Things you're tired of seeing in movies
- Thread starter Joosh
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Well it would depend on what's going on. If they're in a dogfight or landing, well yeah you wouldn't let off. One example is when fighters take off on an aircraft carrier. People always ask why they take their hands off the controls and hold the canopy handholds and it's so they don't accidentally jerk the stick while taking off or cause some other unnecessary input.
Right; it usually takes a moment for the pilot to "get behind the craft" after a cat launch, and you really don't want your hands on controls right as you're being tossed into the air like that.
p51
Sr Member
I'm not talking about that. There are very few times when a fighter jock would let his hand off the grip and its very common in movies to see right hands off grips for silly reasons. Even at the end of Top Gun 2, Mav gives hand gestures to Hangman WHILE IN CLOSE FORMATION with him, with his right hand on the grip and at several other scenes in the movie because Cruise isn't actually flying the plane at those times. I promise you that you won't see scenes of him doing so behind the stick of his P51!
The Vipers have analog controls to counteract the pilots inputs during launch. It's so the Cylons can't take control. (Totally made that up)
universaljoint
Member
I think I'm tired of seeing implausible misdirection written to compensate for what would otherwise be a transparent plot.
And nonsensical useless dialogue where people parrot what the other person just said to fill time.
"we're a family, and I'm going to get us all home together"
"As a family"
"We always knew that we're a family"
"Now let's go do this... Together"!
You all go on without me... I'm outta here
And nonsensical useless dialogue where people parrot what the other person just said to fill time.
"we're a family, and I'm going to get us all home together"
"As a family"
"We always knew that we're a family"
"Now let's go do this... Together"!
You all go on without me... I'm outta here
You all go on without me... I'm outta here
No. We gotta do this as a family.
Yorkie Fett
Sr Member
People fighting on top of moving trains.
Yorkie Fett
Sr Member
Oh, and people getting shot and smashing through large plate glass windows.
Well the good thing about that, is that if it's a modern movie, that can only happen in Europe or Asia. U.S. hardly has any passenger trains now.
I think the last time I saw a fight on a U.S. train was in the X-Files and that was probably filmed in Canada.
Davy Jones
Sr Member
Awkwafina.
I just don't get the appeal. Shes been in Tons of stuff though. Somebody seems to have decided she's the only desirable Asian talent working today and they Need her in their movie.
She has done a bunch of voice work and I can't stand her voice. I don't think she's at all funny either and she's put forward as some masterful comedian that will ensure them rolling in the aisles if you have her in your movie.
But that's just my opinion.
I just don't get the appeal. Shes been in Tons of stuff though. Somebody seems to have decided she's the only desirable Asian talent working today and they Need her in their movie.
She has done a bunch of voice work and I can't stand her voice. I don't think she's at all funny either and she's put forward as some masterful comedian that will ensure them rolling in the aisles if you have her in your movie.
But that's just my opinion.
p51
Sr Member
Tell that to Amtrak...
joberg
Legendary Member
What the "people in charge" don't seems to get is that trains are the best and fastest mode of public transportation available.
You have a major train station (downtown) where you can take a train without going through security/custom and going to another main station hundreds of miles away (downtown). No wait for your luggage on a carousel and no taxi trip to reach downtown. The closing of many routes made it unreliable and less practical than during the heydays of rail travelling
Cephus
Master Member
They're just not efficient or convenient. Like all public transport, you have to run on their schedule, not your own. You have to deal with their limitations. They're useless for going to the grocery store and bringing home a dozen bags of groceries. They're useless for going to the hardware store and bringing home 10 sheets of plywood. They're useless if you've got to go when and where you've got to go.
My daughter, who now lives just outside of DC and takes the subway most places has started to realize that.
My daughter, who now lives just outside of DC and takes the subway most places has started to realize that.
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