10 Basic Mistakes That Ruin Movies

[@Ninnynoob]

honestly they could have named it "I still know what you did *that* summer" same amount of letters, makes much more sense

[@emiliojiordano2432]

That's EXACTLY what I was going to say! Great minds! Problem solved!

[@brannondunlap3408]

Oh man I love that title. That’s brilliant.

[@dillowman8]

Fantastic Ninny

[@rome8180]

I guarantee you someone pointed this out and they decided to go with the original because it "sounds better."

[@YouLousyKids]

BLOOD TYPES? Did you ever wonder how the maniac had sex with the good guy's wife in "Face/Off" and she didn't know a difference? Are their penises the same size, length and circumcision status and appearance? Do they have sex the same way? Are their naked bodies otherwise indistinguishable? Moles, birthmarks, tattoos, etc.?

[@thomholbrook7286]

I believe the Die Hard magic ambulance can easily be explained by the fact that the lead villain is Severus Snapes.

[@TonyHammitt]

Or they also drove in a second panel truck later or something

[@Houze968]

Which makes the first Die Hard not only a Christmas movie but also a Harry Potter movie as well

[@eddmario]

In all seriousness, wasn't the shot of them leaving the truck cut out of the original release and only added in the DVD and Blu-Ray releasses?

[@thomholbrook7286]

@@eddmario Nope. In there from the start.

[@blackc1479]

Accio ambulance

[@brunozeigerts6379]

True Lies: Arnold's character chases the villain in a skyscraper. The villain leaps onto another skyscraper. But the movie takes place in Washington DC where no buildings above ten floors can be constructed.

[@natsune09]

I was in college for Criminal Justice when 'Double Jeopardy' came out, and it drove us all nuts. The trailer alone shows how its legally wrong.

[@draconusfrigidus]

The 'Ready Player One' gaff can be explained away as people previously did try driving backwards, and crashed, because the backwards trick requires you to first go to the archives and watch the video where the Oasis creator mentions time running backwards (basically setting up a flag that marks the solution as now being possible). Makes sense from a narrative perspective as the whole point is to make sure whoever actually works out how to beat the race is someone who's studied the creator inside and out and knows what they really wanted to achieve with the Oasis. It even gets a call back later in the movie where it looks like the solution to getting the final key is to beat the Atari 2600 game 'Adventure', but the actual solution is to do as the game's creator wanted people to do and find the easter egg where their name and credentials are displayed.

[@captainspaulding5963]

When the BOOK was written, gamers hadn't really started abusing game mechanics the way we do today, so it makes perfect sense if you don't try to apply CURRENT logic to something that was written a few decades ago

[@blindedbylife5725]

@@captainspaulding5963 It has been a while since I read the book, but if i do remember correctly there is no race for the first key in the book. Doesn't he find it as his school or something? i thought the whole backwards race thing was invented for the movie. Unless i am remembering wrong.

[@AlexReynard]

Exactly. But the problem is, the film really needed to have made that explicit. Some tiny sign. It makes perfect sense in hindsight, but not in... sitting-there-in-the-theater-sight? Dunno if there's a word for that.

[@mikgus]

@@captainspaulding5963 As said the race are not in the book and yes we did try to break the games when the book was written. We even did it back in the eighties where all the nostalgica in the Oasis comes from. The whole race fiasco must be written by someone who has never played a video game in his life. Edit: a smaller mistake but another proof that the writer has never played a video game. The whole team of ioi schoolars can not figure out what to do with an 2600 (and the adventure game) in an EASTER EGG hunt.

[@CineRam]

There's a simple answer to the "Double Jeopardy" mistake: The former lawyer who was in prison with Ashley Judd...lied. She lied because she wanted to motivate Judd and give her an objective to strive for. Or maybe she thought it would be fun to send Judd out into the world to try and terminate her scoundrel of a husband. Later on in the movie, when Judd confronts Peter Greenwood after being caught by Tommy Lee Jones--and Jones assures Greenwood that she's correct about the Double Jeopardy law--this is because Jones also didn't tell Judd about the law's true nature either, in order to make the threat against Greenwood seem credible. That last part does seem like a much greater stretch. Perhaps it would have worked if the writer had included a conversation whereby we learn that Jones informed Judd about the truth of the law BEFORE confronting Greenwood, and the two worked together to intimidate Greenwood into revealing the location of Judd's son, which is what she wanted most.

