“That Was It For Me”: People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them
Interview With Author
Look, we don’t want to shock you or anything, but the things that happen in the movies and TV shows you watch aren’t real. However, that doesn’t mean that the lessons they teach us or the way the narratives that are told don’t have value. Quite the opposite! When we go to the cinema or we turn on the magic light -and-sound box in our living rooms, we know we’re often in for a dose of fiction. But we’re willing to suspend our sense of disbelief for the sake of experiencing the story as though it were real.
So film creators have some leeway in terms of how they shape the story. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for us, the audience), they have to adhere to some rules. Even in a fictional setting with fictional problems, the events on the screen have to be believable and the characters have to appear real, in the context of the story. In short—things have to make sense and follow certain rules of logic. We wouldn’t blink twice about a character from Looney Tunes surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge; but we think it’s very odd when Indiana Jones does it.
Though pretty much everyone has some minor quibbles that never fail to end their immersion in the plotline. Redditor u/xwhy started up an interesting thread on r/movies after asking people to share the dumbest things that end their suspense of disbelief in films. We’ve collected some of the most interesting answers. You’ll find them as you scroll down.
Bored Panda got in touch with the author of the thread, writer Christopher Burke, aka u/xwhy. He was kind enough to answer our questions about the limits of the suspension of disbelief. You'll find our full interview with him below! Christopher is the author of the book 'In A Flash 2020,' a high school math teacher, and webcomic creator.
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Any movie where they plug a flash drive in and get it right on the first try without looking.
Writer Christopher, aka u/xwhy, told us about the inspiration behind the thread. "I wanted to start a discussion, and I was curious if anyone else was as picky as I can be about details. As I told someone else on the thread, superheroes, aliens, and magic are the price of admission. That's what I'm paying for with the movie. After that, everything else should be relatable," he explained that even in fantastical settings, large parts of the story need to be grounded and believable.
He explained to Bored Panda how this works. "There can be a dragon. The dragon can swear, smoke cigars, and drink whiskey if it wants to. But if it starts talking about cigars and whiskey and gets basic facts (which are easily found) wrong, someone's going to notice, and that will pull them out of the moment. The audience will willingly accept the big stuff or they wouldn't watch the movie. It's the small stuff that's distracting, and sometimes you wonder if they could've avoided it."
The jeep in Jurassic World still being in perfect operating condition, with viable fuel, after 20+ years in an abandoned garage.
Caught myself saying "That's so unrealistic" out loud, watching a movie about man-eating genetically engineered dinosaurs.
I get distracted when I don't understand how a character is earning money, or they have a lifestyle that seems unaffordable with the job they're supposed to have.
The author of the thread told us that he, like many other people, can ignore quite a lot. "But every now and then, I find myself focusing on something that just takes me out of it."
In his post on Reddit, he gave an example of the New York City subways. "Information is readily available. I would rather that the movie makers created a fictitious train, such as the T line, than use a real line and have it go where it doesn't belong (and no one has a problem with this)," he said.
"Using Vancouver or Toronto for Brooklyn is fine. I accept that. Using Hoyt–Schermerhorn as a stand-in for City Hall is fine, too." Christopher suggested that the best remedy for this is for movie creators to do some basic fact-checking.
In The Queen‘s Gambit, when Anya Taylor-Joy's character loses control of her life, and she’s sitting there in a satin nightgown with perfect hair and makeup. Sure. That’s what I look like when I lose control over my life too
I know this is a staple of the character but every time Clark Kent rips open his shirt to reveal his costume it drives me nuts. WHERE DOES HE KEEP THE CAPE??
In the The Day After Tomorrow I was totally ok with all of crazy weather and crazy explanations for what was happening. I was even mostly ok with them running from “the cold” as they barely made it in to the roof of a Wendy’s, but when they started grilling circle shaped hamburger patties instead of square shaped patties inside that Wendy’s, that was it for me. Everyone knows Wendy’s has square patties, how dare you!! I just could couldn’t take anything seriously after that point.
"They'll never get all of it, especially the specialized stuff," he pointed out that, in his thread, some commenters were extremely well-versed in "medicine and guns, among other topics." Nobody's asking for perfection; but the basics, at least, should be gotten right.
"Say, putting the 4 train on the Brighton line will leave a lot of New Yorkers scratching their hands more than King Kong or Godzilla on the Boardwalk." If you're interested in flash fiction, you can take a peek at Christopher's book 'In A Flash 2020' here and here. Meanwhile, you'll find his fun webcomic right over here.
Independence Day, when Jeff Goldblum plugs the Apple into the alien ship and infects them with a virus.
PERFECT TEETH. Whether it's someone from before 1950 or a strung-out junkie, they still have those perfectly straight white Hollywood teeth.
Makeup and hair done in unrealistic settings or wrong eras
You are in a post apocalyptic world trying to survive and somehow you have your hair done with a bit of cat eyeliner.
Another one is historical movies with modern hair and makeup. Wank my eyes out.
Let’s put it this way. We’re completely fine with there being wizards and dragons in the stories we read and watch. However, they still need to behave more or less like wizards and dragons. If dragons can teleport around the world instead of, you know, actually flying to places, we’re going to start asking questions. Similarly, if their strength, resilience, and the power of their breath all vary wildly from scene to scene because the plot demands it, we’re going to sigh and say, “C’mon!”
The same can be said about character motivations. Yes, people grow, adapt, and change their minds. However, you can’t expect the audience to get emotionally invested in the characters themselves if they change their minds about what’s right and wrong from scene to scene and episode to episode. There needs to be consistency and logic! Some recent TV shows are absolutely great at destroying the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief.
Definitely the post apocalyptic setting where everyone is ripped with insane muscle mass even though getting anywhere near the calories required to maintain that physique would be impossible.
