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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

What is that one film where the inaccuracies bug you?

Can be an inaccuracies that make you think "that didn't happen" or "That's not how that works"

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Most films based on historical events!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall.

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Most films based on historical events! "

Absolutely this. Braveheart being a prime example.

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."

And you didn’t even mention the accent!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."

Yup! With Azeem in tow. BUT I fucking love that film. "I'm going to cut your heart out, WITH A SPOON!"

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By *yrdsisWoman
over a year ago

Gleam Street

Yeah.. Bravehearr pisses me off no end

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes.

Generally with electricity in water. Nothing like the movies depict

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could pick the new Top Gun movie apart forensically for it’s inaccuracies and barely believable stuff. BUT, it’s still a bloody good film, and I enjoy watching it for what it is…..a blockbuster sequel that is everything I hoped it would be.

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By *ister CMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Parabelum

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Yeah.. Bravehearr pisses me off no end"

I’m not allowed to watch it with people any more. Probably for good reason

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any film to do with Bruce Lee.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod

over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset


"What is that one film where the inaccuracies bug you?

Can be an inaccuracies that make you think "that didn't happen" or "That's not how that works""

Any porno involving a plumber, pizza delivery man or traffic cop.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Most films based on historical events! "

Yes!

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"What is that one film where the inaccuracies bug you?

Can be an inaccuracies that make you think "that didn't happen" or "That's not how that works""

Can’t watch any film or TV programme involving lifts with my father-in-law, who was a lift engineer for 40 years. “That wouldn’t happen” “can’t do that” etc etc

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By *yrdsisWoman
over a year ago

Gleam Street


"Yeah.. Bravehearr pisses me off no end

I’m not allowed to watch it with people any more. Probably for good reason"

Me either....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The home movie I made with a gf which showed my cock much smaller than I remember lol x

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Yeah.. Bravehearr pisses me off no end

I’m not allowed to watch it with people any more. Probably for good reason

Me either...."

Thank f for that, I feel much better now - if you scream at the screen at the inaccuracies as well then this has been a good night

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it."

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"

And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......

And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic "

Exactly!

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

Jurassic Park..

Just a thought.

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By *hil most chillMan
over a year ago

South East & Europe

Nearly every film based on true events changes something, or adds characters which didn't exist. Or fails to mention about the "true events" being debunked as hoaxes, like the Amityville Horror or Conjuring franchises.

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By *hil most chillMan
over a year ago

South East & Europe


"Jurassic Park..

Just a thought. "

I was disappointed to find out they gave the dilophosaurus that cool scary mane, when they didn't actually have them.

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......

And the fact that a large swathe of people don’t know or care about the actual history, so historical misrepresentation in film becomes “fact” for those people, which can be problematic

Exactly!"

Preach! I completely understand that, as someone interested in history, I am in the minority and most people just want to watch the damn film but it does annoy me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Titanic! As we all full well know, they could both have got on the door if she hadn't hogged it. Even if she'd been up for a swap vs it's all mine...

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Jurassic Park..

Just a thought.

I was disappointed to find out they gave the dilophosaurus that cool scary mane, when they didn't actually have them."

Say whaaaaaaat?! That’s the coolest dino in the film

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

All those WW II films where the yanks single handed saw of Hitler.

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By *aveandSue1Couple
over a year ago

Doncaster


"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."

No not in a day, because he was going to dine with his father that night so it was more like 12hrs.

Brilliant piece of typical Hollywood garbage.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "

Just finished watching the revenge porn documentary on Netflix, which had a list of IP addresses that exceeded 255.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it."

That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes

Just finished watching the revenge porn documentary on Netflix, which had a list of IP addresses that exceeded 255."

Lol. You sure they weren't using the octal number system?

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "

To combine two things in this thread, when the girl in Jurassic Park magically gets into the Linux system to reboot the park, when some genius level coder has shut it all down a few hours before - but none of the IT people in the building managed to do it in the previous 12 hours

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it."

I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it.

