• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    My personal favorite was in Batman and Robin where they cut open the city’s water main and the water just keeps flowing along in a cylindrical shape… Come ON

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      I was able to tolerate more of this in movies than I used to after acknowledging that tons of people in real life suck at communication.

  • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My wife loves hocus pocus.

    Every year I’m like… That zippo wouldn’t light. The fluid would have evaporated ages ago. Look at the cobwebs, it’s obviously been there for years.

    She just reaches over, softly touches my and says 7u5k3n, it’s a movie.

    Lol

    So yeah there’s nothing wrong here.

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    I won’t stop watching, but it drives me nuts when lawyers in a show misuse “begs the question”

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      I think there are probably about three people who use the expression “begs the question” as it’s defined in books. Through misuse it has evolved to mean, “brings up the question,” just as “based off” has come to mean the same as “based on”.

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    I count bullets. If someone with a revolver fires off 20 rounds in a row without a pause, the show/movie lost credibility and I’m taken out of it. Extra bad if they later try to use ammo as a plot device to raise drama, ugh.

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      That’s a bad script supervisor. A script supervisor is responsible for scene continuity between takes. Guaranteed the shooting schedule had a dozen days of frequent high intensity filming and the script supervisor was tired from making sure really busy scenes lined up within the time allowed.

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      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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        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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        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.

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      It’s just bad prop decisions. There are guns that better fit. In a cheap movie, I can forgive it. A budget over 200k? I’m upset

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        I don’t know enough about the division of duties to know whose fault it is, but I blame the director. It’s just lazy, and easy.

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      Underworld was always the one that annoyed me with their guns. Main character fires this automatic handgun for minutes and doesn’t reload.

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    My wife can’t help pointing out when travel isn’t realistic enough, like when a series of city landmarks show up in the wrong order.

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    Dude I’m all for suspending disbelief but I feel this so hard. Like, sure, there’s werewolves and you have silver bullets which in this universe don’t melt and tumble, but that’s a Beretta 92FS, you have 15+1 silver shots before a reload, not infinite, and you can’t use your infinite Berettas to cut a hole in the floor.

  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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    Not exactly the same, but the only time I’ve seen Cloverfield, my dad was watching it. He fast-forwarded through everything that wasn’t giant monsters. The movie was about 40 minutes long, and I think it’s my preferred cut.

  • DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world
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    I’ll accept whatever the premise of the thing asks of me to enjoy the story; that dragons exist, the main character finds a real spellbook, there’s a secret community of shapeshifters, or that there’s a long-lost secret artifact with magical properties. It’s not a documentary.

    But breaking internal logic is different. Unless someone’s mentioned time travel, it’s still a huge issue that it was Sunday in one scene and Friday in another on the same day.

    Some people hate ‘The Hulk’ because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure… But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can’t just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn’t get his powers from magic, did he?!

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      Some people hate ‘The Hulk’ because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure… But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can’t just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn’t get his powers from magic, did he?!

      My understanding is that hulk gets his strength (and size/mass) from his anger. So in the universe, anger must have energy that hulk converts to mass

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        Right… but then anger itself would require huge amounts of calories. You can’t just create energy.

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    I walked out of Total Recall(the original) in the final minutes when people got thrown out into the Martian landscape unprotected and their faces blew up like those little stress heads that you squeeze and the eyeballs pop out.

    Once you kill my suspension of disbelief, that’s it, I’m done.

    This is also why I never liked Blade Runner. There were too many violations of known science for me to enjoy the movie.

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      I will say that scene in Blade Runner where Tyrell is trying to explain why they can’t extend a lifespan and basically just says “all these things create deadly viruses” instead of literally anything more accurate like disrupting the immune system or causing cancer etc. that scene really does piss me off.

      Why the hell would repressing a human gene create a virus in the first place?

      Also checking “pupillary dilation” and “blush response” but no “it won’t affect the test” if you’re smoking despite the fact nicotine would probably mess with those metrics as well as basically any other biometric like heart-rate or blood pressure.

      That being said, I do actually kinda like watching it (or just having it play in the background while I’m doing something else) just for the vibe of the environment. Cyberpunk megastructures? Cassette futurism? Dense but partly abandoned urban infrastructure? Synth jazz playing over shots of a rainy city night? Hell yeah.

      (Tbf I’ve only watched the director’s cut so I dont know if the version with Harrison Ford’s voice over makes any glaring mistakes; it definitely ruins the vibe of the movie imo)

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    It irks me when an actor who plays a character so is supposed to be a highly competent gunman doesn’t even know the basics of how to hold a gun properly.

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      Or when they have ten-minute discussions while holding guns at one another’s face. It’s not a talking stick. It’s not for intimidation. A basic rule of gun defense is that if you draw, you fire.

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    8 hours ago

    I demand films that show a realistic amount of traffic, even when traffic is completely unrelated to the story.

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    In every scene in The North in Game of Thrones I was yelling at the characters to PUT ON A HAT! Also bacteria don’t seem to exist in that universe. No wound ever gets infected despite medieval levels of health care.