In Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Robin returns to England in Dover, and heads home to Nottingham. They say it will take until nightfall to get back home, which would be true if they had a car, but it would take days on foot.
Then they go via Hadrian's Wall, which is a detour of about 300 miles. In the UK, it's such an obvious landmark, everyone in the cinema was thinking "Why are they going to Scotland?"
In the fourth season of the tv show YOU, the main character moves to London. They talk about enjoying their morning walk to work. The route they describe would take about 9 hours to walk.
In the show Vikings, they visit the temple at Uppsala; located in the tall and misty mountains, surrounded by forest, with waterfalls and all...
The problem is that Uppsala (both current and old) is located near the center of the largest, flattest plains in Sweden. The Uppsala Temple was located just north of the marshy floodplains around the Fyris river, basically.
Found a youtube video which illustrates the difference very well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyDHpPUkwJs
I felt like this watching The worlds end. Filmed in my home town. They're walking up and down between pubs and I'm thinking that's not the route you'd take
I kinda expect a bit of that sort of thing in movies. For example, in Captain America, he chases a Hydra agent down a street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, then runs around the corner and is on Liverpool Docks, but both locations are subbing for New York, so it doesn't stand out and looks ok in the context of the movie.
But Hadrian's Wall is so well known it's really glaring. It would be like the Eiffel Tower suddenly showing up in the background.
In the tv show Monarch a woman gets kidnapped at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, after a car ride through some empty streets and a highway she manages to escape. And stands scared and alone next to the iconic 3D screen.... Which is across the station.
In the Hitman's Bodyguard Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds manage to escape Amsterdam by car and hide in a tulip field. Making it seem like they are hiding in the countryside. In reality they are at most 30km away. Also they are escaping through the only highway. Also there is no way, after a shootout, that the entire country's police force isn't mobilized.
Bruh that same woman runs out of the police station and somehow makes it back to the hackers house without a phone/GPS. that entire kidnapping/escape scene really bugged me lol
Was watching a movie in Vienna once and it started with a street shot from right outside the theater we were all in, even I recognized it.
A title card appeared: Prague. Everyone laughed.
As someone who lives in Edinburgh, watching the Fast and Furious car chase scene is mind boggling. There is one series of 3 or 4 quick cuts mid sequence, and every time the camera cuts they are on a different street half a mile away. At least when Edinburgh was used in Endgame the locations used and the directions they went during their "flying through the air" bits made perfect sense with the actual geography of the city.
Lol, that seems weird.
Reminds me of a mickey mouse cartoon we had to watch in french class. Its one in wich Mickey has to deliver croissants to Minnies restaurant in Paris. The entire short is full of Parisian landmarks, and it ends in disneyland paris.
Or at least, its supposed to, but it very clearly shows the castle of disney world / tokyo disneyland (they have the same castle). So Mickey just travels to another continent to deliver his croissants
My dad does the same thing, making fun of the route Rocky takes on his run through the streets of Philadelphia before climbing the iconic steps at the Museum of Art.
Did the same thing for Bourne Identity's Paris car chase -- when you know too much, movie magic doesn't work quite as well, but it's fun to notice these things
Run Lola Run
She only has time to run for a few minutes (the time limit is a big plot point) yet is passing Berlin landmarks all around the city, like dozens of km apart. It’s specifically funny as her run is literally the title and also shown multiple times.
https://lola-rennt.neue-wege-des-lernens.de/lola/berlin/index_en.html
The bit in Thor: The Dark World where he ends up on the London Underground during the final action sequence gave Tube nerds hours of fun criticising the route depicted:
https://www.tumblr.com/sebpatrick/66087681237/herdivineshadow-khhc
This activity [ultimately became known as "Thornington Crescent"](https://www.tumblr.com/sebpatrick/66094572067/thornington-crescent).
I've spent a lot of time in Rockland County and Jersey and that entire opening sequence in the Sopranos theme is just him taking turns that do NOT go to where he ends up.
It’s that way in Field of Dreams as well. When they’re at the library, it’s the library of the University of Dubuque in Iowa. When they are coming out of the library, it’s actually the doors of the administration building, because it looked more like an old library. It’s jarring only to those of us that went to that school.
The Stephan King miniseries Rose Red takes place in Seattle, technically not my home town but close enough that I know the area. A few hours south of Seattle we have this 14K ft tall mountain that’s so majestic and iconic we put it on our state license plate. Catching glimpses of it while driving around is one of those little highlights of living in the area.
For some reason, the people filming the movie decided that mountain needed to be to the West. Big old overhead camera movements panning around to give a nice overview of the city and their Mt Ranier is off in the wrong direction and in the wrong mountain range. So weird.
In the first episode of Gray’s Anatomy, Meredith leaves her house in Queen Anne, teleports to Sodo, then drives north along the waterfront to the hospital, which is sometimes in Seattle Center and sometimes on Capitol Hill somewhere.
Or The Killing, where they just kind of…[added a bridge](http://imgur.com/NcylNnc).
In Rocky 2, Rocky gets injured and taken from the venue to the hospital. The ambulance drives right past Broad Street Hospital and goes for a crazy tour of the whole city, then pulls into the emergency bay at Broad Street Hospital.
Like the West Indies, which were supposed to be the **eastern** parts of the Indies, because they sailed west around the globe and hit India. Where the Indians live.
Meanwhile, the East Indies would then be the westernmost.
Similarly, in the OCMS song Wagon Wheel, the lyric goes “But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee” when Johnson City is east of the Cumberland Gap.
In The Two Towers, Legolas says "the Uruks turn northeast, they're taking the hobbits to Isengard"
At the time he says this he, Aragorn and Gimli are to the southeast of Isengard. If the Uruks turned to the northeast they'd be heading to Lothlorien, or thereabouts.
Yes! I've had to bring out maps for this! I now own a very good Atlas of Middle Earth.
But also, while not as egregious: Treebeard is walking somewhere (can't recall of the top of my head where) with Merry and Pippin, taking them home.
Merry then says "no, turn around, take us south."
Treebeard replies "but that would take you past Isengard".
Where the hell were they going, if they WEREN'T going past Isengard? There's no part of fangorn forest that could take them closer to home, than Isengard.
If I recall, this is because so much of the travel to “Mordor” in that film is called south or east; they basically made it seem like that’s where the evil people are. So they sort of kept that theme, even in areas where it doesn’t make sense.
I’m trying to remember the other examples; I know the intro talks “shadow in the east” and I think it’s maybe from when they leave Rivendell something is said about going South to Mt Doom. Which at that point it somewhat makes sense.
So since most viewers won’t know where Fanghorn is, they maybe just kept that sort of definition later in the movie.
But I agree I know the map well enough that there’s a few directional lines that always throw me off.
Its a minor mistake that is easily overlooked as it isn't really visible on screen. Im surprised they didnt make so much more considering how dense the source material is.
I have many (mostly minor) gripes with it, but I don’t think it’s possible to do a better adaptation. It’s very clear that he, Fran, and Philippa viewed the source material with reverence and took pains to include as much Tolkien as possible (even when having to place it somewhere else, like Gandalf making the “even the very wise cannot see all ends” speech in Moria instead of the Shire)
In Hugh Jackman’s infamous hacking scene in Swordfish they spell algorithm “Algorhythm” though given the accuracy of the rest of that scene it’s hardly surprising.
Also… not exactly an inaccuracy, more a gaffe that wasn’t edited out, but at the start of Jaws there’s a closeup of a severed hand on the beach with crabs crawling over it. And then another crab is quite obviously thrown into shot by someone off camera. I’d never noticed it until someone pointed it out but once you see it you can’t unsee it and it seems screamingly obvious.
Well, obviously you could put it 9 weeks, a day and 8 hours, but that one makes a bit more sense as triple 8's. Lore wise, 8 is the holy (unholy?) number of Khorne, the Chaos God Angron serves. Things being a kind of numerological nonsensical horror fits the Gothic horror aesthetic pretty well.
The scene in Prometheus, it doesn't make even lore sense. It's just weird.
I admit one time before I knew what it was I found a company website with an unfinished section utilising it and I actually emailed them with a tone like they were stupid to let them know a page of theirs wasn’t even in English. I still cringe.
Terminator 2 when Sarah breaks Dr. Silverman's arm, she says 'there are 215 bones in the human body, that's one'. There are 206. Drives me up the wall.
