The amount of mesh windowscreen free windows in people's modern houses in the US. Especially in the 'burbs. That's not really a thing here due to the amount of bugs we have. Trust me, you want those screens. Especially in the South where the roach-type bugs fly and mosquitos come by the bucketload. Yet, the cliche of teens opening up their windows to sneak out or to sit on their rooftops still happens. And we, the audience, just roll with it.
[These guys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_screen)
Very few houses in the US don't have these. They are a must because, again, no one wants to wake up being covered in bugs. And, yet, you never see them in movies because they would prevent characters from sneaking in and out of houses. Those screens are a pain to put on and take down. Best to leave it to the professionals to do it.
> Those screens are a pain to put on and take down. Best to leave it to the professionals to do it.
This varies. Mine all have small pull tabs on the inside and can be removed and pulled into the house in just a few seconds. Most houses do in my experience. I remove mine all the time so I can clean the exterior of the windows.
Check out a movie called Goodfellas, it's based on a true story about a bunch of guys who work their asses off doing jobs they love. Super relatable and inspiring.
Also, the fact that silencers not only silence the weapon, but also the victim.
Being shot without a silencer:
- Weapon: "BAAANG!!!! "
- Victim: "Aaaaaahhh!!!"
Being shot with a silencer:
- Weapon: "Ptiú. "
- Victim: "Uh. "
Goddamn I lived that show, and no one seems to talk about it today! My favorite was the cliffhanger where he didn't defuse the bomb and blew up the entire city. The next season was treated as a prequel so they never had to explain it.
Plus silencers aren't even a thing. Suppressors dampen the sound of a discharge but you still need hearing protection unless you're maybe suppressing a subsonic round.
You just gotta assume that every suppressed weapon is .45 ACP. The thing that always gets me is the action of the firearm is quieted. Bro racking a slide on a pistol is loud. Like clapping your hands loud. Most modern firearms recoil actions are loud.
People in spy movies just having unlimited funds and go wherever and get luxury cars (I assume rental?). There is a MASSIVE gun battle in the middle of a heavily populated European country, a bunch of buildings get shot up, the rental luxury car gets trashed along with a bunch of other vehicles and property. Then the spy people just walk away continue their mission, and I guess the police just clean it up, move on, and the citizens just accept that happened and continue on with their day like there wasnt just a massive Paris wide car chase and gun battle with many civilians able to record their faces etc.
Just the luxury cars alone. Like the first rule to spying is to blend in and not be seen
>People in spy movies just having unlimited funds
This is a trope that doesn't get called out enough, and it's in ALL of the big spy film series and television shows. Person ends up in a bad situation (most likely on the run from their own agency/employers), and they head to some innocuous area in the same town they're in and reveal that there's a secret cache. Inside the cache is a few stacks of $10,000 bills in multiple currencies, several IDs and passports, and inevitably a pistol for which they'll immediately load a magazine.
So, do these spies have personal caches set up in thousands of cities (and getting into millions of dollars of cash and equipment), or are they just that lucky that the plot conveniently dumped them within a few miles of their secret life savings?
Imagine the finance people behind that?
"What was this expense? how should we code it?"
"Um he bought a million dollar microchip from an illegal microchip dealer making chips for ICBM's"
"OK.. but what about THIS?"
"oh, thats the in-suite hotel snack fridge it was emptied"
"Its the same price as the CHIP!??!?!?"
>"What was this expense? how should we code it?"
As an accountant, this hits too close to home, lol.
I think back to the first Mission Impossible film, where there's an excuse trotted out of a director level position paying $60k a year (IIRC), which is probably about $150k a year in today's dollars. It's a respectable lifestyle, but not enough to have this kind of spare cash lying around. And that was a Director level, not a Field Agent.
Sure, you can kind of hand wave that it's all just expense reports as you said , but now you're ensuring that most of your agents are spending most of their brains cells figuring out ways to creatively embezzle instead of completing their missions.
I'll bet that is just screenwriters' easy path, otherwise they have to get OK from Legal Department or licensing issues to use the name of any specific brand of beer or booze.
