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Something that bugged me in the new Stranger Things. In one episode, El turns on a flashlight. It’s a mag light, with a click button, but she twists it on and the sfx person still put in a button clicking noise. I’m pretty sure the light beam itself was vfx, too.
People almost never misspeak or mishear anything.
Hangovers never seem to last beyond a sip of coffee, or hearing important news.
This is the first time I have noticed the selection of CDs on the sun visor.
My little cousin once asked me why we used to burn CD’s instead of recycling them. Funny how life creeps up on you and suddenly you’re old.
You’re not old. He’s just a dumb kid.
Knock that shit out. She’s incredibly smart and bright. Because she asks questions when she doesnt understand. And learns. Which is exactly what you’re supposed to do.
Calling kids dumb because they ask questions has to be the most idiotic thing you could do. Though I’m sure you’ll find a way to surprise us all
Whoosh. Calm down, old man.
I will not calm down. Now get off my lawn and stop skateboarding on the sidewalk!
Shitty fire sfx. Holy fucking shit, why is the campfire almost as loud as the fucking dialog!? Snap, crackle, pop! It’s so fucking grating.
Hollywood fire noise is always cartoonish and corny. But if you’ve ever been close to fire, it is noisy. Campfires are noisy, though not loud enough to halt speech comprehension. Large bonfires are loud. And there’s a reason firefighters learn to communicate with signs and touch. Smoke blinds and house fires are deafening.
The movie version of being “knocked out”.
Someone is knocked unconscious for long enough to be moved to a new location and probably tied up. And they wake up just fine. They’re able to engage in witty banter with their captor. If they manage to break free they’re able to fight effectively.
The reality? A massive concussion. Extreme disorientation. Likely to puke if they have to move much.
If you ever watch a “knockout” in boxing or MMA, the unconsciousness lasts a seconds at most, mostly not even a second. Someone’s knees go wobbly then they recover, but they’re still disoriented and uncoordinated. If they’re out for longer than a second or two, everyone’s concerned and the fighter is rushed to the hospital.
That one time i got unconscious, was when i stepped on a tennis ball, flipped over and hit the ground with the back of my head. I was out for 15 seconds, no memories of the 3 days after that and then still pucked for days without being nauseous. I was lucky that my brain didn’t swell or i would have had permanent damage.
Unconscious is the emergency shutdown an inch before death, serious stuff. The trivialization in movies bothers me.
Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. “We’re the good guys” remember?
How so? Why is the alternative killing?
When there’s a countdown in a movie where something must be done before it’s finished but the entire scene takes longer than the countdown.
Namek exploding intensifies
Time is non-linear, we are in the 4th dimention.
Also its usually 1 digit of time left of the decimal point on the countdown timer. Usually like 3 seconds or less, sometimes they make it so dramatic that its literally last second or fraction of a second.
Like… c’mon. Make it so at like 23 second left, or 1 minute 47 second left or something random, like every bomb always get disarmed at 1 second? The fuck lol.
One of the many things that annoys me about the sitcom Big Bang Theory is that as pedantic as Sheldon is, not once does he ever complain to Penny about the lack of headrests in her car. You’d think he’d refuse to ride until she replaced them. Totally immersion breaking.
The thing that completely takes me out of the movie / show whenever I see it is people who get knocked backwards by bullets / shotgun blasts. The maximum amount of momentum transferred by a bullet or pack of shotgun pellets is the same amount as the shove it gives to the shooter’s hands or shoulder.
If it’s in a Chinese Gun Fu, Wire Fu, Gun Wuxia type movie where everything is slightly fantastical, I can accept it as a kind of over-the-top element of that style. But, it really bothers me when it happens in something that’s otherwise fairly realistic.
Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.
What pisses me of is when major studios make an entire show about a specific profession but cant be bothered to consult anyone from said profession
The Pitt stands out as a show that gets it right. It is over the top plot convenient dramatic as well. But they did nail the medical profession down, and it is all thanks to medical consultants.
I cannot and will never watch episode 4 again. It triggers real life memories of losing my father. It was down to a tee an almost identical reenactment of dealing with a patient with pneumonia and sepsis.
Many things the characters do that professionals in real life would say they don’t do because bad things happen. But with doing things professional, the plot can’t happen and there is no tension.
