Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[TazMan2000]

Another thing. Tired of seeing Vikings depicted as 20th Century bikers.

Unsure whether it has been mentioned before. It's just a pet peeve of mine. Black dyed clothes just didn't exist back then.

Motorbikes didn't exist either.

TazMan2000

 

[Treadwell]

That explains the laser raptors

 

[p51]

Perhaps it where is the US you're situated.

Yes, it is. Where I work, I deal with automobile accidents in Nevada and another state. In NV, each week, I'll have at least a few people who only speak Spanish (or claim to) who get downright livid that I don't speak Spanish when they call. People will often get hostile at this.
It happens near where I live, too. Just yesterday I was at a takeout pizza place where a Spanish-speaking woman was screaming at the poor kid at the counter who couldn't understand a word she was rattling off faster than a hamster wheel at full speed. Nobody else in the place spoke it either and she got angrier and angrier at each person who came in and they also couldn't speak English.
We're about as far from Mexico as you can get and still be in continental US.

 

[TazMan2000]

We're about as far from Mexico as you can get and still be in continental US.

You're in Alaska?

Send that woman to Quebec and she'll see how she gets treated there.

TazMan2000

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Yes, it is. Where I work, I deal with automobile accidents in Nevada and another state. In NV, each week, I'll have at least a few people who only speak Spanish (or claim to) who get downright livid that I don't speak Spanish when they call. People will often get hostile at this.
It happens near where I live, too. Just yesterday I was at a takeout pizza place where a Spanish-speaking woman was screaming at the poor kid at the counter who couldn't understand a word she was rattling off faster than a hamster wheel at full speed. Nobody else in the place spoke it either and she got angrier and angrier at each person who came in and they also couldn't speak English.
We're about as far from Mexico as you can get and still be in continental US.

My dad's cousin's wife is from Mexico and she gets majorly PO'd when people come to the U.S. and don't learn English. She said it was the first thing she did. I don't know why, and not to bash Spanish speaking people, but it seems like a shift because prior to the last 20-30 years, people would acclimate. For some reason people aren't doing that. It seems like it's mainly Spanish speaking people, but maybe it's a bigger problem, IDK. I just know that if I went to France, they would laugh if I demanded to be spoken to in English. I'd probably being going around apologizing that I didn't speak French! It doesn't bother me in a "Go home" way like some people, it's just odd.

 

[Riceball]

Ya, no. My Chinese friend went off once, tirade about how he is Chinese, not asian as Asia is a continent. It honestly never stops. Some people can get pissed about anything.

I'd say that your friend is the exception, most Asians that I know identify as Asian at least as far as their ethnicity goes. But if someone were to ask me what my nationality was, I'd answer, American.

 

[Riceball]

Same way Star Trek Discovery's opening could've just been a quick title card if they didn't have to list their 35623456347 producers for some weird reason (as though the average viewer gives a damn about producers).

The reason for so many producers' names in the credits is almost certainly due to union rules. That, or a producer credit was something that promised some of these "producers" in return for their financial or other support.

 

[Riceball]

Perhaps it where is the US you're situated. Granted, places in the southern US, especially those bordering Mexico will have more bilingual speakers. Several times when I was in Arizona and southern California, I had many people that came up to me and spoke Spanish, but never in the US mid west. Don't most schools in the US teach Spanish or is that an elective subject? I don't think that Spanish speakers would demand that everyone speak Spanish, but in bordering states, perhaps they have that unrealistic expectation.

I'm from western Canada, and even though Canada is a country with two official languages, most people outside Quebec speak English. There are French communities in western Canada that do have a French background, but I've never been approached by anyone expecting that I speak French. Now when I cross that border into Quebec, that expectation from the locals goes up considerably.

But I've never heard the words "How come you don't speak French/Spanish?" from anyone.

TazMan2000

I've lived in SoCal all of my life and I've never once had anybody approach me asking why I didn't speak Spanish. Granted that I grew up in Orange County well north of the San Diego area and now live in LA County. However, there are sizeable pockets of Mexicans and areas where Spanish is frequently heard being spoken but no one questions you if you walk into their restaurant or store and speak English to them.

As far as Spanish in school, every school that I know has it as a choice of at least 2 languages. When I was in high school, our choices were French and Spanish, and a good friend of mine went to a school where German was also an option. Nowadays, there are schools that will offer several choices but I've never heard of Spanish being mandatory.

 

[Riceball]

As if that's not bad enough Vikings are also depicted as brutish and unclean. In fact the Vikings were known for being the cleanest, most hygienic Europeans at that time.

