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The biggest lies in movies...

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    When one police car crashes, 20 more will start to skid all over the place then join in thus creating a massive pile up, where the sirens of the stricken cars gradually slow down before stopping.

    Some cars will also launch into the air at an angle of 45 degrees.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Biggest lie in movies...

    Person is saying something bad about their boss/teacher/girlfriend/whoever. Turns out the person they were talking about was standing behind them the whole time. Then they say "uh oh, they're behind me aren't they?" without even looking. I refuse to believe that such a scenario has ever happened.
    That exact scenario happened to a friend of mine in school. He could tell the headmaster was behind him by how pale our faces went.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    That exact scenario happened to a friend of mine in school. He could tell the headmaster was behind him by how pale our faces went.

    Did he go "Uh, oh. They're behind me, aren't they" with a big thicko face?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Muslims are never the bad guys.

    Wait, what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    that sharks are capable of plotting murder.
    that all black people are into gun crime, hip hop and weed.
    that the world didnt have colour until the 1930s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    That the guy always gets the girl in the end. In real life, that rarely happens and I think some teenagers can get overly high expectations from this cliché.

    I found it amazing in Taken 3, how Liam Neeson walked away free despite the local police knowing he killed up to 100 people, including other police in the space of 3 days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    *puts on the indicators instead of the wipers*

    I hate hyundais for that :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    That people actually believe what they see in the movies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Biggest lie in movies...

    Person is saying something bad about their boss/teacher/girlfriend/whoever. Turns out the person they were talking about was standing behind them the whole time. Then they say "uh oh, they're behind me aren't they?" without even looking. I refuse to believe that such a scenario has ever happened.
    It did to me... We were mocking one poor lad who asked every girl at the disco for the shift... Everyone went quiet and I said "he's behind me right?" He gave me quite a legitimate bollocking...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Wait, what?

    Executive Decision was all a lie?


  • Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    Joe prim wrote: »
    Beautiful women don't go with er..."average-looking guys", eh? What about Gerard Kean and the gorgeous Lisa Murphy, so there?

    So hot girl, below average guy situations like the Hangover, Knocked up, 40 year old virgin happen all the time then in real life, yeah?

    Couples also always climax together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    Candles.

    if youve ever tried to walk around your house in the dark using a candle for light, you'll know that they'll be blown out by any wind stronger than a bumblebees fart. yet you can apparently use them quite easily in films.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Computers beep when performing the most mundane of tasks.

    They don't when I use them. :(
    You can assign sounds to stuff like maximising/minimising a window, closing a program etc. Try it! especially the ir_... sounds on Windows. Or use any cheesy effects.

    Makes your crappy laptop sound like Mother in Alien or like you're some hotshot CSI guy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    KungPao wrote: »
    You can assign sounds to stuff like maximising/minimising a window, closing a program etc. Try it! especially the ir_... sounds on Windows. Or use any cheesy effects.

    Makes your crappy laptop sound like Mother in Alien or like you're some hotshot CSI guy.

    Mine makes a "ta-da!" sound when I log on. Cheers me up when I'm facing into a day's work in the morning. For about three seconds.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned....

    The bad guy has the hero at his mercy with a gun pointed at him yet decides to talk to him for a considerable amount of time until a window opens for escape.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Sex scenes with no signs of physical exertion & no evidence of sweat present on skin afterwards.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Mine makes a "ta-da!" sound when I log on. Cheers me up when I'm facing into a day's work in the morning. For about three seconds.
    Ha, I just installed these CSI style sounds for a laugh.

    It's ridiculous, beeping all over the place here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Mexican characters speak fluent English but will still say 'Si' 'Gracias' and 'Señor' all the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned....

    The bad guy has the hero at his mercy with a gun pointed at him yet decides to talk to him for a considerable amount of time until a window opens for escape.

    I've trapped you Mr. Bond, now I will explain my devious plan in detail!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    People never close doors. Even front doors.
    Everyone has the exact change.
    Car tyres screech every time you stop.

    One thing that I hate in movies is when the hero is about to be killed. The bad guy is about the pull the trigger/stab him. Just as he's about to do it, he falls to the ground. Because the supporting character off screen has just shot/stabbed/shot and arrow into him just before he killed the hero. This usually means he gains the trust of the hero, will be a very competent sidekick and they'll be great friends till he dies at the end


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    The 'Enter' key on a keyboard can shut off an entire server


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭Gamer Bhoy 89


    Sex scenes with no signs of physical exertion & no evidence of sweat present on skin afterwards.

    Ever heard of kamasutra? :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Mexican characters speak fluent English but will still say 'Si' and 'Señor' all the time.
    Si Senor, I know heeem, hee eees my amigo, esse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Ever heard of kamasutra? :P

    Smoked a few once, but it wasn't for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    "Zoom in"... "Enhance"...
    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    Drivers drive without moving their hands from the ten to two steering wheel position.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    A lot of things in the Michael Collins movie were a lie. For instance Eamon Broy, the informant inside G Division who passed files onto Collins, was found, tortured and killed in the movie. In real life, he died in 1972, and went on to become Commisioner of the Gardaí after the War of Independence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,605 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    thelad95 wrote: »
    That the guy always gets the girl in the end. In real life, that rarely happens and I think some teenagers can get overly high expectations from this cliché.

    I found it amazing in Taken 3, how Liam Neeson walked away free despite the local police knowing he killed up to 100 people, including other police in the space of 3 days.

