Do you think Holloywood producers just laugh at what idiots people are?

[RossGr]

No, I do not think that the movie makers think we are idiots. They ARE the idiots. Most movies contain gross inaccuries is this just to advance the story line or because the movie makers have no clue. For example, I just saw Castaway last week, I have news for you, Tom Hanks did not start that fire. Fire by friction would work but not the way he did it. To bad there was no one around who could actually do it so they could have acurately represented the method.

You can find this type of error in nearly every movie. Movie makers and script writers may know about writing and making movies but they know nothing about nature and science.

I will never forget the old movie, whose name I have fortunatly forgoten, where in the spring there was a cute scene of a buck deer with antlers in velvet, later, in the fall we saw another scene of the same buck STILL IN VELVET! This was supposedly a nature movie.

It is this type gross inaccuracies of nature, science and pretty much anything outside of Hollywood that I object to.

 

[gittyup]

I love the shows on the discovery channel. They are so interesting and educational.

 

[pulse8]

Well, maybe if you took the movie as a whole instead of nit-picking the fact that Tom Hank's method of starting a fire is inaccurate you would enjoy it a little bit more. They are MOVIES!!!!!! FAKE!!! They aren't completely ACCURATE. When there is a battle in space, there is sound. Why? BECAUSE IT WOULD SUCK TO HAVE AN ENTIRE MOVIE WITHOUT SOUND! Don't be so anal and maybe you might enjoy it.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

You are right nitrous, most of movies and TV and geared towards the lowest common denominator, the people who can't sit still for more than a few minutes without something extravagant happening. Sadly, these people make up most of the US population.

BECAUSE IT WOULD SUCK TO HAVE AN ENTIRE MOVIE WITHOUT SOUND!

Some of the best movies are silent.

 

[pulse8]

I wouldn't totally agree with that, but they are also not as long. Also, would you go and watch a movie that completely took place in space with laser guns and space ship battles, but throughout the entire 15 minute or so scene, there isn't any sound?

 

[RossGr]

Pulse8; I didn't say I didn't like the movie, I did, it just contains the typical Hollywood ignorance, which you seem ok with.

Need I say more.

In another Cast Away thread running today, someone sugested that you got some survivial hints from the movie if nothing else. I disagree with that, they would have been much better off having him get fire from a lighting strike, much more likely and highly possible, rather then using a method which would not work with the wood avialble to him and espicially would not work with the METHOD he used. Typical hollywood ignorance.

 

[DeepBlue]

Most people are not intelligent. Thus most movies will not be intellectual. What is it that you guys don't understand about this? If you want to see movies that are more intellectual and go to an art house.

Guess what group of people goes to the movies the most? Teenagers. Do you think that teenagers give a flying hoot about science, math, philosophy, literature or any other discipline? Heck no! All they want to see is action packed hit 'em up bling bling flicks. And the chicks want to see the cliche romantic chick flicks. Thus the movie industry in order to make money has to cater to this non-intellectual crowd. It is as simple as that. I am not saying it should be like that in any way I am just saying that the intellectual movie goers unfortunately are in the minority by far. So the intellectual movies made will be in the minority by far.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

Also, would you go and watch a movie that completely took place in space with laser guns and space ship battles, but throughout the entire 15 minute or so scene, there isn't any sound?

I wouldn't go watch such a movie at all, sound or not.