Bloopers you just can't forgive

[Garlicked]

I'm really good at suspending disbelief and overlooking ridiculous plot holes with a "Well, they've got to keep the story moving". Sometimes, though, the writers/directors make such idiotic mistakes, they poison the whole thing.

I started watching The Silent Sea yesterday. It's a Korean sci-fi thriller starring Bae Doona, and it should be right up my street. In an opening scene, the spacecraft has crashed and Doona slides off the broken ship, which overhangs a crevasse. One of the crew members strains to hold on to her, barely managing to maintain his grip.

The Moon's gravity is one-sixth of Earth's. She can't weigh much over 60kg on this planet - pulling her up on the Moon would be no harder than lifting 10kg of shopping. She could've pulled herself up with one hand!

Now I'm watching for all the bloody stupid low-gravity and wrong-temperature errors, have already spotted several, and don't think I can get into it. What idiot mistakes have ruined the story for you?

I'll have a think about actual films.

Mine is the opposite. The movie trope of catching a falling person with one hand and then pulling them up hanging below them, which would be incredibly hard to actually do but you see it often in films.

Any space movie or tv show that contains the grandfather paradox.

Having looked at imdb's list for "grandfather paradox", I'm now intrigued! I really enjoyed Tenet, The Terminator and Frequency. I'll have to watch some of the others, and maybe even some of the non-fiction titles.

I agree it's really irritating if they fail to notice, and possibly even more annoying when they acknowledge the problem but the solution's nonsense. The scene in Looper, where Joe has to kill his future self, isn't exactly "grandfather" but contained the paradox (if Old Joe kills Young Joe, he himself can't exist) and I found it very moving.

Can we do TV?

My dad was watching a rerun of 'A touch of Frost', they had found a note they thought was written in Chinese. Later they discover it is Vietnamese.

Chinese is written in Hanzi, a pictogram system, Vietnamese is written in the Roman alphabet ie the same one English uses.

Bodies, OK these has three timelines that intertwine so there is a lot of suspension of belief.

But, one scene is an adult male and a girl in an upstairs room. It is WWII and dark outside. The room has a really flimsy curtain that he moves to one side to see if someone was still outside. The light in the room is on.

There was a blackout. No way would you be able to have a flimsy curtain or to look out to see anyone.

OK rant over.

I will just say though, the Martian.

Oh, the blackout-breaking window scene pissed me off, too, @sashh!

@Garlicked I know it's so annoying. I mean time travel / the same body turning up, I could get on board with that, but not the simple thing about the window.

Another one that annoys me is space travel and maps of planets. Planets move, they also spin. But that doesn't seem to happen in sci fi.

Almost all of Gladiator.

And I love a zombie film and I'm quite prepared to suspend disbelief but Army of The Dead has got so many plot holes it's a net curtain. (Zombies can run, jump and climb but a wall of double storage containers can hold them in, the border between the contained Las Vegas and humanity is very tightly controlled but you can get in through a side door that nobody official has noticed in the last few years, and so many more.)

Zombie films rarely have child zombies, surel they would be the first to be bitten?

Mines a Dr who one. It's the Christmas special with Catherine Tate. They are standing outside the tardis on top of a London building and mention it's 3pm on Christmas Day! Except it's bright sunshine, 3pm on Christmas Day it would be getting dark. Really annoys me

In one of the Die Hard films they drive from Moscow to Kiev in an hour - it's 900 km

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@sashh The Martian is one of my absolute favourite films. Enlighten me!

@fufulina Neil De Grass Tyson explains it better than me.

Most of the science is good but this one is such a big blooper.

Any films set in London where characters walk or drive impossible or stupid routes.

Quite a fundamental cock up for the plot 😭 and I always wonder if the Mav was so unstable in high winds (!), how come they didn’t worry about the second one being knocked over in the years it was waiting for the next Ares mission??

BUT - I am prepared to overlook it because it is my ultimate comfort film.

I’m an introvert. Can you tell?? 🤣🤣

American Werewolf in London, he gets attacked on the moors in Yorkshire and wakes up in hospital in London. It was made before the advent of regional major trauma centres, he'd have been taken to the local district general, but even if it was now, or if he needed a specialist hospital, Sheffield would surely be the closest.
We can't watch any medical drama or anything involving CPR either because DH gets annoyed with me tutting at the ridiculousness of it 😂

We can't watch any medical drama or anything involving CPR either because DH gets annoyed with me tutting at the ridiculousness of it

I saw something recently where the person's ECG was supposed to be showing VF, it was showing a pacemaker!

Also the flat line on the monitor to demote cardiac arrest and the interchangeable use of 'heart attack' and 'cardiac arrest'

Car chases that take impossible routes. Like the vegas chase in the hangover. I get so taken out of the moment as my brain gets confused.

Oh yes. This drove me mad on 'Red Eye' there is no way a doctor would refer to a cardiac arrest as heart failure.

Also marathon runners DO often have cardiac events.

Producers should have you lot on call as consultants for any medical scenes 😁

Mine's a Doctor Who one too. In 'The Day of the Doctor' there's a scene where John Hurt, as the doctor, is in a rustic hut in the desert and there is ivy growing around it. Ivy growing in the desert. Just no.

Maybe the Tardis can create vegetation around its crew, the way it makes all languages intelligible and atmospheres breathable? <clutches at straws>

It must be hard if you live in London as there are so many films there and the routes they take in films must often be bollocks. I watched a show set in Manchester recently (some BBC witchy thing so it was already silly with witchy stuff.). They'd do think like leave a nightclub then be filmed on the pavement under a railway bridge, or come out of Northern Quarter location and next thing they're the other end of deansgate.