"fake" things in movies that piss you off.

[mcurphy]

No screens on windows, ever. People going in and out windows on homes, falling out of windows, things going through windows, and never a screen. WTF? You'd think the homes would be filled with bugs.

 

[Svnla]

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When will a minority become the hero in a mainstream US horror movie? The token black girl/guy always died somewhere in the movie of the movie. Always the quiet, nerdy,shy white person (more than likely a female) ended up as the one who survived at the end.

 

[Rangoric]

I think this is mainly because they have to do multiple takes and if they ate a whole breakfast every time, they'd get sick. And they'd have to fill their plates back up for each take. I guess you could make it more realistic by having the actors pretend to eat normally and gradually take some food off their plates, then put it back on for the next take, but then you also would have to have pauses while they chew or they'd have to talk with their mouths full.

Yeah there are only a few actors who will actually eat on screen. Brad Pitt being one, and the dude that plays Jason Stackhouse in True Blood being another.

 

[shortylickens]

Anytime they deal with guns, computers, or science they usually get it wrong.

Blasters are not lasers. Ya dumbass!

 

[Jeff7]

Ooh, another Star Trek one: Everyone's all nervous whenever the computer has to fly the ship, or take over some other important job.

Look where computers are now. There are cars that can drive themselves, and in time I'm sure they'll be better at it than any human could be.
Now give it 300 years, in a society that's figured out how to build warp drive, forcefields, and antimatter reactors.
A room-filling computer at that time is going to be far more intelligent than any of the crewmembers aboard.

 

[klinc]

Mags with a capacity of 4000 rounds like in Red

 

[CZroe]

Perfect dialog. No misunderstanding, no flubbing or stopping mid-sentence to start over, and rarely having to reword, repeat, or explain a previous statement.

I think imperfect dialog used toward hilarious effect is why I like The Big Lebowski so much:
"Across this line, YOU-DO NOT-Dude, 'Chinaman' is not the preferred nomenclature."
"I am the Walrus"
"This aggression will not stand, man."

The best one:

Walter Sobchak: Jeff Lebowski? Come on-this other Jeffrey Lebowski. The millionaire: He's gonna be easier to find anyway than these two, uh, these two-and he has the wealth, uh, the resources obviously-and there is no reason, no FUCKING reason, why his wife should go out and owe money and they pee on your rug. Am I wrong?
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski: No, but-
Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong?!
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski: Yeah, but-
Walter Sobchak: OK.

 

[klinc]

After watching all 3 Matrix movies, I walked away feeling that they were completely unbelievable.
As much time as they spent on computers, not once did Adobe ask to be updated.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

God.

 

[BladeVenom]

Silicone breasts. Real ones are better.

 

[Newbian]

Blasters are not lasers. Ya dumbass!

Blasters were referred to the guns people carry around and lasers generally were the ones on ships.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I love war movies where they have to tell people to "fan out." And then, they move about 12 feet apart. 😀

 

[blankslate]

The password guessing part in movies where a computer system being broken into is a plot point. You don't get feedback from the remote system on how many characters in the password that you have guessed....

 

[blankslate]

i really hate when some device is going to blow up and the protagonist diffuses it with 00:00:01 left on the clock. so dumb.

Unless you're in a Bond movie then the readout will be 0:07

 

[shortylickens]

Silicone breasts. Real ones are better.

2, or 3?

 

[surfsatwerk]

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When will a minority become the hero in a mainstream US horror movie? The token black girl/guy always died somewhere in the movie of the movie. Always the quiet, nerdy,shy white person (more than likely a female) ended up as the one who survived at the end.

Training Day with Denzel.

 

[shortylickens]

Training Day with Denzel.

Umm, thats not horror.
And he dies.

 

[Jeff7]

And put 30 other wires going in every direction that do nothing. All red. 🙂

They had a little bit of fun with that in one Stargate SG-1 episode.

"...cut the red one."
...
"There are five wires and they're all yellow. Maybe I should cut 'em all."

