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PapaBear

06-13-2005, 08:41 PM

What are your most annoying continuity problems in movies and TV? I'm not talking about specific instances of mess ups, but rather things you see all the time.For me it has to do with photographers in movies. In most cases, you see someone using a camera that doesn't have an auto winder on it, yet they play the sound effect of a winder in the movie. A weird twist on this was in the movie Kalifornia. The chick in that one HAD a winder on the camera, but she'd take about 10 pics (with the winder sound effect), then she'd manually wind the damn camera.

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Alice S. Fuzzybutt

06-13-2005, 09:14 PM

I know this isn't what you're asking for but I really hate when film crews come into my neighborhood. I can't park and I get a $40 ticket. Assholes.

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PapaBear

06-13-2005, 09:24 PM

I can actually appreciate that in a way that does relate to continuity. When they were filming My Fellow Americans in NC, several scenes were shot near my bar. There's a scene where the two former Presidents (Jack Lemmon and James Garner) were being chased by bad guys. The part where they come to a screeching halt took place right outside a window to the bar where I was working.The crew kept coming in and asking me to get my customers to stop looking out the window because it was messing up the scene. My response was, "So you're saying, it doesn't make sense that people would be watching as two former Presidents of the United States are involved in a car chase?"What idiots.

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Alice S. Fuzzybutt

06-13-2005, 09:48 PM

My neigborhood has been featured in The Sopranos and Law and Order. My apt buidling was in a recent segment of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.I still hate it.I love IMDB's goofs section on movies. It makes me take a double take when I see a movie.

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TooLowBrow

06-13-2005, 10:07 PM

this subject has been diverted....i hate the montage just for
the sake of eating time..... the last movie i saw shrek 2(ha ha) had
it, i wish they wouldve just stuck with the jokes

DJEvelEd

06-14-2005, 05:25 AM

I hate when they are watching something on TV like a news report, and they will get the story and then TURN THE TV OFF!!!! WHO THE HELL DOES THAT!!!I assume it makes the sound guy happy because he can get clean audio without a TV blaring in the background.

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Knowledged_one

06-14-2005, 05:34 AM

American Psycho 2 is the biggest continuity problem of any movie ever made. She escapes from Patrick Bateman who never really did anything that happened in American PsychoUh yeah ok, on the plus side American Psycho 2 did have Shattner

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JPMNICK

06-14-2005, 05:41 AM

I hate how in movies or TV shows, when a car pulls away year hear the fucking tire screetch. I see hundreds of cars everyday take off from lights, parking lots, and i never heard that noise

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fezident

06-14-2005, 06:03 AM

Not really a CONTINUITY issue but, has anyone ever noticed that, a lot of the time, you cant really see the actors mouth when they are delivering dialog?Very often...seeing their mouth/lips moving is IMPLIED but not actually seen.I work at a studio where we do dialog replacement, looping, & ADR.  You would be suprised how often the camera is NOT showing the actors face/mouth when he or she is speaking.  Shadows, lighting, coverage, camera angles, reversal shots.....etc etc.  Very often, it is quite easy to re-record dialog because the actors lips can not be seen.  If you had to rely solely on lipreading to understand a movie, you would probably only understand 40 percent of the dialog.  If that. 

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06-14-2005, 06:19 AM

quote: I hate how in movies or TV shows, when a car pulls away year hear the fucking tire screetch. I see hundreds of cars everyday take off from lights, parking lots, and i never heard that noise The best is when they have the screetch even if the car is on a dirt or gravel road.

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JimBeam

06-14-2005, 10:11 AM

I hate how sometimes when you look at a TV or a computer monitor in a movie/TV there's a line of interference or something going across the image.I wish I could post a pic of what I'm talking about but I know its there because it annoys me.

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JPMNICK

06-14-2005, 10:15 AM

that only happens on the old TV sets, you will never see that happen on a Plasma or LCD. it has to do with the refresh rate.

