I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
In Iron Claw there is a scene where Kevin was training Mike how to do a head lock and kept yelling at him about his footing and telling him how he needed to switch his feet so that his left leg was forward and not his right. But your right is supposed to be in front Mke was doing it correctly.
Plus all the other historic inaccuracies and whitewashing hat no normal person cares about.
or when someone runs through airport security in seconds to catch a flight. In real life, security lines, tickets, and checkpoints would definitely slow that down
Boffins coming up with a magical solution to a problem that they somehow know will 100% work despite having done zero experimentation or testing.
One plot point I liked of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. The Tolmekians are growing a Warrior. Enemies are on the way. Their princess orders them to unleash the Warrior. Her second says it’s not ready. She ignores him, it’s sent out. It’s not ready, and melts almost immediately.
This is so common to see anywhere - media, movies… It’s the libertarian “self-made man” myth I guess.
Any kind of severe allergic reaction is going to ruin your week. If you’re in anaphylactic shock, you don’t just pop some antihistamines or an epi-pen and carry on with your day. And you certainly should not be moving around.
This happens in many shows. At least My Girl was more accurate.
NCIS scenes?
The ones that really get me are the way they show execs at companies. The “look, this character is so bad ass at being an exec!”. They always come off as so unrealistic and cringy.
I’ve swam in that ocean, and that’s not how that shit works. Engineering too. In reality, it’s always a team of engineers that get something done… It is NEVER some rich smart guy inventing stuff on his or her own in their super fancy workshop.
Every exec I’ve known was either a good people manager, a founding member, has asaloads of money, or some combination thereof.
Some of them were geniuses, but that actually made them worse at their jobs.
How does being smart make you worse at a job? I mean sure if you only THINK you’re smart like Elon the Husky Musk sure… but yeah…
Tendency to want to get in the weeds and do the work. The real job of an exec is managing people, and anything that distracts from that make the company worse.
For example, I knew a founder who skipped a meeting with potential investors because there was a bug he was figuring out. He fixed the problem, and he did it better than any other employees could have, but that’s not where he was needed.
And subordinates rarely balk at obeying illegal orders - and if they do they fold when there’s a threat of firing or a vague offer of compensation, as if either would instantly persuade a person to risk prison.
yeah but a script that sucks the balls of an executive is far more likely to be greenlit.
How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.
Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).
Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a few days where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a few where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.
There’s a few movies that get it mostly right. Wasn’t it the entire plot of the movie 30 days of darkness? I think it was still too light in those last days depicted before darkness fell.
I long for the days where movies would tell you it’s night time but still actually keep it light enough that you can, y’know watch the movie
Just slap a blue filter over that lens and you’re good to go.
The scientific movie 30 days of night lied to me???
The farther beyond the arctic/antarctic circle you go, the longer the period of continuous night and day. Just above the circle it’s like one day where the sun is up at midnight, barely. At the pole, it’s quite a while.
So I wasn’t lied to?
Nope, the movie takes place in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska, which is one of the northernmost populated areas on earth. From the Wikipedia page:
When the sun sets on November 18, it stays below the horizon until January 23, resulting in a polar night that lasts about 66 days.[37] When the polar night starts, about 6 hours of civil twilight occur, with the amount decreasing each day during the first half of the polar night. On the winter solstice (around December 21 or December 22), civil twilight in Utqiagvik lasts a mere 3 hours.[34][38] After this, the amount of civil twilight increases each day to around 6 hours at the end of the polar night.
Edit: to OP’s point, most depictions of the Arctic aren’t that far north. 30 Days of Night happens to be one that really does have that level of continual darkness. Even so, while it’s night for several months, it’s really just the day shortening to the point that you don’t see the sun with that civil twilight reducing to a few hours, and then as the “days” get longer eventually you start to see the sun again. The reverse happens for the summer, where eventually the sun doesn’t set enough to be out of view.
(I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).
Tell me about it. And sunsets aren’t from a bright day to a dark night. During winter “days” are permanent twilight, the sun being very very low all the time it’s above the horizon, and during the summer, “nights” are dim because the sun is never that far below the horizon.
Sweet Tooth had pretty much a countdown iirc. And then it went from 100% daylight to complete darkness in seconds.
edit also i’m annoyed when people don’t wear hats in the cold but iirc in Sweet Tooth they had pretty good winterclothing most of the time idk.
Recently, I’ve been mindful of how long fights are in movies.
Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.
Fights where it’s mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.
Fist fights without a smack and dead. It’s fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.
I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it’s such unnatural movement.
And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.
Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it’s faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.
It’s certainly prevalent.
Street fight scenes that last for 5 minutes.
Oh you need to see the fight from “They Live” if you haven’t. Classic 80s era fight that just goes on for WAY too long. So many times of “Now Ive won. Take THAT.” “RRRRAH” fight immediately starts again
That fight between Piper and Keith David was amazing, though.
When the computer hacker character clicks 8 keystrokes and says, “I’m in!”
Guns that never need to be reloaded, even after hundreds of shots
The Dark Knight trilogy really wanted to be a realistic, grounded take on the Batman mythos, so they dropped the more fantastical elements of some characters’ backstories. Ra’s Al Ghul was no longer immortal, Bane didn’t have super steroids, the Joker wasn’t permanently bleached by chemicals…then there’s Two-Face.
I guess they thought acid burns were too unrealistic, so they gave him regular burns…apparently without knowing that burns that severe would be so painful that he wouldn’t even be able to remain conscious, much less run around the city on a killing spree. I mean, you can see exposed muscle in some places. There’s a line where Gordon says he’s rejecting skin grafts, and I remember thinking, “WTF are you talking about? He should be in a medically induced coma, not making healthcare decisions.” Half of his body was an open wound; I’m amazed he didn’t die of infection 15 minutes after he left the hospital.
Two people draw guns in each other’s faces point blank but nobody fires. Instead they have a tense conversation.
Talkin’ to you, Malcolm Reynolds and Saffron (or Yolanda or Bridget or whatever).
The horror movie character who searches a scary room by walking in and immediately looking intently up at the ceiling, while slowly turning around until he ends up backing into the dangerous thing he somehow didn’t notice.
There’s this scene at the start of War of the Worlds where the hero races his classic muscle car up this tiny neighborhood street at full tilt, exhaust notes at full blast, and I think he even screeches the tires by slamming the brakes pulling into the driveway. Then he walks up to his neighbor and they’re all chill with him. In any other world, the neighbors would have him in handcuffs.
This would be pretty acceptable around where I live. Not in my neighborhood but around here.
You have a really optimistic view of how the police would respond there. I’d wager that they would be more likely to be mad at you for bothering them with that complaint than actually do anything about it. In my experience, helpful cops are rare.
They said the neighbors, not the police. I figure it means that consensual bondage time was interrupted, so they took matters into their own hands.
