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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.
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.I have automatic chat deletion, so mine chats are empty
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 shot. Immersion ruined.
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.
Magical accident: the teacher had flipped themselves through the fourth dimension the night before.
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.
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.
Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.
WTF
PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.
Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.
And while we’re at it… in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?
And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?
Actually those things really are ubiquitous in NYC and environs.
So what, you’re telling me you don’t tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.
I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn’t make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn’t move correctly.
And when they drink from their cup, they always tilt it like they were sipping on empty cup. Even when they just taken it from the coffee machine. When I do that I always burn my mouth, because coffee will be too hot. It takes long to coffee cool down in paper cups.
Someone pointed this out to me once, and now I can’t unsee it. It drives me mad. Every cup, every scene… Weightless and fake.
PUT SOMETHING IN THE DAMN CUPS
Agreed. The starbucks cups being empty really ruined the immersion in Game of Thrones for me.
The usual line you’ll hear on set is that “if your audience notices this, you’re doing something wrong with your story telling”.
Forensic experts cover themselves completely, including a face mask and hood, so they don’t pollute a scene. They’re not there in full glam.
No, there isn’t an alert for when your computer system is under an attack. It would go off constantly because every script kiddie is trying aan attack 24/7. There also isn’t an alert for when the firewall is penetrated because the whole point of the penetration is that you wouldn’t detect it and they can quietly steal data.
Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot. That gold bar you’re casually carrying between your finger tips actually weights as much as 25 pound dumbbell.
And every time people are casually thrown into walls. Meanwhile people go to the hospital after a bit of a bad fall when cleaning the gutter.
Interestingly, $100s are still a bit less valuable per unit weight at $100/g, versus gold at about $134/g, but that’s only been since about March of this year.
Gold does have other advantages, like being much less bulky, and can be readily melted into untraceable units.
but can I do some blow through a gold bar?
The wall thing is even more stupid when the setting is Europe and the wall wouldn’t give in even a tiny bit
You can accidentally walk through walls in the US, and based on YouTube videos, most porch fences and railings are assembled using static electricity.
Actors holding gold bars always make me laugh
Imagine them putting a gold bar in one of their empty cups and just waving it around dramatically.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that!
The thrown into a wall thing had a nice subversion in Dragon Prince, mostly a kids show. A primary character, a knight, is batted by a dragon into a rock before being chased off. As they finish, they go to check on him, and he’s been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.
mostly a kids show… been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.
…did he get better?!
Funny story.
Indications were he shouldn’t have recovered; and he was surprisingly positive, showing resilience to his disability and thinking about how he might continue life as a poet.
But, his sister, a dark mage, was far more mortified about it than he was, and made a magical sacrifice, killing some creature and draining her own lifespan - to restore his full motion. All of this, without asking his permission. He turns out okay, but there’s an implication he shouldn’t have.
So yeah, it’s part of a dramatic arc in that story.
They said they wanted kids shows to have representation for the physically disabled. Now they’re pissed I gave him a backstory? Guess they just wanted a background character as a token.
One of us doesn’t know what the word permanently means
Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot.
Kelly’s heroes comes to mind
When the movie is filmed at 27 frames per second instead of 26. Ugh.
@Mog_Spawn goddamnit
@Mog_Spawn
#alttext “three panel meme of two actors in a car, one driving, discussing unrealistic movie elements. The text highlights a specific filmmaking technique where car headrests are removed to improve visibility for the audience.
The first panel asks what unrealistic things in movies bug people.
The second panel gives the answer: filmmakers often remove car headrests. This is done so the audience can see the actors better.
The final panel shows the driving actor looking surprised, apparently just realising this, whilst looking backwards in the car he steers without headrests.”Cars didn’t commonly have headrests until the 1960s. Doesn’t really stand out if you remember that.
That was 60 years ago, and very few of those cars are still on the road.
crime is investigated and doctors treat people
Your purse was stolen? We’ll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.
Also, forensic lab results come back in less than two months (which appeared to be the national average a couple of years ago).
And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.
It’s ok, just slouch down in the seat.
just copaganda
The news is complicit here too.
BBC news: “Is your local phone shop guy part of an international criminal gang network? Let’s hunt him down on the street and ask him in whatever broken english he has.”
Meanwhile, a guy is actually walking around with a machete at the hospital near my work because he came to finish off a guy he’d wounded earlier (I shit you not). Not even a mention. A small clipping in a local newspaper.
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.
You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:
