What's a common mistake you see in movies that really bugs you?

CrystianMassengill · 1 year

Teeth.

In every movie I have ever seen, the actors have had perfect teeth, no matter what situation they were in. Refugee? Pirate? Living on an island for twenty years?

Fucking dazzling white smile!

Goddamnit, Hollywood.

SerinaLightning · 1 year

casting a really pretty girl or a really cute boy as someone who is supposedly "ugly" or undesired.

ShibuyaStation · 1 year

When women wake up in the morning fresh out of bed with perfect makeup and hair...As a girl I can confirm that just does not happen. If I go to bed with makeup still on, when I wake up my mascara and eyeliner is smeared everywhere, and my hair is a thick mess.

DeweyFat · 1 year

Women who look like models beating up 200 pound men.

I'm not sexist; Cyborg Santos will fuck my Irish ass up. Lucy Liu, however, will get thrown through a wall.

never_odd_or_even · 1 year

Any film that portrays computer hacking, I've never once seen it done right.

Zambeezi · 1 year

"Take that 2 pixel by 2 pixel image and enhance it! Can you see the perp on in the corner at 1080p resolution?"

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i8wg · 1 year

Exploding cars.

Also, protagonist crashes into numerous other cars, jumps over "randomly" appearing ramp, car hits ground and of course it still drives with no axis broken...

Fouburrito · 1 year

When a group of bad guys attack the hero one at a time. See also: Video games.

Erebus77 · 1 year

Most boat things.

1) The captain rarely if ever steers the ship. He/She has people for that.

2) Most modern vessels don't have a big wooden wheel. They are mostly steered with jog-sticks now. Virtually all modern vessels are equipped with some form of autopilot.

3) Ships don't just pull up to a dock and "stop". You need bow/stern lines, spring lines, breast lines, etc. THEN you need to put out a gangway to get off the ship. None of this seems to happen in movies (I'm looking at you, ROTK).

4) The ocean is deep. You can't just anchor ANYWHERE.

5) Speaking of anchors: they work by digging into the sea floor like a plow, to prevent a ship from drifting away. Their physical weight isn't very great in comparison to the ship, and simply dropping it straight down so it's just sitting there won't do anything.

6) You can't sneak on board by dressing like a member of the crew and nonchalantly wandering up the gangway. Most cargo ships have a crew of less than 20, and they work together in close quarters for months on end. Not only do they recognize each other, after any length of time they know a shocking amount about each others' lives. You will not go unnoticed.

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BelleWynne · 1 year

COFFEE!!! When actors carry their coffee cups or mugs and there is obviously NO coffee in the cups because they carry it so carelessly. In real life it would spill. AND you can tell they're taking fake sips.UGHH gets me every time.

PKMKII · 1 year

That any blow to the back of the head or neck will conveniently knock someone out for 20-30 minutes (or as much time is needed for the plot), at which point they will wake up perfectly fine. Most of the time, that will either result in a person going "Oww," them falling unconscious for <5 minutes, or falling unconscious for longer and suffering serious brain damage or death.

Cars exploding from running into something or getting shot at.

Cops that can repeatedly disregard all protocols, civil rights, etc., and never suffer so much as a write-up.

Not so much a mistake, but Hollywood films in which all Europeans have English accents.

Exponentiallyrandom · 1 year

Silencers are much louder than the 'pew' sound you hear in movies.

Celebutaunt · 1 year

People not saying hello or goodbye when talking on the phone. Also how most people automatically know who they'll be talking to as soon as they pick up, without looking at call display or anything. That shit doesn't fly in real life.

macmeyers50 · 1 year

The sound of being punched in the face. What the fuck is with that loud awkward sound. I've only ever seen a few movies do it right.

AveofSpades · 1 year

The fact that every bad guy ever can't aim a gun worth a shit. Whomever is in charge of 'Evil Villian Academy' needs to get his shit together and start hiring better teachers.

a_sentient_rock · 1 year

People pointing guns at eachother while standing at point blank range.

Do they really want to be disarmed so badly? Would it really hurt to stand a few feet further away?

