Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[pengbuzz]

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[drusselmeyer]

Ring ring. " It's me. Get out of there now! They're coming to kill you."

" What? Huh? You're not making sense."

" Those dangerous people in the first reel, the bad guys! They're coming for you, get out right now!"

" That's crazy, why would anyone be after me?"

" It's because they are the bad guys of the film and you are the obvious next target!!!"

"Nah, you're just being silly, so I'm going to stall and keep you on the phone so you can get caught too if they can find you. Oh, hold on. There is someone at the door."

" DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR!!!!!"

"I'm not listening to you. I'm answering the door. AAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

 

[TheBeast]

Just started this thread, and will be a long time reading, but a lot of 'hell yeahs' along the way.

Loudest were for shakycam, and its illegitimate offspring, string of couple second jump shots.

I had a psuedo-epipany (i.e. sarcastic thought) that there should be rejoicing!

Zak Snyder heard you, and gave you those slo-mo inserts.

 

[Solos blaster]

What if the armor on the neck was a "soft armor", like the dark parts on the Master Chief's Mjolnir armor? A compromise between protection and flexibility that wasn't as strong as the plate armor, but at least allowed some protection with the benefit of allowing movement?

Yes! That is what I had in mind, I just couldn’t think of the phrase “soft armor”.

 

[greenmachines]

What if the armor on the neck was a "soft armor", like the dark parts on the Master Chief's Mjolnir armor? A compromise between protection and flexibility that wasn't as strong as the plate armor, but at least allowed some protection with the benefit of allowing movement?

This is the most likely scenario. Same story since medieval times with fully armored knights. Not sure why it didn't just spring to mind. We were all thinking about weak points and focused too much on why would anyone "WANT" a weak point or design in a weak point but in essence it is just the weak-EST point on a purposed heavy armor vehicle that needed mobility at that point. Like why bunker bombs break bunkers. You build something stronger and someone else builds a better cannon but in our case then later builds a weaker canon......

 

[Riceball]

Sure, that's how we do it, but is this necessarily how the Empire does it? They're known for cheaping-out in quality in exchange for quantity, for overwhelming numbers.

Just sayin', I really don't think that Walker's neck was armored ...

They would do almost certainly do it the way we do it because it's the simplest and most practical way of doing so. Building a complete vehicle with an unarmored hull and then bolting armor plating on top of that hull just means more work, time, and resources going into said vehicle. By either creating a hull made up entirely of armored plates that are welded, riveted, or bolted together or to an underlying framework saves from having to make the unarmored skin, attaching the skin to each other or the frame, and then going in and attaching armored plates on top of it. This only works when you're adding armor to something that's already been made that lacks armor. like we (the US) did with our Humvess in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or if you want to add additional armor to an already armored vehicle like the Germans did to up armor their PzKpfw IIIs & IVs during WWII and what the US Army has done to many of their Bradleys and the Russians by adding ERA to many of their tanks. But this is additional armor going on top of the existing armor that's already there with no skin underneath that armor.

 

[Riceball]

This is the most likely scenario. Same story since medieval times with fully armored knights. Not sure why it didn't just spring to mind. We were all thinking about weak points and focused too much on why would anyone "WANT" a weak point or design in a weak point but in essence it is just the weak-EST point on a purposed heavy armor vehicle that needed mobility at that point. Like why bunker bombs break bunkers. You build something stronger and someone else builds a better cannon but in our case then later builds a weaker canon......

In the case of Medieval and Renaissance plate armor, you could only make the plates so thick before they became too heavy for the person to wear or tire out the wearer even faster. Additionally, certain weak points were deliberate because the designers had no choice. Areas like the armpits and the joints had to be unarmored or only covered by bits of mail so that the wearer could actually move. Although there were a few rare cases of plate harnesses that had articulated plates in the joints, but those were )apparently) few and far between.

In the case of armored vehicles, you can't have thick and heavy armor plates everywhere because the vehicle would be too heavy to move if you di. So you prioritize the frontal armor and sacrifice the armor elsewhere with the armor at the top, bottom, and back of the vehicle being the thinnest in order to save weight.

