re: why does hollywood still insist rifles & pistols have unlimited ammo?

TV not movie but watched about 5 minutes of Hawaii Five-Oh last year. To see the guy from the Oceans movies character fire a Desert Eagle one handed like a full sized 9mm. Lol

I posted this in another thread but helicopters flying 15’ off the ground chasing a car always makes me laugh.

Why use the advantage of flying high and see everything when you can fly ground level.

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Doc Holiday must have invented the one and only extended clip revolver immediately before OK Coral. That dude fired no less than 30 rounds per gun.

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I thought he was carrying the double-barrel shotgun. But still, he appeared to fire three shots without reloading. One of my all time favorite movies

Just watched a movie about some guy trying to kill a bear on Netflix.

Once again they had that knife making a sound when it's drawn from its sheath. Sort of a metallic swoosh or whatnot.

Kinda like how a gun in movies makes a sound when people point it at someone.

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But its probably pretty boring to see on screen and involves a bunch of lingo that only that type of person would understand. So they make it (not just hacking, this applies for many fields im sure) easily accessible to the masses and more interesting by having lots of fun buzzwords and complex password riddles and fast typing.

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I think it’s because realistic time frames blow up story lines. I remember watching a show several years back where a hacker did a deep fake in real time, this is before deep fakes were a thing. Back then it’d have been hours if not days of work.

Also look at cop shows where every case is solved with a confession. It’s about fitting the story.

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Once you actually know anything about the subject, you figure out real quick Hollywood doesnt.

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Michael Crichton talked about this phenomenon as it related to journalism. And it goes something like this: You read a story in the newspaper that's about something you know a lot about. Say cattle ranching, for instance, assuming that you are a cattle rancher.

And you think: This journalists doesn't know a damn thing about cattle.

Then you read the next story and it's about medicine. And it sounds reasonable. So you give it credibility. When if fact if you were a doctor, you could immediately identify all the basic errors in that story too.

The more we know about a subject, the more we realize that the vast majority of teachers, politicians, writers, government types, experts, and commentators don't know a fricking thing.