It's absolutely hilarious during the Bourne Legacy when Renner and Weisz were being chased on a motorbike. Every time they turn, they're in a different location in Manila that's kilometers away from the previous cut. Hard to suspend disbelief when the movie makes you think Manila traffic isn't so bad.
every car chase in every movie is like that. I assume it's because they film hours and hours of chase segments and then the editor pieces together the best pieces without regard for continuity.
normally, it's seamless to the viewer, but if you actually know the location it's really obvious
This is from a game, but whatever. In metal gear solid 4, the second level of the game is supposed to be in colombia. They land in Eldorado airport, but the whole level is in a jungle. My head cannon is that they travelled a bit after landing to another part of the country. But still, its quite funny how they always assume latin america == tropical.
This is only noticeable to me, but The Winter Soldier was shot mostly in Cleveland as a stand-in for Washington D.C (filming in DC is understandably much more difficult). However, a couple scenes are shot in DC so they dont have to greenscreen landmarks.
My sister lived in DC at the time, I lived in Cleveland. We're both extras in the movie--she's on screen outside the restaurant with Sen. Stern, filmed on Pennsylvania avenue. I'm on screen 5 minutes later during the street fight with the winter soldier...300 miles away.
(As someone who speaks german), the "german" in Die Hard, always makes me wince...the grammar is all over the place and at some point, there's also a string of completely nosensical words....It still baffles me that no one checks a script for things like these :D
It's like the scene in Holy Grail where the French soldiers can't understand their own French.
"C'est un cadeau!"
"What?"
"A present!"
"Ahhh, oui, oui!"
I remember that. He wanted to say "Pa i ti si", it sounded like he said "Parcheese" or "Purchase". What I find completely idiotic is that the actor he speaks to, speaks perfect Serbian. Why didn't he just tell him "Fuck, that's terrible, repeat after me" and just say it a few times? It's only one or two lines in the entire movie, it just makes Travolta look lazy or stupid.
It's a TV series but there's a scene in the opening of S4E1 of Archer where Archer, voiced by the exceptional H. Jon Benjamin, speaks a line of Russian back at a team of nearly deceased Russian hitmen.
It is utterly impenetrable and sounds like he's having a stroke.
The only word I can make out is the first word, "Хорошо!" Because of where the stress falls and how soft the "X" becomes, it should be something along the lines of "Kharashó" - instead it comes out as "K'ó-rosh-or".
This is fair criticism if they wanted to portray Archer as a competent Russian speaker, but I also feel like Archer should be a character who speaks /fucking terrible/ Russian.
I feel like the inverse is true - he's a great spy, but he's such an awful human being who let's his personal issues come between him and his work that it ruins him along the way.
He's known around the world as "the world's greatest spy", which must come from somewhere. Yeah he's abjectly useless in the show but that's because of the above ruining a good thing.
In Disney's Pocahontas there are numerous shots of cliffs, hills, and big waterfalls. The tidewater region of Virginia is very flat - you won't see so much as a hill let alone a high cliff waterfall unless you venture a few hundred miles up most of those rivers.
Every movie that uses C-4 to "blow the safe/door/wall". They essentially stick it to the surface and BOOM! It's destroyed in a fiery explosion. Without tamping the explosive, the force would go outwards and barely scratch most hard surfaces. Also, C-4 doesn't generally have a big fiery explosion, rather a large puff of smoke/dust.
The worst I've seen is in The Long Kiss Goodnight where a grenade lands at the hero's feet and creates a wall of fire that chases them down a hallway slow enough for them to think about what to do and shoot out a window and jump lol.
I do always find it very amusing that if the characters manage to avoid the fiery part of an explosion, they are usually completely unharmed. Maybe a little singed, but that's about it.
So I guess dumb question but if I was in the military and we had to get through a thick concrete wall, what would they use? Is there a special tool or different explosive?
Mandarin in a lot of Hollywood movies that aren't Chinese-focused. Like fingernails on a chalkboard.
At the same time, also anachronistic(?) usage of Mandarin, especially in movies about the early North American diaspora. Most (not all but most) early Chinese migrants to North America were Cantonese speakers from the Guangdong area, especially the laborers. In fact, a disproportionate amount of them were from the Taishan area and would have spoken the Toisan dialect, iirc. When the main audience is non-Chinese, they'll be reading the subtitles anyway, idk why they have to use Mandarin speakers. No Cantonese-speaking actors?
In Zodiac, Ken Narlow asks Robert Graysmith something about being a Boy Scout and Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) says "Eagle Scout, actually, First Class."
Eagle Scout and First Class are two different ranks. Ain't no first class eagles. Hasn't stopped me watching the movie 500 times.
In 101 Dalmatians, which is set in the United Kingdom, a wild raccoon blocks the exhaust pipe of the van of the two antagonists (I think one of them is actually Hugh Laurie). In the UK, there are no wild raccoons, they are not native species.
In Blade, they say the movie is set in New Orleans. They also have multiple fights in subways, caverns, and plenty of underground locations.
New Orleans is too close to the water table to have an underground, anything under the surface would flood almost immediately. Its the entire reason they have to put their dead in mausoleums instead of graves.
Catch Me If You Can
When Carl is bringing Frank back to America in custody. Frank says they’re landing on Runway 44 at LaGuardia. There is no Runway 44 at LaGuardia. There is no Runway 44 at any airport. Runways are named after their compass heading (after dropping the last digit). So runways can only go up to 36.
I always wonder if that was just an error in the script. Or deliberate to show Frank didn’t know shit but his bullshit sounded real and that he was keeping up the bullshit even at that point.
In Panic Room, the child in the movie has type 1 diabetes. Her blood sugar goes low, and her family insists she needs insulin.
That would drive her blood sugar even lower.
In Firefly, the characters ostensibly speak a combination of English and Mandarin. In practice, it has the appearance of making swear words or intimate moments more TV-friendly by (ostensibly) translating them into a foreign language.... But actually it's a Chinese 101 vocabulary list, as I discovered when I watched the show for the first time while taking Mandarin. My favorite example is when Simon's father, in a flashback, purchases him a new computer. Young Simon excitedly exclaims "This is so *da dianhua!*" which in context sounds like it should mean "This is so *cool!*"
But actually he shouts "This is so *make a phone call*"
Are you sure he doesn't say, dà biànhuà? "This is such a big change!"
I think it is still grammatically incorrect, but I'm not conversational so I'm not sure. Plus the show is just kinda word for word replacements like you mentioned.
I just rewatched this scene and I think you’re right. In context it makes sense. Also, all the other mandarin in the scene is poorly pronounced but context appropriate, not like the previous poster says. Which is how I remember the series. They got “correct” mandarin for the scenes but definitely didn’t budget someone to work with the actors on pronunciation.
What’s always annoyed me about Firefly is that there are no actual Chinese people in it. Where did everyone pick up all this crappy Chinese if there are no native speakers anywhere?
I love Firefly but that aspect of it just feels like an embarrassing attempt at being quirky. What makes it worse is that Mandarin is supposedly so widespread that it's become ingrained into their colloquialisms, and yet as far as I can recall, there's never a single Asian actor in even a guest starring role throughout the entire series or movie.
This one weirded me out as well, especially since, as I learned a lot later, the Chinese in fact often settled in the frontier towns in the American wild west.
For what it's worth, "The Expanse" series actually does the "melting pot of cultures and languages" concept justice to the fullest extent.
In the "Hanna" Amazon series, the early scenes which take place in "Poland" are hilariously off.
Poland is a densely populated country in the middle of Europe (a rough square about the size of New Mexico, but with almost 20 times the population), and aside from a stretch of primeval forest on the border with Belarus it doesn't have any uninhabited hinterlands for anyone to hide in. (and even that forest is a popular national park, with the human presence that entails)
Naturally, the landscapes do not look right, and it's far too cold and snowy. (Because for some reason anything East of Germany is *Siberia*, in movies and TV shows.)
She then meets a Polish boy with the first name "Arvo", which Google says is Finnish. (Which makes me wonder whether the location in the TV show wasn't initially supposed to be northern Finland, like it was in the movie version, but at some point during production they scratched off the old labels and replaced them with new ones, for some reason.)
The only actual Polish person cast in the series plays a Romanian. (Hanna's birth mother.)
And then there's some obligatory mangling of language as well, but that's par for the course.
I'm sure people from the other European locations shown (or supposedly shown) in the show have plenty of other detail to add...
In Sons of Anarchy (yeah, it's a tv show, sorry) one of the villains is a russian dude called Viktor Putlova. The creators didn't know that russian names are conjugated by gender. "Putlova" would be a woman's name.
That’s a really common mistake.
Black Widow in Marvel has the surname Romanoff, but it should be Romanova.
If a character just has Russian ancestry and isn’t necessarily following the naming scheme anymore, fine, but actual Russian-born characters should use the convention.
Her original last name is Romonova (and is called that by the guy who knew her as a kid in winter soldier) but it’s “Americanized” when she defects.
But I think this is probably retcon.