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curtoid

06-14-2005, 10:41 AM

I pretty much hate everything that's supposed to be set in Washington because they never get it right. Nothing is ever where it's suppsosed to be, or we suddenly have 50 story buildings in downtown DC blocks from the White House ("True Lies"), or subway stops where there shouldn't be subway stops ("No Way Out") or they use Canada to sub for a DC suburb of Crystal City and you can clearly see the mountains in the distance ("X-Files") OR they get the name wrong of the suburbs (again - "X-Files" which, until the last season, called the neighborhood "Silver Spring" - "Silver Springs"), or they always have a scene where the Capital dome is right outside the window (note to Hollywood - that doesn't happen, although it is outside my window), or the basic belief that Washington is only good for political intrigue - "Exorcist," "DC Cab" and "War of the Roses" are a few that used Washington without having it be about politics, and "Broadcast News" was one that actually felt like I was watching something actually happen in DC.Nothing set in Adams Morgan, or Dupont Circle, or U Street, or Anacostia - nothing showing the diversity of Arlington, or the riches of Great Falls or Potomac. As far as I know, there has only been one movie that has even used the DC Metro system, and that was the documentary "Spellbound," which featured a little girl from Washington going to the Spelling Bee.Baltimore, on the other hand, between John Waters and Barry Levinson, have really done a good job of getting a taste of the many funky sides that is Balmer.

badorties

06-14-2005, 10:56 AM

i can't stand a movie or show that's set in NY, and ctiy is off ... like the el train in 'spiderman 2' (and forest hills in spiderman looked more like sunnyside) ... or 'the park is mine' set in central park, and it's clearly not ...

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JimBeam

06-14-2005, 12:42 PM

There was a scene in Universal Soldier when he went home, which was in Louisiana, and there were mountains in the background.I don't think there's a single mountain in the entire state.

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badorties

06-14-2005, 12:45 PM

according to pearl harbor there's mountains on long island, and there were some misplaced mountains in rumble in the bronx ...

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curtoid

06-14-2005, 12:46 PM

Another funny/annoying one I just remembered - in "Die Hard 2" Bruce Willis is supposed to be at Dulles Airport, right outside of Washington, but the pay phones all clearly say "Pacific Bell."

JimBeam

06-14-2005, 12:58 PM

In Mr. 3000 there were 9 games left in the season and they played Houston at home 3 times, then went on the road for 3 and then came back to play those same Astros at home again.Now I know MLB can have a crazy schedule but a team playing 6 games out of 9 on the road against the same opponent to end the season is a little ridiculous.

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Grendel_Kahn

06-14-2005, 01:01 PM

quote: I hate how sometimes when you look at a TV or a computer monitor in a movie/TV there's a line of interference or something going across the image.I wish I could post a pic of what I'm talking about but I know its there because it annoys me.  What you are referring to is called "Shutter Flutter".  You get this, usually on TV's or PC monitors. What causes this, is the rate of film speed.  35mm film; which most movies, or good TV shows use, runs @ 24 frames per second. Video; which is used in sit-coms mostly now, or local news,  runs at 36 frames per second.  Thst's why there always seems to have a "beat" or some kind of line.In fact it dosen't matter if you are projecting this on plasma or LCD.  The refresh rate is moot.  You are still looking at an analog pic when it gets to your screen.  All plasma or LCD does is open up the lines of resolution.  Normal TV's run at 420 dots per screen.  HD or Plasma runs at ( at least) 1080.  The I or P in those monikers ( i.e. 1080.i) is referring to " interlaced" or "progressive" To get back on topi: Watch STAR WARS IV.  In Mos Eisely you can see Obi Wan reach for his lightsaber 4 times before drawing it.  Terrible continuity if you ask me.  

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WhistlePig

06-14-2005, 06:29 PM

This one pisses me off every time I see it on reruns: the movie Stripes when all the new soldiers get their heads shaved (all the "B" actors, including John Candy at the time) except for Bill Murray and Harold Ramis who get "haircuts." I know realistically the movie stars couldn't go around the whole movie with shaved heads but they should have just left that scene out.

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ChildofFez

06-14-2005, 06:33 PM

one thing that always kinda bothered me is at the end of school of rock EVERYONE gets a solo even the singers BUT the bass player girl...and i never understood that.