 

[greenmachines]

In the case of Medieval and Renaissance plate armor, you could only make the plates so thick before they became too heavy for the person to wear or tire out the wearer even faster. Additionally, certain weak points were deliberate because the designers had no choice. Areas like the armpits and the joints had to be unarmored or only covered by bits of mail so that the wearer could actually move. Although there were a few rare cases of plate harnesses that had articulated plates in the joints, but those were )apparently) few and far between.

In the case of armored vehicles, you can't have thick and heavy armor plates everywhere because the vehicle would be too heavy to move if you di. So you prioritize the frontal armor and sacrifice the armor elsewhere with the armor at the top, bottom, and back of the vehicle being the thinnest in order to save weight.

I can't remember which show it was but they had two crusaders going hand to hand. They had small weapons made specifically for attacking the joints of the armor, almost like ice picks. The winner was the first one to get in an armpit thrust.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Waitaminute, isn't that exactly what we did with appliqué ceramic plate armor on Hummers?

Weren't the armored plates just glued onto the body?

 

[Solos blaster]

Waitaminute, isn't that exactly what we did with appliqué ceramic plate armor on Hummers?

Weren't the armored plates just glued onto the body?

Yes it is. Basically just bolted on kits. And like in the case of of some platforms before the MRAPs became more widespread, or on the upgraded frame and engine hMMVWWs, it would only be used for traveling outside the wire to other locations or specific missions and once completed, back to base or at the new location, it would be removed.

In one example the HIMARS, the frame and door hinges cannot handle being under the load of the extra weight for extended periods of time. Over 99% of the time the kits sit in connexes only waiting to be accounted for during inspections throughout the year..

 

[p51]

When someone wearing glasses has gone through something, you'll see the lenses only partially shattered, just lines on the lenses. Anyone who wears glasses will tell you that old or modern lenses wouldn't crack like that and even if they did, the stress would pop them out of the frame long before any cracks on the lenses would happen.

 

[Bloop]

Not sure if this has been said, but I hate when people pose for a photo in a movie or tv show, then when the picture is taken, they show a still screen that's supposed to be the photo, but they just did a freeze frame from the film/tv camera, not the "in-world" camera that's taking the picture. So the perspective of the still image is wrong, often with people looking off to the side (where the fictional camera is) instead of directly into the camera.

While I'm taking about photos in movies, when a character shows a photo of themselves and/or other characters within the film, there's still so many laughably fake looking pics, like photos of people outside that look like they were taken at a Sears portrait studio with a flat backdrop of outdoor scenery. We've got tons of technology now, but it should be pretty quick and easy to snap a pic of the actors involved in an actual outdoor environment, at the very least, even if they still need to replace the background.

 

[pengbuzz]

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[drusselmeyer]

People who don't understand the first film who make a sequel... especially if they are the original filmmakers!

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

There's too much *unnecessary* dialogue in movies.

 

[Ron]

Theres too much dialogue in movies.

Yes! Too many modern filmmakers don't seem to understand that a lot of times, no dialogue is the best dialogue.

While we're on the subject of dialogue, I've always hated the unnaturally quick retort, Aaron Sorkin type dialogue where characters never pause and never stutter during conversations and always have a smug reply ready to spit out. ESPN anchors have a similar style in their presentation and it's why I had to stop watching Sportscenter 20 years ago. Everyone of them had such a punchable face.

 

[batguy]

Over-written dialogue (Sorkin, Tarantino, etc) is showboating. It can be fun but it usually comes at the expense of realism. It's the verbal equivalent of martial arts fights & car chases.

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

Yes! Too many modern filmmakers don't seem to understand that a lot of times, no dialogue is the best dialogue.

While we're on the subject of dialogue, I've always hated the unnaturally quick retort, Aaron Sorkin type dialogue where characters never pause and never stutter during conversations and always have a smug reply ready to spit out. ESPN anchors have a similar style in their presentation and it's why I had to stop watching Sportscenter 20 years ago. Everyone of them had such a punchable face.

Over-written dialogue (Sorkin, Tarantino, etc) is showboating. It can be fun but it usually comes at the expense of realism. It's the verbal equivalent of martial arts fights & car chases.

Exactly.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Can we stop with the lighter that works throughout the entire movie, but not in the critical moment until it finally lights? That's so freaking overused.

 

[Sahare Studios]

Sword fights where characters are trying to hit each other’s swords rather than each other.