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

No. The writers just screwed up. Period. Occam's Razor.

[@CineRam]

@@ChristophBrinkmann I don't disagree.

[@eddmario]

Just FYI, the Dodgeball thing was probably an issue with the ending being changed last minute. Originally, Average Joe's were going to lose the match, but the studio made them change the ending.

[@jettblade]

With Ready Player One I could see it not being found out because there was a wall there. Everything was pointing at people following the track not speeding backwards. I can see someone turning their car around and trying to drive that way but that might not have triggered the anything. I do know that gamers tend to do a lot of stuff to find things but I also know that some secrets took a really long time( some more than 30 years) to find even with the most popular games. So its more plausible then first thought.

[@VolcyThoughts]

“I Know What You Did 2 Summers Ago” would have worked as well but probably a marketing oversight

[@nightangel972000]

Nothing made me appreciate the second movie quite like the third movie.

[@fabriciogodoy5034]

​@@nightangel972000😅😅😅😅 great comment LoL

[@romantaylor1854]

"I know what you did the summer before last" would have been a funny title

[@vicentemorua4517]

Since I teach Constitutional Law, I use Double Jeopardy to explain how double jeopardy does NOT work.

[@John_Smith_60]

So how do you feel about the shows that think "double jeopardy" means that they can't try to *_execute_* a prisoner if the first try fails? Or even worse, that after the first failed attempt to execute, the prisoner has to be *_released_* ?

[@vicentemorua4517]

@ The Supreme Court has ruled that a second execution attempt following a failed first attempt is not in violation of the Eighth Amendment (Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 1947). If the state chooses not to reattempt, that is their decision to make. They CAN go through with a second attempt, but they are under no obligation.

[@Glendaal_RA]

First time I ever hear about someone having a problem with the backward driving in RPO so I don't think it 'tanked' the movie, just seem like a case of you trying to look more clever than everybody else. It can easily be explained by the fact that when you die in the game you lose everything and nobody want to lose their gear for nothing like that. You also have to drive backward at full speed towards a wall and it's pretty easy to understand why people wouldn't think to do that in the first place. It's easy to picture some player attempting to go backward at the beginning of the race and explore slowly to not crash into the wall and conclude that there was nothing there

[@BaldoFlores_godmetal]

You think Dallas in X Files was bad?? Try Terminator: Dark Fate and LAREDO, TEXAS, with full on huge WOODS and WATERFALLS!. We are a town that is around 110 every summer....we aint even got grass, brother!!

[@LadyAndreaRose1701]

Getting the first key made more sense in the ready player One novel source material

[@InDeathWeReturn]

What is the difference?

[@LadyAndreaRose1701]

@@InDeathWeReturn the book starts out with all the characters actually in a high school online. And since, I don't remember his name off the top of my head, the main character was poor he couldn't afford to pay to play areas of the Oasis and spent his time on the school planet That's where the clue revealed the key was hidden.

[@wcoleman99]

​@@InDeathWeReturnwell he was on the school planet and the key was at the end of a dungeon from the D&D module Tomb of horrors and you had to play the arcade version of Joust against the knigjt/guardian of the dungeon. The kid ended up with the key by playing on the left side of the arcade which slowed the program of said guardian enough to beat it

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

The book was better than the movie, but the book was also bad

[@eddmario]

A LOT of stuff was apparently changed from the book to help streamline the story.

[@SilverSpectre266]

Calling bull on the Ready Player One entry. Anyone whose played a high stakes competitive game wouldnt feel inclined to just try and make risky moves like that unless they felt it was 100% the correct choice. You have to remember there is no practice mode, and no training mode. You can only enter the competition and play for that run, and if you get eliminated then so be it. Thats the end of that run. And this is not just a rinky dink "oh, I won". This is, "if I beat this, I get 1 step closer to owner the company and this very virtual world". When the stakes are that high, and theres no way to practice or test things out, people are less likely to take risks, especially if there was never an indication that that was an option in the first place. You are in the moment, and from the moment go, you are locked in and trying to win at all costs. Not experiment to see if I do this thing, then maybe Ill get this outcome. Even with something like Fall Guys, Ive never seen anyone just jump off a random platform to see if maybe a secret warp tunnel will appear out of nowhere, because theres never been an indication that such a thing would exist. So why would someone enter a tournament where ownership of an entire company and millions of dollars is on the line, and suddenly risk driving backwards on the off chance that thats the goal.