I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to. "

The problem is you can't. It's like watching a normal character that's not a superhero jumping off a flight and surviving. Of course it's just a film, but it's hard to look past it for anyone. Same is true with your area of expertise. The concepts are so much ingrained in you that you just can't look past it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes

To combine two things in this thread, when the girl in Jurassic Park magically gets into the Linux system to reboot the park, when some genius level coder has shut it all down a few hours before - but none of the IT people in the building managed to do it in the previous 12 hours"

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

That's true. Watching films always requires suspension of disbelief. Even if you don't nit pick, sometimes you find something so illogical in the film that it puts you off totally. This especially happens if you are watching a scene that has something within your area of expertise. I work in tech and I find so many hacker characters do unbelievable things and it immediately puts me off. Similarly, a history buff may be put off if a film has historical inaccuracies while everyone else may enjoy it.

I work in film so that ruins all of them. You can look past your area of expertise if you want to.

The problem is you can't. It's like watching a normal character that's not a superhero jumping off a flight and surviving. Of course it's just a film, but it's hard to look past it for anyone. Same is true with your area of expertise. The concepts are so much ingrained in you that you just can't look past it."

I do every time I watch a film though.

I could just focus on the lighting, blocking, set design, camera angles, exposure, grade, the line, the cuts, the focus, the lens any any technical issues with them. But that's not really enjoyable for me or anyone I'm watching a film with so I just let it be.

How realistic is it that every time someone is outside in a film it's sunrise or sun set? Or that all the interior lighting in films is fake? And on and on...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Many films, I'm terrible to watch a film with

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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

seeing an east european film , name I can t remember , a guy on a building site breaks his arm and when he walks out of hospital he has a pot on his left arm , the very next scene he is getting off the bus and the pot is on his other arm !! ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocky 1- rocky breaks creeds right ribs.

Rocky 2- creeds holding his left ribs in the hospital wheelchair.

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By *ensualMan
over a year ago

Sutton

People dodging bullets or not getting hit by bullets fired from machine guns.

People hit with solid bits of metal and shrugging it off, e.g Vin Diesel and Jason Statham in Fast and Fantasy, not forgetting gravity denying stunts. I blame video games.

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By *an de LyonMan
over a year ago

welling


"People dodging bullets or not getting hit by bullets fired from machine guns.

People hit with solid bits of metal and shrugging it off, e.g Vin Diesel and Jason Statham in Fast and Fantasy, not forgetting gravity denying stunts. I blame video games."

Or, people using a hand gun to shoot and kill someone half a mile away

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By *antasyrealmCouple
over a year ago

Congleton

James bond timeline gone west....

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By *antasyrealmCouple
over a year ago

Congleton

Bohemian rhapsodoy. Major queen fan but what a load of bullshit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To be fair if most were accurate they'd last less than 10 minutes?

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By *hilledGuyClactonMan
over a year ago

Little clacton

Currently Rise of the foot soldier..

Keep having 50 year olds play parts that when it was happening the people was in their early/mid 20`s.

Also any historical film made by Americans

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

Kinky boots... It's set where I live but definitely not filmed here and the pretend junk bugs the fuck out of me as it's not even close to being accurate in any way, shape or form

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That the human body only holds about 8 pints of blood and that bullet wounds aren't either (to the baddies) instant death or (to the hero) just a slight shoulder wound needing a mere sling to be fitted to allow him to walk straight back out of the ambulance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every horror movie ever where the women are screaming, always falling morons. That's not how most women would behave in that situation.. well I hope not.

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

U571

The Americans didnt get an enigma machine until after the war it was the brits that got one

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By *icplshropsCouple
over a year ago

Rock


"Most films based on historical events! "

This^^

Case in point: The Battle of Little Big Horn. Sioux accounts and the archaeology demonstrated that the defence was a chaotic shambles, rather than galant defence portrayed in the movie.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it."

Sense!

