Stupid movie cliches and impossibilities - Page 10

**blondifan** · August 12th, 2009, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by brianwp

Blondifan, that's a good idea! Maybe you should start a thread on movie mistakes. I can think of a few, offhand. I'd steal the idea, but you thought of it first!

I think if you browsed in the panel to the right of you're screen you'd find plenty of other examples from other films.
If you'd care to start a thread featuring them, go ahead, I certainly don't mind. Although if you searched Youtube I'm sure you'd find many.

**bawjaws** · August 12th, 2009, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianwp

Blondifan, that's a good idea! Maybe you should start a thread on movie mistakes. I can think of a few, offhand. I'd steal the idea, but you thought of it first!

you should maybe go here
http://www.moviemistakes.com/

meatpuppet · August 12th, 2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by karlafong

How about the action hero who is always able to outrun the exploding fireball or, at worst, is just thrown out of harm's way by the force of the explosion.

In Independence Day, even the bloody dog gets in on this act.... For some reason, given all the other reasons to pick holes in that film, the incredible dog escape annoyed me most.

**DTravel** · August 12th, 2009, 08:04 PM

For those of you who understand science and the basics of space (like what zero gee is), a good show to drive your blood pressure up is the new Defying Gravity here in the US. Written by people who failed grade school science there are way, way too many basic science errors in it to list (and its only had three episodes to date!).

**bawjaws** · August 12th, 2009, 09:24 PM

the laws of gravity certainly don't seem to apply in most martial arts movies or sequences nowadays

**RyderKnightley** · August 13th, 2009, 06:17 AM

In the film The Sound of Music during the song Doh a Deer, Julie Andrews and the children are at a fruit stall where a crate of oranges is stamped with Produce of Israel. This is an impossibility unless time travel can account for it as the state of Israel did not exist during WW2. Even if it did, I don't think a Nazi controlled country would be trading with them on ideological grounds.

**gmcbee** · August 28th, 2009, 09:24 PM

People who are strangled, knifed, shot, or have their throats cut almost always die quietly in a heap. This often happens immediately, but can take as long as 6 to 8 seconds.

Bah!

**gmcbee** · September 7th, 2009, 05:54 PM

Bad archery form:

**scoundrel** · September 7th, 2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by gmcbee

Bad archery form:

Am I correct in surmising that the lady is about to inflict a very unpleasant bruise and friction burn on her left forearm?

**Clouddancer** · September 8th, 2009, 08:41 AM

The hero is involved in the mother & farther of a brawl, he can & does knock people out with one punch!!!, he gets a chair & a bottle broken over his head,
he appears next day, with a sticking plaster over his eye!!!
The last time I got beaten up in a pub fight, I couldn't walk properly for two weeks & my face swelled up so much, my mates thought it was someone else.
How long do you believe makers of furniture would stay in business, if you could break it with the ease it occurs in almost every action film.

Why do the characters in CSI & The X Files never turn on the bloody lights!!

I would like to know where I can buy a torch, thats like searchlight when switched on.

Every home or office in suspense films has lighting so dim you'd bloody near cripple youself everytime you moved around the place.

What about the World's greatest assassin who with one shot can bring down a butterfly in flight, but can't hit the hero despite letting off 125 rounds from
an Uzzi machine gun.

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RyderKnightley Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,223 Thanks: 9,493 Thanked 19,339 Times in 1,145 Posts	Oranges In the film The Sound of Music during the song Doh a Deer, Julie Andrews and the children are at a fruit stall where a crate of oranges is stamped with Produce of Israel. This is an impossibility unless time travel can account for it as the state of Israel did not exist during WW2. Even if it did, I don't think a Nazi controlled country would be trading with them on ideological grounds.

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August 12th, 2009, 09:24 PM	#95
bawjaws Vintage Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 971 Thanks: 13,812 Thanked 12,964 Times in 957 Posts	the laws of gravity certainly don't seem to apply in most martial arts movies or sequences nowadays

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gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	People who are strangled, knifed, shot, or have their throats cut almost always die quietly in a heap. This often happens immediately, but can take as long as 6 to 8 seconds. Bah!

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gmcbee Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Clinging to the rim of a crater on the dark side of Uranus. Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 11,051 Times in 1,042 Posts	Bad archery form:

September 8th, 2009, 08:41 AM	#100
Clouddancer Vintage Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Spain - Costa Blanca Posts: 811 Thanks: 10,238 Thanked 11,623 Times in 809 Posts	The hero is involved in the mother & farther of a brawl, he can & does knock people out with one punch!!!, he gets a chair & a bottle broken over his head, he appears next day, with a sticking plaster over his eye!!! The last time I got beaten up in a pub fight, I couldn't walk properly for two weeks & my face swelled up so much, my mates thought it was someone else. How long do you believe makers of furniture would stay in business, if you could break it with the ease it occurs in almost every action film. Why do the characters in CSI & The X Files never turn on the bloody lights!! I would like to know where I can buy a torch, thats like searchlight when switched on. Every home or office in suspense films has lighting so dim you'd bloody near cripple youself everytime you moved around the place. What about the World's greatest assassin who with one shot can bring down a butterfly in flight, but can't hit the hero despite letting off 125 rounds from an Uzzi machine gun.