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Factual errors/dumb stuff in movies that really ruin it for you

MHH89

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I would like someone to explain to me how Forrest Gump and Forrest Jr. did not get AIDS from Jenny in the movie?
 

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Originally Posted by FLMountainMan
The Matrix series' entire premise was a ridiculous violation of the laws of thermodynamics. Just ludicrous. You're going to feed, store, house, and nurse humans just to extract the electricity in brain currents? Bear Grylls strenuously exerting himself for four hours to harvest three grubs for food thinks that's stupid.

it's volume.
 

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Errors concerning Washington, D.C. The most famous flub is probably the Georgetown subway station in No Way Out. In Along Came A Spider, the Morgan Freeman character jogs halfway across the city in five minutes.
 

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Originally Posted by MHH89
I would like someone to explain to me how Forrest Gump and Forrest Jr. did not get AIDS from Jenny in the movie?

Just because someone has HIV doesn't mean they will transfer it to a partner or a baby, Also, she very well could have gotten HIV after ********** with Forrest.
 

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Most movies have really huge plot holes. Even some of the best ones.

Here are some more:

Shawshank Redemption: Not possible to make a hole and have it covered up for that long.

No Country for Old Men: Main character hit with the stupid stick.

V for Vendetta: Does V have any other helpers? Doesn't seem like it. Yet it would be impossible for him to keep the girl in that cell without helpers.
 

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Escaping from black holes ala Star Trek.
 

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The mention of an ATM machine in No Country For Old Men. Wasn't it set in 1980? Granted, I was only four, but I thought those were a relatively modern invention.
 

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this is my favorite thread

the biggest ones for me are probably the entire premise of land of the dead. hes holding the city for ransom.. for money? why does he want money? where is he going to spend it? how would US dollars retain value in a world where anyone can loot money from the abandoned landscape? currency would not be money, but food or medicine.

also in terminator: salvation why the **** do they have lights on in the machine production facilities, and why motorcycle robots come with USB ports??
 

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The thing I notice is if the setting doesn't match. In The Firm, the Tom Cruise character graduates from law school and moves to Memphis. In real life, graduation would happen in May or June usually. As they pull up to their new house in Memphis, there are leaves in the street. Looks more like autumn. (Which is when they filmed the movie if I recall.)
 

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Deja Vu - end of thread. Time travel was done really well in Primer, but the whole goggle-rig thing in Deja Vu was dumb.

Otherwise, the space jump scene in Sunshine was a little out there.
 

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The Wire always shows Baltimore as some kind of drug-infested shithole. In reality, Baltimore is a happy place, with smiling neighbors and streets paved with Skittles.
 

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Also, when people shoot guns indoors without ear protection and then immediately have a coveresation with someone they probably wouldn't be able to hear real well, since they just deafened themselves.
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Tokyo Slim

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Originally Posted by longskate88
Deja Vu - end of thread. Time travel was done really well in Primer, but the whole goggle-rig thing in Deja Vu was dumb.

Otherwise, the space jump scene in Sunshine was a little out there.


What was wrong with the space jump? I thought it was handled pretty well, considering.
 

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