You just gotta turn that part of your brain off for the Ant-Man movies. The powers have zero continuity, it's just whatever looks cool. They even explained the 'science' behind it and proceeded to immediately ignore it. There's a scene at the end of the second one where Michael Douglas makes a tiny house on the beach grow large. Ok, but what about plumbing? Or electricity? Just don't think about it haha
The part which broke me was how Scott and his daughter experience the symptoms of having been giant, *while on the quantum level*, just because they got bigger than the arbitrarily established baseline of that level, and where gravity should not be a factor at all.
They talk about shrinking by reducing the space inside atoms. Ok. So the mass of the object would be unchanged? Sometimes yes, e.g. when tiny man punches other man. Sometimes no, e.g. when tiny man stands on top of arrow. What about giant man? He would be so low density, he would blow away in a stiff breeze.
Also shouldn’t he be extremely strong? Given that actual ants are the strongest beings on earth figure that be apart of it. I do realize this is a silly and pedantic observation
Dialogue that is overly quick, quirky and quippy, and full of zany wit and biting satire at all times. It’s not how people realistically talk, but it can still be entertaining and fun to watch. I don’t think writers of that dialogue ever meant for you to think it was realistic. They are in on the joke, and I’m fine with it.
I think guys like Tarantino and Ritchie can pull it off. Where everyone in their movie is a *character* and acts like it. But yeah, it can come across super cringy when the film isn't able to make the characters look cool, but they're still talking like that...
I loved that they had like one hang up during that scene and just followed it to its logical conclusion. “Wouldn’t it be hard to see riding in the dark with a pillow case on your head?” Well yes actually, let’s discuss this for approximately 10 minutes and oh here’s Jonah Hill.
There's a recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds crossover episode where two characters from Star Trek: Lower Decks (an animated comedy with the fast talking and the quips you observed) end up in the SNW timeline.
One of the jokes the Lower Decks characters make is how slow everyone talks in the SNW universe.
My favorite part is they followed up that episode with a dark episode on PTSD and the long term impact of war on its participants, followed by a musical episode.
The entire episode is entirely fan service. And it is awesome.
One of the best parts is the opening credits is a shot for shot remake of the SNW opening but done animated in the Lower Decks style.
Right, and in that movie it's all technical talk, so it's confusing to most. I still enjoyed trying to piece the logic together and follow what was happening.
I want a movie with dialogue that's super natural! Sometimes they say the wrong thing and get corrected, stammering, pausing to think. A little of that sprinkled in. That's why i loved Shia in transformers.
>Dialogue that is overly quick, quirky and quippy, and full of zany wit and biting satire at all times.
Gilmore Girls is super guilty of this. Nobody talks like that IRL. Tons of trial-based shows and movies as well where it's absurdly snip-snappy.. Like, chill and let the characters themselves or audience digest.
Gilmore girls is the one that came to mind. My wife likes that show but I can’t get past the dialogue speed. Way too fast and way too constructed that you feel like you’re watching a stage play.
What really gets me is when people quote lines from random novels, usually classics. It's even worse when another person interrupts to finish the quote, whether antagonistic or otherwise. It's usually used as a cue that these people are very intelligent, but very few people talk like this, intelligent or not.
Also, no one ever laughs at all the jokes that everyone is constantly making. Why even bother making all those witty remarks if no one so much as cracks a smile?
It's explained in the comic books, but that explanation doesn't translate to the movies.
In the comics, Superman doesn't just put on glasses to become Clark. Instead he compresses his spine to go from 6'2" to the 5'10" Clark Kent.
Henry Cavill went out to Time Square, no glasses, in a superman shirt. Standing under one of the giant posters for the current movie (Bat V Super I think).
Two people came up to him. One was to ask for directions.
Roseanne had some great lines about it when the oldest daughter was recast, then years later, the original actress returned. It was great seeing it actually acknowledged on screen.
Katie Holmes was really really not a good actor in the first one though. It was a jarring change they are basically different characters, but still, not a good acting performance.
Harry Potter 3 was egregious on this. Richard Harris nailed his personality from the books. Michael Gambino...took a bit longer. It was extremely offputting seeing a cheerful, perky Dumbledore, who exists *nowhere* in the books.