People have their necks snapped when their head is slightly pulled to the left or right, instead of the full 180 you'd need. It makes you think they were always one violent sneeze or sudden head lean away from killing themselves.
I hate when vehicles no one heard suddenly burst onscreen and hit someone.
The worst example I’ve seen was a company of helicopters. I don’t remember the name of the movie or what was taking place but it was a night scene in a compound high in a mountain range.
Suddenly, three or four helicopters anyone with ears would have heard coming from miles away swoop in and take everyone by surprise.
Time and money wasted.
Things that low-key irk us include characters teleporting around Middle Earth seemingly in an instant in The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. It’s also hard to stay invested in the story when it’s hard to grasp the timeframe. And don’t even get us started on how low-quality some of the costumes were… Look, if you’re doing something related to The Lords of the Rings, you have to get the details right.
In a similar fashion, as much as we enjoyed House of the Dragon, we had a hard time actually liking some of the characters just because of how often their motivations and personalities flip-flopped. However, watching the show got us to read George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood about the entire Targaryen dynasty, so we still call that a win. There’s far more consistency to be found in the pages of the book than in the show, but we’re still eagerly waiting for season 2. (Maybe they've heard the feedback from fans and they'll fix the lighting in some scenes! The stories are dark, but the scenes don't have to mirror that in an all-too-literal sense; we want to see what's going on.)
Narrow specialty doctors drawing bood, doing microscopy and other routine stuff that doctors don't normally do (looking at you, House).
My number one pet peeve is when characters who speak the same language are all speaking in English to each other with accents. I get they do it because they’re targeting an English-speaking audience and a lot of this group can’t be bothered to read subtitles, but that always takes me out. I’m also anti-dub because I like to hear the actors speak in their native language, even if I can’t understand it.
The opening of A Quiet Place, when the camera pans to a newspaper vending machine and the headline reads, “It’s Sound!!”
I could not get past the idea that the world (maybe just the area?) is being destroyed by creatures with such super hearing that we later see children playing Monopoly with pieces of felt because the sound of plastic on chipboard will evidently risk death, and someone had to write a story about something so obvious, then it was proofed, then it was edited, then someone had to typeset it, THEN they actually ran the printing press - they’re *absurdly* loud - and some poor schlub had to brave their way through the streets, dodging sound monsters as the sun was coming up, so they could drive around the city and fill vending machines with newspapers.
I know it’s a throwaway moment in the movie, I get that it’s an homage to sci-fi movies of the 50s and 60s, but it’s just so dumb when you think about it.
Then, of course, you find out the protagonists have decided to put themselves and their family in complete danger by getting pregnant (you really think you can keep a baby completely silent through their being a toddler? And your best soundproofing is newspapered walls and one spring mattress?!) and I just couldn’t enjoy anything or take it seriously. I hate that movie with a vengeance.
The newspapers were printed when the fact was discovered, meaning most areas were not effected yet, and you can only imagine the look on everyone's faces when they read the headline being printed
Thank you CR, I was going to say that. The invasion didn't happen everywhere all at once.
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I hate that movie. Hate it. Almost as much as the end to "The Silence" on Netflix, where the deaf character spends the whole movie talking about how her family now lives like she does: In silence. NO. Deaf people often may have no idea how much noise they're making! She'd be eaten first. Maybe third. But definitely eaten.
Now I'm thinking about that Tumblr post about that poor deaf guy being mortified when his girlfriend told him farts make sound.
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I agree with the first point. Also it seems to me it would be pretty easy to lure all those creature in industrial incinerators or crushers with some speakers... On the second one though... pregnancy can happen even if you're very careful. Condom are not 100% safe, neither is any kind of chemical contraception. And let's not talk about coïtus interruptus...
But there's always a choice between two consenting adults. You know sound will get you and the children you already have killed. Of course life goes on, but there's lots of other fun things they can do to/with each other short of risking pregnancy, at least until they're in a more secure situation.
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Don't even get me started on "Signs" and the pre task planning for the invasion. "So we will be invading the acid planet that is 2/3 covered in acid, where acid falls from the sky to abduct the 90% acid people. PPE requirements should be minimal, hell, let's just do it naked!"
That going naked bit was the hugest deal of all. Maybe Earth was their only choice. Maybe it's a challenge for the best of the best aliens. But....why naked?
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Whilst I do understand disasters and stuff bring people closer together, having a baby seemed incredibly stupid. I know it was likely to tug at heartstrings and introduce more suspense and whatnot but cummon.
Are you expecting abortion clinics to be still running? Unexpected pregnancies happen even in a world with convenience stores open round the clock and working contraception
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You think THAT is the most unrealistic part of the movie? What about the fact that the monsters came to Earth on asteroids which, according to the directors, are actually pieces from their planet that EXPLODED?! No natural being could survive that, and even if they did, how the f**k would they survive the many millenia that the asteroids traveled through space without any food?! The movie as a concept is interesting, but its story has too many holes for to even come close to like (and I didn't even touch on the absurd levels of incompetence Earth's armed forces would need to have for things to reach that point.
I just hated that movie from start to finish and have always been baffled it's widely regarded as a great modern horror film. I love a good horror and it was nothing like one.
That got me too - they'll attack any abnormal noise. What happens when someone has a particularly aggressive bowel movement? Do they have to soundproof every bathroom to keep the monsters from homing in on you after Taco Night?
I've been an interpreter for 30 years. I have NEVER met a Deaf person who is totally aware of how much sound they are producing. One of my colleagues was SHOCKED that the following things make noise: paper, clothing, brushing hair (okay, she's curly and doesn't have much experience), light bulbs. The movie did a great job trying to address this, but it's just not possible 24/7 - especially for a kid with no adult Deaf role models.
