Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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They basically mix stuff for theaters & surround-sound, and then people watch it at home on regular TVs & computers. The dialogue often ends up too low in relation to the sound effects & music.
IMO the sound menus should have an option to change the bias of the mix. Like maybe 3 choices, "surround" or "medium" or "boosted dialogue." If it's a commercially-produced show then they already have the dialogue on an isolated track (for foreign-language dubbing reasons). I see no reason why it would be difficult/expensive to give people a choice of volume mixes.
Just watched this yesterday:
The Goon
Sr Member
I'm creeping up on my 64th birthday, and I've had Tinnitus my entire life; I can't remember ever not hearing that high-pitched sound in my head. So I'm a bit pleased to hear that isn't the complete reason I sometimes have difficulty understanding what is being said when I'm watching television. On the other hand, most of the time it is, so I really have no idea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TheWolfhound
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I hate it when someone gets bound and gagged with their hands tied in front but there is no way they can pull out the gag to shout for help. Why? Are their arms too short? Also when getting shot or stabbed why does some tool put the bandage around the trouser leg or shirt sleeve? I have never seen this done in my local hospital.
Riceball
Master Member
I think the bandage thing is to show that the character has been bandaged. Hollywood tends to do a lot of nonsensical things just to show the audience that something has been done.
Riceball
Master Member
I can't remember if this has been mentioned or not, but what gets me is when stand-off weapons are employed at practically point-blank range. This really only applies to sci-fi and kaiju movies where the good guys attack the alien mothership or giant monster with weapons that have a range of thousands of yards and yet they insist on attacking close up within range of the enemy alien's weapons or arm's reach of the giant mosnter.
On a different note, I was watching S2 of Squid Game, and they actually did something right.
When the players launched their attack on the guards instead of taking only their weapons, they actually took their spare mags as well. I think this was the first time where I've seen good guys picking weapons off of dead baddies and checked for and took spare mags.
On a different note, I was watching S2 of Squid Game, and they actually did something right.
When the players launched their attack on the guards instead of taking only their weapons, they actually took their spare mags as well. I think this was the first time where I've seen good guys picking weapons off of dead baddies and checked for and took spare mags.
Hollywood medical care is VERY authentic, actually.
Why, the last time I dislocated my shoulder the personnel at the ER had me ram my shoulder into a shelf unit until it finally popped back into the socket, followed by tossing half a bottle of aspirin down my throat that was washed down with a bottle of whisky, just like Crazy Riggs would do.
Very authentic medical care, indeed.
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When a body falls to the pavement from any significant height (say, over 100 feet) and the camera pans to reveal a splayed out corpse with limbs akimbo, and a puddle of blood pooling beneath their head.
No, you go "splat" like a bag of hamburger meat, with major crush and splatter.
No, you go "splat" like a bag of hamburger meat, with major crush and splatter.
Cephus
Master Member
True, although I have seen people get hit by cars at high speed and the only thing I could think was that ragdoll physics in video games is really accurate.
joberg
Legendary Member
Indeed...I've seen photos of people who had jumped from high buildings and it wasn't "Hollywood Pretty"
Honestly, that's the kind of realism I could do without in my Hollywood movies.
The Departed did it fairly well without being too gruesome. But yeah I'm with you
somerset fox
Sr Member
As a cop, I used to love the calls that start “member of the public thinks they’ve found a body”. Usually at the bottom of a cliff or a towerIndeed...I've seen photos of people who had jumped from high buildings and it wasn't "Hollywood Pretty"
I just rewatched the Dredd movie and I think they were probably fairly accurate with the bodies that were dropped about 100ft. I think they would explode a little more though.
Laspector
Master Member
Reporters. Is there even such a thing as reporters anymore? When was the last time a reporter solved a murder case or brought down a crime lord or something like that? Watergate, maybe? If even then? I barely remember All The President's Men. But, do reporters in real life actually try to solve things or do they just go there and report on what's going on?
Investigative reporters still exist. But the mainstream media generally does not want to fund their work or deal with them. It's not a profitable business model.
Decades ago the big networks were proudly losing money on their news departments, just for the prestige of having a good one.
Investigative reporting was made illegal in the state of california. Many have been jailed and the practice is no longer pursued. If you see someone saying that they did, it is logical to assume it is a sham or it would have been pursued to criminal charges. And on that note.... this particular path will get me another point toward permanent invisibility so I offer this instead:
People eating meals that would have taken hours to prepare with a huge range of ingredients but did so in 10 minutes because they are "in movie classified as" a surprise hidden talent chef. Usually followed by the claim, "Wow, I didn't know you could.....", etcetera. When, in fact, they couldn't have without a full professional kitchen and storage facilities. I say this from the point of view that they are serving this meal in a one room apartment.
People eating meals that would have taken hours to prepare with a huge range of ingredients but did so in 10 minutes because they are "in movie classified as" a surprise hidden talent chef. Usually followed by the claim, "Wow, I didn't know you could.....", etcetera. When, in fact, they couldn't have without a full professional kitchen and storage facilities. I say this from the point of view that they are serving this meal in a one room apartment.
Ahhh . . . skilled labor in Hollywood. They always do these really involved builds in minimal spaces & tools. Tony Stark builds a reactor while he's locked in a cave. Vin Diesel builds a vehicle in 6 hours. Etc.
My favorite is the "just lying around" stuff. There's always some mad scientist sidekick like that. "Oh, you need to storm the bad guy's secret lair? You could use these shoulder-fired hydrogen bombs that I happened to have all built & ready for no particular reason."
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