Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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In a Star Trek or similar world, I have no problem with "impossible footage", because their dubiously-defined "sensors" could be putting a picture together based on whatever data is being collected. My beef was simply when it's footage we've seen as part of the movie itself.
Kohrsfilms
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Movie trailers where every 4 seconds there is a "WHHHHUUUUUUNNNNGGGGG" sound.
Riceball
Master Member
While it is annoying I can let that one slide because often times a movie isn't completely finished by the time we see the first trailers. What generally happens in this scenario is that the scene is removed and winds up on the cutting room floor as a part of the final editing process.
"Through binoculars" (or rifle scopes, telescopes, etc) views that are shot at angles impossible to obtain under the circumstances (like using footage shot at ground level that hopefully wasn't intended by the crew to be a binoc POV). Also hearing voices/foley of the binoc-viewed people/things that are too far away to hear. Unless the binocs are also sound telescopes...
GiovanniDekkers
Active Member
Unlimited ammo for a six-shooter 
p51
Sr Member
YES, even with recent Westerns where they supposedly, "got things right." As much as I liked the movie Open Range, Costner fires his Colt I think 9 times at one point, if memory serves.Unlimited ammo for a six-shooter
Then there's the whole, "Infinity belt/magazine" in war movies which drives people nuts who have served in the military...
Einstein
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What kills me the most is not just the unlimited bullets the guns in the cop shows have and boy are there a hundred cop shows. It is that all the characters get behind all these bullet proof props like a stack of crates, a stack of pallets or maybe a plastic empty drum. Could be a stack of cardboard boxes. Inside an office cubicle or even protected by a bullet proof Toyota truck door etc.
I had no idea that so many items could stop a bullet.
Ed
I had no idea that so many items could stop a bullet.
Ed
p51
Sr Member
How about a director who doesn't know if someone from a different country, talking to his countrymen, should speak their native language or not?
How many WW2 movies are there where the Germans speak English to each other when they're saying something important, but other Germans are speaking German, all when only speaking with other Germans?
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!
How many WW2 movies are there where the Germans speak English to each other when they're saying something important, but other Germans are speaking German, all when only speaking with other Germans?
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!
+1 for the standard car door can stop a bullet.
When the hero falls from an extreme height into a large body of water and lives, without any significant internal injuries or broken limbs.
Unless you are a skilled diver, and have the discipline to quickly taper your body as you enter the water, you will most likely NOT survive, at least not without serious bodily harm.
How movie gunshot wounds/ stab wounds to the abdomen do not result in a slow, painful death. Yes, I've operated on such people, where miraculously nothing critical was injured, but this is NOT the norm. Even a single hole in the intestine can lead to rapid peritonitis and death, let alone a vascular injury.
When the hero falls from an extreme height into a large body of water and lives, without any significant internal injuries or broken limbs.
Unless you are a skilled diver, and have the discipline to quickly taper your body as you enter the water, you will most likely NOT survive, at least not without serious bodily harm.
How movie gunshot wounds/ stab wounds to the abdomen do not result in a slow, painful death. Yes, I've operated on such people, where miraculously nothing critical was injured, but this is NOT the norm. Even a single hole in the intestine can lead to rapid peritonitis and death, let alone a vascular injury.
Bronson BB
Well-Known Member
How about seeing a beat up, filthy car.
And when our hero opens the door/trunk, the thing is absolutely SPOTLESS inside. Clean, shiny frame and all.
I first saw this in 'Beverly Hill Cop', and again on the latest 'Walking Dead'.
And when our hero opens the door/trunk, the thing is absolutely SPOTLESS inside. Clean, shiny frame and all.
I first saw this in 'Beverly Hill Cop', and again on the latest 'Walking Dead'.
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I noticed that too. It's also not out of the realm of possibility that someone didn't have a gunsmith with them that knew how to convert them back to full auto. No ATF left.
I HATE that. That's why I like The Longest Day because the Germans are German actors speaking German and the French are speaking French.
Jon Kelley
Active Member
Dunno - I'm sure some PDs may have burst cams in their patrol ARs, but not the auto disconnector (two different mechanisms.)
(Note that this doesn't change the fact that I think PDs should go back to M1911 or wheelguns as general issue, given their track records of late. "Spray and pray" is not an acceptable response strategy to a hot shooter incident.)
I've noted that a lot of PDs had also started going over to "patrol carbines" (M4gery, Mini-14, some Mini-30) to replace the shotgun in patrol cars. Mixed feelings - while I do like the idea of reducing "spray damage potential" from the 12ga 0 buckshot rounds, what good is it going to do if they don't get any practice firing under stress?
That's where they fail, usually - annual quals and practise are done as regular point-shooting, they may have a "Hogan's Alley" range if they're lucky. But, how much firing is done under stress?
You want to see the difference? Set up two targets outdoors - identical targets, identical ranges. Load two magazines with five rounds each. Measure off a point 100m from your firing point.
Fire the first magazine for record. I'll be nice, and allow you two seconds per shot fired.
Now, run - run! - flat-out to that 100m point and back! A full-on 200m windsprint!
Then, pick up your sidearm, put the other loaded mag in, and fire off the five rounds in five seconds.
Your target will probably look like someone fired a shotgun at it.
(As a trainer, I cringe every time I see a "Marksman" award on a cop, because I just know it wasn't earned with stress shooting. And, "combat firing" has as much bearing on "range qualification" as "chow hall food" has on "fine dining." This is why, once the basics were handled, I ramped up conditions to somewhere between "extremely difficult" and "downright impossible." This is also why people I'd trained would survive.)
I wouldn't have a problem with cops having all this firepower at their disposal, iff they were properly trained in its use, and that doesn't mean just range-qualified. (No, that wasn't a typo. I did "iff" on purpose, can you tell me why?
) If your training isn't made difficult, you need to rewrite the training programme (in Basic, I shot 385/400-22X. At 100m. Without spectacles. Myopic.)I guess I'm cranky, but I can't help but wonder if they actually got training in most movies, or if they're simply emulating "real-life heroes."
(That's one thing that pleased me about Doom. I didn't watch it for stellar acting - I watched it because I'm a fan of the series, and I do enjoy a good shoot-em-up from time to time. Plus, Dwayne Johnson isn't a bad actor. Other things:
- First project I saw Rosamund Pike in - she's worth watching.
- Ditto Karl Urban - who cemented his worth as an actor in Dredd and Star Trek.
- It was good seeing that the actors actually got some training in "shoot & scoot" and basic military tactics - I don't recall the name, but they had an SAS consultant to train them, kinda like the cast of The Rock had Harry the Hump. Made a big difference.)
- I thought the "first-person shooter" interlude was a nice touch.
- This was the second movie (counting The Matrix trilogy as a single effort) where "Wire-Fu" made sense, once C24 had been administered.
- Despite the cast probably having been "thrown together," they did do a good job of portraying the sort of banter you'd get in most small units - right down to constantly razzing "The Kid," Goat's Bible-thumping against Portman's perversion, and the like.)
Critics panned it - but it's common for me to enjoy something that critics have panned. I've gone to see movies because the critics have panned it, and usually enjoyed it after.
Speaking of - can we make movie critics go away? Many of them remind me of a quote from Frank Zappa - "Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." That's how I feel about critics, most of the time.
Have I digressed enough? Sorry... Rough day.
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