I really hate how time gets compressed. In one scene Bond is in London and then like pi seconds later he is in Trinidad. The Concord was fast but not that fast.
In a fight scene against multiple baddies, the baddies take their turn in getting their asses whipped by the hero.
As always, Cracked has an article addressing many of the same points you do.
How about the walk-through air ducts? C'mon, every building has ductwork at least 4-6 feet high and well lit, to boot. Also it miraculously leads to any room in any building on any floor almost instantaneously.
Also, The Walking Dead was horrifying when it came to the head shots on the zombies. Apparently every single person who shot a gun in the series was able to hit the zombies in the head. From a dead run or just by whipping around and firing off a shot.
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My current peeve is all the movies/shows that have a fucking Prius being driven aggressively. I can forgive a movie like "The Other Guys" because that movie is just totally off the wall and not to be taken seriously in any manor, but I cringe whenever I see these shows that suggest that a Prius can handle like its a Supra.
As far as bullets making sparks, that's perfectly realistic. Unless you're shooting some unjacketed 22 or something, most rounds are going to have some sort of jacket over the lead core. A lot of surplus used steel instead of copper, which does tend to spark quite a bit.
If you don't believe me, take a ride down to the range at NRA HQ (I think I recall you're in Northern VA) and ask them. They will flip out if you're firing steel core there (also common in soviet surplus), but they don't always like steel jacketed either. It all sparks when it hits the backstop.
One I loved was in Stargate: Atlantis. They were doing some battle simulation. The computer said:-Blurry photos or video are miraculously changed into hi-res versions that reveal crucial info.
-Computer emitting cute beeps while large-font text scrolls across its display. (Usually happens when someone is 'hacking')
I thought about this while watching Last Man Standing, where a pair of .45's send a fella tumbling backwards and blows a man across the street through a glass window. I think the kickback offered by handheld firearms is probably the most common error in movies. Even in very serious thrillers. Most realistic gun shot I ever saw was from an unlikely source: U571. Dude gets hit and just stands there looking at the hole in his chest. Regarding Henry was a lot more realistic, but its also a plot point and I think the original story came from a book.
Along those lines the idea that lead can spark and ignite things. Granted this can actually happen with muzzle blast but you never see that in movies, just the bullet bouncing off the concrete floor and lighting of a pool of gasoline.
2nd most common is blood that stays neon red for hours, days, and weeks after the murder/assault happens. Just noticed it in Presumed Innocent on netflix.
Of course sometimes theres reasons for that. For those of us who've watched Saw we probably noticed the blood in the middle of the room stayed red and liquid the whole movie. What amazed me is the surgeon sitting a couple feet away never noticed it in the entire 6 hours he was stuck there.
And in the end of Dexter season 1 they make a point to talk about it, how the blood had been treated with a chemical which is why the killer was able to keep it and store it and splatter it about the room and have it stay pretty until the cops found it.
3rd most common is car stuff like exploding gas tanks or people hurling away from a wreck/explosion and getting up just fine.
4th is probably being knocked unconscious and waking up hours later with a headache. In reality if you dont get up right away that means you got some serious brain damage and it wont be simple aches and pains and running around slashing bad guys with the sweet katana you found upstairs in the pawn shop.
Along those lines is the convenient amnesia and amnesia cure with a rubber mallet to the skull, but I havent seen that since 80's sitcoms so maybe it doesnt apply any more.
Oh, forgot about the defibrillator starting a flatline. I still see that in movies about doctors and cop & fire dramas. That might actually be the 1st or 2nd most common.
4th is probably being knocked unconscious and waking up hours later with a headache. In reality if you dont get up right away that means you got some serious brain damage and it wont be simple aches and pains and running around slashing bad guys with the sweet katana you found upstairs in the pawn shop.
Along those lines is the convenient amnesia and amnesia cure with a rubber mallet to the skull, but I havent seen that since 80's sitcoms so maybe it doesnt apply any more.
It seems to happen in about a third of the action movies/TV shows ever made: Someone jumps our hero from behind, and the screen goes to black. Hours later, he wakes up in some strange place and has to think on his feet to make his escape.
We see it in Casino Royale, after Bond survives a car accident but before he gets smashed in the nuts over and over. It also happens in Pulp Fiction, when Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames are knocked out by the owner of the pawn shop and wake up bound and gagged, right before the guy decides to "bring out the gimp."
Quentin Tarantino has some issues.
When they wake up, the guys aren't happy about it, but they're otherwise immediately alert and aware -- Willis is even able to orchestrate a violent escape a minute later.