I assumed the outbreak spread slowly, but information spread more quickly so there was time to get a newspaper out before the monsters hit the area.
I also assumed that the pregnancy was either prior to the outbreak or accidental.
Load More Replies... It's the New York Post. They're a right wing gossip rag that shouldn't be taken seriously as a news organization. So them printing something so incompetent and stupidly obvious is quite realistic.
I hated the movie, period. It was just so stupid all the way through.
Imagine they would choose to live… let's say near a waterfall or something that cancels their noises. Could be a game changer.
that it took the whole movie to figure out loud noise would affect the creature, or putting a bomb on a noisy object as bait to kill them.
What I found to be quite annoying in The Quiet Place was that whenever an alien got near the family the father put his finger to his lips and shushed them, as if they needed to be reminded of something they would very well know and have done dozens or hundred of times before.
I think that was mainly for the daughter, she's deaf so she wouldn't be able to hear the monsters coming. I found that slightly annoying as well tho
Load More Replies... The first half of this post proves this person has never had my bosses. I can picture the group text now. "We know that the world is coming to an end by Sound Monsters, but management has decided not to close the the machine shop. There will be no excused absences, and time missed will count against PTO."
Well yeah. Anytime you really stop and think 99% of show/movies makes zero sense. Then again COVID happened and people rushed to get toilet paper. Humanity isn't the brightest
I would say they took the risk because the information needed to get out there. It was for the greater good. (The newspaper thing.) How else would they get it out? TV and radio? You are trying to keep sound down so you do one print run of the daily paper. Proofreading and editing are quiet activities and can be done quickly. Modern typesetting is done by computer, not somebody picking out individual letters and putting them in the frame. And modern printing presses pretty much operate on their own so you wouldn't even need more than one or two people in there at the most.
I assumed the outbreak spread slowly, so there was time to do that stuff before the monsters got to the area. like maybe it started on another continent
For everyone griping about the pregnancy, where do you think they would have gotten any kind of conception? All of that has to be manufactured. The store they went to was bare except for crunchy food and they only saw a couple of other people during the entire movie.
There's the option of not doing it or not doing it in the traditional fashion, especially since noise attracts the aliens and it tends to be noisy.
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compared to "it's the trees", A Quiet Place has a masterfully written plot device.
At the end of the day, there will always be particular decisions that storytellers make that will upset us (and us specifically), and we either have to actively ignore them or move on to a better film/show/book. One small ‘mistake’ probably won’t prevent us from immersing ourselves in the story. But these errors in continuity and logic can quickly add up.
The best thing that moviemakers can do is to try and find realistic (again, realistic in the context of their world) solutions to their narrative problems, instead of going for lazy solutions. If we wanted to watch a low-budget film or read a poorly-written piece of fan fiction, we would’ve chosen to do that instead.
Any scene in a movie where an ordinary person gets hold of a gun of any sort and instantly knows how to hold, accurately aim, fire, and reload it.
Weapons are quite simple, if there is a trigger; pull it to make boomstick go boom, if there is a lever near the magazine housing, fiddle with it to make the magazine fall out, charging handles are more complex, but in video games you see someone pulling a handle to charge the weapon, so in movies in the present will have that to help them. the exception is stoppages, but by then, a competent person will have got themselves another weapon, and can discard the current one.
Cars that explode like giant fireworks anytime they get into a wreck. Even for fender benders. Or when they drive a car off a cliff and it explodes before it even lands on anything. If this were true, would any of us even be alive?
It's a leftover from when cars were far less safe. It's become a trope because it's expected - the collective consciousness "knows" that cars explode on impact because they did (used to do that). Cars also are completely undrivable after taking to the air via ramp and landing with enough force to break an axle, but I've not seen that one on the list so far....
This actually just occurred to me today: in The Matrix, the concept of "dying in the simulation kills you IRL" and "the body cannot live without the mind". I get that the simulation is *very* real, but it only interacts with your conscious brain by implanting images and sensations into your cerebrum. Your autonomic nervous system is controlled by the brain stem (cerebellum) and has nothing to do with your conscious interaction with the surrounding world.
Your brain stem doesn't "know" that you got shot; physiological changes due to the impact impair homeostasis, and interrupt vital functions. Your brain stem will still try to make your heart beat even if your heart gets ripped out of your chest (for the few moments it still has oxygen) so why would your brain stem "decide" to make your heart stop just because you think you got shot?
it makes no sense at all and considering much of the series relies on people dying for real because they died in the simulation totally ruins it for me
The brain stem is more than just the cerebellum, it has three parts. Moreover, the cerebellum is the primary motor cortex, which controls our bodily movements especially in response to sensory cues, and not the piece of the brain that controls the heart: that is the hypothalamus (located below the thalamus). If you want to pick apart the Matrix, the idea that jamming a big metal rod into the longitudinal fissure in the brain - most likely severing or damaging the corpus callosum in the process completely removing the ability to form long-term memories among other major damages -- would somehow completely immerse you in sensory information would be completely wrong, for a variety of different reasons. I still enjoyed the movies, but as a psychologist, I very much had to suspend disbelief at a number of the aspects of their explanation of the Matrix and how it would work in the brain.
Game of Thrones: I know there was plenty of awful writing in the later seasons, but armies just started teleporting around the place. Armies on horseback and foot. I grew up on a farm and do you know how much food animals need for 6 week. And people. When winter is coming in, so zero grass growth. And moving that food around with the army. And then carts, wheelwrights to fix the carts wheels. They had spent a lot of time showing how far sone parts were from each other.
This is very niche, but as a professional musician “whiplash“ pissed me off. The scene where Miles Teller is practicing his drums until his hand starts bleeding is absolutely detrimental to his technique. If he does that regularly, he’ll be lucky if he can hold a pen let alone play the drums by the time he’s 40.
