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In reply to CapCityAg89 • 2:42p, 1/23/26
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CapCityAg89 said:
maroon barchetta said:
2ndGen87 said:
Another gripe: foreign language. Come on its a fake movie in english - can I have it all in english. Switching to Chinese or German is just incredibly pretentious.


Doesn't Hunt For Red October start with the Russians speaking Russian with subtitles before magically transitioning to Russians speaking English with Russian accents, except for one who speaks with a Scottish accent?

I actually kinda liked this. I didn't regard it as magical, just a transition.

My specific issue here is when Russian (or whatever language) character supposedly is speaking Russian but on screen it's English but with a Russian accent. That irks me.


Yeah, they did it in a cool way - zooming in on the speaker's mouth and then as it zoomed out it transitioned to English. They were speaking Russian the whole time, but now the audience can understand it. I thought it was obvious?

My pet peeve is that in 90% of outdoor night scenes the streets are wet, like it just rained. Guess directors like the shiny look.
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In reply to 1981 Monte Carlo • 3:14p, 1/23/26
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1981 Monte Carlo said:
who the hell signed off on Al Pacino constantly chewing and smacking his gum like that?


Maybe he had the Sienna Miller issue depicted in Curb?
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3:48p, 1/23/26
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There are very few movies that will have gun fights with wounded people in them unless they need to survive. By that I mean, the overwhelming majority of henchmen die immediately to getting shot wherever. Which is just patently untrue. It's worse than the infinite bullet guns IMO. Everyone just….dies. Like a switch is flipped. Not at all like real life.

To go along with this, initial blood spurts from gunshots. It doesn't happen unless nailed in the head. You just get puffs of dirt or clothing material if shot in the body. Even movies praised for "realism" never seem to get this right.

And as always, too much fire in military explosives.
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4:02p, 1/23/26
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Nice thread. So many things I agree with here.

I'll add with this:

You have characters in one spot having a conversation as they are walking. The scene cuts to the next shot where they have entered a building. Their conversation continues right there, as if they said nothing between scenes.

Example of this (in my third favorite movie ever, by the way) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: We are outside in an open area with Indy, Brody, and Elsa, where Elsa is describing something about the library they need to explore for clues to the Grail. Brody says something like, that doesn't look like a library, that looks like a church. The scene changes to these same characters, now inside the church/library. Elsa continues with the natural response to what Brody had said - in this case it's the literal truth (something like that).
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4:11p, 1/23/26
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Suppressed guns that make no noise. Even with a suppressor that supersonic bullet is making a bang.
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In reply to Roll the Bones • 4:21p, 1/23/26
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Roll the Bones said:
CapCityAg89 said:
maroon barchetta said:
2ndGen87 said:
Another gripe: foreign language. Come on its a fake movie in english - can I have it all in english. Switching to Chinese or German is just incredibly pretentious.


Doesn't Hunt For Red October start with the Russians speaking Russian with subtitles before magically transitioning to Russians speaking English with Russian accents, except for one who speaks with a Scottish accent?

I actually kinda liked this. I didn't regard it as magical, just a transition.

My specific issue here is when Russian (or whatever language) character supposedly is speaking Russian but on screen it's English but with a Russian accent. That irks me.


Yeah, they did it in a cool way - zooming in on the speaker's mouth and then as it zoomed out it transitioned to English. They were speaking Russian the whole time, but now the audience can understand it. I thought it was obvious?

My pet peeve is that in 90% of outdoor night scenes the streets are wet, like it just rained. Guess directors like the shiny look.

And then they had the Russians speaking Russian again when they got together with the Americans, until Ryan broke the ice with 1) knowing Russian, and 2) "inviting" Ramius to speak English with his statement about knowing your enemy. Cool all around. Of course, it is one of my "stop scrolling" and watch to the end movies, no matter how many times I've seen it, what time, what I had in mind when perusing the guide.

