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Ok, I'm bored at work, watching a movie, and I realized we all have these: movies we love that contain things that truly bother us, even if we love the movie itself. Obviously, I'll start. I'm watching The Avengers, and I'm bothered by the car-chase at the beginning. A mind controlled Hawkeye is shooting at Agent Maria Hill, and he hasn't shot and killed her. In the comics, Hawkeye is an expert marksman who never misses his target. So how does every shot miss in this chase? I love the movie, love Cobie Smolders and wouldn't want her character to die...but can't we make Hawkeye's accuracy a little, well, ACCURATE?

Hawkeye from the comics can miss. He doesn't have any powers per se, just high level accuracy.

Never said he had powers-I said expert marksman. Believe me, i can tell you every important, semi important, and close to negligable Marvel character's abilities without having to look them up.
Regardless, he shouldn't have missed her with every shot. He had no issue shooting agents later in the movie while in a moving vehicle, kill shots, but he can't even hit Hill at all.

I've always been bothered by oversights.

To explain, in one scene in LotR, Gandalf is asked to give up his staff (I think it happened in the 2nd Film). He doesn't claiming it is a walking stick. In the next scene (as he is entering the King's Throne room) he is using it as a walking stick (perpendicular to the ground). The camera angle changes and he is carrying the staff at his side (parallel to the ground). The camera angle again changes and it is again perpendicular to the ground.

Another example is from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. When Ace is talking to the main baddie of the film in his office/taxidermy room, in one scene there are chess pieces on a chess board immediately in front of the main baddie. After a camera angle change, the chess board is devoid of any pieces.

Yet another example is in the Harry Potter films. As the series progresses, Harry's scar slowly travels up and to the right side of his forehead. In some of the more "dynamic" scenes, his scar is missing completely. In even others, the scar is again re-centered or on the top-left side.

The most extreme example is from Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist; they draw great attention to it too. If you've seen the movie, it is the whole "Red Clothes!" / "Black Clothes!" bit.

Unless it is used as comedy (as in Kung-Pow), it irks me that such simple things can be overlooked.

TLDR: "What hump?"

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Ok, I'm bored at work, watching a movie, and I realized we all have these: movies we love that contain things that truly bother us, even if we love the movie itself. Obviously, I'll start. I'm watching The Avengers, and I'm bothered by the car-chase at the beginning. A mind controlled Hawkeye is shooting at Agent Maria Hill, and he hasn't shot and killed her. In the comics, Hawkeye is an expert marksman who never misses his target. So how does every shot miss in this chase? I love the movie, love Cobie Smolders and wouldn't want her character to die...but can't we make Hawkeye's accuracy a little, well, ACCURATE?

What bothered me more when Samuel L. Jackson crashed and just walk out of it like nothing happened or the scene where Scarlett Johansson was unrealistically hanging off the hover bike, but other than that it was an amazing movie.

Surely the biggest odd thing in Avengers is how the Hulk suddenly becomes controlled, takes instructions and hangs out with everyone. What happened to the uncontrolled rage earlier in the film?

 George Spiggott wrote:
Surely the biggest odd thing in Avengers is how the Hulk suddenly becomes controlled, takes instructions and hangs out with everyone. What happened to the uncontrolled rage earlier in the film?

Yeah that's true maybe The Hulk has different levels of anger?

They sort of explain that-sometimes the Hulk comes out on its own. When that happens, it's uncontrolled. When Banner wills him to come out, he is more...willing to listen.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
They sort of explain that-sometimes the Hulk comes out on its own. When that happens, it's uncontrolled. When Banner wills him to come out, he is more...willing to listen.

I only saw the movie once...

But before Banner changed to the HULK to punch that flying fishy thingamajig... didn't he say something like: "I'm always Angry?"

The way I looked at it, he has a control of his anger, and is able to unleash the green menace at will.

Top Gun.
Pretty much the entire film really...

Kung Fu Hustle...

'cuz I want it to be so true.

Any current military movies. I pick out the descrepencies on their unifoms

Pochahontas, I mean, So much inaccuracies, like the fact that when john smith arrived she was 14. And John smith died and Pocahontas went to live in england as a liaison for her tribe.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

Lincoln's mother died of milk sickness, not vampires. The rest of the movie is accurate, though.

 whembly wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
They sort of explain that-sometimes the Hulk comes out on its own. When that happens, it's uncontrolled. When Banner wills him to come out, he is more...willing to listen.

I only saw the movie once...

But before Banner changed to the HULK to punch that flying fishy thingamajig... didn't he say something like: "I'm always Angry?"

The way I looked at it, he has a control of his anger, and is able to unleash the green menace at will.

So why the big deal on the flying aircraft carrier thing? Except to make Loki's plan look slightly plausible?

I think my favourite is from Deep Blue Sea, where apparently being super-smart lets sharks swim backwards.

The best part about it is the fact that they even mention it in the movie, with one of the characters exclaiming that it's impossible... and then just moving on. No explanation given, just 'Holy crap! Sharks can't swim backwards!'

 kronk wrote:
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

Lincoln's mother died of milk sickness, not vampires. The rest of the movie is accurate, though.

Having seen 'Skyfall' last night (which was excellent by the way, Javier Bardem is an absolute genius!), one little thing annoyed me. Ok, Bond films don't exactly scream accuracy but seeing a 1963 Aston Martin with a tax disc really peeved me. Peeps in the UK know what I'm talking about.... Right?!

