No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.

[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.

 

[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.