• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I hate when an actor clearly doesn’t even understand how to hold and aim a gun and their character is supposed to be competent at it.

    Cate Blanchet’s character in Borderlands is a recent and particularly obvious example. In the movie’s trailer she is shown holding and aiming a rifle like someone who clearly never held a gun before and my understanding is that her character was supposed to be a highly competent gunslinger.

    Someone coach those actors for crying out loud.

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      14 hours ago

      Or when people in a gunfight clearly aren’t hearing the apocalyptically loud sound gunshots would make in their situation - like in a small room or in a car.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      I think the problem is that Cate Blanchett has too big an ego to be taught/learn anything, including how to act. But that’s just my humble opinion.

      I don’t know enough to notice bad gunplay but anachronistic makeup/hair styling can bother me. Costumes I give some slack because it could be a budget issue.

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        1 hour ago

        I think the problem is that Cate Blanchett has too big an ego to be taught/learn anything,

        Where do you base this on? Have you got any experience shooting with her?

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        anachronistic makeup/hair styling

        I don’t know if this is exactly “anachronistic” since the movie is set 20,000 years in the future and who knows, but there’s a scene in the second installment of the new Dune where the emperor is surrounded by his Sardaukar soldiers and they all have LA hipster haircuts.

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        6 hours ago

        When it’s supposed to be a post-apocalyptic/survival genre but everyone looks clean-cut, shaven, and recently showered with a day-old haircut 🙄

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            6 hours ago

            Yeah I saw a still frame from what appeared to be some sort of post-apocalyptic movie with a grungy super-spy/bounty-hunter type woman as the protagonist. Dirty torn clothes, nappy dreadlocks, the whole works. Clearly hadn’t showered in months. And her pits were clean-shaven. I was like “wat.”