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06-14-2005, 06:35 PM

I love the big, spacious back alleys in movies supposed to be set in NYC, Manhattan especially.  Have any of the people working on the movie ever BEEN there? The fucking buildings are almost on top of each other, and any space is taken up by small parks and parking lots.No ONE movie to use as an example, sorry.

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badorties

06-14-2005, 07:02 PM

one thing that always kinda bothered me is at the end of school of rock EVERYONE gets a solo even the singers BUT the bass player girl...and i never understood that. that's because <a target="_self" href="http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/one/bass.html">But everybody hates the bass player. No one invites the bass player to the party after the show.</a>

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PapaBear

06-14-2005, 08:28 PM

quote: Another funny/annoying one I just remembered - in "Die Hard 2" Bruce Willis is supposed to be at Dulles Airport, right outside of Washington, but the pay phones all clearly say "Pacific Bell."  Speaking of Dulles... I hate when they imply Dulles in IN DC. It takes at least 30 minutes to get from Dulles to DC!As for the comments about the X-Files, they would mess a lot of names up on purpose. I'm sure exactly why, but they would do it with almost every location they used. One example was the one with the giant man eating mushroom. They refered to it as being Grandfather Mountain in Asheville NC, in the County of Boone. That mountain is near the town of Boone, which is 100 miles from the city of Asheville, which is in Buncombe County.

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JimBeam

06-15-2005, 09:55 AM

Another one that has always bothered me is how they represent a Sheriff in movies/TV.They always make it seem like every town has a sheriff when in fact a Sheriff is over a county which would have several towns in it.For the most part the sheriff is a politician and not out hassling drivers and setting up speed traps.If anything a town could have a Police Chief providing it had a police department.Even in that manner the guy couldnt be too crooked because he'd still have dealings with the Sheriff's Office ( the deputies ) and the Staties.

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06-15-2005, 10:06 AM

Doctor Manhattan

06-15-2005, 10:56 AM

quote: I love the big, spacious back alleys in movies supposed to be set in NYC, Manhattan especially.  Have any of the people working on the movie ever BEEN there? The fucking buildings are almost on top of each other, and any space is taken up by small parks and parking lots. No ONE movie to use as an example, sorry.  I know exactly what you mean, a lot of times they'll have people drive cars into the alley, even have them park at weird angles as they run out of the car to chase someone up a fire escape. they have plently of room! 

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badorties

06-15-2005, 11:03 AM

I love the big, spacious back alleys in movies supposed to be set in NYC, Manhattan especially.  Have any of the people working on the movie ever BEEN there? The fucking buildings are almost on top of each other, and any space is taken up by small parks and parking lots.the only alley i could think of is on the south side of fulton street a few blocks east of nassau

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IamFogHat

06-15-2005, 11:04 AM

quote: Not really a CONTINUITY issue but, has anyone ever noticed that, a lot of the time, you cant really see the actors mouth when they are delivering dialog?Very often...seeing their mouth/lips moving is IMPLIED but not actually seen.I work at a studio where we do dialog replacement, looping, & ADR.  You would be suprised how often the camera is NOT showing the actors face/mouth when he or she is speaking.  Shadows, lighting, coverage, camera angles, reversal shots.....etc etc.  Very often, it is quite easy to re-record dialog because the actors lips can not be seen.  If you had to rely solely on lipreading to understand a movie, you would probably only understand 40 percent of the dialog.  If that. Nothing in the world of movies annoys me more.  And I'll tell you, a lot of times, when you can see like the back of their head and a bit of their face or something like that, and you can clearly see that the body language and the lines don't match up, then you start thinking about how it was all looped, and it just ruins the experience because it takes you out of the story and you start thinking about how they put the film together. 

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PapaBear

06-17-2007, 08:50 PM

I'm watching The Sixth Sense on TNT right now. The scene near the end, where they are stopped in traffic, because the woman got killed on the bike.

It's a two way road, and traffic is stopped in BOTH directions. What's up with that?

