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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.
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.
Rearview mirrors get removed too. Sometimes, especially on column-shift cars, the transmission is still in park.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s other ways the person in charge can help!
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.’
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.
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.
not in the movie Phone Booth
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.I have automatic chat deletion, so mine chats are empty
“Over and Out”. No, it’s either “Over” or “Out”.
Close your fucking dust cover.
You salute when wearing a hat.
What’s the context for those last two?
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.
TIL
When the movie is filmed at 27 frames per second instead of 26. Ugh.
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.
No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles
It’s been a while since I rode a motorcycle, but apparently things have changed a lot.
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
When two people state at each other while talking for several minutes and one of them is driving.
I know someone who does this IRL. It’s terrifying being in a car with them.
The first time shame on them, all other times shame on you. Unless you’re sad then have at it 😉
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
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
The number of people in arctic conditions without head coverings is maddening.
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.
