Planting explosives and doing it right where they're visible! Stargate SG-1 I'm talking to you!
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Riceball
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From what I've seen, most bikes, unless it's specifically designed as a single seater like some retro style bikes are, they come with enough room to accommodate a passenger. It may not be the most secure seat and likely require you to get pretty friendly with the driver, but a passenger will fit. Even sport bikes (aka crotch rockets) come with long seats with enough room for a passenger and fairings that take up the extra space being optional or aftermarket components. But the extra helmets are definitely a rarity,
Riceball
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To go along with that. conveniently visible timers so that everybody can see just how much time the bomb has before it goes off. That and standardized wiring so that anybody attempting to defuse it knows which color wire to cut and in which order because, you know, everybody makes bombs the exact same way as every other bomb maker in the world.
Well, of course. Everyone knows it's the red wire (or is it the blue wire?). Isn't that what they teach you in Bomb Making School?
jkno
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and explosives with bright LEDs and beeps too
p51
Sr Member
Hollywood can never get ordnance right. They hardly ever get missiles looking right, too.
I've only ever seen a breaching charge done close to right in but a couple of films. I have wondered if they don't wanna show people exactly how to do that, but it's not like you can make a shaped charge out of gunpowder or anything you can easily pick up (sure, you can make your own HE compounds if you know what you're doing, but that's really tough to get right and if you can do that, you already know what to do with it).
Digital timers that go beep? Meh! I only ever used pull igniters and you really can't count on them down to an exact moment (but I've never seen one not work).
The opening to "The Beast" shows satchel charges used effectively for the most part (and has the very best use of breechloading artillery with blanks ever put to film, timed almost perfect with the ground effects to the point that some people still think they used live ammo).
"Band of Brothers" showed them as well, but those are historical things you just need to re-create. Making something new, well, I've never seen that done plausibly.
I saw the first "Iron man" movie in a theater near a military base and you could tell those who had played with the real stuff as they were the ones snickering each time some Stark ordnance got shown as so much was done incorrectly or silly looking.
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The use of CGI to drive the whole story NOT using it to just enhance parts of the story
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TazMan2000
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The Hollywood explosions are almost always just gasoline, or some other flammable liquid, so that you get these spectacular orange and black rolling balls of fire, which is fine, if a tanker explodes, but they use that type of explosion for everything. C4 is a unspectacular flash, and a little smoke, but an immense sound and shockwave that you feel right through your body.
Also, in real life, the you always see the flash first, then a few moments later, comes the shockwave, since obviously, light travels faster than sound, but Hollywood always has both exactly at the same time.
Same goes with lightning and thunder.
TazMan2000
Also, in real life, the you always see the flash first, then a few moments later, comes the shockwave, since obviously, light travels faster than sound, but Hollywood always has both exactly at the same time.
Same goes with lightning and thunder.
TazMan2000
What movie is that? I see several when I Googled it.
Oh I have another one. I finally watched the RoboCop reboot... and I love shows where a character who will be in combat has glowing items on his armor. I mean yes RoboCop is bulletproof to an extent, but there's no reason to have that red glowy visor. The same thing with the Republic Commandos from the game/books. In the books Karen Traviss tried to make it more realistic by having them turn the light off when they are going into combat, but I don't know what the purpose would be otherwise, other than they thought it looked cool.
Axlotl
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It's about a Russian tank crew in Afghanistan with a dangerous insane commander that takes a wrong turn and gets separated from it's battalion.
Riceball
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Something that's always bugged me is how in sci-fi, every ship that's supposed to be kind of big and powerful is almost always called a battlecruiser. I hate that because battlecruiser is a real class of warship but was never anything particularly impressive. All a battlecruiser means is a ship the size of a cruiser, maybe a bit larger, with battleship caliber guns (but no larger than 14") but cruiser level armor. The idea was that they could outgun anything that was a cruiser or smaller but outrun any battleship it might encounter. In practice it never really worked out all that well and battlecruisers, as a class and concept, largely disappeared by WWII or were used mainly as commerce raiders. So I laugh and cringe everytime I see some spaceship called a battlecruiser simply because somebody thought that it sounded cool, not knowing what a real battlecruiser was.
Only slightly less bothersome, but still over and misused, is the term dreadnought. Once again, a cool sounding name that doesn't mean what Hollywood and sci-fi authors think that it means. A dreadnought is not some super sized warship, some kind of super battleship. All a dreadnought was was a new type of battleship that became the basis for the "modern" battleship. This meant a battleship with an all big gun main armament; before the HMS Dreadnought battleships had a main battery of mixed caliber guns. Furthermore, the Dreadnought mounted all of her main guns in turrets along her centerline instead of barbettes along the side of the hull. Once all of the world's navies started building dreadnought type battleships the term fell out of use and all battleships were once again simply just called battleships.
Only slightly less bothersome, but still over and misused, is the term dreadnought. Once again, a cool sounding name that doesn't mean what Hollywood and sci-fi authors think that it means. A dreadnought is not some super sized warship, some kind of super battleship. All a dreadnought was was a new type of battleship that became the basis for the "modern" battleship. This meant a battleship with an all big gun main armament; before the HMS Dreadnought battleships had a main battery of mixed caliber guns. Furthermore, the Dreadnought mounted all of her main guns in turrets along her centerline instead of barbettes along the side of the hull. Once all of the world's navies started building dreadnought type battleships the term fell out of use and all battleships were once again simply just called battleships.
Axlotl
Master Member
To your first point, I think something similar happened with George Lucas and the Millennium Falcon.
He called it a freighter, but what characteristics does that ship have that make it a freighter?
I think he meant frigate. It's small, fast, agile, and heavily armed, things a freighter absolutely does not need to be, but a frigate absolutely does.
The Goon
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The problem is that you're trying to apply real life terms like "battlecruiser" and "dreadnought" to fictional craft in a fictional universe. Hell, for all we know that species could be using the term "dreadnought" to describe what we call an "apple".
Wasn't it a modified Corillian freight vessel..
It certainly was used to carry freight across the Galaxy hence Solo being wanted by Jabba for dumping his..
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Axlotl
Master Member
People smuggle drugs in cars every day.
Does that make their cars freighters?
joberg
Legendary Member
Nope, it's then called a Mule
Depends how fast they can make The Kessle run..
On a serious note the term Freight is usually attached to transportation of goods in large containers.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned this one….action set pieces that are concluded with the heroes executing the “Run! Explosion! DIVE!!!”
(Usually in slow motion with a loud percussive soundtrack playing)
This was such a trope, throughout the 1990’s, that you can immediately tell, just by seeing this specific type of action sequence, that the movie was filmed between 1990 - 1999.
Ready….
Set….
EXPLOSION….
DIVE (onto the air mattress)!!!!!
(Usually in slow motion with a loud percussive soundtrack playing)
This was such a trope, throughout the 1990’s, that you can immediately tell, just by seeing this specific type of action sequence, that the movie was filmed between 1990 - 1999.
Ready….
Set….
EXPLOSION….
DIVE (onto the air mattress)!!!!!
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