Fat_Sunny

06-17-2007, 09:56 PM

Fat's Number 1 Pet Peeve In This Area Is: The Empty Cup.

Someone Is Supposed To Be Drinking Coffee Out Of A Mug Or A Cup, And You Can Always Tell By The Way They Hold It And The Fake Sip That The Cup Is EMPTY. Would It Be So Hard To Put A Little Something In There To Make It More Realistic, Cause The Empty Cup Always Makes The Scene Look FAKE FAKE FAKE!

Judge Smails

06-17-2007, 09:59 PM

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ScottFromGA

06-18-2007, 04:36 AM

I hate how in movies or TV shows, when a car pulls away year hear the fucking tire screetch. I see hundreds of cars everyday take off from lights, parking lots, and i never heard that noise

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I HATE when movies have the parts when someone is being ran over by a car repeatedly and you hear the grinding of the gears from the transmission. Reason I HATE it is because it'll show the steering column in the car and it'll be an automatic, while the sound effects reflect the grinding of the gears of a manual transmission.

most notably, Jeepers Creepers...........jeeeeezums that movie sucked.

or for the quote above....how about movies that have tires screetching on a dirt road?

drjoek

06-18-2007, 05:17 AM

Stanley Kubricks last film Eyes wide shut was supposed to be set in NYC but Kubrick would not leave the Ul so he built the whole city scenes in London. On first glance it looked fairly believeable but you could feelit wasn't real

EliSnow

06-18-2007, 05:26 AM

I hate when they are watching something on TV like a news report, and they will get the story and then TURN THE TV OFF!!!! WHO THE HELL DOES THAT!!!I assume it makes the sound guy happy because he can get clean audio without a TV blaring in the background.

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I have a similar problem, and in that, you'll often see someone watching TV, and they'll get a call to turn it to Channel 4, and then suddenly they catch the start of the news report that the caller wanted them to see.

How long does the average news segment last? 30-45 seconds? Say you're watching it, you realize it's about a friend/family member. Even if you have the phone right next to you, the process of realization, grabbing the phone and calling the peron, plus ring tones, has to be about 10-15 seconds. Plus, the person turning the channel, would take 3-5 seconds, depending whether the remote is, and so, the segments should be about 1/2 way over.

Yet they often see the whole segment.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

06-18-2007, 05:32 AM

Ever notice that no one ever needs to look up a phone number? No matter who they're calling, they'll pick up the phone and dial.

pennington

06-18-2007, 02:15 PM

I always like when someone gets punched once and they're knocked out. And all movies and TV shows seem to use the same punch sound effect.

JimBeam

06-18-2007, 02:32 PM

What annoys me is when somebody goes in a bar and orders a beer.

How about asking for something in particular.

Even the biggest of dives is gonna have a few chpices.

pennington

06-18-2007, 06:24 PM

How about cops and criminals opening a car door and crouching beside it during a gun battle?

That's no protection. You can take a screwdriver and poke a hole through the metal with very little effort. A bullet will go through it easily.

jennysmurf

06-18-2007, 06:45 PM

i HATE it when there's a picture of one of the characters on the wall or on a desk, and they're wearing the same outfit in the photo that they're currently wearing. i mean, couldn't they at least get a different shirt for the photo? c'mon!

Mike Teacher

06-18-2007, 08:16 PM

i hate the montage just for
the sake of eating time

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I think many/most of the things mentioned above serve the time compression factor inherent in movies.

It's a weird artform, very very very rare movies aside, not just time compression between scenes [jumping ahead days, months years later] but even within scenes themselves. It would indeed make the person seem more 'human' to have to look up a number or find a parking space or wait for an elevator or lose their keys but my guess is most directors are too concerned with driving things forward.

Not complaining; its gotta be done and works. I forget the time compression factor on the D-Day sequence on Saving Private Ryan was but it was a lot; they did in minutes what took hours and did in hours what really took days, weeks.

Maybe we need movies that are 28 hours long.

TooLowBrow

06-18-2007, 09:19 PM

mike the teacher is being deliberately obtuse

tele7

06-18-2007, 09:45 PM

It's there.....It's not there. The driving scenes in many movies it just seems to disappear.