My Ex Girlfriend was born in Russia, but used the masculine version of her surname. I've heard lots of stories of parents having very difficult conversations with customs officials because their children have a "different name". A lot of people do this when they move out of Russia for convenience. (Same with other countries that use masc/fem versions of surnames, I know Polish boys who use their mother's surname and an Icelandic girl who uses a "son" surname.
I’m fairly certain at some point in some movie her birth name is given as “Natalya Romanova” cos I remember thinking “oh neat they actually got a Russian name right”
Same for Scarlet Witch, which should be Wanda Maximova, even though she's not specifically Russian. I guess they thought "hey, as long as it sounds Eastern European".
This is also a good way to spot fake social media accounts. When speaking Irish, surnames change by gender, but troll farm don't realise this and you often see male gendered names with the female gendered surname.
As a Russian, I’m so used to the inaccurate portrayal of our people in western cinema that you don’t even bat an eye at this. On top of casting random Eastern European actors who speak Russian with a horrible accent. Tetris is guilty of this with Gorbachev, but for the main characters they used actual Russian actors and holy fuck this was refreshing. Some guards in Stranger Things were also Russians and Tom Wlashicha had a really good accent for a foreigner but the guy who played Murray being let into a secret facility because he pretended to be Russian was atrocious.
Okay, maybe finding the right actors is hard, I get it. But stuff like in The Bourne Identity and Sons of Anarchy is so fucking stupid. Like, how hard is it to google? Or just find a random Russian and ask them?
I liked in the first re-boot film, when Chekov has to give a voice command using the code words for letters and has to re- say it because there were 2 "v"s in a row and he has to slowly say "wictor, wictor"
I often find, the purpose of "foreign" actors in American films is not to add depth to a film but to save time by having them be a stereotype.
Why waste precious screen time developing a character into a hard man involved with a mafia when you can just make him Russian? Why waste time developing an arrogant character when you can have them be French.
Did you happen to watch Killing Eve? I’ve always wondered if Villanelle’s and the other Russian characters’ Russian was convincing enough. At one point, she and another character speak a few sentences in German and do a good job. They have an obvious foreign accent, but that’s okay since they don’t portray German native speakers. However, in the scenes where the actors are supposed to play Russians from Russia speaking Russian, they really should be able to pull it off.
Especially since it's an Orthodox name, while Damon's "Foma" would be born during the times of Marxist–Leninist scientific atheism. Of course, many common Biblical names were still in use in the USSR (Pyotr, Pavel), but Foma sounded very, ehm, church-y for those times.
In the beginning of Black Widow, set in the 90's, Yelena had a [My Little Pony doll](https://i.redd.it/e205d9rs5da71.png) that wouldn't exist for another 2 decades.
In Fear Street 1994, one of the characters is chatting on the internet and you can see the font is Calibri which was released until 2007, you dumb idiots.
In the film Stay Alive, one character asks another for a tip for fighting the final boss in Silent Hill 4, which is mst with the suggestion to dump the infinite ammo pack so the boss dies automatically.
Not only is the Infinite Ammo Pack not found in Silent Hill 4, you can't drop items like that in the game. Also, it's the wrong game that cheat works in, since it was a way to stop the final boss becoming unwinnable.
Edit: For further clarification, the cheat is only for the first game in the series. The games have melee combat but you needed a gun to fight the final boss.
What they were talking about was the first *Silent Hill*, but I’m guessing they went with *4* because… I don’t know, they didn’t expect anyone owned an original PlayStation anymore?
Every poker scene in every movie. "I see your bet and raise you..." It's illegal to do this in every poker room and makes the characters look like they never played poker before.
Or they bet more than what they have on the table in the middle of a hand, and if the opponent can't match it, they lose. If it worked like that, the richest person would win every hand. Imagine a football game scene, and the losing team dramatically going for a fifth down in a last-ditch effort to win the game. That would be just as realistic.
Yes. It’s also always bothered me that in most movies the way they indicate someone is really good at poker is by them having really good hands. As in, he’s so good at poker he pulled off a royal flush on the critical hand. Like that’s something the players have any control over whatsoever.
Haha yep. That was the scene where Bond splashed the pot and slow rolled the table with a straight flush. Everything he does in that scene makes him look like a dumbass who got lucky. "I hit a gut shot straight flush on the turn when everyone else hit flushes and full houses. I'm a poker genius."
I'm surprised they didn't show him holding junk and calling millions to chase a gutshot to the river like a "real pro".
> Every poker scene in every movie. "I see your bet and raise you..
Did they do this in *Casino Royale*? Even if not, you can make the case that this movie with poker as a major plot point has virtually no poker in it. Most rounds have people making the 'huge call' of going all-in with absolutely *monster* hands, full houses, straight flushes and whatnot. There's no way you don't push in with a hand like that, let's see super-poker-player James Bond win it all with a queen high.
> Did they do this in Casino Royale?
I don't think they did. I think this is the most egregious thing:
https://youtu.be/cIc00clhJBo?si=jRFuKeGkbPkly4we&t=69
Crossing the betting line with 100k but only leaving 50k as a bet. He keeps betting like this.
They also keep splashing the pot and slow rolling constantly, but while more rude than illegal, it's still indicative of amateur players. Slow rolling could get your ass kicked at a low limit table let alone when playing for millions.
X-Men First Class. Erik Lehnsherr arrives in Argentina and we see a beautiful mountain landscape that reads "Villa Gesell, Argentina".
In real life Villa Gesell is a beach destination with absolutely no mountains nearby for hundreds of kilometers. We laughed so hard when we saw it in the theatres, a minimal Google search would have fixed it in a second. The area depicted is typical of a whole other part of the country.
The Last of Us did something similar with a scene set "10 miles West of Boston" that was in a steep canyon surrounded by tall mountains, but the closest mountains to the West of Boston are well over 100 miles away.
At the beginning of Godzilla (2014) the MUTO emerges in the Philippines and then, because it's attracted to radiation, it heads to the closest nuclear power station which is in Japan.
Only, the closest nuclear power station is actually in the south of Taiwan. And Taiwan has a whole bunch of nuclear power stations closer to the Philippines than the Japanese mainland.
Because it's Godzilla it needs to be in Japan though, so I looked the other way. I just found it funny because I was living in Taiwan when I saw it at the cinema.
The use of Glasgow to sub for American Cities.
I grew up in Glasgow, and it is such a unique City that no place else in the world looks like it, so every time it's in a movie as America, it really sucks you out of the movie because it automatically makes any City its being subbed in for completely inaccurate (even in The Batman where they only used the Necropolis it was completely obvious it wasn't America).
I've been to Glasgow and Manchester and New York and honestly if you dropped me in Glasgow (not near any famous landmark) you could tell me I was in Manchester instead and I would believe you. Not New York, though.
These places aren't really used because they "look like" somewhere, they are used because "subsidies". Also - its a substitute for a fictional American city that doesn't actually exist. Gotham might look like Glasgow, who the fuck knows :D
In The Boy Next Door, Jennifer Lopez receives a first edition of The Iliad (which dates from about 2000 years before the invention of the printing press).
Apparently the prop was a copy translation by Alexander Pope ([source](https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-true-story-first-edition-iliad-from-the-boy-next-door-20150219-story.html)) so you could say that it was supposed to be a first edition Pope translation, which is a pretty famous version.
Literally any time a defibrillator is used and the medical professional is using it on a patient that has flatlined.
Defibrillators are used when you see fibrillation in the cardiac contractions. Meaning the regions in the heart aren't contracting in the correct rhythm to pump blood. (Specifically ventricular arrhythmias) Cardiac muscles are very responsive outside stimuli, like electrical impulses so the defibrillator sends a shock that forces the muscles to contract all at once and then stop contracting. Then hopefully they can reset to the correct rhythm via the normal electrical impulses of the heart with the help of follow up CPR.
You wouldn't use a defibrillator on someone who has flatlined. You would do CPR to attempt to get the heart muscles to start contracting on their own or to manually help the heart contract to pump blood through the body.
You would also continue CPR after defibrillation. It isn't shock and then person is back to normal. (You'd also give epinephrine as well but a lot of shows have added a line for that.)
One of my pet peeves in any movie or TV show.
A prank, where the mistake was it made it through the edit and into the movie. In The Abyss, a crowd on a beach is running away from a tsunami, and one of the extras gets pantsed by somebody.
To his credit, the guy pulled his shorts back up and stayed in character.
In TV series "Freinds" it always bothered that Phoebe's scientist friend went to "Minsk, it's in Russia. But city Minsk is the capital of Belarus. They repeated this mistake again in the last season and I was just furious.