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"

Based...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. None of that shit would ever happen.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Any chase sequence filmed in London

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By *hirleyMan
over a year ago

somewhere

I still want to know how they put the t800 inside Arnold schwarzernegger, I mean that must be some fairly complicated surgery no?

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Face/Off

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By *hirleyMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"Every horror movie ever where the women are screaming, always falling morons. That's not how most women would behave in that situation.. well I hope not."

Nah that's true, women just act like screaming morons in just about every other situation ()

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

According to the families involved the film The Dammed United has inaccurate accounts of what happened during Brian Clough’s 44 day spell there so much so that former players and the Clough family sued the film makers.

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By *hirleyMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......"

On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...

That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too

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By *inky-guyMan
over a year ago

Raunds

I work in the film industry and nobody give a fuck about accuracy it's all about the art and what looks good on the big screen

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By *stbury DavenportMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Anything involving medieval swordsmanship. The film's telling us that so-and-so is a fearsome swordsman, yet two out of every three movements they make would have them immediately killed by anyone with half a brain.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Most films based on historical events!

Absolutely this. Braveheart being a prime example."

Except for the ending.

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......

On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...

That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too "

They're completely different mediums. What works in a book doesn't necessarily work on screen. The pacing in a book might be terrible as a film and there's also practical considerations that books don't have to consider.

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London


"I work in the film industry and nobody give a fuck about accuracy it's all about the art and what looks good on the big screen "

Yeah basically this.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Most films based on historical events!

Absolutely this. Braveheart being a prime example.

Except for the ending. "

What second war of independence?

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Stewart Lee take on Braveheart is fantastic, even better doing it in front of a Scottish audience.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guns - when they don't shoot or reload like that in real life. Feable female contributions.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Most films based on historical events!

Absolutely this. Braveheart being a prime example.

Except for the ending.

What second war of independence? "

NS is on the 4th lol

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden


"Film aren't documentaries, you could have a problem with any film if you want to nit pick it.

But you won't know inaccuracies in total fiction films. Kinda anything goes. But films based on historical events......

On a serious note, yeah, I think fiction is ok, it's just when historical events are just exaggerated or completely made up that can be hard to understand for the purists...

That stretches to fictional books that have films made after them and they have things wildly changed or completely omitted too

They're completely different mediums. What works in a book doesn't necessarily work on screen. The pacing in a book might be terrible as a film and there's also practical considerations that books don't have to consider. "

Until they move so far from the story in the book that they could call it something different.

The Bourne films are a good example.

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

MK

Nearly all porn movies, full of fakeness, even the cum is fake usually as random cuts to different angles completely changed the look, and amount.

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol


"Robin Hood.. lands back in Dover, travels direct to Nottingham, via Hadrians Wall… oh and does it on foot in a day if I recall."

Yes! This always bothered me. Also, there's no way they can could've been catapulted over the walls

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes "

Or sees a picture of a rabbit on their desk and correctly guesses that their password is "floppsy."

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Space films with sound.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham


"Most films which have a hacker character who would get into someone else's network with a few keystrokes

Or sees a picture of a rabbit on their desk and correctly guesses that their password is "floppsy.""

Whoa. I better change my password.

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By *jorkishMan
over a year ago

Seaforth

None really tbh they are just films even historical ones were dramatic licence is used. For example Mary Queen of Scots shows her meeting Queen Elizabeth the first. They never met once according to records. However, there are rumours that they did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top Gun was full of them and Maverick has even more! That ruined the sequel for me.

Enemy At The Gates is another that winds me up, I find it totally disrespectful.

MrWho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"U571

The Americans didnt get an enigma machine until after the war it was the brits that got one"

And it was the Poles that gave the British their first Enigma machines in 1939...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any scene where someone says “over and out” on a radio. “Over” means that you’ve finished transmitting and expect a reply, “Out” means that you’ve finished the exchange entirely. Saying “Over and out” means that you’ve finished the conversation, you expect a reply, a reply that you’re not going to listen to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Blackkklansman is an example of a film that made me think wow what a great story only to find out it was hugely exaggerated and parts are made up.

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