jts1031
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It shows up a lot in Nash Bridges as well with the '71 Cuda. Power steering has probably added to the obesity epidemic because people aren't expending as much energy steering anymore.
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It shows up a lot in Nash Bridges as well with the '71 Cuda. Power steering has probably added to the obesity epidemic because people aren't expending as much energy steering anymore.
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Riceball
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That's exactly what I mean. Whether it's you, you, you, or you X, somehow everybody with the person in charge miraculously knows who they're referring to.
Heh heh, yeah, 'Nash' did some very good driving shots. Better than most.
But the studio tech has improved a lot now. They are really good at faking the background outside the car windows with CGI. For most shows it's good enough to keep the audience immersed without doing real road shooting.
This goes along with the general thing where villains treat their henchmen like crap. These guys are ready to risk life & limb for the villain but he can't be troubled to remember their names. "Hey you, pencil-neck! Go die for me!"
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There was a scene in Iron Man 3 where the bad guy throws up his hands and says "I don't even like working here; they are so weird!" I think there's a similar situation in Deadpool & Wolverine.
drusselmeyer
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Seems realistic to me. I was just watching a YouTube channel that was discussing pilots competence and a similar lack of basic knowledge was being discussed.
drusselmeyer
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Magic martial arts. No, there is no kung fu flying spell.
drusselmeyer
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Period pieces where all the cars are that model year or nearly so. No significantly older cars.
yes, this one is so staged it becomes the glaring error
A similar thing is when all cars are from the same manufacturer because they supplied the cars for the advertising.
joberg
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Yep, that's lazy re-creation of an era! This always bugs me to no end
(the wife doesn't care, she's clueless about cars anyway).If you want to make a movie set in the '50s, for example, have at least 2 different eras in terms of cars in the streets!!
My big gripes as a car geek:
1. All the cars being too close to the setting date.
2. Paint that's too shiny. Pre-1990s paint was less durable. It only looked glossy when it was recently buffed/waxed. The average car on the road looked semigloss.
3. Wrong balance of cars. For every red convertible or black muscle car, there used to be a lot of green sedans and brown station wagons.
4. Northeastern cars not being rusty. In reality it used to be common to see visible holes on cars barely 2-3 years old. Never mind the older ones.
5. Cars always start on the first crank on TV. Especially in the cold. It wasn't that easy until the 1980s when engines went electronic.
On the rust issue, I can forgive the movie car suppliers for not wanting to hack up their fleet of background cars. But surface rust and small holes can be easily faked with paint.
Look at the 'Joe Dirt' Charger Daytona. Or the 1970s Camaro in the first 'Transformers'. These were both solid bodies with fake rust.
1. All the cars being too close to the setting date.
2. Paint that's too shiny. Pre-1990s paint was less durable. It only looked glossy when it was recently buffed/waxed. The average car on the road looked semigloss.
3. Wrong balance of cars. For every red convertible or black muscle car, there used to be a lot of green sedans and brown station wagons.
4. Northeastern cars not being rusty. In reality it used to be common to see visible holes on cars barely 2-3 years old. Never mind the older ones.
5. Cars always start on the first crank on TV. Especially in the cold. It wasn't that easy until the 1980s when engines went electronic.
On the rust issue, I can forgive the movie car suppliers for not wanting to hack up their fleet of background cars. But surface rust and small holes can be easily faked with paint.
Look at the 'Joe Dirt' Charger Daytona. Or the 1970s Camaro in the first 'Transformers'. These were both solid bodies with fake rust.
The funniest version of that (because my grandpa and dad worked for GM) is in Transformers. They made all Autobots GM vehicles and the Decepticon Barricade was a Ford Mustang.
I first noticed this when binge watching all of the early James Bond films and except for Bonds Aston all of the other cars were one make. In Live and Let Die there was a scene shot on the FDR Drive in New York City where every single car was a 1972/1973 Chevrolet, except for bad guy who was driving a pimped out Caddy.The funniest version of that (because my grandpa and dad worked for GM) is in Transformers. They made all Autobots GM vehicles and the Decepticon Barricade was a Ford Mustang.
