Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[p51]

As for the bridge scene in "Blue Thunder", do people even use that bridge to drive anywhere? I couldn't count the times I've seen that same bridge in movies and TV over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Street_Viaduct

Speaking of Blue Thunder, when he rose up behind the bridge in whisper mode, that was supposed to be a surprise to the cop standing there, and it was, because of whisper mode.
How many times have we seen that scene coped in other films with ordinary helicopters, even harriers (and a bird of prey) and still people can't hear them?

In the same movie, they're using a Bell Ranger watching that woman, and they're right next to houses for several minutes before a neighbor looks out their window?

 

[Zombie_61]

As for the bridge scene in "Blue Thunder", do people even use that bridge to drive anywhere?

Yes, every day. It's a reasonably well-traveled route from the east Los Angeles area into downtown Los Angeles. I'm somewhat saddened to see it's going to be destroyed and rebuilt. I understand why they're doing it and can't disagree with their reasons, but it has become something of a Los Angeles landmark because of it's use in movies and television shows so I'll be sorry to see it go.

 

[bwayne64]

One thing I'm painfully tired of: Helicopters flying through very tight streets, at redline speeds. The closest film for that being done realistically is in "Blue Thunder" and that's because they used real aircraft in a real city for that. But in those scenes, you'll see they're half a block away from the walls of any buildings. NO chopper pilot would fly the way you see in so many movies, because you'd never survive the trip.

Then I know you loved the "tip the hat " scene in San Andreas, Like there is actually a maneuver like that, that actually has a name. I was a crew chief in the Army. And if a pilot ever tried that crap, I don't care that he's an officer. If he or she doesn't kill us both, I will kill them when we land, LOL. I love how some writer will think, this is a cool idea, lets put it in the movie. They don't bother to ask a real pilot, if its even plauseable. It sounds cool to them so that's good enough. I remember laughing out loud just hearing the Rock say, time to tip the hat. It's so obviously stupid. That's a big problem with many movies these days. Nothing is restrained from them, due to CGI. So they just do it. And the delivery of the actors can make or break a scene as well. When the character acts like what he's saying is cool, were supposed to think so too. It only works if the actor says it matter of factly, like he or she doesn't give a shi'ite if you think its cool or not. Look at the first Die hard. Many far fetched things happening but John McClain doesn't care if you like it. It's all Yippy Ki Yay, Monkey Feelers. He just believes in what's happening. So you do too. It's so superficial today. Too much flash, not enough substance. I guess not being a writer or director, I can't really judge what they do. But I know what I can believe. I'm a CG guy. I've used LightWave since it was part of the Amiga Toaster package. I love CG. But its has totally spoiled films. Almost as bad as PG 13, LOL. Some will come on and say, its not the CG its the writer and or director. And I'll say, compare the original Star Wars to the Prequels. Star wars had a depth of feeling and scale that the Prequels didn't. I mean the prequels had stunning vistas and many beautiful scenes. But missing was the grounding and feeling of Luke looking out at the twin suns and dreaming of somewhere else. Even when they tried to do the same thing with Anakin and Padme looking out after being married, it just seemed flat. I just didn't feel the same feeling. Wow, how did I get from helicopters to Star Wars, . Any who, todays movies be like, we suck !

 

[glunark]

I guess you would really hate the helicopter scene in tomorrow never dies then, where a helicopter at street level slowly advances towards Bond with the blades pointed at the ground at a 45 degree angle.

 

[p51]

Then I know you loved the "tip the hat " scene in San Andreas

That didn't bug me nearly as much as when the Rock hit the auto hover button. Even my wife looked at me with a, "is that right?" look and she knows nothing about rotary wing helicopters other than the number of times I was almost killed in them...

 

[Riceball]

They did get one thing right in San Andreas though, throughout the movie the Rock was sitting in the right hand seat, unlike in most shows and movies where the pilot is in the left seat. They must have found a left handed pilot to fly the chopper for The Rock in that movie.

 

[bwayne64]

I guess you would really hate the helicopter scene in tomorrow never dies then, where a helicopter at street level slowly advances towards Bond with the blades pointed at the ground at a 45 degree angle.

Yea there are so many aviation related screw ups in movies. I had a girlfriend tell me once to just watch the movie, and quit nitpicking, LOL. She just didn't understand, that when you work in a field, and they screw up, it just irks you. I imagine most people don't even notice such things . Like when they scramble two F 15's and its actually F4' s. Like I say most people don't know and don't care.

 

[bwayne64]

That didn't bug me nearly as much as when the Rock hit the auto hover button. Even my wife looked at me with a, "is that right?" look and she knows nothing about rotary wing helicopters other than the number of times I was almost killed in them...

Yea I forgot about that. I would have loved that feature. You would think they'd have that by now. Guess computers are fast, but not that fast, They do a lot of fly by wire stuff in jets, and I imagine the Osprey. Just hasn't made it into rotary wing yet. As far as I know. Been out of the business for many moons. They could have Terminators flying Apaches and I wouldn't know about it.

 

[Solos blaster]

I guess you would really hate the helicopter scene in tomorrow never dies then, where a helicopter at street level slowly advances towards Bond with the blades pointed at the ground at a 45 degree angle.

Don't forget "28 Weeks Later" when the pilot takes out all the "infected" by doing the same trick. Flew perfect even after having a gore covered cockpit with the blades inches to a couple feet off the ground so low.