[@RevRaptor898]

Totally agree and would like to add my two cents in. I think it also reflects on the nature of these peoples lives, they spend like 90% of their waking hours in the virtual world and many desperately try to win games just to get enough cash to eat. It's less like play and more like work, everyone is so used to the grind that nobody even tries creative solutions anymore.

[@markturner85]

In Die Hard, it would have worked if they drove the ambulance backwards, out of the truck. The ambulance doors would have been open and all the clowns could fit inside.

[@videoguy6966]

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is how the title should be. It is referring to the main events that took place in the previous movie that happened the previous summer. The Still part is the killer verifying that he is alive and therefore still knows what was done the previous summer.

[@DoloresLehmann]

"The Crimson Rivers": They find the fingerprints of an already dead person on the crime scene, only to reveal later that the murderer was that person's identical twin? Identical twins don't have the same fingerprints!

[@Martin-u9e]

I still say Sarah Michelle Gellar should have been the Final Girl in I know what you did last summer. She had more presence and more guts and she could think on her feet. Okay until she died. But still

[@DRCEQ]

"I Know What You Did *THAT* Summer" would've bypassed that little logic hole.

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

My family loves 'Dodgeball', and we've probably watched is a dozen times. Lol, I've never once noticed Vince steps out of the triangle!! 😂

[@getnohappy]

'basic mistakes that ruin movies' = 'making the hero clearly indestructible', 'bad lighting' etc 'basic errors that ruined a movie' = this list

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

That's what I thought this video was going to be about. I was a little disappointed. The title is definitely misleading!

[@mr_sm0k3y60]

There is a goof when the wrench was thrown at Justin Long. If you go frame by frame the wrech was closer to hitting his ear and was no where hitting his face.

[@Resonantkarma0]

I like to believe that in Dodgeball the judges just let it slide cause not only was he blindfolded but they were also probably getting sick of how obnoxious & egotistical White was being throughout the comp 🤣🤣

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Mistakes that ruined movies...lists a mistake in one of the best movies of all time and defends the movie as "perfect". Yeah, that mistake didn't ruin anything.

[@zanethomas6865]

Fracture mostly acts as a correction for Double Jeopardy since Tony Hopkins is acquitted of attempted murder but when he had them pull the plug, they could get the bullet slug out of her head and link it back to him.

[@TonyHammitt]

Good list, but I would still like a more general "mistakes that ruin movies" list, not "mistakes that took some fun out of these specific movies"

[@thegodofpez]

Whew, Ashley Judd in her prime. 😍😍😍

[@rome8180]

Also, if Libby's husband turned out to be alive, the initial conviction would be overturned. So even by the movie's misunderstanding of the law, it wouldn't be a second conviction if she was convicted for his actual murder. On the plus side, when she's convicted of the second, actual murder, she'll already have time served for the first wrongful conviction.

[@MrCthulhuiana]

Not one of these mistakes ruined the movies for me. Not in the least.

[@JayStrang1]

Right. So, after two summers of murderous events, "Last Summer" now refers to the events of the first film. This is not complicated. It is how time works.

[@John_Smith_60]

Then *_"still"_* stops working.

[@BirbalBonifaceMusoba]

I loved this one ❤️ well done

[@AlexReynard]

Ready Player One's mistake could have *_easily_* been acceptable if it had just been made clear: This secret path is only triggered after you watch this moment in the archives, and THEN run the race backwards. That is something that, believably, no one would have done in five years.

[@ZZProductionsVA]

I always figured "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" got away with Ben now talking about them thwarting him the summer prior. I know that kind of ruins the "still". But what are you gonna do? lol

[@TheVagabond7]

"Ruin" is a serious over-statement on most of these.

