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crime is investigated and doctors treat people
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.
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Your purse was stolen? We’ll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.
And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.
It’s ok, just slouch down in the seat.
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?
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
Ahreed. The starbucks cups being empty really ruined the immersion in Game of Thrones for me.
So what, you’re telling me you don’t tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
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?
Actually those things really are ubiquitous in NYC and environs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
not sure if a tv thing or american thing but everyone wears shoes indoors
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.
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.
This is so strange to me. US Americans bring dirt in all rooms of their house, all just for benefit of not being confortable?
There’s a lot of variables and it’s not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_footwear_indoors
And wake up in perfect makeup in a setting where having makeup on at all makes zero sense
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
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.
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 wall thing is even more stupid when the setting is Europe and the wall wouldn’t give in even a tiny bit
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.
mostly a kids show… been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.
…did he get better?!
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.
One of us doesn’t know what the word permanently means
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.
Actors holding gold bars always make me laugh
Imagine them putting a gold bar in one of their empty cups and just waving it around dramatically.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that!
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.
but can I do some blow through a gold bar?
Gold is highly malleable, you definitely can with some effort.
Sure can!
Happy family time and joined breakfast with bacon and cereal every morning.
They don’t get fat though since they never eat the breakfast.
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!)
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.
Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. “We’re the good guys” remember?
How so? Why is the alternative killing?
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.
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 buttonNo one secures the neck strap on motorcycles
It’s been a while since I rode a motorcycle, but apparently things have changed a lot.
They may be referring to the motorcycle helmet chin strap.
I prefer my mental image.
Motorcycle helmets stopped using chin straps in the 1960s. The strap goes in front of the neck.
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 contentious? Is it a translation thing maybe?
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 😉
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.
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.
Namek exploding intensifies
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.
You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:
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.
“But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!”
‘Stand back, I’m an orthodontist.’
Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.
Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.
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!
There are “home labs” but they’d be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.
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.
The usual line you’ll hear on set is that “if your audience notices this, you’re doing something wrong with your story telling”.
