The biggest lies in movies...

iDave · 27-03-2015 8:07am

I think in Die Hard 4 the bad guy turned a screw in a phone and that somehow gave him free calls for life.

To Elland Back · 27-03-2015 8:52am

Leading men & women never have sex. They go straight from foreplay to a post-coital smoke in the time it takes the cameraman to move to the other side of the bed

franer1970 · 27-03-2015 9:08am

Removing the bullet from a gunshot wound results in full recovery.
No need for any other treatment. Maybe a splash of whiskey, which is obviously 100% effective against infection.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 9:19am

Terminator 1 was set in 1985, then T2 in 1995 but character John Connor who was conceived in T1 is age 13 in T2???

MetalDog · 27-03-2015 9:25am

A detective can only solve a case when he has been suspended from the force.

demanufactured · 27-03-2015 9:28am

Saralee4 wrote: »

Terminator 1 was set in 1985, then T2 in 1995 but character John Connor who was conceived in T1 is age 13 in T2???

84 and 92....i know... Dafuq?

Dravokivich · 27-03-2015 10:00am

Saralee4 wrote: »

Terminator 1 was set in 1985, then T2 in 1995 but character John Connor who was conceived in T1 is age 13 in T2???

demanufactured wrote: »

84 and 92....i know... Dafuq?

It's a movie about time travelling. It's plausible.

Larianne · 27-03-2015 10:06am

Women looking amazing first thing in the morning.
Yeah right!

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 10:20am

Dravokivich wrote: »

It's a movie about time travelling. It's plausible.

Although it is a complete paradox, the future him, sent his "father to be" back to conceive him with his "mother to be" so that he could be born and become a saviour against the terminators but actually by doing this he caused the terminators existence because they used the chip found from T1 to create them in the first place!!!

Crazy stuff but John Connor (the child) from T1 to T2 hadn't travelled in time so no excuse for messing up his age!!

iDave · 27-03-2015 10:25am

Saralee4 wrote: »

Although it is a complete paradox, the future him, sent his "father to be" back to conceive him with his "mother to be" so that he could be born and become a saviour against the terminators but actually by doing this he caused the terminators existence because they used the chip found from T1 to create them in the first place!!!

Crazy stuff but John Connor (the child) from T1 to T2 hadn't travelled in time so no excuse for messing up his age!!

But didn't the machines send Arnie back to kill Sarah Connor so she wouldn't conceive. Kyle Reese was only sent to stop Arnie...I think. So if the machines hadn't bothered Reese wouldn't of either so the machines would never of had to of worried about John Connor at all

Dravokivich · 27-03-2015 10:25am

Saralee4 wrote: »

Although it is a complete paradox, the future him, sent his "father to be" back to conceive him with his "mother to be" so that he could be born and become a saviour against the terminators but actually by doing this he caused the terminators existence because they used the chip found from T1 to create them in the first place!!!

Crazy stuff but John Connor (the child) from T1 to T2 hadn't travelled in time so no excuse for messing up his age!!

Not entirely a paradox. The chip found from T1, just meant things happened sooner as it was possible for technology to advance at a more rapid rate.

I thought this was alluded to in the second movie?

Capt'n Midnight · 27-03-2015 10:27am

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony

Anybody in a dangerous job who's only a few days away from retirement or flying one last mission before going home to marry their childhood sweetheart is absolutely doomed to death by Retirony, whether that takes the form of a cold-blooded criminal, an ace German fighter pilot or a great big robotic monster.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 10:28am

iDave wrote: »

But didn't the machines send Arnie back to kill Sarah Connor so she wouldn't conceive. Kyle Reese was only sent to stop Arnie...I think. So if the machines hadn't bothered Reese wouldn't of either so the machines would never of had to of worried about John Connor at all

Theres a scene at the end where a pregnant Sarah is making recordings for her son, and she questions whether or not to tell him who his father is, so I always thought that she did tell him when she was training him in case he didn't send Reece Kyle back!

oh and also there something about how Reece had always loved Sarah because of some picture that John had given him ( he was apparently always in love with her from the stories john told him and the picture and also he was a little neglected because he never got any in the future, I think they said he was a virgin right?)

circadian · 27-03-2015 10:29am

I'm happy enough with the artistic licence in Terminator.