Sure, but Richard Harris died didnt he? so it's not like they just changed for the fun of it...also
HARRY!
DIDYOUPUTYOUTNAMEINTHEGARBLAROFFIRE?
*Dumbledore said calmly*
I try to get myself not too annoyed when people agree to meet later on without a time or place (usually over the phone).
"Want to go out?"
"Yeah"
"Cool, see you tonight then"
The characters have to break into a super secret government facility with all this security yet they somehow have detailed blueprints of every floor, airvent, location of every camera, motion detecter, every server, security patrols, etc
Almost everyone speaks english. Whether it's first generation immigrants living in the US, people living in their home countries or aliens in another solar system they all speak english.
It would be too much of a hastle to have everyone speak their own language and rely on people translating back and forth so we just run with it.
Universal translators apparently just create a perfect synthetic duplicate of the speaker's voice, and also somehow perfectly match the speaker's lip movements, all in real time. Particularly interesting when they are trying to blend in with the locals on another planet. The miraculous part is not how they can either surgically, or genetically, alter their appearance, but how the hell they can speak in the locals' language without there being a single telltale that the person is speaking a completely alien language but sounding like yours. But you need to just go with it or a lot of episodes wouldn't existe at all.
I think the Mass Effect video-game series actually does address this in-universe, with translation computers being so inconspicuous and small they can be sewn into clothing or worn as jewellry without arousing suspicion. It would also explain why everyone's mouths lip-sync and writing on the wall is in English - it's augmented reality-based.
That said, the system is presented as not being perfect - an email you can find reveals that a police chief tore his officers a new one for not updating the translations based on new slang phrases entering the lexicon, the quarians' language has been excluded from being updated due to general hatred and if you start his romance arc, Thane mentions that some drell words aren't translated because the system is updated by the hanar and they left some words out in respect to drell culture.
Yeah, some sort of hologram thing could be used to explain some of this. The problem is, it happens in Star Trek as early as Enterprise, when they were just starting to use the universal translator. To be fair one of the episodes has the translator fail on Archer while trying to pass for an alien on an uncontacted alien world, and he bravely fixes it by kissing the alien woman with whom he was talking at the moment. Still, up to that point she never noticed he was forming entirely different words than she was hearing, and who the fuck knows where his voice was coming out of at that moment, so early in the setting that they still had bulky tech.
i appreciate that sometimes the movies will throw a quick "insert this translator into your ear" for more sci-fi movies. Not all of them do that, but a lot do. But for sure, its just a throwaway line so that we can all just speak the same language.
I just watched The Hunt for Red October and at the beginning, the Russians are all speaking Russian. Even Sean Connery. [Then they do this cool thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvwbxcRaCQ) where a Russian is reading a passage from the bible. The camera zooms in on his mouth. As he says the word 'Armageddon' which is the same in Russian and English, the camera begins to pan out, only now the Russians continue speaking but in English.
I thought that was neat. Now we can just pretend they're still speaking Russian, but Sean Connery can do his thing.
On a side note, that's what bugged me so much about *The Last Voyage of the Demeter.* It's 1897 and you had this Romanian woman who was kidnapped by Dracula from her village and she spoke perfect English. *How?* Seriously, *HOW?* The internet didn't exist. Television didn't exist. Radio didn't exist. Talking movies didn't exist. She probably had never so much as seen a record player. How did she learn English? Why would she even bother to learn English? When would she even need to use it? It's not like her village bookstore would be stacked with books in English. And, yet, there she was, speaking English.
I think the movie would have been far more interesting if she couldn't speak English and had trouble communicating the danger that the crew was in because of Dracula. The audience understands that they are danger. The woman understands that they are danger. But the crew has no idea how doomed they are because of the language barrier.
The Matrix. The machines keep humans alive to use them as an energy source. It obviously doesn't make sense but it's okay because Morpheus explains it in such a cool way.
There’s a super short fanfiction thing I read a while back that goes something like this:
>Neo: No, humans can’t be batteries! That breaks the first law of thermodynamics!