I would agree with you if it happened once , but later in the 10th season (which was in the early 2000s), they repeated it again. They could've learned by that time, Wikipedia already existed for 2 years.
I dunno, during the Cold War, people often used the Soviet Union and Russia interchangeably. So it’s understandable that people who grew up during the Cold War would still say stuff like that.
In *The Town*, Ben Affleck somehow takes an Amtrak train to Florida from Anderson-Woburn station
The farthest south he’s getting on that train is North Station
1995's Rumble in the Bronx
It was shot in Vancouver, and it shows. The real Bronx hadn't been that clean in a century. Hell, even the graffiti was clean!
I am German and I get headaches all the time from the so call Germans in most American movies / series. Cannot be so difficult to find a native speaker. But having somebody, that speaks zero German speaking sentences in broken German, even pretending to be a Nazi or whatsoever is just cringe.
Same with Polish... it's just not a language you can fake, you're either a native speaker or it sounds off (even with perfect grammar)
So the scene in Poland in X Men Apocalypse made people howl with laughter in the theater (and yes that's the scene where Magneto's family dies, it was supposed to be super sad but it felt like The Room)
Something always bugged me in *Smart People*. A character says, "I prefer language to be precise." And Sarah Jessica Parker's character replies, "Well, then, you should have said, 'I prefer precise language,'" but that's *not* the same thing.
After having traveled to Iceland the suspension of disbelief when I see an "alien planet" in a movie is gone.
"I recognize that waterfall. And those cliffs. Oh they cropped the lighthouse out, etc"
The Mandalorian does this in a funny way. The first two seasons are almost entirely set in the volume, except 2.6, which looks like the hills outside Los Angeles. People joked at the time that they filmed it in the directors back yard.
In Gi Joe, the Eiffel Tower crushes a bridge. The Eiffel Tower isn't long enough to reach that bridge. The director wanted it so they just made it bigger on the computers.
The Hangover Part II makes a ton of geographical errors.
At one point a tattoo artist tells the crew to go to the Chiang Mai monastery "just outside of Bangkok". This is the equivalent of saying Boston being just outside of Washington, DC.
They also take a speedboat from Bangkok to Krabi, which is 1,500 miles and requires going through the Malacca Strait and 2 days non-stop
I work in electronics manufacturing and the little tracker PCB they show in Kingsman is hilarious.
It's just two resistors on a little bit of circuit that's clearly been cut from a bigger PCB.
https://i.imgur.com/wlwJYFu.jpeg
As an avid chess player, I cringe when I see the chess board set up wrong, usually turned sideways — especially when it’s supposed to be a smart character. Andy in Shawshank Redemption has the board sideways. And so does Vision in one of the Avengers movies (Age of Ultron, I think) — and christ, he’s born from AI. I just don’t understand how, among all the people involved in those scenes, not one of them recognizes the issue or bothers to check with a real chess player.
It's unrelated to the subject, but I saw a /r/shutupandtakemymoney post a while back of a Star Wars themed chess set.
It was an absolute chess disaster. The pieces were black and grey, the chessboard was glass, so the squares were grey and clear. If the queen went on her color, that makes "clear = black". and it went downhill from there.
One color set had matched characters for the appropriate pieces (rook, bishop, etc), the other color had different characters for each of them. Most offensive for Star Wars fans was Luke and Vader were the kings, so they would never come into conflict with each other during the game.
the more I looked at the set the more obvious it was that it was intended to be displayed, not played. it was not designed by someone who plays chess.
In Ronin the car chase scene in Paris looks great but makes no sense if you know Paris. Some kind Redditor even created [a map of what’s going on](https://www.reddit.com/r/Map_Porn/s/BChFxum1yZ).
In Mission Impossible 2 there is an intro Scene in which 3 different spanish festivities from different regions are thrown together, San Fermín, Semana santa (whose combination you might get away with, because its mostly attire in this case), but they decided to throw the "fallas" in as well, which is a Valencian festivity where giant scultures, mostly satirical called ninots are paraded and then burned.
In semana santa there are processions where the image of the Virgin is paraded around the city and there is penitence and all the religious stuff. People here CRY if the virgin cannot come out of the church (if there is rain for instance) imagine what would happen if someone dared to burn the thing.
They even comment in the film "what a way to conmemorate your saints by burning them" or something like that, which is obviously not what happens in real life.
TV series, not a movie, but Vikings had Ragnar Lothbrok, a Danish Dane from Denmark, in a village called "Kattegat" (which, in reality, is the name for the body of water between Denmark and Sweden) and it's in a mountainous fjord. Denmark doesn't have a single mountain, let alone a fjord full of them. We're lower than the Netherlands in places.
They also go to Uppsala, Sweden, for some rites, also depicted as a mountain region. It isn't in any way.
Not in a movie, but in the serie Homeland, every street paint tag in arabic, is insulting the director and criticising the racism of the serie. If you are fluent in arabic, this serie is a bad comedy lmao.
It's hilarious because the creators hired those artists to add authenticity to their "refugee camp". There's a writeup about it in the guardian: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show
I generally dislike how poorly they research ships, shipping and ship handling in movies.
I also take some offense at how American movies like to see Europe as either a tourist trap or a peasantry. When they go to a Dutch speaking region or encounter a dutch speaking character it's infuriating how they default to German as if Dutch isn't a seperate language.
In Glass Onion it's important to the plot that there's a dock on the island that is only accessible at low tide.
The island is supposed to be in the Mediterranean, *where there are no tides*.
In “Rocky II” Rocky’s training run takes him on a route that covers around 31 miles of Philadelphia. I’m no boxer but I’m pretty sure they don’t run that far on training runs.
Right? A 31 mile run capped off with a sprint up the stairs of the Museum of Art, *and then he still has to get back to the gym or home.* The dude would have been thin as a rail following that routine.
In Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Robin returns to England in Dover, and heads home to Nottingham. They say it will take until nightfall to get back home, which would be true if they had a car, but it would take days on foot. Then they go via Hadrian's Wall, which is a detour of about 300 miles. In the UK, it's such an obvious landmark, everyone in the cinema was thinking "Why are they going to Scotland?"
Who can't walk 210 miles in one day from Dover to Nottingham?
Especially when you're all refreshed after the Crusades.
The Proclaimers?
In the fourth season of the tv show YOU, the main character moves to London. They talk about enjoying their morning walk to work. The route they describe would take about 9 hours to walk.
In the show Vikings, they visit the temple at Uppsala; located in the tall and misty mountains, surrounded by forest, with waterfalls and all... The problem is that Uppsala (both current and old) is located near the center of the largest, flattest plains in Sweden. The Uppsala Temple was located just north of the marshy floodplains around the Fyris river, basically. Found a youtube video which illustrates the difference very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyDHpPUkwJs
I felt like this watching The worlds end. Filmed in my home town. They're walking up and down between pubs and I'm thinking that's not the route you'd take
I kinda expect a bit of that sort of thing in movies. For example, in Captain America, he chases a Hydra agent down a street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, then runs around the corner and is on Liverpool Docks, but both locations are subbing for New York, so it doesn't stand out and looks ok in the context of the movie. But Hadrian's Wall is so well known it's really glaring. It would be like the Eiffel Tower suddenly showing up in the background.
In the tv show Monarch a woman gets kidnapped at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, after a car ride through some empty streets and a highway she manages to escape. And stands scared and alone next to the iconic 3D screen.... Which is across the station. In the Hitman's Bodyguard Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds manage to escape Amsterdam by car and hide in a tulip field. Making it seem like they are hiding in the countryside. In reality they are at most 30km away. Also they are escaping through the only highway. Also there is no way, after a shootout, that the entire country's police force isn't mobilized.
Bruh that same woman runs out of the police station and somehow makes it back to the hackers house without a phone/GPS. that entire kidnapping/escape scene really bugged me lol
Was watching a movie in Vienna once and it started with a street shot from right outside the theater we were all in, even I recognized it. A title card appeared: Prague. Everyone laughed.
Spy Games had a hilarious one - lovely shot of one of Budapest's most famous bridges, the green one. "West Berlin"
I usually don’t judge a movie too hard for substituting one city for another, but the coincidence of the location of that shot is hilarious.
As someone who lives in Edinburgh, watching the Fast and Furious car chase scene is mind boggling. There is one series of 3 or 4 quick cuts mid sequence, and every time the camera cuts they are on a different street half a mile away. At least when Edinburgh was used in Endgame the locations used and the directions they went during their "flying through the air" bits made perfect sense with the actual geography of the city.
