Stuff in movies that bugs me. How about you?

[vivalostwages]

1. People enter their homes with one or two sacks of groceries and there is always a loaf of French bread sticking out of the sack.

2. Everyone has an island in their kitchen and every night they find plenty of time to chop up about a hundred vegetables on said island.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Kythereia

I was going to mention the teeth thing, but I’ll also add shaved legs and armpits. I know realistically nobody (including me) wants to see that, but…

I don’t remember which film version of Carmen it is, but one of them features the title character with what I can only describe as manes coming from her underarm region. She must have been growing them for months! True dedication to the craft.

[OneCentStamp]

@vivalostwages

1. People enter their homes with one or two sacks of groceries and there is always a loaf of French bread sticking out of the sack.

And they’re always paper sacks. Where do you even see those anymore?

[Autumn_Almanac]

@OneCentStamp

And they’re always paper sacks. Where do you even see those anymore?

Uh, at every grocery store? Maybe it’s a regional thing.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Autumn Almanac

Uh, at every grocery store? Maybe it’s a regional thing.

They pretty much just give you plastic bags everywhere I’ve gone. Paper bags probably look classier, though.

[Autumn_Almanac]

@Zoggie

They pretty much just give you plastic bags everywhere I’ve gone. Paper bags probably look classier, though.

Hmm, I always get paper. They just hold so much more. I’d rather carry in five heavy paper bags than 26 plastic bags with two items in each.

I’ve been to grocery stores in Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky, and I can’t remember ever having to use plastic bags because they didn’t have paper. That must suck.

[Big_Norse]

@St_Ides

Being an aviation nerd, pretty much anything ivolving airplanes in movies bugs me.

A good example is the newst Die Hard. (No major spoilers, you can see this in the trailer) Maclean is being chased by an F-35 and they show it “locking on” it’s “heat-seeking” missiles to the truck he’s in. According to every screen they showed, that F-35 is loaded out for air-to-air ONLY (they actually follow through with this as the F-35 somehow manages to fire an air-to-air missile at a ground target). And the little symbol they show is the reticle for the gun, and has nothing to do with missiles. Yeah, it’s a Die Hard movie, and sure, the F-35’s doing things it would never do in real life, but it would have taken the same amount of time to make it have weapons capable of shooting something on the ground and making the symbology correct, which would only improve the movie, and could be corrected in about 5 minutes by someone who has some idea of it (or has picked up a video game in the past 20 years).

Having seen the trailer and being warned by friends of the outrageousness of it all, I was able to suspend my disbelief for all the stunts. What I couldn’t get over in the movie was them driving a car at a fairly quick pace with a broken driver’s side window, and yet they can talk in normal tones and be heard, and there was no wind rushing around in the car.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Autumn Almanac

I’ve been to grocery stores in Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky, and I can’t remember ever having to use plastic bags because they didn’t have paper. That must suck.

You’d think, but I find great use for plastic bags in my life. It’s actually a big help having a bunch of them around.

[OneCentStamp]

@Autumn Almanac

I’ve been to grocery stores in Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky, and I can’t remember ever having to use plastic bags because they didn’t have paper. That must suck.

Huh. It must be regional, then. I’ve been in TX for the last two years, UT for eight years before that, and grew up in MD, and I can’t remember the last time I saw paper bags available at the grocery store.

But plastic bags are great! They make outstanding trash bags for bedroom or car, or (dirty) diaper bags.

[DesertDog]

@NoClueBoy

Or the bad man points a gun at you, unpoints it, points it again, waves it around while detailing his master plan, points it at you again, PAUSES, is about to pull the trigger, a shot is heard, and then blood starts spewing out his mouth because the shot came from someone out of the camera’s view?

I loved this scene in The Incredibles:

Lucius: [Bob and Lucius are sitting in a parked car, reminiscing] So now I’m in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I’m an epitaph. Somehow I manage to find cover and what does Baron von Ruthless do?
Bob: [laughing] He starts monologuing.
Lucius: He starts monologuing! He starts like, this prepared speech about how feeble I am compared to him, how inevitable my defeat is, how the world will soon be his, yadda yadda yadda.
Bob: Yammering.
Lucius: Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter and he won’t shut up!

[Johnny_Hildo]

@Autumn Almanac

Uh, at every grocery store? Maybe it’s a regional thing.

We got paper bags here. Don’t know when exactly they lost the Bart Simpson-hair zigzag edges on the top, though.