The biggest lies in movies...

Macavity.

A Rita Hayworth poster would not be enough to conceal such a large hole, there'd be some draft.

bodhrandude

Candie wrote: »

If a baddie is wanted by the police, they can turn on the tv and never have to sit through 20 minutes of local news, because the item about them is invariably on screen at that moment, on the correct news channel, as soon as they touch the remote.

And they always switch the tv off when the newscaster is still talking about them.

Love Hate Season 5 Nidge learns

about the murder Fran committed.

bodhrandude

2012 - Cusack's character living through it all.

animum

never turn on the lights when coming in home.. what's that about?
I'd have stubbed my toe and frightened off any dangerous characters with all my f-ing and blinding

running in high heels.


getting through an airport with a big hat and glasses,

upandcumming

Agricola wrote:

Police using car doors as cover during a firefight.

Most weapon carrying forces would have the door reinforced to be used as cover. I know they do it to the aul Vectras in the PSNI.

LadyAthame

You can afford designer clothes enough to wear a new outfit everyday and never wear the same thing again even if you are a waitress.

Everyone lives in a loft.

GalwayKiefer

A character carrying a gun around, ready to fire, but only cocks it when finding the baddie - was he/she planning on throwing it at the baddie prior to that?

Also the sound of a gun being cocked that doesn't match what's on screen, pump action shotgun sound and you're looking at a revolver.

LadyAthame

Everyone is a gun expert here ..

shockwave

Every elevator has a trapdoor in the ceiling and when your stuck in one you can just climb out and jump onto a handy ladder to get to safety

iDave

Spaceships can simulate the exact same gravity as earth.
Distant planets all have the exact same oxygen levels of earth, same gravity , 24 hour day and orbit a star identical to our sun.

Into The Blue

Just m-class planets.

For Forks Sake

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Small town bars are tough violent places where outsiders aren't welcome.

Having been to Mountmellick, I can confirm that this is indeed true.

meath4sam

Crawling trough ducting in a action film that for some reason is spotless clean and doesn't have any screws sticking trough it and extremely good lighting.

The car chase at 100 miles a hour wrong way down a one way street in a city seems to happen a little more in the movies than real life.

LordSutch

Two people driving along in a car (usually cops) with their faces lit up by what looks like a 100w bulb in the dashboard

Mister Vain

Pretty much every Tarantino film ever made.

I know a lot of action films are a tad unrealistic when it comes to violence, but scenes like this from Kill Bill are just ridiculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLvz5E61UNs

Topper Harley

captbarnacles wrote: »

Falling from any height into water will never injure you.

Or onto a car with enough force to crush it. And they always land perfectly in the middle of the roof of the car.

demanufactured

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I always thought T2 was set in 1997. I know it was released in 91 or 92.

The war was to begin in 97

D-FENS

Seems to be the general rule that if you're grocery shopping in an American movie, you must have a Vienna roll sticking out of the top of a big awkward brown paper bag.

demanufactured

All cars and vehicles in general are always immaculate and never get dirty.

dinny_byrne

iDave wrote: »

Spaceships can simulate the exact same gravity as earth.
Distant planets all have the exact same oxygen levels of earth, same gravity , 24 hour day and orbit a star identical to our sun.

movies about travel to distant planets always set the movie at a redicolously near date in the future

in avatar , they travelled four and a half light years to a planet which had been colonised for decades yet the movie was only set in the year 2150 , 3150 might be somewhat believable considering the astronomical ( no pun intended ) level of advancement in technology required to achieve such a feat

baschically , movies are absurdly optimistic about the pace of growth when it comes to future scientific progress

Frito

That it doesn't matter whether you are
bending down to pick up laundry or pack away groceries,
having an intimate moment with your partner,
squatting down in some shoot-out scene or hiding to avoid detection...


... No-one ever accidentally slips out a fart.

The twenty two-year old actress playing the thirty-two year old wife of the fifty-two year old actor playing the forty-two year old husband, doesn't really fancy him.

kowloon

Nobody walks into the kitchen and stares into the fridge in movies. Just staring in, surveying the things.

And nobody opens the fridge, and forgets why....

demanufactured

No one ever has to pay bills for anything.

Iranoutofideas

Nobody locks their cars.

Nobody seems to have a house alarm either.

Faith+1

Oh sure like Lawyers work in big skyscapers and have secretarys......Look at him he's wearing a belt!!

That's Hollywood for ya.....

Ruu

Most meals are never finished, always some sort of interruption. Why can't they have a quiet meal in peace!