First one is an excellent thriller and the second is a great action movie. Furlong was great in the role but I doubt he'd have passed for 7 years old. Also, a wayward teenager suits the film more.

I guess they wanted T2 released badly enough that they let the age difference slide.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 10:35am

Dravokivich wrote: »

Not entirely a paradox. The chip found from T1, just meant things happened sooner as it was possible for technology to advance at a more rapid rate.

I thought this was alluded to in the second movie?

im not sure exactly what they explained in T2 (i have to watch it again) but I think changing something in the past would not simply make something happen sooner rather than change the whole thing like the butterfly effect you know! it would still mean huge changes for the future john who had sent back Reece Kyle because when you make a change, everything changes. The movie is still a complete paradox. Someone sending someone from the future so that they exist (whether conscious decision or not) is still a paradox right? Like his father is actually younger than him!

Still doesn't explain the age mistake from T1 to T2!

kylith · 27-03-2015 10:42am

Larianne wrote: »

Women looking amazing first thing in the morning.
Yeah right!

The world has ended, the ants are in charge, humanity is all-but extinct and surviving by eating old shoes but women still make sure to shave their legs and underarms, and have their hair and makeup perfect. The men, on the other hand, have beards you could lose a badger in.

thickhead · 27-03-2015 11:02am

People removing bullets from the hero. Why ? A bullet is mostly harmless when left in. As far as I can tell a bullet is hot when it comes out so would it not be sterile ?.

Zombienosh · 27-03-2015 11:04am

The never ending story.....

ohnonotgmail · 27-03-2015 11:08am

thickhead wrote: »

People removing bullets from the hero. Why ? A bullet is mostly harmless when left in. As far as I can tell a bullet is hot when it comes out so would it not be sterile ?.

well there is the slight problem of the wound channel left behind by said bullet. said wound channel will get infected if not treated. And bullets are not sterile.

mrsdewinter · 27-03-2015 11:26am

Hero fires up Macbook. Macbook doesn't throw a strop over updates needing to be installed.

Larianne · 27-03-2015 11:30am

kylith wrote: »

The world has ended, the ants are in charge, humanity is all-but extinct and surviving by eating old shoes but women still make sure to shave their legs and underarms, and have their hair and makeup perfect. The men, on the other hand, have beards you could lose a badger in.

Sometimes they might have a delicately placed dirt smudge placed across the cheek, if going for the disheveled look!:rolleyes:

Yeah_Right · 27-03-2015 11:41am

demanufactured wrote: »

84 and 92....i know... Dafuq?

I always thought T2 was set in 1997. I know it was released in 91 or 92.

murpho999 · 27-03-2015 12:06pm

Germany lost WW2 because their soldiers were such bad shots.

It is not necessary to lock your parked car in the US.

After a night of passion, the next morning the woman will sit up in bad ensuring that the duvet covers her breasts so that her partner doesn't see them.

When bedroom lights are switched off the room is always flooded with moonlight and doesn't really darken.

Boy meets girl, fall in love, have a crisis in the middle where one has doubts or interested in another party. However, relationship is always saved by the movie end.

Food in restaurants come out pretty much instantly

Cars routinely have brake failure

American houses always appear quite large but when a couple have a fight the husband sleeps on the couch rather than a spare bedroom.

Smoking bans do not apply to most films

It's perfectly acceptable to drink alcohol in the car whilst driving

E-mails come into your mailbox via a flying envelope graphic and whoosh noise.

valoren · 27-03-2015 12:10pm

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I always thought T2 was set in 1997. I know it was released in 91 or 92.

1994 I think the script said. John Connor is supposed to be 10-11 years old.

Skynet wasn't developed yet, it was in the early developmental stages in the movie by Dyson . It would have needed another year of R&D say by Cyberdyne before it was used by the military to fly combat missions then allowed the autonomy to fly them solo then gained the self awareness that made them "...pull de plug" in 1997.

dark crystal · 27-03-2015 12:15pm

Adamantium wrote: »

Pistol Whipping

LOST was unbearable for this, someone was getting hit in the face/head with a gun roughly every episode, not one cracked cranium, paralysis case or accidental death, just a nice little nap where you can be woken up with a splash of water.

