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.
Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.
And while we’re at it.. in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?
I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn't make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn't move correctly.
And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?
we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.
And when they drink from their cup, they always tilt it like they were sipping on empty cup. Even when they just taken it from the coffee machine. When I do that I always burn my mouth, because coffee will be too hot. It takes long to coffee cool down in paper cups.
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
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.
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.
Mostly tv shows I’ve noticed this, but all the sets and homes look impeccable. Not a speck of dust, not a hint of mess. Even in shows where kids live in the home. Everyone JUST got their hair trimmed, they wear pants at home and always pop in on each other.
But the lack of mess is maddening.
Also in period movies and shows, even the peasants are always wearing clean clothes
That's often true but not always, a good set dresser will make a mess if the scene and character calls for it. Typically only for "film d'auteur" though in the more commercial things it's almost always as you said.
It makes me appreciate shows like sopranos where you see an actual maid walking around to explain away the cleanliness, or episodes where Tony lives alone and the place is covered in laundry, pizza boxes and cereal bowls everywhere.
Recently my wife has been watching “This is us” and it looks so sterile like a hallmark movie, I hate it.
I'm Chinese American, I remember when I visit relatives houses, I always have to take off shoes.
I think the last time I went, I just remember not doing it since we only stopped by for like an hour, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure I just got mad I was forced to go to the family reunion thing and I was probably irritated and didn't take off my shoes lol.
I was watching sopranos and they have a maid walking around which is nice, it explains the neat house. But when Tony moved out, his place is covered in newspapers, pizza boxes, beer bottles, etc. I like that kind of attention to detail
Forensic experts cover themselves completely, including a face mask and hood, so they don't pollute a scene. They're not there in full glam.
No, there isn't an alert for when your computer system is under an attack. It would go off constantly because every script kiddie is trying an attack 24/7. There also isn't an alert for when the firewall is penetrated because the whole point of the penetration is that you wouldn't detect it and they can quietly steal data.
Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot. That gold bar you're casually carrying between your finger tips actually weights as much as a reasonable big dumbbell. (16 oz bottle / half liter of gold weights very roughly as much as 2.5 gallon / 10 liter of water or 20 pound / 10 kg)
And every time people are casually thrown into walls. Meanwhile people go to the hospital after a bit of a bad fall when cleaning the gutter.
The thrown into a wall thing had a nice subversion in Dragon Prince, mostly a kids show. A primary character, a knight, is batted by a dragon into a rock before being chased off. As they finish, they go to check on him, and he’s been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.
They said they wanted kids shows to have representation for the physically disabled. Now they’re pissed I gave him a backstory? Guess they just wanted a background character as a token.
Indications were he shouldn’t have recovered; and he was surprisingly positive, showing resilience to his disability and thinking about how he might continue life as a poet.
But, his sister, a dark mage, was far more mortified about it than he was, and made a magical sacrifice, killing some creature and draining her own lifespan - to restore his full motion. All of this, without asking his permission. He turns out okay, but there’s an implication he shouldn’t have.
So yeah, it’s part of a dramatic arc in that story.
Interestingly, $100s are still a bit less valuable per unit weight at $100/g, versus gold at about $134/g, but that's only been since about March of this year.
Gold does have other advantages, like being much less bulky, and can be readily melted into untraceable units.
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.
Similarly but even more nerdy is a car making one swerve on dirt, that requires switching traction control off. Top Gear did a bit on it where they were hired to record a chase scene for a movie, and insisted on the following shot;
“You have to hold the mode button for ten seconds to turn off Traction Control!” cue ten quiet seconds of holding the button
Are you gaslighting or fucking with me? The retention system for motorcycle helmets still gets referred to casually as chin straps. It goes under your chin, which also happens to be in front of the neck.
I own and ride a motorcycle. I own and wear a helmet. I call them chin straps. Everyone I know calls them chin straps. Diagrams for helmets in English call them chins straps or, on occasion, the "helmet retention system".
I honestly don't care what you call them - I'm just trying to be helpful and interpret what I thought you meant. I don't understand why you are being argumentative? Is it a translation thing maybe?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Lol I just hang up on the phone when I "done" being on a call with my parents, no byes, just press the red button. They got so used to it, they never said anything about it. xD
Growing up I really thought Americans just didn't say 'bye' on the phone. It always impressed me how they both knew exactly when the conversation was over.
