Why is it that when there's a disaster of sorts, it always seems like it's JUST the right person for the job that's on hand? Oh no, this machine is broken! Good thing I'm an engineer!
Film is also fiction (in this discussion). In the world of the movie, there ARE palm trees in Chicago and mountains in Florida.True, but if you're familiar with the place the film claims to be set in the illusion is broken.
Ripping a couple wires out of a steering column and hotwiring a car. A couple decades ago it was a little more believable, but now it's just lazy.
Anyone ever heard of the movie, “Something Wild”? It was Ray Liotta’s first big movie. They filmed all but the ends of the movie around my hometown in Florida, but taking place in the Northeast. Pine barrens standing in for Pennsylvania and Virginia? Not likely! They didn’t even change the signs, as the characters pull up to the “Appalachee Motor Lodge” without the sign being changed, a name clearly known to any resident of the Sunshine state. There was an Florida State University-marked large satellite antenna clearly shown going down the road. Still, it was cool that my Dad is the Civil War re-enactor that Jeff Daniels literally bumps into in the gas station scene, though.How about movies filming somewhere completely opposite of where the movie is supposed to take place?
I would have died laughing at that, too. They all had cable locks, though, so to make off with one, you only needed strong wire cutters or a way to pick a 5200-series government padlock.The funniest thing I've ever seen relating to hotwiring is in some cheap military themed movie where they recruited a bunch street kids to be part of some elite team and one of the kids was an expert car thief. In one scene this kid, in order to help facilitate his team's get away he quickly proceeds to hotwire a Humvee, a military issue Humvee. What's funny about this is that military tactical vehicles don't need keys to start, you just flip a switch to start them, it's actually a prank in the military to tell a new guy fresh from boot camp to go get the keys to the Humvee.
The funniest thing I've ever seen relating to hotwiring is in some cheap military themed movie where they recruited a bunch street kids to be part of some elite team and one of the kids was an expert car thief. In one scene this kid, in order to help facilitate his team's get away he quickly proceeds to hotwire a Humvee, a military issue Humvee. What's funny about this is that military tactical vehicles don't need keys to start, you just flip a switch to start them, it's actually a prank in the military to tell a new guy fresh from boot camp to go get the keys to the Humvee.
Actually, early WW2 Jeeps had key ignitions and locks for the spare tires. That didn't last long.That's pretty funny. I never really thought about military vehicles and keys.
Ripping a couple wires out of a steering column and hotwiring a car. A couple decades ago it was a little more believable, but now it's just lazy.
Ripping a couple wires out of a steering column and hotwiring a car. A couple decades ago it was a little more believable, but now it's just lazy.
Ugh, I hated that about Jurassic World. The kids playing with the night vision goggles, and they still manage to turn on, after 20 years (battery acid corrosion, anybody?) Then they are able to fix a Jeep by switching out the battery from a golf cart. Nevermind the gasoline in it would have turned sour long ago. The only realistic part of that whole thing was Chris Pratt wondering aloud how they managed it all. Also. woodn't the matches in the younger kid's fanny pack have been useless after they jumped down a waterfall? Yeah, that movie is just littered with logical headaches.buildings that are abandoned for decades and when someone flicks a switch all light work just fine and in case there where computers they boot perfect. erm, no
Buildings that are abandoned for decades and when someone flicks a switch all light work just fine and in case there were computers they boot perfect. Erm, no.