In the movie Immortals, Theseus, our demigod hero know for fighting the Minotaur, gets his hand on the Epirus bow which does not need any arrows. Instead it generates magic missiles which unerringly hit their targets with uncanny precision and accuracy. It's supposed to be magical, so it can do things which ordinary bows cannot do, such as create arrows as needed. it's not supposed to work like a real bow, but its use in the movie still poses a couple of questions.
In one scene, Theseus lets loose several shots, one after the other. As the arrows fly to their quarry, they appear to race against each other with each one trying to get ahead of the others. If these were non-magical arrows, this isn't realistic at all. If actual real-world arrows were released one after the other, they'd hit one at a time and never all at once, like in that scene where Theseus rescues hostages about to be killed.
While it can be argued that the racing arrows isn't a blooper since they came from a magical bow, if it were non-magical, the long distance of the targets would have required the archer to raise the angle of his bow a bit. But Theseus aims straight, as if the targets are just a few meters away. An arrow released from a real bow will fly in a curve with the forces of gravity and friction slowing it down, eventually making it fall. But that's for ordinary arrows, and of course, physics does not apply to the magical arrows used by Theseus. But then if these arrows can accelerate magically, it makes one wonder why they should have to take so long to hit the mark. Why not get there in no time at all? Great special effects and the power of imagination and creativity can do wonders to suspend disbelief at the movies.
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