Im not saying they should be 100% accurate and everything needs to be done professionally, im just saying professionals from the feild should at least be consulted
Is this a jab at Armageddon?
No, Blade Runner. It’s quite obvious that they didn’t bother to talk to a single actual replicant hunter when writing that script.
and a lot of tv show car scenes ate filmed on a lowbed tow truck. once you notice the height difference you can’t really unsee it.
You’d think they’d make a custom trailer that’s low to the ground as possible at this point.
Scientists doing everything and coming up with ideas on their own without any assistants or collaboration. They are also somehow mad genius experts on every field, like they are also physicist, biologist and engineer all in one. Most scientists in real life are specialist because it is impossible to be a generalist. There are also no such thing as home laboratories. You can’t work in an uncontrolled and unregulated environment because it affects not just results of experiments, but health and safety is a major issue if things go awry.
Or when those genius scientists say something that shows they don’t even have a high schooler’s grasp of maths.
There are “home labs” but they’d be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.
Similarly, when a movie scientist/engineer insists a thing can’t be done, until an authority figure chews them out/threatens them. Then, there’s suddenly a breakthrough.
There’s other ways the person in charge can help!
Yeah I have sometimes the feeling that stuff like this is rubbed of to real executives/managers who e.g. think a small team of programmers can achieve a big application in a manner of days or something…
Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.
Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.
“But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!”
‘Stand back, I’m an orthodontist.’
People think MDs are scientists, including MDs.
In The Shining, when the family is being given a tour of the hotel fairly early in the movie, they get shown the walk in fridge. There is a shot of the door to the fridge from the hallway and then a cut to a shot from the back of the fridge looking toward the door. The hinges are on opposite sides between the two shots. Immersion ruined.
This might be a simple goof, but a lot of the layout in The Shining (intentionally) doesn’t make any sense. There’s some great analysis of the insane architecture of the hotel.
Yeah! Someone else mentioned this, and I knew it was a bit of a thing. I also know that a lot of the film was shot on location, so I’m curious if the shot was actually flipped, or maybe one of the shots was done on a set, not in the actual fridge. I read/watched some stuff about the intentional discontinuities in The Shining but this one has never been mentioned as far as I know.
Flipping shots gets done far too often in movies. I remember a particularly egregious one in one of the Harry Potter movies where all the text on the blackboard behind a teacher was mirrored lol.
Magical accident: the teacher had flipped themselves through the fourth dimension the night before.
crime is investigated and doctors treat people
just copaganda
The news is complicit here too.
BBC news: “Is your local phone shop guy part of an international criminal gang network? Let’s hunt him down on the street and ask him in whatever broken english he has.”
Meanwhile, a guy is actually walking around with a machete at the hospital near my work because he came to finish off a guy he’d wounded earlier (I shit you not). Not even a mention. A small clipping in a local newspaper.
Your purse was stolen? We’ll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.
Also, forensic lab results come back in less than two months (which appeared to be the national average a couple of years ago).
And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.
It’s ok, just slouch down in the seat.
To me it’s 2 things.
Driving with their windows down against reflections when filmed from the outside, even during rain, freezing temps and snow. Or when someone tries to grab them and they get in a car, apparently putting their window down before driving away, then to be grabbed through the window.
Other thing is roughly 600 bullets in a gun magazine, plus regular cars being completely bulletproof. Even when driving in full machine gun fire from a gun with thousands of bullets in a 30 round magazine, at most a window gets popped.
600 bullets in a gun magazine
Counting shots in John Wick was fun for that reason: the count actually works out
The bulletproof cars, on the other hand, are still an issue.
at least with john wick it’s a little more believable that the majority of assassins for a super secretive and exclusive international crime syndicate would have armor in their vehicles.
Armor in a car doesn’t mean bullets will ricochet on the paint. They will still penetrwte the car body but are stopped by internal armor if the caliber isn’t bigger than the stopping power of the armor. The angle of attack also has a big impact. A bullet hitting the armor with 90° on the x and 90° on the y axis is the same as an armor piercing bullet (those bullets create their own 90°x 90°y surface by melding a piece of softer metal onto the agled armor). And converting a car capable of stopping 50cal AP rounds is really hard. Most armor in cars is to stop lower caliber rounds as the chance of people with military grade high calibers and AP rounds is rather low.