No one ever does any housework. The hero is never folding his jocks or putting bleach down the loo when he answers the phone call that starts the action.

pablo128

The biggest lies in ads too? This ad was on our screens a while back. https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEAQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyedge.ie%2Fdoe-speeding-ad-extreme-reaction-1532471-Jun2014%2F&ei=s4QYVYWjOYTraOTlgNgP&usg=AFQjCNEgFFdUwl0Q2hqbpHVdACIFYqSq6w

Now there was controversy at the time over it, but not what I'm talking about. It's about speeding, and they use an '04 onwards Opel/Vauxhall Astra. At the moment it crashes, you can see all 4 wheels locked up. So that means the abs system wasn't working. They used a car with defective brakes to tell us to stop speeding.
A good one alright.

Junkyard Tom

Cold War Russians are emotionless and ruthless unless they're defecting which automatically renders them thoughtful and compassionate.

The Backwards Man

When the protagonist suffers a personal crisis midway through the most important sequence of the movie, delaying, hesitating, pausing at the time they are most required to do something. Eventually they snap out of it and do the right thing and they are a hero.

Not to me you're not you bastard, you nearly got everybody killed/lost the World Series/didn't get the girl.

Maverick in Top Gun is a classic example of this.

riclad

ITS easy to hack into any computer,in the movies,
you can guess the password,
or type in a few linux commands in 2 minutes.Cops or people trapped in a building ,can crawl into a airduct,
in real life the roof would collapse ,
air ducts are not big enough for a large adult to get into .
video games always look awful in movies, 10 years out of date .
only kids play video games in movies.
if irish tv,uk soaps were accurate teens would spend alot of time looking at phones ,
on facebook,twitter etc
The only time people on uk soaps use a phone is to talk,or read a text.
See friends etc
characters in comedys always have big apartments,
a person working in a coffee shop would more likely to be living in a small flat.

There,s alot of stereotyping,in movies
not all black people like hip hop,
or rap music.
There,s probably black people who work in boring jobs,
accountants,insurance agent etc
Male actors that are 50 plus have 25 year old blonde girl friends,
and its never mentioned ,this might be unrealistic.
In Some movies
every pc or phone , tablet anyone uses is made by apple ,
obvious product placement.

if coronation st was realistic,
there would be a few people in the pub just looking at their smartphones and talking to no one .
People in ordinary jobs have new cars, big houses .
Every romantic comedy , the heroine has a friend to give her advice,
and make funny witty remarks,
someone who is abit overweight or not quite as pretty as the lead character.

Soaps are not realistic,
eg one man would not have affairs with 4 or 5 women who live ,
in the same street,
Phil mitchell has had affairs with at least 10 women in albert square .
People in soap opera,s dont seem to get std,s
the worst that can happen is a woman maybe gets pregnant from
having an affair with someone.
IN a fight scene, our hero fights 5 enemys ,they attack him one by one,
he punches each one once or twice or kicks them and they all fall down.
Our hero is going into a building ,
he knocks out 1 or 2 security henchmen.
the other security staff dont hear anything,
or notice that the 2 gaurds at the front of the building have gone silent .
Doors in most movies ,dont have pin codes ,security locks.
once you are in the enemy base you can go into any room.
James bond can drive any truck,or car, even a tank,like an expert
no training needed .

LadyAthame

riclad wrote: »

ITS easy to hack into any computer,in the movies,
you can guess the password,
or type in a few linux commands in 2 minutes.Cops or people trapped in a building ,can crawl into a airduct,
in real life the roof would collapse ,
air ducts are not big enough for a large adult to get into .
video games always look awful in movies, 10 years out of date .
only kids play video games in movies.
if irish tv,uk soaps were accurate teens would spend alot of time looking at phones ,
on facebook,twitter etc
The only time people on uk soaps use a phone is to talk,or read a text.
See friends etc
characters in comedys always have big apartments,
a person working in a coffee shop would more likely to be living in a small flat.

There,s alot of stereotyping,in movies
not all black people like hip hop,
or rap music.
There,s probably black people who work in boring jobs,
accountants,insurance agent etc
Male actors that are 50 plus have 25 year old blonde girl friends,
and its never mentioned ,this might be unrealistic.
In Some movies
every pc or phone , tablet anyone uses is made by apple ,
obvious product placement.

if coronation st was realistic,
there would be a few people in the pub just looking at their smartphones and talking to no one .
People in ordinary jobs have new cars, big houses .
Every romantic comedy , the heroine has a friend to give her advice,
and make funny witty remarks,
someone who is abit overweight or not quite as pretty as the lead character.

