Has a little bit of knowledge ever ruined a scene for you?

[Phil in the Blank]

For example, I'm a bit of a poker buff and a scene in Casino Royale just throws me out of the movie. When Bond calls Chiffre 'Bluff' only to find out he had quad jacks and he is in shock about how he misread his tell and how he made a 'mistake'. But in reality the hand is simply what we call a 'Cooler'. Bond had a super strong hand (a full house), that was only going to be beaten by 2 hands (AA and JJ), both of which are pretty unlikely. You would struggle to find a player in the world who studies the game that wouldn't go broke in that situation. It has nothing to do with getting the tell wrong, and everything to do with just getting incredibly unlucky. 

 

So my question is has a little bit of knowledge about something ever taken you out of a movie before, and if so which one and why?

[Jack Nevada]

No.

[Dementeleus]

Sure, I think it probably happens for many people when it's a subject they're extremely familiar with, since most movies either streamline or condense information or outright "cheat" to get the point across. I remember all these skateboarding movies in the 80s where someone would switch from standard to goofyfoot from shot to shot.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Sure, I think it probably happens for many people when it's a subject they're extremely familiar with, since most movies either streamline or condense information or outright "cheat" to get the point across. I remember all these skateboarding movies in the 80s where someone would switch from standard to goofyfoot from shot to shot.

You skateboard?

[grim22]

I wouldn't say ruined the scene, but it definitely pulled me out of the movie, the climax of "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol". There were some moments which not many people even in India would notice:

 

- They arrive in Mumbai, and every single signboard is in Kannada. This would be like setting a movie in Germany and having the signboards be in French. As a person from Karnataka where Kannada is spoken, this stood out to me a lot.

- The TV channel they show is "Sun Network" which is headquartered in Chennai and not Mumbai, and finally

- The parking garage they show is decades away from existing in India. In India, we park where we want 

[Dementeleus]

You skateboard?

 

When I was a kid... and not well.

[Jack Nevada]

When I was a kid... and not well.

Every day we learn something new about Grandpa Tele.

[Dementeleus]

A key scene in GRAVITY was almost ruined for me because they didn't accentuate the angular momentum when Clooney is slipping away from the tether. (I'm giving Cuaron and gang the benefit of the doubt by "didn't accentuate".) I'm not a physicist, but I've read enough science and science-fiction to know that in zero-G, when your momentum is halted (as when Clooney grabbed the tether), you're stopped. If that were the case, all Bullock needed to do was tug oh-so-slightly and Clooney would drift back to her. Even if she didn't, if his momentum were stopped, he could let go and just hang there.

 

Now, it looked like the ISS was spinning, somewhat, in an earlier shot, and that would've swung Clooney in an arc, to where he would've needed to let go to save her. But that wasn't emphasized, particularly, and frankly it should've been: it would've looked cooler too! As it is, they were dangerously close to the hilarious unintentional comedy of MISSION TO MARS for that one moment.

[grim22]

Every day we learn something new about Grandpa Tele.

 

[Jawa]

There is a scene in The Hurt Locker (which takes place in 2004) where they are playing Gears of War, which didn't come out until 2006 (and is on XBOX 360, which came out in 2005). I've never even played Gears of War, and that was a pretty obvious mistake to me.

[a2k]

- All movies with time travel. Cannot suspend disbelief for time travel (unless it's shown in a humorous way). Probably my biggest peeve with HP:PoA, book or movie. It's too easy a solution, simplifies the world to the level of dumbness and can be used in a gazillion ways to solve pretty much every problem that ever existed.

 

- Movies where everyone Indian speaks like Apu from Simpsons.

Edited February 18, 2014 by a2knet

[4815162342]

The Casino Royale thing bugged me too. Also how they all conveniently had super-mega hands almost every time.In real life, far more likely Bond or Le Chiffre would have drawn 7-2 off-suit.

Edited February 18, 2014 by 4815162342

[PDC1987]

2012, which is all ridiculous, but the very end in particular. Every volcano on the planet erupts within 24 hours of each other yet the sky is clear and the air quality is good just two months later?

 

NOPE.

 

The Yellowstone Caldera erupting alone would plunge the planet in to a multi-year nuclear winter.

[Jake Gittes]

- All movies with time travel. Cannot suspend disbelief for time travel (unless it's shown in a humorous way). 

Just curious, what do you think about Primer (if you've seen it)?

[ecstasy]

A key scene in GRAVITY was almost ruined for me because they didn't accentuate the angular momentum when Clooney is slipping away from the tether. (I'm giving Cuaron and gang the benefit of the doubt by "didn't accentuate".) I'm not a physicist, but I've read enough science and science-fiction to know that in zero-G, when your momentum is halted (as when Clooney grabbed the tether), you're stopped. If that were the case, all Bullock needed to do was tug oh-so-slightly and Clooney would drift back to her. Even if she didn't, if his momentum were stopped, he could let go and just hang there.

 

Now, it looked like the ISS was spinning, somewhat, in an earlier shot, and that would've swung Clooney in an arc, to where he would've needed to let go to save her. But that wasn't emphasized, particularly, and frankly it should've been: it would've looked cooler too! As it is, they were dangerously close to the hilarious unintentional comedy of MISSION TO MARS for that one moment.

 

 

Good lord.

[Phil in the Blank]

The Casino Royale thing bugged me too. Also how they all conveniently had super-mega hands almost every time.In real life, far more likely Bond or Le Chiffre would have drawn 7-2 off-suit.

 

Haha, yeah, like the final hand where it went Flush vs Full House, vs Bigger Full House, vs Straight Flush.

 

Kinda ridiculous.

[Dementeleus]

Good lord.

 

It's facepalmingly bad, E!

[Ezen Baklattan]

It almost happened at the end of Saving Mr. Banks for me. I knew that P.L. Travers's disdain for the movie stood until the end, but I was worried that the movie was going to give a sentimentalized vision where she loved the film, although the movie does right to not go all the way, instead giving her a moment to remember her relationship with her father. Tele and I actually had a small convo about this in the SMB discussion thread.

[Jawa]

In regard to Saving Mr. Banks (great movie, by the way), the scene where P.L. Travers sees the Pooh doll in her room and says, "Poor A.A. Milne." Disney had not yet adapted Winnie the Pooh when the story takes place. Maybe the filmmakers knew this and thought the joke was funny enough that it didn't matter.

[ecstasy]

It's facepalmingly bad, E!

 

LOL I'm pretty sure I didn't notice it while watching it. Now if someone pointed it to me I probably would.