Things you're tired of seeing in movies

BigStick said:
Science Fiction Movies where non-Earth solar system characters reference time passage in "Years". They ALL do it.
:rolleyes:
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Well, yeah, all planets have a year. Its just not 365 Earth days. Or are you suggesting they measure longer time units without reference to how long their planet takes to go around the local star? Because that seems unnecessarily complicated.
 
pengbuzz said:
I get tired of seeing the credits for the movies and there's about 15-30 different producers! Forgive my naivette on this matter, but just how many does one need?
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Kinda like Star Trek Discovery listing its dozens of producers in the opening credits and then following it up by 40+ minutes of proof why these people shouldn't be let anywhere near a film production.
 
BigStick said:
How is EVERYBODY on the same clock? One Earth year is NOT equal to one Pluto year. What planet is Han Solo from? How about Luke Skywalker? When Han says "Hey I'm 35 years old" how tha hell does Luke even know what that means? Get my drift?
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In the case of IPs like Star Wars and Star Wars, there's probably a standard accepted galactic year based on the year of the capital planet. In the case of Star Trek - Earth, and in the case of Star Wars - Coruscant. Think of it like GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) here on Earth, US & NATO military operational orders are issued referencing GMT so that nobody where someone reads the order or memo, they know exactly what time the order was issued and when they're supposed to do whatever it is they've been directed to do. In the case of Trek or Star Wars, the G in GMT would mean Galactic Mean Time, and everybody would be able to do the math to know how to convert GMT to their local time. This is probably also why Star Trek, or at least Starfleet, used Stardates instead of our normal month, day, year thing.
 
I'm not sure if I've posted this here before, but as I grew up doing civil war re-enacting with artillery, a few things about muzzleloading artillery that most movies get horribly wrong:
  • Several guns firing at exactly the same millisecond. Clearly, they're electrically fired from behind the scene, but you'd never see that in real life, especially in an era before friction or percussion primers and gunpower was poured directly over the vent
  • Putting the charge about 18 inches down the barrel. That charge has to go to the very back of the barrel, as that's where the vent is to set that charge off
  • Guns recoiling long after they've gone off. Field guns do recoil with live charges, and the larger ones can go back some distance, but they do so the moment they go off, not a second or two later!
  • Measuring the time between the shot and impact with a calendar. Most movies screw this up so the audience can realize where the shot is going, but even old muzzleloading weapons fired stuff pretty darned fast
  • Artillery within the range of a good baseball throw. Most movies show artillery shooting at insanely close ranges, well within rifle range. Even in the 18th and 19th century, you could have been schwacked by a gun you barely saw, if at all. Most of that was line-of-sight but you could be accurately nailed by a gun a long way off
  • Counter-battery fire. Artillery 'duels' (known today as counter battery fire) are very rarely depicted accurately. In fact, I can't think of a single movie that shows that happening. At the Gettysburg cemetery, there's a gun with an impact mark on the muzzle where an opposing gun almost lobbed it's round down the bore
Now, "Gettysburg" did a great job with artillery as they used re-enactors with real (and several original) pieces and "Glory" did decent, but they showed guns set up in very odd locations, but these are not common depictions. I'm not familiar with any movie ever made that focuses on a gun crew in any era prior to the 20th century...
 
People and places that have these obvious evil names, yet the good guys can't figure this out until it is too late.

I remember there was this season of Walking Dead where the good guys spent half the season trying to get to this place called Terminus. Do you really think it is a good idea to go to a place called Terminus? Well, of course it turned out to be a town of cannibals.

Even Tolkien pulled this crap. Grima Wormtongue? Advisor to good king Theoden? You really think this guy is going to end up as a good guy? How stupid can you be? And this guy Sauron? At some point he convinced Elves or whoever that he was a good guy? I mean come on! The very name drips with evil.

I really like the part in Endgame where Antman is talking to Tony and Steve about the SHIELD/ Hydra agents--"You can just look at these guys and tell they are bad guys!"
 
Laspector said:
People and places that have these obvious evil names, yet the good guys can't figure this out until it is too late.