I was really surprised and taken out of the movie 3 Kings to see people hauling duffel bags of gold bars like they weighed nothing. It is not just one scene, the whole movie they are tossing around, carrying while running, passing from person these duffel bags we're supposed to believe are full of gold bars. One gold bar is 25 pounds so these bags would be easily be hundreds and hundreds of pounds
In years gone by, if you went on a tour of a South African gold mine, you were shown standard sized gold bars. You were told if you could carry one of them one-handed out of the door you could keep it.
Anyone in a NYC apartment that doesn't immediately lock their doors after entering. That is, unless the character grew up in the suburbs. In that case, they're too dumb to live in a city.
Most places have doors that lock when you close them (in the UK at least). I've only lived in one place in my life (35 years old) that didn't, and that place was out of date in many other ways. I'd just assume that was the case if they didn't manually lock their front door.
Hollywood's insistence that getting shot with a shotgun will throw you back several feet.
When 102 pound actresses dispatch a room full of dudes that look like Dave Babtista without taking a single knock in the process. Same can be true with make actors too.
Also when you have a woman who works out all the time and kicks a*s in a fight, but has a figure like a stick insect without any visible muscles. I specifically remember Black Canary annoyed me so much when I was watching Arrow.
“The Dark Knight Rises”. Ok, so no one has seen Batman OR Bruce Wayne for seven years and then they BOTH show up in Gotham at the same time but no one notices the coincidence? Not even “Robin” because he says he figured it out by looking into his eyes. Took me out of the movie and that happened at the beginning. Oh and let’s not forget that Commissioner Gordon couldn’t figure that part out either but could all of a sudden remember a tiny conversation he had with a very young Bruce Wayne to put it together. Dumb.
When things are conveniently silent: Talk about someone in a normal voice when they're three feet away. "Can I have a word with you for a minute?" Steps to the other end of the couch for a long conversation about something secret.
Or, sneaks into the back of a car when someone is right there. Car doors make a lot of noise.
Aliens in Sci fi films that look and talk like modern Americans, and even share their same values and human biology. But they have spots on their face so they're definitely alien.
I understand that this whole "Technicolor Space Babes" trope comes from a time when aliens had to be played by humans due to technical constraints, but nowadays, with CG, the WILDEST aliens would be possible. I hope when (fingers crossed) Project Hail Mary gets a movie adaptation, they'll do my boy right...
I love Mean Girls, but that scene where Regina George gets hit by a bus, while actually being very funny, also completely takes me out of the movie. She's standing in the street for a long time before a bus, that somehow doesn't see her, plows through her at full speed, all while making no sound whatsoever before it hits her
Indiana Jones in a refrigerator being flung hundreds of yards by a nuclear explosion, fast enough to pass a car going full speed, and being unharmed.
In a movie with aliens, a teenager swinging from vines with monkeys fast enough to catch moving vehicles and alien ghosts.
Let's just agree that Indy is extra durable because he drank from the Holy Grail :)
This is a dumb one I know, but it irks me that everyone overslept in Home Alone 2.
There was no household power outage, and I'm supposed to believe that NOBODY had set an alarm clock besides Kevin's parents?
In 'End of Days' the movie goes out of it's way to show that the main character's life is in shambles and he basically doesn't care about anything anymore. He's a drunk who eats garbage and almost never leaves his apartment.
The problem? The main character is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, so we're supposed to believe that this guy who doesn't give a s**t about his health has the body of a guy who puts roids in his cereal and spends 4 hours a day at the gym.
Well, maybe he is only at beginning of it and his body didn't have time to detoriate.
As a Mexican , it’s the fake Spanish accents in movies. Or when a Mexican American actor tries to speak Spanish but they have a very thick English accent and just doesn’t fit the character
Prometheus: The ship arrives in another solar system. One of the characters says (something like): "we travelled millions of miles to arrive here." Me: so, you are, like, close to Mars? That's not even our backyard, dude. That's our living room!
I never got how she was running in the shadow of the crashing spaceship instead of just running to the side.
Okay The Kingdom of Crystal Skull has been discussed a lot but for me it wasn't the scene where Indy gets into the refrigerator. That did cross a certain line of disbelief but I could live with it. For me, it was the scene where Mutt (an awful character) learns within minutes how to swing on vines from the monkeys, has enough arm strength to keep going at it and is so fast he can catch up with a speeding car.
The way most movies very inaccurately portray teenagers, especially with the lingo or slang. It’s always either outdated or feels so forced and unnatural. I always think, oh my god KIDS DONT TALK LIKE THIS . .. why can’t writers spend time with some youth to see what they’re actually like
Any example where there’s a race against time that requires being somewhere in 5-10 minutes that would clearly take 30-45 *minimum*.
I understand that mechanically it’s probably easier to build a sense of momentum when the race against time roughly corresponds to the runtime itself, but whenever someone says “I’ll be there in 5 minutes,” I can’t help but get distracted thinking how it’ll take them that long just to get going and on the road, let alone cover the 45+ minute commute between locations.
It’s not something so egregious as to ruin the film/episode, it’s just something I immediately notice and therefore necessitates an active suspension of my disbelief.
In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, they escaped the Goblin King's lair by scooting down a chasm on a physics-defying rickety tower that somehow always stayed upright while bouncing off rock faces. That was Looney Tunes-level silly
In Avatar when the element "unobtainium" was shown. The dialogue in that scene and the name just sunk the movie for me. It's too ridiculous.
That's an actual scientific name and commonly used among scientists tho https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unobtainium
In the movie Van Helsing it was the grey Gap sweater that Hugh Jackman wore. Like, everyone else had a vaguely Victorian steampunk looking outfit and his sweater was straight off the clearance rack. We made fun of that choice for YEARS.
