In Independence Day, near the end when they are all together and about to launch the counter-attack, Randy Quaid says something about getting abducted by aliens. The two military officers look at each other and roll their eyes like he's crazy for believing in aliens, even though they are about to go to war with aliens.
WTF Things You've Noticed In Movies
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I'll never forgive this movie for killing Raul Julia.third coast.. said:
That you probably didn't notice on first viewing.
The old street fighter movie starring Raul Julia and Jean Claude van Damme was on yesterday and there was a John wayne gacy painting in the background of Raul Julia's lair. WTF.
In movies that feature earth I almost always spot incorrect meteorology, storms spinning in the wrong direction for the hemisphere they're showing and that over overover used image of earth...it is lazy!
This overused image:
This overused image:
Make Mental Asylums Great Again!
This probably doesn't fit the criteria of this thread, but I personally have a WTF moment every time I hear the Wilhelm Scream. I get it has become an inside joke to include it but it's so out of place and ridiculous it completely takes me out of the movie when I hear it.
my wife is a radiologist and she always points out when x-rays are backward or upside down or...
almost forgot, rule 1
almost forgot, rule 1
As a once and future copy editor I get enraged when movies have bad spellings in their fake newspapers.
The Dark Knight Rises
Unbreakable
The Dark Knight Rises
Unbreakable
MuckRaker96 said:
As a once and future copy editor I get enraged when movies have bad spellings in their fake newspapers.
The Dark Knight Rises
Unbreakable
Same!
Another example...when the brilliant geneticists at Jurassic Park can't even spell the names of the ****ing dinosaurs they're making correctly.
But back to the OP....
I don't know if the kid from BTTF 3 can be beat for a WTF moment.
I don't know if the kid from BTTF 3 can be beat for a WTF moment.
Not per the OP's specification, as I notice things like this when I first see them ...
In WWII movies featuring aircraft, they inevitably feature incorrect for the time period variants of the aircraft. In Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck and that other dude hop into P-40s to go win the war. The P-40 depicted was the "N" variant, which was a later-war aircraft. The P-40s that would have been available at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 would have likely been "B" variants, perhaps very early "C" variants.
The original Midway movie ... gee, where to start? That movie utilized archival footage from WWII of aircraft that looked right and were in the right circumstances (blue-painted fighters over ocean rather than multi-camoflaged aircraft over land, for instance). Problem was, often the footage was of an airplane that was not even off the drawing board in June 1942, i.e., a F6F Hellcat standing in for what should have been an F4F Wildcat.
But, I'm a warbird nut. Of course I'm going to notice these kinds of things. 99.999999% of viewers won't.
In WWII movies featuring aircraft, they inevitably feature incorrect for the time period variants of the aircraft. In Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck and that other dude hop into P-40s to go win the war. The P-40 depicted was the "N" variant, which was a later-war aircraft. The P-40s that would have been available at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 would have likely been "B" variants, perhaps very early "C" variants.
The original Midway movie ... gee, where to start? That movie utilized archival footage from WWII of aircraft that looked right and were in the right circumstances (blue-painted fighters over ocean rather than multi-camoflaged aircraft over land, for instance). Problem was, often the footage was of an airplane that was not even off the drawing board in June 1942, i.e., a F6F Hellcat standing in for what should have been an F4F Wildcat.
But, I'm a warbird nut. Of course I'm going to notice these kinds of things. 99.999999% of viewers won't.
Like the intro to scrubs
breaking news**** 3 Men and a Baby has a ghost in it!
Another one, this time in 1979's Alien.
Sigourney Weaver is the last living human aboard the Nostromo when she encounters the alien blocking her escape route to the escape pod. She is forced to retreat and ends up back in the control room where she is unsuccessful in shutting down the self-destruct sequence that she initiated earlier. Now faced with no choice but to make another attempt at gaining access to the escape pod (really, more a ship, but whatever), we see a quick shot of someone quickly closing a door in the hallway as she runs by. It occurs at the 2:33 mark of the video I include below. I've seen this movie a bazillion times, but it was probably some time in the last 10 years that I first noticed this, and now I cannot unsee it.
Sigourney Weaver is the last living human aboard the Nostromo when she encounters the alien blocking her escape route to the escape pod. She is forced to retreat and ends up back in the control room where she is unsuccessful in shutting down the self-destruct sequence that she initiated earlier. Now faced with no choice but to make another attempt at gaining access to the escape pod (really, more a ship, but whatever), we see a quick shot of someone quickly closing a door in the hallway as she runs by. It occurs at the 2:33 mark of the video I include below. I've seen this movie a bazillion times, but it was probably some time in the last 10 years that I first noticed this, and now I cannot unsee it.
thanks, now I have to go watch the whole movie again tonight.
Remember in The Phantom Menace when the senate is deliberating what to do about the Naboo blocakde? ET's species is a voting member in the galactic senate:
(go to the fifteen second mark)
(go to the fifteen second mark)
MuckRaker96 said:
To be fair, nobody really knows, we've never hit a terminator with a knife before...
This isn't a WTF moment and I apologize for that but fake southern accents always irritate the heck out of me. I guess mostly because I have a real "southern" accent. I'd almost prefer they have no accent at all. It becomes pretty distracting.
You must have loved Varsity Blues
I dunno, I feel like misspellings add authenticity...MuckRaker96 said:
As a once and future copy editor I get enraged when movies have bad spellings in their fake newspapers.
The Dark Knight Rises
Unbreakable
You should hear all the crap I find wrong with Hallmark movies before my wife kicks me out of the room.
When women are shown to have equal fighting skills to men. Having a butch woman kicking an effeminate guys ass on occasion is okay. But showing men/women of the same size having the same fighting ability is preposterous.
In the Force Awakens, Finn and Rey are running toward the Falcon from the front after the Quad Jumper is blown up by the Tie fighter. But then in the shot of them running up the ramp and into the Falcon, they're coming from the rear.
The boarding ramp and cockpit are on the starboard side. In TFA, they are running towards the front, starboard side. That means they should turn right when the board the ramp. They turn left on the close up.
The boarding ramp and cockpit are on the starboard side. In TFA, they are running towards the front, starboard side. That means they should turn right when the board the ramp. They turn left on the close up.
In several of the old black and westerns if you looked far into the background you could see a cloud of dust being kicked by a pick up truck
and contrails from airplanes flying overhead.TXAGBQ76 said:
In several of the old black and westerns if you looked far into the background you could see a cloud of dust being kicked by a pick up truck
Yep, forgot about those.
Worst ever was Michael Rapaport's southern accent in Justified. It was so bad I almost stopped watching.easttexasaggie04 said:
This isn't a WTF moment and I apologize for that but fake southern accents always irritate the heck out of me. I guess mostly because I have a real "southern" accent. I'd almost prefer they have no accent at all. It becomes pretty distracting.
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Who the heck aliens are those on the right?!
In the old Godzilla flicks, you can clearly see creases in the lizard costume.
third coast.. said:
That painting is also the cover of When the Kite String Pops by Acid Bath. A fantastic sludgey metal album.
I've seen Dax Riggs (former lead singer) with Deadboy and Elephantman live but never Acid Bath.
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