No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I hate it when they try too hard and still manage to screw it up.

Hollywood does not know how computers, or computer games, work.

This does not stop them from creating their own games, hackers, computer experts, hardware, etc.

Particularly with games, I understand, licensing costs money. But seriously, you could put a little more effort into it...


This, and scenes like it, are what really grind my gears.

Also the movie "Hackers" because we all know when you hack the world becomes Tron

Ok, I dislike the misinformation people get from movies about how "hacking" works. But think of it like this... the average person who may own a PC doesn't necessarily know how the thing works. For all they know, and for all they'll care to learn, "hacking" is all CGI nonsense, whether or not its true. And the other side of it, Hollywood isnt' about to put 3 hours of boring scenes of a guy typing commands into a non-GUI O/S, its boring. Must have flashies or the normal people will leave movie and demand refund.

 

[Irridium]

Gunshots to the legs/shoulder are perfectly survivable, but get shot in the torso and instant death.

That shit makes me rage. Because it's the exact fucking OPPOSITE in real life.

 

[themind]

This is sort of the opposite of a pet peeve, but I get a huge kick out of movies/TV when a protagonist is either a) rolling around in a muddy, filthy environment or b) fighting in the rain, and in the case of A, there is no visible dirt in the very next scene and in the case of B, is dry as a bone.

Also, women victims running away from an assailant in high heels. Always makes me laugh.

Finally, and this is one I never quite noticed until my fiance pointed it out, but there are an ass ton of movies where two women will get into a huge sword battle or sai battle, it goes on for 10 minutes, they are both sweating profusely... but their make-up doesn't smear, smudge, or blemish in any way. lol.

Continuing on with that theme, it is historically uproarious to see make-up on women in medieval movies. Anachronism for 500, Alex.

 

[renegade7]

Well NCIS's blatant assault on computer science has already been mentioned.

So I'm going to rip on Burn Notice. Usually a decent show but for fuck's sake learn how to use a gun. Also it seems to follow the Grand Theft Auto approach to law enforcement...the cops pretty much forget you exist 5 minutes after killing a few people in the street and blowing up their house/car/place of work.

Explosions...for fuck's sake, explosions...just no. If you're standing right next to a blast like that, you're done for. Although realistically explosions don't even look like that. And guns don't blow up cars.

Lasers could well be deadly weapons, but they would be basically be like several miles-long swords...cutting weapons, not ballistic ones.

Space...just no. No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! Not even going to explain everything Hollywood regularly gets wrong about space.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Wait, wait, fucking WAIT. You'll do WHAT!?

My fucking god, how do you say something like that with a straight face? That's a crime against humanity.

 

[Surpheal]

Not many thing throw me over the edge in the whole of things, but I can name a few:

Gasoline explosions: Sure they look nice and pretty, but a massive airstrike doesn't look like I just blew up a fucking BP oil rig.
Firing sounds: An assault rifle and a heavy machine gun do not make the same FUCKING noise.
Grenade detonation: A Frag grenade can not throw up a plume of dust up detonation, just no.

This one doesn't have to do much with movies, more with video games:

Gatling guns: A gatling gun does not sound like every other machine gun when it fires, by that meaning you can't hear every round firing. They make more of a roaring noise due to there rate of fire.

On another note, my Captcha is telling me to save yourself.

Actually you can hear every individual shot of a gatling gun. Going to nitpick here because the gatling gun is actually over 140 years old at this point. Modern miniguns however do just have the roaring sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyEn_xLeAwk&feature=related

Otherwise every single one of those points is valid though.

I was just talking about the modern ones, because the only time I have ever played a game which used the original gatling guns circa the Civil war era was Jurassic the Hunted.

 

[nuba km]

Blatant disregard for the laws of physics.
And the start of 2012, Neutrinos? Causing the whole Earth to bonkers? Dafuq? That is like me saying that the sun (a pretty average, stable star) has just decided to scrap that whole "weak nuclear force" thing and do whatever the F*** it likes. NO 2012 directors, just NO.

If you've never seen this bit, it illustrates just how silly that line is.


Another thing I dislike is when they use explosives that create the wrong effect. Its like when they have "plastic explosives" and whatever they're blowing up bursts into flames, which is what happens when gasoline explodes. Yeah, I know they do it because the big mass of fire looks a lot cooler than a giant puff of smoke, but still, its just infuriating.

Also, anytime someone throws a sword, you do not ever throw a sword, EVER!!!!! I'm looking at you The Last Samurai.

my family watched this stand up show together (on tv) and when he said 'the neutrinos have mutated' me and my brother burst out into a fit of laughter while my sister and mum didn't realize how wrong that sentence was until darra O'brien started making the comparisons.

