No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.

[MetalDooley]

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's even more annoying is how they portray the drug's effect particularly marijuana.I've lost count of the number of times I've seen someone in a movie smoke a joint and then start hallucinating.That's not how it works ffs.Marijuana/cannabis on its own does not cause people to hallucinate.I should know I smoked enough of it when I was younger.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

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 wouldn't be willing to do a minute by minute of that pile of trash, but I agree about how bad it was. Changing all the races of the characters was stupid, but things like pronunciation of names drove me bonkers. Sure, Aang would be pronounced more like "Ahng" in Japanese, but the creators of the damn show and all the voice talent pronounced it "Ayng" for the entire series, so there's no excuse for Shamylamadingdong to change it. Especially since he white-washed and crapped on the cast.

The pronounciation didn't bother me that much, or that they made Saka and Katara white (and the firenation Indian?), but the fact that they tried to cram an entire season into one 90 minute movie. That has trainwreck written all over it.
But I don't blame the director. It probably wasn't his call. I blame whatever management douchebags that decided "Hey, let's cram out some more money out of this 'kidsshow' as easy and fast as possible!".

Seeing as how Shamylama was the director and producer, I think we can blame him for a lot of the crap in the movie.

 

[Blaster395]

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

Is that an episode about the furry fandom? Can you sum up all the mistakes they made for me?

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Well.
Been watching some Guild Wars 2 previews and I've noticed that all the starting outfits for norn females seem to consist of hardly any material at all.

Which is odd, seeing as they live on freezing cold mountains...

 

[Realitycrash]

Well.
Been watching some Guild Wars 2 previews and I've noticed that all the starting outfits for norn females seem to consist of hardly any material at all.

Which is odd, seeing as they live on freezing cold mountains...

You fool! NEVER argue about the chainmail-bikini!

http://www.elfonlyinn.net/d/20061020.html

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

It's not so hard to get proper basic medicine facts...

[...]

Obviously the whole thing is stuck inside a magnetic field and as everyone knows magnetic fields stop everything.

Screw you and your high affinity opioid receptor antagonists. I'm going straight through the sternum with as much force as possible, just in case it's made of magnets.

 

[Grubnar]

I hate how only the main character know how to use a weapon properly, and those 50 million bad guys were just hired today straight out of grade school.

There was one western movie that had a shootout I loved. It lasted about 5 seconds,the 4 badguys died, and the 2 good guys ended up severely wounded. When asked what happened, one responded "everyone knew how to shoot."

The movie is Appaloosa (2008).

It stars Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. After the shotout they are both wounded (and the main villan actually manages to run away).

 

[ExileNZ]

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.

THIS. A million times, THIS.

I stopped watching NCIS after that

 

[Henkie36]

For me, physics errors are more annoying then plot points that don't make all the sense they should make. Even good movies get this wrong: Iron Man. Seriously, a particle accelerator in a garage? Cause yeah, I'm sure you can just order those online and expect them to work like the biggest machine on earth, stretching 27 kilometers under France and Switzerland. On the other hand, historical inaccuracies I can live with as long as they keep it in check. The 1997 Titanic was fine, but have you seen the animated rip-offs? If no, keep it that way. The mistakes in those were just disgustingly insulting to the people who died.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Das Boot anyone?

I admit, I want to find the people who wrote and greenlit U-571 and (ahem) slap them for their disrespect to Allied war dead.

Das Boot is horrible, not so much as a film or series (in which it's great on both counts) but it humanises the crew and even the ship to the point that I nearly cheered when they made it home and... well... you know the rest.

 

[The Thinker]

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.

 

[Llil]

For me, its historical inaccuracies. For example, every time I see Braveheart and it comes to the Battle of Stirling Bridge and there is no fucking bridge, I can't help but spend the next few minutes bitching about the fact there is no bridge.

Here's a bit of trivia from the movie's IMDB page:

When asked by a local why the Battle of Stirling Bridge was filmed on an open plain, Gibson answered that "the bridge got in the way". "Aye," the local answered. "That's what the English found."

On the subject of historical inaccuracies in films, here's a fun little video:

Spoiler

Apparently that's how it goes in Hollywood.

Anyway, the Hollywood OS is one thing that really annoys me. You know the one that can't display smaller text than 72pt, and has a ton of unnecessary moving and blinking graphics and every action the user does has to have a sound effect.

And then there's the instant death bullet, and silencers that go [small]"fwip"[/small].

 

[Quaxar]

It's not so hard to get proper basic medicine facts...

[...]

Obviously the whole thing is stuck inside a magnetic field and as everyone knows magnetic fields stop everything.

Screw you and your high affinity opioid receptor antagonists. I'm going straight through the sternum with as much force as possible, just in case it's made of magnets.

I hope you won't use a metallic needle or you might doom us all!

 

[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!