No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.

[Zombie Izzard]

Some historical inaccuracies annoy me. Like in The Tudors they make it his sister Margret get married to the King of Portugal then marry Charles Brandon because of the promise Henry made to her when in fact his sister Margret got married to the King of Scots and he made that promise to Mary who married the aging King of France.

Also when they change little things in book to movie adaptations. Like how in the 3rd Harry Potter movie he got the Firebolt shortly after his broom was destroyed but he wasn't able to use it because the professor took it away. Also why didn't they add the fact that Harry used the Elder Wand at the end to fix his wand?

 

[The Thinker]

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

Wouldn't it be like a Gatling gun with infinite ammunition?

as for water: That stuff is the single most commong compound in the universe.

Really? And here I was thinking that scientists were trying really hard to find it. Well, The More You Know, I guess.

 

[KingHodor]

as for water: That stuff is the single most common compound in the universe.

Really? And here I was thinking that scientists were trying really hard to find it. Well, The More You Know, I guess.

Scientists are trying hard to find liquid water, that's the challenge.

Finding water ice on planets or water vapour in nebulae is easy since Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and Oxygen is the third most abundant (Helium comes in second, but it is a noble gas and therefore doesn't form any compounds, thus making H2O the most common compound).

Still, if you were the aliens from Battle:LA, it would be way more efficient to just drill through the ice crust of the moon Europa (which likely has liquid water underneath) or melt down a bunch of ice comets or Saturn's rings.

 

[WolfThomas]

The Environmentalist in The Lost World: Jurassic park 2.

This, so much. Roland Tembo was the true hero of that piece, putting up with all their bullshit.

Also the "evil hunters" actually represented the company that owned the island and were just trying to regain lost profits from the debacle of the first movie, how were they going to do it? By having zoos with dinosaurs. I was a kid once and I would have died from excitement at that possibility.

 

[Valthek]

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.

The other guys makes a great joke about this.

Apart from the 'never reload' thing, and the general tropes that should always get dragged up.
Films also tend to portray drugs completely incorrectly. They tend to be 'you tyr any drug once and your life is ruined' when in fact drugs like marujuana and even LSD have never had any deaths attached to them. But I suppose the war against drugs can't be counteracted.

What about Max Payne? Asside from the fact that it was fairly terrble, it also had a fairly hilarious portrayal of drugs: Take them and you're superman. Fun times.

 

[Valthek]

OT: Thought of another one actually, surviving giant falls due to water or someone catching another person midair. And i mean catching them, like a dead stop, at terminal velocity. I don't know why that particular breaking of physics irks me, but it does.

Not sure where I saw it, but there's fairly decent calculation of this somewhere on the net. Admitadly, it's about superman catching Lois Lane, but the principle stands. If someone falls at terminal velocity and whoever catches them has superman-like arms of steel and awesome, you have three (fairly bloody) chunks of person.

Incidentally, google tells us that a person falling (in this case, a skydiver with parachute closed) heads for a splatter at about 56 m/s. Apply 70 kgs to this and simplify a litte and you result in some 440 thousand Joules worth of force.
That's a lot. Even when hitting water won't help much at those speeds. Might as well be concrete.

 

[Mafoobula]

I can't count how many times I've thought to myself, "Yes, that is exactly how physics works!"
I can't count how many times I've thought to myself, "Yes, that is exactly how hacking works!"
I can't count how many times I've thought to myself, "Yes, that is exactly how military tactics work!"
I can't count how many times I've thought to myself, "Yes, that is exactly what playing instruments looks like!" (referring to people fake-playing instruments, while the soundtrack insists they're making beautiful music)

Beyond those... weapons not making the sounds they're supposed to make, either while cocking/charging, or while firing.