[@simonmeadows7961]

For geographical errors, you have to look at Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He lands back on the shores of England just west of Eastbourne and wants to head to Nottingham in the Midlands. But he goes via the Sycamore Gap which is near the Scottish border. In other words, he added at least 350 unnecessary miles to his already long journey.

[@redfive5856]

Butterfly Effect gets called out for time errors but no mention of Looper?

[@warberg80]

If you want to discuss American geography and climate, you should have included Se7en. It takes place in that city where it always rains, 30 minutes drive from some plains/prairie-like landscape.

[@Robdoesitall]

Seattle?

[@funeralfye]

About the Ready player one...if you lose in the vr world you lose everything in real life. Its not unbelievable that most gamers wouldn't risk or even think about doing something so reckless on a track as dangerous as that one....

[@keiyangoshin3650]

First mistake, assuming the audience is smart. Second mistake, assuming the audience is dumb.

[@philipfritz-f8x]

So you mean "Basic Mistakes that Didn't Ruin Movies* Jeesh the entire What Culture staff need to take a month off recharge and get their act together. These are getting soooo convoluted!

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

So many movies set in flat terrain cities, but show hills, even mountains, in the background. And vice versa.

[@yagsyags5694]

Logan's ending is supposed to be in North Dakota, bordering Canada. It's shown as very hilly terrain. ND is actually one of the flattest states in America.

[@ray101892]

Ready player one came out way too late which made the story unrealistic. The gamers were nice to each other and united at the end to help our protagonist fight the "evil" corporation while irl they would have killed him and looted that key.🤣

[@jamespope7669]

H20 mistake is Laurie saying Judith was killed at 17, she was 15 when Michael Myers murdered her. The biggest mistake is when whatculture calls it h2o instead of Halloween 20 (H20: Twenty years later)

[@andersoncherub]

Double Jeopardy doesn't save her from being charged, but her lawyer could argue having her sentence reduced for time served.

[@exiledcrashnburn2033]

Thank you, WhatCulture. "Hollywood" often misrepresents my home state of Texas. I blame it on hack writers who have no real life experiences and just copy the tropes they've seen in other movies or tv shows which got it wrong the first time around. I can't even watch shows like 911: Lonestar because of all the inaccuracies.

[@tazimusmaximus]

Bruh after googling Double Jeopardy, and if the movie follows it/got it wrong, the internet confirms you are right, but also it is highly variable per state. The biggest glaring error is that the murder she was convicted of happened in one state and the murder she actually commited was in a different state. That right there wouldn't work. But, it really does say that if it were to happen in the same state, you really could argue that she couldn't be convicted of the murder again in that same state. BUT, even then, there's another movie where instead of going to double jeopardy route they just go from murder to attempted murder and get the same sentence. SO, yes, the movie got it wrong but in reality, due to the justice system and its wording, you really could argue that the movie COULD be accurate under certain circumstances.

[@Lymsley]

If miss representing a location qualifies for top billing. Then Heartbreak Ridge & *M*A*S*H* should have usurp x-files. Both filmed in Southern California, trying to represent Eastern Seaboard USA / a Caribbean Island or the Korean Peninsula respectively.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Another problem with Die Hard: characters speaking on radios as if they were phones. 'Sorry, Hans... I didn't get the memo. Over.'

[@georges8200]

how is ready player one a mistake? A mistake is something that actually happened that was done wrong. your videos are getting worse every time

[@MaxWeb2599]

It maybe didn't ruin the movie but looking for comparison at Mario kart, where the first thing many do is looking if they could drive which course backwards, the 5 years are a plothole nonetheless (at least if you know gamer mentality)

[@ajm5007]

Bad screenwriting is a "mistake" inasmuch as it's a bad thing that could have been avoided.

[@DPMartizzledizzle]

Obviously, it wouldn’t take five years for someone to figure out to drive backwards. But it might take 5 years for someone to do a perfect lap in reverse. Especially when you consider it’s like an arcade game within the virtual reality world so it’s not like anyone spent five years just on that one thing.

[@depalma13]

You couldn’t get the door to open going backwards until you opened the clue from the Library. Hundreds of people tried to go backwards, but without unlocking the clue, they just crashed into the wall.

