10 Movies That Get Basic Facts Wrong

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  • @Chris-ty7fw
    @Chris-ty7fw Месяц назад +47

    Feathers are harder to render than scales and would cost more. Far more worrying was the idea you can out run a t-rex in high heels,.

    • @marcromain64
      @marcromain64 Месяц назад +18

      A T-Rex in high heels shouldn't be that hard to outrun. 😉

    • @CashelOConnolly
      @CashelOConnolly Месяц назад +2

      I got my scales from Amazon 😂

    • @RobHorrorLive
      @RobHorrorLive Месяц назад +1

      Well they used animatronics for the Jurassic Park movies.

    • @wallythewondercorncake8657
      @wallythewondercorncake8657 Месяц назад +2

      She isn't outrunning it, it's trained to follow the flare.

    • @pandanarkystudios5198
      @pandanarkystudios5198 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@wallythewondercorncake8657 came here to say this

  • @batlokoasekhamane4813
    @batlokoasekhamane4813 Месяц назад +16

    In Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd learned about that loophole in prison. So wouldn’t it have been hilarious if she’d gone on believing a bunch of nonsense just to be arrested again at the end?

    • @brandiebishop8473
      @brandiebishop8473 Месяц назад

      I think the were trying to hold it together by saying you can’t kill someone that’s already “dead”. As the double jeopardy part so they didn’t look to deep
      Into the actual law. But I mean people should never get legal Advice from movies.

    • @bbsy1
      @bbsy1 Месяц назад +1

      @@brandiebishop8473clearly that’s what they were going for. She didn’t kill the second identity, she killed her husband. Considering the lengths he went to go against her, she had plausible reason to expect he wanted her dead, since he literally had her out in a coffin. So even if they don’t accept the first excuse, the second is obviously true based on what lead to her going to jail and the coffin and she has a cop to back her up. While the husband removed any support he would have.

    • @marianparoo1544
      @marianparoo1544 Месяц назад

      This was based on an Italian movie from the 70s. Wish I could remember it. Different ending.

  • @NoMansSkyResources
    @NoMansSkyResources Месяц назад +8

    The jurassic world movies repeatedly tell us that real dinosaurs had feathers & that the park's creators actively chose to ignore that fact when recreating dinosaurs, for the same reason that the movie creators do - people expect to see scales, not feathers. Does not belong on this list, as the movies themselves repeatedly 'hang a lantern' on this issue.

    • @NoMansSkyResources
      @NoMansSkyResources Месяц назад +2

      But then, you knew all that. You only put it on this list to make us comment.

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Месяц назад +16

    It's ironic that the team behind "Double Jeopardy" badly mangled the titular clause, since the facts of both cases weren't the same. Also, Judd could easily be prosecuted in Louisiana, if not in Washington.

    • @natsune09
      @natsune09 Месяц назад +1

      She would be prosecuted everywhere.

  • @chrisrodriguez7351
    @chrisrodriguez7351 Месяц назад +7

    The die hard 2 thing about the Glock is a misconception. Glock actually did produce a couple versions of the gun in a ceramic material that wasn't made from any metal and could get past metal detectors. Glock only made that particular gun for military and law enforcement only. It was virtually impossible for civilians to get it's
    Update: any past Glock owner who legally purchased a Glock will also know this. You get a brochure from Glock in your gun case showing all the models Glock produces and the model names. You will see the ceramic made Glocks on that brochure which clearly states in parentheses that it's only available to government and military personnel.

  • @drewhenriksen
    @drewhenriksen Месяц назад +6

    You should do one on fake forensics.

  • @MyKetogenicLife
    @MyKetogenicLife Месяц назад +4

    I challenged a poor dude a couple of months ago to take a shot every time one of you said “titular” in any one of your videos.
    We are still trying to revive him from his coma. 😢

    • @johngeorge9714
      @johngeorge9714 Месяц назад

      Post in the comments your favourite use of Titular...was it from this video or something else, you let me know.

  • @takeiteasy3525
    @takeiteasy3525 Месяц назад +5

    Oh, I beg to differ..... I know some people that frequently operate on 10%

  • @WhatTheFirstAidSpray
    @WhatTheFirstAidSpray Месяц назад +5

    No, Lucy doesn't end with ScarJo turning into a USB drive. She turns into a god living beyond the bounds of space-time. The usb is filled with knowledge for humanity. You really aren't helping to disprove the idea that people only use 10% of their brains if that was your understanding of the end of Lucy.

