drusselmeyer
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At least you live in a town large enough for a theater. I once lived in a town of around 15,000. There was no theater. No barbershop, no dentist, no bank, no Walmart, no starbucks...
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Darth Lars
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This might sound crazy to people today: when I grew up we didn't have commercials on TV over here in Sweden.
That made it somewhat novel and exciting to see commercials in the movie theatre. You weren't already tired of the tropes.
That reminds of the days in the 80's and 90's when theaters would play local ads, but they weren't live commercials. It was a still (like a newspaper ad) that ran for about a minute each with classic Top 40 music playing over it. We also had a local channel that showed the same thing all hours of the day. I'm sure every town had them. I miss those actually. Better than that tiresome Maria Menounos preshow.
That's crazy! Next thing you're going to tell me is that all the Swedish women aren't blond and on bikini teams!
Seriously, I think it's funny because my nephew (20) and niece (16) act like they can barely watch any streaming service if it's not ad free. My mom (who they live with) has Hulu, with ads, and they act like they are near death if they have to watch it and see an ad!
Ad free is nice, but it really doesn't bother me as an 80s kid who grew up with them.
In TV/theatrical films, when there is a fight and someone gets kicked or punched/struck in the throat/neck/head, falls down, only to get up 30 seconds later and rejoin the fight with their martial arts moves. A good strike to the head or neck may not "knock you out," but you are NOT getting up clear headed and doing roundhouse kicks immediately after that.
On a similar side note: It's REALLY obvious when stunt performed are overselling the hits and take-downs from the "hero," AKA $15 million dollar star of the film. What's with the mid-air long axis rotisserie spin that seems to be in vogue??
On a similar side note: It's REALLY obvious when stunt performed are overselling the hits and take-downs from the "hero," AKA $15 million dollar star of the film. What's with the mid-air long axis rotisserie spin that seems to be in vogue??
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Exactly; as someone who's suffered brain trauma, you don't just "get up from that" and act like nothing happened. COncussions, brain bleeding, etc. That crap can dim your lights for a bit, to say the least.
On that note: with head injuries, there is a phenomena called "coup/ contre-coup" where your brain hits one side of your skull during an impact, then hits the exact opposide side (front/ back, side/ side) when it "sloshes back":
Traumatic Brain Injury
Acquired brain injury hapens when a sudden, external, physical assault damages the brain. It is one of the most common causes of disability and death in adults.
My wife is cursed with Tall Person Wall at movies We prep by sitiing one seat apart and wait for the row to fill, then swap seats after the wall shows up.The back of someone's head when I sit to watch a movie and some dud who's 7' 5"" decides to plop himself right in front of me!!!!
drusselmeyer
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Aliens/children/foreigners etc who instantly understand scientific symbols and equations. It is difficult enough to deal with American vs European variations and symbols let alone someone who has never studied "Earth" physics. While it may be possible to recognize proportions and therefore equations, it is not likely to read something that is purely hypothetical -in a foreign mathematical language.
This one goes way back. One of the most obvious is the original The Day the Earth Stood Still.
This one goes way back. One of the most obvious is the original The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I have numerous degrees that included many math classes, physics, etc. that all used symbols. I am 51. There is never a month that goes by that I don't come across a symbol that is new to me. The hardest thing in all of math to grasp is nothing that needs grasping but rather memorization. All the symbols are completely random and rarely if never have a manifestation that represents their meaning. Very, very few are pictographs. Any chance that someone nearly instantly recognizes or understands a mathematical symbol is pure fantasy.
joberg
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Ah the good old days of actors doing their own stunts...
drusselmeyer
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Let's be honest: h'w'd directors tend to be very bad at their jobs. If Jigsaw were to get 5 top directors and force to each follow a story and only need 90% accuracy they would all die.
I would almost give Independence Day a pass (the computer virus) in that regard because Jeff Goldblum's character is supposed to be a genius and the military had been studying the alien fighter for decades. So I could conceive that his genius might help him connect the dots of what the military already knew about their technology to make a virus that interfaced with their tech.
Lightning
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If I remember correctly, there was a deleted bit where they talk about how all our computer tech is derived from the crashed ship, so the aliens were already running a very similar operating system, since ours was based on it.
Nope, I still can't. the ID4 virus thing stood out even for the movie it was in. It was one of those nuke-the-fridge moments where everybody in the theater had the same negative reaction. It's not the severity of the stupid, it's how it affects the viewing experience.
It's utterly stupid for TIE fighters and X-wings to make noise in space. But that instance of stupidity holds up in the cost/benefit analysis.
It's utterly stupid for TIE fighters and X-wings to make noise in space. But that instance of stupidity holds up in the cost/benefit analysis.
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