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

Im sorry but I just can’t unsee things. If you’re going to make a film do it properly…

Watching Independence Day:

Everyone else: F18s vs Aliens is cool!
Me: The warning lights are all lit - did he take off in a broken jet? That display screen doesn’t exist. F18s don’t have drogue parachutes.

Watching behind enemy lines:

Everyone else: Run from the missile!!
Me: Missiles don’t behave like that. They’re faster, don’t fly in formation pairs and burn out of fuel quicker than that scene takes. And the pilot should have dropped tanks and popped flares right at the beginning. And the tanks wouldn’t have exploded like that.

Watch Braveheart:
Everyone else: Freedom!
Me: they’ve painted their faces the colour of a flag that doesn’t exist yet. He was a Lord not a peasant, the Scots had the sophisticated pikemen, armour and weapons too, not just the English. He didn’t capture York, and the French girl is only 9 and living in France at the time. If that French Princess ever met William Wallace it would have been just his head on a big stick many years later.

Pearl Harbour
Everyone else: this isn’t a good film.
Me: <noisily being sick in a corner>

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tallpowerhouseblonde · 36-40, F

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.

WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M

@tallpowerhouseblonde Thats particularly painful for me as I loved that film as a kid and it certainly influenced me to join the military but it’s terrible in places

tallpowerhouseblonde · 36-40, F

@WintaTheAngle I think it's a great film but technically poor in places.There was no need either as they worked with the U.S. navy and could have got everything correct.

WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M

@tallpowerhouseblonde Even as a kid it didn’t sit right in places:

Radar operator: “Maverick’s re-engaging sir!”

8 year old me: wow he could see that from the radar?

Reality: no.

tallpowerhouseblonde · 36-40, F

@WintaTheAngle Good point yes.