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Posted on 7/24/26 at 8:37 am to OWLFAN86
I make plastic.
So no.
So no.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 8:46 am to OWLFAN86
Waiting
They did a goo djob
They did a goo djob
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:18 am to OWLFAN86
I’ve had two careers…one in hotels and one in construction. Not exactly hotel staff but the reality show about the cruise ship employees is a fairly accurate representation of young people in the hospitality business
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:49 am to OWLFAN86
Nobody wants a realistic lawyer show. It would bore everyone to tears.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:15 am to wesfau
Have been a HS teacher/Coach and a lawyer.
Lawyer- Above comment totally correct.
Coach- Friday Night Lights (Tv version) comes closest
Teacher- NONE "Teacher" with Nick Nolte comes close with the administrators who only care about looking like they are educating, but kissing the parent's asses and screwing over the teachers.
No show set in HS is the least bit accurate.
Lawyer- Above comment totally correct.
Coach- Friday Night Lights (Tv version) comes closest
Teacher- NONE "Teacher" with Nick Nolte comes close with the administrators who only care about looking like they are educating, but kissing the parent's asses and screwing over the teachers.
No show set in HS is the least bit accurate.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:19 am to OWLFAN86
Yes, several reality shows, mostly on Animal Planet. Some are better than others for accuracy. I don't watch them.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:26 am to OWLFAN86
For my previous profession, Top Gun was pretty accurate.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:42 am to OWLFAN86
I've found that media portrayal of software engineers has been in 3 sorta kinda categories, that often overlap.
- Hyper super hero programmers who can hack into any system, break any encryption, immediately write scripts/programs targeting any hardware platform or operating system - literally even inhuman alien ones.
- Recluses who can speak techno babble, but don't seem to actually know anything coding, engineering, or software development principles.
- Einsteinian corporate Napoleans who are somehow just plain smarter than everybody else around them and able make to make billions as easy as normal people focus and take deep breaths.
I don't mind these portrayals as some of them are quite entertaining. All that said, there have been some films that depicted software types as they actually are somewhat realistic settings and have been rather notable in quality and watchability.
- Hyper super hero programmers who can hack into any system, break any encryption, immediately write scripts/programs targeting any hardware platform or operating system - literally even inhuman alien ones.
- Recluses who can speak techno babble, but don't seem to actually know anything coding, engineering, or software development principles.
- Einsteinian corporate Napoleans who are somehow just plain smarter than everybody else around them and able make to make billions as easy as normal people focus and take deep breaths.
I don't mind these portrayals as some of them are quite entertaining. All that said, there have been some films that depicted software types as they actually are somewhat realistic settings and have been rather notable in quality and watchability.
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Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:30 am to OWLFAN86
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And how accurately did it portray the business?
The Accountant... I'd say it's fairly accurate.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 9:13 am to Sam Quint
Hi Fidelity
I own a record shop, Dj and have operated record labels. That movie hits the nail on the head, from the kids that work in the shop to my personal life.
I own a record shop, Dj and have operated record labels. That movie hits the nail on the head, from the kids that work in the shop to my personal life.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 10:08 am
Posted on 7/26/26 at 10:59 am to OWLFAN86
Margin Call didn't exactly match one of my previous careers but it was well done.
I worked in a fairly specialized role for a couple of the largest brokerages protecting the firms' assets directly related to margin borrowing. Made it through the dot com bubble and mortgage crisis without losing any of the firms' money. Forcibly liquidated ueasily thousands of customer accounts over the years.
During the dot com bubble, accounts were so highly leveraged in those stocks I had 4-5 traders doing nothing all day but selling out accounts. This went on for about a week. Kick the customer off their trading platform, sell everything in their account, let them back in to see the rubble left behind. Margin borrowing is risky.
I worked in a fairly specialized role for a couple of the largest brokerages protecting the firms' assets directly related to margin borrowing. Made it through the dot com bubble and mortgage crisis without losing any of the firms' money. Forcibly liquidated ueasily thousands of customer accounts over the years.
During the dot com bubble, accounts were so highly leveraged in those stocks I had 4-5 traders doing nothing all day but selling out accounts. This went on for about a week. Kick the customer off their trading platform, sell everything in their account, let them back in to see the rubble left behind. Margin borrowing is risky.
