Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Tom Starkiller
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No traffic on the roads when an accident happens. This is most especially annoying when it happens on the big main roads that you know full well would be heaving with traffic.
p51
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When a family member is killed in combat and the two people in class As (one for the notification and the other a chaplain) show up at the door and the family doesn't put 2 and 2 together until they see the looks on their faces.
I've actually done that duty. It's one of the few things movies get right, in the reaction of the family and the look on the people's faces doing the notification. Frankly, I'm sick to death of seeing it depicted on film as I promise you the person who answers the door already knows why you're there, the moment they see you!
To be honest, I turn away from those scenes anymore. Been having nightmares about those notifications for many years now. I can't watch that part of "We were soldiers" anymore where they do all the notifications...
And the earlier mention of empty parking spaces... yeah, good point, too.
I've actually done that duty. It's one of the few things movies get right, in the reaction of the family and the look on the people's faces doing the notification. Frankly, I'm sick to death of seeing it depicted on film as I promise you the person who answers the door already knows why you're there, the moment they see you!
To be honest, I turn away from those scenes anymore. Been having nightmares about those notifications for many years now. I can't watch that part of "We were soldiers" anymore where they do all the notifications...
How about pedestrians walking out in front of cars who slow down at the same exact moment? I always laugh at that, how movies so carefully orchestrate the people on foot and the drivers, but in real life neither knows what the other is gonna do ahead of time. In real life, there'd be a lot of slamming on brakes or honking of horns.
And the earlier mention of empty parking spaces... yeah, good point, too.
Yeah that irks me too... and the famous pinging noise that accompanies it. No matter if it's wood or dirt, you always see a spark and hear the exact same sound everytime.
Probe Droid
Master Member
Actors cast as parent/child when their actual ages are only a few years apart. Just saw Some Kind of Beautiful,a cutesy romantic comedy in which Malcolm McDowell (age 72) played Pierce Brosnin's (aged 62) father.
In Hitchcock's North by Northwest the actress playing Cary Grant's mother in fact was younger than he was.
In Hitchcock's North by Northwest the actress playing Cary Grant's mother in fact was younger than he was.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Wait a minute. You knew all this time where the island was, and you just left them stranded there???
Solos blaster
Sr Member
Hahahaha yea...Connery is only 12 years older than Ford in Last Crusade....but Ford looked the almost 40 year old Indy and not the 50 year old he actually was.
PHArchivist
Master Member
Wait a minute. You knew all this time where the island was, and you just left them stranded there???
All right that made me chuckle a little!
CB2001
Master Member
I don't mind the wild age splits when the actors are older. If it works then it works. Does anyone thing Sean Connery & Harrison Ford were the wrong Henry Jones duo? Okay then.
The older people get the farther their appearance can diverge from average. Makeup & cosmetic surgery can distort their ages much farther as they age too. Tom Cruise is over 50yo now.
Besides, in Hollywood almost everyone plays 10 years below their age. Any actor can look older by just not jumping through the usual hoops to look younger.
The older people get the farther their appearance can diverge from average. Makeup & cosmetic surgery can distort their ages much farther as they age too. Tom Cruise is over 50yo now.
Besides, in Hollywood almost everyone plays 10 years below their age. Any actor can look older by just not jumping through the usual hoops to look younger.
kialna
Sr Member
I hear a lot about how the Dutch version of 'Kidnapping Freddy Heineken' is better than this one. But I must say, I've not seen any of them. Did you like it or did you not see it?
CB2001
Master Member
I haven't seen either of them. I was just sharing the info in relation to your question what he has been in lately.
p51
Sr Member
Any WW2 movie where average people already know what and where Pearl Harbor is when first told of the December 7, 1941 attack.
Think of the provincial nature of education, say, in the prewar era. Most people weren't aware of anything outside their own communities.
I always laugh at movies where you see people being told that Pearl Harbor was just bombed. Missing from those movies is always the common real-life reaction to that:
"Pearl Harbor? Where the heck is that?"
But I have never seen that reaction in any WW2 movie.
Think of the provincial nature of education, say, in the prewar era. Most people weren't aware of anything outside their own communities.
I always laugh at movies where you see people being told that Pearl Harbor was just bombed. Missing from those movies is always the common real-life reaction to that:
"Pearl Harbor? Where the heck is that?"
But I have never seen that reaction in any WW2 movie.
p51
Sr Member
Not to mention that it was very early on a Sunday when it happened. Where would many Americans be at the time when the news came out?
That's right, many of them would have been at church. The rural ones wouldn't have even gotten home until later that day. I've never seen in in a movie but I'd love to see a scene in a rural church where the preacher comes out, white as a sheet, and tells the congregation what happened, answering the "where the heck is that?" questions.
My Mom clearly recalls hearing about Normandy. On the afternoon of June 6, 1944 (a Tuesday), a older woman was running up and down the Hollow screaming that her boy was in England and was probably getting shot at, at that very moment (or dead). She told me the adults were all standing around their mailboxes or porches in groups, trying to make sense of the radio reports coming in by then.
This was an invasion that was expected. Imagine the response for Pearl Harbor!
That's right, many of them would have been at church. The rural ones wouldn't have even gotten home until later that day. I've never seen in in a movie but I'd love to see a scene in a rural church where the preacher comes out, white as a sheet, and tells the congregation what happened, answering the "where the heck is that?" questions.
My Mom clearly recalls hearing about Normandy. On the afternoon of June 6, 1944 (a Tuesday), a older woman was running up and down the Hollow screaming that her boy was in England and was probably getting shot at, at that very moment (or dead). She told me the adults were all standing around their mailboxes or porches in groups, trying to make sense of the radio reports coming in by then.
This was an invasion that was expected. Imagine the response for Pearl Harbor!
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