 

[Shivarage]

Nobody cares about any of your opinions, whoever decides any piece of crap is worth investing in then it's their money on the line, not yours

Believe it or not, the average consumer is retarded and thus the writers of said consumables will treat them as such as long as the money keeps flowing

 

[Mau95]

Or how the only smart and reasonable (at least, to an extent) person is the bad guy.
I saw "Thor" not too long ago and Loki (or whatever his name was) was the only character I could root for. I didn't care for the blond jock who started a war because he was bored, his dumb father who chose him to be the king or his gang of blind followers who, instead of questioning his reckless behaviour, just went along for a killing spree with him.
I guess Thor was supposed to learn a lesson on Earth and become a better person but he just found a bland love interest and fought a giant robot. There was no real arc. He was just as much of an asshole at the end of the movie as he was at the beginning.

That movie was mostly just a small backstory for the upcoming Avengers movie, though it was based on a comic where he stayed on Earth and becomes a superhero who helps people with his powers, which was again based on ancient Norse mythology where Loki is a dick/misunderstood personification of the devil and Thor a godhero of men.

 

[renegade7]

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

Wouldn't it be like a Gatling gun with infinite ammunition?

Not really. Machine guns do much of their damage because of bullet spray. Bullets hit many parts of the target, inflicting more damage. Against infantry, lasers would be a little closer to conventional projectile weapons because you only need to hit something with the laser for a few seconds to inflict serious heat damage, burning, etc. The Collector Beam from ME2 is a decent example of how a real laser weapon might work, although unlike the Collector Beam the laser would be completely invisible.

But against a vehicle (tank, plane, spaceship, etc.) that doesn't have flesh that can be scorched, you would need to use the laser to cut it to pieces.

They would be quite different from conventional weaponry, but they would still be very effective. Deadly accurate, easily able to slice and scorch flesh and metal. The only drawbacks are the power requirements and the tech just isn't quite there yet to make them infantry weapons. The other one is that the beam would be completely invisible so anyone using a laser weapon would need to be very careful when using his sights.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

There was one that I always.... Oh, I hate the trope of when 2 people each pull a gun on each other and start trash talking the other person, or reach a consensus and both lower their guns.

If someone points a gun at you, and you do the same, you are going to shoot that person. You don't have a magical moment where you look into his eyes and think "I can talk this fucking lunatic out of not putting one in my head right now". You think, "bullets probably hurt a lot" and proceed to shoot the other person before he shoots you.

That saying of "don't point it if you aren't prepared to shoot it". That's a thing.

Sons of Anarchy, while a great fucking TV show, did this at least once an Episode.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I CANT BELIVE NO ONE HAS BROUGHT THIS UP!!!


watch from 5:40 to 8:20

his machine gun with about 30 rounds left in its chain never runs out

Silly you.

The Commando universe doesn't rely on bullets to shoot. It's all in the separately released novels.

 

[The Thinker]

Not really. Knowledgesnip!

Oh. I guess so. Thanks!

Scientists are trying hard to find liquid water, that's the challenge.

Ahhhhhhhh. I got you.

 

[Vault101]

Some historical inaccuracies annoy me. Like in The Tudors they make it his sister Margret get married to the King of Portugal then marry Charles Brandon because of the promise Henry made to her when in fact his sister Margret got married to the King of Scots and he made that promise to Mary who married the aging King of France.

Also when they change little things in book to movie adaptations. Like how in the 3rd Harry Potter movie he got the Firebolt shortly after his broom was destroyed but he wasn't able to use it because the professor took it away. Also why didn't they add the fact that Harry used the Elder Wand at the end to fix his wand?

speaking of history...

you'll always see that that main protagonist has vaules/Ideas that are more in line with our modern world

like...

racism? wrong
slavery? wrong
treat women eaqually? you bet!

when its likley they agreed with such attitudes..or were at least apathetic to them

or when your in a historical setting and youve got the obligatory "chick who does stuff" Im all for females doing stuff...but I still cant help go "silly women, doing things is for MEN!" if its historical..then again I could be underestimating the chances that a woman could "do stuff" (like fight and such)

 

[AlAaraaf74]

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.

