In any period piece with a night-scene, there are aways a load of miraculously bright candles already burning in any room entered by the characters. Not only were candles really, really expensive, you've have to be a complete idiot to leave one (never mind a dozen) burning unattended by the curtains in a timber-framed house.
In Goldeneye: the giant satellite dish under the lake in Cuba...…..
Bond films are so ridiculously cartoonish that I wonder why any sensible adult watches them. I recently saw part of one where Bond and the token 'girl' escaped through tunnels while a rocket launched directly above them. Good job they could run quicker than a rocket backdraft moves.. Also, one of the recent ones where the villains are using the London tube network to do whatever. By the magic of modern technology the goodies managed to watch the baddies on CCTV all through the network, but couldn't turn off power to the trains stranding the baddies in a tunnel.
In any period piece with a night-scene, there are aways a load of miraculously bright candles already burning in any room entered by the characters. Not only were candles really, really expensive, you’ve have to be a complete idiot to leave one (never mind a dozen) burning unattended by the curtains in a timber-framed house.
But in Wolf Hall, when they tried to show dimly lit candlelight scenes there were loads of complaints because viewers' screens were so dark.
If your cast is oompa lumpas maybe, or you’re filming TOWIE.
Actually theres another reason. If you've got any visible light sources they'll almost always be orange or giving off a orange cast - table lamps, candles, fire brands depending on the era you're depicting. So even if nothing in the room is orange one of the colours on screen is and that needs to be balanced. Sometimes the set isn't teal either, some of the shoots I've worked on the set is actually a mid grey but once its lit with a mixture of practical lights (light sources that are in vision) and 'natural' light (the 6KW lamps shining in through the windows) and the various other lights that are modelling the space they appear to be teal on screen. You read the room as being painted white but the play of light and shadow means actual colours on the screen will be orange and teal.
Star Wars is kind of hilarious. In a technologically advanced galaxy they have guns where the projectile is so slow (and bright red) you can see it coming and dodge...
blip blip car alarms.
Ubiquitous in the US, I don't think I've been in a car in recent times that didn't go "blip blip" when you lock it.
I think there are a few reasons why computer screen still show rubbish even in an era where everyone uses computers.
Honorary shout-out here to Mr Robot, all the tech they use is real. I read an interview with the director(?) once, he said that if a situation arose where the tech and the plot clashed, they amended the plot.
Bond films are so ridiculously cartoonish that I wonder why any sensible adult watches them.
He who is tired of Bond, is tired of life.
Samuel Johnson 1777.
No, they are all there so lazy scriptwriters can piece a story together without really having to concentrate much.
A bit of both, but it's also so the audience doesn't have to concentrate much. Realistic romance novels are available, but the public still massively buys the stupidly clichéd ones.
Re hacking. It also occurs to me that they don't want realistic hacking portrayed as people might actually be able to learn from it. Likewise forensic science. I suspect there are deliberate mistakes in stuff like CSI to throw people off...
Any film* or tv programme which to tries to include the characters playing football. Just don't. It always looks pathetic.
* Except Escape to Victory which is of course brilliant. Especially Pele's overhead kick with a broken arm.
Bond films are so ridiculously cartoonish that I wonder why any sensible adult watches them.
They're shit, but they're Storyville compared to Fast & Furious films.
Another one - why, when there's a red alert, does everything go dark and red? I mean the 'red' part of red alert is surely metaphorical? Why, when people presumably have to rush around doing things on an emergency basis, would you dim the lights?
Another one – why, when there’s a red alert, does everything go dark and red?
...because if they went to purple alert instead it'd mean changing the bulb?
Star Wars is kind of hilarious. In a technologically advanced galaxy they have guns where the projectile is so slow (and bright red) you can see it coming and dodge…
But shirley most Hollywood gunfights have guns that fire bullets that travel so slowly that hero has time to duck down behind a wall before the bullet ptwang's against said wall (as if baddie had actually aimed to hit the wall rather than the hero)?
Star Wars is kind of hilarious. In a technologically advanced galaxy they have guns where the projectile is so slow (and bright red) you can see it coming and dodge…
Tell that to Greedo.
That pause before someone kills the hero. Or doesn't cos they paused, or monologued and gave the hero a chance to grab a nearby pistol/knife/piece of glass/shoe/hamster and defend themselves with it.
It also occurs to me that they don’t want realistic hacking portrayed as people might actually be able to learn from it
Finding information about hacking isnt exactly overly difficult. Anyone so motivated could get started in less time than it takes to watch a movie for inspiration.
Bond films are so ridiculously cartoonish that I wonder why any sensible adult watches them.
They’re shit, but they’re Storyville compared to Fast & Furious films.
Everyone agrees that F&F films are rubbish. People seem to take Bond seriously, as if they mean something. They have news reports about Bond films, and media discussions about the next Bond actor. Concerts of Bond music. Mind you, they do that for Star Wars as well. 😁
here is a good one:
Frogs going "ribbit ribbit" there is only one species of frog in the world that does this - the rest go "croak" Where does that one species live? Hollywood! But now everyone thinks all frogs go "ribbit ribbit" so anytime you need a frong sound it has to be Ribbit ribbit not croak !
Finding information about hacking isnt exactly overly difficult. Anyone so motivated could get started in less time than it takes to watch a movie for inspiration.
But many people might assume it's hard until they see it done realistically in a movie. By making hacking so ludicrous in movies it preserves a bit of mystique I think.
The bomb ALWAYS gets disarmed with one second to go. Oh! the tension...
