Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Paul Andrew]

...when aliens interface with human computer systems by jamming mechanical arms or tentacles into a display screen or computer case, and then "absorbing" the data (as if making gaping holes in electronics equipment wouldn't make it unusable).

Along these lines, humans or aliens being able to transfer data from their computers to ours or vice versa.

Half the time I can't even get my both my windows machines to see each other on my home network, how in the hell are machines developed by separate species on separate worlds going to share data in any kind of useable fashion?

The first instance I remember of this jumping out at me was Independence Day, but I'm sure there are others.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I just saw a video on Independence Day and they said there was a cut scene that showed the scientists, who had been working on the alien fighter for decades, giving Jeff Goldblum's character access to the ship. They showed him how the computer worked, which supposedly allowed him to create the virus. Plausible, but an awful short time for him to do it.

 

[Riceball]

I just saw a video on Independence Day and they said there was a cut scene that showed the scientists, who had been working on the alien fighter for decades, giving Jeff Goldblum's character access to the ship. They showed him how the computer worked, which supposedly allowed him to create the virus. Plausible, but an awful short time for him to do it.

The same or another cut scene also mentions that all of our computer tech came as a result of the ETs and that's also how Jeff Goldblum's character was able to write a virus for the alien's computers.

 

[pengbuzz]

...when aliens interface with human computer systems by jamming mechanical arms or tentacles into a display screen or computer case, and then "absorbing" the data (as if making gaping holes in electronics equipment wouldn't make it unusable).

Or doing the same to human beings... O.O

 

[bwayne64]

The skyscraper idea was done on Fear The Walking Dead.

Maybe that stuck in my head, not much else did from that show, ; )

 

[greenmachines]

Wait ! We can identify as a different race ?
Oh this is gonna be fun, rotflmao !!!!

You must have missed Dicaprio's "native Americans believe no one should be using the wilderness..... " speech. I don't remember giving him my opinion about the wilderness.

 

[greenmachines]

...when aliens interface with human computer systems by jamming mechanical arms or tentacles into a display screen or computer case, and then "absorbing" the data (as if making gaping holes in electronics equipment wouldn't make it unusable).

Somehow, this theory of electrocuting yourself via direct short is equal to "jacking in" and you can download data that hasn't even been stored via that, now destroyed, panel.

 

[jkno]

Along these lines, humans or aliens being able to transfer data from their computers to ours or vice versa.

Half the time I can't even get my both my windows machines to see each other on my home network, how in the hell are machines developed by separate species on separate worlds going to share data in any kind of useable fashion?

The first instance I remember of this jumping out at me was Independence Day, but I'm sure there are others.

And I cannot make the Lexmark printer work on Windows 10, but it worked on W7. In real life aliens would be like this:

 

[dascoyne]

When the villain says:
"Join me"
"with our powers combined we can/will ..."
"You are just like/no different from me"

 

[Master Boda]

You must have missed Dicaprio's "native Americans believe no one should be using the wilderness..... " speech. I don't remember giving him my opinion about the wilderness.

Dude, Hollywood actors have been trying to tell us what we should think or do for awhile now.

 

[greenmachines]

When the villain says:
"Join me"
"with our powers combined we can/will ..."
"You are just like/no different from me"

Or worse, when the people who successfully captured the villain, rhen listen to his rant and release him because they all believe the logic he spouted.

 

[Cephus]

Dude, Hollywood actors have been trying to tell us what we should think or do for awhile now.

And we've been telling them where to shove it, graphically, for a while now too.

 

[batguy]

You must have missed Dicaprio's "native Americans believe no one should be using the wilderness..... " speech. I don't remember giving him my opinion about the wilderness.

Wait . . . so "you people" don't all think & act the same? You're unique individuals like the rest of us?

 

[greenmachines]

Wait . . . so "you people" don't all think & act the same? You're unique individuals like the rest of us?

As Hollywood constantly groups and labels people, claiming to understand their hopes and dreams as a collective of hive minded clones, usually based on skin color, while screaming that that in itself would be racist...... It never seems to stop them.

 

[userd1402]

-.-

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Every time someone goes into a dark house/cave/warehouse the pitifully tiny torch (flashlight) they are using blinks and goes out, despite shaking & hitting it. This has never happened to me and my own torch but seems to always happen on screen.

I complained about that all the time when we would watch X-Files. I would tell my dad that I would have one of those huge spot lights if I were them. Of course now most cops have regular sized flashlights that can light up an entire backyard. In the 90s they mainly had incandescent flashlights.

 

[jkno]

And I cannot make the Lexmark printer work on Windows 10, but it worked on W7. In real life aliens would be like this:

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Also this:

 

[p51]

A few things about WW2 movies, especially:

• Enlisted men calling officers by their rank instead of just 'sir'
• Actors way too old playing the parts of people who should be in their late teens and early 20s
• Haircuts not correct for the timeframe
• 1950s bazookas. As someone who owns a real (deactivated to ATF standards) M1A1 bazooka, that really drives me nuts as they don't look right at all
• German soldiers mostly armed with MP-40 submachine guns but with the web gear for someone with a bolt action Mauser rifle. Where do they store their ammo? I also see GIs with rifle cartridge belts but carrying weapons that wouldn't hold the ammo in that belt
• For that matter, most don't seem to be carrying spare ammo at all
• A lot of M1 carbines in WW2 movies have the 30 round magazines, which didn't get used in the ETO
• Far too many people carrying submachineguns. Those were usually carried only by NCOs and officers
• German black SS dress uniforms in 1944 or 1945. Those uniforms were put away for the grey ones long before then
• WW2 movies made in the 60s especially had women wearing 60s hairstyles and fashions. I've never understood that
• The 'clairvoyant Sarge' who somehow knows everything. Hey, good NCOs do know a lot but they're hardly omnipotent!
• I don't take issues with German vehicles being wrong. Very few German tanks are running even today, and replicas would be very hard to make

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

That's one reason I'm glad for good CGI. They can have accurate planes and tanks now. As a kid it bugged me that the movies had obvious U.S. tanks as German tanks. Then in Pacific theater movies, they would use T6 Texans for Zeros.

 

[pengbuzz]

That stupid "555-5555" number as a substitute for any phone number in a movie. Seriously, can you just not show the number or them dialing?