He sounds like a Commie to me!
As someone who used to travel a lot, one thing that ruins the moment are the amazingly roomy movie aircraft. Apparently all seats have more room than reality first class (although Planes, Trains & Automobiles got it right), and they have absolutely huge upper crawlspaces, and cavernous lower storage areas for people to roam (Flight Plan took this concept to the absurd). Add this to the fact that the only noise you hear on movie aircraft is a faint whooshing sound, and I am taken out of the movie…
Have you ever seen Airplane? That movie has a hilariously subtle thing that took me a while to clue in on: The sound effect for the plane flying is a droning hum… the sound made by propeller-driven airplanes, but not by turbine-driven jets.
Ugh. Yes. Not to mention ‘shaky-cam’ gives me bad headaches.
On a similar vein, dealing with camera and such… Lens flare in animation. I don’t think people realize that lens flare is an artifact in photography, not something we see in real-life. It bugs the living hell out of me when I see it in drawn work. It doesn’t really exist! It doesn’t need to be there! We understand the sun is shining, but its not creating an internal reflection in the camera. JUST. STOP. IT!
Personally, I do give Top Gun a little credit, as the "MiG"s they were encountering were explicitly supposed to be a fictional model (the “MiG-28”), and not a known real-world model that they were trying to crassly pass off as looking like an F-5. I’ve even seen some speculation (mostly among aircraft and model geeks having a fun time) that the MiG-28 was actually based on the design F-5s captured during the fall of the RVN, but upgraded with fiendish commie engineering to be closer in capability to the F-20.
Fanwanking. Tis all in good fun! 
I understand that no American film is going to have access to genuine Soviet jets. But Phantoms are one the worst possible choices for an American jet pretending to be a Soviet one. As I wrote they have a very distinctive appearance. They’re the equivalent of a Volkswagen Beetle.
A few little things in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull kept pulling me out of the movie:
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The scorpion stings Junior and he says it stung him, but Indy calls it a bite - just makes him sound ignorant.
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He’s in the sinking sand and Junior throws him the snake to use as a rope, and says (not 100% sure about this one, I’ve listened carefully, but still might have misheard) “hold on tight, it’s slimy”
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“the metal in the gunpowder will show the way”. What metal?
Heh, yeah I think that was great.
I also find it interesting that people in movies can have conversations while riding in a helicopter. They don’t need an intercomm system or anything.
Yes! What the hell was that?
Oh, what, did he describe the horrible particle-effect blood, too? To be honest, I’ve repressed as much of that movie as I can, but I still remember there just being too many stupid things happening to ascribe to the narrator. Some of it, yeah, but climbing up a mountain to get to the oracle - nuh-uh, that’s just stupid.
Funny - I think I switch between ‘highway 101’, ‘180’ and ‘the one’ (the road, not Keanu Reeves). I’m from Oregon, and I definitely use ‘highway 34’ at home, but I think in the sudden plethora of highways in my life I’ve gotten confused and picked up Californian habits. Crap.
Thats the easiest thing to explain. They make the king jump through hoops to get what he wants. There has to be sacrifice in order for him to get the word of the gods. If he was stopping by for tea or to drop off a bribe he could use the front door. If he is there on business then he uses the service entrance.
Along with the nude “eye candy” scenes, which I hate regardless of gender, and afterglow modesty syndrome, actual action sex scenes are a big jarring effect for me! It’s almost always either PG too-under-the-blankets cuddling or softcore posing and camera-mugging with the naughty bits covered up either too strategically (so you’re thinking “how am I not seeing that penis?”) or just laughably obviously (undies off but bra on?). But in scenes where it’s meant to be gritty and realistic so it’s just machinelike doggystyle humping shot from behind, it still takes me out because the butts look so silly, and I start thinking about how they’re keeping the genitals from actually touching.
I think I recall the sex scene in Oldboy (original) being close to okay, but I don’t remember it all that clearly so I might be wrong.
Also, actors who are too recognizable, anyone too pretty/made-up/unruffled for the time and place (including things like perfect teeth, though this is more of a mistake to me) and cg effects used on humans/animals.
Oh, and also, whenever there’s a rape scene that features restraint with bare hands only, I start imagining whether I could personally get out of the hold. And whenever there’s a movie in San Francisco with a montage that includes the victorian houses - If we’re supposed to be exposed to some wide-eyed character’s first entry into the city, I guess I can accept the skyline and the bridge. But no one’s gonna include the friggin’ Victorians in their “wow, so this is SF” schema unless maybe they’re reading a tourist brochure or are antique dealers.
Drives me goddamned crazy. The episode of “CSI:NY” that was on last night had one of the most egregious examples of this I’ve ever seen on any of the myriad equally-stupid-about-image-enhancement Science Cops shows. The suspect they’re looking for is caught on camera at a tollbooth opening his car door and leaning out, but the image is (naturally) lo-res. The Science Cop says, “I did a (digital analysis and comparison mumbojumbo) to confirm that this is our man.” At the precise moment I was thinking, “Well, that’s a little silly, but at least they didn’t do the standard, ‘We’ve enhanced this photo to get a crystal-clear look at his face’ trick,” the Science Cop then proceeds to explain how they’ve used digital enhancement mumbojumbo to get a crystal clear, readable image of the VIN from the ID tag on the end of the car door.
I mean, I don’t really expect much from the “science” on the Science Cops shows, but this was just beyond the pale. When I see some of the stuff they do on these shows (this same episode had the ME using a perfectly detailed 3D hologram to explain something to Curly Haired Lady Science Cop, for example), I wonder why people say that science fiction rarely succeeds on television.
It happened really close to the end so it didn’t ruin the movie, but in Raising Arizona, I’m pretty sure that Nathan Sr. left his handgun in Nathan Jr.'s crib, after he confronted Hi and Ed. We see him put the gun down – in the crib with the baby (almost a toddler – he’s crawling) – but we don’t see him take the gun back out of the crib when he leaves the room. :eek:
I just took that as one of the many delightfully absurd, twisted moments in a delightfully absurd, twisted movie. 
I think that’s a good way to look at it.
It was also absurd that Nathan Sr. left the baby alone in the room with Hi and Ed. How did he know they wouldn’t snatch the kid again?
Having to go through “trials” is basically SOP for asking questions of an all knowing oracle in fantasy. Im sure they have a staff entrance :P.
The super-passionate sex scenes where the couple sweeps all the plates and lamps off the table, knocks the pictures off the walls, tear the plumbing off the wall. All I can think is “if you have to have her this second, can’t you just fuck on the floor? That’s gonna be a bitch to clean up in the morning.”
Plus, it’s handy for them to remind the King where his place is, crawling up the side of the mountain to beg for their wisdom. He might not share their opinion, but it’s good for their egos, and since the rules evidently favor the King having to confer with them first before he can do anything, they get to set the price of admission.
Two from Die Hard 4.0.
At the beginning of the film the bad guys upload a virus onto the hackers’ computers. The presence of the virus is signaled by the screens going askew. The hackers’ response is to hit delete. What the fuck is that supposed to do? Ctrl+Alt+Delete I can understand, but delete by itself? They had to make it one button because of the scene where the model falls on Farrell’s computer to explode it, but they could have had a keyboard with a reset button to do that.
Later on in the film they have to download 500TB of data over a USB connection. According to my calculations this should take something over 100 days, not 24 hours.