Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Riceball]

Bugs me too. That, and guns sounding like they're being ****** and loaded and all clicky and metally sounding when someone is just putting it back in the holster or on a table or summat.

It's worse when they do that for people drawing their guns, my guns never do that when I pick them up yet in Hollywood every pistol makes all kinds of noises when they're drawn and pointed at someone or something. Probably even worse is when someone is shooting an automatic pistol and you hear it go click to indicate that it's out of ammo completely disregarding that no automatic pistol will go click when it's empty because the slide locks back on the last round making it very obvious to everyone around that it's out of ammo.

 

[batguy]

And how about tire squealing where it can't exist, like on a dirt road? You could go for years and not hear a tire squeal, yet almost every car does it on TV/movies

Tires actually can squeal on dirt roads. It requires a bit of dirt that is smooth & dry & hard packed. When it happens it really does sound clear & obvious like the TV sound effects.


But in reality the squeal tends to be more of a brief chirp and usually won't happen for very long. Not unless you are driving on a dry lakebed or somewhere with an unusually good surface for it.

I agree that squealing sounds on dirt in the movies are probably just careless editing when they happen.

 

[p51]

How about movies/shows where someone is in the CIA and he bascially negotiates a massive fee with his handler to whack someone, like he's a hit man? Or how about when things go wrong at all or when the mission is over, they simply send someone to go kill the first agent? Or how about someone no longer with the CIA, and they come back and ask him to go on a mission for them anyway? In real life, they're GS-level government employees with fixed salaries and they're moved around a lot.
It bugs me because there's no logic there, nobody would ever join the CIA (or stay in it) if it worked like that. I've known a couple of people in the CIA and that stuff bugs the heck out of them.

 

[somerset fox]

How many break-ins to impenetrable buildings would be foiled if the baddies installed motion sensors, rather than photo optic light beams that need to be broken to set off the alarms.

 

[p51]

Or the 'laser light show' used in so many movies, where someone does a circus tumbling act to go right through them? One of the Ocean's 11 movies did this with downright insane effect. At least Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back made fun of the concept.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Love, romantic love conquers all....even death, see: The Matrix, Far and away, The abyss ect...

Matrix, yes. Far and away, yet The Abyss no. In the Abyss I don't think it was love that brought her back to life I think it was because Ed Harris was beating the crap out of her and cussing at her.


The thing in Movies / TV shows that always bugs me is the impractical way people hack into computers. The fact that they end up on a screen with the logo of the government agency that they hacked into. Like the FBI has a freaking welcome screen. Typing 100mph and windows are flipping open, and moving, rotating opening closing and MAKING SOUND, yet there is not command line window. A good example is the movie Hackers, flying through 3D space to find files. AAHHHHH pulling my hair out when I saw that movie. Also when the bad guy in that film (Short Circuit's creator) sends him a laptop in the mail, and when he turns it on there is a full screen video of him taunting him that plays automagically

NCSI is famous for the double hacking scene. Two people and one keyboard. geez

Oh and cracking your knuckles and saying crap like "Ok here we go...." or "Just give a sec...ok I'm / we're in"

I could go on, but I'll stop here.

 

[dbuck]

Matrix, yes. Far and away, yet The Abyss no. In the Abyss I don't think it was love that brought her back to life I think it was because Ed Harris was beating the crap out of her and cussing at her.

What about at the end when the aliens save Ed Harris and company because of his last message: LOVE YOU WIFE

 

[Helpful Nerd]

What about at the end when the aliens save Ed Harris and company because of his last message: LOVE YOU WIFE

yeah and then there's that. Forgot about the ending. I was too busy making a joke about Ed's revival technique.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

They tried it in a microwave and it didn't go off. I remember that much.

Wasn't that based on the Gross Point Blank convenience store scene? If I'm not mistaken.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Would you say you had a "drinking problem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4plPGRG8o

I believe that Marion faked the drunkenness at the bar just to win the money from the guys. She can't fake it when she drinks with Belloq and that is why she can't stand up when trying to escape.

But how could she fake the drunkenness at the bar when she was actually drinking the shots?

 

[glunark]

Its the alcohol she is used to, she can drink her local stuff all day, but she is not used to Belloq's wine, which he is.

 

[joshvanrad]

Wasn't that based on the Gross Point Blank convenience store scene? If I'm not mistaken.

That it was, doc.

 

[glunark]

Here's one, surprise helicopters.

The first time I remember this happening was in Blue Thunder, where the heros gf is being arrested on a bridge, and suddenly the helicopter rises up dramatically behind them.

This was very cool, and has been repeated many times in many films, (including the bird of prey in STV), however blue thunder specifically had a whisper mode, which normal helicopters do not.

Anyone who has ever heard on in real life knows you cant sneak up on someone with one.

Film and TV seem to operate on the principle, if you cant see the chopper, you can't hear it.

 

[dascoyne]

This was very cool, and has been repeated many times in many films, (including the bird of prey in STV), however blue thunder specifically had a whisper mode, which normal helicopters do not.

Anyone who has ever heard on in real life knows you cant sneak up on someone with one.

Film and TV seem to operate on the principle, if you cant see the chopper, you can't hear it.

but you can do it with a Firefly-class ship apparently.

 

[glunark]

Yes, because engines don't look at all loud.

 

[Bronson BB]

but you can do it with a Firefly-class ship apparently.

Yes, because engines don't look at all loud.

To be fair, Serenity's engines were likely muffled by the huge cliff she was hidden by.

 

[dascoyne]

I facepalm every time I see armed men surround someone in a complete circle.
One false move ... and they'll shoot each other.

 

[gunnerk19]

I'm sure it's been covered Ad nauseum here someplace, but I'll bring it up again since it annoys me no end.

Computer operators who can perform every single command necessary for any single computer requirement with only a keyboard. And they do so at unrealistic speed.

Locate a Satellite image of a suspect vehicle in Florida, from an office in downtown DC, zoom in a gazillion times to where you can not only read the license plate, but you can also see it's missing a plate screw, and all this is accomplished in about 20 seconds.

 

[dascoyne]

Since we're on computers - how about "high tech" institutions using operating systems with fancy, animated GUIs.
Those places are the LEAST likely to rely on eye-candy graphics.

 

[p51]

When a vehicle the bad guy is in is in an impact, rolls, and the good guy runs up miliseconds later, only to find the bad guy not only got out and but is nowhere to be seen...