Then set the bomb to go off when the timer hits 1:37.

🙂
Or pull out the screen/display after the bomb's been activated. IC sockets aren't that expensive. 😀
And at least add in some simple failsafes in the programming.
//If you don't receive any signal on pin_a5 for more than 5 seconds, detonate.
// If external power is lost, detonate. (Yes, easy to do with a simple capacitor, and an input line that's monitoring the incoming voltage.)

That sort of thing.

And just put the control circuit right next to the thing that sets off the bomb - no wires available to cut.

For good measure, use insulated cement-filled copper pipes for the critical signal and power lines.

That's where the terrorists in True Lies did well. Set a nuke, then cover that shit in concrete. Ain't nobody defusin' this bitch. Fortunately they made up for that with incompetence in every other conceivable area (except getting motorcycles to defy gravity, because why bother outrunning a horse on a motorcycle on the ground when you can do it in the sky?).

😀
Yeah, that'll also work as a potting compound.

 

[Cerb]

Anytime they deal with guns, computers, or science they usually get it wrong.

A few critiques:
1. Lights in real life make noises when you turn them on. Actually, while less stylized, florescent turning on from a main switch make noise a lot like the noise in movies. But, all too often, they have regular incandescent bulbs making on/of noises, with no justification, like relays or ballasts.

2. Um...er...huff...ah...eh...I got nothin'. The rest of them were good, though Star Wars is a poor example of the slow projectile laser phenomenon.

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When will a minority become the hero in a mainstream US horror movie? The token black girl/guy always died somewhere in the movie of the movie. Always the quiet, nerdy,shy white person (more than likely a female) ended up as the one who survived at the end.

Is Night of the Living Dead considered mainstream yet? It's got half of it.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

and the ubiquitous ZOOM ENHANCE!

Hate that crap. It's some pathetic video camera that probably shoots 640x480 video that they freeze frame. Forget the fact that video frames have motion blur, but now they zoom in on the face, maybe like a 100x100 area and then hit the enhance button.

all of a sudden you get some 5MP image that's fully detailed that you can run through facial recognition... lol.

 

[waggy]

Ooh, another Star Trek one: Everyone's all nervous whenever the computer has to fly the ship, or take over some other important job.

maybe in the Star Trek universe they had a attempt of the machines takeing over humanity. maybe that is why you only see 1 data. he was a messed up. instead of wanting to kill humanity he wanted to save it!

....

 

[IronWing]

Male cops/lawyers/doctors are forever flirting with every female in sight. In the real world they would be fired and the department/firm/clinic would be shelling out for sexual harassment suits.

 

[Murloc]

this one is gold:

 

[CZroe]

A few critiques:
1. Lights in real life make noises when you turn them on. Actually, while less stylized, florescent turning on from a main switch make noise a lot like the noise in movies. But, all too often, they have regular incandescent bulbs making on/of noises, with no justification, like relays or ballasts.

I think it's talking about the "POW!" shotgun sound when the switch is flipped and not the click, buzz, humm, of the lighting itself. Most relays click though I imagine some large relays for warehouse-sized lighting systems will make a very loud sound, a grid of smaller relays is more likely. Movies seem to make it out to be as if a giant knife switch itself makes the noise.

 

[purbeast0]

I think it's talking about the "POW!" shotgun sound when the switch is flipped and not the click, buzz, humm, of the lighting itself. Most relays click though I imagine some large relays for warehouse-sized lighting systems will make a very loud sound, a grid of smaller relays is more likely. Movies seem to make it out to be as if a giant knife switch itself makes the noise.

lol i watched jurassic park again a couple weeks ago, and when the woman goes and turns all the power back on before the raptor scares the crap out of here, there is a shot that pans down a hall as the lights are turning on and they each make a huge loud POW/CLICK sound. and they aren't all just turning on at the same time after 1 switch is flipped, they go 1 at a time as the camera pans down the hall.