DEF Pass for Raiders... And of course "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold"! Who doesn't get dragged behind a train from time to time?
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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DEF Pass for Raiders... And of course "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold"! Who doesn't get dragged behind a train from time to time?
Zombie_61
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Maybe. But he also knows he's survived it before in spite of his ignorance of physics, and probably will again.
jackoshadow
New Member
The super cool "running knee slide under the car/sword/punch/object" that shows up constantly in fight scenes. Really? Really?!? Did someone Crisco the floor where the fight was going to happen, so it's a near friction-less surface?
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I tend to agree with this... Star Wars is one of those exceptions because unlike Star Trek, SW is really nothing more than a space opera/western that is nowhere based in reality. I can forgive the time vs distance element.
astroboy
Master Member
TFA was the worst of the bunch. So...the star killer base is In a different system than the new republic...yet it fires a sub-light laser beam to destroy the new republic in seconds.......WHILE han solo watche this all happen from another planet?
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p51
Sr Member
It's one of many things about cop shows that I can't stand. They cannot ID a bullet or brass from a pistol nearly as easily as those shows would lead you to think. Especially with brass, the ejector will often leave the same marks as another pistol made in the same timeframe, if each has minimal wear.
I think I already mentioned hearing folex sound effects of things/people hundreds of yards away being viewed through binoculars/scopes.
Along those lines, characters in a cave or other large echoey area. They're being stealthy or secretive and are whispering to each other...and their whispers still create an echo. If you can hear your echo, then everyone else in the cave can hear you too. So much for stealth.
Along those lines, characters in a cave or other large echoey area. They're being stealthy or secretive and are whispering to each other...and their whispers still create an echo. If you can hear your echo, then everyone else in the cave can hear you too. So much for stealth.
Sound mixing/FX are getting increasingly objectionable these days in action flicks. They do way too much clubbing you over the head with intense sounds with no concern for realism.
A character will break a bad guy's arm while they are positioned 50 feet away from the camera in the middle of a crowded city street . . . and it will sound like a celery stick breaking 2 inches away from the microphone in a quiet room.
I think the public would like an audio setting option on DVDs/Blu-rays for "quiet home listening". Make the spoken dialogue & important sounds louder compared to the sound effects & music, and generally decrease the spread between the quietest & loudest sounds.
(I know there are some devices/software/etc for the latter issue. I've never tried one that worked very well and many don't seem to do anything at all. The way to do this is a different baseline audio mix on the disc itself.)
Yeah, it's the mixer and the director who are supposed to be on top of this stuff. The sound effects editor is going to give everything a sound, loud and clear on the stem. It's what he's there to do. It's up to the other guys to decide what to emphasize, deemphasize, use, or not use.
p51
Sr Member
Sound people crack me up, always having to justify their jobs by putting sound to things you'd never hear in real life.
Then sometimes they put the wrong sounds to things that are obvious wrong. Case in point, in Saving Private Ryan, you hear railroad brakes on a self-propelled gun that just got hit with a bazooka rocket fired by Horvath... Anyone who's spent time around trains laughed at that scene when they saw the movie in theaters.
Then sometimes they put the wrong sounds to things that are obvious wrong. Case in point, in Saving Private Ryan, you hear railroad brakes on a self-propelled gun that just got hit with a bazooka rocket fired by Horvath... Anyone who's spent time around trains laughed at that scene when they saw the movie in theaters.
I agree with that! But the sound Ben Burt came up with for the Indiana Jones series IS awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQEJH_6kzs
It's the first thing I thought of but its the only film that gets a pass - just because.I agree with that! But the sound Ben Burt came up with for the Indiana Jones series IS awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvQEJH_6kzs
p51
Sr Member
If you ever want to see an accurate portrayal of a fight on screen, just watch almost any western movie before 1945. In those fights, they roll around, punches flay around and miss each other several times, and the fighters don't do much damage. That's pretty much most of the real fights I have ever seen. And the sound was pretty accurate as well, back then.
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