You mean the Norse? Because Vikings aren't a people/race/ethnicity/nationality, it was a profession.

 

[TazMan2000]

You mean the Norse? Because Vikings aren't a people/race/ethnicity/nationality, it was a profession.

It still is a profession. But instead of raping and pillaging coastal villages, the Vikings are just raping and pillaging the wallets of the passengers.

TazMan2000

 

[greenmachines]

It still is a profession. But instead of raping and pillaging coastal villages, the Vikings are just raping and pillaging the wallets of the passengers.

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TazMan2000

But STILL CLEAN, nice tidy crew, bathed, hair attended to with plenty of product, clothes well kept and stylish and STILL IN A VERY NICE BOAT. You are glad to give them your money instead of getting tossed into the bay.... some things never change.

 

[greenmachines]

It still is a profession. But instead of raping and pillaging coastal villages, the Vikings are just raping and pillaging the wallets of the passengers.

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TazMan2000

I wonder how inappropriate it would be to ask the ship's entertainment coordinator if there would be any group excursions to local monasteries. I would wait until a decent sized crowd was available to hear me ask, like during the embarcation greeting/ captain's speech.

 

[dascoyne]

You mean the Norse? Because Vikings aren't a people/race/ethnicity/nationality, it was a profession.

Of course. Forgive my microaggression.

Clearly I watch too much Leslie Nielson.

 

[joberg]

You're in Alaska?

Send that woman to Quebec and she'll see how she gets treated there.

TazMan2000

Actually, lots of white francophone people in Quebec and in Montreal in particular, are fluent in Spanish
They prefer to be bilingual (French/Spanish) than bilingual (French/English)

 

[AJK001]

As far as Spanish in school, every school that I know has it as a choice of at least 2 languages. When I was in high school, our choices were French and Spanish, and a good friend of mine went to a school where German was also an option. Nowadays, there are schools that will offer several choices but I've never heard of Spanish being mandatory.

I went to school in New York City during they 70's and you had to at least understand some English to get by. You also had to either take French or Spanish starting in 7th grade and going through 12th grade. From what I understand from people who have gone through in the years after I did they had classes for non English speaking students so there was no incentive for them to learn the language. My grandparents came to the US from Europe in the early 1900's and one of the first things they did was to learn English so that they could fit in.

 

[TazMan2000]

Actually, lots of white francophone people in Quebec and in Montreal in particular, are fluent in Spanish
They prefer to be bilingual (French/Spanish) than bilingual (French/English)

TazMan2000

 

[somerset fox]

So, our hero visits their friendly neighbourhood computer geek To enlist their help decoding an impossibly long line of code, or enhancing some digital pic to an impossible degree. As a long time computer user why does the actor think a computer user just types onto the keyboard like their typing their resume? Never use a mouse to click around the screen. Never use the tab, or enter Key. Just clickety, clickety, clickeTy…

 

[AJK001]

So, our hero visits their friendly neighbourhood computer geek To enlist their help decoding an impossibly long line of code, or enhancing some digital pic to an impossible degree. As a long time computer user why does the actor think a computer user just types onto the keyboard like their typing their resume? Never use a mouse to click around the screen. Never use the tab, or enter Key. Just clickety, clickety, clickeTy…

I'm not a computer geek but I have been a programmer since the 1980's and I don't think I have ever seen anything in the movies that has a basis in reality as far as computers are concerned.

 

[batguy]

I'm not a computer geek but I have been a programmer since the 1980's and I don't think I have ever seen anything in the movies that has a basis in reality as far as computers are concerned.

You mean hacking into the CIA's top secret files requires more than sitting down to a keyboard and typing two seconds of keystrokes?

Weird. Huh.

 

[greenmachines]

You mean hacking into the CIA's top secret files requires more than sitting down to a keyboard and typing two seconds of keystrokes?

Weird. Huh.

My favorite was the guy who says "it will be hard", then as the "A" list actors are walking away, his line is, "I got it! It was his birthday, his wife's birthday backwards and the name of his dog. It was just a matter of figuring out the order." And I stopped watching immediately because he didn't look up any of this info, he just knew it? It's just a matter of order??? Like he always knew the name of the dog, even though that info nor a mention of any animals came up in this show and the file of interest was on a server of a suspect he did not know prior to the convo 15 seconds earlier. It's just poor script. If instead they had told him they overheard him say it was some birthdays and his wife's middle name. Then sure, order was off due to European compared to US date order, or similar but the dog comment was just the death knell.