But many people might assume it’s hard until they see it done realistically in a movie. By making hacking so ludicrous in movies it preserves a bit of mystique I think.
Except, it's rather the opposite isn't it. Hacking in movies is portrayed as easy, any teenager can do it whilst simultaneously being fellated by Angelina Jolie and having a gun pointed at their head by John Travolta. "Nope, I can't do it" said no on-screen hacker ever.
I'm fairly confident that it'd be possible to portray something if not 100% accurate then at least vaguely plausible rather than outright Hollywood ludicrousness. It's the difference between making a phone call by dialling 555- and making a call using a banana.
Hacking in movies is portrayed as easy, any teenager can do it
Only in the ridiculous fantasy sense, in the same way Superman finds it easy to fly.
If they showed some kid Googling for scripts, that'd link it to something that you could actually do yourself. The also never show bombs being made from common household ingredints either. They just show that some really clever person could do it, but you're never as clever as that person cos they are a plot device.
Movies and TV shows generally aren't about realism, of course.
there is only one species of frog in the world that does this
Hahha, Yes! the pacific Tree Frog. it does have a very distinctive call. Same as the Wilhelm Scream
The also never show bombs being made from common household ingredints either. They just show that some really clever person could do it, but you’re never as clever as that person cos they are a plot device.
MacGyver, quite routinely, used to omit one chemical or ingredient from the "what I happened to make with random shit lying around" for fear that people would copy it. They were OK with some of the less dangerous stuff - Mythbusters have proved a few MacGyver-isms over the years - but bangy things usually missed one key component somewhere along the line.
Why do people on screen never get their sleeves caught on door handles?
Why do men never catch their bits in their zip when pulling trousers on?
After sex, why is there always a handy sheet to wrap around the nakedness?
Hacking in movies is portrayed as easy, any teenager can do it whilst simultaneously being fellated by Angelina Jolie and having a gun pointed at their head by John Travolta.
It was a good film, even if it wasn’t Angelina Jolie in that case.
All those shooting scenes where characters are protected from the bullets by hiding behind a car… Good luck with that in real life!
In real life your supposed to be behind the engine block as it stands some chance of stopping them.
After sex, why is there always never a handy sheet beaker to wrap around the nakedness? dunk your junk in?
That bit in never ending story where there was a 200 foot long golden retriever. That could fly. Totally unrealistic.
A movie that portrayed hacking as it actually is would probably be quite dull for the majority of the population to watch.
Okay so I just watched...
...oh dammit I just figured it out.
Except, it’s rather the opposite isn’t it. Hacking in movies is portrayed as easy, any teenager can do it whilst simultaneously being fellated by Angelina Jolie and having a gun pointed at their head by John Travolta. “Nope, I can’t do it” said no on-screen hacker ever.
Ow, mixing movies!
But you're wrong. Merlin in Kingsman: The Secret Service.
False. WarGames is awesome.A movie that portrayed hacking as it actually is would probably be quite dull for the majority of the population to watch.
A movie that portrayed hacking as it actually is would probably be quite dull for the majority of the population to watch.
False. WarGames is awesome.
Given your username I don't think you're in a position to speak on behalf of the majority of the population on this point 😉
Submarines that ping... They listen using a hydrophone array which is towed behind the ship, it doesnt make a sound.
Also in the film The Rock, sean connery climbs in through the fan and unlocks the door from the inside, why did he not just do that when he escaped Alcatraz the first time instead of climbing out through the fan?
Passive sonar = no ping.
Active sonar = ping.
Yeah, but as subs have got more quieter, active is making a comeback. You can also still use active to range if you want to make sure.
You can also still use active to range if you want to make sure.
One.
Ping.
Only.
Why do people on screen never get their sleeves caught on door handles?
Why do men never catch their bits in their zip when pulling trousers on?
After sex, why is there always a handy sheet to wrap around the nakedness?
Great first point see also coffee going everywhere but your mouth, thinking you've beeped the car unlocked only to find when you wrench it open you practically rip your arm off and tripping over NOTHING.
Point two though never happened to me i just fold it away carefully?
Point three its the L shaped nature of the sheet that confuses me. Do they jump up and get it out of the cupboard?where do you even buy a Postcoital modesty sheet in left or right configuration.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Postcoital+modesty+sheet&ref=nb_sb_noss
Sadly no serious hits on Amazon for Postcoital modesty sheets. I have to assume that they are a custom order from somewhere, or are made by specially trained nuns in a convent in Switzerland.
Women who keep their bra on during sex. Or put it back on after.
Women who keep their bra on during sex.
Exabtky. Obviously that’s the mans turn to wear the bra.
It was a good film, even if it wasn’t Angelina Jolie in that case.
I may be mixing my metaphors for comedic effect.
False. WarGames is awesome.
See also, Sneakers.
Both films have a good degree of... shall we say "creative licence" but both do a lot of things right. I think my favourite line in War Games is when Lightman has his computer wardialling, Jennifer asks him "isn't that expensive?" and he replies simply "oh, there's ways around that." Glorious.
For all their faults, they both portray the hacker mindset beautifully. As opposed to Hackers, which needs to die in a fire aside from the gratuitous nudity scene.
Recently I've noticed that when someone receives a text it's the first text they've had from that person, there's never any conversation history on the phone screen.
More of a TV show thing, but my newest one is how serenely silent MRI scanners are in use...
Mine's numberplates. Specifically the wrong format or typeface for whatever country they're supposed to be in. Marvel are utterly terrible at this.
Chase, or just travel, scenes that make no sense bug me as well. See Trainspotting 2 or The Hitman's Bodyguard.