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Any movie that portrays women as warriors or having to go into battle wearing skimpy clothes that could only pass as a swim suit or dominatrix lingerie, always gets to me. If I'm going into battle I'm wearing bullet proof vests, chainmail, and a suit of armor. I'm not slinging a bow and arrow over one shoulder of my deep cut, belly shirt, sporting a fashionable leather gun holster wrapped around my waist emphasizing my curves, while wearing a loin cloth and knee high stiletto boots carefully concealing knives like some weird filming for Girls Gone Wild, Warrioress Edition.
It's all the long hair everywhere for me. Tie it up otherwise it will be a)in your face, obstructing your vision or b) your opponent can use it has handle to control you/slam your head against something or to drag you. Tie it up or restrain it!
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Today I learned that superhero movies and animated movies are unrealistic. Who'd have thought, eh?
There's suspension of disbelief and going too far....like the (Star Trek) Discovery crew suffering no effects of oxygen deprivation in season 3.
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Character driving a car but NEVER looking at the road!! Drives me crazy. Just stare at the passenger while having a conversation... So many movies & tv shows that have scenes like that.
I think my main bugbear is the scenes where a portal is closing, train is leaving, spacecraft is lifting off etc, etc and there are just seconds to spare, but our hero decides now is the time to have a heart to heart, take their time saying their goodbyes, give everyone a hug, perhaps put the kettle on and make some tea, catch up on their reading, suddenly "10 seconds to go" takes about 20 minutes.
For me it was M Night Shyamalan's movie "Signs" where aliens are hurt by water. So they decide to invade a planet that is over 70% covered in water and where it falls from the sky and even has water in the air as clouds. That would be like earth invading Venus where it rains sulfuric acid.
Or how about the Wicked Witch of the West allowing an open bucket of water to just sit around her castle grounds?
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The one that makes me burst out laughing every time is when someone dips his finger into a white powder, touches it to his tongue and exclaims "it's cocaine (or heroine or morphine) all right".
Oh, have I got a story for you. Way back in the 80s, my dad worked for a company that produced adult diapers. His boss was flying to a conference, carrying samples of super absorbent in his briefcase. Super absorbent is the stuff that makes diapers retain liquid, by absorbing it and turning into a crystaline gel. Its also a white powder. Well someone stole said briefcase. A short while later, the boss was able to retrieve his briefcase from the local hospital. He never did get his super absorbent samples back though...
Load More Replies... I agree there are some "unrealistic" things in movies. but people should get things like "his hair, her makeup, teeth, body build etc in proportion. it's a movie, people shouldn't starve for a role, dysmorph their bodies or something. it's just a movie for f@#$ sake
Armor with boobs. Don't these people ever look at what a woman in layers of clothes looks like?
Bras and underwear. So, a couple has sex. Cool. Then, next shot, they're lying in bed and he has on underwear (boxers, always) and she has on her bra & panties. Who does that? Ho puts on their underwear after sex just to go to sleep?
I don't even know how people wear anything to bed physically (I get emotional and psychological reasons). I can't stay asleep when I wear anything. It gets wrapped around me and feels like I didn't finish my bedtime routine.
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I also don't like it when characters are overly upset that they had to kill a psychopath to save their or someone else's life. I suppose there are people like that. But for me, if you're trying to kill me and I kill you first I'm going to feel tremendous relief, not guilt.
'Good' characters killing lots of bystanders without a blink of an eye and later celebrating their victories happily without a thought about all those people who were killed. And especially when they lost someone they liked! You'd have to be a psychopath to be able to celebrate that way immediately after such tragedy.
What I hate and almost every single movie gets it wrong, is when a person looks at a bright light source and rises a hand to cover his eyes. But the shadow doesn't cast on the eyes. So why would he rise a hand at all? Another thing: so unrealistic reinforcement bars in destroyed concrete elements (yes, I'm civil engineer).
Everywhere she went for 12 years, somebody was murdered--how did Jessica Fletcher not suffer from severe PTSD? Also, how was anyone left alive in Cabot Cove?
The same goes for Barnaby and Midsomer, where the murders also became more and more gruesome and elaborate. John Nettles even joked with Queen Elizabeth that he was sorry so many of her subjects were killed on his show, and she said she wouldn't want to live in his district.
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My personal favourite are action movies where the women love interest fights an onslaught of thugs in a mini skirt and high-heels and then survives an explosion and her hair and makeup are still perfect.
Pple kept in dark rooms on chains for years without even a bucket to pee in.. Dungeons that are perfectly lit by lit candles even though nobody has entered them for centuries.. Women waking up with perfect make-up.. Speeches without any amplifier for hundreds of pple..
Women who are prisoners for months with no change of clothes, supplies, yet there is no trace of menstruation - especially if they are being tracked by dogs.
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The Revanent with Leonardo DiCaprio. A lot of beautiful scenery, but completely unbelievable. He was seriously mauled by a bear, and then started a long, arduous journey, with many more grievous injuries on the way. When he was flung off a cliff, crashed into a tall tree, fell through the branches, and immediately got up again, I couldn't help saying "give me a break" out loud.
Product placement always kicks me out of the film fantasy land. I lost track of the MCU movies when I noticed Tony Stark only drove AUDI. Seeing only one type of name brand "thing", billboard, store sign, newspaper ad, in the entire false universe. Pepsi, but no other sugary drinks? ONLY McDonalds, or Burger King?
Black Panther Wakanda Forever and the mention of the Fenty foundation and even the tone number had me brow raising
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For me, it's how all laptops are left plugged in and/or switched on, and require no password or boot-up time, even if it belongs to a president or member of the secret service. Also the number of phones that don't require charging unless it's important to the plot; and the fact that hardly anyone stops for lunch or to go to the toilet (which is particularly impressive in a show like 24).