Texting someone? This is the first time you're doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.
A building company using a prop shovel for some clip, except the shovel's lacquer got chipped so they decided to re-coat it in order to have a pristine shovel.
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.
The M16 family of assault rifles has a small spring loaded flap on the right side that pops open when the bolt is goes back. This allows the empty casing to be ejected after firing. The purpose of this flap is to keep dust, sand, snow and other gunk from getting into and interfering with the smooth operation of the firing mechanism and, as such, is to be kept closed when you are not actually firing the weapon. Otherwise you are much more likely to have a stoppage when you REALLY don't want one.
For the last point, except under the most unusual of circumstances, you do not salute a superior officer when you are not wearing a hat or are not expected to be wearing a hat (i.e. indoors) be that a beret, peak cap, wedge, ball cap or whatever.
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
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.
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.
Lately, I find weather maddening. It’s either a non-issue mid-season light sweater weather, extremely consistent across all movies and films ever made, unless it’s a monsoon like downpour -but everyone is immediately dry unless it’s a plot point. Rarely, it snows, a snows that never settles, never gives any problems, never freezes anyone’s hands.
When I was like 10 I read a book about film production and it mentioned that in some movies they use shredded pieces of paper for snow and I've never been able to unsee it.
Like surely there's a better alternative that isn't asbestos
I'll go the other way with this -- sunglasses. Yeah of course they protect your eyes, yes of course people everywhere should be wearing them in summer.
But they don't where I'm from. People just squint and avoid the sunlight. People wearing sunglasses have skeevy undertones.
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.
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.
@Mog_Spawn #alttext "three panel meme of two actors in a car, one driving, discussing unrealistic movie elements. The text highlights a specific filmmaking technique where car headrests are removed to improve visibility for the audience.
The first panel asks what unrealistic things in movies bug people.
The second panel gives the answer: filmmakers often remove car headrests. This is done so the audience can see the actors better.
The final panel shows the driving actor looking surprised, apparently just realising this, whilst looking backwards in the car he steers without headrests."
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Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 255d
crime is investigated and doctors treat people
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 140 pts · 255d
tetris11@feddit.uk · 25 pts · 255d
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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 254d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 255d
Your purse was stolen? We'll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Also, forensic lab results come back in less than two months (which appeared to be the national average a couple of years ago).
saltesc@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 255d
And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 255d
It's ok, just slouch down in the seat.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 255d
PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.
Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.
And while we’re at it.. in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?
trk@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 255d
Someone pointed this out to me once, and now I can't unsee it. It drives me mad. Every cup, every scene... Weightless and fake.
PUT SOMETHING IN THE DAMN CUPS
Klear@quokk.au · 10 pts · 255d
Agreed. The starbucks cups being empty really ruined the immersion in Game of Thrones for me.
_druid@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 255d
So what, you're telling me you don't tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 255d
I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn't make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn't move correctly.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 255d
And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 255d
Actually those things really are ubiquitous in NYC and environs.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 6 pts · 255d
we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 254d
And when they drink from their cup, they always tilt it like they were sipping on empty cup. Even when they just taken it from the coffee machine. When I do that I always burn my mouth, because coffee will be too hot. It takes long to coffee cool down in paper cups.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 55 pts · 255d
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
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 15 pts · 255d
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.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 255d
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
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 255d
Is this a jab at Armageddon?
herrvogel@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 255d
No, Blade Runner. It's quite obvious that they didn't bother to talk to a single actual replicant hunter when writing that script.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d
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.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 255d
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 254d
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 255d
Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. "We're the good guys" remember?
merc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 255d
How so? Why is the alternative killing?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 255d
Mostly tv shows I’ve noticed this, but all the sets and homes look impeccable. Not a speck of dust, not a hint of mess. Even in shows where kids live in the home. Everyone JUST got their hair trimmed, they wear pants at home and always pop in on each other. But the lack of mess is maddening.
