Factual errors/dumb stuff in movies that really ruin it for you

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

i disagree. for the most part, a film is only interesting to the extent that it expresses something about this world. of course this does not apply to science-fiction.

also, if you are to immerse yourself in the film, you want to forget you are watching one, instead of being jolted out of your suspension of disbelief by some glaring inaccuracy.

This is blatantly false:

1) Science fiction can tell you something about our world.

2) The use of narrative and filmaking techniques to manipulate time and space (the materials of cinema) is the whole point of movies. Saying that it automatically disallows "expressing something about this world" is akin to saying non-figurative art can't communicate anything.

 

[yachtie]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

Saying that it automatically disallows "expressing something about this world" is akin to saying non-figurative art can't communicate anything.
Generally true, unfortunately

 

[BP348]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

also, when when a mexican speaks english and then suddenly throws in a spanish word like pueblo just because it's a spanish word everyone knows. in real life, you say 'town' or 'village'. there is no reason to say pueblo if you are speaking english.

Thats pretty normal here in South Texas. It's very common to hear people speaking English with Spanish thrown in here and there.

Most military stuff is messed up in the movies & I hate it when they never have to reload the weapons.

 

[why]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

This is blatantly false: 2) The use of narrative and filmaking techniques to manipulate time and space (the materials of cinema) is the whole point of movies. Saying that it automatically disallows "expressing something about this world" is akin to saying non-figurative art can't communicate anything.
nm misread

 

[Mauby]

The boxing scenes in all 6 Rocky movies. (Heavy weights throwing more punches than flyweights, etc.)

Countless movies, where the hero/heroine don't even hold the gun properly, yet have expert marksmanship.

Roger Moore's and Pierce Brosnan's wardrobes as James Bond.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

This is blatantly false:

1) Science fiction can tell you something about our world.

2) The use of narrative and filmaking techniques to manipulate time and space (the materials of cinema) is the whole point of movies. Saying that it automatically disallows "expressing something about this world" is akin to saying non-figurative art can't communicate anything.

1. you misunderstood my post and it's my fault for bad writing. i didn't mean that science fiction cannot tell us something about our world, only that science fiction obviously does not require facts to be true to our world. in other words, it is, as you say, it's own world. this goes without saying so i should not have mentioned it.

2. of course film has it's narrative techniques, but this thread is about factual inaccuracies, not film methods for manipulating time. of course when a character goes to sleep at night the audience is not expected to wait 8 hours until said character wakes up the next morning for the story to continue, but there are ridiculous errors, (such as the masses praying to the taj mahal which was mentioned earlier,) which lower a film's quality and cannot be said to be necessary.

 

[runner-guy]

Shooting a car's gas tank to make it explode. This does not happen in real life.

 

[HRoi]

Captain America is also Human Torch. he's not ******* Captain America, he's the ******* Human Torch. I can't get over this

 

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by HRoi

Captain America is also Human Torch. he's not ******* Captain America, he's the ******* Human Torch. I can't get over this


But you're okay with Deadpool being Green Lantern?

 

[HRoi]

Originally Posted by gladhands

But you're okay with Deadpool being Green Lantern?
hmm...i missed that. are there only 5 actors in Hollywood or something?!

 

[Gradstudent78]

Originally Posted by HRoi

Captain America is also Human Torch. he's not ******* Captain America, he's the ******* Human Torch. I can't get over this

This would concern me more if fantastic four was a better movie

 

[Matt]

spambumped....

 

[christinedaae]

secretaiart losing to sham in the wood memorial in the new secretariat movie

 

[Saul Silver]

when a character tries to shoot another only to realize that there are no bullets left/the other guy removed the clip beforehand.

 

[Pilot]

Bringing this thread back to life.

Watching The Other Guys. The scene whenever Walberg and Ferrel go the accounting firm in New Jersey, they are walking up to it and then the guys in the Range Rover blow it up.

Why wouldn't they wait for them to walk in or get to the front door so it would kill them? They are the only ones who are keen on the actual plans of Ershon.

Dumb movie I know, but whatever.