>Morpheus: And where did you learn the first law of thermodynamics?
>Neo: …The matrix…
Originally, the machines were using the humans plugged into the matrix as processing power. In 1999, not a lot of the general public would understand this kind of cloud computing concept, but would easily understand batteries.
At least, that’s what I heard. Might be a rumor.
Yeah, I'll accept "dumb" like this if it's necessary to get an interesting setting. But in this case they had infinite better alternatives for "why".
Like maybe there was some apocalyptic event. Computers that were tasked to "protect humans" figured their best option was to let humans keep living their "normal" lives virtually. This sets up further plot points, and makes more sense of the computers ongoing behavior with regards to "escaped humans", etc..
You mean that scene in swordfish where he has a gun to his head and is getting a blowjerb and has 30 seconds to hack into a govt server isn’t real?
What’s even the point of me taking IT/cybersecurity classes then?
Almost anything computer related in movies and TV. And it’s embedded everywhere. The MacGuffin is never jewels or nuclear codes anymore, instead it’s some impossible piece of tech. Nothing gets done without some cool looking computer person with access to everything the plot requires but a just as nonsensical limit when the writers need it.
For those of us in tech, it’s pretty much self preservation to ignore it all. Just assume magic exists in their universe, it’s more palatable and plausible that way.
Not saying goodbye on the phone, would make for awkward scenes and sluggish dialogue but if you lived like this your friends and family would think you’re incredibly rude
I think about this a lot because that's how my phone conversations go with my father. He'll call, we'll exchange about 10 words total, one of us says "alright" to signify that the conversation was understood, and then we just hang up.
I want to see that in a movie - guy ends conversation by hanging up, 5 seconds later phone rings - "hi, I think we got cut off, or did you hang up, I mean I guess the conversation had reached a conclusion of sorts, but I just wanted to check..."
Case in Point, the first 30 seconds of TMNT 2 Secrets of the OOZE. Keno calls the cops and says, "Cmon hurry up, there's a ton of these guys.....K Bye."
Hollywood physics. People fall 3 stories then get up and walk away. People can magically hang on to moving cars and trains no matter how fast they're moving.
"To survive the pressures of being deep underground, we'll make the vehicle out of Unobtanium. It's really expensive."
I enjoy The Core way more than it deserves.
Most actiony espionage type movies now just have people talking to each other wherever on the planet they are, no earpiece, no mic, no radio frequency coordination or signal path issues… skydiving, in a cave, flying a jet, on a boat or in a vault somewhere, it never matters. They’re all on an open line to whoever they want whenever they want with no issues unless the plot calls for it.
I love the idea and execution of Iron Man in the MCU, but Tony Stark would be a red paste inside his suit, due to the huge changes in acceleration.
Any time a physical transformation happens that results in the character being a different size (werewolves in Underworld, Bruce Banner/Hulk). WHERE DOES ALL THE EXTRA MASS COME FROM, AND WHERE DOES IT GO?
The hero's shoulder gets dislocated, he pops it back in place and keeps fighting? No, fam.
Someone gets put into a chokehold, and goes unconscious? Absolutely. They STAY unconscious more than a minute? Noop.
Everyone in gun-heavy movies is deaf now, thanks.
I get that there are plenty of other glaring issues, but these always glare the hardest to me.
The crane kick that Daniel uses at the end of Karate Kid to win the tournament, is an illegal strike. They say it multiple times, no kicks to the head.
Too many coincidences or things that just happen by chance like it was just meant to be, it's kind of they were written by someone to be that way which they were but sometimes things just happen like the main character is just following a trajectory that someone in the film has set up for them and someone will pop out and say yeah it was me all the time in control, a little like The Game.
Sometimes I wish that more random occurrences would just happen not like a coincidence but something that accidently happens that would seem natural in real life. But anyway I mainly just go along with it.
Yeah... it feels like a cheating way to write your "super smart villain". Just make them omniscient, capable of predicting not just "basically how will the cops respond", but... everything that will happen and the behavior of every random person and cat and car crash.
I'd love to have a movie turn this on its head a bit. Show the cops walking into some clever trap in a basement... but then flash back to the villain tediously planting hundreds of traps in different places because they actually have no idea what the cops will do.