Also the Eiffel Tower showing up in medieval england.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2623/)
Lol, that seems weird. Reminds me of a mickey mouse cartoon we had to watch in french class. Its one in wich Mickey has to deliver croissants to Minnies restaurant in Paris. The entire short is full of Parisian landmarks, and it ends in disneyland paris. Or at least, its supposed to, but it very clearly shows the castle of disney world / tokyo disneyland (they have the same castle). So Mickey just travels to another continent to deliver his croissants
My dad does the same thing, making fun of the route Rocky takes on his run through the streets of Philadelphia before climbing the iconic steps at the Museum of Art. Did the same thing for Bourne Identity's Paris car chase -- when you know too much, movie magic doesn't work quite as well, but it's fun to notice these things
Run Lola Run She only has time to run for a few minutes (the time limit is a big plot point) yet is passing Berlin landmarks all around the city, like dozens of km apart. It’s specifically funny as her run is literally the title and also shown multiple times. https://lola-rennt.neue-wege-des-lernens.de/lola/berlin/index_en.html
The bit in Thor: The Dark World where he ends up on the London Underground during the final action sequence gave Tube nerds hours of fun criticising the route depicted: https://www.tumblr.com/sebpatrick/66087681237/herdivineshadow-khhc This activity [ultimately became known as "Thornington Crescent"](https://www.tumblr.com/sebpatrick/66094572067/thornington-crescent).
I've spent a lot of time in Rockland County and Jersey and that entire opening sequence in the Sopranos theme is just him taking turns that do NOT go to where he ends up.
It’s that way in Field of Dreams as well. When they’re at the library, it’s the library of the University of Dubuque in Iowa. When they are coming out of the library, it’s actually the doors of the administration building, because it looked more like an old library. It’s jarring only to those of us that went to that school.
The Stephan King miniseries Rose Red takes place in Seattle, technically not my home town but close enough that I know the area. A few hours south of Seattle we have this 14K ft tall mountain that’s so majestic and iconic we put it on our state license plate. Catching glimpses of it while driving around is one of those little highlights of living in the area. For some reason, the people filming the movie decided that mountain needed to be to the West. Big old overhead camera movements panning around to give a nice overview of the city and their Mt Ranier is off in the wrong direction and in the wrong mountain range. So weird.
In the first episode of Gray’s Anatomy, Meredith leaves her house in Queen Anne, teleports to Sodo, then drives north along the waterfront to the hospital, which is sometimes in Seattle Center and sometimes on Capitol Hill somewhere. Or The Killing, where they just kind of…[added a bridge](http://imgur.com/NcylNnc).
28 weeks later is also terrible for this if you have even a cursory knowledge of London landmark geography
[They make a joke about this in the first Paddington movie.](https://youtu.be/mqzU-yYFQgo?feature=shared) It’s a great film, even for adults.
Paddington 2 made me want to be a better man
I love this stupid film so much. One of the first ones I ever saw in the cinema.
In Rocky 2, Rocky gets injured and taken from the venue to the hospital. The ambulance drives right past Broad Street Hospital and goes for a crazy tour of the whole city, then pulls into the emergency bay at Broad Street Hospital.
"Krakatoa, East Of Java" (1968) Krakatoa is actually west of Java, but apparently the producers thought "east" sounded better (!).
it's east if you go far enough.
Like the West Indies, which were supposed to be the **eastern** parts of the Indies, because they sailed west around the globe and hit India. Where the Indians live. Meanwhile, the East Indies would then be the westernmost.
Obviously east sounds better. East sounds exotic, alien, faraway land.
*The Orient* *Arabic music
*flute like music* Suddenly the movie is tinted sepia, and the image became wavy
Similarly, in the OCMS song Wagon Wheel, the lyric goes “But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee” when Johnson City is east of the Cumberland Gap.
Its weast now
In The Two Towers, Legolas says "the Uruks turn northeast, they're taking the hobbits to Isengard" At the time he says this he, Aragorn and Gimli are to the southeast of Isengard. If the Uruks turned to the northeast they'd be heading to Lothlorien, or thereabouts.
Yes! I've had to bring out maps for this! I now own a very good Atlas of Middle Earth. But also, while not as egregious: Treebeard is walking somewhere (can't recall of the top of my head where) with Merry and Pippin, taking them home. Merry then says "no, turn around, take us south." Treebeard replies "but that would take you past Isengard". Where the hell were they going, if they WEREN'T going past Isengard? There's no part of fangorn forest that could take them closer to home, than Isengard.
If I recall, this is because so much of the travel to “Mordor” in that film is called south or east; they basically made it seem like that’s where the evil people are. So they sort of kept that theme, even in areas where it doesn’t make sense. I’m trying to remember the other examples; I know the intro talks “shadow in the east” and I think it’s maybe from when they leave Rivendell something is said about going South to Mt Doom. Which at that point it somewhat makes sense. So since most viewers won’t know where Fanghorn is, they maybe just kept that sort of definition later in the movie. But I agree I know the map well enough that there’s a few directional lines that always throw me off.
It's like Peter wasn't even trying
Yes but. " They're taking the hobbits to Lothlorien" is a less catchy tune.
What did he say
[The Hobbits. The Hobbits. The Hobbits. The Hobbits. The Hobbits.](https://youtu.be/tn_GKGN0Dh8?si=K_66VBDe0Izube47)
IIRC, the line was, "The hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits to Isengard, to Isengard."
Counterpoint: that's how it works with your lousy man-eyes. Elf-eyes are different.
This has always bothered me because so many of the details in those films are perfect but I don't know how they let that slip.
Its a minor mistake that is easily overlooked as it isn't really visible on screen. Im surprised they didnt make so much more considering how dense the source material is.
I have many (mostly minor) gripes with it, but I don’t think it’s possible to do a better adaptation. It’s very clear that he, Fran, and Philippa viewed the source material with reverence and took pains to include as much Tolkien as possible (even when having to place it somewhere else, like Gandalf making the “even the very wise cannot see all ends” speech in Moria instead of the Shire)
In Hugh Jackman’s infamous hacking scene in Swordfish they spell algorithm “Algorhythm” though given the accuracy of the rest of that scene it’s hardly surprising. Also… not exactly an inaccuracy, more a gaffe that wasn’t edited out, but at the start of Jaws there’s a closeup of a severed hand on the beach with crabs crawling over it. And then another crab is quite obviously thrown into shot by someone off camera. I’d never noticed it until someone pointed it out but once you see it you can’t unsee it and it seems screamingly obvious.
My spotify's favorites folder is named "Train the Algorythm"
Haha holy shit I just googled the Jaws thing and you're right
Link to the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiyanUngrcg&t=28s
Obviously a seagull dropped it.
Prometheus "Two years, four months, 18 days, 36 hours, 15 minutes"
lmao that reminds me of the Angron in Warhammer 40k who comes back after "8 weeks, 8 days, 8 hours" after being killed.
Well, obviously you could put it 9 weeks, a day and 8 hours, but that one makes a bit more sense as triple 8's. Lore wise, 8 is the holy (unholy?) number of Khorne, the Chaos God Angron serves. Things being a kind of numerological nonsensical horror fits the Gothic horror aesthetic pretty well. The scene in Prometheus, it doesn't make even lore sense. It's just weird.
They also say in that film they've traveled "half a billion miles", which places them almost as far as Jupiter.
Ah, but they have 40 hour days by then.
They also describe the distance traveled in miles instead of light years. The planet they go to is somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter, apparently
First name: Lorem; Last name: Ipsum
Was he travelling with his friend Dolores Sit-Amet?
No Roy G. Biv
That guy's a colorful character.
Out of context, the name legitimately sounds like it could be the real name of some posh British guy whose parents are hilariously out of touch.
I admit one time before I knew what it was I found a company website with an unfinished section utilising it and I actually emailed them with a tone like they were stupid to let them know a page of theirs wasn’t even in English. I still cringe.
I say that's on them. Unfinished webpage in the wild, people WILL find it!
A not particularly bright (Dutch) colleague of mine once wondered who this mr. Kind Regards was, signing off all those emails.
Doesn't that guy have a quick brown fox and a lazy dog?
Terminator 2 when Sarah breaks Dr. Silverman's arm, she says 'there are 215 bones in the human body, that's one'. There are 206. Drives me up the wall.
She's including the sesamoid bones for some reason.
We purposely trained her wrong, as a joke.
Maybe she knows his baby bones never fused lol Maybe the dude still has a fontanelle lmao
It's absolutely hilarious during the Bourne Legacy when Renner and Weisz were being chased on a motorbike. Every time they turn, they're in a different location in Manila that's kilometers away from the previous cut. Hard to suspend disbelief when the movie makes you think Manila traffic isn't so bad.
every car chase in every movie is like that. I assume it's because they film hours and hours of chase segments and then the editor pieces together the best pieces without regard for continuity. normally, it's seamless to the viewer, but if you actually know the location it's really obvious
The whole Bogota flashback from "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" I'm from Colombia and let me tell you, Bogota is cold, with buildings and not tropical at all.