How about Marv and Harry in the Home Alone films?? They should have been killed a dozen times over..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM

diomed · 27-03-2015 12:21pm

The biggest lie has to be CGI. 10,000 horsemen chasing the hero is not believable - Lord Of The Rings.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 12:21pm

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I always thought T2 was set in 1997. I know it was released in 91 or 92.

T1 was1984 so john was born in 1985. Googled it there and the only proof apparently in T2 is a quick view of John Connor police record listing his age as 10 and the year 1995.

So he was supposed to be 10? So it wasnt a lie as such but all they had to do was set his age to 13 and the year to 1998 or something and it would have been more believable but then again a 10 year old John Connor is probably not going to be the same as any 10 year old

Wibbs · 27-03-2015 12:21pm

In any bedroom scene set in a famous city the most famous landmark will always be outside the window. QV Eiffel tower.

Plus 1 on the geeky guy ends up with uberbabe. In reality she's far more likely to end up with the smarmy good looking rich villain of the piece. Actually I can think of one film ending that was changed because of this lack of reality. Pretty in Pink from the 80s. The original ending had the woman go off with the friend zone geek, but mostly teenaged test audiences cried GTFO at that so they had to do reshoots so she ends up with the good looking fella who had previously fecked her over. "Ben Stiller ohh I'd soo have him if he worked in accounts" said no uberbabe, ever.

People either die incredibly easily and quickly or take an absolute age and often have a last words quip at the end(apparently the most common last words of people who have been shot/stabbed etc are "I don't want to die").

Gunshots rarely sound real. In reality they're much more of a crack type sound, rather than a boom type sound. Oh and machine gun magazines have an almost unlimited supply of rounds in the hero's hands, but need to be frequently reloaded in the villains.

Any hero can fly a plane, or drive a car like Fangio and survive a roundhouse kick to the head.

Spaceships nearly always have gravity. They also turn and bank in space as if they were flying and you can see and hear lasers. Every planet they land on has earth gravity and breathable air. And American accents, or British if it's Dr Who, a chap that with all of the universe and time to explore tends to end up in Wales an awful lot. Or quarries in the Home Counties in the 70's.

Anything spoken in (bad)latin is magic.

Boom_Bap · 27-03-2015 12:22pm

The backspace and delete key's are decoration on keyboards in the movies.
Everybody is Maevis Beacon perfect at typing.

diomed · 27-03-2015 12:22pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well there is the slight problem of the wound channel left behind by said bullet. said wound channel will get infected if not treated. And bullets are not sterile.

What's that you said?

ohnonotgmail · 27-03-2015 12:22pm

diomed wrote: »

What's that you said?

was i not clear?

fizzypish · 27-03-2015 12:23pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The backspace and delete key's are decoration on keyboards in the movies.
Everybody is Maevis Beacon perfect at typing.

Where's the scene where the computer hacker just typed out 4 sentences with caps lock on because he can only type quickly by looking at the keyboard?

dark crystal · 27-03-2015 12:26pm

Whenever a sensitive file has to be stolen and loaded onto a drive, it will download in super fast time and the hero/villain will pop it out just in time to avoid being caught.

valoren · 27-03-2015 12:29pm

The protaganist is given instructions incredibly quickly and incredily quietly by say a source under duress and manages to digest all the information without forgetting absolutely anything.

"You need to meet John Q Murphy, down by the Pier 115 docks on 4th Avenue, he'll be wearing a black cardigan, he has a scar over his right temple, his alias name is DeepBlue, he will ask you blah blah blah.....good luck"

I'd be stuck at what was his name again.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 12:33pm

Wibbs wrote: »

People either die incredibly easily and quickly or take an absolute age and often have a last words quip at the end(apparently the most common last words of people who have been shot/stabbed etc are "I don't want to
Anything spoken in (bad)latin is magic.

I always wondered in films say like Braveheart where you have big battle scenes in a field, who cleans up all the bodies and things after the battle has ended? And what about the enemies who are lying there slowly dying when the battle ended? Do the put them out of their misery?

Mal-Adjusted · 27-03-2015 12:35pm

Saralee4 wrote: »

I always wondered in films say like Braveheart where you have big battle scenes in a field, who cleans up all the bodies and things after the battle has ended? And what about the enemies who are lying there slowly dying when the battle ended? Do the put them out of their misery?

the victors will generally go around the battlefield and collect their wounded and dead. they will also finish off any wounded enemies they find and leave the corpses.

