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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.
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?
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
So what, you’re telling me you don’t tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
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.
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.
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
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.
The Pitt stands out as a show that gets it right. It is over the top plot convenient dramatic as well. But they did nail the medical profession down, and it is all thanks to medical consultants.
I cannot and will never watch episode 4 again. It triggers real life memories of losing my father. It was down to a tee an almost identical reenactment of dealing with a patient with pneumonia and sepsis.
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.
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?
Mostly tv shows I’ve noticed this, but all the sets and homes look impeccable. Not a speck of dust, not a hint of mess. Even in shows where kids live in the home. Everyone JUST got their hair trimmed, they wear pants at home and always pop in on each other. But the lack of mess is maddening.
Also in period movies and shows, even the peasants are always wearing clean clothes
That’s often true but not always, a good set dresser will make a mess if the scene and character calls for it. Typically only for “film d’auteur” though in the more commercial things it’s almost always as you said.
It makes me appreciate shows like sopranos where you see an actual maid walking around to explain away the cleanliness, or episodes where Tony lives alone and the place is covered in laundry, pizza boxes and cereal bowls everywhere. Recently my wife has been watching “This is us” and it looks so sterile like a hallmark movie, I hate it.
This is why I like European TV. More often than not it is imperfect and not esthetically “polished” the same way. It looks more like the world is.
not sure if a tv thing or american thing but everyone wears shoes indoors
American thing i think. I visited family in the US from Canada and they looked at me weird for taking my shoes off when I entered their home.
This is so strange to me. US Americans bring dirt in all rooms of their house, all just for benefit of not being confortable?
There’s a lot of variables and it’s not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_footwear_indoors
Americans don’t even take off shoes to have sex.
I’m Chinese American, I remember when I visit relatives houses, I always have to take off shoes.
I think the last time I went, I just remember not doing it since we only stopped by for like an hour, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure I just got mad I was forced to go to the family reunion thing and I was probably irritated and didn’t take off my shoes lol.
In the American Midwest at least, it varies by household. You basically just pay attention to what your host does.
Used to be less common to remove them, but at least as far back as the nineties, it was a thing to be aware of.
I was watching sopranos and they have a maid walking around which is nice, it explains the neat house. But when Tony moved out, his place is covered in newspapers, pizza boxes, beer bottles, etc. I like that kind of attention to detail
For a similar reason, I’ve gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:
They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though
No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles or puts the key in. There is always a motorcycle with a helmet sitting on it with the key inside.
Similarly but even more nerdy is a car making one swerve on dirt, that requires switching traction control off. Top Gear did a bit on it where they were hired to record a chase scene for a movie, and insisted on the following shot;
“You have to hold the mode button for ten seconds to turn off Traction Control!”
cue ten quiet seconds of holding the buttonNo one secures the neck strap on motorcycles
It’s been a while since I rode a motorcycle, but apparently things have changed a lot.
They may be referring to the motorcycle helmet chin strap.
I prefer my mental image.
Motorcycle helmets stopped using chin straps in the 1960s. The strap goes in front of the neck.
Are you gaslighting or fucking with me? The retention system for motorcycle helmets still gets referred to casually as chin straps. It goes under your chin, which also happens to be in front of the neck.
I own and ride a motorcycle. I own and wear a helmet. I call them chin straps. Everyone I know calls them chin straps. Diagrams for helmets in English call them chins straps or, on occasion, the “helmet retention system”.
I honestly don’t care what you call them - I’m just trying to be helpful and interpret what I thought you meant. I don’t understand why you are being argumentative? Is it a translation thing maybe?
When two people stare 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 😉
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.
“But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!”
‘Stand back, I’m an orthodontist.’
People think MDs are scientists, including MDs.
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!
Yeah I have sometimes the feeling that stuff like this is rubbed of to real executives/managers who e.g. think a small team of programmers can achieve a big application in a manner of days or something…
There are “home labs” but they’d be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.
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.
You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:
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
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.
I think it’s funny how people never say bye in Suits. They just walk away or hang up.
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
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.
“Over and Out”. No, it’s either “Over” or “Out”.
Close your fucking dust cover.
You salute when wearing a hat.
TIL
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.
