The haircut thing got me in Stripes. You could see who was dedicated to their craft in the head-shaving scene. Judge Reinhold walks out, and his hair’s shorter, but he still has some locks up top. Harold Ramis – yep, those are curls up there. Bill Murray? Oh, you better believe he had the 'do going. Then John Candy walks out, buzzed to the scalp.
Granted, there’s no shortage of picking points in that movie, but that scene always makes me stop and say, “Damn, John Candy was the man.”
And Casey was based on Craig Kilborn so that part of his history was worked into Casey’s character.
Me. I do. Always. At least on a plane. I take my shoes off when I board and they don’t go back on til landing, whether I go to the bog or not. I’ve found that most people show some restraint on planes and manage not to urinate all over the floor.
That bed sheet thing that YamatoTwinkie mentioned really irritates me too. I’d love to see what people really do after sex. I suppose what’s really irritating is this: if you’ve just had naked sweaty sex with someone, why are you suddenly going to become modest? It’s all already been seen, probably very close up!!
There are certain camera inconsistencies that kinda bug me.
A movie camera is supposed to be omniscient, able to go anywhere and see anything so that the audience can see the movie unfold. In Rollerball (the original, not the remake) there are scenes during the games where the camera is obviously out on the track with the skaters. That’s fine. But within the movie, characters are watching rollerball on television and seeing those same camera shots. There’s no way the camera could be there.
At the very end of Goldeneye, James and Natalya have escaped from the evil villain’s lair and jumped from a helicopter into a field (in Cuba, don’t forget). Jimmy moves in for the kill and assures Nat that there’s no one around for miles. Then the CIA dude walks in, marines pop up from holes in the ground, and helicopters descend into the picture frame. Really? You couldn’t see the helicopters because they were hiding off the edge of the movie screen?
Maybe it’s not fair to say these took me out of the movie. It was the second or third time watching the movies that I noticed them. They just struck me as a strange kind of error; using the techniqes of the movie itself to inform the characters within it.
Just about every time anybody drank beer in any '70s TV show, it was from a can that looked a bit like a Budweiser can, but simply said “BEER” in large capital letters in the center of the label. I always found that to be hilarious.
And as a tangent to the “typing too fast” observation, I can’t stand it when a character is meant to be writing something on paper, but is clearly just scribbling a squiggly line.
And the helicopters were in whisper mode. Not to mention the fact that Cuba tends to frown on US Marines flying around the island.
And they happened to be hiding exactly where J and N wound up. AND they didn’t do a damn thing to help. There is a metric shitload of stupidity in that scene, I grant you. But most of it is Standard Movie Coincidence stuff. The hiding-by-being-outside-the-rectangle thing is the real headscratcher for me.
Maybe I’d notice this more if I looked for it in other movies. There’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for one. (“I wonder what’s over here? Oh, look, it’s the Civil War.”) But I can usually justify keeping the illusion by believing that they’ve just come over a hill, or that people were sneaky. But helicopters (yes, more than one) out of a clear blue sky is just too damn much.
On the other hand, I was rather amused by Gruffdd showing up as one of the officers looking for survivors in “Titanic.” I couldn’t help but think “Hey, at least they sent the right guy!” 
Getting back to “Full Metal Jacket” the one scene that took me out was when the film-maker was there and all the soldiers was sitting against the wall and the film-maker pans down the line and they all have something to say in turn. It was too much a cinematic moment. And even though Kubrick used the excuse that it was a film maker doing a shot, it seemed like too much of a set-up to be real.
Such things weren’t available at the time that movie was made, but it was set in “the future.” We, today, have helmet cams, dash cams, sky cams, and (for all I know) ass cams. These regularly put the viewer “on the field” with players.
When Dennis Miller did Weekend Update on SNL, he mocked this convention by making a huge loopy squiggle on a piece of paper as his sign-off. (Ah, the days when Dennis Miller was still funny…)
Yeah, but there are still limits. I’ll probably see this movie again someday, and I’ll watch for this. I remember the camera-within-the-movie setups being too steady, too well-framed, and too obtrusive to have really taken place.
Besides which, I think it was an oversight on the part of the director. I don’t think he postulated future technology and trends in sportscasting; I think he needed characters in the movie to be watching rollerball on TV and used some of his own footage, without considering the logistics of creating it.
That drives me CRAZY all the time - dude, you cannot hide a helicopter on the wing. How many times have you heard one when you can’t even see one? (I mean, I live right by a military base, so maybe I hear more than you do, but still.) But that’s more of a mistake than what the OP is really looking for.
With regards to Battlestar Galactica, “frak” doesn’t bother me as an all-purpose curse word - as “fuck” in the “fucking-A” or “John is doing all the fucking work” sense. It drives me nuts in the “I want to frak you” case where “fuck” would be used as an actual verb. Brings me right out of it.
Like when someone in a bar orders a beer and doesn’t specify the brand. If it’s a small bar, saying “Gimme a draft” is okay because it’s likely they’ll only have one brand on tap. But just saying “I’ll have a beer”?
Related to that is when people are carrying a cup of coffee (or putting a half gallon of milk in the fridge) and the container is obviously empty.
I don’t think he was anticipating the development of tiny cameras, either. My point was that I am so accustomed to sports video now commonly being from the athlete’s POV, that it wouldn’t take me out of the movie.
But that film is full of instances of breaking the fourth wall??? Remember Tyler facing the camera saying “we are the all singing all dancing crap of the world”, as the camera blurred his appearance?
That scene made that film, and should have won her an oscar 
Extensive traveller here, I ALWAYS take my shoes off when on long flights, regardless if they are comfortable or not.
The problem i had with the democracy stuff was that it seemed like a complete retcon. In the first movie she was a fourteen year old Queen, in the second shes a senator after serving two terms as Queen. We are supposed to believe a 14 year old got elected to lead an entire planet? It was no different than changing the guns in E.T. to walkie talkies because democracy = good and everything else = bad.
300 was a tale told by someone specifically picked because they were good storytellers in order to inspire the troops. Whats the problem with having some fantasy elements? it was a tale not a historical account, it makes perfect sense in that context. What you see is what the one eyed survivor is telling the army, not what actually happened.
I agree re: no nudity where you would expect it. For me it was Knocked Up, where Katherine Heigel never once removes her bra during her handful of sex scenes with Seth Rogen. Totally took me out of the moment, particularly since there is in that movie a realistic morning-after shot of Rogen naked in bed.
The biggest anachronism in this movie was the black sailor. The movie was set in WWII but this guy acted like he stepped off the set of Shaft. He was the second most anachronistic character in a movie I’ve seen (Donald Sutherland’s WWII hippie in Kelly’s Heroes is still number one).
Another one that totally lost me was Iron Eagle. It was a cold-war thriller where a bunch of American pilots were competing with a bunch of Soviets. Obviously they were not going to get the co-operation of the Soviet Air Force for the making of the film so they had to use American planes. But they used F-4 Phantom II’s to stand in for Soviet planes. And that was stupid - Phantoms are one of the most distinctive looking jets in the world.
That was *after * they became known. Casey’s backhistory did it at a spot when he was completely unknown. And a nothing show on basic cable is several fame levels down from Late Night on a major network.
If they wanted to do a show about Casey’s leaving, it wouldn’t have been as much of a stretch. But nobody in the history of television has had to decide between headlining a network show or being sports anchor in Houston. Especially not at 25.
Dude, the entire trilogy is an exercise in retconning, each stupider than the last.
This is probably true, though I wonder about the rape of the queen in that context.