Also in period movies and shows, even the peasants are always wearing clean clothes
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 255d
That's often true but not always, a good set dresser will make a mess if the scene and character calls for it. Typically only for "film d'auteur" though in the more commercial things it's almost always as you said.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
It makes me appreciate shows like sopranos where you see an actual maid walking around to explain away the cleanliness, or episodes where Tony lives alone and the place is covered in laundry, pizza boxes and cereal bowls everywhere. Recently my wife has been watching “This is us” and it looks so sterile like a hallmark movie, I hate it.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 255d
not sure if a tv thing or american thing but everyone wears shoes indoors
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
American thing i think. I visited family in the US from Canada and they looked at me weird for taking my shoes off when I entered their home.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 255d
This is so strange to me. US Americans bring dirt in all rooms of their house, all just for benefit of not being confortable?
Soggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
There's a lot of variables and it's not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_footwear_indoors
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 254d
Americans don't even take off shoes to have sex.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 255d
I'm Chinese American, I remember when I visit relatives houses, I always have to take off shoes.
I think the last time I went, I just remember not doing it since we only stopped by for like an hour, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure I just got mad I was forced to go to the family reunion thing and I was probably irritated and didn't take off my shoes lol.
5too@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
In the American Midwest at least, it varies by household. You basically just pay attention to what your host does.
Used to be less common to remove them, but at least as far back as the nineties, it was a thing to be aware of.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 255d
This is why I like European TV. More often than not it is imperfect and not esthetically "polished" the same way. It looks more like the world is.
phaedrus@piefed.world · 2 pts · 254d
laurelraven@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d
And wake up in perfect makeup in a setting where having makeup on at all makes zero sense
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
I was watching sopranos and they have a maid walking around which is nice, it explains the neat house. But when Tony moved out, his place is covered in newspapers, pizza boxes, beer bottles, etc. I like that kind of attention to detail
5too@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
For a similar reason, I've gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:
They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 40 pts · 255d
Forensic experts cover themselves completely, including a face mask and hood, so they don't pollute a scene. They're not there in full glam.
No, there isn't an alert for when your computer system is under an attack. It would go off constantly because every script kiddie is trying an attack 24/7. There also isn't an alert for when the firewall is penetrated because the whole point of the penetration is that you wouldn't detect it and they can quietly steal data.
Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot. That gold bar you're casually carrying between your finger tips actually weights as much as a reasonable big dumbbell. (16 oz bottle / half liter of gold weights very roughly as much as 2.5 gallon / 10 liter of water or 20 pound / 10 kg)
And every time people are casually thrown into walls. Meanwhile people go to the hospital after a bit of a bad fall when cleaning the gutter.
RidderSport@feddit.org · 11 pts · 255d
The wall thing is even more stupid when the setting is Europe and the wall wouldn't give in even a tiny bit
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 254d
You can accidentally walk through walls in the US, and based on YouTube videos, most porch fences and railings are assembled using static electricity.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
The thrown into a wall thing had a nice subversion in Dragon Prince, mostly a kids show. A primary character, a knight, is batted by a dragon into a rock before being chased off. As they finish, they go to check on him, and he’s been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.
5too@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
...did he get better?!
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
They said they wanted kids shows to have representation for the physically disabled. Now they’re pissed I gave him a backstory? Guess they just wanted a background character as a token.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 255d
One of us doesn't know what the word permanently means
Katana314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
Funny story.
Indications were he shouldn’t have recovered; and he was surprisingly positive, showing resilience to his disability and thinking about how he might continue life as a poet.
But, his sister, a dark mage, was far more mortified about it than he was, and made a magical sacrifice, killing some creature and draining her own lifespan - to restore his full motion. All of this, without asking his permission. He turns out okay, but there’s an implication he shouldn’t have.
So yeah, it’s part of a dramatic arc in that story.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 255d
Actors holding gold bars always make me laugh
snooggums@piefed.world · 7 pts · 255d
Imagine them putting a gold bar in one of their empty cups and just waving it around dramatically.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 255d
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that!
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Interestingly, $100s are still a bit less valuable per unit weight at $100/g, versus gold at about $134/g, but that's only been since about March of this year.
