3 Things Hollywood ALWAYS Gets Wrong in Movies!

Hollywood filmmakers are not know for their technical or scientific accuracy when it comes to making movies. With the exception of a small handful of movies, even films they claim are scientifically accurate turn out to be utter rubbish (eg. Gravity, Interstellar).

But these three errors have always bothered me with their persistent appearance in every relevant movie.

3) Missiles turning around and coming after the target!

Any movie that has a missile trying to intercept any flying vehicle (jet, chopper, spacecraft) will no doubt have the warhead trying to do some existential maneuvers before it either hits or the target escapes. This is utter hogwosh. Missiles cannot make complete 180 degree turns in pursuit of their targets. Mainly cos they don't have the aerodynamic agility for such directional changes also they don't have so much fuel to keep chasing after the subject. If the missile cannot intercept on first attempt it will almost always just fly off till its fuel runs dry and fall away.

Perfect example is the missile chase scene in the 2001 movie Behind Enemy Lines where you can see the warhead make several 180 degree turns in pursuit of the F/18 fighter. lol.



2) Fever causing heat not cold in victim.

In real life if you get a fever you will feel cold as your body temp climbs above the surrounding environmental temperature. But in movies since the beginning of time the victim will claim to feel hot. This has always bothered me.

1) Images being zoomed in without loss of resolution.

This is my Number One Gripe!
Movies and Tv shows will always have some way of zooming on any image and magically the low resolution distant backgrounds will fill with sharp well defined high rez pixels even when there were all blurred and incomprehensible in the original image. This is sooo stupid. Doesn't matter how much AI sharpening algorithms you have, if the image data is not there it simply cannot be zoomed in and expect to see sharp details.

Here's one such scene from Blade Runner-

 

I find movies are getting more realistic in terms of the special effects and whatnot, but the stories are really suffering. I just watched 48 Hours (old classic with Eddie Murphey and Nick Nolte), and some of the action sequences were really stupid, but by golly it was the best cop movie I've seen in a long time.

 

Hacking is always poorly represented in movies, except the matrix movies which used real exploits.

 

Yea, but "Hackers" was real.

 

Didn't notice such things yet.

 

it's all about entertainment and nothing more

 

Maybe if the movies were better, you'd let these mistakes/cliches slip