  • @elizabethbaird2132
    @elizabethbaird2132 Месяц назад +1

    They said in the Jurassic World movies that basically people didn't know what they looked really looked like so they made them different to be recognized. They covered that in the movie itself.

  • @1971chrismiller
    @1971chrismiller Месяц назад +5

    Donosaurs all having frathers is a theory. A dumb theory. For if they all had feathers, then fossilized feathers would have been found with the bones like Archaeopteryx. That's how they learned the link between dinosaurs and birds.

    • @thehomeschoolinglibrarian
      @thehomeschoolinglibrarian Месяц назад +2

      I agree and even paleontologists don't think all dinosaurs have feathers. T-Rex and other bipedal dinosaurs probably did have feathers but triceratops and other herbivores probably not.

  • @Toledotourbillion
    @Toledotourbillion Месяц назад +12

    First? 😅 I remember mosquito blood in ancient amber can be extracted was poo poo.

  • @MBF78
    @MBF78 Месяц назад +3

    The whole "using 10 percent of the brain" thing also comes from the fact that the brain is made up of 10 percent grey matter and 90 percent white matter, and that seems to have got some people confused into thinking that only the 10 percent is being used.

  • @chrisrodriguez7351
    @chrisrodriguez7351 Месяц назад +1

    The thing about Glocks in die hard 2 isn't exactly true. Glock actually did make a version of it's pistol for military and government use which was made from a ceramic material that did not contain any metal. It was virtually impossible for civilians to even get near one much less buy one. It actually could get past metal detectors way back then all the time

  • @weRnd1000
    @weRnd1000 Месяц назад +5

    “Movies”

  • @whopito422
    @whopito422 Месяц назад +8

    How many times has what culture recycled these subjects. Especially the Lucy 10% thing

  • @eldonwatson7161
    @eldonwatson7161 Месяц назад +2

    You forgot about Thanos wiping out half of everything on this list. There are factual inaccuracies here too!

  • @OneaeBlack
    @OneaeBlack Месяц назад +13

    They mixed genetics in Jurassic Park they were NEVER actually dinosaurs but always MONSTER MOVIE.

    • @roydonarthur153
      @roydonarthur153 Месяц назад

      Whatculture clearly didn't listen when they explained that DNA was incomplete and they added genes from other animals like frogs to fill it in. Both Park and World gave the same explanation.

    • @williambryan3346
      @williambryan3346 Месяц назад +3

      The fact that the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park/World film franchise were genetic hybrids was introduced in the first movie and Dr. Henry Wu explained it again in Jurassic World. Some people are too egotistical and blind to these simple facts to admit that they have been making ridiculous arguments since June 11, 1993.

    • @OneaeBlack
      @OneaeBlack Месяц назад

      @@williambryan3346 and people want to base dinosaur appearance from this, even though actual dinosaur may had been as harmless as very day wildlife animal.

    • @patrickdoyle6201
      @patrickdoyle6201 Месяц назад

      I believe the words '*COOLER* & 'more teeth' are what Wu mentioned in JURASSIC WORLD

    • @OneaeBlack
      @OneaeBlack Месяц назад

      @@patrickdoyle6201 Sales Sales Sales.

  • @sheboyganshovel5920
    @sheboyganshovel5920 Месяц назад +1

    On #5, I have to at least give them credit for not shooting the monitor to disable the computer.

  • @johnhodgson4216
    @johnhodgson4216 Месяц назад +4

    "Human actually only use 10% of their brains" is not what the movie said. Lucy said the human uses 10% of its capacity, and after 20% everything changes. I skipped to Luck, lets see what else is incorrectly stated. Well it was the only quote used. So try again, you might want to watch the movie, as throughout the movie 'Capacity' was used, not Percent of the Brain.

  • @williambryan3346
    @williambryan3346 Месяц назад +1

    @1:20 The velociraptors in Jurassic Park III had feathers.

  • @TheToonMonkey
    @TheToonMonkey Месяц назад +1

    Actually, a gun capable of avoiding detection probably would cost more than that guy earned if someone was able to create one, so it's partially true.

    • @brandiebishop8473
      @brandiebishop8473 Месяц назад

      It’s becoming true with 3 d printed ghost ones

  • @elincarlsson6388
    @elincarlsson6388 Месяц назад +1

    ONLY 10? Only 10 movies get basic facts wrong? XD

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens Месяц назад +2

    Steven Spielberg makes fun, not realism.
    See Also: Jaws
    And the Glock 7 is a tiny shovel.
    Gaston Glock was an engineer and his Glock model 17 was a gun because it was the 17th model he submitted, his first gun.