To be fair they often take place in the US. What you are seeing is the goal and (sex term here) dream of corporate America - working continuously with 100% productivity.
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Having taken real hand to hand combat martial arts, nearly all fight scenes in action movies are ruined.
The one that gets me is when a group of people are traveling together in some bad situation and one just freaks out with no warning and puts them all in danger or out right gets everyone killed....and usually it's a woman or was in movies decade or two ago..... really hard to think of an example as I just get fed up with it but I think the war of worlds remake had a scene like that near the end (not that they weren't going to all die anyway)
I have some that completely ruin movies for me. When they use fake ice, that sinks to the bottom and there's no condensation on the glass. When houses/apartments look immaculate as if nobody lives there, specifically, beds and pillows that look like they were never slept on or even used for a whole night. When actors not used to long hair wear wigs and do an unrealistic hair flip. It bothers me more than it should, I can't explain, just looks so dumb, I just can't stand it.
Movies that portray women fighting and running in high heels....l'm looking at you The Watchmen!! But its not the only one.
Fast and the furious 5 when 2 mustangs drag a roomsized vault thru the city with 2 cables. No.
Look, I get it and I agree to some of the most glaring ones - but if *everything* was to be realistic or believable, movies would be more or less impossible. We’d be left with hyper realistic in-your-kitchen-drama that’d bore anyone except a small and rather pretentious crowd to absolute death. The way Hollywood (and I, as it happens) see it is that it doesn’t have to be believable, it just have to be somewhat passable. I guess that’s why they call it “movie magic”. There are things that are just plain stupid, I totally agree, but for instance the thing about knowing how to use a gun… what’s the alternative? Twenty minutes of the movie taken up by gun instructions? No use of firearms at all? The movie wouldn’t work, if you see what I mean. I’ve learned to turn a blind eye to such minor things as, you know… physics. Or actual human anatomy. Or societal functions. Details like that.
All bombs, that charaters hide in dark places or at night, have blinking lights or big bright timers and usually makes beebing sounds every second.
I relearned why i prefer to watch movies alone. If it's entertainment and only entertainment it's meant for your brain to take a break. Why i enjoy the fast and furious. Super b******t but entertaining as f**k. Also why I'd watch the Miley Cyrus show when I was home sick from school. Required zero brain power, just motions and noise.
I was watching Lost and one of the characters was kidnapped and branded with a tramp stamp. The other character was so upset. I was like, this is nothing. Totally coverable. And just happens to be sexy. I thought they were going to do like the Romans and put the brand on her face. You know, where people could see it and it would serve its purpose. But nope- tramp stamp. Just couldn't watch after that.
One for me is when there is a murder and its broad daylight and the detectives are like "there's been a murder, so let's head to the crime scene" but when they get there it's night time. Like, if the murder was in their precinct's catchment area it would still be daytime, right? how long did it take them to get there that it's night time now? did they stop somewhere along the way?
My mum was always fascinated when dr Banner got mad and the Hulk appeared, his clothes in tatters but somehow the top of his pants to halfway his tighs didn't show the slightest rip... For me, in some movies/series people are declared seconds away from dying and yet somehow they have enough strength to give an half hour long speech to impart to you that essential part of wisdom/that most important clue to find whatever the movie was about (treaure, long last family(member))... Also don't these people have jobs to attend (looking at you Sex and the city... endless shopping and meeting friends during the day but still receiving that fat paycheck and it must be fat to afford those NYC apartments)
The only nod to that stupidity was in The Incredible Hulk when (Edward Norton) Banner was shopping for clothing and found a pair of stretchy pants in purple. I always felt that the nude Hulk in Ragnarok was much more genuine in that regard.
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not "ridiculous" but my peeve, is any modern miltary show/movie where they say "oh"800 hours...or similar. "Oh" is not a number in the modern military, it will be "zero"-7:30 hours, not "oh"-7:30 hours. A period peace set during WWII, or possibly up to the korean war era it was common enough, after that though....looses me immediately.
One of my favorite TV shows The Resident (for those who don't know it's a medical drama on Fox). What gets me is when the have scenes in the NICU; no incubators, no babies on oxygen or a ventilator, no feeding tubes, just tiny babies in regular hospital nursery bassinets. My daughter was a preemie so I'm familiar with a NICU.
When e.g. investigators talk about going to a certain location relatively close by, leave in broad daylight and arrive when it's pitch black. Somehow several hours just got lost without an explanation. Annoys me every time.
Given I love waynes world. But I live in Chicago... They drive from aurora to brewyn then to Chicago in 5 minutes! That's a hour drive with no traffic easy! Also why would you cut through Berwyn to get to Chicago. I mean it's a detail no one would see unless they live here but it gets me every time I watch the movie... I still love it though
Maybe they wanted to see it because of Svengoolie lol
Load More Replies... HOW has no one mentioned NEVER RELOADING YOUR GUNS. Oh yea that 6-shooter just rattled off 14 and a half bullets.. And yes, I do count
The very first scene of "Waterworld": Kevin Costner pees into a DIY filter to make it drinkable... In a boat in the middle of the sea. What would you choose to purify? My stupidometer boosted.
I enjoy movies without this "catch you" attitude. I suspend judgement on many things and understand that implausibility makes them interesting. Otherwise I would only watch documentaries. Anyways, the more fantastic a movie is, the more of that stuff you have to accept. Most of those were comic magazines. Now they make movies instead of comics; WTF did you expect?.
I refuse to watch any movie released in the past 3 years that has a plot which includes COVID-19 masking or mandates. Propaganda clearly did not die with Hitler.