One of my biggest pet peeves with Kingdom of Heaven, besides the dull preformance by Orlando Snooze;

Jeremy Irons' character 'Tiberius' is actually Rolland of Tripoli. The production company forced Riddley Scott to change the name to Tiberius because they felt American audiances would get overly confused with the likes of Raynald & Ramond...

Most of the shooting exploits in the movie "shooter"

Like other military folks here, I rarely can watch a Military movie, because I am always watching for uniform inacurracies, like the movie "Basic" in which, Sam Jackson is seen, standing in a torrential downpour, wearing BDU pants, boots, a Class B sweater vest with SFC rank on the shoulders, wearing a poncho like a cape, and a beret with the rank of Major on it... lol

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
Having seen 'Skyfall' last night (which was excellent by the way, Javier Bardem is an absolute genius!), one little thing annoyed me. Ok, Bond films don't exactly scream accuracy but seeing a 1963 Aston Martin with a tax disc really peeved me. Peeps in the UK know what I'm talking about.... Right?!

FTRI saw the film and took no notice of a or the lack of a tax disc., but surely it would be less accurate without the tax disc?

I just saw Skyfall on Sunday and there a part where M is walking away from the coffins where she jumps ahead 18-36 inches. Unless that was just my theatre that bugs me. Find out on DVD I suppose.

marv335 wrote:Top Gun.
Pretty much the entire film really...

Welcome to my ignore list.



Heathen.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:Most of the shooting exploits in the movie "shooter"

Like other military folks here, I rarely can watch a Military movie, because I am always watching for uniform inacurracies, like the movie "Basic" in which, Sam Jackson is seen, standing in a torrential downpour, wearing BDU pants, boots, a Class B sweater vest with SFC rank on the shoulders, wearing a poncho like a cape, and a beret with the rank of Major on it... lol

That whole movie is a uniform clusterfeth. There's another scene where he's a specialist which I'm pretty sure is the NEXT scene.
There was an episode of BSG shortly after the writers strike ended where Col Tigh is wearing Admirals pips.
And shooter was an OK movie if only because it was outrageous bs. That's why I've seen it 8 dozen times...it's just plain entertaining garbage.

When it comes to military movies, I prefer the uniform "wrongs" to be slight... Like in Forrest gump, where the only thing wrong with his dress uniform, is that the ribbons are assembled upside down.

OR, they go the Apocalypse Now route, and just remove half the uniform so that we don't have so much to scrutinize

timetowaste85 wrote:Ok, I'm bored at work, watching a movie, and I realized we all have these: movies we love that contain things that truly bother us, even if we love the movie itself. Obviously, I'll start. I'm watching The Avengers, and I'm bothered by the car-chase at the beginning. A mind controlled Hawkeye is shooting at Agent Maria Hill, and he hasn't shot and killed her. In the comics, Hawkeye is an expert marksman who never misses his target. So how does every shot miss in this chase? I love the movie, love Cobie Smolders and wouldn't want her character to die...but can't we make Hawkeye's accuracy a little, well, ACCURATE?

Hawkeye's only special power is "I enjoy archery", or possibly "DC's got the Green Arrow, so... yeah". You're thinking of Bullseye, who never misses (and weaponizes everything tangible).


I'm constantly irritated by the "pfft" sound that suppressors make in movies. That's not how it works.

Eragon is one huge inaccuracy.

I think even tax exempt cars get given a disk to display, you don't pay anything for it but you have to register it for being on the road and being road worthy.

Anyway, if you want innacuracies in Skyfall, how about the fact the London Transport were apparently using 1995 stock on the circle line instead of D stock?

 azazel the cat wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:Ok, I'm bored at work, watching a movie, and I realized we all have these: movies we love that contain things that truly bother us, even if we love the movie itself. Obviously, I'll start. I'm watching The Avengers, and I'm bothered by the car-chase at the beginning. A mind controlled Hawkeye is shooting at Agent Maria Hill, and he hasn't shot and killed her. In the comics, Hawkeye is an expert marksman who never misses his target. So how does every shot miss in this chase? I love the movie, love Cobie Smolders and wouldn't want her character to die...but can't we make Hawkeye's accuracy a little, well, ACCURATE?

Hawkeye's only special power is "I enjoy archery", or possibly "DC's got the Green Arrow, so... yeah". You're thinking of Bullseye, who never misses (and weaponizes everything tangible).


I'm constantly irritated by the "pfft" sound that suppressors make in movies. That's not how it works.

There's a theory that both Hawkeye and Green Arrow are both psychokinetic (hence why they can fire boxing glove arrows, explosive arrows etc...) and the bow is simply for show.

Makes a lot of their supposedly impossible shots seem a bit more plausible in the context of their universes.

any old tv show in which you can often see the set itself move.

The Watchmen. Awesome movie so acurate to the Graphic novel, then the ending was totally different why? Yes giant psychic alien squid are less realistic than bombs but why make everything else so accurate then change the ending? And IMO, the end result of the movie didn't unify humanity in the way the threat of aliens did in the novel.

NecronLord3 wrote:The Watchmen. Awesome movie so acurate to the Graphic novel, then the ending was totally different why? Yes giant psychic alien squid are less realistic than bombs but why make everything else so accurate then change the ending? And IMO, the end result of the movie didn't unify humanity in the way the threat of aliens did in the novel.

The source of the threat didn't matter- the important part was that there was a common, powerful enemy that would cause the entire world to become allies, if not unified.

My only complaint was that the Night Owl's defeated response should never have changed to the crap that the movie displayed.

Also, I don't think that's really the kind of inaccuracy that this thread is referring to.