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

[embowafa]

When a character escapes a shootout unharmed only to realize that they have, in fact, been shot in the abdomen by reaching down at their bloody shirt and coming up with blood stained fingers.

WHOTHEFUCKGETSSHOTINTHEGUTANDDOESN'TREALIZEITRIGHTAWAY!?!?!

 

[Pilot]

Adrenaline, man.

 

[East2West]

When a protagonist is still discharging their Desert Eagle after 8 or 9 rounds, it bothers me.

 

[HRoi]

Originally Posted by embowafa

When a character escapes a shootout unharmed only to realize that they have, in fact, been shot in the abdomen by reaching down at their bloody shirt and coming up with blood stained fingers. WHOTHEFUCKGETSSHOTINTHEGUTANDDOESN'TREALIZEITRIGHTAWAY!?!?!
I've never been shot, but I sliced my thigh open pretty badly by breaking a pane of glass with my knee. I didn't feel a thing, except a wet feeling from the blood running down my leg. Maybe it's the same thing? Which brings me bttt - this experience tells me that if I ever crashed through a plate glass window like movie characters always do - headfirst - then I would be ******* decapitated. But apparently that's just me...jack Bauer can do it 20 times in a 24 hour period with nary a cut pinkie

 

[Peak and Pine]

Originally Posted by FLMountainMan

The mention of an ATM machine in No Country For Old Men. Wasn't it set in 1980? Granted, I was only four, but I thought those were a relatively modern invention.

I got my first ATM card at the First American Bank in Alexandria, Virginia in August, 1980.

 

[acidboy]

a black dude's guarding the gates of asgard?!

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by acidboy

a black dude's guarding the gates of asgard?!

The Gods are also southern plantation owners, South Carolina circa 1750.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by yachtie

In one of the spiderman movies where Doc Ock says he studies "science"- Looks doofus, if you're doing fusion, its Physics!

Physics is a natural science.

 

[mellow]

I love Master and Commander and props to Crowe for what looks like an attempt to learn how to play violin, but this clip always gets me:
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[Joffrey]

I've posted here before, but it must be a nightmare watching a movie with some of you people here.

BUT one thing that gets me is where all that music in films come from? Do the people on the screen actually hear it? Does the bad guy around the corner sense the danger as much as I do? So many questions!

 

[Mr. White]

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[designprofessor]

This is why I cant stand most martial arts stuff. This choreographed fighting nonsense. Might as well just break into song and dance.
I also find it amusing whensomeone gets major head trauma or passes out only to suddenly revive and are 110%- not even a hint of wooziness or disorientation as they fight off multiple attackers.

Just once I'd like to see a spy movie where the person hacking into the computer system as the critical seconds tick away-gets killed because of a series of pop up ads or automatic update windows thwarted the job.

 

[coldarchon]

Originally Posted by acidboy

a black dude's guarding the gates of asgard?!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svartálfar
black elves ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dökkálfar
dark elves ..

the Dökkálfar are "blacker than pitch"

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by blackdarkeye

the day after tomorrow. Honestly makes no sense at all.

+infinity

Originally Posted by Teacher

Evidently, that bothers you more than the fact that Sean Connery has been an Englishman, a Russian, a Spaniard-***-Egyptian, an Irishman (twice), and an American (I think), all with the same Scottish accent.

That is the wonder that is Sean Connery.

Originally Posted by tiecollector

I like how the weather is so cold that a moving helicopter engine is frozen solid but this same cold is no match for a single pane of glass in a NYC library window.

Apparently all that is necessary to survive -150 degree temperatures is a good supply of books for burning.

Originally Posted by designprofessor

This is why I cant stand most martial arts stuff. This choreographed fighting nonsense. Might as well just break into song and dance.
I also find it amusing whensomeone gets major head trauma or passes out only to suddenly revive and are 110%- not even a hint of wooziness or disorientation as they fight off multiple attackers.

Just once I'd like to see a spy movie where the person hacking into the computer system as the critical seconds tick away-gets killed because of a series of pop up ads or automatic update windows thwarted the job.

McGruber!


My favorite dumb error in a movie is the opening scene of "The Arrival" (with Charlie Sheen!). News flashes around the world that a meadow has been found within 1/2 a mile of the North Pole. The announcements all focus on the sudden and mysterious climate change; I was more blown away by the presence of land in the middle of the Arctic Ocean!

 

[East2West]

" When Dorothy and the others enter the Haunted forest, the sign reads "Witches Castle One Mile." "Witches" is plural. To be grammatically correct, it should have said "Witch's Castle," making it possessive."