In my geology class, we had to watch 2012 and write a paper on all the inaccuracies. Btw, they would have never survived that plane take off being chased by volcanic debris.

 

[Brandon237]

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.

In my geology class, we had to watch 2012 and write a paper on all the inaccuracies. Btw, they would have never survived that plane take off being chased by volcanic debris.

You had to write a paper... on ALL of them? That must have been a damn long paper then >.<
What is wonderful is how it gets physics, technology, geology and society all so wrong in ONE movie. While managing to help continue the "paranoia" about the end of the world. That takes skill.

 

[Queen Michael]

Some historical inaccuracies annoy me. Like in The Tudors they make it his sister Margret get married to the King of Portugal then marry Charles Brandon because of the promise Henry made to her when in fact his sister Margret got married to the King of Scots and he made that promise to Mary who married the aging King of France.

Also when they change little things in book to movie adaptations. Like how in the 3rd Harry Potter movie he got the Firebolt shortly after his broom was destroyed but he wasn't able to use it because the professor took it away. Also why didn't they add the fact that Harry used the Elder Wand at the end to fix his wand?

speaking of history...

you'll always see that that main protagonist has vaules/Ideas that are more in line with our modern world

like...

racism? wrong
slavery? wrong
treat women eaqually? you bet!

when its likley they agreed with such attitudes..or were at least apathetic to them

or when your in a historical setting and youve got the obligatory "chick who does stuff" Im all for females doing stuff...but I still cant help go "silly women, doing things is for MEN!" if its historical..then again I could be underestimating the chances that a woman could "do stuff" (like fight and such)

Gods YES. When I watch or read something fictionally historical, I want the protagonist to be homophobic, to believe that women's job is to be protected by men, and to regard black people as an inferior kind of creature. Do I hold these views? Nope. But I don't want my historical character to have views that are completely out of place just for the sake of pleasing a modern-day audience that, from their point of view, doesn't exist. It's as if a novel about our time would have the protagonist hold views on gender and race that are going to spread around the year 2,500 or so, just to please the readers in the future.

 

[Nielas]

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.

The primary reason is that they do not want to risk hurting the horses. Productions get a lot of flak when horses get hurt during filming even if it is from something that is a normal danger to horses. They are not going to risk it just for the sake of historic accuracy that only a big horse buff would care about. As far as post-production goes, that is a cost issue. They are not going to pay for an expensive process that does not add to the story.

There are practical reasons for some of the inaccuracies Hollywood propagates.

 

[Muspelheim]

Pretty much half the stuff that happens in the CSI episode ' Fur and Loathing'

In-flippin'-deedy. That was, to me, the nail in the coffin back when I tried to watch that show a few years back. "Could almost have been written by 4chan itself!" is not a signum you want on your show, or at least not what you should want.


But then again, that's the problem I have with crime-dramas in general. Well, bad crime dramas. They're always such a glaring moral undercurrent to it, it's always some sort of "weirdo" subculture at the bottom of it. It's either some pagan cult sacrificing each other, some Great War reinacting-thing going horribly wrong, some people having some non-wholesome sex or whatever else seems weird and unnormal. It feels as if those crime-dramas wants to make me nod my head, sighing "Oh, those strange, strange people... Should have known they were behind it all".

Also, the pyramids where not built in the way most imagine them being built, with masses of worn, scarred slaves in rags labouring away in the sun, with some big meanie (usually in armour made out of an alloy not to be discovered for milennia) cracking a whip at their backs. The evidence so far points towards that they were built by free labourers, peasants with nothing better to do but wait around while the nile flooded and renourished their fields, payed from the royal granary for building the king's latest compensational monument.

Oh, and horses aren't cars. They tend to tire and require rest and care to remain viable mounts for very long. Also, they've got minds of their own. Cavalry horses are, of course, drilled and trained to put up with much more than ordinary horses, but I still doubt they'd fancy all stampeeding down an insanely steep slope right into a bunch of scary-smelling Orcs with sharp sticks, Gandalf.