 

[Riceball]

Yea there are so many aviation related screw ups in movies. I had a girlfriend tell me once to just watch the movie, and quit nitpicking, LOL. She just didn't understand, that when you work in a field, and they screw up, it just irks you. I imagine most people don't even notice such things . Like when they scramble two F 15's and its actually F4' s. Like I say most people don't know and don't care.

The worst culprit was JAG where the plane would change from scene to scene; they show F-14s take off, then, when they show them in mid-flight they're F-4s.

Yea I forgot about that. I would have loved that feature. You would think they'd have that by now. Guess computers are fast, but not that fast, They do a lot of fly by wire stuff in jets, and I imagine the Osprey. Just hasn't made it into rotary wing yet. As far as I know. Been out of the business for many moons. They could have Terminators flying Apaches and I wouldn't know about it.

I can't believe that they don't have that feature now, at least in some civilian helicopters, having a computer maintain a hover should be relatively easy to do and it's the kind of thing that computers are ideal at doing. The way I see it, it's not that much different from fly-by-wire systems in fighter planes that are inherently unstable and unflyable without computer aid. The only catch would be that the helo would probably have to have a fly-by-wire control system, doing a little searching it seems that the Army is using fbw for some of their Hawks but I don't know wide spread that is and if the LAFD would be flying a new enough Huey to have FBW, if Bell even still makes new Hueys (outside the 1Ys for the Corps) to include FBW in.

 

[robn1]

The worst culprit was JAG where the plane would change from scene to scene; they show F-14s take off, then, when they show them in mid-flight they're F-4s...

That happened a lot, especially on TV. A plane either changed types from shot to shot, or changed color. The worst ever was Magnum PI when a Russian pilot defected and landed his "Mig". They sent two F-4s to escort him in, but the "Mig" was just an F-4 with red stars painted on it. So we see three F-4s land, and the pilot tells the Air Force guys he wants to defect, then pats the plane and says "This is for your government". I wanted the Air Force guys to say "Thanks, but we have like 5000 of them already" :lol

 

[p51]

The worst ever was Magnum PI when a Russian pilot defected and landed his "Mig". They sent two F-4s to escort him in, but the "Mig" was just an F-4 with red stars painted on it. So we see three F-4s land, and the pilot tells the Air Force guys he wants to defect, then pats the plane and says "This is for your government". I wanted the Air Force guys to say "Thanks, but we have like 5000 of them already" :lol

I'm okay with that, as that's an issue on available equipment and an obvious lack of real MIGs available for TV filming at the time. It's when they use stock film of one plane taking off, then a totally different type of airplane later (like at the start of the movie, "Starman")...

 

[Proper]

How about the use of Korean era American tanks like the Patton tank in WW2 movies of the 60s and even 70s? I may be thinking of Battle of the Bulge and Patton, to name a couple. I'm sure there are more examples.

 

[glunark]

A base full of black hawks in the vietnam era Tour of Duty, for example.

 

[jarroth]

perfect teeth!

you look at a medival movie: stars have perfect simetrical teeth and whiter than snow.
you see a alien female in a series: perfect teeth with hese modern day fake facings

ok bad teeth look awefull but the fake perfect, way to white teeth movie stars have now. yuk!

 

[Treadwell]

As Terry Jones (who is a historian as well as a Python) has mentioned in Holy Grail commentary regarding teeth in ye olden tymes, there was not a plague of rotten teeth among midieval masses. It wasn't until the importation of sugar that tooth decay became a big problem, and even then only the elite had access at first.

No orthodontia or bleaching, that I grant you.

 

[dascoyne]

breaking the fourth wall for comic effect.

scratched record sound for comic effect.

Jump Around (House of Pain) in any context. (I thought this was dead until they used it in a promo for a new TV series that I'm never going to watch)

 

[astroboy]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but I hate that whenever anyone in film talks into a microphone, it begins with a squelch of feedback

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[YenChih Lin]

What's wrong with this picture?

Yeah, it's Germany, East Germany in Leipzig… and there are mountains! MOUNTAINS in a flat area!!!

I know, geography is a hard thing for americans and the german language, but this is totally insulting an international audience. This grinds my gear, although I'm no german myself, but do you really think that some audience are the clicheed fat, basement dwelling, potatoe munching, nerdo, who has no life?

Do your research before making a blatant **** up. Don't screw with geography just because it looks more interesting with mountains or some ******, I bet the talks went like this:
"Hey, Leizig in East Germany sounds like an interesting place to take place for our story…"
*googles image search on the web* "Yeah, but it looks so uninteresting, there are just forests and seas…"
"Oh… doesn't have Germany mountains? We'll slap a mountain scenery in post pro…"
"But won't the audience notice it?"
"Naah, I don't think so…"

*screams internally*

 

[Solos blaster]

Not getting political but...this is like the movie cliche that American gun owners are all fat, redneck/hillbilly types and always unsophisticated. Or anyone who is wary of their government is always paranoid, not just healthy skepticism but a straight up "everything's a conspiracy" type. No middle ground for any of it.



Oh, and in horror movies, anyone who has/finds a weapon or shows any type of confidence/competence with said item is quickly killed or shown they are anything BUT proficient with it...yea I know, it would be a short movie if someone had a concealed carry weapon but I digress lol