    Well, I guess if you're a 60 year old capable of killing a hundred people, including cops, the smart people stay out of your way.

    I found it truly bizarre that at the end of Taken he flew back to the US openly having literally killed dozens of people and shot the wife of the chief of French intelligence. He would be a hunted terrorist. But the whole thing is comic book stuff anyway. Reality does not apply.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Cops in dodgy neighbourhood just leave car with windows open and keys in the ignition.

    Car chase: No matter what speed they are driving they always have another gear to change up into, they do this numerous times in any chase.

    Sex scene: After riding the arseholes off each other and exchanging all manners of bodily fluids they lie in bed, she with the sheets wrapped tightly over her tits, him with them around his waist. Any movement out of he bed; the sheets stay prudishly in the same spot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    A lot of things in the Michael Collins movie were a lie. For instance Eamon Broy, the informant inside G Division who passed files onto Collins, was found, tortured and killed in the movie. In real life, he died in 1972, and went on to become Commisioner of the Gardaí after the War of Independence.

    Whatever, comeback to me when you can sort out the mess of Cork accents in the Wind that Shakes the barley.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Forgot these: Forensics are going through a crime scene millimetre by millimetre in their overalls. Our hero shows up and finds a sawn off shotgun or some other such large, obvious piece of evidence that 10 people before him oversaw.

    "Get me all the info you have on him, bank account, girlfriends, car reg, favourite muffin etc etc"...........and within 5 secs its up on the big screen a la Bourne Identity last night (still an excellent action film though)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    I hate when someone's driving and they are constantly turning the wheel back and forth on a straight road. The car would be swerving everywhere. It drives me crazy!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    Down shifting in a drag race to speed up your car. Does hollywood not understand how a manual transmission works?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    An undercover cop has to tell the truth if somebody asks him if he's a cop.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    In chick flicks women always fall for the ''nice Ordinary'' guy at the end of the movie

    15 car pile ups when one car skids

    Hand guns with unlimited amout of bullet chambers


  • Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    "I don't even know who you are anymore"

    You've suddenly forgotten the identity of the person you've known for decades ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Joe prim wrote: »
    Beautiful women don't go with er..."average-looking guys", eh? What about Gerard Kean and the gorgeous Lisa Murphy, so there?

    I would say GK is about hitting par there:

    http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article30962842.ece/BINARY/Murphy.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    That guns that are already loaded and cocked need cocking again before shooting anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    secman wrote: »
    At the end of Braveheart where it states that Scotland won their freedom....... couldn't even win a referendum. ....

    Just Braveheart the entire movie...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    my3cents wrote: »
    That guns that are already loaded and cocked need cocking again before shooting anyone.

    No one has a stoppage when firing (aside from running out of ammo)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Joe prim wrote: »
    Beautiful women don't go with er..."average-looking guys", eh? What about Gerard Kean and the gorgeous Lisa Murphy, so there?

    You sarcastic person you!


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Whenever people break into a closed crime scene, they find evidence that the multiple teams of detectives and investigators were not able to find over the course of hours or days, about five minutes after getting there.

    "That person loved painting. . . Look a safe behind that painting!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    Getting shot in the shoulder merely slows you for a short while but in no way stops you winning the fight..and you can dive through a glass window, land on a concrete balcony head first, stand up, brush off the glass and carry on..or get punched full-on in the head dozens of times and only get a graze and a slight haze of blood on yer face..as opposed to being in a jocker for the next six months...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    An undercover cop has to tell the truth if somebody asks him if he's a cop.
    I refuse to believe people actually think that's true!

    anyway...

    "movie ugly" people are better looking than most people you'll ever meet.

    "Give me my phone call! I want my phone call!"*
    *while phone calls may be allowed, they are not a right and totally at the discretion of the police.

    films have continuously told me that Seth Rogen is funny, all evidence to the contrary.

    Whenever someone is asked to bring up the files or the accounts of a suspect, they spend five minutes typing on the keyboard when in reality they'll just open a folder with a few mouse clicks.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Everyone's an architect, usually with a remarkably flexible schedule and often with some kind of very important deadline (of which the exact consequences for missing are never wholly explained beyond "we need this client").


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    major bill wrote: »
    In chick flicks women always fall for the ''nice Ordinary'' guy at the end of the movie

    Ah, but the nice ordinary guy who's the love interest in chick flicks or the ordinary Joe Soap (or possibly even below average) protagonist in all other genres will, at the end of the movie, turn out to be not quite so ordinary. So viewers have been led to believe that he's just like them when in fact he's quite extraordinary and instead of realising "hey fuck that, he's nothing like me", think "yeah, I suppose I really am great after all."

    ..or get punched full-on in the head dozens of times and only get a graze and a slight haze of blood on yer face..as opposed to being in a jocker for the next six months...

    Don't forget that when you need someone out of the way (usually an innocent cop just doing their job) but don't want to kill them because that would make you a murdering psychopath, just knock them out with one quick punch. That'll get them out of your way and will leave them to wake up whenever suits you with no consequences, they'll just wake up in a while as if they'd gone for a little snooze.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Everyone's an architect, usually with a remarkably flexible schedule and often with some kind of very important deadline (of which the exact consequences for missing are never wholly explained beyond "we need this client").

    Architects eh? Some proof recently that they do indeed seem to have time on their hands. Perhaps too much time! !


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭tastyt


    No murder can ever be solved until the detectives ask a few questions at a strip club while having a whiskey


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    Everything is not awesome.


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