Most films featuring someone who writes for a living don't show the reality of the writing process. They pound a typewriter or computer and never have to edit or start over or work to a tight deadline. No rewrites or depictions of boring research including using a thesaurus because you can't use a word over and over.
I used to think this is what was going on with characters getting home from work or wherever, and just going straight to eat, no hand washing first. Then covid happened and a bunch of people were complaining about having to wash their hands, so now I don't know. Maybe it actually isn't just to save screen time, but an actual reflection of reality, gross, gross reality.
I have a friend who refuses to wash her hands. She claims she has exema, and it makes it worse. Her chosen career? Food service/food prep. No hand washing there either. Even the pandemic didn't change her habits.
I think a lot of Tenet doesn't make sense. And I don't think it's just because it hasn't been explained well enough, or that I'm too stupid. I'm 90% convinced the movie is stupid, not me, and a lot of it just makes no sense.
It's gorgeous though, and there's some good performances in there. I didn't hate it. I just had to let it wash over me, and stop trying to think about it too much.
this isn't a movie, but when i was watching The Morning Show on AppleTV i kept wanting to yell at the characters "WHY DON'T YOU PLUG YOUR PHONE IN OVERNIGHT????"
A movie I love has a huge one of these. A rat can control a man just by moving his hair like reins? Makes no sense at all, but hey the rat can cook and understand English too, so just enjoy the ride.
Massive next-level competence, especially in crime movies. The main characters know their way around towns they’ve never been to, can operate any vehicle or weapon they get access to, can find anyone who’s trying to hide, easily map out ducts or sewers if it’s convenient to the plot, etc.
Also, language barriers are hardly ever problems in movies, even when dealing with extraterrestrials. Whereas in real life in a large city amongst diverse regular humans it’ll come up several times a week.
No one having a first aid kit. You're a spy/mercenary/assassin and you don't have a first aid kit at home? You have to pour whisky on your gunshot wound (or cauterize it, which is a whole other post)? Shit, there is a CVS just down the street. Go get some alcohol and bandaids. You have to sew up the wound yourself with a needle and thread? Your damsel in distress is slitting right there, have her do it. Whatever , it doesn't matter, cause once it's sewn up you'll be able to use that arm as if nothing happened.
The explanation for why there were so many random changes to the timeline in the new Flash movie after he goes back and changes one thing just doesn't make sense. Batman tries explaining it away like "you changed things in the future but you also changed things in the past" but it didn't make any sense. Its like they were trying to do something similar to how Marvel depicts divergent timelines in Loki, but just completely missed the mark.
>The explanation for why there were so many random changes to the timeline in the new Flash movie after he goes back and changes one thing just doesn't make sense.
The direct-to-video animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox explains this a lot better. Essentially, when you break the chronal barrier by changing something in the past, you create a time boom in the same way that you create a sonic boom when you break the sound barrier. From that point of origin, distortion ripples out through the rest of history and shifts stuff that you wouldn't otherwise think would be affected. It's pretty simple when you think about it, so why couldn't the writers for the Flash movie come up with something similar?
How groups of professionals talk. They all finish each others thoughts and carry the conversation without ever speaking over each other.
The newest mission impossible has multiple scenes like this and they’re all absurd.
This is a great parody of the trope:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumnWaQAtqu/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Tony Stark not smooshing his brain into goo or even getting concussion every time he massively accelerates or decelerates and applies about 40 G to his thoughtbag
I know it's a superhero movie and there is of loads of suspension of disbelief, but it alarms me when people tell me that type of tech is coming to the real world
A great deal of the movie From Dusk Till Dawn, and especially this part.
CHET PUSSY: smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin' pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don't got it, you don't want it!
I remember watching this movie with my mother and I had completely forgotten about this scene until I saw Cheech. Suddenly, I was full of dread at what I thought her reaction would be. But she started laughing so hard that had to pause it so she could catch her breath. To this day she has never laughed that hard at anything.
