No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.

[Saltyk]

You know what's been bugging me? Idiot men (usually fat) married to beautiful, intelligent skinny women. Now, while it can be funny, EVERYTHING does this. Men are always insensitive, lazy, stupid morons, while women are always intelligent Goddesses that grace us with their mere presence. In movies, sitcoms and anything with basic interaction between men and women. Not all women are amazing and not all men are idiots. It's getting kinda old. Also, how many amazing and wonderful women would marry theses idiots much less stay married to them for years?

 

[sms_117b]

I don't know if this counts but...

Every detail that M. Night Shyamalan got wrong in The Last Airbender.

I could write a fucking minute-by-minute review of that film and point out every minor and major fault with that film.

As for the portrayal of hacking, computers, video games/gamers and all that, yeah, that's why I stopped watching NCIS. That, and the "US Marines are the greatest humans in the world" bullshit that was rampant in that show.

To be fair to him [M. Night Shyamalan] (although he did ruin an amazing cartoon), the original script for LAB was about 7.5 hours long, it in itself would have taken 4 films to get book 1 right. If they had managed to break it own in to 2 films they could have done better, but Nick applied a lot of pressure, he wasn't happy with the final product because he (and indeed most of the cast) loved the cartoon series.

On topic, I can look past anything in film, but things start to add up, and if I just don't enjoy it, the problems become far more apparent, like in Avatar, by god that film was terrible, so much hype, amazing visuals, but poor everything else.

 

[KillKill]

Blatant disregard for the laws of physics.

In Spider-Man 2, There is a sun. In an room. With people in it. There is an object with sustained nuclear fusion in the centre of a not too massive room, and there are living people occupying that same room for more than thousandth of a second. Nevermind the fact that something that hot just left out in the open would melt a city block with not all that great difficulty, but you actually have people watching this in the SAME ROOM.

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.

And there was some stupid movie with Owls, "legend of the Guardians" or something like that, in which these little owls wore HUGE METAL MASKS. And not thin ones either. Yet they had agile dogfights all over the show.

So annoying...

This.
And to add to it further: Mission Impossible 3, a missile explodes behind Tom Cruise, he gets knocked sideways...

 

[NightHawk21]

Oh god there are so many, can't remember too much right now, but there was one movie, I can't remember what it was called but it had a bunch of adrenaline junkies trying to work their way through an uncharted cave. Anyways they get attack by coms humanoid monsters and there was literally a point I had to pause and get the inaccuracies off my chest, because there is no way a shitty cave ecosystem like they portrayed could support that many people.

I don't know if this counts but...

Every detail that M. Night Shyamalan got wrong in The Last Airbender.

I could write a fucking minute-by-minute review of that film and point out every minor and major fault with that film.

As for the portrayal of hacking, computers, video games/gamers and all that, yeah, that's why I stopped watching NCIS. That, and the "US Marines are the greatest humans in the world" bullshit that was rampant in that show.

Also ^. Worst movie I ever seen.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I do believe this makes anyone rage.

I want to beat them. To a puddle. Of paste. Red.

Gone coherency. Must Popeyes deliciousness chicken.

AARRRGH.

 

[The Thinker]

I don't know if this counts but...

Every detail that M. Night Shyamalan got wrong in The Last Airbender.

I could write a fucking minute-by-minute review of that film and point out every minor and major fault with that film.

As for the portrayal of hacking, computers, video games/gamers and all that, yeah, that's why I stopped watching NCIS. That, and the "US Marines are the greatest humans in the world" bullshit that was rampant in that show.

I'd pay good imaginary money for this.

Captcha: bond, james bond

Huh.

 

[The Thinker]

Gone coherency. Must Popeyes deliciousness chicken.

AARRRGH.

Not Popeyes deliciousness chicken! Anything but Popeyes deliciousness chicken! Think of the children!

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Gone coherency. Must Popeyes deliciousness chicken.

AARRRGH.

Not Popeyes deliciousness chicken! Anything but Popeyes deliciousness chicken! Think of the children!

I will eat the children.

 

[vrbtny]

Any WW2 movie where the Americans won it all by themselves, the British, French and Russians were just there to provide funny accents, if they were even there at all, and every single German recruit was a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Darth Vader.

Well.... yeah, didn't you ever attend the first five minutes of "how to make a hollywood movie 101"

 

[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.

 

[s0nic_al]

Mel Gibson film have a tendency of pissing me off. Particularly The Patriot.

Cornwallis was not a bumbling idiot.
The war was NOT won strictly by militia.
One guy did not carry the war on his shoulders.
Ban Tarleton did NOT burn a church full of innocents or commit atrocities HALF as bad as the character depicting him does.
There were more than just standard British Regulars at nearly every battle in the film.

Basically, I don't like how that movie really puts the British in a bad light and generally glorifies the use of the militia and basically saying one man won that war.

on a broader scale, overused Wire-fu tends to drive me nuts.
Overuse of cheap storytelling means (deus ex machinas, checkov's guns etc...). Transformers 3 was particularly guilty of these.

 

[Atmos Duality]

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.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Das Boot anyone?