Stojkovic · 27-03-2015 12:36pm

The cops turn up in two minutes.

Here its two days.

Joeface · 27-03-2015 12:36pm

dark crystal wrote: »

How about Marv and Harry in the Home Alone films?? They should have been killed a dozen times over..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM

family Guy corrects this Home Alone Myth

Captain Chaos · 27-03-2015 12:38pm

Saralee4 wrote: »

I always wondered in films say like Braveheart where you have big battle scenes in a field, who cleans up all the bodies and things after the battle has ended? And what about the enemies who are lying there slowly dying when the battle ended? Do the put them out of their misery?

That's more of a real world issue than a movie myth tbh.

Wibbs · 27-03-2015 12:39pm

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

the victors will generally go around the battlefield and collect their wounded and dead. they will also finish off any wounded enemies they find and leave the corpses.

Local people would often go around combing the dead and dying for valuables too.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 12:53pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

That's more of a real world issue than a movie myth tbh.

yea its just they don't usually put it in as a scene. It looks cleaner in the movies. You go, win the battle and then go home and celebrate. You see them valiantly killing people in the battle but not so much when they are lying there half dead pleading for mercy. Sometimes they might only have a broken leg by the end and got knocked out, so they will kill those people too.

They leave it out because they don't want you think of any badness of the heros. They want you think that they fight fairly all the time.

murpho999 · 27-03-2015 12:54pm

Saralee4 wrote: »

I always wondered in films say like Braveheart where you have big battle scenes in a field, who cleans up all the bodies and things after the battle has ended? And what about the enemies who are lying there slowly dying when the battle ended? Do the put them out of their misery?

None of this is necessary as it's all pretend and at the end of shooting the actors stand up and go home. Problem solved.

Saralee4 · 27-03-2015 1:00pm

murpho999 wrote: »

None of this is necessary as it's all pretend and at the end of shooting the actors stand up and go home. Problem solved.

sure, but you could say that for a lot of the points made in this thread! Isnt that what the thread is about? looking for lies or inconsistencies in movies?

Mr.McLovin · 27-03-2015 1:08pm

female orgasms without foreplay...

just lob it in for 20 seconds, screams of ecstasy followed by a shared cigarette despite neither of the smoking at any other time in the film

my3cents · 27-03-2015 1:11pm

Shooting the bad guy THROUGH the good guy. Good guy walks away and is at work in the next scene with just his arm in a sling yet the bad guy died instantly?

27-03-2015 1:11pm

dark crystal wrote: »

How about Marv and Harry in the Home Alone films?? They should have been killed a dozen times over..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM

Kevin McAllister's trial for double murder would have made for a far better sequel than that New York one.

Joeface · 27-03-2015 1:12pm

Movie lies ...
1)Hayden Christensen is an Actor , when in fact he is a movie prop put in place at each scene by the set carpenters

2)Standard Colt Revolver which takes 6 bullets , has in reserve 600 that you don't have to load .

3)James Bond requires an STD check

4)Movie Sports Jocks are dump lugs that bully ppl but at the end are just shy and sensitive and Write poetry in there spare time .

murpho999 · 27-03-2015 1:17pm

Saralee4 wrote: »

sure, but you could say that for a lot of the points made in this thread! Isnt that what the thread is about? looking for lies or inconsistencies in movies?

No, there is a difference.

Just because they didn't show something it doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

For example we don't often see characters taking a dump but we can assume that do.

I found your point to be more related to real life than movies.

The thread is pointing out about things that happen in movies that are clearly not true or possible, not that something didn't get done.

ohnonotgmail · 27-03-2015 1:20pm

Joeface wrote: »

Movie lies ...

2)Standard Colt Revolver which takes 6 bullets , has in reserve 600 that you don't have to load .

Avoid the last Planet of the Apes movie so. Its appalling bad for that.

dark crystal · 27-03-2015 1:23pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Kevin McAllister's trial for double murder would have made for a far better sequel than that New York one.

Justifiable homicide due to self defence. The parent's trial for neglect would have been much better. Brenda Fricker as the judge and Tim Curry as the prosecutor.

The biggest lies in movies...

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