Selectivefire · 1 year

Car tires that screech on dirt or grass.

mrsaiko · 1 year

Cars have an infinite number of gear changes.

RaptorMuhammad · 1 year

Any movie/commercial/etc. where the actor is playing an instrument horrendously wrong. I don't think they should need to be professional musicians but seriously, take the time to at least look like you're faking correctly. This is annoying with people playing guitars (its not always completely obvious but you can tell when someone is faking it with no idea what they're doing) but its even worse with drums, and basic drum technique (ie. looking believable on film) is really not very difficult.

nerdscallmegeek · 1 year

When there are dialog scenes in a moving vehicle and the driver is just not paying attention at all.

There are still payphones everywhere.

helodriver87 · 1 year

How every firearm ever used in a movie. EVER. Seems to have no need to have a mag change. unless it ties into the movie somehow, Like if the hero runs out of ammo and has to get into a fist fight.

crimsondelorean · 1 year

Semi-trucks!! In movies they travel 70 miles an hour and never slow down when they are about to hit something. They just honk at the last minute and even if they drive the other guy off the road or hit something they don't ever stop to see if they are ok, just just keep barreling down the road.

Blink_ · 1 year

This one isn't necessarily a mistake, but it is a funny constant that bugs me. Eating food. The next time you watch a tv show or movie -- doesn't matter which -- watch as they purchase or make brand new food, take a bite, and throw it away or leave it just sitting there.

Obviously there's no time to watch them eat a whole meal. It's just that they're looking for filler and think: just have him start on a hot dog.

catvllvs · 1 year

Junkies injecting incorrectly.

gabrielle1106 · 1 year

Every Latin American country = Mexican music. FUCK OFF.

KhanOfBorg · 1 year

When the protagonist has finally knocked down the 'bad guy' and proceeds to run away. You know that they're going to get back up again later and come find/kill everyone. Why not just finish them off, or, if faint of heart, tie them up securely and guard them with a knife/gun while the authorities show up?

Also, if you hear creepy noises and think that a serial killer might be out in the woods, why would you proceed to go outdoors (usually at night) to search for them like you're some kind of hero? Barricade your cabin/whatever, get weapons, and sit in the middle of room (or secure hiding place), paying attention to all doors and windows. Hopefully you weren't silly enough to not bring a cell phone or other means of communication.

BMan3000 · 1 year

When there's a countdown (say, if a bomb is about to explode) and people are trying to escape, the seconds it takes to get out never matches the scene has taken to run. The part in Independence day when they arm the A-Bomb and fly out in like, 40 seconds yet there's 30 on the detonation clock is a prime example of this.

fancytalk · 1 year

Pretty much any portrayal of scientific research. It isn't sexy to show teams of people throwing themselves at problems for their whole careers, much better to have one brilliant and motivated person figure things out in a matter of weeks.

I've been watching Grey's Anatomy recently and it is terrible with this. One character is trying to make artificial cartilage in her spare time and gets asked "Why not leave it up to the biochemists?" to which she responds "Because they don't want it like I do."

You know what? Fuck you! I am an aspiring scientist and find the implication that medical researchers "don't want it" extremely insulting. Now, there are many criticisms you can make about medical research and doctors certainly should have a role in the process but many researchers live and die for their results. The reason medicine is not perfect is because these are really hard problems. It's not something they can just figure out in their spare time, they go to schools for decades and make research their life's work.

capt_potato · 1 year

Crawling through perfectly clean ventilation ducts in buildings. What it really looks like

sirdrizzzle · 1 year

"Zoom in and Enhance"

trekbette · 1 year

People hanging up phones without staying goodbye or really anything.
Star Trek is the most guilty of this... ringing the doorbell and when no one answers in two seconds, announcing no one is home.
Someone (usually the hero) getting shot, particularly in a vital area, and continuing on as though it is just a scratch.
If there's a fat person, they are going to be stupid, greedy and/or on the side of the bad guy. They won't be the main bad guy, more like a minion.
An explosion does not cause any damage to anyone, even if they are in the blast zone. I love this scene from The Other Guys: SPOLIER!

