Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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p51
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If I remember correctly from a book I recently read, the initial reports of the attack made it to the mainland within the first hour. The famous uncoded message: AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL went out right before 0800 local and the attack was underway by then. That's 1100 Pacific time.
My folks grew up in the mountains of Northeast Tennessee. Up there, church was an all-day thing. Six hour time difference, there would have been people still in church in more rural areas.
How about movie scenes that show people in bars and such hearing the news the first day? Who in the 1940s would be sitting in a bar on a Sunday afternoon? Nobody in polite society, that's for certain!
My folks grew up in the mountains of Northeast Tennessee. Up there, church was an all-day thing. Six hour time difference, there would have been people still in church in more rural areas.
How about movie scenes that show people in bars and such hearing the news the first day? Who in the 1940s would be sitting in a bar on a Sunday afternoon? Nobody in polite society, that's for certain!
p51
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I think I did this before, what about movies with a prom going on and everyone dances like a professional? Every prom I went to, most people were stiff-kneeing it, if they're dancing at all.
Start watching this at about 1:50 and the one guy has the best line on the subject in any movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrExVsDUx8
Good one, I was thinking about that the other day while watching a Big Bang Theory episode, the one they talk Penny into dressing as Wonder Woman. In that case, they clearly use store bought costumes as one time they all showed up in exactly the same one (the Flash, I think).
Start watching this at about 1:50 and the one guy has the best line on the subject in any movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrExVsDUx8
Riceball
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I don't remember if this has been brought up previously or not but what about how all scientists, doctors, and engineers are all experts at every aspect of their profession? A nuclear physicist is also a chemist, biologist, geologist, etc, doctor who is a GP but is also a skilled surgeon, virologist, ophthalmologist, oncologist, OBGYN, and every other form of medical doctor; and engineers being mechanical, nuclear, electrical engineers and can fix or build nearly anything mechanical, electrical, or digital.
The other thing that I find annoying is when they make very simple and obvious mistakes in the way the military does things or with military hardware. We all know about sloppy or incorrect uniforms, bad salutes, and all but here's one that has them all beat but, to be honest, I've only seen once, somebody hotwiring a Humvee. When I saw that I knew that the writer had never served a day in uniform in their life, but also has never been around many military vehicles. Why, you might ask? Simple, because military Humvees have no keys, most military vehicles don't, you just (in the case of diesel vehicles) activate the glow plug and then hit the starter, no need to hotwire in any situation.
The other thing that I find annoying is when they make very simple and obvious mistakes in the way the military does things or with military hardware. We all know about sloppy or incorrect uniforms, bad salutes, and all but here's one that has them all beat but, to be honest, I've only seen once, somebody hotwiring a Humvee. When I saw that I knew that the writer had never served a day in uniform in their life, but also has never been around many military vehicles. Why, you might ask? Simple, because military Humvees have no keys, most military vehicles don't, you just (in the case of diesel vehicles) activate the glow plug and then hit the starter, no need to hotwire in any situation.
p51
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We always had cable locks around the steering wheels on ours. if someone was shown trying to pick that lock, that'd be just fine.
Hot wiring a military vehicle? Wow, I'd have laughed long and loud.
Lots of movies show people fiddling around on WW2 Jeeps, pushing a starter switch on the dash. The problem is the switch to engage the starter is there, but the actually starter switch itself is a pedal, between the gas pedal and the transmission/transfer case levers!
Riceball
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I remember the cable locks, but I don't remember every using them, they'd always be unlocked in the motor pool and unlocked in the field. Funny story about starting Humvees, on one of my last CAXs I was selected to be a driver for the trip home from the Stumps but for some reason I had a brain fart and actually forgot how to start the damned thing, as a result I got to be the A-driver instead, no big loss since I really didn't enjoying driving Humvees on the road anyway.
Wit the Jeeps, it's possible that they were using modern replicas or simply a more modern jeep that lacked the pedal starter or it's also possible that you really just don't see the actor using the pedal starter. My bet is that they were probably using post-war Jeeps that lacked the pedal starter.
Proper
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I always find it absurd when a character--often the hero or heroine--under ridiculously pressure situations can instantly work any type of vehicle or weapon or machine or device of any kind, as though they had been born to it, and with a knowledge and expertise that realistically would be possible only with numerous and lengthy training sessions. But I guess that's what makes them... heroic. :rolleyes
Why is it that no matter what city/country our hero/heroine happens to be, we always see that particular cities/countries most prestigious landmark through a hotel window?
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p51
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That always drove me nuts, too. For example, a pilot simply can't hop into any airplane for the very first time, sight-unseen, fire it up and fly off without spending some time to see where everything is and understand the characteristics of how that specific one flies. Heck, when I hop into a rental car, I have to take a few minutes to find where everything is that I would need to know immediately without looking for them, like windshield wipers, heater/AC, stuff like that...
At least the Matrix handled that well, where someone can have the experience of how to operate something downloaded to them in a minute or two.
jarroth
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watched "the core" just last weekend. one thing buggered me alot and you see that in more movies/series. some brilliant engineer makes a machine, wich failes ofcourse and the only way to get the darn thing working again is some sort of lever wich has to be pulled. ofcourse the uber brilliant folks put that lever in a impossible to reach location.
so far for being brilliant. makes me think of lever for ejectionseat for a fighter plane located on outside of the canopy.
so far for being brilliant. makes me think of lever for ejectionseat for a fighter plane located on outside of the canopy.
p51
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When I think of some of the stuff I used in the Army - all of which was made by the lowest bidder- I'm not as bothered by this concept. Think of the early M-16 rifles, which would jam up in the jungle, meaning you had to take it apart to work. That of course didn't go over well when you were under fire.
I know plenty of railroad equipment that had odd things that could go easily wrong that were impossible to fix on the move, too.
History is filled with stuff like that.
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