  • @datura7040
    @datura7040 Месяц назад +1

    To add on to the dinosaur one, the raptors are not Velociraptors

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад

      They could have been Utahraptors under a different name.

    • @datura7040
      @datura7040 Месяц назад

      @@melissawickersham9912 That would be fine if Velociraptors weren't already another dinosaur. A much much smaller dinosaur

    • @williambryan3346
      @williambryan3346 Месяц назад +1

      As Dr. Henry Wu explained in Jurassic World, none of the dinosaurs resemble their pure genetic ancestors simply because they are all hybrids. They shouldn’t have been expected to appear or behave the same as their ancestors since Jurassic Park (1993) had explained the fact of their genetic hybrid makeup. The appearance of any animal depends entirely upon their genetic makeup.

  • @13shadowphoenix13
    @13shadowphoenix13 Месяц назад +2

    The Mayans weren't predicting the end of the world, they were just counting down to the release of The Hobbit movie.

  • @NoMansSkyResources
    @NoMansSkyResources Месяц назад

    Double Jeopardy was perfectly plausable until the movie came out. AFTER the movie, the law's language was edited to prevent the movie's event being possible in real life.

  • @banthatracks_gaffisticks
    @banthatracks_gaffisticks Месяц назад +1

    Thank you, ScarJo

  • @johnbrittaustin355
    @johnbrittaustin355 Месяц назад

    You know what, I am totally OK with movies portraying crimes as easier to commit than they are in real life. I am warmed to the very heart by the idea of some dope arrested for trying to smuggle a Glock through airport security, baffled by his failure because he saw it work in a movie once.

  • @ulugunu6339
    @ulugunu6339 Месяц назад +1

    The mayan calendar does not even end in 2012. 2012 is the julian year when mayan calendar would need one more digit to write years. The equivalent of year 1000 in our current calendar. Correcting a wrong basic fact by stating another (less) wrong basic fact. Not great.

  • @macgirlcokey
    @macgirlcokey Месяц назад +2

    We do know this is all in fun correct? We know the difference between fact & fiction unless those definitions have changed among others. Movies are fiction, not documentaries or biographies. Who is gleaming info from a movie?? Unless the rules have changed & we now want movies to mirror real life. Are we supposed to get out our pens & pencils & take notes on all movies we watch?? They don’t all have to mirror real life, for me NONE of them have to mirror real life, I can just look at the news or social media or my own life for real life. We shouldn’t be taking these movies serious it’s entertainment. Do ppl laugh anymore geez!🥴🤪

    • @erikthompson619
      @erikthompson619 Месяц назад

      No, we do NOT all know this is all in fun. Plenty of people can't make that distinction. And there is also a world of difference between, say, "Hot tub time machine" and a movie that actually implies, or even claims, to be run by real world logic as opposed to movie logic. Last but not least, all WhatCulture does is point out the inaccuracies, they don't try to dissuade us from watching or enjoying the movies. I for one find it way more infuriating when certain people are so actively against learning facts that go against their preconceptions, that they even attack bubble-bursters who point out inaccuracies.

  • @natsune09
    @natsune09 Месяц назад +1

    I was going to college for Criminal Justice when 'Double Jeopardy' came out. If I knew it was a crap premise in 101 classes, why didn't the writer not ask about it? Under the premise of the movie and the way it lays out its own logic, if you get arrested for robbing a house and you finish serving your time, you can rob that house over and over because you were already sentenced for it. Which is just idiotic on its face.

  • @deannelson7027
    @deannelson7027 Месяц назад +1

    Some Glocks are made completely out of ceramic.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul Месяц назад +1

    Why do none of these lists about movies based on misunderstanding reality, ever mention Gravity? It's like this movie has some magical shield that prevents anyone online from pointing out that the entire movie is based on stupidity.
    Bullock and Clooney float through space toward the Earth. She grabs onto the International Space Station, while he hits the end of the tether between them. At this point, he would just stop and float in place, and she could easily reel him in.
    Instead the movie claims that the Earth's gravity is exerting such a pull on him, that he has to cut the tether in order to avoid pulling her down with him. Right, gravity was exerting a huge pull on this one puny human, while completely ignoring the massive space station that she's holding onto. Why isn't it being pulled down at the same rate? There's a phrase to describe this: The stupid, it burns!
    I refuse to ever watch this piece of crap because of it being so blatantly stupid.

