Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Laspector
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Yes, JAWS was never rated R
If you really think about it, the movie has very very little actual gore in it. Quint spits a little blood, a severed leg floats to the bottom of the water, some blood flies out of the water when the kid gets eaten, and we see Ben Gardner's head for about two seconds. That's really about it.
Back during the time of JAWS when people were actually afraid to take a bath after that movie, people believed they saw more in that film than they actually did.
It's actually the same way with ALIEN. Other than the chestburster scene, there is very little gore actually on screen. Your mind provides it.
If you really think about it, the movie has very very little actual gore in it. Quint spits a little blood, a severed leg floats to the bottom of the water, some blood flies out of the water when the kid gets eaten, and we see Ben Gardner's head for about two seconds. That's really about it.
Back during the time of JAWS when people were actually afraid to take a bath after that movie, people believed they saw more in that film than they actually did.
It's actually the same way with ALIEN. Other than the chestburster scene, there is very little gore actually on screen. Your mind provides it.
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Laspector
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Criminals who can oh-so-easily override the broadcast signals on television and media and replace it with their own video feed.
In the entire world history of criminals and media, has this EVER been done before? If it was so easy, wouldn't every hack in the world be doing this?
In the entire world history of criminals and media, has this EVER been done before? If it was so easy, wouldn't every hack in the world be doing this?
I know right?? I saw this happen last night on the latest episode of The Flash... am sitting here thinking to myself "Here you have a criminal, who is stupid enough to get caught all the time, but yet has the chops to be able to hack into every video feed on the planet to send a message to the good guy?" Yeah right!!
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Here's something... the bad guy has been on a killing rampage after escaping jail... the good guy stops him finally at the end of the movie and doesn't shoot him in the head? I mean what's gonna happen is he's gonan go back to jail, escape again and do it all over again!
Unless you're Veronica Cartwright.
glunark
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Father
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Worse still: the fact that the people doing it should really be in no way qualified, ever. Somehow movie logic is:
Has some minor aptitude, such as... good with tools, or did well in high school shop = expert level welder and mechanical engineer.
Sadly the only one that accidentally hit this right was the breakfast club, when the smart kid talks about how his lamp sucked. Pretty much the only example I can think of where a movie smart guy wasn't capable of constructing absolutely anything, from anything, without instruction our training.
The A-Team was famous for that... as well as McGyver... both would find the simplest items and construct a complete contraption in a matter of minutes/hours and it would work flawlessly! I think one of the best examples of that was when McGyver constructed the ultralite out of bamboo sticks, some garbage bags, a bit of duct tape and an old lawn mower. You would think the bad guys would have stuck him in a completely empty room and made sure to clean out his pockets before doing so after awhile! LOL But no... they always put him in the toolshed or the supply closet! I mean COMON!!!
Ha! Very true. Although I never minded so much when those shows did it, since that was part of the gimmick for them.
I just don't like when they basically just take someone generically "smart" and equate that to: master craftsman. As if, being good in Calculus class is the same thing as being trained in auto mechanics or welding when the truth is often that not only are those two different skillsets, but very often the people with those skills are actually very different...almost opposite archetypes. As I type this, I'm in my office (procrastinating) and there are a dozen very smart PhDs on this hall with degrees ranging from neuroscience, to chemical engineering. They are absolutely brilliant and I'm not sure I'd trust any one of them to change a tire, let alone build a helicopter from vacuum cleaner parts. Some of these people would probably be flummoxed by Ikea furniture.
Yet in movies, apparently they don't let you get your pHD without spending a good 10-15 years learning blue collar trades. As if...no chemist is ever allowed to do lab work until they can master the glassblowing needed to make their own beakers, and you're not allowed into aerodynamics class until you demonstrate the ability to whittle an airplane prop out of a block of wood. Anytime you see a PhD in a movie, expect this person at some point to demonstrate total mastery of any and all blue collar trades.
(edit, I'm not one of them btw. I'm the resident "dumb guy". I take the science and create animation and graphics to illustrate it. I also have a background in carpentry and electrics from my days as a theater tech, which means...if something breaks I'm way more likely to be the one fixing it than any of the egg heads).
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Axlotl
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Ohmygosh! I do remember that!
15 seconds, McGruber!
Exactly... just look at the Professor on Gilligan's Island... here we have a History Professor that can build a battery charger out of a bunch of coconuts, a washing machine, an air balloon, and yet for the life of him he can't fix the transmitter to get them off the island! LOL
There was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion
But no, never a complete takeover of every station/channel.
It REALLY bugged me in 89 Batman when Joker did it. He even remotely took over the switcher in the TV station to do video effects (remember the lame "push the frame aside" gag?), and the people at the board could do nothing. Okaaaaay....
p51
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It's just funny in general how movies and TV show that someone with a laptop can do... anything to anyone. Computers are powerful if you know how to get into them, but most of the time you'd only be able to screw up the address on someone's insurance claim or something only mildly annoying.
There was also the Chicago "Max Headroom" takeover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion A pal of mine lived there and still has a recording of both times it was done. To this day I don't understand why they did nonsensical stuff. Such an opportunity for truly, "Fight club" type mayhem, wasted.
Stormie
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There's this one aswell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
CB2001
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Averted in The Brothers Bloom, as it's mentioned and is seen in the film for an important wham moment.
Solo4114
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Yeah, see, what people don't understand is that the A-Team and MacGuyver all went to the Professor's School of Coconut Engineering.
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