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"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."
Yup! With Azeem in tow. BUT I fucking love that film. "I'm going to cut your heart out, WITH A SPOON!" |
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I could pick the new Top Gun movie apart forensically for it’s inaccuracies and barely believable stuff. BUT, it’s still a bloody good film, and I enjoy watching it for what it is…..a blockbuster sequel that is everything I hoped it would be. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
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"What is that one film where the inaccuracies bug you?
Can be an inaccuracies that make you think "that didn't happen" or "That's not how that works""
Any porno involving a plumber, pizza delivery man or traffic cop.
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"What is that one film where the inaccuracies bug you?
Can be an inaccuracies that make you think "that didn't happen" or "That's not how that works""
Can’t watch any film or TV programme involving lifts with my father-in-law, who was a lift engineer for 40 years. “That wouldn’t happen” “can’t do that” etc etc |
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"Yeah.. Bravehearr pisses me off no end
I’m not allowed to watch it with people any more. Probably for good reason
Me either...."
Thank f for that, I feel much better now - if you scream at the screen at the inaccuracies as well then this has been a good night |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it."
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events...... |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"
And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......
And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic "
Exactly! |
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Nearly every film based on true events changes something, or adds characters which didn't exist. Or fails to mention about the "true events" being debunked as hoaxes, like the Amityville Horror or Conjuring franchises. |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......
And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic
Exactly!"
Preach! I completely understand that, as someone interested in history, I am in the minority and most people just want to watch the damn film but it does annoy me |
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"Jurassic Park..
Just a thought. 
I was disappointed to find out they gave the dilophosaurus that cool scary mane, when they didn't actually have them."
Say whaaaaaaat?! That’s the coolest dino in the film |
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"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."
No not in a day, because he was going to dine with his father that night so it was more like 12hrs.
Brilliant piece of typical Hollywood garbage. |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "
Just finished watching the revenge porn documentary on Netflix, which had a list of IP addresses that exceeded 255. |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it."
That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it. |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes
Just finished watching the revenge porn documentary on Netflix, which had a list of IP addresses that exceeded 255."
Lol. You sure they weren't using the octal number system? |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "
To combine two things in this thread, when the girl in Jurassic Park magically gets into the Linux system to reboot the park, when some genius level coder has shut it all down a few hours before - but none of the IT people in the building managed to do it in the previous 12 hours |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it."
I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to. |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it.
I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to. "
The problem is you can't. It's like watching a normal character that's not a superhero jumping off a flight and surviving. Of course it's just a film, but it's hard to look past it for anyone. Same is true with your area of expertise. The concepts are so much ingrained in you that you just can't look past it. |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes
To combine two things in this thread, when the girl in Jurassic Park magically gets into the Linux system to reboot the park, when some genius level coder has shut it all down a few hours before - but none of the IT people in the building managed to do it in the previous 12 hours"
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it.
I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to.
The problem is you can't. It's like watching a normal character that's not a superhero jumping off a flight and surviving. Of course it's just a film, but it's hard to look past it for anyone. Same is true with your area of expertise. The concepts are so much ingrained in you that you just can't look past it."
I do every time I watch a film though.
I could just focus on the lighting, blocking, set design, camera angles, exposure, grade, the line, the cuts, the focus, the lens any any technical issues with them. But that's not really enjoyable for me or anyone I'm watching a film with so I just let it be.
How realistic is it that every time someone is outside in a film it's sunrise or sun set? Or that all the interior lighting in films is fake? And on and on...
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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago
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seeing an east european film , name I can t remember , a guy on a building site breaks his arm and when he walks out of hospital he has a pot on his left arm , the very next scene he is getting off the bus and the pot is on his other arm !! ffs |
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By *ensualMan
over a year ago
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People dodging bullets or not getting hit by bullets fired from machine guns.
People hit with solid bits of metal and shrugging it off, e.g Vin Diesel and Jason Statham in Fast and Fantasy, not forgetting gravity denying stunts. I blame video games. |
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"People dodging bullets or not getting hit by bullets fired from machine guns.
People hit with solid bits of metal and shrugging it off, e.g Vin Diesel and Jason Statham in Fast and Fantasy, not forgetting gravity denying stunts. I blame video games."
Or, people using a hand gun to shoot and kill someone half a mile away |
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That the human body only holds about 8 pints of blood and that bullet wounds aren't either (to the baddies) instant death or (to the hero) just a slight shoulder wound needing a mere sling to be fitted to allow him to walk straight back out of the ambulance. |
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Every horror movie ever where the women are screaming, always falling morons. That's not how most women would behave in that situation.. well I hope not. |
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"Most films based on historical events! "
This^^
Case in point: The Battle of Little Big Horn. Sioux accounts and the archaeology demonstrated that the defence was a chaotic shambles, rather than galant defence portrayed in the movie. |
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"
Based... |
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By *hirleyMan
over a year ago
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"Every horror movie ever where the women are screaming, always falling morons. That's not how most women would behave in that situation.. well I hope not."
Nah that's true, women just act like screaming morons in just about every other situation ( ) |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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According to the families involved the film The Dammed United has inaccurate accounts of what happened during Brian Clough’s 44 day spell there so much so that former players and the Clough family sued the film makers. |
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By *hirleyMan
over a year ago
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"
On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...
That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too  |
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Anything involving medieval swordsmanship. The film's telling us that so-and-so is a fearsome swordsman, yet two out of every three movements they make would have them immediately killed by anyone with half a brain.
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......
On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...
That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too "
They're completely different mediums. What works in a book doesn't necessarily work on screen. The pacing in a book might be terrible as a film and there's also practical considerations that books don't have to consider. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
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"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.
But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......
On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...
That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too
They're completely different mediums. What works in a book doesn't necessarily work on screen. The pacing in a book might be terrible as a film and there's also practical considerations that books don't have to consider. "
Until they move so far from the story in the book that they could call it something different.
The Bourne films are a good example. |
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"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."
Yes! This always bothered me. Also, there's no way they can could've been catapulted over the walls |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "
Or sees a picture of a rabbit on their desk and correctly guesses that their password is "floppsy." |
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"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes
Or sees a picture of a rabbit on their desk and correctly guesses that their password is "floppsy.""
Whoa. I better change my password. |
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None really tbh they are just films even historical ones were dramatic licence is used. For example Mary Queen of Scots shows her meeting Queen Elizabeth the first. They never met once according to records. However, there are rumours that they did |
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Top Gun was full of them and Maverick has even more! That ruined the sequel for me.
Enemy At The Gates is another that winds me up, I find it totally disrespectful.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"U571
The Americans didnt get an enigma machine until after the war it was the brits that got one"
And it was the Poles that gave the British their first Enigma machines in 1939... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Any scene where someone says “over and out” on a radio. “Over” means that you’ve finished transmitting and expect a reply, “Out” means that you’ve finished the exchange entirely. Saying “Over and out” means that you’ve finished the conversation, you expect a reply, a reply that you’re not going to listen to |
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