I remember there was this season of Walking Dead where the good guys spent half the season trying to get to this place called Terminus. Do you really think it is a good idea to go to a place called Terminus? Well, of course it turned out to be a town of cannibals.
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Actually, Terminus was the original name of Atlanta.
 
p51 said:
I'm not sure if I've posted this here before, but as I grew up doing civil war re-enacting with artillery, a few things about muzzleloading artillery that most movies get horribly wrong:
  • Several guns firing at exactly the same millisecond. Clearly, they're electrically fired from behind the scene, but you'd never see that in real life, especially in an era before friction or percussion primers and gunpower was poured directly over the vent
  • Putting the charge about 18 inches down the barrel. That charge has to go to the very back of the barrel, as that's where the vent is to set that charge off
  • Guns recoiling long after they've gone off. Field guns do recoil with live charges, and the larger ones can go back some distance, but they do so the moment they go off, not a second or two later!
  • Measuring the time between the shot and impact with a calendar. Most movies screw this up so the audience can realize where the shot is going, but even old muzzleloading weapons fired stuff pretty darned fast
  • Artillery within the range of a good baseball throw. Most movies show artillery shooting at insanely close ranges, well within rifle range. Even in the 18th and 19th century, you could have been schwacked by a gun you barely saw, if at all. Most of that was line-of-sight but you could be accurately nailed by a gun a long way off
  • Counter-battery fire. Artillery 'duels' (known today as counter battery fire) are very rarely depicted accurately. In fact, I can't think of a single movie that shows that happening. At the Gettysburg cemetery, there's a gun with an impact mark on the muzzle where an opposing gun almost lobbed it's round down the bore
Now, "Gettysburg" did a great job with artillery as they used re-enactors with real (and several original) pieces and "Glory" did decent, but they showed guns set up in very odd locations, but these are not common depictions. I'm not familiar with any movie ever made that focuses on a gun crew in any era prior to the 20th century...
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In all fairness in regards to the portrayal of artillery, particularly in regard to the distance they fire from, it's one of those nature of the beast things. Just like how planes are always dogfighting within spitting distance of each other and infantry are always close enough together for a single grenade to wipe out the entire squad or platoon, it's done so that everything is in frame and not appear as specs on the screen. So, sure, Hollywood could film muzzle loading artillery at realistic distances, but then the director or DP would have to pull so far back that the artillery would be hard to see and you'd end up seeing the flash and smoke of them firing but not the men manning them or the guns themselves.
 
bwayne64 said:
People smacking their lips and making noises when eating. Hate it in real life and in the movies too. And people kissing and you can actually hear the spit swapping. Gross !
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Add in people slurping when they drink. Not only is it bad manners, it is gross.
It is as if the makers think we are stupid and there has to be an accompanying sound effect otherwise we won't know what is happening when a character raises a mug/glass to their mouth and ingests a liquid. :rolleyes:
 
bwayne64 said:
People smacking their lips and making noises when eating. Hate it in real life and in the movies too. And people kissing and you can actually hear the spit swapping. Gross !
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renaissance_man said:
Add in people slurping when they drink. Not only is it bad manners, it is gross.
It is as if the makers think we are stupid and there has to be an accompanying sound effect otherwise we won't know what is happening when a character raises a mug/glass to their mouth and ingests a liquid. :rolleyes:
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I've got something even worse.
A guy at work actually licks his fingers after eating lunch. It grosses everybody out.
 
I've worked with many Chinese/Japanese co-workers in my lifetime to know that it's a normal way of eating: slurping, gulping insane amount of air while shoving rice/noodles into their mouths. Very difficult to tell them that it's a big no-no in our Western traditions:oops:
I didn't mind knowing that it was their ways...;) At an official diner/banquet occasion where the etiquette/protocol applies, then I'll say something:p
 
joberg said:
I've worked with many Chinese/Japanese co-workers in my lifetime to know that it's a normal way of eating: slurping, gulping insane amount of air while shoving rice/noodles into their mouths. Very difficult to tell them that it's a big no-no in our Western traditions:oops:
I didn't mind knowing that it was their ways...;) At an official diner/banquet occasion where the etiquette/protocol applies, then I'll say something:p
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Exactly. Most of society is a melting pot of different cultures. Some of their customs and ways we find improper and rude. As well, when we visit their countries they find our customs and ways improper and rude.

How many times have you heard someone say to the locals "How come you don't speak English?" when you were in a foreign country?

Actually, I've heard it in my own country when I visited Quebec. :lol:

TazMan2000
 
joberg said:
I've worked with many Chinese/Japanese co-workers in my lifetime to know that it's a normal way of eating: slurping, gulping insane amount of air while shoving rice/noodles into their mouths. Very difficult to tell them that it's a big no-no in our Western traditions:oops:
I didn't mind knowing that it was their ways...;) At an official diner/banquet occasion where the etiquette/protocol applies, then I'll say something:p
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It's more of a Japanese thing than a Chinese thing. And it's exclusively done with ramen.
When it comes to ramen, slurping is actually not so much a habit as it is a part of the etiquette.


I hope one doesn't get reprimanded in Japan for NOT slurping. LOL.
 
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