Billy Boyd didn’t telegraph it. The sound editor did.
The actor was doing exactly what the director, waving his hands from behind the camera, told him. You don’t really suppose the sound of the drums was recorded live with the acting, do you?
How about the worst and most obvious violation of the fourth wall ever:
Ocean’s Twelve
Where Julia Robert’s character pretends to be Julia Roberts because of her uncanny resemblence to Julia Roberts. That MIGHT work if it wasn’t an ensamble movie full of other well known and popular actors.
‘Miss Congenialty’. I could not believe that Sandra Bullock could ever look unattractive
[QUOTE=Max Torque]
It’s worse than that. They left her enslaved, when they had the means to buy her.
I did not like the part where he influenced the dice roll. Surely if Anakin was the chosen one the dice roll would have come up in his favour.
Harold and Khumar driving from Hoboken, NJ to past Princeton, NJ to find a White Castle. How about driving across the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan? How about there must be half a dozen White Castles closer than the 2 hour drive to wherever?
They are actually going to Cherry Hill. Princeton is ‘on the way’. Why the Tunnel? L.A. screenwriters. Just look at the end: When did Cherry Hill get a cliff like that??! When the heck did it even get that much open space?!
Robin Hoods American accent when played by Kevin Costner.
The entire casts appalling German accents in “Cross of Iron”
Wheeled transport moving through Rome during the hours of daylight in “Gladiator”
Nickolas Cages dumb,moist eyed look held for minute after minute in silence after another character has told him something of importance that requires an immediate response.(To show that Cage is “acting”
Cannons on sailing ships that fire without recoiling.
When the hero drives the person he’s protecting through an ambush where the firing is so heavy that the car resembles a colander afterwards but nobody has so much as a scratch on them.
Inhabitants of a wild west town who obviously wash their hair every day AND use a conditioner.
Down town Naples,Athens or whatever where the buildings ,sidewalks and roads are spotlessly clean and theres no sign of a local population,likewise period pieces where there isn`t a trace of horseshit on the roads .
Men fighting with sabres or rapiers as though they were fencing epee.
…You are forgetting that the Jedi are a warrior priest sect where children with force potential are removed from their families at 3 or 4 years old. Parental connection means nothing to them. Obi and Quigon don’t really give a shit about Shmi. She’s a liability to them. They buy her and then what? Anakin can’t see her again. Now the Jedi order have to take care of this lady?
The Jedi are essentially Republic cops out of their jurisdiction. Not super heroes doing good in the world…
The fact that Anakin doesn’t question why they can’t free his mother is troublesom though.
I thought that Queen Amidala should have bought Shmi out of slavery, considering Anakin had saved her planet and all.
The writers are actually from New Jersey. But come on, this is a movie where two guys ride a cheetah through the woods and you’re pulled out of the movie by wonky geography? 
Hey I got pulled out of the movie because they went all the way to Cherry Hill to get to the next White Castle when there is one in South Plainfield and one on RT 22 in Green Brook which are very close to New Brunswick. I’m probably missing a few. Thats not even mentioning the White Rose System in Highland Park. 
This is one reason I’ve always had a hard time watching “old” (pre-1965 or so) westerns. The hair has razor sharp parts, and is glistening with hair tonic. I can buy this on a character who’s supposed to be a dandy, but not everyone in the West, including cow hands and drovers.
You don’t wear glasses, I take it. If I was in a situation where a lot of water was splashing around, I would get a droplet or two on my lenses. To me, such a thing makes a scene more immediate. It’s not happening at a distance; it’s this close.
But I understand how 20/20 or contacts-wearing people wouldn’t appreciate it.
All those action flicks where the hero is punching and kicking his way through a horde of bad guys, some of whom are armed, but they just stand there and watch the fighting. I keep wondering why the armed bad guy don’t fire, even when the good guy gets to them. Why be bad and carry a gun if you’re not going to occasionally shoot some good guy?
Yes, there’s a sequel, it’s been going on for 2000 years, and it gets more ridiculous every year, but millions still fall for it.
Of all the things to say are “realistic” about a Jackie Chan movie, this is one of them. When the fighters are likely to have guns, they go for them first, until the gun can be kicked away, batted away, or whatever.
And Mr. Miskatonic, I’m sure I’ve never seen that movie, so I don’t know if it’s necessary in the script to go through a tunnel. It may well be that the tunnel was the idea of a location scout, who wanted to film Scene A in a nice spot, and Scene C in another nice spot with a completely incompatible skyline, so Scene B became a tunnel to sort of link the two shots together with something visually interesting. They may also have chosen a tunnel because… well, any old damn tunnel would do, and the real scenery in between Scene A and Scene C was too expensive, or too critical of a traffic arterial, for the director to film on.
Not saying the tunnel was in any way right, just saying it may not have been the screenwriter.
What’s interesting is that CGI technicians (artists?), whose creations don’t have to suffer lens flare, actually add this in, artificially, in order to make it more congruent with what we’re used to seeing.
They have the option to be more realistic, but instead, choose to deliberately to mimic the unrealism of lens flare, in order to seem more real to us, because we expect that of films. In an odd way, they sacrifice realism in order to make it seem more real.
In anime, Japanese is of course the language of choice anywhere in the world, but for whatever reason the fact that the Native Americans in Dagger of Kamui could speak perfect Japanese really jarred me out of the movie, and even more so the one line that made everybody in the theatre burst out with laughter:
No, I don’t wear glasses. But I think this would still bug me if I did. Even if I mentally translated “water on the camera lens” into “water on glasses,” I’d still be drawn out of the movie, I think. “Hey, there’s some bespectacled guy other than Hooper, Brody and Quint treading water thirty feet from the Orca, looking things over. Who the hell can that be?” 
Thank God it didn’t start with “Twenty eight days later …”