Innaccurate things in movies that annoy you
 

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My personal pet peeves: people holding their guns sideway.

Gladiator was a 'historical' movie full of inaccuracies

Revenge of the Nerds
 

The entire concept of how inter-fraternity decisions are made in Revenge of the Nerds, especially RotN 2. It makes the equivalent to the NIC seem like a League that has significant control over the fraternities rather than being fairly weak in reality. Also, I'd love to find out if *any* fraternity has had anyone younger than 35 represent them in the NIC. My guess is that the average age of those people (mostly fraternity executive directors and presidents) is somewhere between 45 and 50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n9aca_qcxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj6XtZrxvw :rolleyes:


Never, but nice try.

Since I live down here in cajun country, I have to say I just die when I see the ignorant way they portray people from this part of the country and the horrible fake cajun accents. Also since I grew up in Kentucky I have to say that we are not a bunch of hillibillies. Hate the way both of these groups are usually portrayed.

I do want to say that I just took my class to see The Princess and the Frog and Disney did a very good job with the accents and details of the movie.

Ditto on the cajun country.

I also hate seeing people talk when they are intubated on ventilators. Yeah...not possible!

Are we talking about inaccuracies or stereotypes that apply to some but have a negative connotation? I can only think of the latter right now.

This isn't a movie, but an episode of SATC where Carrie told her writer-boyfriend that he was wrong for having his lead character wear a scrunchie because NY women don't wear scrunchies outside of the house. Then they were in a bar and he saw a woman with a HORRIBLE scrunchie hairstyle. Carrie said "she's not from here." Then he goes up to her and the lady turns around with a deep Southern accent and said "ooooh noooooooo...I'm not from herrrrurrrrr! You hear that, honeyyyyyy?! They think I'm from NEW YORK!!! NEW YORRRRRK!!!"

She sounded like the talking pothole. There are some deep Southern accents (which sometimes annoy me) but I was more bothered by the connotation of "small town folks/country folks in the BIG CITY."

My biggest one so far:

In The Day After Tomorrow, the lead characters go to the "tallest building" in Manhattan to save themselves, yet end up at the NY Public Library. Umm... its 5 floors. My apartment building has more floors.

I love how the good portion of the country is freezing, yet Mexico is just fine.

Pittsburgh based movies where NO ONE has a Pittsburgh accent. Maybe if you get far enough out in the burbs where they flog you if you say "nebby" but if you're anywhere close to the heart of the city, just not the truth.

Oh, and the mountains in The Deer Hunter. The Appalachians haven't looked like that since the dinosaurs were around.

Most movies filmed in Seattle make it seem like all of our cliched landmarks are within walking distance of each other. Or at least right next to each other. Sleepless in Seattle is filled with this, as is Say Anything, which is surprising for Cameron Crowe since he lives here.

The other thing that really irritates some people in Seattle now is all these movies that supposedly take place in Seattle/Washington are really filmed (at least in part) in Vancouver because it's cheaper to film there. Movies that do this: the Twilight series, Love Happens, Fear, practically every Lifetime movie these days, and other movies that slip my mind. A TON of American TV shows are filmed in Vancouver, too. It's seriously a mini Hollywood at this point.

Way too many movies set in the contemporary Deep South assume that everybody talks like they just stepped out of Gone with the Wind. Julia Roberts, for example, had the worst movie-character Southern accent ever in Steel Magnolias—and she's from Atlanta, for God's sake!

Pittsburgh, Philly, and "Bawlmer" accents fascinate me because they sound vaguely Southern.

No kidding... I cringe when I hear her speak in that movie, but I still LOVE Steal Magnolias!

Baltimore's accent is a little southern. I say my "O"s like they do so I have had more than one person ask if I'm from Baltimore since I've lived here. I laugh then say a few more things until they hear the southern accent and realize their mistake. There are many accents here, though. Check out the Baltimore "Hon". It's priceless!

"DON'T TAWK ABOUT ME LAHK AH'M NAWT HERE!"

Ha! I know a lot of people that knew the real Shelby. Apparently she was nothing like the Julia Roberts incarnation.

Personally I like Ouiser the best, but nobody had a believable accent in that movie!

Except Dolly, of course ...

