Bloopers you just can't forgive

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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?

Not a blooper as such but badly photoshopped photographs in films really annoy me.

Not enough day light.

@LookAtAllThoseRoses have you seen this?

It looks at the fashion, food and everything else around the book.

Tom Cruise version of War of the World's.

When the road collapses after the first alien starts to move Cruise runs away and falls beside a car.

Seconds later he is standing back by the crater and runs away again when it erupts.

Thanks that is really interesting @sashh and put a whole new dimension on P&P .

@Mothership4two I saw it a couple of years ago, I'm not a huge Austin fan but I found it really interesting.

Skyfall, James Bond goes to his dad's grave, on which is written the surname Bond. James Bond is a cover name for a spy, his dad wouldn't have the same surname.

Even worse for me - the person falling who catches themselves by their fingertips on e.g. a windowsill or a projection from a cliff. Like - how huge and muscley would your fingers have to be for that to work?

Personally I wouldn't get wound up by location inconsistencies. The idea is to present something reasonably plausible, not to be filmed in exact locations that all map onto each other - so for example a rural village 10 minutes walk from the sea - you might personally know that the village it was filmed in was an hour's drive inland but it's basically a film set. Similarly I've seen people on these threads getting annoyed about two back streets in Birmingham not being close together in real life.
It's implausible depictions that bug me. A particular one already mentioned is women in historical dramas having loose flowing hair, when it would in reality have been always up and usually under a hat or head covering depending on period.

And women in dresses made with printed fabric. I know block printing goes back centuries but that is fairly simple. Calico printing didn't come into being until the 18oos.

Also zips. If you are going to recreate a tudor dress wither don't put a zip in or if you need to cover it up / disguise it.

Victorian street urchins with shoes. If they were lucky they might have a pair of boots.

This was brought up on QI: the taking a bullet for someone. A fired bullet moves so fast that it would be impossible to jump in front of a firing gun and be hit.

But presumably a trained professional can react to seeing someone raising a weapon in time to jump in front of their principal. Agreed that by the time the trigger is pulled it's too late.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance then, but a genuine question - how ?

None of the architectural software packages are adapted for blind people, how would they do the technical drawings ? How would they spot mistakes on site ?

The character in question had been completely blind from birth.

Carlos Mourao-Pereira explains:

"I draw in a plastic film which produces an instant tactile drawing. And I use physical models, Lego is good to study octagonal forms and the dots of Lego they produce dimension and this is useful for my physical models in a scale. However, for organic forms it’s better for example clay."

"I imagine, for example, colours. And sometimes they are not the real colours but I ask a fully sighted facilitator and they describe to me the visual colours, so we can with visual memory also have the spaces I’m experiencing."

However, he lost his sight at 35 after training as a sighted architect. I'm unaware of any architects who were blind from birth. It could be done, though. It's even possible that a never-sighted architect may be untrammelled by received ideas, freeing them to explore totally new design avenues. It's very likely they'd include more sensory information in their creations, something architects tend to struggle with.

The office scenes in Bad Sisters were filmed in Waltham Abbey Essex! A long way to get to work from Ireland.