DTMark · 1 year

cars that can go 80mph in reverse. shit will top out at 20-30 max

latebaroque · 1 year

I hate how in "hacking" scenes the computer monitor is also a projector that projects whatever is on the screen onto the user's face.

Apparently if the code from some unnecessarily graphically dramatic os is dancing upon your face, you're super pro.

apaintingofmyshoe · 1 year

Silencers don't silence guns, they just give them a weird reverberating sound to disguise their place of origin.

Any Hollywood "science".

katesrepublic · 1 year

When an unconscious/dead body is found and they barely touch their wrist for like one second and conclusively announce "NO PULSE". Ah, no shit moron, maybe you're doing it wrong?

jl97332 · 1 year

When police in movies clear a room with their weapons pointed at the ceiling.

Unless the bad guy is hiding in the ceiling that gun ain't gonna do a helluva Lotta good pointed there.

Mowgli3 · 1 year

"Human only use 10% of their brains." Um, maybe you do, but I'm not comatose or completely functionally retarded.

[deleted] · 1 year

How in every high school movie all the kids just hang out in the hallways all day long. In real school were rushing to get across the building to not be late for class

russianout · 1 year

Someone strikes a match and pretty much lights the whole room.

joeyjojo667 · 1 year

Seth Rogen getting the girl.

betelgeux · 1 year

Stuka dive horns on any aircraft in a dive.

Planes in a dive do NOT go WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

G-Winnz · 1 year

Another gun-related one: shooting through a scope. View through the scope is rock-steady. Video games are a bit better, showing a slight wiggle, but it's really a lot worse, and holding your breath doesn't make your hold go solid.

karlhungis · 1 year

Military uniforms and haircuts.

Lakshata · 1 year

Explosions causing fire.

thyyoungclub · 1 year

The impossible shit they do in sports movies bothers me greatly. All these high school athletes can suddenly pull out bicycle kicks and throw a 60 yard spiral for a touch down. AND THEY BREAK BASIC RULES. I've never heard of being able to bring in players during playoffs from other schools in an interscholastic competition.

staplesgowhere · 1 year

Camcorder video playback on a TV shows a viewfinder rectangle and blinking REC indicator.

Spraypaintfire · 1 year

People in a meeting yelling out random technical jargon that doesn't make any sense.

Snorfalorf · 1 year

Alright here's a few paragraphs I've come up with, followed by a few links to justify my points expressed throughout this note.

FIRST:

A defibrillator can not restart a heart if it has already stopped. Jesus cunt shitting fucking christ, I have literally never, in my entire life, seen a defibrillator employed correctly on any television show, movie, or commercial EVER. It can correct ventricular fibrillation (a state where the muscles in the heart are contracting randomly, causing the heart to quiver rather than beat) by actually stopping the heart temporarily with the hopes that it will resume beating again with a normal rhythm. If the heart has already stopped completely, if there are no contractions of any kind, the defibrillator would be useless, as stopping the heart more wouldn't lead to anything.

SECOND:

When a planet "blows up", it does not send out a single concentric ring of energy/force/debris/whatfuckingever. Lucas needs to be shot in the head for starting that bullshit.

THIRD:

I absolutely fucking hate it when I see television employ the use of people CARRYING and I mean CARRYING around fucking Browning .50cal and MG42 variant machine guns like they were nothing.

First off, those guns weigh over 60 pounds each and they fire .50 and .38 caliber rounds that are taller than a dollar bill placed vertically and whose rounds fire at over 13,144 lbf (Foot pounds). That's like a fucking cannon shot on every round fired.

And yet our hero runs valiantly through jungles mowing any and all in his way.

FOURTH:

YOU CANNOT DEFLECT A LASER WITH ANOTHER LASER FUCK YOU STARWARS

ALSO, THERE IS NO SOUND IN SPACE MEANING YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR THE SHIPS ZIPPING AROUND LIKE FUCKING SCREAMING DRAGONS

FIFTH:

Say you get shot in the head, you would think your head would blow back, right? Wrong. Your head follows the turbulence caused by the bullet's trajectory, meaning you would actually lean forward, not back (This is why the JFK assassination is a total mystery)

SIXTH:

Any time Occam's Razor is mentioned when characters are trying to figure something out

OCCAM'S RAZOR IS NOT "THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION IS MOST OFTEN CORRECT"

HOLY SHIT I CAN NOT EXPRESS MY RAGE AT THIS ENOUGH

Occam's Razor is this: All other things equal, the solution WITH THE LEAST ASSUMPTIONS is most likely correct.

