It totally ruined The Perfect Storm for me.
Now, that I can handle. Sure, I’d like a more believable background, but as long as everything follows logically from that first premise, I’m fine with it.
That’s his raison d’être. He’s threadshit for years in movie topics, especially when it concerns suspension of disbelief, has done it to me and has been pitted for it by another. I don’t think he can help himself. Try to gnore it.
Not to defend Phantom Menace, but that was explained - Qui-Gon noted that young Anakin Skywalker had some access to The Force and was able to instinctively predict the future, which is what gave him the apparently superhuman reflexes necessary to compete at pod-racing.
Besides, since it is a racecourse, the path will be more-or-less clearly laid out, and not in a maze that frequently has dead ends.
Usually it’s the other way around.
Every motorcycle in the movies sounds like a Harley. Honda XL’s , Yamaha DT’s, whatever. They all sound like a push-rod V-twin.
Yes, its stupid. However, I will assure you, if properly motivated, tires will indeed screech on dirt. 
Too funny! I was there for my kid’s birth and it sure didn’t look like anything out of the movies! :eek:
Sure, but he wasn’t the only participant in the race, and for the most part, the other competitors were zipping about without crashing either - except when the movie needed a crash in it.
How can something unbelievable “follow logically”?
I am talking about internally inconsistent plot. The “expert” has to act like an idiot for 5 minutes so that the plot works.
Yes, but they weren’t human and, it is implied, aliens have an edge in that sort of thing.
It’s not really explained why the Empire isn’t run by aliens if they’re so superior, but whatever.
Anecdote: Back when I was eight or nine, my older brother, my mother, and I were watching Dick van Dyke in our living room. On the screen, Rob and Laura were at home, drinking coffee.
My mother says, “You know, there’s no coffee in those cups.”
My brother says, “Yes there is.”
My mother: “No, there isn’t!”
My brother: “Yes, there is. I saw it. It came up to about here!” [Indicates with his thumb and forefinger on the screen.]
My mother: “No, there isn’t!”
My brother: “Yes, there is!”
At this point, the argument became rather heated. I presume they could have gone on like that all night!
(My brother was right, BTW. I saw the coffee in the cup too.)
This Hollywood requirement screwed up the 2004 movie Troy (well, besides the smallpox vaccine scab on Brad Pitt’s shoulder). The story is based on Paris being so stupefied by Hellen’s beauty that he triggers a war. But every female role was filled by an actress of stupefying beauty. All they could have done is not show her face like they didn’t show Jesus’ in old Bible movies, and when people looked at her go “ouch! Fuck, ow!”
Neither did Katherine Hepburn.
This.
And poker games where “being better at poker” is portrayed as “magically always getting dealt better cards”.
I’m okay with that.
Were you? I didn’t notice. I was responding to you comment about “unbelievable premises”, which, you might notice, I quoted in my post.
Uh, yeah. That’s what I meant. I’m not sure how I switched the two.
OK, but it’s only one example of the trope of implausibly rapid choice of route through labyrinthine tunnels.
Actually, some modern digital cameras have this feature. I don’t know if it’s *all *or *most *or just a few, but certainly some do. Users need a sound that tells them that the camera actuall;y captured the im,age, and is ready for the next one. They sometimes give you a menu of sounds to choose from, with click-whirrr being one option you can choose.
God, that annoys me. Casino Royale is only one relatively recent example. We never see Bond bluffing - his move persona won’t allow it.
Heck, the buzz-clatter of a dot matrix or daisy wheel… on a laser printer.
Fake glasses momentarily break the illusion for me, too. Like the OP, I get why they do it, of course. But I often notice it. I wear pretty strong glasses, and my eyes look tiny behind the lenses. When I see someone wearing fake glasses, I always think, “Hey, your eyes aren’t all distorted!” Silly thing to be knocked out of the experience by, but so it goes.
I know very little about guns, but when I did shoot shotguns years ago, I noticed that they kick. I guess blanks don’t kick much if at all, and I’m sure you don’t want to crack off live rounds on a movie set. But when I see a kid or a small adult on screen blasting away with a BFG that has as much recoil as a squirt gun, I drop out of the scene for a few seconds.
Uhhhh … I think you mean “non-humanoids” here. If everything takes place in a galaxy far, far away, everybody in the Empire is a freakin’ alien!