The wet streets thing is something movies have to do for lighting, I believe.
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4:50p, 1/23/26
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When someone gets shot in the shoulder and they do some nonsense like burning the wound shut and then go on as if all is well.
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6:22p, 1/23/26
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Things that are too easy in movies but much tougher in real life:

1) digging a hole
2) making a really good looking fire
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6:57p, 1/23/26
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Two action movie pet peeves, sort of mentioned here but with an added twist.

1) "You know how to use that thing?" (Takes the gun, cocks it, takes the magazine out, checks it, puts it back in, looks down the sight of the gun) "Yeah."

I may not have used proper verbiage because I'm not a pro like random civilian in a spy movie is.

2) How easy they make hacking into the FBI/CIA. I get that a lot of fictional universes have spy networks that are supposed to be far superior than what we know and respect but random non-hackers can hack in and gain full access in under 5 seconds.
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In reply to 2ndGen87 • 7:15p, 1/23/26
2ndGen87 said:
Another gripe: foreign language. Come on its a fake movie in english - can I have it all in english. Switching to Chinese or German is just incredibly pretentious.


The way that The Hunt For the Red October handled this was perfect and should be the template for all movies.
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8:05p, 1/23/26
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I understand why they do it, but I laugh at how clean sex is in movies and tv.
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8:06p, 1/23/26
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I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually prefer to have people speak in their actual language.
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In reply to maverick2076 • 8:07p, 1/23/26
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maverick2076 said:
2ndGen87 said:
Another gripe: foreign language. Come on its a fake movie in english - can I have it all in english. Switching to Chinese or German is just incredibly pretentious.


The way that The Hunt For the Red October handled this was perfect and should be the template for all movies.


Love how they admitted they wouldn't even try in the HBO series Chernobyl. Producers were like, "we can do this fake accent which is probably going to be terrible and ask a lot more of our actors or just let them do what they do best and convey the story and not worry about trying to nail a fake Russian accent. "

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In reply to HtownAg92 • 8:24p, 1/23/26
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Yeah, Hunt for Red October is an immediate change of plans movie for me too. Still remember watching it in the theaters back in high school, not long after I read the novel.
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In reply to 2ndGen87 • 11:11p, 1/23/26
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1981 Monte Carlo said:
I was rewatching "Heat" the other night for probably the 4th time in the past year, and it got me thinkin...who the hell signed off on Al Pacino constantly chewing and smacking his gum like that? Does it annoy anyone else? It's almost like it was meant to be a device to make him look cool or something, but it just grinds my gears. It is probably my only complaint about the movie. On top of that, I can't stand his delivery when he yells some of his lines, and imo it's one of his poorer acting performances...But I don't want to pick on him TOO much.

But the gum chewing is up there with this kid touching his nose constantly in "Dazed and Confused"...to the point where I'm like, how did the director (or someone) not address this? It's truly distracting once you notice it.



Anyone got any other examples from different movies? Ha, this may be one of the dumbest topics on the Ent board, but I just had to get that off my chest.

I read Al Pacino's autobiography. He said he played his cop character in Heat as if he had a cocaine addiction and there was supposed to be an early scene that showed him sniffing. It makes a lot more sense in that connotation.


Ha now this changes things, makes so much sense now.
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11:26p, 1/23/26
I still don't understand how the three seashell thing works.
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In reply to maverick2076 • 12:06a, 1/24/26
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maverick2076 said:
2ndGen87 said:
Another gripe: foreign language. Come on its a fake movie in english - can I have it all in english. Switching to Chinese or German is just incredibly pretentious.


The way that The Hunt For the Red October handled this was perfect and should be the template for all movies.

I agree but one thing that always bothered me was Jack giving Mancuso a message to deliver to Ramius in Morse Code, how did he know he could understand English?

You could say he knew because he met him once at an embassy dinner (have you ever met him General lol) but they make such a big deal later in the movie about knowing the ways of your adversary like Jack didn't know Ramius could speak English.

Anyway, the only nit I could pick in an otherwise perfect movie. When the hell is Rewatchables going to do this movie dammit!!
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1:59a, 1/24/26
In sci-fi movies set in space, how they go to a planet and everyone on the planet lives in the same place. And half the time that place seems to be roughly the size of Hearne.