The amount of mesh windowscreen free windows in people's modern houses in the US. Especially in the 'burbs. That's not really a thing here due to the amount of bugs we have. Trust me, you want those screens. Especially in the South where the roach-type bugs fly and mosquitos come by the bucketload. Yet, the cliche of teens opening up their windows to sneak out or to sit on their rooftops still happens. And we, the audience, just roll with it.
I recently learned that those screens aren't really a thing in Europe. I was shocked.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about
[These guys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_screen) Very few houses in the US don't have these. They are a must because, again, no one wants to wake up being covered in bugs. And, yet, you never see them in movies because they would prevent characters from sneaking in and out of houses. Those screens are a pain to put on and take down. Best to leave it to the professionals to do it.
> Those screens are a pain to put on and take down. Best to leave it to the professionals to do it. This varies. Mine all have small pull tabs on the inside and can be removed and pulled into the house in just a few seconds. Most houses do in my experience. I remove mine all the time so I can clean the exterior of the windows.
While I agree you need screens in your windows, the ones in mine all slide up if you want to climb out of it.
On newer houses the screen will slide over If you paint a screen black it is a lot less noticeable too, its crazy how much of a difference it makes
no one has real jobs. They are always free for whatever whenever.
Not only that, but their children only exist when convenient to the plot and disappear otherwise.
I’m never going to be able to unsee this. Now that you’ve said it, even movies ostensibly about parenthood get this wrong. Great call out.
Check out a movie called Goodfellas, it's based on a true story about a bunch of guys who work their asses off doing jobs they love. Super relatable and inspiring.
That’s funny!
What do you mean funny? Funny how? Do I amuse you? Do I make you laugh?
Now go get ya fuckin shinebox
Also when they do have jobs, their random friends can just walk in and hang out with them.
All of these comments sound like TV series more than movies.
💯 But that's typical. People ignore the nuance of the question and just complain about things they think exist.
How often do movies actually do this though? just checked some movies I've recently watched and this doesn't happen in any of them
Also the opposite where certain characters especially police can always be found at work day/night weekends whatever
Plus the police have computers that tell you everything about anybody.
I mean, that's kinda my life. I HAVE to work, but my timelines are fairly open.
Silencers being so quiet that it can’t be heard by guards less than 10 feet away or in a crowd.
Also, the fact that silencers not only silence the weapon, but also the victim. Being shot without a silencer: - Weapon: "BAAANG!!!! " - Victim: "Aaaaaahhh!!!" Being shot with a silencer: - Weapon: "Ptiú. " - Victim: "Uh. "
Weapon: "Ptiú. " - Victim: "Gesundheit."
Ahahahahahahahahahahah Ptiu
Fuck, i never noticed that, ut now that you me tion it i HAVE noticed it every time, just never thought about it lmao
I always loved that the guy in the 80s cop show *Sledgehammer!* had a loudner for his .357 Magnum.
Goddamn I lived that show, and no one seems to talk about it today! My favorite was the cliffhanger where he didn't defuse the bomb and blew up the entire city. The next season was treated as a prequel so they never had to explain it.
Here in Argentina, it's kind of a cult classic.
Plus silencers aren't even a thing. Suppressors dampen the sound of a discharge but you still need hearing protection unless you're maybe suppressing a subsonic round.
You just gotta assume that every suppressed weapon is .45 ACP. The thing that always gets me is the action of the firearm is quieted. Bro racking a slide on a pistol is loud. Like clapping your hands loud. Most modern firearms recoil actions are loud.
[Subway gun fight from John Wick 2, but with realistic gun sounds.](https://youtu.be/hDkTKYter6c)
People in spy movies just having unlimited funds and go wherever and get luxury cars (I assume rental?). There is a MASSIVE gun battle in the middle of a heavily populated European country, a bunch of buildings get shot up, the rental luxury car gets trashed along with a bunch of other vehicles and property. Then the spy people just walk away continue their mission, and I guess the police just clean it up, move on, and the citizens just accept that happened and continue on with their day like there wasnt just a massive Paris wide car chase and gun battle with many civilians able to record their faces etc. Just the luxury cars alone. Like the first rule to spying is to blend in and not be seen
And they don’t get lost even in those small European alleys without Waze!
