"fake" things in movies that piss you off.

[OutHouse]

Tv, movie cops "heros" chasing a bad guy and never using his radio to let dispatch and other officers where he is.

[OutHouse]

Originally Posted by waggy

oh!

one thing that always annoys me is in investigative cop shows that when they are talking with a suspect at the station they NEVER HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT!

never ever ever.

Ever watch "the first 48"? That is what really happens, plus its not the detectives job to have a lawyer present.

[OutHouse]

The annoying over the top sound effect where a blade/sword/kitchen knife is drawn out of a leather scabbord or chefs block and there is that god awful metal scraping on metal sound.

[AstroManLuca]

I've noticed that almost everyone is capable of running fast enough to keep pace with cars for quite a while. Often while wearing restrictive clothing or while trying to grab onto a door handle. Apparently it takes cars 15 seconds to accelerate past 20 mph.

[Chrono]

What I hate are horror movies when someone hears something odd, they go and check without telling their significant other (if they have one) and walk towards the noise with the whole house/area with the light turned off.

[NoCreativity]

Originally Posted by OutHouse

Tv, movie cops "heros" chasing a bad guy and never using his radio to let dispatch and other officers where he is.

Cops always announce themselves from a long distance away giving suspect ample time to run. Gotta have a foot chase in every movie or TV show I guess.

Cops believe there is only one entrance/exit (front door) for every building ever made. Until the suspect/killer uses another one (back/side door).

[JimKiler]

I guess sometimes Hollywood does it right:

http://news.yahoo.com/police-seek-mo...172543330.html

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Strip became a scene of deadly violence early Thursday when someone in a black Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati at a stoplight, sending it crashing into a taxi that burst into flames, leaving three people dead and at least six injured.

oh wait...

The taxi might have been propane-powered.

Maybe Hollywood predicted the green move to propane decades ago and we never realized it.

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally Posted by CZroe

Security camera footage with dramatic and often changing "dramatic" angles. Also usually B&W but have sound. I remember passing a soap on TV and saw the security cam switch back and forth between zoomed face shots of whichever person was talking.

In The Expendables, this camera angle doesn't match the camera (unless the wall is @ 45 degrees with the other walls):





Oh, but that's a motorized camera... which caused me to laugh uncontrollably at the absurdity of it.

[wirednuts]

how every car starting up in a movie sounds like it needs oil.

[AstroManLuca]

Originally Posted by CZroe

Security camera footage with dramatic and often changing "dramatic" angles. Also usually B&W but have sound. I remember passing a soap on TV and saw the security cam switch back and forth between zoomed face shots of whichever person was talking.

Haha, yeah, they actually did that in Star Trek III. The whole scene with Spock dying at the end of II was replayed as though it was security footage, complete with multiple camera angles.

[BladeVenom]

Originally Posted by OutHouse

The annoying over the top sound effect where a blade/sword/kitchen knife is drawn out of a leather scabbord or chefs block and there is that god awful metal scraping on metal sound.

Worse, they even do that sound effect when there's no scabbard.

So many sound effects in movies are too loud, exaggerated, and not even the correct sound.

[BladeVenom]

Originally Posted by LTC8K6

Lots of semi-autos are double action and will indeed go "click click click".

Striker fired pistols come to mind immediately. No hammer. Glocks, for example.

I have an old Beretta pistol that is DA/SA.

I think the ratio these days is to the point where most semi-auto pistols are not single action only. They are either DA only or both DA and SA.

Glock isn't a true double action. The striker needs to be partially cocked by the slide. You can't keep making it click by just pulling the trigger. A lot of the striker fired pistols are like that.

It's already been mentioned that most guns that are functioning correctly stay open after the last round is fired.

TV and movies get almost everything about guns wrong.

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally Posted by waggy

women. every women in the movie is hot. even the background women. teh women the star held teh door for? hot. The women he purchased soup from? hot.

and the hero always has the new gun that never needs reloading.

Gave me a poor illusion of what college was like. I was thinking crazy parties with all hot girls all over campus. IRL its a bunch of frat people acting hard and 3% hot girls, 50% international students who dont speak english and 47% ugly.