SEVENTH:

Watching Independence Day is excruciatingly painful to watch.

Overlooking the fact that Jeff Goldblum had his Eureka moment by realizing the way to disable the computer-controlled shield was computer hacking (Who would have thought that? Only his genius father.), disregarding the fact that he managed to code a "virus" (technically a trojan) within 10 minutes, and whistling inconspicuously at the fact that he had no idea what the fuck kind of architecture the alien computers are built on, there is one moment in this film that turned my face the colors of the rainbow: The moment he used his laptop to "connect to host", and "upload virus".

I can't even begin to explain in how many ways this is worthy of atomic rage. Firstly, the fact that the aliens are using a network that follows human rules, as if they were sent the latest TCP/IP RFCs and were happy to oblige. Second, for fuck's sake, a loading bar? Are modern computers so advanced as to know how much it takes to connect to an alien mothership? What the hell? And how about physical device connection? What did he use? A "universal" serial bus? Then there's the whole "uploading virus" business, which would make a skiddie chuckle. IT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS EVEN ON HUMAN COMPUTERS MUCH LESS IN THE ADVANCED SUPERCOMPUTERS THE ALIENS ARE USING FUCK. And then there's the whole thing of writing a GUI for all this, as if anyone else besides the coder was going to use it.

EIGHTH:

A LASER CANNOT DESTROY A PLANET

IT CAN CUT IT IN HALF AND WHAT NOT BUT IT WILL NEVER MAKE IT EXPLODE

HOLY TITS EIGHT AND A HALF

The idea that aliens will be pretty much the same as us and will eat food that we can eat. Because apparently they independently evolved the usage of the same twenty left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. The idea that we will land on alien worlds and start eating their fruit and shit. Protip: it's going to taste bad and will kill you. Taste is a chemical detection system and will only work if random alien plants on random alien planets happen to use fructose and mango flavinoids or some shit instead of an assload of other possible sugars.

Oh, and DNA. Apparently everything in the universe happens to use DNA as genetic material. The idea that DNA contains any meaningful genetic "memory" (Assassin's Creed is retarded.)

And one episode of Star Trek Voyager had some people evolving into lizards because it was a logical progression of how humans had evolved from lower animals even though evolution happens in context and DNA doesn't have a directional memory.

fuck people don't understand basic biology

NINTH:

Numbers - Luckily I'm able to speak 1337

CSI - GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address I MEAN C'MON VISUAL BASIC

CSI - Quick reflect the image off her cornea I MEAN CHECK OUT THAT FUCKING RESOLUTION

CSI - Who knew IP address tracking was so easy? THE LIMIT IS 255 YET THE KIDDIE HACKERS HAVE 359 WHAT THE FUCK

THEY PLAY PRINCE OF PERSIA TO UNLOCK TERRORIST CODES WHAT THE FUCK

.50cal round

EDIT: I FIXED SOMETHING ABOUT THE GUNS YEAH

dedaigneux · 1 year

Black people die first.

Useless girls get saved. Independent women die first.

Lesbians don't exist.

Gay guys are evil.

Everyone in Europe has a British accent.

If they're European and they don't have a British accent, they're evil.

Everyone's white. Unless it's an action movie or a plot point.

Non-white guys never date white women. Unless it's a plot point.

Fat people don't exist, unless they're punch lines.

Everyone's rich.

All women are young. If they appear to be over 30, they will be a plot device.

Bullets never run out.

If you get shot, you can fully recover with no negative consequences.

If you get stabbed, you can fully recover with no negative consequences.

Everything in the solar system is really close together. It doesn't take long at all to get anywhere.

Children are brave, independent, and smarter than adults.

Powerful politicians are interested in doing the right thing.

Being in the military involves a lot of action and not a lot of sitting around.

Everyone who works in an office has a cubicle.