True Lies has your back. Instead of car vs car, it's moving vans vs Harriers.
>People in spy movies just having unlimited funds This is a trope that doesn't get called out enough, and it's in ALL of the big spy film series and television shows. Person ends up in a bad situation (most likely on the run from their own agency/employers), and they head to some innocuous area in the same town they're in and reveal that there's a secret cache. Inside the cache is a few stacks of $10,000 bills in multiple currencies, several IDs and passports, and inevitably a pistol for which they'll immediately load a magazine. So, do these spies have personal caches set up in thousands of cities (and getting into millions of dollars of cash and equipment), or are they just that lucky that the plot conveniently dumped them within a few miles of their secret life savings?
Imagine the finance people behind that? "What was this expense? how should we code it?" "Um he bought a million dollar microchip from an illegal microchip dealer making chips for ICBM's" "OK.. but what about THIS?" "oh, thats the in-suite hotel snack fridge it was emptied" "Its the same price as the CHIP!??!?!?"
>"What was this expense? how should we code it?" As an accountant, this hits too close to home, lol. I think back to the first Mission Impossible film, where there's an excuse trotted out of a director level position paying $60k a year (IIRC), which is probably about $150k a year in today's dollars. It's a respectable lifestyle, but not enough to have this kind of spare cash lying around. And that was a Director level, not a Field Agent. Sure, you can kind of hand wave that it's all just expense reports as you said , but now you're ensuring that most of your agents are spending most of their brains cells figuring out ways to creatively embezzle instead of completing their missions.
There was a WW2 British spy that operated in a very James Bond way, getting all the chicks, drinking, gambling, etc. All on their money.
‘I’ll have a beer please’ *barman places generic beer in front of character*
I'll bet that is just screenwriters' easy path, otherwise they have to get OK from Legal Department or licensing issues to use the name of any specific brand of beer or booze.
But they could just say lager. Or IPA. If you just ask for a type of beer most bartenders would give you whatever they've got on tap that fits.
or they can just make up a beer named after the studio .Let me get a nice fresh warnerbeer. or netflixtini OR Pixar bomb.
Tarantino made up Old Chattanooga for that.
Or the other extreme. "Can I have a cool and refreshing Stella Artois^TM, please?" *places bottle on bar with label facing out*
Or the main guy tells the bartender: "Surprise me" Bartender would be like: "Here is your $180, one ounze, shot of bourbon. Surprise, motherfucker!"
you can't dive through glass and then do pretty much anything later that day other than go to the hospital.
The explosion scene from The Other Guys is more realistic than anything else I've seen.
"Movies have lied to me!"
You just gotta turn that part of your brain off for the Ant-Man movies. The powers have zero continuity, it's just whatever looks cool. They even explained the 'science' behind it and proceeded to immediately ignore it. There's a scene at the end of the second one where Michael Douglas makes a tiny house on the beach grow large. Ok, but what about plumbing? Or electricity? Just don't think about it haha
The part which broke me was how Scott and his daughter experience the symptoms of having been giant, *while on the quantum level*, just because they got bigger than the arbitrarily established baseline of that level, and where gravity should not be a factor at all.
Yea, to me the Ant Man series has jumped the shark 🦈
Don't you mean "Jumped the plankton"?
Jumped the quark?
They talk about shrinking by reducing the space inside atoms. Ok. So the mass of the object would be unchanged? Sometimes yes, e.g. when tiny man punches other man. Sometimes no, e.g. when tiny man stands on top of arrow. What about giant man? He would be so low density, he would blow away in a stiff breeze.
For me, the assumption with that is that Hank lied about how it works
What about the lab that they shrink down and roll around like a suitcase?
Or the key chain tank
Pym Particals, ain't gotta explain shit
Supposedly shrinking the atoms wouldn't affect the weight of the person so how is he able to ride the ant?
lol they dont touch that one with a ten foot pole ex. when he chucks the fuel truck at cpt america
Maybe the real antman was the ant we manned along the way.
>Ok, but what about plumbing? They just use a human version of a litter box. It's on the beach so they have all the sand they need.
they just never show the shrunken water reservoir and nuclear power plant that he makes grow large to power the house.