[@onionbubs386]

Ready Player One's existence was a mistake

[@TrangleC]

The Dodgeball mistake is nowhere near as bad as the Karate Kid mistake, where Daniel San wins the tournament with a kick to the head, despite the rules clearly forbidding kicks to the head. But I guess that mistake has been mentioned so often in such lists, that they had to find a alternative.

[@Y0uKnowMyName]

"If you can dodge a wrench. You can dodge a ball." RIP Mr. Torn.

[@LlorDrei]

About the Face-Off part. Dracula had Van Helsing give Mina four blood transfusions from four random people, without testing her blood, or theirs. If people can look past this in Dracula, I think Face-Off can get a bit of a mulligan.

[@bobross1829]

The real mistake in Ready Player One, the movie version, was that the quest was impossible, and the plot had to cheat like crazy to make it work. The entire challenge was dependent on having an unbelievable knowledge, to a minutiae degree, over someone else's nerdy life, and then extrapolating unbelievable connections from such knowledge. It was like trying to pick what number a guy was thinking from 1 to a 100, when he was dead. Some movies stink because they are too simple, but this movie it was the opposite, it was unbelievable anyone could win.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Ready Player One - In its defense, there was nothing behind the start other than a dead end. While gamers ARE inquisitive, it didn't look like there was anywhere that you could go if you drove backwards, other than smashing into a wall. It is my lifelong ambition to get SOMEONE to acknowledge the goof in The Terminator. After the truck blows up near the end of the film, a burning figure, presumably the terminator, staggers out of the truck and collapses on an empty patch of ground. As Sarah and Kyle embrace, the endoskeleton rises up from under some debris. How did it go from collapsing on bare ground, to being covered with debris? Not to mention that the closeups of the burning skull didn't look at all like a machine.

[@Ayrshore]

*Greatest CHRISTMAS movie.

[@halfghaniteevee3559]

We need a series based on The Oasis from Ready Player One so bad

[@andsprite3034]

Should have named it "Plot Holes" that ruin movies ...most of these aren't mistakes in the cinematic sense...

[@finkelmana]

Why point out Dallas and the X-Files? Lets be honest, filming in one city and saying its another is the norm.

[@anthonysaunders345]

Double jeopardy: Is the concept that you can't be TRIED twice for the same crime. I'm sure you can't be convicted of the same one twice either, but that's not double jeopardy.

[@yamerojones]

Yea driving backwards is the first thing many people do after screwing up during a race.

[@Azrael-XIII]

I’ll give the Die Hard ambulance a pass. Sure they messed up showing them walk out of the truck with no ambulance in there, but they could’ve just as easily fit the ambulance in the trailer if they just had all the guys *inside* the ambulance. So it’s really more of a continuity error than a glaring plot that breaks the plot.

[@jamescrennie]

I love the film but Thomas Crowne folding the Monet in half made it hard to suspend disbelief.

[@jenniferbarcomb7042]

What about the changing shirt in Die Hard? He is wearing a white tank top for part of the movie and a hunter green tank top in other parts.

[@AngelVoice23]

East Texas is very green and often humid. West Texas (where I lived, in El Paso) is indeed a litter box desert. So they should have set the X Files in West Texas, not East.

[@gfear24]

"It ain't cheating if you don't get caught, Marella." - Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

[@tedbundy3366]

I hope that the cheating scandal is addressed in the sequel to Dodgeball! I can't wait to see Ben Stiller and cast back at it!

[@DarksigynsWorld]

Or that the German train station shown in the A-Team movie shows the Cologne central station and not the Frankfurt one. Something every German can identify. Imagine the reaction of the people whatchin the movie in the cinemas. Or American movies always get wrong the German licence plates. There are so many mistakes in American movies depicting Germany that it's really insulting.

[@Martin-u9e]

Face of had many problems not just the blood type what about body type

[@jessepinkeye2339]

"I still know what you did THAT summer works" 🤷

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Maybe the killer knows what they did last summer as well. I mean, they did something last summer, no reason to assume that it's still referring to two summers ago.

[@MudSluggerBP]

He wouldn’t have the scars appear until he chose to travel back in time and injure himself, as up until that point his timeline hasn’t gone back. The injury while back in time is technically in the characters future 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@John_Smith_60]

Only if your movie requires a flawed understanding of time logic.