TimDRX
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I gotta vent about Doctor Who because the second series of the RTD2 era has ended and I feel like the show is completely dead to me. I don't know who it's for any more. Can't be for kids, since a maybe plot critical joke (like I think a thing happened just to set up this one joke line) relies on knowledge of a comedy duo from the 80s. It can't be for olds because the absolutely incoherent structure doesn't bare up to any kind of scrutiny, there's no cause and effect, stuff just happens. Can't be for woke people because the politics are extremely regressive. Can't be for the anti-woke people because it stars a gay, black actor. Who is the audience for this? :I
So the second series was all about getting this nurse home before her shift starts the next morning. She doesn't wanna travel with the Doctor and doesn't really like him. Cool premise, yeh? The final story was about this alt right podcast freak getting a wish granting baby (don't worry about it) and wishing a world into existence where everything is old fashioned, there's no gay people, women only exist to look after kids etc. The (canonically gay!) Doctor and Bel, the nurse, are now a married couple with a kid. Gross! So they eventually break out of it and fix things, hurray. But, oh no, their fake wish world kid has disappeared, so sad yes?
The big end of the series, and this Doctor, turns out, is him killing himself to shoot regeneration energy into the TARDIS to nudge reality back a little bit to make their fake kid come back. The gay Doctor dies to saddle his companion with a kid that SHE DIDN'T WANT before it was forced on her in a bad version of reality. It sucks.
And I guess maybe it's all rewrites and rushed because the actor leaving was a last minute sudden thing. Come up with some other reason, make him fall down the stairs or something, anything is better than this. D:
(it is implied Bel is no longer a nurse in the new version of reality, she's a stay at home mom. Cooooooooooool)
So. I'm sick of all of that appearing in anything lol. It's not a noble sacrifice if you're making something bad happen.
So the second series was all about getting this nurse home before her shift starts the next morning. She doesn't wanna travel with the Doctor and doesn't really like him. Cool premise, yeh? The final story was about this alt right podcast freak getting a wish granting baby (don't worry about it) and wishing a world into existence where everything is old fashioned, there's no gay people, women only exist to look after kids etc. The (canonically gay!) Doctor and Bel, the nurse, are now a married couple with a kid. Gross! So they eventually break out of it and fix things, hurray. But, oh no, their fake wish world kid has disappeared, so sad yes?
The big end of the series, and this Doctor, turns out, is him killing himself to shoot regeneration energy into the TARDIS to nudge reality back a little bit to make their fake kid come back. The gay Doctor dies to saddle his companion with a kid that SHE DIDN'T WANT before it was forced on her in a bad version of reality. It sucks.
And I guess maybe it's all rewrites and rushed because the actor leaving was a last minute sudden thing. Come up with some other reason, make him fall down the stairs or something, anything is better than this. D:
(it is implied Bel is no longer a nurse in the new version of reality, she's a stay at home mom. Cooooooooooool)
So. I'm sick of all of that appearing in anything lol. It's not a noble sacrifice if you're making something bad happen.
This is the "current" Doctor Who discussion thread:
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On the Dukes topic, I saw this at a garage sale last week about half way up their driveway......
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Two older shows, "The FBI" on ABC-TV from 1965 to 1974 and "Charlies Angels" on ABC-TV from 1976–1981 used Fords almost exclusively. The FBI was so blatant that MAD Magazine called the their parody "The FIB- Ford Idea Better', A turnaround of the current Ford slogan.
I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago. When "24" was one of the biggest shows in the USA, they worked out a deal with Ford for exclusive use in exchange for (I believe) no commercial interruptions. I had never heard of a deal like that before. I get brand recognition, but I also bet Ford had a huge contract saying that those cars had to be heavily featured as a can-do-no-wrong line of vehicles.
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