Gold does have other advantages, like being much less bulky, and can be readily melted into untraceable units.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 255d
but can I do some blow through a gold bar?
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Sure can!
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Gold is highly malleable, you definitely can with some effort.
guy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 254d
Kelly's heroes comes to mind
x4740N@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 255d
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 255d
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.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
Namek exploding intensifies
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 33 pts · 255d
Happy family time and joined breakfast with bacon and cereal every morning.
snooggums@piefed.world · 7 pts · 255d
They don't get fat though since they never eat the breakfast.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 255d
Breakfast? YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL.
(I was always late for school. Cuz that's that emotional trauma does to a child. Thanks a lot, mom!)
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 255d
When two people stare at each other while talking for several minutes and one of them is driving.
sapphiria@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 255d
I know someone who does this IRL. It's terrifying being in a car with them.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 255d
The first time shame on them, all other times shame on you. Unless you’re sad then have at it 😉
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 255d
No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles or puts the key in. There is always a motorcycle with a helmet sitting on it with the key inside.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 255d
Similarly but even more nerdy is a car making one swerve on dirt, that requires switching traction control off. Top Gear did a bit on it where they were hired to record a chase scene for a movie, and insisted on the following shot;
“You have to hold the mode button for ten seconds to turn off Traction Control!”
cue ten quiet seconds of holding the button
merc@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 255d
It's been a while since I rode a motorcycle, but apparently things have changed a lot.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
They may be referring to the motorcycle helmet chin strap.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 255d
I prefer my mental image.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 254d
Motorcycle helmets stopped using chin straps in the 1960s. The strap goes in front of the neck.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Are you gaslighting or fucking with me? The retention system for motorcycle helmets still gets referred to casually as chin straps. It goes under your chin, which also happens to be in front of the neck.
I own and ride a motorcycle. I own and wear a helmet. I call them chin straps. Everyone I know calls them chin straps. Diagrams for helmets in English call them chins straps or, on occasion, the "helmet retention system".
I honestly don't care what you call them - I'm just trying to be helpful and interpret what I thought you meant. I don't understand why you are being argumentative? Is it a translation thing maybe?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 255d
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.
KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 255d
"But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!"
'Stand back, I'm an orthodontist.'
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 254d
People think MDs are scientists, including MDs.
5too@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
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!
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
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...
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 8 pts · 255d
Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.
Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 254d
Or when those genius scientists say something that shows they don’t even have a high schooler’s grasp of maths.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
There are "home labs" but they'd be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 255d
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.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 23 pts · 255d
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.
x4740N@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
You'd think they'd make a custom trailer that's low to the ground as possible at this point.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 255d
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.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 255d
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.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 255d
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.
kieron115@startrek.website · 6 pts · 255d
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.
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 254d
Magical accident: the teacher had flipped themselves through the fourth dimension the night before.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 255d
You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:
foggy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 255d
My biggest pet peeve is how fucking rude people are getting off the phone in movies. They just hang up.
I mean I yearn for that world but am painfully aware that it doesn't exist.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 255d
Lol I just hang up on the phone when I "done" being on a call with my parents, no byes, just press the red button. They got so used to it, they never said anything about it. xD
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 255d
not in the movie Phone Booth
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
I work in IT and talk on the phone all day and like 70% of end users just hang up at the end of calls. No goodbye or anything. It's so fucking rude
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Growing up I really thought Americans just didn't say 'bye' on the phone. It always impressed me how they both knew exactly when the conversation was over.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
The conversation is over when you hang up, therefore you can never be wrong.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 255d
I think it's funny how people never say bye in Suits. They just walk away or hang up.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 255d
Texting someone? This is the first time you're doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.
oplkill@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 255d
A building company using a prop shovel for some clip, except the shovel's lacquer got chipped so they decided to re-coat it in order to have a pristine shovel.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 255d
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.
foo@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 254d
Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 255d
The usual line you'll hear on set is that "if your audience notices this, you're doing something wrong with your story telling".
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 255d
"Over and Out". No, it's either "Over" or "Out".
Close your fucking dust cover.
You salute when wearing a hat.