[Ns1]

Originally Posted by AznAnarchy99

Gave me a poor illusion of what college was like. I was thinking crazy parties with all hot girls all over campus. IRL its a bunch of frat people acting hard and 3% hot girls, 50% international students who dont speak english and 47% ugly.

you clearly went to a shit school.

Unless you went to UCI, in which case there's most certainly enough hot asian girls.

[Jeff7]

Originally Posted by Chrono

What I hate are horror movies when someone hears something odd, they go and check without telling their significant other (if they have one) and walk towards the noise with the whole house/area with the light turned off.

"Split up, we'll cover more ground that way."
--> Each character gets to die, one at a time, in their own special way.

"That sounded like someone getting torn to shreds by a monster! Let's walk toward the source of the noise!"

Originally Posted by CZroe

Security camera footage with dramatic and often changing "dramatic" angles. Also usually B&W but have sound. I remember passing a soap on TV and saw the security cam switch back and forth between zoomed face shots of whichever person was talking.

Star Trek TNG/DS9/whatever: When they do their videoconference thing with alien-of-the-week, it sometimes zooms in on the person on the other line. Do they do that between cuts?
"I need to look especially badass. I'd better switch in the zoom lens now."

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally Posted by Ns1

you clearly went to a shit school.

Unless you went to UCI, in which case there's most certainly enough hot asian girls.

UCLA.

Although I will say that in my last year there there was a sudden increase of hot girls but still a small portion of the population.

[Ns1]

Originally Posted by AznAnarchy99

UCLA.

Although I will say that in my last year there there was a sudden increase of hot girls but still a small portion of the population.

ah yes, not surprised. Too many smart asians at that school LOL


Lots of banging hot girls @ USC though. Love summer time, beach cruisers and short skirts.

[Childs]

Simultaneous orgasm.

[Doppel]

I've started, and I blame this on the walking dead, getting really pissed off seeing muzzle flashes added in afterward and guns that have ZERO recoil because they have no blank or any other mechanism to indicate movement of the firearm. It just seems to stupid to me now that I have started to notice it

[BladeVenom]

Originally Posted by Doppel

I've started, and I blame this on the walking dead, getting really pissed off seeing muzzle flashes added in afterward and guns that have ZERO recoil because they have no blank or any other mechanism to indicate movement of the firearm. It just seems to stupid to me now that I have started to notice it

Blanks don't have enough recoil to look real. They still need to act like it has recoil. Although it does give them a cue as to when it goes off. In some of the CGI added muzzle flash scenes it looks like the actors don't know when the gun is suppose to be firing.

Something else I think looks bad is how Rick holds his revolver real high, and points it down. It looks silly, and he can't use the sights that way. Someone really needs to show the actor how to shoot a gun.

[MonKENy]

Originally Posted by BladeVenom

Something else I think looks bad is how Rick holds his revolver real high, and points it down. It looks silly, and he can't use the sights that way. Someone really needs to show the actor how to shoot a gun.

He really only does that at close range and Ok yeah I see it now, it is kinda stupid for anything except execution style kills. I think it makes for a damn cool pose. Especially when he is shooting someone on their knees or on the ground execution style.

[LTC8K6]

Originally Posted by BladeVenom

Glock isn't a true double action. The striker needs to be partially cocked by the slide. You can't keep making it click by just pulling the trigger. A lot of the striker fired pistols are like that.

It's already been mentioned that most guns that are functioning correctly stay open after the last round is fired.

TV and movies get almost everything about guns wrong.

Yeah, forgot about the trigger reset on Glocks and their ilk.

[Howard]

Originally Posted by BladeVenom

Blanks don't have enough recoil to look real. They still need to act like it has recoil. Although it does give them a cue as to when it goes off. In some of the CGI added muzzle flash scenes it looks like the actors don't know when the gun is suppose to be firing.

Something else I think looks bad is how Rick holds his revolver real high, and points it down. It looks silly, and he can't use the sights that way. Someone really needs to show the actor how to shoot a gun.

It's pretty popular to use gas airsoft guns to simulate real fire. Too bad they don't do that.