Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[PHArchivist]

AND he has a similar moment in Crusade when he's on the beach and checks his ammo and he's out, then Sr takes over "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: "Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky.”

Just happend to be watching this last night. Similar perhaps, but not really the same thing... In LC it was more of a responsible, conscious check on his ammo before simply blindly relying on his trusty sidearm.

 

[dascoyne]

A guy releases the cylinder of his revolver then spins the cylinder ... and it makes a zzzzzz! sound.
The only way you can make that sound is with a closed action on an old west gun like a SAA.
Modern guns don't do that.

 

[glunark]

When they set a film or TV show in my home town and obviously filmed it somewhere else.

 

[p51]

When they set a film or TV show in my home town and obviously filmed it somewhere else.

Yeah, it drives me nuts when you see a movie taking place in a very well-known place and it clearly wasn't filmed there.
At first, so many movies and TV shows took place in Seattle so they could filmed in British Columbia, where Vancouver really doesn't look that far off for the back streets of Seattle. Just ignore the lack of the Alaskan Way viaduct, the Space Needle or US street signs, I guess.
I recently saw the movie, 'Chronicle' where "Seattle" scenes were filmed in Capetown, South Africa, of all places! WTH?
In the 80s, one of Ray Liotta's first movies was filmed in my hometown of Tallahassee, Florida. It stood in for several places from Virginia to Long Island. The flat, pine barrens of North Florida don't look like anywhere but right there. I'm people who watched the movie who lived in NYC, wondered where this was filmed once the few scenes actually filmed in New York were past and suddenly they were seieng buildings and landscapes that didn't look like anywhere in the Northeast...

 

[glunark]

Well if you ever see the Blink episode of Doctor Who, the bit where they say they are in Hull is just some random hilly fields in wales.

I know a lot of people wont have been to hull, or even heard of it, but its not full of fields, and its certainly not hilly.

 

[Jeyl]

I know a lot of people wont have been to hull, or even heard of it, but its not full of fields, and its certainly not hilly.

Neither is Sugar Land, Texas. Spielberg messed up big time.

 

[p51]

How about spectacular events taking place in public with plenty of people and lots of equipment and nobody can find out later who did it?
Batman snatches that Chinese acocuntant from that office building, using a C-130 supplied by Wane enterprises, and the second they're clear of the building, that's that? They still need to get out of that airspace. Don't the bad guys have phones? Violating someone's airspace and kidnapping someone is a pretty bad thing, most Air Forces could be scrambled to intercept such a slow plane as a 130. And doesn't anyone know what a registration # on a plane is for? Would have taken 2 minutes online to find out Bruce Wayne was the guy to call about it...

 

[NormanF]

I was watching Taken 2 last night - fun movie and prepping myself for the 3rd and final chapter! BUT... Near the end of the movie our hero, Brian, is hiding behind a door. The bad guys open fire not only at the door but the surrounding walls. Now...

WHY do writers insist on making the bad guys shoot the walls and door at waist level or higher? The hero is ALWAYS laying down in wait when the bad guys slowly open the door... then POW POW POW BANG BANG BANG... the bad guys are dead... UGH!

Well, they usually make the walls bullet proof anyway.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Ok, so not a movie, but I feel this topic also applies to TV shows.

And this meme sums up how I feel about The Walking Dead. I do love that show, and I go to Walker Stalker Con. But, c'mon! Really?



And in scenes where they "go on a run" and end up in a house in the Burbs, the grass is cut there too. Really? Mowed yards might look nice, but it's not realistic.

 

[robn1]

When they set a film or TV show in my home town and obviously filmed it somewhere else.

In the X-Files episode "Kitsunegari", Robert Modell escapes from the Lorton Correction facility in Virginia and is found in a sporting goods store in nearby Occoquan. Occoquan is a five minute drive from where I live and the location used in the show looks nothing like it. Also I'm not aware of there ever being a sporting goods store there. My dad had a hunting and fishing shop in Occoquan at the time called "Occoquan Sportsman" oddly enough, but it wasn't sporting goods.

 

[p51]

X-files did an episode taking place in the Apalachicola National Forest in North Florida, pretty much right where I grew up. The wilds of British Columbia naturally look nothing like the pine flats and ancient dunelands of the Big Bend area of the Sunshine state!

 

[dascoyne]

... but I didn't mind how Rumble in the Bronx unashamedly depicted a Bronx golf course with mountains in the background.

 

[p51]

I'll never forget being in a theater watching "Pearl Harbor," when near the start of the movie, a scene taking place near Long Island (the two P-40s heading toward each other and the 'left meaning left?' discussion) clearly had mountains in the background. Some guy in the audience must have been from the Northeast and he yelled out, "Mountains? Really? Come ON!!!!!" A few of us snickered, I got where he was coming from.

 

[robn1]

From Kentucky Fried Movie.

 

[Solo4114]

A reverse of that is when you spot your city's skyline standing in for another city, including fictional ones. On Arrow, especially in the first season, Philadelphia's skyline was used for various daytime aerial shots of Starling City.

 

[p51]

A reverse of that is when you spot your city's skyline standing in for another city, including fictional ones. On Arrow, especially in the first season, Philadelphia's skyline was used for various daytime aerial shots of Starling City.

At least a fictional city can be represented by almost anywhere, especially when it's generally accepted that the fictional name refers to a real place. For example, many people consider Metropolis to really be NYC...

 

[Solo4114]

At least a fictional city can be represented by almost anywhere, especially when it's generally accepted that the fictional name refers to a real place. For example, many people consider Metropolis to really be NYC...

Yeah, that's true. It didn't bother me, really. I just found it kinda funny. In Philly, the buildings depicted are kind of iconic. Of course, Philly not being NYC/DC/Chicago/Seattle, etc., it isn't as widely recognized elsewhere in the world. We don't really have a single skyline-defining building that's internationally known.

 

[Treadwell]

psst: in a work of fiction, even cities that also exist in the real world are still FICTIONAL CITIES. Whatever isn't "right" based on our real life city is "right" in the fictional one of the same name.

 

[nightwind1]

In the X-Files episode "Kitsunegari", Robert Modell escapes from the Lorton Correction facility in Virginia and is found in a sporting goods store in nearby Occoquan. Occoquan is a five minute drive from where I live and the location used in the show looks nothing like it. Also I'm not aware of there ever being a sporting goods store there. My dad had a hunting and fishing shop in Occoquan at the time called "Occoquan Sportsman" oddly enough, but it wasn't sporting goods.

There was an episode in the first season of X-Files (don't remember the title of it), which took place in Iowa.

There are NO MOUNTAINS in Iowa, X-Files people!

 

[NormanF]

Characters who only whisper. It pissed me off in "Murder at 1600" and the previews for "Jupiter Ascending" makes it look like the main bad guy does the same thing.