and didn't save the day?

Yeah, me either 'cause it didn't happen.

 

[p51]

How about cave airports? Just ask anyone who's ever flown any airplane to see if it's possible to fly directly into a horizontal cave carved from a vertical face, without slapping against any side as you went in. Have the people who write movies ever watched an airplane landing anywhere?
I would say, "Kingsman, I'm looking at you," but I'd seen it in several shows and movies and it's a simple impossibility. Now, you might be able to do so when leaving the cave to fly away, but there's no way you could land in one.

 

[Riceball]

I started watching that Polar movie on Netflix (haven't finished) and in the opening, a shooter sets up what looks like possibly a Barrett .50 or maybe .338 Lapua and he's only 100-200 yds away. Oh and of course he has a huge 6x or 12x scope on it. You could hit the person with iron sights at that distance with a much lower caliber round and do the trick.

Very easy to do. Back when I was in the Marines and still used iron sights exclusively our rifle qual would start at the 200 yard line. A man sized target at 100 yards would be easy for any Marine, esp. if given half way decent optics.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I don't know if this was said, but shows, particularly WWI or WW2 (I'm part way through The King's Man) where they reference events that no one at the time knew about yet. I forget exactly what triggered me to think that in this movie, but it would be like on Dec. 7 1941, there's some US Navy Admiral at Pearl Harbor saying "We should watch out because I have a suspicion Japan might attack today..." They had wargamed that, but no one was thinking that on that morning. The characters are using modern hindsight with knowledge they didn't have at the time.

 

[somerset fox]

Right. Remember that James Bond movie where he didn't know what to do so he just froze up and didn't save the day?

Yeah, me either 'cause it didn't happen.

if I can direct your attention to the finale of Goldfinger, Bond is handcuffed to the atomic bomb, unable to stop it and it’s Felix Leiter who manages to turn it off At 007 seconds to go.

 

[jkno]

 

[The Terminator]

Locked doors, easy to open with a bullet, or two. It's like magic.
*sigh*

 

[Mottrex]

I don't know if this was said, but shows, particularly WWI or WW2 (I'm part way through The King's Man) where they reference events that no one at the time knew about yet. I forget exactly what triggered me to think that in this movie, but it would be like on Dec. 7 1941, there's some US Navy Admiral at Pearl Harbor saying "We should watch out because I have a suspicion Japan might attack today..." They had wargamed that, but no one was thinking that on that morning. The characters are using modern hindsight with knowledge they didn't have at the time.

There are lots of artist licence taken in The Kingsman...
It started off well with Rasputin but the next 1.5 hours drag and are full of a dot to dot of events..more like being in a history lesson than a movie..

 

[Mottrex]

1.Impeccably clean Windscreens!
The car can look like **** but oh boy does that windscreen shine!

2.Underdash lights to illuminate the travellers

3.Cars on trailers so ridiculously high it looks like they are flying!

4. Drivers spinning the steering wheel left then right but still going straight...

 

[Laspector]

Also, cars in tv and movies rarely have a rear view mirror.

 

[Treadwell]

if I can direct your attention to the finale of Goldfinger, Bond is handcuffed to the atomic bomb, unable to stop it and it’s Felix Leiter who manages to turn it off At 007 seconds to go.

It wasn't Felix, but yeah.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

There are lots of artist licence taken in The Kingsman...
It started off well with Rasputin but the next 1.5 hours drag and are full of a dot to dot of events..more like being in a history lesson than a movie..

Yeah it was disappointing compared to the other movies. I really like the part where the dude ducked a sniper round... And to emphasize my point, at the end the one dude says he has a feeling that the the Treaty of Versailles might be too severe and start another war. I've never heard one way or another, but it's possible someone at the time thought that. However I think at the time the Allies were so p*ssed because of the losses that they didn't care what it did to Germany.


I never noticed the car head rest thing. I'm sure now that will be something I can't not notice. Thanks! I'm someone who never sits all the way back to use it though.

 

[dascoyne]

shell casing tropes.

Hero at a crime scene picks up brass with a pencil (there's always the closeup shot with the pencil) and either he or his buddy (who will probably get shot or killed in the second act) comments that he doesn't recognize the markings.

Later at the office/precinct he gives it to the resident gun "expert" who takes days/weeks to get back to him by phone in the second act telling him it was traced to some obscure region of the world or ... ammo that's proprietary to some covert government agency. Is that really a thing?

In one movie the ammo was even traced to some evil corporation. Why would an evil corporation reload their own ammo, have the brass struck with their ID and use their ammo in crime? That's like sending Honda agents to commit corporate espionage in an Odyssey.

 

[mattycsi]

shell casing tropes.

Hero at a crime scene picks up brass with a pencil (there's always the closeup shot with the pencil)

Just this makes me itch all over.

 

[p51]

shell casing tropes.
In one movie the ammo was even traced to some evil corporation. Why would an evil corporation reload their own ammo, have the brass struck with their ID and use their ammo in crime?

There are runs of ammo that are made for a specific nation or company, but unless it's a massive batch of ammo (like being made for a specific nation's military), you're right that they would not have their own headstamps on the casing. 'Beverly Hills Cop 2' had a reasonable answer to that, in that the ammo they talked about in the plot was custom made, cut down from rifle ammo (if memory serves) and they found a gunsmith who could have made it and of course the first place they went was where it'd been modified. But really, anyone with good machine tools and reloading dies could do that work and it wouldn't be nearly that easy to find who'd made them.