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The movie version of being “knocked out”.
Someone is knocked unconscious for long enough to be moved to a new location and probably tied up. And they wake up just fine. They’re able to engage in witty banter with their captor. If they manage to break free they’re able to fight effectively.
The reality? A massive concussion. Extreme disorientation. Likely to puke if they have to move much.
If you ever watch a “knockout” in boxing or MMA, the unconsciousness lasts a seconds at most, mostly not even a second. Someone’s knees go wobbly then they recover, but they’re still disoriented and uncoordinated. If they’re out for longer than a second or two, everyone’s concerned and the fighter is rushed to the hospital.
Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. “We’re the good guys” remember?
How so? Why is the alternative killing?
When there’s a countdown in a movie where something must be done before it’s finished but the entire scene takes longer than the countdown.
Namek exploding intensifies
Time is non-linear, we are in the 4th dimention.
Also its usually 1 digit of time left of the decimal point on the countdown timer. Usually like 3 seconds or less, sometimes they make it so dramatic that its literally last second or fraction of a second.
Like… c’mon. Make it so at like 23 second left, or 1 minute 47 second left or something random, like every bomb always get disarmed at 1 second? The fuck lol.
Wait … I never noticed that!!!
The thing that completely takes me out of the movie / show whenever I see it is people who get knocked backwards by bullets / shotgun blasts. The maximum amount of momentum transferred by a bullet or pack of shotgun pellets is the same amount as the shove it gives to the shooter’s hands or shoulder.
If it’s in a Chinese Gun Fu, Wire Fu, Gun Wuxia type movie where everything is slightly fantastical, I can accept it as a kind of over-the-top element of that style. But, it really bothers me when it happens in something that’s otherwise fairly realistic.
One of the many things that annoys me about the sitcom Big Bang Theory is that as pedantic as Sheldon is, not once does he ever complain to Penny about the lack of headrests in her car. You’d think he’d refuse to ride until she replaced them. Totally immersion breaking.
What pisses me of is when major studios make an entire show about a specific profession but cant be bothered to consult anyone from said profession
Many things the characters do that professionals in real life would say they don’t do because bad things happen. But with doing things professional, the plot can’t happen and there is no tension.
Im not saying they should be 100% accurate and everything needs to be done professionally, im just saying professionals from the feild should at least be consulted
Is this a jab at Armageddon?
No, Blade Runner. It’s quite obvious that they didn’t bother to talk to a single actual replicant hunter when writing that script.
Rearview mirrors get removed too. Sometimes, especially on column-shift cars, the transmission is still in park.
and a lot of tv show car scenes ate filmed on a lowbed tow truck. once you notice the height difference you can’t really unsee it.
You’d think they’d make a custom trailer that’s low to the ground as possible at this point.
In The Shining, when the family is being given a tour of the hotel fairly early in the movie, they get shown the walk in fridge. There is a shot of the door to the fridge from the hallway and then a cut to a shot from the back of the fridge looking toward the door. The hinges are on opposite sides between the two shots. Immersion ruined.
This might be a simple goof, but a lot of the layout in The Shining (intentionally) doesn’t make any sense. There’s some great analysis of the insane architecture of the hotel.
Yeah! Someone else mentioned this, and I knew it was a bit of a thing. I also know that a lot of the film was shot on location, so I’m curious if the shot was actually flipped, or maybe one of the shots was done on a set, not in the actual fridge. I read/watched some stuff about the intentional discontinuities in The Shining but this one has never been mentioned as far as I know.
Flipping shots gets done far too often in movies. I remember a particularly egregious one in one of the Harry Potter movies where all the text on the blackboard behind a teacher was mirrored lol.
To me it’s 2 things.
Driving with their windows down against reflections when filmed from the outside, even during rain, freezing temps and snow. Or when someone tries to grab them and they get in a car, apparently putting their window down before driving away, then to be grabbed through the window.
Other thing is roughly 600 bullets in a gun magazine, plus regular cars being completely bulletproof. Even when driving in full machine gun fire from a gun with thousands of bullets in a 30 round magazine, at most a window gets popped.
600 bullets in a gun magazine
Counting shots in John Wick was fun for that reason: the count actually works out
The bulletproof cars, on the other hand, are still an issue.
at least with john wick it’s a little more believable that the majority of assassins for a super secretive and exclusive international crime syndicate would have armor in their vehicles.
Scientists doing everything and coming up with ideas on their own without any assistants or collaboration. They are also somehow mad genius experts on every field, like they are also physicist, biologist and engineer all in one. Most scientists in real life are specialist because it is impossible to be a generalist. There are also no such thing as home laboratories. You can’t work in an uncontrolled and unregulated environment because it affects not just results of experiments, but health and safety is a major issue if things go awry.
There are “home labs” but they’d be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.
Similarly, when a movie scientist/engineer insists a thing can’t be done, until an authority figure chews them out/threatens them. Then, there’s suddenly a breakthrough.
There’s other ways the person in charge can help!
Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.
Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.
“But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!”
‘Stand back, I’m an orthodontist.’
My biggest pet peeve is how fucking rude people are getting off the phone in movies. They just hang up.
I mean I yearn for that world but am painfully aware that it doesn’t exist.
I work in IT and talk on the phone all day and like 70% of end users just hang up at the end of calls. No goodbye or anything. It’s so fucking rude
I think it’s funny how people never say bye in Suits. They just walk away or hang up.
Lol I just hang up on the phone when I “done” being on a call with my parents, no byes, just press the red button. They got so used to it, they never said anything about it. xD
Growing up I really thought Americans just didn’t say ‘bye’ on the phone. It always impressed me how they both knew exactly when the conversation was over.
The conversation is over when you hang up, therefore you can never be wrong.
not in the movie Phone Booth
“Over and Out”. No, it’s either “Over” or “Out”.
Close your fucking dust cover.
You salute when wearing a hat.
What’s the context for those last two?
The M16 family of assault rifles has a small spring loaded flap on the right side that pops open when the bolt is goes back. This allows the empty casing to be ejected after firing. The purpose of this flap is to keep dust, sand, snow and other gunk from getting into and interfering with the smooth operation of the firing mechanism and, as such, is to be kept closed when you are not actually firing the weapon. Otherwise you are much more likely to have a stoppage when you REALLY don’t want one.
For the last point, except under the most unusual of circumstances, you do not salute a superior officer when you are not wearing a hat or are not expected to be wearing a hat (i.e. indoors) be that a beret, peak cap, wedge, ball cap or whatever.
TIL
Texting someone? This is the first time you’re doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.A building company using a prop shovel for some clip, except the shovel’s lacquer got chipped so they decided to re-coat it in order to have a pristine shovel.
I have automatic chat deletion, so mine chats are empty
When two people state at each other while talking for several minutes and one of them is driving.
I know someone who does this IRL. It’s terrifying being in a car with them.
The first time shame on them, all other times shame on you. Unless you’re sad then have at it 😉