Any movie that portrays women as warriors or having to go into battle wearing skimpy clothes that could only pass as a swim suit or dominatrix lingerie, always gets to me. If I'm going into battle I'm wearing bullet proof vests, chainmail, and a suit of armor. I'm not slinging a bow and arrow over one shoulder of my deep cut, belly shirt, sporting a fashionable leather gun holster wrapped around my waist emphasizing my curves, while wearing a loin cloth and knee high stiletto boots carefully concealing knives like some weird filming for Girls Gone Wild, Warrioress Edition.
It's all the long hair everywhere for me. Tie it up otherwise it will be a)in your face, obstructing your vision or b) your opponent can use it has handle to control you/slam your head against something or to drag you. Tie it up or restrain it!
Load More Replies... Today I learned that superhero movies and animated movies are unrealistic. Who'd have thought, eh?
There's suspension of disbelief and going too far....like the (Star Trek) Discovery crew suffering no effects of oxygen deprivation in season 3.
Load More Replies... Character driving a car but NEVER looking at the road!! Drives me crazy. Just stare at the passenger while having a conversation... So many movies & tv shows that have scenes like that.
I think my main bugbear is the scenes where a portal is closing, train is leaving, spacecraft is lifting off etc, etc and there are just seconds to spare, but our hero decides now is the time to have a heart to heart, take their time saying their goodbyes, give everyone a hug, perhaps put the kettle on and make some tea, catch up on their reading, suddenly "10 seconds to go" takes about 20 minutes.
For me it was M Night Shyamalan's movie "Signs" where aliens are hurt by water. So they decide to invade a planet that is over 70% covered in water and where it falls from the sky and even has water in the air as clouds. That would be like earth invading Venus where it rains sulfuric acid.
Or how about the Wicked Witch of the West allowing an open bucket of water to just sit around her castle grounds?
Load More Replies... The one that makes me burst out laughing every time is when someone dips his finger into a white powder, touches it to his tongue and exclaims "it's cocaine (or heroine or morphine) all right".
Oh, have I got a story for you. Way back in the 80s, my dad worked for a company that produced adult diapers. His boss was flying to a conference, carrying samples of super absorbent in his briefcase. Super absorbent is the stuff that makes diapers retain liquid, by absorbing it and turning into a crystaline gel. Its also a white powder. Well someone stole said briefcase. A short while later, the boss was able to retrieve his briefcase from the local hospital. He never did get his super absorbent samples back though...
Load More Replies... I agree there are some "unrealistic" things in movies. but people should get things like "his hair, her makeup, teeth, body build etc in proportion. it's a movie, people shouldn't starve for a role, dysmorph their bodies or something. it's just a movie for f@#$ sake
Armor with boobs. Don't these people ever look at what a woman in layers of clothes looks like?
Bras and underwear. So, a couple has sex. Cool. Then, next shot, they're lying in bed and he has on underwear (boxers, always) and she has on her bra & panties. Who does that? Ho puts on their underwear after sex just to go to sleep?
I don't even know how people wear anything to bed physically (I get emotional and psychological reasons). I can't stay asleep when I wear anything. It gets wrapped around me and feels like I didn't finish my bedtime routine.
Load More Replies... I also don't like it when characters are overly upset that they had to kill a psychopath to save their or someone else's life. I suppose there are people like that. But for me, if you're trying to kill me and I kill you first I'm going to feel tremendous relief, not guilt.
'Good' characters killing lots of bystanders without a blink of an eye and later celebrating their victories happily without a thought about all those people who were killed. And especially when they lost someone they liked! You'd have to be a psychopath to be able to celebrate that way immediately after such tragedy.
What I hate and almost every single movie gets it wrong, is when a person looks at a bright light source and rises a hand to cover his eyes. But the shadow doesn't cast on the eyes. So why would he rise a hand at all? Another thing: so unrealistic reinforcement bars in destroyed concrete elements (yes, I'm civil engineer).
Everywhere she went for 12 years, somebody was murdered--how did Jessica Fletcher not suffer from severe PTSD? Also, how was anyone left alive in Cabot Cove?
The same goes for Barnaby and Midsomer, where the murders also became more and more gruesome and elaborate. John Nettles even joked with Queen Elizabeth that he was sorry so many of her subjects were killed on his show, and she said she wouldn't want to live in his district.
Load More Replies... My personal favourite are action movies where the women love interest fights an onslaught of thugs in a mini skirt and high-heels and then survives an explosion and her hair and makeup are still perfect.
Pple kept in dark rooms on chains for years without even a bucket to pee in.. Dungeons that are perfectly lit by lit candles even though nobody has entered them for centuries.. Women waking up with perfect make-up.. Speeches without any amplifier for hundreds of pple..
Women who are prisoners for months with no change of clothes, supplies, yet there is no trace of menstruation - especially if they are being tracked by dogs.
Load More Replies... The Revanent with Leonardo DiCaprio. A lot of beautiful scenery, but completely unbelievable. He was seriously mauled by a bear, and then started a long, arduous journey, with many more grievous injuries on the way. When he was flung off a cliff, crashed into a tall tree, fell through the branches, and immediately got up again, I couldn't help saying "give me a break" out loud.
Product placement always kicks me out of the film fantasy land. I lost track of the MCU movies when I noticed Tony Stark only drove AUDI. Seeing only one type of name brand "thing", billboard, store sign, newspaper ad, in the entire false universe. Pepsi, but no other sugary drinks? ONLY McDonalds, or Burger King?
Black Panther Wakanda Forever and the mention of the Fenty foundation and even the tone number had me brow raising
Load More Replies... For me, it's how all laptops are left plugged in and/or switched on, and require no password or boot-up time, even if it belongs to a president or member of the secret service. Also the number of phones that don't require charging unless it's important to the plot; and the fact that hardly anyone stops for lunch or to go to the toilet (which is particularly impressive in a show like 24).