There's one scene in the Charlie's Angels movie where one of the girls shoots a compound bow up at a helicopter from the back of a speeding boat. If I recall correctly, she didn't even pull it to full draw and she still managed to aim steady while bouncing around the boat, hit the 'copter and blow it up. As someone who once was a competitive archer, I was like: :rolleyes:

.....Kelly :)

Of course...for Tennesse, maybe, but this was North Louisiana. No one in North Louisiana sounds like any of those women. I don't really expect movie makers to dissect the intricacies of varying southern accents that minutely, though.

HERE HERE!!!

medical dramas, everytime someone flatlines in a they bring out the paddles. it's a defibrillator, not magical bring you back to life paddles.

Exactly...get an ACLS book...it's not rocket science!

Ice Princess...it doesn't bother me as much as some others, but still a little irksome.

Spelling bee movies where the kids don't say-spell-say.

Movies about DC which show very tall buildings. We don't do that here.

Movies where downtown *insert major city* is ALWAYS in the background.

Also, movies that are set in Paris that show the Eiffel Tower in the background in almost every window. I'm sure Paris isn't a circular city where every building has 1 wall of windows facing the monument (which must obviously be the center of the city).

Only people from Shreveport, LA would notice this, but in the Kevin Costner/Ashton Kutcher movie The Guardian they filmed in Shreveport at Barksdale Air Force Base. In the movie, they changed it to Barksdale Coast Guard Base in Shreveport, LA which would be pretty ridiculous since Shreveport is about 350 miles from any coast!

Movies filmed in major cities where black people (or other people of color) do not interact with any white people ever in any way (except maybe as the maid). Or do not exist period.

I really, really, really hate when movie lifeguards don't do it right.

As a former cheerleader (and a coach), I get annoyed when...

1) there is no "coach" to be seen. I'm sorry, I like Bring it On, but the cheerleaders don't choose the squad, the coach does :rolleyes:

2) from Bring it On (again), a national routine isn't straight dancing, they (the judges) actually (shocker) want to see you do a cheer. (concept).

3) cheerleaders don't wear jewelry (i.e. pearl necklaces, big hoop earrings, naval piercings), especially not during a competition or games! Heck, my cheerleaders had to take off all jewelry just for practices. We had to warn them not to get piercings done as during the season, it would come out.

I'm sure there are more that bug me but I'm just too tired to think of anything else right now. :D

Well, it's on the coast of the Red River, does that count? ;) Plus, we can fuss at them because Barksdale is actually in Bossier City. Tell 'em that's strike #2!!!

When almost all cardiac arrest patients live on TV. People come into the emergency clinic expecting their dog that has not been breathing for 10 minutes to come back to life-ain't gonna happen-only on TV. I had one guy last week question why we did not shock his dog-well dogs are not like people, most do not go into V fib which is what people do. Also when you die your eyes stay open they don't close as seen on TV.

Or that dead bodies are messy and smell, even when fresh. South Park included it in an episode, but it is often not shown that when one ceases to live their ability to hold in waste fluids does as well and dead bodies are likely to smell of and be covered in urine and feces.

Family Guy pointed this out as well. How amusing is it that the cartoons are more realistic!!

There are Coast Guard stations on rivers...why I dont really know lol.

Ha! I'm surprised you know Bossier City! I said Shreveport because I figured people would be more likely to know that name (and because after living their for 10 years, I like to pretend that BC doesn't exist!)

Really! Wow...you learn something new everyday!

That was the reason I even called 911 when I found my mother. She hadn't voided, she smelled lovely, and when I cleared her tongue, there was just even of a sigh to start CPR.

I've heard a LOT of military personnel say that they thought (country) was beautiful, but smelled simply awful.

Oh, and The Other Boleyn Girl. Decent chick flick if you cared absolutely nothing about historical facts.

Ditto the Elizabeth movies that Cate Blanchett was in.

In the movie Speed, the whole bus drama ends at the airport then a minute later they're at Pershing Square and they've brought Sandra Bullock with them. Pershing Square is about 25 miles from the airport in downtown Los Angeles. Probably a two hour drive in L.A. traffic. It's completely silly.

That movie went from "semi" realistic to "silly" the moment they had it "jump" over a 50 foot gap :rolleyes:

Hello, just get off the stupid freeway, while it wasn't completed yet, OMG there were exits!

Plus, remember how the subway jumps the track around Gromans Chinese theater, not sure how close the subway is to that landmark, but that was pretty crazy.

I actually liked the first one, thought the sequel was lame.

I liked the first one too! Besides, it has a great line in it, "I am my father's daughter. I am not afraid of anything!"

My sister and I like to use that quote (British accent included.)