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?

Spencer ( which I hated) had her sitting outside on the steps in bright sunshine at five pm on Christmas Day. It would have been dark for over an hour by then.

@1ittlegreen i know quite a few people who have the shortened version of a name (normally) as they’re actual full name. People don’t always have the full version of a name!

If you watch something set in the 60's it is SO 1960s that it hurts - all the big swirly decor and the furniture and everything. Now, I grew up in the 60's and houses had maybe one or two up to date things, but all the other stuff was furniture that was cheap when your parents got married, donated by grandparents, clothes weren't all madly up-to-date. There was a lot of old stuff from before the war being used, as people didn't have much money.

So true. Some of the things that I think of as 1960s because my GPs had/wore them were actually things they'd had since before the war!

Any scene set in a nightclub - the actors are always chatting easily. You have to shout to be able to hear each other - drives me mad

I was coming on to say that @Vroomfondleswaistcoat. My mum was an auction addict and we had antiques from all eras and cultures. In the 80s my friend's dad was into surrealism and they had some hippyish (60s I presume) surrealist paintings on the wall and a 50s jukebox in the corner. Most people's houses were a mish-mash - ours still is.

@MoonWoman69

That isn't a blooper, though, that was just an actor playing a part?! You can say that about all the actors in any historical based film really!

The poster was joking !

I was thinking that. If they remade the film today all the actors would have been born when? 1990s or 2000s?

As for the film (even if the post was a joke) it is filled with bloopers, about the only thing in it that was true was the escape itself and soldiers being murdered.

Only one US citizen escaped and only because he was in the British forces. There are no Canadians in the film when they took a large part.

Many German guards actually assisted with things like forging and gifting useful items.

Any film or show where they pretend it's Christmas by spraying snow on the trees. But the trees all have summer foliage.

I love this in the film "So I married an ace murderer" when his best friend is in the police, and his captain is really nice, but he wishes he was more like the shouty police captains in movies 😂 so the captain obliges, then keeps asking if it's ok 😂

I love the Kill Bill films but there are so many continuity issues.

1. She murders an orderly at the hospital then hides in his car for 12 hours and isn't caught.
2. She has loads of money to get flights around the world even though she's been in a coma for 4 years.
3. In the final scene she has long straggly hair despite very clearly having a bob in the scene before.

There are others but these ones annoy me every time.

@Garlicked my husband and I now have a mantra. And say it to each other as soon as we mention something that suspends belief. "Don't question the k-drama"😂

Surely they could film these over winter.

All the Christmas cookery shows are clearly filmed in the Summer. So the guests arrive at eg Mary Berry's house bundled up woolly hats and scarves to drink her egg nog and you know it's 29 degrees outside!
They've sprayed fake snow on the windows and the trees are in full leaf!

Discreetly tailing another car without being seen or losing them is really hard!
I've intentionally followed a friend's car (pre sat nav) who knows I'm following cos I don't know the way, and they've had to make sure I've not been held up by a red light etc

The episode of Luther with the bus, where a woman gets on the number 15 at Stratford. The 15 bus doesn't go to Stratford (and it also doesn't terminate at St Paul's which it said on the front).

Luther is creative with London geography at the best of times but I used to catch the 15 bus nearly every day, so that one was particularly infuriating 😂

That must have driven you nuts, @SocksAndTheCity!

Buck deserved it, though!

In not one of the Fast And Furious films do they ever stop to get petrol.

I love all the F&F franchise films, but it does annoy me you never see them at a petrol station, filling up the cars.

Yes, those odd juxtapositions aren't 'bloopers', they're location choices.

One of my favourites was in the original Brideshead revisited where they walk seamlessly between Castle Howard and the fernery at Tatton Park. I didn't realise till I visited the latter quite a few years after seeing the series.

DH had similar with the first Harry Potter, being a Gloucester boy a scene with the kids walking between its cathedral cloisters and somewhere else entirely (idk..Oxford? Alnwick?) threw him.

It's often a tribute to the continuity people how odd the effect can be!

@GoodHeavens99 he absolutely did but there's no way he wouldn't have been found and had his car checked/removed 12 hours after having his head caved in.

Of all the ridiculous improbabilities in that film (like one woman fighting off 88 people then busting her way out of a coffin) it's these little things that annoy me 😂

101 dalmatians , set in England ... surely one of the Brits involved would have questioned the raccoons?

The author of the original book did admit that he knew the storm was impossible on Mars. But he needed a way of getting the rest of the crew off the planet so urgently that it was plausible they'd leave a "dead" crew member behind. I think he rationalised it as his aim for the story was always that it was going to be about how Watney could possibly survive. How he got into that position in the first place was less important.

The other thing he knowingly fudged was the amount of spare hab canvas and glue Watney had to play with. In the book he had far more than would have been reasonable for the original mission.

@HowardTJMoon - his fudge is absolutely worth it. A great book and a great film.

It is! Although sadly I was far less impressed by his follow-up book.

Hocus Pocus was set in 1993. The children were at school that day .Halloween/ 31st October was a Sunday in 1993. That has bothered me ever since.