  • @tomdonahue8227
    @tomdonahue8227 Месяц назад +1

    I'm sure there is a movie that has the line "The definition of insane is doing the same thing over and over again"

    • @patrickdoyle6201
      @patrickdoyle6201 Месяц назад +1

      .. .*AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS!*😉

  • @AndrewD8Red
    @AndrewD8Red Месяц назад +4

    Humans don't even use a minuscule fraction of a percent of our possible interneuronal connections.
    But we do use every single part of our brain.

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens Месяц назад +1

    Even at the time many people pointed out Double Jeopardy was crap. She'd have been pardoned for the first murder but then tried and convicted for a 2nd murder.

    • @natsune09
      @natsune09 Месяц назад +2

      She wouldn't be pardoned, the verdict would have been vacated.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад

      @@natsune09That’s because the first murder didn’t actually happen in the first place.

    • @natsune09
      @natsune09 Месяц назад +1

      @@melissawickersham9912 exactly why I said it would be vacated

    • @erikthompson619
      @erikthompson619 Месяц назад +2

      It's kind of weird how people apparently would only miss the obvious gap in this reasoning in the case of murder. I don't think anyone would believe that a person wrongly committed for robbing a bank in March 2017, couldn't still be charged for robbing the same bank in, say, August 2023.

  • @Bintexas
    @Bintexas Месяц назад

    If the next dinosaur movie decides to go down the feathered T-rex route, they better market it as a comedy. “Jurassic Barnyard” doesnt quite have the same anticipatory fear factor.

  • @DreynHarry
    @DreynHarry Месяц назад

    and Glocks are made in Austria, not Germany. The Glock factory is in Deutsch-Wagram, right outside of Vienna.

  • @roydonarthur153
    @roydonarthur153 Месяц назад

    The head scientist of Jurassic World didn't care about recreating the dinosaurs, he's was obsessed with making hybrids

  • @minervablake7573
    @minervablake7573 Месяц назад

    I've never even seen Lucy, but I've often imagined an alternate joke ending where she just has a grand mal seizure instead.

  • @bheast86
    @bheast86 Месяц назад

    How about INTERSTELLAR?

  • @allencampbell3350
    @allencampbell3350 Месяц назад

    Return of the Living Dead Part III had its soundtrack changed for DVD release. Yet it as left on the second audio track.

  • @WaylandersWandering
    @WaylandersWandering Месяц назад +2

    If I was at a movie with someone who was constantly
    "Dinosaurs were feathered ackshualley" and "Glocks are mostly metal ackdhualley"
    I'd be leaving and never going anywhere with such a pedantic arsewipe again
    Dear gods just watch the frikken film!

    • @philiprice7875
      @philiprice7875 Месяц назад +1

      well said movies are for ENTERTAINMENT if you want a documentary watch PBS

  • @bbsy1
    @bbsy1 Месяц назад

    They actually knew that when Jurassic Park came out. They did it like that because that’s what the general public thought was true.
    Edit: Lucy was democrats making fun of republicans and that piece of misinformation was just a plot device. The actual fact is that an estimated 10%of a human’s brain is used for intelligence, the rest is used for bodily function. That is all the percentage ever meant.

  • @patricklerigolleur7891
    @patricklerigolleur7891 Месяц назад

    And Glocks are made in Austria 🙂

  • @PrinceIsot
    @PrinceIsot Месяц назад

    Lol 100 years from now people are gonna find our calendars and say "these people only lived a full year 😢"

    • @philiprice7875
      @philiprice7875 Месяц назад

      and only when the sun earth and the center of the galaxy is in line only happens every 6 months

  • @screenwriterjohn
    @screenwriterjohn Месяц назад

    Die Hard invented a fictional gun? Actually made sense. The ejection seat in the commercial plane made less sense.

    • @erikthompson619
      @erikthompson619 Месяц назад

      That was a military aircraft. Feel better now?

  • @mikejensen8043
    @mikejensen8043 Месяц назад

    As much as I loved Get Out, that’s not how brains work. Even if the villain was such a great brain surgeon that he could switch out a brain, he threw out the entire “hard drive” of the first person. They wouldn’t be hanging out still waiting for a light to flash.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад

