Remember in 'independence day' where they upload the virus to the alien ship using a floppy disk that works perfectly into their hardware. lol

The Top 100 Things I'd Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.
My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.
I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.
When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."
After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled "Danger: Do Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such.
I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum -- a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.
I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request.
I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know."
When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice.
I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time.
I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father.
Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.
I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set.
No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head.
I will keep a special cache of low-tech weapons and train my troops in their use. That way -- even if the heroes manage to neutralize my power generator and/or render the standard-issue energy weapons useless -- my troops will not be overrun by a handful of savages armed with spears and rocks.
I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line "No, this cannot be! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" (After that, death is usually instantaneous.)
No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.

Peter's Evil Overlord List




the list goes on and on.

I blame Hugh. Thank goodness he is retiring in a few years, then movies will go back to being realistic.

Craigster, it is partially your fault too, so don't stand there trying to look innocent.

I would love to have a 42 speed transmission like all the cars in the Fast and Furious Movies , and lots of other car chase scenes.

I actually do props and sets. So if you notice the wine glass 1/3 full in one shot, 2/3 in the reverse and then full in the wide shot that's my fault, continuity. And the baguette/celery sticking out of the top of the paper bag (It's more visual, and paper bags made of special material so they don't make noise and step on the actors lines).

But all that engine noise, screeching tires on dirt, footsteps on dirt, racking of guns, etc. That's all foley artists and post production.

Someone is shot in the torso and they fall over dead immediately...if not sooner.

except the hero, he can take multiple gunshot wounds and still walk, shoot, screw etc etc etc

A couple of guys have alluded to this - the car chase scenes that seem to take forever & oft times border on the absurd. Directors should have quit after "The French Connection" & "Bullitt".

Cheers
JB

Sometimes all at the same time.

Hollywood cars all explode when their wheels leave the ground. If this were true then most 914's would all be blown up (Jackstand Queens). Never change a tire on a Hollywood car, you could take your life in your hands.

CPR: All actors and directors should be required to take a course in CPR so they actually have some sort of context to what it actually is. Saw some cute little thing doing CPR on a guys shoulder the other night.

Bullet wounds: Hero's get shot in the lung and are able to climb a rope (one handed) and beat the bad guys to death with their good arm. End of the show some one puts a Band-Aid on their wound and they ride off into the sunset. Meanwhile in real life red frothy blood would be coming out of their mouths and they would be laying in a heap on the ground screaming at the top of their good lung.

Same with arm wounds. In real life the arm would be hanging by a few shredded pieces of skin. In Hollywood there is only a neat hole which is patched up with a 4X4 and some cling.

You know how I could tell it was fake? There was no Adobe update prompt.

ha good one !

Buildings on fire and there is no smoke.

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Squeaky Brakes - '37 Plymouth with cable brakes or 2014 Cadillac CT-V. Rain, shine, snow, desert, doesn't matter. Same exact squeal as the car pulls into the parking lot.

Quite often in fight scenes where the good guy is taking on a bunch of bad guys, the bad guys all get friggin' knocked out by one simple measly blow administered by the good guy.....AND they never get back up to resume the fight!.....LOL!

How about in Flyboys, a movie that the director was always hyping about how all the flight sequences were supposed to be very realistic and then they show the plane applying full left rudder but no change in yaw!

In Firefly, I mean come on are we really supposed to believe they only know Chinese swear words? OK, that could have been in green.

What irks me is supposedly intelligent people posting on a forum about how they think small details in unrealistic movies should somehow be more realistic.....

Seriously?

Most TV shows and movies people will walk into a house or apartment in a snow storm or rainstorm and never close the front door.

You guys beat me to all of those...

A) Any vehicle in an accident not only bursts into to flames but also must have a giant orange fireball rolling into the sky.

B) Even my wife "how can the bad guys shoot nine thousand bullets and not hit the good guy?"

C) When the good guy gets into a bar fight where he beats down three bad guys and takes multiple blows to the face... then returns to dance with his girl without a mark on his face.

Pilots, help me on this one... plane rolling for take off... truck pulls in behind with guns blazing... wouldn't/couldn't a single bullet hitting hydraulics or going into the backside of a jet turbine stop the plane?

How many times do you really need to cock a firearm or rack a shotgun?

All cars accelerate at the same speed, regardless of model, unless a car needs to catch up, then it is faster until it catches up.

There is never a line at the hot dog stand!