I admit it: I’m a terrible person to watch films with.

Film=makers are dreadful for playing fast-and-loose with facts, not relising that while many people would not notice a technical or historical error in a field not theirs, does spoil it for anyone who does know.

Of your list I have seen only Braveheart, but here's another clanger from it. The Scots did not wear tartan kilts at that time.

I read somewhere that Titanic is so full of deliberate mistakes - around 100 - that film-fans were devoting entire on-line discussions to that film alone.

Here are ones I spotted:

- Rose and Jack cavorting on the ship's bow: inaccessible to anyone except crew-members and then only when necessary.

- Their running straight into a boiler-room - ships' boiler-rooms had air-locks those two passengers would not have known how to operate... then,

- from there into the cargo-hold. I can't imagine any door through that bulkhead, and certainly not one easily opened by a passenger.

- The boiler-room officer, once knowing the order to run at full speed, thought the ship would move faster if his crew threw coal into the boiler furnaces more rapidly, yelling at them to do so.

- The bridge lights fully on while the ship was under way. No. The lights would have been off so the crew could see ahead. (Though the Captain, I think, did make the credible point that the sea was too calm for the iceberg to have been visible at a distance by waves breaking against it.) Modern ships use low-intensity, coloured lamps to illuminate the instruments, and that was probably so in Edwardian times too. (There is a similar error in The Guns of Navarone... no wonder the boat hit the cliff.)

- "Stop engines!" or "All stop!" - I forget which. The engine-room watch officer immediately obeyed the order... but that pressure-gauge shown in close-up would not have dropped immediately to 0psi. The engines though, were depicted pretty accurately.

- A large herd of rats fleeing along a corridor. On a sparkling-clean, brand-new ship? (Are rats easier to herd than the proverbial cats...?)

- And where or when did Rose find that whistle? I may be wrong but I thought she was not wearing a life-jacket. Jack wasn't, as he sank immediately on dying - I don't know if that itself was likely, or if he'd have floated.

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Still, there is one type even worse as a fellow watcher, perhaps not in the cinema, but certainly TV, as personified by my dearly-departed Grandma.

"Oh look, that's so-&-so in Coronation Street!", she'd exclaim, pointing out a leading character at a key moment in the play whose dramatic illusion she's thus unknowingly blown out of the water.

If you think these are bad try top gun.It is littered with over 30 mistakes.
1)An F14 and a MiG 28 flying 1.5 metres apart.The vertical stabilizers would hit each other.
2)Maverick's plane in a flat spin heads out to sea.This cannot happen in a flat spin a plane moves in one direction.Vertically down.
3)When Goose says "We are on vapours" and taps the fuel gauge.There is no fuel gauge in the F14 rear cockpit.
4)In the final dogfight the kill ratio is 4 to 1 which is the same as at the start of the film Top Gun aims to improve on.
5)When Maverick says he will deploy the air brake and their opponents will fly right by he actually pushes the throttles forward.This makes a plane fly faster.
6)At the end of training the pilots receive deployment straight back to the carrier because of the situation.This never happens and the carrier already has a compliment of other pilots available.
7)Near the start of the film the other F14 pilot puts a photo of his family right on top of the speed gauge.Kind of important the pilot can see how fast he is going.
8)At the end Ice and Maverick say they will fly with each other anytime.Actually they will fly with whoever they are ordered to fly with.
9)Maverick rides his bike while an F14 is taking off.Security would want to know who is racing a plane and how did they get near the runway.
10)At the end of the film before landing the F14s fly by the carrier.As one of the planes is damaged this would not happen.The planes would land immediately.
11)At the start when the F14 pilot loses his nerve the wings are all over.This would cause the flight officer on the carrier to instruct the pilot to go round and make another and correct approach.When the F14 lands he also manages to foul up the runway by being stationary and in the way of Maverick's F14 landing.
There are many more errors.

I saw the war of the worlds again the other day. I just don't understand why the aliens buried things before humans evolved in order to destroy humans. If they wanted the planet they could have had it back then, no? Plus no electrical items are meant to be working yet there is a guy in the street filming on him video camera. 😐

No, everyone else is like you.

Nice try on the grandeur.



And why don't you TRY doing the jobs it takes to make film...

Instead of being a dick about it.