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C_T

06-18-2007, 10:01 PM

one thing that always kinda bothered me is at the end of school of rock EVERYONE gets a solo even the singers BUT the bass player girl...and i never understood that.

I remember reading up on this, because I caught that too. I'm pretty sure the explanation is that the girl isn't a bassist normally. I think that was a secondary instrument for her, so she wasn't comfortable solo-ing.

God I loved that movie though. It was great to see a music movie by people who actually get music.

C_T

06-18-2007, 10:04 PM

Fat's Number 1 Pet Peeve In This Area Is: The Empty Cup.

Someone Is Supposed To Be Drinking Coffee Out Of A Mug Or A Cup, And You Can Always Tell By The Way They Hold It And The Fake Sip That The Cup Is EMPTY. Would It Be So Hard To Put A Little Something In There To Make It More Realistic, Cause The Empty Cup Always Makes The Scene Look FAKE FAKE FAKE!

Ok, yeah.. this one kills me. Can't they fill the cup with water at least? It seriously pains me to watch someone moving in such an unnatural way with what is supposed to be a full cup of hot coffee or something.

pittphantoms

06-18-2007, 10:12 PM

Awesome topic...

I hate in sports movies where the person playing an athlete has absoluely no skill what-so-ever... and when the play type/scenerio has zero chance of happening

The worst one obviously is Tim Robins trying to pitch in Bull Durham. Just BRUTAL.

Other ones that come to mind...

Adrian Grenier playing hoops in some movie I saw on tv the other day...

Adam Sandler pretending to be a QB in Longest Yard... like I believe a 5'8" guy could be an all-pro...

patsopinion

06-19-2007, 12:21 AM

i hate when movies do sniper shots
like your looking through a telescopic lenses
and the angle changes or isn't the angel that the sniper is at
you cant just take a normal shot of the person and edit in a layer with a enlarged plus sign over the persons face... assholes

RingWraith

06-19-2007, 01:06 AM

I love the big, spacious back alleys in movies supposed to be set in NYC, Manhattan especially.  Have any of the people working on the movie ever BEEN there? The fucking buildings are almost on top of each other, and any space is taken up by small parks and parking lots.No ONE movie to use as an example, sorry.

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Yeah that is really annoying. I've been around most of Manhattan, and NEVER see dark alleys, or back alleys there.

I used to watch NYPD a lot, and they use alleys there a lot.

Anyhoo, another annoying pet peeve is (especially older movies) when someone shooting a six shooter/revolver and they seem to always shoot more than six shots.

Perfect example is in the movie "Juice" with Tupac and Omar Epps. Tupac's character was shooting a revolver and somehow happened to have more than six shots.

RingWraith

06-19-2007, 01:11 AM

Ever notice that no one ever needs to look up a phone number? No matter who they're calling, they'll pick up the phone and dial.

HA HA! That happens a lot in sitcoms.

Speaking of sitcoms, it annoys me that most scenes happen in a "living room", but there's never a damn TV there; UNLESS the characters are supposed to be watching something and all of a sudden there's a TV there.

JimBeam

06-19-2007, 07:52 AM

Good point on the sports/athletes one.

Another huge example was Beer League.

There wasn't one of those guys who was ever remotely athletic.

I mean it was softball for God's sake. Those guys don;t appear to have played a lick of it in their lives.

And how about " Downtown " in Major league 3 ( unfortuantely I have seen about 80% of that movie ). Could they have picked a smaller guy to be a HR threat ?

Along those lines were the jackoffs in " Summer Catch ". The one kid was supposed to be a hot shot USC pitcher and he was lik 5'6". Not likely. And need I say anymore about Matthew Lillard being a great player ?

Ritalin

06-19-2007, 10:12 AM

i can't stand a movie or show that's set in NY, and ctiy is off ... like the el train in 'spiderman 2' (and forest hills in spiderman looked more like sunnyside) ... or 'the park is mine' set in central park, and it's clearly not ...