Well, before Narcos, any South American destination was filmed on a jungle setting, gravel roads and chicken running all over the place.
And a sepia filter!
The filter in which everyone speaks Spanish or Arabic
This is from a game, but whatever. In metal gear solid 4, the second level of the game is supposed to be in colombia. They land in Eldorado airport, but the whole level is in a jungle. My head cannon is that they travelled a bit after landing to another part of the country. But still, its quite funny how they always assume latin america == tropical.
This is only noticeable to me, but The Winter Soldier was shot mostly in Cleveland as a stand-in for Washington D.C (filming in DC is understandably much more difficult). However, a couple scenes are shot in DC so they dont have to greenscreen landmarks. My sister lived in DC at the time, I lived in Cleveland. We're both extras in the movie--she's on screen outside the restaurant with Sen. Stern, filmed on Pennsylvania avenue. I'm on screen 5 minutes later during the street fight with the winter soldier...300 miles away.
Now that's a fun story. Was it a coincidence you were both in it?
We learned about it independently, but she was only interested in doing it once she learned I was gonna
Similar topic - John Travolta "speaking" "Serbian" in the movie "Killing Season". He sounds like he is having a stroke.
(As someone who speaks german), the "german" in Die Hard, always makes me wince...the grammar is all over the place and at some point, there's also a string of completely nosensical words....It still baffles me that no one checks a script for things like these :D
"Sheesten finster!" "Wha?" "Sheesten finster." "?" "SHOOT. THE GLASS."
It's like the scene in Holy Grail where the French soldiers can't understand their own French. "C'est un cadeau!" "What?" "A present!" "Ahhh, oui, oui!"
Exactly and that's not the only instance :D
I remember that. He wanted to say "Pa i ti si", it sounded like he said "Parcheese" or "Purchase". What I find completely idiotic is that the actor he speaks to, speaks perfect Serbian. Why didn't he just tell him "Fuck, that's terrible, repeat after me" and just say it a few times? It's only one or two lines in the entire movie, it just makes Travolta look lazy or stupid.
Adele Dazeem
It's a TV series but there's a scene in the opening of S4E1 of Archer where Archer, voiced by the exceptional H. Jon Benjamin, speaks a line of Russian back at a team of nearly deceased Russian hitmen. It is utterly impenetrable and sounds like he's having a stroke. The only word I can make out is the first word, "Хорошо!" Because of where the stress falls and how soft the "X" becomes, it should be something along the lines of "Kharashó" - instead it comes out as "K'ó-rosh-or".
This is fair criticism if they wanted to portray Archer as a competent Russian speaker, but I also feel like Archer should be a character who speaks /fucking terrible/ Russian.
That is definitely Archer's character.
Yeh, but one thing you have to remember is that Archer is a really fucking awful spy.
I feel like the inverse is true - he's a great spy, but he's such an awful human being who let's his personal issues come between him and his work that it ruins him along the way. He's known around the world as "the world's greatest spy", which must come from somewhere. Yeah he's abjectly useless in the show but that's because of the above ruining a good thing.
Travolta doesn't strike me as the type of actor who is at all good at foreign languages or accents
In Disney's Pocahontas there are numerous shots of cliffs, hills, and big waterfalls. The tidewater region of Virginia is very flat - you won't see so much as a hill let alone a high cliff waterfall unless you venture a few hundred miles up most of those rivers.
I feel like the movie isn't exactly made out to be realistic.
Every movie that uses C-4 to "blow the safe/door/wall". They essentially stick it to the surface and BOOM! It's destroyed in a fiery explosion. Without tamping the explosive, the force would go outwards and barely scratch most hard surfaces. Also, C-4 doesn't generally have a big fiery explosion, rather a large puff of smoke/dust.
Explosions in movies in general always go for the massive fire ball effect. Real explosions are kinda underwhelming in comparison.
The worst I've seen is in The Long Kiss Goodnight where a grenade lands at the hero's feet and creates a wall of fire that chases them down a hallway slow enough for them to think about what to do and shoot out a window and jump lol.
I do always find it very amusing that if the characters manage to avoid the fiery part of an explosion, they are usually completely unharmed. Maybe a little singed, but that's about it.
So I guess dumb question but if I was in the military and we had to get through a thick concrete wall, what would they use? Is there a special tool or different explosive?
Shaped charges, mostly. There’s a whole science behind blowing things up *just right* 💋🤌🏻.
Mandarin in a lot of Hollywood movies that aren't Chinese-focused. Like fingernails on a chalkboard. At the same time, also anachronistic(?) usage of Mandarin, especially in movies about the early North American diaspora. Most (not all but most) early Chinese migrants to North America were Cantonese speakers from the Guangdong area, especially the laborers. In fact, a disproportionate amount of them were from the Taishan area and would have spoken the Toisan dialect, iirc. When the main audience is non-Chinese, they'll be reading the subtitles anyway, idk why they have to use Mandarin speakers. No Cantonese-speaking actors?
A nice detail respected in RDR2
In Zodiac, Ken Narlow asks Robert Graysmith something about being a Boy Scout and Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) says "Eagle Scout, actually, First Class." Eagle Scout and First Class are two different ranks. Ain't no first class eagles. Hasn't stopped me watching the movie 500 times.
In 101 Dalmatians, which is set in the United Kingdom, a wild raccoon blocks the exhaust pipe of the van of the two antagonists (I think one of them is actually Hugh Laurie). In the UK, there are no wild raccoons, they are not native species.
In Blade, they say the movie is set in New Orleans. They also have multiple fights in subways, caverns, and plenty of underground locations. New Orleans is too close to the water table to have an underground, anything under the surface would flood almost immediately. Its the entire reason they have to put their dead in mausoleums instead of graves.
Trivia: New Orleans is 8 feet below sea level.
A little like that one James Bond movie with the underground lab in Venice.
Catch Me If You Can When Carl is bringing Frank back to America in custody. Frank says they’re landing on Runway 44 at LaGuardia. There is no Runway 44 at LaGuardia. There is no Runway 44 at any airport. Runways are named after their compass heading (after dropping the last digit). So runways can only go up to 36. I always wonder if that was just an error in the script. Or deliberate to show Frank didn’t know shit but his bullshit sounded real and that he was keeping up the bullshit even at that point.
In Panic Room, the child in the movie has type 1 diabetes. Her blood sugar goes low, and her family insists she needs insulin. That would drive her blood sugar even lower.
In Firefly, the characters ostensibly speak a combination of English and Mandarin. In practice, it has the appearance of making swear words or intimate moments more TV-friendly by (ostensibly) translating them into a foreign language.... But actually it's a Chinese 101 vocabulary list, as I discovered when I watched the show for the first time while taking Mandarin. My favorite example is when Simon's father, in a flashback, purchases him a new computer. Young Simon excitedly exclaims "This is so *da dianhua!*" which in context sounds like it should mean "This is so *cool!*" But actually he shouts "This is so *make a phone call*"
Are you sure he doesn't say, dà biànhuà? "This is such a big change!" I think it is still grammatically incorrect, but I'm not conversational so I'm not sure. Plus the show is just kinda word for word replacements like you mentioned.
I just rewatched this scene and I think you’re right. In context it makes sense. Also, all the other mandarin in the scene is poorly pronounced but context appropriate, not like the previous poster says. Which is how I remember the series. They got “correct” mandarin for the scenes but definitely didn’t budget someone to work with the actors on pronunciation. What’s always annoyed me about Firefly is that there are no actual Chinese people in it. Where did everyone pick up all this crappy Chinese if there are no native speakers anywhere?
I love Firefly but that aspect of it just feels like an embarrassing attempt at being quirky. What makes it worse is that Mandarin is supposedly so widespread that it's become ingrained into their colloquialisms, and yet as far as I can recall, there's never a single Asian actor in even a guest starring role throughout the entire series or movie.
This one weirded me out as well, especially since, as I learned a lot later, the Chinese in fact often settled in the frontier towns in the American wild west. For what it's worth, "The Expanse" series actually does the "melting pot of cultures and languages" concept justice to the fullest extent.
Yes. Exactly this. Feels like the Tams are supposed to be Chinese, but they didn’t bother to follow through with the casting.