This post was edited on 7/26/26 at 11:04 am
Posted on 7/26/26 at 12:22 pm to OWLFAN86
Movies that had factory workers did for the first half of my working life but from what I remember they were a little hit and miss on accuracy.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 12:34 pm to ellunchboxo
The Graduate was all hype
Posted on 7/26/26 at 7:31 pm to OWLFAN86
There's a backdraft thread from yesterday where I mentioned it's a must-watch in the fire service, but it's also highly inaccurate. All of the TV dramas are absolute BS. If they accurately portrayed daily shifts as a firefighter, it would be 90% medical calls and MVAs where we're just directing traffic or cleaning up the mess. Random stations even in big cities don't have butt puckering calls every shift.
Ladder 49 is decent. Rescue Me is a good show for how brutally we'll talk to each other. Tacoma FD is more accurate than you'd like to think for the guys you pay taxes to protect you and your family
Only the Brave is an incredible true story with a few liberties in the storytelling. I've done a case study on the Yarnell fire for wildland firefighting course work. The movie doesn't show some of the things that contributed to what happened, but there are numerous scenes where not only the dialogue but even the tone, inflection, the cracking of a voice over the radio.... They nailed that. Some of the radio traffic is public and you can find it on YT. The scene where they're jamming out on the way to a fire is
We had a fire entering a high-end neighborhood that was around 1,000 acres at the time. We were just like that en route to that one. Wildland-Urban interface is frickin go time.
Emergency medicine isn't much different. Scrubs is fantastic for showing the levity it takes to stay sane. The Pitt is fantastic for showing how most staffs are juggling multiple patients with varying circumstances and still dealing with your personal shite.
Ladder 49 is decent. Rescue Me is a good show for how brutally we'll talk to each other. Tacoma FD is more accurate than you'd like to think for the guys you pay taxes to protect you and your family
Only the Brave is an incredible true story with a few liberties in the storytelling. I've done a case study on the Yarnell fire for wildland firefighting course work. The movie doesn't show some of the things that contributed to what happened, but there are numerous scenes where not only the dialogue but even the tone, inflection, the cracking of a voice over the radio.... They nailed that. Some of the radio traffic is public and you can find it on YT. The scene where they're jamming out on the way to a fire is
We had a fire entering a high-end neighborhood that was around 1,000 acres at the time. We were just like that en route to that one. Wildland-Urban interface is frickin go time. Emergency medicine isn't much different. Scrubs is fantastic for showing the levity it takes to stay sane. The Pitt is fantastic for showing how most staffs are juggling multiple patients with varying circumstances and still dealing with your personal shite.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 2:46 am to OWLFAN86
Deepwater Horizon was grossly inaccurate with regards to the roles and responsibilities of different workers on an offshore drilling rig. The main character would never be involved with any wellhead activities and certainly would not be issuing instructions for the OIM.
Armageddon did a good job of depicting the type of characters you would encounter in the industry.
Armageddon did a good job of depicting the type of characters you would encounter in the industry.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 2:49 am
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:23 am to OWLFAN86
The Big Short and Margin Call --- the beginning of Margin Call was not accurate, everyone knew the stuff was garbage -- the 2nd half was correct as it was a blood bath of firms dumping everything they owned.....Big Short had portions that were accurate, but mostly not
Posted on 7/27/26 at 4:48 pm to wesfau
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Nobody wants a realistic lawyer show. It would bore everyone to tears.
Anatomy of a Murder (from way, way back in the day) is not only a really great movie but is very accurate in both trial procedure and attorney/client relations. Jimmy Stewart stars, and George C. Scott, in one of his first movie roles, is fantastic.
There is a scene with Stewart where he coaches his client in a workable defense without really coaching him (i.e. without crossing any ethical lines) that is just how it is done. Spoiler Alert Scott learns the danger of asking a question when you don't know the answer, and, of course, the client skips out on the bill.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 8:19 pm to OWLFAN86
About 98 percent of cop movies are fake
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:29 am to skrayper
Outside the magic encryption box, sneakers was dead on
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