To be fair they often take place in the US. What you are seeing is the goal and (sex term here) dream of corporate America - working continuously with 100% productivity.
Load More Replies... Having taken real hand to hand combat martial arts, nearly all fight scenes in action movies are ruined.
The one that gets me is when a group of people are traveling together in some bad situation and one just freaks out with no warning and puts them all in danger or out right gets everyone killed....and usually it's a woman or was in movies decade or two ago..... really hard to think of an example as I just get fed up with it but I think the war of worlds remake had a scene like that near the end (not that they weren't going to all die anyway)
I have some that completely ruin movies for me. When they use fake ice, that sinks to the bottom and there's no condensation on the glass. When houses/apartments look immaculate as if nobody lives there, specifically, beds and pillows that look like they were never slept on or even used for a whole night. When actors not used to long hair wear wigs and do an unrealistic hair flip. It bothers me more than it should, I can't explain, just looks so dumb, I just can't stand it.
Movies that portray women fighting and running in high heels....l'm looking at you The Watchmen!! But its not the only one.
Fast and the furious 5 when 2 mustangs drag a roomsized vault thru the city with 2 cables. No.
Look, I get it and I agree to some of the most glaring ones - but if *everything* was to be realistic or believable, movies would be more or less impossible. We’d be left with hyper realistic in-your-kitchen-drama that’d bore anyone except a small and rather pretentious crowd to absolute death. The way Hollywood (and I, as it happens) see it is that it doesn’t have to be believable, it just have to be somewhat passable. I guess that’s why they call it “movie magic”. There are things that are just plain stupid, I totally agree, but for instance the thing about knowing how to use a gun… what’s the alternative? Twenty minutes of the movie taken up by gun instructions? No use of firearms at all? The movie wouldn’t work, if you see what I mean. I’ve learned to turn a blind eye to such minor things as, you know… physics. Or actual human anatomy. Or societal functions. Details like that.
All bombs, that charaters hide in dark places or at night, have blinking lights or big bright timers and usually makes beebing sounds every second.
I relearned why i prefer to watch movies alone. If it's entertainment and only entertainment it's meant for your brain to take a break. Why i enjoy the fast and furious. Super b******t but entertaining as f**k. Also why I'd watch the Miley Cyrus show when I was home sick from school. Required zero brain power, just motions and noise.
I was watching Lost and one of the characters was kidnapped and branded with a tramp stamp. The other character was so upset. I was like, this is nothing. Totally coverable. And just happens to be sexy. I thought they were going to do like the Romans and put the brand on her face. You know, where people could see it and it would serve its purpose. But nope- tramp stamp. Just couldn't watch after that.
One for me is when there is a murder and its broad daylight and the detectives are like "there's been a murder, so let's head to the crime scene" but when they get there it's night time. Like, if the murder was in their precinct's catchment area it would still be daytime, right? how long did it take them to get there that it's night time now? did they stop somewhere along the way?
My mum was always fascinated when dr Banner got mad and the Hulk appeared, his clothes in tatters but somehow the top of his pants to halfway his tighs didn't show the slightest rip... For me, in some movies/series people are declared seconds away from dying and yet somehow they have enough strength to give an half hour long speech to impart to you that essential part of wisdom/that most important clue to find whatever the movie was about (treaure, long last family(member))... Also don't these people have jobs to attend (looking at you Sex and the city... endless shopping and meeting friends during the day but still receiving that fat paycheck and it must be fat to afford those NYC apartments)
The only nod to that stupidity was in The Incredible Hulk when (Edward Norton) Banner was shopping for clothing and found a pair of stretchy pants in purple. I always felt that the nude Hulk in Ragnarok was much more genuine in that regard.
Load More Replies... not "ridiculous" but my peeve, is any modern miltary show/movie where they say "oh"800 hours...or similar. "Oh" is not a number in the modern military, it will be "zero"-7:30 hours, not "oh"-7:30 hours. A period peace set during WWII, or possibly up to the korean war era it was common enough, after that though....looses me immediately.
One of my favorite TV shows The Resident (for those who don't know it's a medical drama on Fox). What gets me is when the have scenes in the NICU; no incubators, no babies on oxygen or a ventilator, no feeding tubes, just tiny babies in regular hospital nursery bassinets. My daughter was a preemie so I'm familiar with a NICU.
When e.g. investigators talk about going to a certain location relatively close by, leave in broad daylight and arrive when it's pitch black. Somehow several hours just got lost without an explanation. Annoys me every time.
Given I love waynes world. But I live in Chicago... They drive from aurora to brewyn then to Chicago in 5 minutes! That's a hour drive with no traffic easy! Also why would you cut through Berwyn to get to Chicago. I mean it's a detail no one would see unless they live here but it gets me every time I watch the movie... I still love it though
Maybe they wanted to see it because of Svengoolie lol
Load More Replies... HOW has no one mentioned NEVER RELOADING YOUR GUNS. Oh yea that 6-shooter just rattled off 14 and a half bullets.. And yes, I do count
The very first scene of "Waterworld": Kevin Costner pees into a DIY filter to make it drinkable... In a boat in the middle of the sea. What would you choose to purify? My stupidometer boosted.
I enjoy movies without this "catch you" attitude. I suspend judgement on many things and understand that implausibility makes them interesting. Otherwise I would only watch documentaries. Anyways, the more fantastic a movie is, the more of that stuff you have to accept. Most of those were comic magazines. Now they make movies instead of comics; WTF did you expect?.
I refuse to watch any movie released in the past 3 years that has a plot which includes COVID-19 masking or mandates. Propaganda clearly did not die with Hitler.