'That guy's so uptight, he could crack nuts between his but cheeks!'

I was also going to add: 'I Captured a U-Boat', anyone?
One thing you missed about U-571 (actually a couple things), the clothing while on operation tended to be very informal and virtually no-one wore uniform except perhaps their cap, and the size... that command centre was fucking massive compared to a real U-boat's...

Anyway, most of the crap that I wanted to say has been mentioned, so:

Gladiator - I'd reel off all the pet-peeves I have with this film, but it'd take all day, soooo

1. his name, it's said in the wrong order or whoever came up with it didn't do any research on Latin naming conventions
2. opening battle scene soundtrack... listen carefully, hear the Zulus!
3. allusions to a return of the Republic
4. Lucius died in infancy, IIRC, and Commodus may have been capricious, but he wasn't a deviant
5. Colosseum (reference & size)
6. Stirrups...?!?! (actually, the lack of stirrups in Alexander is one of the few good things about it...)
7. Use of artillery on the battlefield... and in a forest...

That'll do for now, I think...

But one of the biggest annoyances I have with films about WWII is the number of times tanks are subbed out for fucking M60s...

Oooh, I can add to the gladiator list. The Germans they fight at the beginning are ridiculously outdated, since the actualy germans they were fighting at the time used Roman weapons and tactics most of the time, having been neighbours for the better part of a few centuries.

 

[Drenaje1]

The movie 2012. That's about all I have to say. Every second of it. I would have been able to ignore it, I would have been able to just let it fade away into dust. But no. Why is this, you may ask? Because after seeing it, suddenly my family and some of the other people at my school instantly turned into physicists, philosophers, and historians. You have no idea what the FUCK you are talking about, and you're making my brain bleed. I just-NNGERAAGH.

 

[Commissar Sae]

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.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

cannon rape

Owww. I would never stick my dick in a cannon, that's just... oww.

Anyway, here's an enjoyable but blantantly wrong video of 'shit's fake', and trying to pass it off as real.

 

[imnot]

Holly wood! I WILL STAB YOU DEAD!

 

[Slayer_2]

anyway..for me its the assumption that guys are just goofy and fun loving who like to do whacky things where as women are miserable shrews who want to ruin your fun and make you have a family (and no videogames)

Sounds accurate... Ahaha, JK.

I hate how guns and technology are portrayed in movies/TV. No, you cannot put a shell casing on top of a monitor and get it to trace it for you and identify key characteristics, all while you flap your hands around like a moron and move various windows around for no discernible purpose. (CSI Miami, Hawaii 5-0 (the new one) and several other crime shows).

In Cowboys Versus Aliens, there was a scene when I counted a standard six-round revolver firing over 20 rounds without reloading... That bothered me. Then Olivia Wilde showed up, and I didn't care as much.

Half the movies made these days, where a lot of "badguys" are armed with standard assault rifles (AK-47's, M16, whatever), and pray and spray like there is no tomorrow, nor an end to their magazine (which there usually isn't) when the guy they are trying to kill is literally 20 feet away and running for his life in a rather straight line. Yet they manage to hit everywhere BUT him, not limited to the walls, floor, roof, explosive/flammable items, friendlies, whatever. Anything but the actual target. And if they do hit him, it will be a grazing hit that he shrugs off like a badass. Real men don't stop when they get shot, or show any sign of pain.

Then there are the dreaded "hacking" scenes where the hacked person sees every file popping up on their desktop as the hackers sifts through their files, and if you're privileged to see the hacker, you usually see a pasty white geek with a triple monitor setup and 1 keyboard too many pounding on his various keyboards like it's going to save his life. I've never hacked a system in my life, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it happens.

 

[Wintermoot]

in the new The Day The Earth Stood still a kid was playing WOW... by ramming his keys all over the keyboard.
also Hollywood rarely getting computers good.
space being noisy (only 2001 got it good)

 

[KingHodor]

* Human slaves: Why would any advanced alien race need humans as slaves? I guess it would be neat if you're a giant robot if you had little squishy flesh things constantly looking up to you in awe, but really, the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. Other than that, the flesh things would be hideously inefficient at mining or building stuff compared to a purpose-built machine that doesn't eat (i.e. require balanced mixtures of an astonishing number of complex chemical compounds to function properly), sleep (i.e. not function for about 1/3 of a day) and drink (require daily rations of a chemical that is uselessly frozen solid at 273.15°K and forms a deadly blistering vapor at 373.15°K)

* Earth as a source of resources: Sure, just invade a planet full of hostile inhabitants (that, for some reason, have the means of resisting your centuries-ahead technology) and spend tremendous amounts of energy on pulling the resources out of the gravity well instead of simply going for the nearest asteroid which is made up of the same elements except with negligible gravity. And as for water: That stuff is the single most common compound in the universe. No need to land on a planet full of the aforementioned aggressive natives and deal with the gravity well problem.

Edit: As for my favorite gun trope: Whenever the heroes use handguns, barely any villain will respond with doing the logical thing and put on body armor. Case in point: The anime "Noir", where IIRC we only got one instance of BA wearing. Of course that character compensated by not using a gun in turn.