Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[jian]

My common tiniest nitpick which I’m sure happens to everyone who lives in a town where they film things (I’m waiting for it to happen with Vancouver):

That thing where people appear to teleport randomly around a town you know, walking around a corner in mid-conversation and reappearing several hundred yards away. I first noticed this with Eskimo Day (a drama set in Cambridge) but then it was near-constant with Lewis (which was filmed in Oxford). It can be weirdly disorienting, even nauseating, to watch this. Of course, I can see why it happens and it’s not an issue for 99% of the population, but it can be quite off-putting.

(Another tiny nitpick about Lewis and similar detective series - that thing where they go and visit a suspect and don’t bat an eyelid that they apparently own a £5m house despite not having a very lucrative job or similar source of cash. To me it would be a red flag to work out how they afford it. A GP working in Blackbird Leys (maximum income £90k a year if they’re lucky) who didn’t inherit a ton of cash can’t afford a massive house in North Oxford and to send their kids to the Dragon, it’s completely unfeasible.)

 

[jian]

I also have a metric ton of nitpicks about archery and fencing but basically, I know why Flynning happens and others (such as Sellsword Arts and Blumineck) have covered it much better than I could.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As long as Robin Hood is a sexy cartoon fox, I can forgive a lot.

 

[jian]

As long as Robin Hood is a sexy cartoon fox, I can forgive a lot.

Sadly, he is rarely a sexy cartoon fox.

 

[GreyLord]

Wrong. No US soldier would express the range of a shot in yards. Shooting is always in meters. That dialogue was just so completely wrong it ruined what was otherwise an amazing scene.

Sorry, late to this party. This seems like a weird nitpick...

Depends on the service

Did a quick lookup. While the US ARMY uses meters to coordinate with NATO allies, the Marines still use yards in many instances. Barry, according to a quick look up was a US marine.

 

[GreyLord]

Well, nitpicks...LotR and the Hobbit (live action) are too numerous to talk about when talking about them in relation to the books.

The biggest nitpick I have though are all those who complain about the Hobbit and how it deviates from the book.

The LotR deviates just as much (if not more)!

IF you do not like the Hobbit due to how it deviates...you should feel the same way about the LotR!

I had the biggest hang up about LotR until I just decided to view it as art in and of itself and stop trying to think it had much to do with the Trilogy outside of being heaviliy inspired by it.

The only difference between the LotR films and the Hobbit movies is that the LotR overall as a trilogy moves faster and is more interesting overall. LotR is more ground breaking and better put together.

They both are as horrible as each other though for how much they deviate from the source material.