[@baxterwilson368]

15:30 I’m in Dallas right now. 😁

[@NutshellRevs]

Hang on. I Still Know What You Did last Summer is just referring to when they actually killed the fisherman (or so they thought) after he kills Helen. It was the year before that when they first hit the fishermen with the car, but it’s the year after that when they fought the fisherman and he came for revenge the title is referring to. It’s not a mistake.

[@mattnorton5787]

I'd like to take every comment you made about Butterfly Effect, and apply them verbatim to Looper.

[@cory9144]

I have been saying the same thing about Ready Player One for years. I loved the book and the movie was so disappointing.

[@MichasBreakdown]

Talking about the title issue on "I Still Know..." I thought: Isn't the same true about the title of this video? Because honestly, I wouldn't say that any of there "mistakes" ruined any of these movies 😉

[@jaysin011584]

I always thought there were two trucks.

[@shipwreckeddemon1943]

The number 1 is really disappointing. This happens all the time in movies. For example in the movie Chronicle, they filmed in it Toronto but used Seattle for the setting of the film if you have ever been to seattle you would notice the difference in the viee when they are driving into Seattle and see the Space Needle towering over buildings. Which isn't what it looks like even if you are driving into seattle and catch a glimps of the space needle.

[@peacecitizen1]

Originally it was written that Average Joe's lost. But, corporate pressure forced the change. Perhaps, this was how they were to have lost. 🤔

[@Bryanpeacock33]

In double jeopardy she didn't murder him she killed him out of self-defense lol

[@nguvideos2868]

I mean they still did alot of shit the summer before also when the guy was originally trying to kill them, that makes the "still" and "last summer" make sense.

[@hollowg78]

Hmmm. This has severe Pitch Meeting synopsis vibes.....almost like youve recently watched a supercut of Ryan's work

[@ryanpeterson7942]

I Know What You Did Last Summer came out on October 17th, 1997, it's sequel came out on November 13th, 1998. Easy fact check. They did it right. Besides, it wouldn't matter when the sequel came out. Look at the John Wick franchise as an example if you want to get technical to your claim. Some are years apart, but pick up immediately where the other left off.

[@BThirstyPretzel]

I still know what you did THAT summer would have been a better title. Or they could have just not made a sequel at all lmao

[@VonUnaussprechlichenKulten]

Perfect setup for Dodgeball 2

[@juggernuggss9166]

Get on I-20 west and drive through Dallas into texas and say it's not desert😂

[@mrpictures7804]

So your title is "Basic Mistakes That RUIN Movies" and in your second entry you state, that the mistake doesn't matter? It would be nice take care, that if you have such a clickbaity title to at least have the entries deliver.

[@jasonpeach820]

None of these mistakes "ruined" their movies. (Except maybe Skyfall)

[@mrfoobarf5670]

I liked Dodgeball until I watched this video. Well, at least I still have Rollerball (the original).

[@davidmylchreest3306]

I Still Know What You Did The Summer Before Last

[@RoanRat]

How about "I Know What You Did Last Last Summer"? I mean, I'm not sure there's any good title.

[@DPMartizzledizzle]

Sheesh it’s like someone lost a bet in having to make this video because they seem to be phoning it in 😂

[@inaheap7172]

Ah but can you be convicted of killing a already dead man?

[@John_Smith_60]

He was only *_mostly_* dead.

[@jonagreen7323]

I still know what you did that summer would have been fine. Guessing they thought of that later because seems obvious.

[@james.b.mcgill]

I Still Know What You Did the Summer Before Last?

[@kb7772]

Average Joe's didn't cheat, the ref blew the call. Just like the Helsinki Incident

[@jamespope7669]

Are people dumb 😂 "I still know what you did last summer" makes total sense. I know was one year after they ran the fisherman over and I still know was one year after their friends were murdered and they thought they killed the fisherman. How do people not understand that.

[@kismetsantos1204]

Sometimes I wonder why are you in WC Gaming... So what it took someone 5 years to try to go backwards? Dont you remember how many secrets go undiscovered for years in games? Sometimes its only discovered because the devs hint something, like the secret room in Arkham Asylum. Honestly dude, stop making lists... You dont have the knack for it...