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Good eye, man. Spiderman WAS filmed in Sunnyside. The scene in the first movie where he stands on the rooftop and figures out how to shoot the web for the first time was shot around the corner from me. Before they came to shoot, a sign painting company came out and painted an ad on the side of a building for a fake radio station, a picture of a chick with her head out of a car window.

They shot the sequence, wrapped and left. We had that fake radio station ad on the side of the building for 2 years. Pretty funny.

Furtherman

06-19-2007, 10:20 AM

Ghost Rider.

In one scene, Nicolas Cage is normal but then in the next it's just his skull and it's on fire!... and then it's normal in the next scene. Like, what the F???

pennington

06-19-2007, 05:03 PM

Anyhoo, another annoying pet peeve is (especially older movies) when someone shooting a six shooter/revolver and they seem to always shoot more than six shots.

When I was a kid, I used to count how many shots were fired by a gun. The only out the filmmakers have is they could say the guy reloaded when the camera wasn't on him.

A related peeve of mine is car chases (mostly in 70's movies). Five hubcaps can come off a car or a hubcap will be off one of the wheels, ten seconds later it's back on, then it's off again. Definitely an editing problem or scenes being shot out of sequence.

JimBeam

06-21-2007, 08:59 AM

I also hate in movies when they access electronic key locks by doing something " violent ".

In Eraser the other day the guy couldnt get the security code on the door so James Caan shoots a 6 inch thick steel door with a shotgun and it sparks and flashes and presto the door's open.

Maybe that works on a wood door but not on a security door to a vault.

RingWraith

06-21-2007, 10:06 AM

I also hate in movies when they access electronic key locks by doing something " violent ".

In Eraser the other day the guy couldnt get the security code on the door so James Caan shoots a 6 inch thick steel door with a shotgun and it sparks and flashes and presto the door's open.

Maybe that works on a wood door but not on a security door to a vault.

Ha Ha! I remember that.

Anyhoo, another pet peeve is when you watch any big battle scenes, (Braveheart, Troy, and even my beloved Lord of the Rings) if you watch the soldiers fighting in the background, there's always a couple of extras there that don't put a lot of effort in making a fight look realistic.

Yes if you don't focus on the background, you don't notice it. Especially if you saw the movie for the first time. But after several viewings, I will notice little things like that.

PapaBear

09-29-2007, 09:36 PM

When I was growing up, D.O.A. always meant "dead on arrival". Someone was transported to the hospital, but they were dead by the time they got there.

I've noticed in recent years, that TV cop shows say D.O.A. when they find someone dead. For instance: Cops show up on a crime scene. They find a dead body. They radio in and say, "We have one D.O.A.". Aren't they using this wrong?

Any cops or EMT's (or the like) out there that can tell me if this happens in real life?

JimBeam

09-30-2007, 09:37 AM

I'd guess that it depends of who and where the arrival is.

If the cops show up first and the person's dead they were DOA and if they then take them to the hospital they arrive just as dead.

In a case where a person's alive until they reach they hospital they don't become DOA until they are dead at the hospital.

Like I said probably depends on the who and the where.

Axem Red

09-30-2007, 11:43 AM

It's probably tough as hell to edit, but it gets under my skin when there's no muzzle flash coming out of the gun that someone is firing. That happens in just about every action film where the guy is hammering the trigger but only about 3 or 4 flashes come out of the barrel.

JimBeam

09-30-2007, 12:19 PM

I might have mentioned this one when this thread first started but I hate when somebody's using a handgun w/ a magazine and there are no bullets left yet the slide isn't back where it would be if the magazine and chamber were in fact empty.

What's worse is this whole empty gun thing is usually part of the script and isn't just the mistake of a tech person.

Gmann

09-30-2007, 12:19 PM

One thing I hate hate HATE in movies is parking spots. No matter what city they're in, where they're going, what they're driving they ALWAYS fucking find a spot right in front of what ever destination they have to go to.
It drives me fucking insane. Nobody else in whatever major city the movie is taking place wanted that spot ?? How many times have you circled blocks looking for a parking spot in the city ? Yet someway some how Riggs/Murtaugh or who ever just drive on by and "OH LOOK!!!", a spot right in front of the place we have to go!
That really annoys me.