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 255d
TIL
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 255d
What's the context for those last two?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 255d
The M16 family of assault rifles has a small spring loaded flap on the right side that pops open when the bolt is goes back. This allows the empty casing to be ejected after firing. The purpose of this flap is to keep dust, sand, snow and other gunk from getting into and interfering with the smooth operation of the firing mechanism and, as such, is to be kept closed when you are not actually firing the weapon. Otherwise you are much more likely to have a stoppage when you REALLY don't want one.
For the last point, except under the most unusual of circumstances, you do not salute a superior officer when you are not wearing a hat or are not expected to be wearing a hat (i.e. indoors) be that a beret, peak cap, wedge, ball cap or whatever.
nevetsg@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 254d
This is the first time I have noticed the selection of CDs on the sun visor.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 254d
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.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 254d
You’re not old. He’s just a dumb kid.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 254d
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
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 254d
Whoosh. Calm down, old man.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 254d
I will not calm down. Now get off my lawn and stop skateboarding on the sidewalk!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 255d
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.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 10 pts · 255d
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.
erev@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
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.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 254d
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.
erev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
you're forgetting the super special anti-armor piercing paint they made just for john wick duh
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 252d
They did it better in Twin Peaks
https://youtu.be/YLsEb9jNlQg
Eq0@literature.cafe · 11 pts · 255d
Lately, I find weather maddening. It’s either a non-issue mid-season light sweater weather, extremely consistent across all movies and films ever made, unless it’s a monsoon like downpour -but everyone is immediately dry unless it’s a plot point. Rarely, it snows, a snows that never settles, never gives any problems, never freezes anyone’s hands.
snooggums@piefed.world · 7 pts · 255d
The number of people in arctic conditions without head coverings is maddening.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 255d
When I was like 10 I read a book about film production and it mentioned that in some movies they use shredded pieces of paper for snow and I've never been able to unsee it.
Like surely there's a better alternative that isn't asbestos
Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 255d
Just yesterday I saw a quick scene with such unbelievable snow it put me off trying to watch any further… not surprised it could have been paper
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 255d
I'll go the other way with this -- sunglasses. Yeah of course they protect your eyes, yes of course people everywhere should be wearing them in summer.
But they don't where I'm from. People just squint and avoid the sunlight. People wearing sunglasses have skeevy undertones.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me · 9 pts · 255d
That's amateur film maker stuff.
In real film making, people become the head rest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxb9xzAaYjM
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 255d
snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 255d
That was 60 years ago, and very few of those cars are still on the road.
phaedrus@piefed.world · 7 pts · 254d
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.
Chromebby@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
WTF
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 255d
Rearview mirrors get removed too. Sometimes, especially on column-shift cars, the transmission is still in park.
saimen@feddit.org · 5 pts · 254d
People almost never misspeak or mishear anything.
5too@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
The only incident like this I can remember is Firefly:
Simon: "Are you Alliance?"
Jubal: "Am I a lion? ...I don't really think of myself as one. Though I do have a mighty roar!"
Simon: "....I said, are you Alliance"....
Jubal: "Oh. I thought you said...." Points gun more at Simon "Where's your sister?"
I like it because it doesn't really drive the plot or anything, it's just the first time we see Jubal Early misstep, and seem awkward.
thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 254d
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.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
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.
foo@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 254d
Hangovers never seem to last beyond a sip of coffee, or hearing important news.
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 4 pts · 255d
The way they insert IVs. Your veins don't run perpendicular.
SereneSadie@quokk.au · 4 pts · 255d
windowsphoneguy@feddit.org · 4 pts · 255d
100%
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 255d
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Wait … I never noticed that!!!
essjax@essjax.com · 2 pts · 255d
@Mog_Spawn goddamnit
Heliograph@mastodon.au · 2 pts · 255d
@Mog_Spawn
#alttext "three panel meme of two actors in a car, one driving, discussing unrealistic movie elements. The text highlights a specific filmmaking technique where car headrests are removed to improve visibility for the audience.
The first panel asks what unrealistic things in movies bug people.
The second panel gives the answer: filmmakers often remove car headrests. This is done so the audience can see the actors better.
The final panel shows the driving actor looking surprised, apparently just realising this, whilst looking backwards in the car he steers without headrests."