OT: well when me and my brother were watching Full metal alchemist brotherhood, one of the characters took out the electricity to take out all the lights, but for some reason the taking out of the electricity also got rid of a camp fire by it just having a small explosion. Me and my brother spend the rest of the show making fun of that scene especially when one characters says something like 'you haven't asked one question' me or my brother would say, 'why did the fire explode?'

edit:

Holly wood! I WILL STAB YOU DEAD!

my brother will stab the person that mentions this kind of stuff to him.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Explosions. There hasn't been a single hollywood movie that has gotten explosions right. People are standing right next to big (and little) blasts and getting knocked back a little - when in reality, they would die from all their organs liquifying.

Worst example: Mission Impossible 3, on the bridge. Tom Cruise runs away from a Missile explosion that hits about 5 metres behind him, and all that happens is he gets thrown into a car.
At that distance he should have been dead, not mildly inconvenienced.

Depends on a few factors... even though the standard radius for most air to ground missiles is 100m to be safe, people have survived being around 5 meters away...

but I agree though, movies are rediculous and take it to the wrong level!!

 

[El Camarado]

It is pretty much a given that Hollywood is going to get science, tech, and details about culture and subcultures wrong much more often then they get them right. Part of this is because of what is referred to as the 'coconut effect', though others are just because most people with knowledge of things other than writing will go into fields other than writing.

Here's a list of some things that bother me that I don't believe have been mentioned yet.

-Ninjas wearing dark black clothing. Even at night, wearing black will get you spotted without too much difficulty. Often for stealth plain clothes work best, because people are usually among other people, and most people wear plain clothes and not Hollywood-Ninja-Stagehand costumes. Well at least they are not...

-Ninjas wearing very obvious clothing. Orange jumpsuits and other such things.

-The idea that magic has to be unexplainable, if magic violates scientific principles that we are accustomed with, that is fine, but don't say that because something is magic it can just blindly violate any law, theory, or theorem that it wants.

-On that note: Science is not the opposite of magic, you can apply science to magic and it can easily still be considered magic. The two are not at ends, and the idea of scientists and magicians being warring factions is absurd.

-I just generally don't like how Hollywood handles magic. Even characters that are supposed to be cunning only use magic for straightforward attacks. That is, the magic tends to be impractical, and used inefficiently and uncreatively. For example: Fireballs.

-Hypotheses, Laws, Theories, and Theorems are not to be confused with each other.

-Scientists are not overzealous people unable to even consider implausible things. Likewise, not all scientists are atheists/nihilists/misotheists. It is blatantly unscientific to blindly dismiss things, however Occam's Razor tends to be applied.

-One last thing, because this is starting to get way, way too long: Occam's Razor. Characters in Hollywood movies and shows often tend to jump to absurd conclusions, and be correct to boot, with little or no explanation of how or why they reached such a conclusion.

 

[techmec21]

One thing that really annoys me is when any film tries to include or is based on Greek mythology, and then just tears the stories apart. For example, The Immortals. As far as pure action was concerned, that movie was awesome. PEOPLES' HEADS EXPLODED. However, holy crap they got the mythology wrong in so many ways. The only points that I remember vividly are:

1) Titans are not tribal men with really dry skin on speed. They were huge, powerful beings who fathered the gods. Also, there are only like 12 of them. Not the unlimited amount the movie displayed.

2) In the movie, Zeus and Athena appeared to have a lot of sexual tension. While the Zeus of Greek mythology pretty much had sex with anything that moved, Athena was his daughter. There was no romantic relations between the two of them whatsoever.

I dunno, maybe I just like Greek mythology too much. Either way, Hollywood sucks at keeping the facts straight

 

[Brandon237]

Obviously the whole thing is stuck inside a magnetic field and as everyone knows magnetic fields stop everything. Sheeh, he's a doctor after all, do you really think Octavius wouldn't have thought of that?

I lol'd
I am also sure that he planned for the other effects of said magnetic fields (the ones that tried to chow the city) too I guess this is why we should never analyse movies, because they look really really stupid really really fast

 

[Matthew Dunn]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet but the two things that bug me to the point of insanity are what happens when Hollywood takes a game or book and Completely screws with the facts and the bloody story that has already been set

For example of a book movie that annoyed the hell out of me:
Eragon: Even if it was going to make the movie 3 hours i want ALL of the book in it, at least 200 pages are missing and they were the most important facts and screwed with the plot progression. Also the first elf I remember reading about in the book had BLONDE HAIR not brunette, this still annoys me

For example of a game movie that went the the completely opposite direction of accurate:
Doom (The film): In the game (Ive played and still play every game so I bloody know what Im talking about) you are being attacked by demons from hell (take note of this). You have to shoot your way through them on a special facility on mars and then survive fighting through hell as well (if you have never played this game do it now Not that they are spoilers or anything it should be common knowledge). In the film they substitute hell for an alien virus and removed any mention of hell at all, they basically made Resident evil on mars (and Resident evil was better)
The BFG 9000 was not the "bio force gun" it was the "BIG FUCKING GUN" (im aware that the rock says that but i dont really give a dam)
Where were half the monsters ? "reverent, cacodemon, hell knight, ect.
Where did the fucking virus come from ?
HOW DID THEY GET SOMETHING THAT WAS 12 YEARS OLD AND PRACTICALLY SET IN STONE? (Because caps will clearly get my point across XD)

Rant over

 

[Abedeus]

Whenever I hear Marie Curie speaking either in French or with French accent.