PapaBear

11-10-2007, 10:59 PM

I've been watching "Air Force One" tonight. At the end of the movie, the President has to fly the plane as they give him instructions on how to do it. Who's his co-pilot? The fucking CO-PILOT!!! Since when do co-pilots not know how to fly planes?

tele7

11-10-2007, 11:06 PM

I've been watching "Air Force One" tonight. At the end of the movie, the President has to fly the plane as they give him instructions on how to do it. Who's his co-pilot? The fucking CO-PILOT!!! Since when do co-pilots not know how to fly planes?

It was God. He was just really busy at the time.

JimBeam

03-29-2008, 01:01 PM

Not really sure that this is a continuity issue but i was watching Lethal Weapon last night and it annoys me to no end how that old general fuck is able to sneak up on Mel Gibson, in the middle of the desert, w/out him hearing him.

And also how Gibson has Joshua in his sights and doesnt pull the trigger.

He should've just fired off a few shots.

WhistlePig

03-29-2008, 05:50 PM

How about scenes where people are looking through binoculars and you see the two circles with black around it when in real life you look through binoculars and just see one combined circle.

TooLowBrow

03-29-2008, 05:55 PM

How about scenes where people are looking through binoculars and you see the two circles with black around it when in real life you look through binoculars and just see one combined circle.

and then they get two shoe polish rings around the eyes... sheesh

fezident

03-29-2008, 09:17 PM

It's probably tough as hell to edit, but it gets under my skin when there's no muzzle flash coming out of the gun that someone is firing. That happens in just about every action film where the guy is hammering the trigger but only about 3 or 4 flashes come out of the barrel.

There's actually a photographic reason for this one.
Sometimes, depending on your shutter speed, the duration of the muzzle flash is as short (or shorter) than the "gap" between frames. If the event of the muzzle flash happens to line up exactly out of sync with your camera (or projector!); the flash will seem "invisible" due to strobing.

Or to put it another way; the muzzleflash light can sometimes fall between the cracks.

Sinestro

03-30-2008, 05:59 AM

When they show the Statue of Liberty and behind her is NYC.

PapaBear

05-14-2008, 07:41 PM

I've noticed this in almost EVERY cop drama on TV. When they're busting into an apartment where the bad guy is, they have SWAT with the two detectives that are the stars of the show. SWAT is equipped with body armor, helmets and assault rifles, and the detectives have vests and handguns. The detectives always go through the door first!

meanmrbill

05-14-2008, 08:02 PM

This one has bugged me since I was a child. I'm sure there is an easy explanation that I just can't see. In "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on the Island of Misfit toys there is the Cowboy that rides an ostrich (my favorite), a squirt gun that only shoots jelly and even a "Charlie" in the box. All, clearly, misfits. Then there is the little girl doll. What the fuck makes her a "misfit"? This has bothered me for 30+ years.

On a side note but still within the realm of Christmas programs. At the end of "Frosty the Snowman" when Santa takes little Karen back to her home from the north pole he leaves her on her goddamn roof. I always hated Santa for that.

Doctor Z

05-14-2008, 08:27 PM

Don't know if any of these have been mentioned yet, but:

1) Lightning and thunder happening at the same time
2) No one ever says goodbye when they hang up a phone
3) Length of cigarette changes out of sequence in scenes where someone is smoking
4) Amount of water/drink in glass goes up and down out of sequence (kind've a variant of #3)

Furtherman

05-15-2008, 05:52 AM

Then there is the little girl doll. What the fuck makes her a "misfit"? This has bothered me for 30+ years.

She was banished there for punching her boyfriend in the balls.

Freakshow

05-15-2008, 06:24 AM

Speaking of Dulles... I hate when they imply Dulles in IN DC. It takes at least 30 minutes to get from Dulles to DC!

The worst is the movie Executive Decision where the guy lands the plane after it's been hijacked. He 'misses' Dulles and lands at 'Frederick Field.' The airport in Frederick in barely big enough for Cessnas to land. Any commercial plane trying to land there would end up in the Monocacy (if they're lucky) and pretty much eveyone would be killed.