      Right. The black victims of the brain switch wouldn’t be trapped within their own bodies while the rich white folk’s brains took over said bodies. The victims would actually be dead and their bodies would be reduced to empty hosts for the brains that replaced their own.
      When the original brains of the black victims were taken out of their bodies and replaced by the brains of rich white people, the original personalities would have gone where the original brains went. If the original brains were destroyed after the procedures, the original personalities inside them would be obliterated. That’s not just body snatching, it’s murder.
      The person who’s body became a host for a rich guy’s brain would be stuck inside a jar unable to sense anything if his or her original brain was preserved alive elsewhere. If the original brain was thrown away or destroyed during the procedure, the person would immediately die.
      This is of course assuming that human consciousness couldn’t survive brain death as a spirit. If souls exist and if consciousness could survive death, then that brain surgeon is in for a world of supernatural hurt. He’s essentially caused torment and pain for countless people who could end up as vengeful ghosts.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад +1

      Of course they wouldn’t be hanging out waiting for a light to flash. The original personalities would have gone where the original brains went. In real life, had such a procedure occurred, the original personalities were probably destroyed when the replacement procedure took place and the original brains died as a consequence of being severed from the rest of the body.
      The replacement brains would also risk dying due to the procedure since they were being physically transferred from one body to another. Since the surgeon valued the health of the replacement brains over the original ones, he probably had the replacement brains on some sort of continuous life support system while the procedure was being carried out....but he probably would also toss the original brains out in the trash as well. Even then, an artificial life support system for a transplanted brain during a whole body transplant procedure would be inherently risky since the system could malfunction and kill the transplanted brain during the procedure.
      The inherent risks of a brain transplant like that in the film (the procedure should really be called a whole body transplant since you are essentially transplanting someone’s mind into another body) means that even if the procedure was successful and the patient lived, the patient would run the risk of serious side effects like paralysis or worse. One of the worst consequences of the procedure would be that the host body rejects the transplanted organ entirely...in this case the whole brain would be rejected and attacked by the immune system of the host.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад +1

      In fact, there is a reason why no whole body transplant has ever been successfully attempted. The brain and nervous system are too complex and delicate for such an operation to be done without serious side effects that are far worse than any other kind of transplant.

    • @mikejensen8043
      @mikejensen8043 Месяц назад

      @@melissawickersham9912 you clearly know more about this than I do, but I agree.

  • @sourpatchkid394
    @sourpatchkid394 Месяц назад

    How many times can you make the same videos?!

  • @peachysbaby3088
    @peachysbaby3088 Месяц назад

    Feathers are not intimidating, and i have 0 interest in watching a bunch of overgrown turkeys eat people so....

    • @erikthompson619
      @erikthompson619 Месяц назад

      That would be WhatCulture's very point ...

  • @jcehlert
    @jcehlert Месяц назад

    How is that number one? Who the hell...

    • @antoniacosta6221
      @antoniacosta6221 Месяц назад

      I guess because it’s the most easily disproven. We could easily google where Cary was born, but the other myths in the list weren’t that easily disproven or even widely known as false when the movies came out (except the Jurassic World one but that’s explained in the video).

  • @kevinroth2900
    @kevinroth2900 Месяц назад

    I said it before and will say it again:
    Lucy is the biggest pile of garbage ever to be shown in cinemas

  • @su_shadow9326
    @su_shadow9326 Месяц назад

    to be fair, alot of people only use 10 % of their brains......on purpose

  • @greggcollins4215
    @greggcollins4215 Месяц назад

    The Mayan calender simple ended because the Mayans had little to no skills in Mathamatics. The calender we use runs a 400 year cycle and starts over. A longer cycle means bad math.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад

      Wrong. The Mayans actually did have a fairly good mathematical system. Their calendar is just one that many people have simply misinterpreted.

    • @melissawickersham9912
      @melissawickersham9912 Месяц назад +1

      Are you sure that the Common Era Gregorian calendar system used in the Christian countries runs on just a 400 year cycle? We are in the year 2024 of the Common Era since the “birth of Christ” and we show no signs of starting over yet.

    • @EvilGav
      @EvilGav Месяц назад

      @@melissawickersham9912 it's a 400 year cycle based on leap days. One every 4 years, none every 100, one every 400. However, we don't count the calendar based on those numbers and that specific Gregorian calendar style was only widely adopted in 1582 - even then it wasn't universal (the British Empire wouldn't convert to it for another 200 years).

  • @alexius23
    @alexius23 Месяц назад

    🎥🍿🎞🧙🏻‍♂

  • @rorylynch7775
    @rorylynch7775 Месяц назад +4

    -Hears Gareth
    -Closes video

  • @Robert-jc1dz
    @Robert-jc1dz Месяц назад

    No matter what type of gun, bullets are metal

    • @erikthompson619
      @erikthompson619 Месяц назад

      But a gun is not necessarily loaded at all times. Still a good observation, though.