Pretty sure VB is about a college team and it would make sense for the protagonist to be 21. It is still absurd to have meaning conversations at a strip club, of course.
Isn’t there also a ghostly BJ implied in Ackroyd’s dream sequence? It is amazing what they use to put in PG movies.
It’s a high school football team, in Texas. Besides it’s not like it’s hard to get a fake ID.
Nope, it’s definitely high school. From imdb:
That’s what made it so laughable to me. Yes, high school boys in TX may get into strip clubs, but I very much doubt they’d go as an entire team. At any rate, it was as gratuitous as it gets and kicked me right out of any semblance of suspension of disbelief.
Ohhh, I was thinking about The Program.
I have to say that I’m glad that most of these things don’t bother me. I wonder how some of you enjoy movies.
That said, sometimes they go too far with computer antics for me to keep suspending disbelief. Probably the biggest though is someone getting shot and getting sent flying. Not happening… sorry.
Depends what you mean by “major,” but it’s only really the American movie industry that is so obsessed with this issue. There’s no equivalent to 555 in Australian or British movies, as far as i know.
Of course, i would probably be annoyed if they used my phone number and i ended up getting thousands of crank calls. But i’d mostly be annoyed at the fucking morons who think that calling a number they saw in a movie would actually connect them to the character.
The one that really annoyed me was Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns. Yes, yes, i know it’s based on a comic book and so realism isn’t a big consideration, but they could at least make an effort.
We are told that Superman is just returning after five years away. Bosworth’s character,k Lois Lane, was already a seasoned reported when that happened.
Yet, in the movie, Bosworth looks about 22, which is exactly how old she was at the time of filming. So, she was already a full-fledged reported, having sex with Superman, at age 17. In some states, Superman would be arrested for statutory rape. And, on a completely different matter, Bosworth’s character was bland and boring and lacked all of the sassyness and spunk that Margot Kidder brought to the role.
For me, the thing that really annoys me is product placement. The problem is, it’s gone so far that (with me at least), the movie producers can’t win no matter what they do.
If they use real products, i get annoyed at all the advertising i’m being forced to watch. And if they use fake products, i notice that too and it takes me out of the movie.
Well, first of all, a new one for me to add is characters getting drunk, extremely quickly. And off of no alcohol. Some guy drinks “a” beer and immediately starts slurring his speech? It’s simply lazy writing. All you gotta do is have a few cut-scenes.
Oh, and guns recoil because they fire actual bullets. The recoil is a lot harder when you fire with a real bullet. Technically the same amount of force against the bullet is applied against your hands. If there’s nothing to push against when the air explodes in the cartridge, then it’s not going to force your hands back much.
Oh, and I don’t think about makeup so much, I guess cuz i’m a guy.
Part of the enjoyment is bitching about the mistakes! 
Parking. Specifically, parking in front of the door of the Manhattan address the character happens to be visiting.
Perhaps if I hadn’t actually lived in that city and spent upwards to 6 hours a week looking for parking in my zip code it wouldn’t bother me so much. Would it be so hard to show the guy walking down the block instead of pulling into a spot we never, ever see in real life? The magic is immediately blown for me.
My short list of peeves:
Nobody shuts the goddamn door behind them. Ever. Was all of Hollywood raised in a barn? This one bothers me the most, since I now have an eye for it and notice it a lot.
Nobody says goodbye on the phone, and they usually don’t say hello, either. Bunch of rude jerks.
Total failure to turn off appliances. Go ahead, just leave the TV on, the water running, whatever.
Stupid solutions to interesting problems. Case in point: Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest. Will needs to steal the key from Davey Jones, who guards it night and day. So what does he do? He sneaks up on him when he’s sleeping, steals the key literally from under his nose, and waltzes out with it. Wow, guys. Awesome plot twist.
And I definitely agree with the parking thing, the fact that Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson are living parodies of themselves, inappropriate makeup, women who scream when they should be grabbing the nearest object to clobber the bad guy with, and all computer hacking (Office Space excluded.)
How about people who run away from cars by running down the middle of the street? This just pisses me off. You can’t run away from a car by running faster than the car. But you can GET OFF THE STREET and the car can’t follow you.
Every time I see this happen I get pissed off.
You’ve made me think: why does everybody run away by going up? I’ll never understand how anybody – even in a state of total panic – heads for the upper floors, the roof, the top of the water tower, where there’s obviously no escape. I keep wanting to yell out, “Turn around and go down, you fool.”
Glaring mispronunciations always kill me. I appreciate the realism of doing a little research - why not do a little more and make sure you’re speaking like a local?
Case in point: The remake of The Thomas Crowne Affair. Pierce Brosnan tried to impress Rene Russo with his research abilities by mentioning that she grew up in Lima, Ohio. Except he pronounced it like Lima, Peru, and she didn’t correct him. (It’s pronounced like the bean). I was actually expecting a zinger from her. “Nice research, but you’re pronouncing it wrong.” Nope, just laziness.
You have got to go by Texas. The team gets into whorehouses as a unit. Who was that Governor that made the statement that it was almost a necessity.
The bad guy will be here any second so let’s stand around for 5 minutes and discuss the situation.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was severely let down by Bosworth’s Lane in Superman Returns. The character was a simpering, doe-eyed little girl with phony kinetics and no confidence. I was absolutely aghast that they made such a horrible casting choice to play such a critical character, especially after Margot Kidder demonstrated how to do it right decades ago.
Laura: Here’s Neil’s mother’s number.
Scott Calvin: 1-800-SPANK-ME? I know that number.
The Santa Clause
My peeve is the magical dry cleaning that happens to characters’ clothes. I watched a bit of Star Wars on HBO last week, specifically the garbage disposal scene. Luke is totally submerged, they all are soaked, but when they come out they’re dry again.
Very clean garbage, and they must keep the humidity real low in the Death Star.
The movie with the most pet peeves for me is Die Hard. There is a scene where Bruce Willis has given a semi-automatic pistol to Alan Rickman’s character as the villain Hans Gruber. Hans thinks the gun is loaded and tries to shoot McClane. Fires once, “click”. Fires twice, “click”. Semi-autos don’t do that. You get one click if the gun is not loaded. Hans would have had to rack the slide back to get the second click.
The other thing is cross talk on the radio. When one radio is “keyed,” the Push To Talk button is pressed, it generally blocks all other traffic on the radio network. For some reason these two things get me every time I see them.
Sgt Schwartz
The worst part is, they had someone who would have been a perfect Lois Lane right there in the same movie. Parker Posey. I guess they preferred to go with a flavor of the month rather than with an actor with chops.