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re: What are some of your extreme movie nit-picks that make you irrationally angry?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 3:24 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Posted on 3/3/22 at 3:24 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
I always post this in these sorts of threads, and I will continue until Hollywood stops, I suppose:
When someone pulls a fire alarm pull station and all of the sprinkler heads in the ceiling activate, soaking everyone on the floor.
That's the cinematic life safety equivalent of flipping on the light switch in your bathroom, and the toilet flushes when you do.
When someone pulls a fire alarm pull station and all of the sprinkler heads in the ceiling activate, soaking everyone on the floor.
That's the cinematic life safety equivalent of flipping on the light switch in your bathroom, and the toilet flushes when you do.
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Posted on 3/3/22 at 3:29 pm to Potchafa
Shoving it down our throats!
---so to speak
---so to speak
Posted on 3/3/22 at 3:46 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Movie and TV- it makes me crazy when you hear thunder/see lightning, then immediately there's a downpour. I've never been in a situation like that in my life- it's utterly unrealistic.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:02 pm to schatman
Was gonna mention the sprinkler system thing. Every single movie gets this wrong.
Also, all the stupid electronic sound effects every time someone uses a computer.
Also, all the stupid electronic sound effects every time someone uses a computer.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:18 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
It irks me that I never get to go into a bar or restaurant and drink or eat without paying like many characters in movies or TV get to do.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:29 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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Have you seen any of the videos of people getting their cars stolen in NOLA.
Beat me to it. That was the first thing I thought about when I read that post.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 4:43 pm to Grievous Angel
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Also, bad southern accents by liberal hollywood yankees. Gripes my arse.
Add bad La. accents to that list. Almost nobody gets the N.O. dialect down right in movies and then they have us eating gumbo, jambalaya and seafood boils for every meal.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 5:20 pm to Speedy G
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Shoeless Joe Jackson batting righthanded in Field of Dreams.
I thought of this today out of the blue for no reason. Always bugged me.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 5:22 pm to upgrade
American accents in medieval movies, ie Matt Damon in The Last Duel and of course Costnrr in Robin Hood.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 5:25 pm to gumbo2176
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they have us eating gumbo, jambalaya and seafood boils for every meal.
gumbo2176
This guy checks out
Posted on 3/3/22 at 5:40 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
quote:I'll take it!
Credit to the James Franco blinking thread for partial inspiration.
If you watch people talking in a movie/show and the camera is cutting back and forth between them talking, you're supposed to look at the face each time. Usually they'll cut mid sentence and show you the person listening while you see the back and side of the talker's head. You can look at his jaw and see that's he not talking while you hear his voice. We don't notice only because we're looking at the other guy's face. They make no efforts to fix this because no one notices. It is in almost every movie/tv show even the greatest of all time. But once you notice, you can't stop noticing and being confronted with the fact that this conversation was filmed at different times and they dubbed audio in. Your suspension of disbelief is ruined forever.
This post was edited on 3/3/22 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 3/3/22 at 6:34 pm to gumbo2176
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Then there's the action movies where the hero is in a firefight with 35 enemy soldiers and he's by himself, yet never gets hit when thousands of rounds are heading his way.
Quantum physics/multiverse explains this.
Basically you start with the assumption that all of the events you view in the movie actually occurred in the universe as you see them. There is a theory that has now made it into mainstream entertainment that there are infinite alternate universes that are impacted by every individual living creatures every individual decision. So the theory basically goes that we view the the events in the movie as one variation of them occurred. In that variation, not a single bullet hits our hero, or at least not enough to harm them.
In reality though, who wants to see their protagonist get killed in an anticlimactic manner?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 7:08 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
"Michael Corleone says hello!"
It was improvised by Danny Aiello in GF II.
Made little sense in the plot (he had no way of knowing Pentangeli would have survived the hit)
Screwy decision by Copolla to keep it in
It was improvised by Danny Aiello in GF II.
Made little sense in the plot (he had no way of knowing Pentangeli would have survived the hit)
Screwy decision by Copolla to keep it in
Posted on 3/3/22 at 7:28 pm to RD Dawg
The Silence of the Lambs--First meeting between Starling and Lecter, Starling tells Lecter that Buffalo Bill got his nickname as a joke from the Kansas City Homicide Department. Later on when Lecter gives Starling the map of where all the kidnappings were committed and bodies discover it is shown that every single crime took place east of the Mississippi River. Why would the Kansas City Homicide Department have anything to do with the case?
Posted on 3/3/22 at 7:41 pm to 88Wildcat
when its multiple people fighting one
the one person will have their back facing an attacker. the attacker, instead of hitting the person in the back of the head, will grab their shoulder to try to spin them around.
often, they will just put their hand on the shoulder for several seconds, giving the solo guy a chance to spin around on their own and be ready
the one person will have their back facing an attacker. the attacker, instead of hitting the person in the back of the head, will grab their shoulder to try to spin them around.
often, they will just put their hand on the shoulder for several seconds, giving the solo guy a chance to spin around on their own and be ready
Posted on 3/3/22 at 7:58 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Wonder Woman 1984- Steve is brought back and suddenly this WW1 era pilot is some how capable of flawlessly flying a jet. Of all the crazy shite that happens in super hero movies this is the thing that made me say “Ohhhh come on.”
Posted on 3/3/22 at 8:36 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
During or soon after a gun fight - pick up the damn weapon especially if it’s a rifle and you’re using a pistol, and especially if guns and ammo are limited or scarce.
The latest infraction is 1883, big shootout far from supplies, popping off dozens of rounds, but yeah don’t take the dead enemy’s weapons or supplies. Nah. Hate it.
The latest infraction is 1883, big shootout far from supplies, popping off dozens of rounds, but yeah don’t take the dead enemy’s weapons or supplies. Nah. Hate it.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 11:06 pm to Havoc
I can't watch a movie with a lot of railroad related stuff without going insane. Almost nothing is possible the way they film is with runaways and such.
One good example; In Unstoppable the train goes around the tight curve way over the speed limit and the locomotives and cars lift the inside wheels. Won't happen. The outer rail will actually spread, or as we call it knock the rail over, and derail the train. The spikes don't actually hold the rail down/upright at all. All they are there for is holding the gauge (4'8.5" between the rails). Too much speed in a curve will pull the spikes right out and over the rail goes.
Loads of other stuff in that and about every other rail movie I've seen.
One good example; In Unstoppable the train goes around the tight curve way over the speed limit and the locomotives and cars lift the inside wheels. Won't happen. The outer rail will actually spread, or as we call it knock the rail over, and derail the train. The spikes don't actually hold the rail down/upright at all. All they are there for is holding the gauge (4'8.5" between the rails). Too much speed in a curve will pull the spikes right out and over the rail goes.
Loads of other stuff in that and about every other rail movie I've seen.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 11:10 pm to Havoc
Gun fight in a closed space has never affected the hearing of the gun fighters. Fire one shot in a closed room and get back to me in 3 days when your ears stop ringing.
Computer operators never use a mouse.
Computer operators never use a mouse.
Posted on 3/3/22 at 11:39 pm to Adajax
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American accents in medieval movies, ie Matt Damon in The Last Duel and of course Costnrr in Robin Hood.
They wouldn't have been speaking anything that resembled modern English accents back then either my dude.
This post was edited on 3/4/22 at 12:10 am
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