Things Movies get Wrong

What are some things that movies get wrong every time?

The public restroom disappearance: If the door is shut in a public restroom stall, then someone is obviously in there :P. And never have all the stall doors been shut.
Clothed Zombies: I just know that, if the zombie apocolips came, the bulk of zombies would be entirely naked, or at least down to underwear.

One phone-call: You don't get one phone call when you're arrested, ever.

Well, I can tell you Hackers is a completely accurate movie.

The interior of a submarine. In movies like Crimson Tide, it's huge. You could have a block party in there. In real life, a submarine doesn't even have enough room inside of it for two guys to stand up in the same room.

you cant time travel in a delorean

Patrick Swayze wont gome back as a ghost

Most movies now have political agendas because they feel they must "educate us."

I don't think it matters, it's a film, you can do whatever the hell you want.

Sound in Space!!!! That is all.ferrari2001

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]Sound in Space!!!! That is all.Agent-Zero

cool guys don't look at explosions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

not all latins are called "carlos"

Most movies now have political agendas because they feel they must "educate us."

VisigothSaxon

Also, wait, what does have to do with the thread?

Destroying the monitor of a computer WILL NOT destroy the contents of a computer.

not all latins are called "carlos"

unrealtron

Lightning.

They always make lighting and thunder occur at the same time for dramatic effect. Are they suggesting sound travels as fast as light, or that light travels as slow as sound.

A bit of a pet peeve for me.

CGI is not a good suppliment for bad story.

Ice doesn't sink.

Physics in general.

Tossing a grenade into a house or using a RPG will blow up the entire house

Most movies now have political agendas because they feel they must "educate us."

VisigothSaxon

[QUOTE="VisigothSaxon"]

Most movies now have political agendas because they feel they must "educate us."

Jazz_Fan

[QUOTE="Jazz_Fan"][QUOTE="VisigothSaxon"]

Most movies now have political agendas because they feel they must "educate us."

PannicAtack

Tossing a grenade into a house or using a RPG will blow up the entire house

chansaet

There are lots of little details relating to weapons and tactics that movies get wrong. None of these really bother me, unless I don't like the movie in general (The Hurt Locker), in which case it's icing on the cake:

• Grenades do not produce huge, fireball explosions.
• M-16s and other assault rifles do not shoot out huge, star-shaped jets of flame when they fire.
• Real soldiers don't always fire weapons on automatic, in fact they use semi-auto much more often.
• There are no total rookies in elite units; there are no privates either. Occasionally in some action movie, you'll have an uber-elite Special Forces unit, and there's the "new guy" who's so green he can barely tie his boot laces. To even be in special operations, you usually need a couple years of service.
• Real soldiers are not James Bond. They cannot fly planes, fly helicopters, rig explosives, operate complex commo gear, and use every ex-Pact weapon. You have pilots, communication specialists, engineers, infantrymen and so on.
• People point guns at each other a lot in movies, point guns at friendlies, I mean. That's fine if it's gangsters or other civilian who really haven't been trained with weapons, but real soldiers don't do that.
• You don't turn around and walk backwards when clearing a room, nor do you suddenly pivot 180 degrees to point your gun in the other direction because it looks cool.
• You don't stand in front of windows after you've cleared the room.
• Movies and videogames almost often have Obligatory Female Radio Voice. Like, if there's a person who talks over the radio a lot and tells you where to go and what to do, it's a chick. This is rarely the case.

I thought of some more:

• Underpenetration by bullets. If you're being shot at by a rifle, a car door is not a reliable piece of cover. It's better than nothing, but if someone's firing at the door with an assault rifle, it's quite likely some of the rounds will get through.
• Overprenetration by RPGs. I am unimpressed with RPGs. I've seen a tank get hit by one, and it didn't do a damn thing. I've also seen a bank vault door that some jokers had used RPGs to try and break into. Note to criminals on this forum: Do not use RPG-7 to break into vank vault; will not work.
• Houses exploding. All buildings in which evil men reside have permanent gas leaks, because the smallest rocket or grenade fired into them will produce a titanic explosion.

Seriously guys.. the whole point of a film is to take you away from reality kind of.

There are lots of little details relating to weapons and tactics that movies get wrong. None of these really bother me, unless I don't like the movie in general (The Hurt Locker), in which case it's icing on the cake:

• Grenades do not produce huge, fireball explosions.
• M-16s and other assault rifles do not shoot out huge, star-shaped jets of flame when they fire.
• Real soldiers don't always fire weapons on automatic, in fact they use semi-auto much more often.
• There are no total rookies in elite units; there are no privates either. Occasionally in some action movie, you'll have an uber-elite Special Forces unit, and there's the "new guy" who's so green he can barely tie his boot laces. To even be in special operations, you usually need a couple years of service.
• Real soldiers are not James Bond. They cannot fly planes, fly helicopters, rig explosives, operate complex commo gear, and use every ex-Pact weapon. You have pilots, communication specialists, engineers, infantrymen and so on.
• People point guns at each other a lot in movies, point guns at friendlies, I mean. That's fine if it's gangsters or other civilian who really haven't been trained with weapons, but real soldiers don't do that.
• You don't turn around and walk backwards when clearing a room, nor do you suddenly pivot 180 degrees to point your gun in the other direction because it looks cool.
• You don't stand in front of windows after you've cleared the room.
• Movies and videogames almost often have Obligatory Female Radio Voice. Like, if there's a person who talks over the radio a lot and tells you where to go and what to do, it's a chick. This is rarely the case.

Palantas

Anything that is damaged will expload.

people end phone conversations with "goodbye" in real life rather than just hanging up mid-sentance

and there isn't 100 bullets in a g36c magazine

Oh, another thing movies get wrong is believing that I'll pay an extra $5 to see crap if it happens to be in 3Dxaos

Silencer's are not as amazing as they are in movies. The second an item goes into a bag it does NOT lose all weight. Especially gold.Ace6301

When someone is driving they can look at the person they're talking to more than the road, and still drive perfectly. -Tish-

Not in Dumb and Dumber, there are a lot of bad drivers out there.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Silencer's are not as amazing as they are in movies. The second an item goes into a bag it does NOT lose all weight. Especially gold.comp_atkins

This thread is amazing. It's so informative and entertaining. One of my favorite threads I believe.Link334

Little kids and dogs always seem to be impossibly smart in the movies. I don't think I've ever come across either that is half as smart as they are on filmkfjl

[QUOTE="Link334"]This thread is amazing. It's so informative and entertaining. One of my favorite threads I believe.vadicta

That's what she said!

I know, I would've been way more into Home Alone if Macaulay Culkin just hid under his bed and cried the whole time.vadicta