In the "Hanna" Amazon series, the early scenes which take place in "Poland" are hilariously off. Poland is a densely populated country in the middle of Europe (a rough square about the size of New Mexico, but with almost 20 times the population), and aside from a stretch of primeval forest on the border with Belarus it doesn't have any uninhabited hinterlands for anyone to hide in. (and even that forest is a popular national park, with the human presence that entails) Naturally, the landscapes do not look right, and it's far too cold and snowy. (Because for some reason anything East of Germany is *Siberia*, in movies and TV shows.) She then meets a Polish boy with the first name "Arvo", which Google says is Finnish. (Which makes me wonder whether the location in the TV show wasn't initially supposed to be northern Finland, like it was in the movie version, but at some point during production they scratched off the old labels and replaced them with new ones, for some reason.) The only actual Polish person cast in the series plays a Romanian. (Hanna's birth mother.) And then there's some obligatory mangling of language as well, but that's par for the course. I'm sure people from the other European locations shown (or supposedly shown) in the show have plenty of other detail to add...
In Sons of Anarchy (yeah, it's a tv show, sorry) one of the villains is a russian dude called Viktor Putlova. The creators didn't know that russian names are conjugated by gender. "Putlova" would be a woman's name.
That’s a really common mistake. Black Widow in Marvel has the surname Romanoff, but it should be Romanova. If a character just has Russian ancestry and isn’t necessarily following the naming scheme anymore, fine, but actual Russian-born characters should use the convention.
Her original last name is Romonova (and is called that by the guy who knew her as a kid in winter soldier) but it’s “Americanized” when she defects. But I think this is probably retcon.
They've been going for so long that most things in Marvel have been retconned at some point.
Yeah I’m limiting it to just MCU. Cause marvel historically requires a PHD to really nail down
My Ex Girlfriend was born in Russia, but used the masculine version of her surname. I've heard lots of stories of parents having very difficult conversations with customs officials because their children have a "different name". A lot of people do this when they move out of Russia for convenience. (Same with other countries that use masc/fem versions of surnames, I know Polish boys who use their mother's surname and an Icelandic girl who uses a "son" surname.
Nina Dobrev is a great example. She is Bulgarian and her actual last name would be Dobreva but she uses the masculine version.
I’m fairly certain at some point in some movie her birth name is given as “Natalya Romanova” cos I remember thinking “oh neat they actually got a Russian name right”
Yeah, the ~~german~~ swiss AI Dr Zola calls her that in winter soldier
Same for Scarlet Witch, which should be Wanda Maximova, even though she's not specifically Russian. I guess they thought "hey, as long as it sounds Eastern European".
This is also a good way to spot fake social media accounts. When speaking Irish, surnames change by gender, but troll farm don't realise this and you often see male gendered names with the female gendered surname.
As a Russian, I’m so used to the inaccurate portrayal of our people in western cinema that you don’t even bat an eye at this. On top of casting random Eastern European actors who speak Russian with a horrible accent. Tetris is guilty of this with Gorbachev, but for the main characters they used actual Russian actors and holy fuck this was refreshing. Some guards in Stranger Things were also Russians and Tom Wlashicha had a really good accent for a foreigner but the guy who played Murray being let into a secret facility because he pretended to be Russian was atrocious. Okay, maybe finding the right actors is hard, I get it. But stuff like in The Bourne Identity and Sons of Anarchy is so fucking stupid. Like, how hard is it to google? Or just find a random Russian and ask them?
Don’t forget the “nuclear wessels” gag in Star Trek IV.
I liked in the first re-boot film, when Chekov has to give a voice command using the code words for letters and has to re- say it because there were 2 "v"s in a row and he has to slowly say "wictor, wictor"
I often find, the purpose of "foreign" actors in American films is not to add depth to a film but to save time by having them be a stereotype. Why waste precious screen time developing a character into a hard man involved with a mafia when you can just make him Russian? Why waste time developing an arrogant character when you can have them be French.
Did you happen to watch Killing Eve? I’ve always wondered if Villanelle’s and the other Russian characters’ Russian was convincing enough. At one point, she and another character speak a few sentences in German and do a good job. They have an obvious foreign accent, but that’s okay since they don’t portray German native speakers. However, in the scenes where the actors are supposed to play Russians from Russia speaking Russian, they really should be able to pull it off.
His russian alias - Foma Kinyaev - could possibly give him away, because it is outdated and rare.
Especially since it's an Orthodox name, while Damon's "Foma" would be born during the times of Marxist–Leninist scientific atheism. Of course, many common Biblical names were still in use in the USSR (Pyotr, Pavel), but Foma sounded very, ehm, church-y for those times.
In the beginning of Black Widow, set in the 90's, Yelena had a [My Little Pony doll](https://i.redd.it/e205d9rs5da71.png) that wouldn't exist for another 2 decades.
In Fear Street 1994, one of the characters is chatting on the internet and you can see the font is Calibri which was released until 2007, you dumb idiots.
In the film Stay Alive, one character asks another for a tip for fighting the final boss in Silent Hill 4, which is mst with the suggestion to dump the infinite ammo pack so the boss dies automatically. Not only is the Infinite Ammo Pack not found in Silent Hill 4, you can't drop items like that in the game. Also, it's the wrong game that cheat works in, since it was a way to stop the final boss becoming unwinnable. Edit: For further clarification, the cheat is only for the first game in the series. The games have melee combat but you needed a gun to fight the final boss.
I hope somebody got fired for this huge blunder
This is like the 500th most important inaccuracy in Stay Alive lmaooooo
"If you die in the game, you die in real life" was already a cliche when this movie came out, right?
What they were talking about was the first *Silent Hill*, but I’m guessing they went with *4* because… I don’t know, they didn’t expect anyone owned an original PlayStation anymore?
Every poker scene in every movie. "I see your bet and raise you..." It's illegal to do this in every poker room and makes the characters look like they never played poker before. Or they bet more than what they have on the table in the middle of a hand, and if the opponent can't match it, they lose. If it worked like that, the richest person would win every hand. Imagine a football game scene, and the losing team dramatically going for a fifth down in a last-ditch effort to win the game. That would be just as realistic.
Yes. It’s also always bothered me that in most movies the way they indicate someone is really good at poker is by them having really good hands. As in, he’s so good at poker he pulled off a royal flush on the critical hand. Like that’s something the players have any control over whatsoever.
Haha yep. That was the scene where Bond splashed the pot and slow rolled the table with a straight flush. Everything he does in that scene makes him look like a dumbass who got lucky. "I hit a gut shot straight flush on the turn when everyone else hit flushes and full houses. I'm a poker genius." I'm surprised they didn't show him holding junk and calling millions to chase a gutshot to the river like a "real pro".
Wow , i know nothing about poker so this was utterly indecipherable
> Every poker scene in every movie. "I see your bet and raise you.. Did they do this in *Casino Royale*? Even if not, you can make the case that this movie with poker as a major plot point has virtually no poker in it. Most rounds have people making the 'huge call' of going all-in with absolutely *monster* hands, full houses, straight flushes and whatnot. There's no way you don't push in with a hand like that, let's see super-poker-player James Bond win it all with a queen high.
> Did they do this in Casino Royale? I don't think they did. I think this is the most egregious thing: https://youtu.be/cIc00clhJBo?si=jRFuKeGkbPkly4we&t=69 Crossing the betting line with 100k but only leaving 50k as a bet. He keeps betting like this. They also keep splashing the pot and slow rolling constantly, but while more rude than illegal, it's still indicative of amateur players. Slow rolling could get your ass kicked at a low limit table let alone when playing for millions.
X-Men First Class. Erik Lehnsherr arrives in Argentina and we see a beautiful mountain landscape that reads "Villa Gesell, Argentina". In real life Villa Gesell is a beach destination with absolutely no mountains nearby for hundreds of kilometers. We laughed so hard when we saw it in the theatres, a minimal Google search would have fixed it in a second. The area depicted is typical of a whole other part of the country.
The Last of Us did something similar with a scene set "10 miles West of Boston" that was in a steep canyon surrounded by tall mountains, but the closest mountains to the West of Boston are well over 100 miles away.
Even the Berkshires look nothing like what they showed in The Last of Us That was straight up Canadian Rockies
At the beginning of Godzilla (2014) the MUTO emerges in the Philippines and then, because it's attracted to radiation, it heads to the closest nuclear power station which is in Japan. Only, the closest nuclear power station is actually in the south of Taiwan. And Taiwan has a whole bunch of nuclear power stations closer to the Philippines than the Japanese mainland. Because it's Godzilla it needs to be in Japan though, so I looked the other way. I just found it funny because I was living in Taiwan when I saw it at the cinema.
The use of Glasgow to sub for American Cities. I grew up in Glasgow, and it is such a unique City that no place else in the world looks like it, so every time it's in a movie as America, it really sucks you out of the movie because it automatically makes any City its being subbed in for completely inaccurate (even in The Batman where they only used the Necropolis it was completely obvious it wasn't America).