Hacking involves green lines of symbols on a black background.

You go to bed with makeup on if you're a woman, and wake up perfectly coiffed. Unless it's a comedy or plot device.

There are no such things as pimples, pores, blemishes, or chapped lips.

Being drunk always involves a lot of fun, and not a lot of crying and vomiting.

Most women wear impractically high heels on a regular basis instead of flats.

Everyone is either the size of a whale (and it's hilarious) or they're the size of a model. You can't be average-sized, dumpy, chubby, or getting fat in your old age. Unless you're a dude, and you're affably fat. But you won't be having sex.

Prostitutes look like porn stars. Strippers look like porn stars. Models look like porn stars, not grotesquely tall and thin 14-year olds.

ashowofhands · 1 year

very rarely do i see believable driving/steering. you don't need to turn the wheel back and forth on a straight highway, for example

Kunkletown · 1 year

When cars explode like they are made of old dynamite.

Frusciante62 · 1 year

The plane in Con Air, which was out of fuel at the time, exploded as if it were painted with the thermite material on the Hindenberg.

[deleted] · 1 year

Oh my god, CPR. Seriously, if your arms aren't straight and perpendicular to the person's chest you are doing absolutely nothing. This movie has enough money to pay millions of dollars for A-list celebrities but not enough to consult anyone (no need for a doctor, an EMT will do! or anyone who has ever been certified for CPR!) about how to correctly do CPR???? AGHH

[deleted] · 1 year

When the antagonist / bad guy is about to shoot someone / blow something up / pull the trigger, they give themselves an extra couple of seconds MORE than the protagonist needs to stop him- I realize it's a movie, but it makes it incredibly unbelievable at a climactic moment.

betelgeux · 1 year

Slap in new mag, actuate slide. ARRRRRG!!!

Long shots with pistols.

Jet powered aircraft exploding from a single gunshot.

needshelp971 · 1 year

When it rains, the thunder and lightning occur simultaneously.

pacman404 · 1 year

People flying backwards when they get shot by a pistol. It would take a small cannon to lift a body off of the ground and throw them backwards through a window

fancytalk · 1 year

It's always blatantly shitty science behind some plot device that makes no sense whatsoever. And what's worse, it's often really easy to explain stuff that if the script writers had bothered to Google or director bothered to consult a scientist on, would've turned out great.

Geinsta · 1 year

World War 2 movies that depict every german tank being a Tiger. In reality they were uncommon outside of elite units like the waffen SS or grossdeutchland.

[deleted] · 1 year

Anything involving a semi-automatic handgun.

dannyboy000 · 1 year

Young, hip, tech-savvy characters still have landlines. BS

ensi · 1 year

Guns!!

No recoil, ever.
On semi's when the slide never.. slides and there are no ejected casings.
'Silencers' (Supressors) that make space laz0rr PEW PEW sounds, it's more like a click, YouTube it.
"Hey bro got any spare clips?" "Yeah they-IT'S CALLED A MAGAZINE. A MAG. A CLIP IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
When someone shoots 15 bullets out of a standard 1911.
When you see the good/bad guys preparing for battle, they all chamber their weapons, then they chamber the same unfired weapons again at a climax. This would eject a perfectly good round.

Aadarm · 1 year

Silencers completely muting gunshots. Even a suppressed 9mm can still cause hearing damage damnit.

Soldiers wearing uniforms wrong, calling helos choppers, ignoring everything taught in BCT, handling guns like idiots.

irobot335 · 1 year

When the bad guys have perfect shot on everyone except the main character(s).

pseudolobster · 1 year

That you can hack into an alien computer system and upload a virus from a mac laptop.

i_hate_lamp · 1 year

newton's first law of motion. your spaceship is just fucking wasting fuel.

8BitMunky · 1 year

Any film/tv show that shows 2 people sharing a keyboard... Ahem, NCIS... ಠ_ಠ

adifferentjk · 1 year

You do realize that the vast majority of Europeans drive on the right side of the road, correct?

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Wotcho · 1 year

People seem to have unlimited ammo in their guns, never reload.

WuhanWTF · 1 year

An M16 with more than 30 rounds fired without reloading.

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