It amuses me that in the Star Wars universe, it seems like galactic backwater, barely habitable Tatooine might just be the only planet with more than one settlement - Mos Eisley and Mos Espa.
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2:19a, 1/24/26
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People having regular conversations in helicopters. If you have been in one, you know the fallacy of that.
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In reply to a.froman • 10:43a, 1/24/26
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.
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In reply to AustinAg2K • 11:08a, 1/24/26
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AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.

Costner and Redford are two of the few actors that didn't look like dweebs when portraying baseball players. Of course Costner played college ball I believe. Maybe even minor leagues?
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12:02p, 1/24/26
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It drives my wife crazy when people wake up next to each other and start talking/kissing with their bad morning breath.
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12:03p, 1/24/26
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You really need to have grown up playing it. Someone who waits until adulthood to try to learn to throw a ball properly will always look like a *** no matter how long they spend on it. That goes for most sports. Some of these actors were athletes when younger so it looks more authentic, but many were theater kids. You aren't ever going to make a theater kid look good and natural at these things, no matter how hard they work at it.
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12:16p, 1/24/26
I could watch DB Sweeney (Shoeless Joe in Eight Men Out) play baseball all day.

Mine: Characters arrogantly eating apples: two examples off the top of my head - Damian Lewis in Billions and Chris Pine in Star Trek. I don't know why but I can't stand it.
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In reply to 1 • 12:19p, 1/24/26
Jim Kirk was being arrogant as he beat the no-win simulation after telling McCoy to alert Sick Bay to prepare for all crew and destroyed approaching enemy vessels with minimum number of torpedoes used.

The apple fit the bill.
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In reply to Eliminatus • 12:24p, 1/24/26
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People having regular conversations in helicopters. If you have been in one, you know the fallacy of that.


You've never had casual conversations with your bros in the chopper on the way to hunt down predators terrorizing the jungle I take it?
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In reply to AustinAg2K • 1:20p, 1/24/26
AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.


Are you saying you didn't buy Adam Sandler as a former pro quarterback?
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In reply to DG-Ag • 2:33p, 1/24/26
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DG-Ag said:
AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.

Costner and Redford are two of the few actors that didn't look like dweebs when portraying baseball players. Of course Costner played college ball I believe. Maybe even minor leagues?

Charlie Sheen played some ball and you could tell. Serrano maybe had swung a bat before. The rest of the cast in Major League was terrible. Who cares, great movie.

Keanu looked passable the two times he played a QB (or former QB F-B-I Agent).

Worst all time to me was Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf playing basketball.
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In reply to Sapper Redux • 4:19p, 1/24/26
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Sapper Redux said:
AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.


Are you saying you didn't buy Adam Sandler as a former pro quarterback?


One of my guilty viewing pleasures. I don't know why exactly. Can't even quantify it to myself but every time it is on, I'll stop and watch it happily.
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In reply to Sapper Redux • 4:43p, 1/24/26
Sapper Redux said:
AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.


Are you saying you didn't buy Adam Sandler as a former pro quarterback?


Should've stuck to linebacker.
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I understand why they do it, but I laugh at how clean sex is in movies and tv.


And how women always wear bras when they are in bed after. Dude, take your time and do it right.
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6:03p, 1/24/26
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Foreign films that use poor quality subtitles (or even in English language ones that just use parts). They know how to make subtitles that are clearly legible with any background of the actual movie but they are too lazy and cheap so they throw up simple white or yellow that blend into the background that they are impossible to read.
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Mountains surrounding Houston.
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LMCane said:
Brian Earl Spilner said:
When characters pull necklaces off someone's neck by just ripping them off. Somehow they always break really easily.


1. when 105 pound females who are 5 foot 3 inches- beat up a 6 foot 2 inch male who weighs 225 pounds.



I was pleasantly surprised with the Robert Pattinson Batman fight with Catwoman and how just shut her down immediately
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In reply to torrid • 7:13p, 1/24/26
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Mountains surrounding Houston.

If your geographic scale is big enough, Houston is surrounded by mountains.
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