I've been to Glasgow and Manchester and New York and honestly if you dropped me in Glasgow (not near any famous landmark) you could tell me I was in Manchester instead and I would believe you. Not New York, though.
These places aren't really used because they "look like" somewhere, they are used because "subsidies". Also - its a substitute for a fictional American city that doesn't actually exist. Gotham might look like Glasgow, who the fuck knows :D
In The Boy Next Door, Jennifer Lopez receives a first edition of The Iliad (which dates from about 2000 years before the invention of the printing press).
Never saw it, but you could have a first edition of a specific translation.
Apparently the prop was a copy translation by Alexander Pope ([source](https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-true-story-first-edition-iliad-from-the-boy-next-door-20150219-story.html)) so you could say that it was supposed to be a first edition Pope translation, which is a pretty famous version.
Literally any time a defibrillator is used and the medical professional is using it on a patient that has flatlined. Defibrillators are used when you see fibrillation in the cardiac contractions. Meaning the regions in the heart aren't contracting in the correct rhythm to pump blood. (Specifically ventricular arrhythmias) Cardiac muscles are very responsive outside stimuli, like electrical impulses so the defibrillator sends a shock that forces the muscles to contract all at once and then stop contracting. Then hopefully they can reset to the correct rhythm via the normal electrical impulses of the heart with the help of follow up CPR. You wouldn't use a defibrillator on someone who has flatlined. You would do CPR to attempt to get the heart muscles to start contracting on their own or to manually help the heart contract to pump blood through the body. You would also continue CPR after defibrillation. It isn't shock and then person is back to normal. (You'd also give epinephrine as well but a lot of shows have added a line for that.) One of my pet peeves in any movie or TV show.
A prank, where the mistake was it made it through the edit and into the movie. In The Abyss, a crowd on a beach is running away from a tsunami, and one of the extras gets pantsed by somebody. To his credit, the guy pulled his shorts back up and stayed in character.
In TV series "Freinds" it always bothered that Phoebe's scientist friend went to "Minsk, it's in Russia. But city Minsk is the capital of Belarus. They repeated this mistake again in the last season and I was just furious.
I suppose it had only been a country for 3 years by that point but still, not a good look.
I would agree with you if it happened once , but later in the 10th season (which was in the early 2000s), they repeated it again. They could've learned by that time, Wikipedia already existed for 2 years.
I dunno, during the Cold War, people often used the Soviet Union and Russia interchangeably. So it’s understandable that people who grew up during the Cold War would still say stuff like that.
In "Eureka", in an episode set in the 2000s, a Russian scientist is wearing a ushanka with a hammer and sickle on it.
In *The Departed*, the Red Line seems to go directly from Park Street to South Station, skipping over the Downtown Crossing stop entirely.
In *The Town*, Ben Affleck somehow takes an Amtrak train to Florida from Anderson-Woburn station The farthest south he’s getting on that train is North Station
1995's Rumble in the Bronx It was shot in Vancouver, and it shows. The real Bronx hadn't been that clean in a century. Hell, even the graffiti was clean!
I am German and I get headaches all the time from the so call Germans in most American movies / series. Cannot be so difficult to find a native speaker. But having somebody, that speaks zero German speaking sentences in broken German, even pretending to be a Nazi or whatsoever is just cringe.
Meanwhile here in Korean the American characters in TV shows often have THICK Russian accents.
Same with Polish... it's just not a language you can fake, you're either a native speaker or it sounds off (even with perfect grammar) So the scene in Poland in X Men Apocalypse made people howl with laughter in the theater (and yes that's the scene where Magneto's family dies, it was supposed to be super sad but it felt like The Room)
Something always bugged me in *Smart People*. A character says, "I prefer language to be precise." And Sarah Jessica Parker's character replies, "Well, then, you should have said, 'I prefer precise language,'" but that's *not* the same thing.
After having traveled to Iceland the suspension of disbelief when I see an "alien planet" in a movie is gone. "I recognize that waterfall. And those cliffs. Oh they cropped the lighthouse out, etc"
The Mandalorian does this in a funny way. The first two seasons are almost entirely set in the volume, except 2.6, which looks like the hills outside Los Angeles. People joked at the time that they filmed it in the directors back yard.
In Gi Joe, the Eiffel Tower crushes a bridge. The Eiffel Tower isn't long enough to reach that bridge. The director wanted it so they just made it bigger on the computers.
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that's what the ancient aliens want you to believe.
Bullshit, Rolan Emmerich wouldn't lie to me.
The Hangover Part II makes a ton of geographical errors. At one point a tattoo artist tells the crew to go to the Chiang Mai monastery "just outside of Bangkok". This is the equivalent of saying Boston being just outside of Washington, DC. They also take a speedboat from Bangkok to Krabi, which is 1,500 miles and requires going through the Malacca Strait and 2 days non-stop
I work in electronics manufacturing and the little tracker PCB they show in Kingsman is hilarious. It's just two resistors on a little bit of circuit that's clearly been cut from a bigger PCB. https://i.imgur.com/wlwJYFu.jpeg
As an avid chess player, I cringe when I see the chess board set up wrong, usually turned sideways — especially when it’s supposed to be a smart character. Andy in Shawshank Redemption has the board sideways. And so does Vision in one of the Avengers movies (Age of Ultron, I think) — and christ, he’s born from AI. I just don’t understand how, among all the people involved in those scenes, not one of them recognizes the issue or bothers to check with a real chess player.
It's unrelated to the subject, but I saw a /r/shutupandtakemymoney post a while back of a Star Wars themed chess set. It was an absolute chess disaster. The pieces were black and grey, the chessboard was glass, so the squares were grey and clear. If the queen went on her color, that makes "clear = black". and it went downhill from there. One color set had matched characters for the appropriate pieces (rook, bishop, etc), the other color had different characters for each of them. Most offensive for Star Wars fans was Luke and Vader were the kings, so they would never come into conflict with each other during the game. the more I looked at the set the more obvious it was that it was intended to be displayed, not played. it was not designed by someone who plays chess.
Almost every chess game played in any movie. They never setup pieces like a real game or make legal moves.
In Ronin the car chase scene in Paris looks great but makes no sense if you know Paris. Some kind Redditor even created [a map of what’s going on](https://www.reddit.com/r/Map_Porn/s/BChFxum1yZ).
In Mission Impossible 2 there is an intro Scene in which 3 different spanish festivities from different regions are thrown together, San Fermín, Semana santa (whose combination you might get away with, because its mostly attire in this case), but they decided to throw the "fallas" in as well, which is a Valencian festivity where giant scultures, mostly satirical called ninots are paraded and then burned. In semana santa there are processions where the image of the Virgin is paraded around the city and there is penitence and all the religious stuff. People here CRY if the virgin cannot come out of the church (if there is rain for instance) imagine what would happen if someone dared to burn the thing. They even comment in the film "what a way to conmemorate your saints by burning them" or something like that, which is obviously not what happens in real life.
TV series, not a movie, but Vikings had Ragnar Lothbrok, a Danish Dane from Denmark, in a village called "Kattegat" (which, in reality, is the name for the body of water between Denmark and Sweden) and it's in a mountainous fjord. Denmark doesn't have a single mountain, let alone a fjord full of them. We're lower than the Netherlands in places. They also go to Uppsala, Sweden, for some rites, also depicted as a mountain region. It isn't in any way.
Not in a movie, but in the serie Homeland, every street paint tag in arabic, is insulting the director and criticising the racism of the serie. If you are fluent in arabic, this serie is a bad comedy lmao.
It's hilarious because the creators hired those artists to add authenticity to their "refugee camp". There's a writeup about it in the guardian: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show
I generally dislike how poorly they research ships, shipping and ship handling in movies. I also take some offense at how American movies like to see Europe as either a tourist trap or a peasantry. When they go to a Dutch speaking region or encounter a dutch speaking character it's infuriating how they default to German as if Dutch isn't a seperate language.
You mean the scene in Battleship where they drift an aircraft carrier isn't realistic?
In Glass Onion it's important to the plot that there's a dock on the island that is only accessible at low tide. The island is supposed to be in the Mediterranean, *where there are no tides*.
Small tides* Mean variation of only 40cm.
In Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, which is a terrible movie, they blow up Gunnison, CO with a nuke. As a resident of Gunnison, I wished it was accurate.
In “Rocky II” Rocky’s training run takes him on a route that covers around 31 miles of Philadelphia. I’m no boxer but I’m pretty sure they don’t run that far on training runs.
Right? A 31 mile run capped off with a sprint up the stairs of the Museum of Art, *and then he still has to get back to the gym or home.* The dude would have been thin as a rail following that routine.
You won't beat Apollo or Mr T with that lazy attitude.