Soaps are not realistic,
eg one man would not have affairs with 4 or 5 women who live ,
in the same street,
Phil mitchell has had affairs with at least 10 women in albert square .
People in soap opera,s dont seem to get std,s
the worst that can happen is a woman maybe gets pregnant from
having an affair with someone.
IN a fight scene, our hero fights 5 enemys ,they attack him one by one,
he punches each one once or twice or kicks them and they all fall down.
Our hero is going into a building ,
he knocks out 1 or 2 security henchmen.
the other security staff dont hear anything,
or notice that the 2 gaurds at the front of the building have gone silent .
Doors in most movies ,dont have pin codes ,security locks.
once you are in the enemy base you can go into any room.
James bond can drive any truck,or car, even a tank,like an expert
no training needed .

My god, that is genius level analysis.

You could be a film critic ! :-)

Capt'n Midnight

The Backwards Man wrote: »

When the protagonist suffers a personal crisis midway through the most important sequence of the movie, delaying, hesitating, pausing at the time they are most required to do something. Eventually they snap out of it and do the right thing and they are a hero.

Not to me you're not you bastard, you nearly got everybody killed/lost the World Series/didn't get the girl.

Maverick in Top Gun is a classic example of this.

Battleship.

The "hero" Looses world series, and then gets two shiploads of people killed and still believes he was right all along.

The Moldy Gowl

James Bond is military trained. It's hardly unrealistic he won't know how to drive a tank or a plane?

He is their most trained spy.

newport2

That when really smart intelligent badies, who want nothing more than to kill the hero in the film, finally after great difficulty have him cornered with a gun to his head, proceed - without exception - to explain their life to him with a little speech, leaving the door open for a rescue/escape to inevitably happen. You'd think they'd learn from their predecessors, having all succumbed to the same faith.

Cee-Jay-Cee

The one that gets my goat is both driver and passenger in cars being lit up like daylight from the dash lights.

Also in chase scenes, a driver going through over 10 forward gears while accelerating and all of a sudden having having the ability to pass another car like it was stopped even though it took the previous 5 minutes just to catch up from 100 metres back.

Kirby

Candie wrote: »

No one ever does any housework. The hero is never folding his jocks or putting bleach down the loo when he answers the phone call that starts the action.

Not always. John McClane was caught barefoot in Die Hard and it ended up mattering. I always thought that was a nice touch.

"Shoot...the glass!"

floggg

KungPao wrote: »

Si Senor, I know heeem, hee eees my amigo, esse.

I know. Mexicans are never that polite.
They do speak a lot of spanglish at times though - mainly when they are mad at you.

gramar

When it rains it never drizzles. It's always absolutely spilling down.

Crooked Jack

Candie wrote: »

The twenty two-year old actress playing the thirty-two year old wife of the fifty-two year old actor playing the forty-two year old husband, doesn't really fancy him.

High schools full of gorgeous, mature, fully physically developed, confident, sexually experienced teenagers who never get spots or bad skin or any of the other stuff that goes with being a teen unless theyre the token ugo

Egginacup

Mister Vain wrote: »

Well I don't know about going to work, but no, I never washed myself or my bollix after sex.

Couldn't the bollix wash himself anyway?

Egginacup

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well there is the slight problem of the wound channel left behind by said bullet. said wound channel will get infected if not treated. And bullets are not sterile.

Also, I think a bullet passing through clothing will introduce fragments of that clothing into the wound. The clothing would have lots of germs/bacteria on it.

Darkglasses

Nobody says goodbye 5 or 6 times at the end of a phone call.

Egginacup

kylith wrote: »

It's the same reason all phone numbers in films start with 555; so they don't accidentally give out a real number.

And women have sex while wearing their bra.

Well pretty much everyone's internal ip address is 192.168.x.x; they could use that subnet.

ohnonotgmail

Darkglasses wrote: »

Nobody says goodbye 5 or 6 times at the end of a phone call.

similarly calls are always answered as soon as they finish dialing the number

shockwave

When people have a shower the whole bathroom fills up with steam, its almost like they have a smoke machine in there.

doubledown

Darkglasses wrote: »

Nobody says goodbye 5 or 6 times at the end of a phone call.

They do in Shaun of the Dead!

Egginacup

Junkyard Cat wrote: »

Cold War Russians are emotionless and ruthless unless they're defecating which automatically renders them thoughtful and compassionate.

FYP