Oops, did I just admit I saw Executive Decision?

RingWraith

05-15-2008, 08:36 AM

I've noticed this in almost EVERY cop drama on TV. When they're busting into an apartment where the bad guy is, they have SWAT with the two detectives that are the stars of the show. SWAT is equipped with body armor, helmets and assault rifles, and the detectives have vests and handguns. The detectives always go through the door first!

That definitely happened a lot in NYPD Blue. The stars always go first. Also to add to this pet peeve, why does the door ALWAYS easy to open after one kick or one shoulder tackle?
Every door they break through just happens to be wooden, flimsy, or really must have a cheap lock.

cougarjake13

05-15-2008, 02:53 PM

dont know if it counts as continuity but in csi : vegas every house they go into its always dark, even in the middle of the day

PapaBear

07-25-2008, 09:23 PM

This isn't a movie, but my dad pointed this out to me the other day. He worked for the phone company for MANY MANY years, so he should know. The poles in this commercial are holding power lines. NOT phone lines.

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tele7

07-25-2008, 10:41 PM

Don't know if any of these have been mentioned yet, but:

1) Lightning and thunder happening at the same time
2) No one ever says goodbye when they hang up a phone
3) Length of cigarette changes out of sequence in scenes where someone is smoking
4) Amount of water/drink in glass goes up and down out of sequence (kind've a variant of #3)

The Bill Murray elevator scene in Rushmore should be at the top of the list. Not only do the two cigarettes change length, they trade places as well.

misterquaid

07-26-2008, 06:46 AM

I can't stand watching someone get punched in the face (sometimes 10-15 times ) and there is never any sign of it from then on.

This is in every tv show and movie and it bugs the shit out of me.

The most notable exception is Micheal Corleone, who has realistically taken a punch, swelling, jaw wired shut, etc.. You cant just rub your chin and forget it.

The Die Hards, Bonds and the Bournes seriously need back stories to explain where these guys get their super powers.

Hottub

12-28-2009, 01:37 PM

Establishing shot.

1963 Idlewild Airport.

There is a 747 on the taxiway.

"They even shot him in the face..."
No, they shot him in the back of the head. There may or may not have been an exit wound on his face.
If they can fix up Sonny Corleone, they can fix up Tommy D.

When they threaten to put the postman into the fuckin' oven.
When a pizza oven is on and making pies, even the door area is scalding hot. That poor guy would have gotten some serious burns.

RoseBlood

12-29-2009, 06:58 AM

I'm not reading the entire thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned.

Not a matter of continuity, but a pet peeve nonetheless.

Saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday and once again noticed that after major explosions, fights etc.. the characters walk away with hardly a scratch. The females never get broken noses or ugly gashes always just a strategically placed miniscule cut on the forehead.

cougarjake13

12-29-2009, 08:14 AM

I'm not reading the entire thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned.

Not a matter of continuity, but a pet peeve nonetheless.

Saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday and once again noticed that after major explosions, fights etc.. the characters walk away with hardly a scratch. The females never get broken noses or ugly gashes always just a strategically placed miniscule cut on the forehead.

exactly those shots of the explosions and the somber music i thought watson was dead and low and behold he had a few scratches and arm in a sling

jafter

12-29-2009, 03:17 PM

Bank vaults do not have cash just laying around waiting for someone to pick up a few hundred thousand dollars. When I was a teller you could have no more than 1,500 bucks in your drawer and 10,000 bucks in our personal vaults. If we needed extra money we would have to get it from the head teller. SHe had her own vault and then she had extra vaults to store even larger amounts of money (those were on time delay vaults).

fezident

12-29-2009, 03:27 PM

Whenever the main characters enter a disco or a nightclub, the music is always blaring. Within 10 seconds (usually when the characters start talking) the volume always dims a bit. 9 times out of 10.... the characters no longer even have to raise their voices to have a conversation. They eventually speak normally and have no trouble hearing each other.... even though when they first entered the nightclub, they had to (pretend to) scream to be heard.