Do Some Sodding Research!!
Being a military buff, nothing destroys my enjoyment of a film or TV programme when they get some details wrong.
Now I find myself consciously looking for screw-ups.
I know, sad, sad, sad.....

Some are deliberate - all the light cavalry in cherry coloured pants in the 1960s "Charge of the Light Brigade", at the director's whim.
Some are foolish - incorrect rank and address of an SS officer in "The English Patient".
Some are blatant - all the imperial officers wearing the same rank plaque in "The Empire Strikes Back".
Some are mystifying - the fantasy SS uniform worn in a German History Channel doco about Reinhard Heydrich.
Some are a complete fantasy - the History Channel doco about the black US troops that liberated a concentration camp, when no black US troops ever did so!

Some of these features have huge budgets and teams of researchers and support from recognised historians. And they get the most simple things wrong..... ignorance or indifference?
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Tue 5 Apr 2011, 9:01, 14 replies)

A similar one
News reports of "Libyan Tanks" and you see a BMP or BTR.
(kitescreech still here, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 9:10, closed)

I have this with Latin in programmes.
There was one episode of CSI that made me scream at my screen (even more than usual) where they used the phrase "meus fidem erum pallium", supposedly meaning "my faith has been lost".

They were going for "mea fides perdita erat". What they had was "my (masculine, nominative) faith (feminine, accusative), master/hedgehog, small greek cloak"
I understand that not everyone speaks latin, but you have to wonder where they went so wrong.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 9:38, closed)

I like
this more than words can say!
( splorp ®, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 12:20, closed)

Do Latin, kids.
It may have no real-life applications, but you get to read poetry about putting fish in people's bottoms.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 13:53, closed)

I'm sold!

( splorp ®, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 16:54, closed)

Hurt Locker

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:02, closed)

if it has one engine..
If it has one engine it's a spitfire, anything more and it has to be a lanc...sad but true in many cases.

Battle of Britain film is one of the most guilty of this crime.
(bluehamster, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:35, closed)

Have you ever seen "Starship Troopers"?
The ignorance of strategy and tactics displayed by the writers of that film beggars description.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 10:58, closed)

God, yes!
The scene where all the ships are off to attack the slugs' planet... they are travelling far too close together! No wonder they collided with each other. Court-martials all round.....
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Tue 5 Apr 2011, 11:19, closed)

Berets in particular
They should be smartly moulded to the head of the wearer. OK, this takes time, effort and a little bit of knowledge, but if you're in charge of costumes on a film/TV programme, you should at least have a little bit of pride in your work, instead of just plonking the thing on the poor unsuspecting actor's head. All it does it serve to make them look like a twat. If they're going for authentic, then only time a badly fitting, unmoulded beret is acceptable (because it looks like it's topping off a pile of shit), is on a French man, or an officer.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 11:33, closed)

This kind of thing
ruined Dad's Army for me. Ignorant fucks.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 12:30, closed)

"Sherman"
I met someone who desrcibed something as "Built like a Sherman". Me and my colleague (both Tread Heads) assumed she meant it was a bit crap and fragile; she meant reaally sturdy.

Anal arent we?
(kitescreech still here, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 13:17, closed)

Gets me, too
Wifie pointed out in a book she was reading that Rudolf Hess arrived in Scotland in a bf109. It was, in fact, a bf110; BIG difference. A simple case of lack of research!
(The Jannie, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 21:01, closed)

I like the "Bf",
not "Me" prefix. Have a pedant clicky!
(kitescreech still here, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 11:45, closed)