SHE WAS POLISH FFS.

 

[217not237]

The first episode of the Walking Dead had main character guy (never got into the show, don't know his name) light a match he found int the hospital. What hospital has matches? Everything is far too flamable for that to be lagal.

 

[requisitename]

I am bothered far too much by modern horse shoes (especially corrective or aluminum shoes or shoes with pads under them) on horses in movies set before they were invented.

While I understand that:
a) most people don't know a regular shoe from a bar shoe or one with clips
b) most people can't tell a contemporary shoe from a 12th century shoe
c) most people don't know what the bottom of a horse's foot actually looks like (without a pad)
and most importantly:
d) running horses around on stony/slick/hard ground without shoes isn't great for them.. which is the reason shoes were invented in the first place..

...at least take them out in post production, especially if you're going to show close-ups of the horses' legs/hooves as they run!

Also, "ahead of its time" bitting/bridles (or improper bitting) and getting saddles wrong is a big source of annoyance for me.

 

[GrimTuesday]

So the question I put to you, what are some examples that make you take the latter path, (be it obvious mistakes the character makes, problems with the accuracy of the movie, obvious scientific wrongness, cannon rape, etc.)?

Oh...those poor cannons! Will nobody think of the cannons?
...It's 'canon'. Not 'cannon', despite how it's sounds phonetically.

So the question I put to you, what are some examples that make you take the latter path, (be it obvious mistakes the character makes, problems with the accuracy of the movie, obvious scientific wrongness, cannon rape, etc.)?

cannon rape

0_o

Anyhow, blatant disregard for the little things, like, say, logic, cause and effect, and not having plot-holes.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

Now that I've slept, I can see that you're right, and it has been remedied. *hangs head in shame*

Another thing that irritates me. When you're making a movie, and it has battle scenes, I would greatly appreciate there to be more than one or two people taking on the forces of darkness (or whatever the fuck they are in the movie). I find it so irritating when there is one or two "badasses" who just cut through every mook the bad guy throws at them. Sure, this happens a lot in action movies, and its somewhat understandable that the hero is the supreme badass, but still one man (or woman) cannot kill hundreds upon hundreds of people (who, by the way should have at least some sort of military training, considering they have apparently been ravaging the world/country/city).

 

[Don Savik]

Holly wood! I WILL STAB YOU DEAD!

All of my hate. ALL OF MY HATE.

A BLIND DEAF COMATOSE LOBOTOMY PATIENT COULD FEEL MY ANGER!!!!!!

...how can every camera in the WORLD zoom in to a crystal clear resolution at ANY magnification?

IT MAEK NO SENSE!!! MY BRAIN!!!! AAaArARUugghhh......

I....my head.....it doesn't work anymoar......

 

[IamQ]

I hate it when they try too hard and still manage to screw it up.

Hollywood does not know how computers, or computer games, work.

This does not stop them from creating their own games, hackers, computer experts, hardware, etc.

Particularly with games, I understand, licensing costs money. But seriously, you could put a little more effort into it...


This, and scenes like it, are what really grind my gears.

Also the movie "Hackers" because we all know when you hack the world becomes Tron

Ok, I dislike the misinformation people get from movies about how "hacking" works. But think of it like this... the average person who may own a PC doesn't necessarily know how the thing works. For all they know, and for all they'll care to learn, "hacking" is all CGI nonsense, whether or not its true. And the other side of it, Hollywood isnt' about to put 3 hours of boring scenes of a guy typing commands into a non-GUI O/S, its boring. Must have flashies or the normal people will leave movie and demand refund.

Watch death note. If a director can make writing names in a book look dramatic and exiting, I don't think it'll be much harder when typing in commands.

OT: I don't know if it fits here, but I'm just so sick of how they try to portray smart people : By having them being good at math. Yes, high level mathematics is difficult, but it's not the only thing, and being good at it will not solve every difficulty that you will face in life. I remember an old episode of Duck Tales, where some cave man got really smart (I.E, knew high level mathematics), and somehow used math to solve which of two possible paths they should take in a crossroad. It's just silly and insulting.