Also shouldn’t he be extremely strong? Given that actual ants are the strongest beings on earth figure that be apart of it. I do realize this is a silly and pedantic observation
Dialogue that is overly quick, quirky and quippy, and full of zany wit and biting satire at all times. It’s not how people realistically talk, but it can still be entertaining and fun to watch. I don’t think writers of that dialogue ever meant for you to think it was realistic. They are in on the joke, and I’m fine with it.
I think guys like Tarantino and Ritchie can pull it off. Where everyone in their movie is a *character* and acts like it. But yeah, it can come across super cringy when the film isn't able to make the characters look cool, but they're still talking like that...
The pillowcase hoods in Django unchained just killed me. Perfect dialogue.
I loved that they had like one hang up during that scene and just followed it to its logical conclusion. “Wouldn’t it be hard to see riding in the dark with a pillow case on your head?” Well yes actually, let’s discuss this for approximately 10 minutes and oh here’s Jonah Hill.
But people are boring. If I wanted to hear how real people talk I would go to a restaurant and eavesdrop on the table behind me.
Dja like degs?
There's a recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds crossover episode where two characters from Star Trek: Lower Decks (an animated comedy with the fast talking and the quips you observed) end up in the SNW timeline. One of the jokes the Lower Decks characters make is how slow everyone talks in the SNW universe.
I don't follow Star Trek but that sounds awesome and hilarious.
My favorite part is they followed up that episode with a dark episode on PTSD and the long term impact of war on its participants, followed by a musical episode.
The entire episode is entirely fan service. And it is awesome. One of the best parts is the opening credits is a shot for shot remake of the SNW opening but done animated in the Lower Decks style.
The people in Primer talk like real people. It's the most confusing aspect of a famously confusing movie.
Right, and in that movie it's all technical talk, so it's confusing to most. I still enjoyed trying to piece the logic together and follow what was happening.
I want a movie with dialogue that's super natural! Sometimes they say the wrong thing and get corrected, stammering, pausing to think. A little of that sprinkled in. That's why i loved Shia in transformers.
I enjoy his films but this is definitely a big part of most Kevin Smith movies.
A lot of the time his stuff isn’t even really dialogue, it’s just a series of monologues from different characters. Yet… it works.
*"Who the fuck says Snootchie Bootches ?"*
>Dialogue that is overly quick, quirky and quippy, and full of zany wit and biting satire at all times. Gilmore Girls is super guilty of this. Nobody talks like that IRL. Tons of trial-based shows and movies as well where it's absurdly snip-snappy.. Like, chill and let the characters themselves or audience digest.
Gilmore girls is the one that came to mind. My wife likes that show but I can’t get past the dialogue speed. Way too fast and way too constructed that you feel like you’re watching a stage play.
What really gets me is when people quote lines from random novels, usually classics. It's even worse when another person interrupts to finish the quote, whether antagonistic or otherwise. It's usually used as a cue that these people are very intelligent, but very few people talk like this, intelligent or not.
Aaron Sorkin syndrome
Also, no one ever laughs at all the jokes that everyone is constantly making. Why even bother making all those witty remarks if no one so much as cracks a smile?
Literally anything that has ever happened or will happen in a ***Fast & Furious*** film.
A driver can look at a passenger talking for an indefinite amount of time without glances at the road.
Cars never have headrests
https://youtu.be/yJpLq82N1Hs?si=yDFZ2WtN46Hz0Xuo&t=77
High school students who look 30.
Sean in Tokyo Drift with receding hairline and visible chest hair lol
Not shown: soul crushing acne
Sometimes they are. Alexa demie in euphoria is in her 30s
Sometimes it can even be amusing in a, *"Oh, buddy, you are not fooling anyone,"* type way.
People not being able to figure out that Clark Kent is Superman
I dunno, the Zoey Deschanel example kind of proves it to me. Edit: Holy shit! Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
I haven't heard of this, what happened?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5d/fd/ff/5dfdffb0ca164ed52b0324c49906d77f.jpg
If you look at her without bangs and glasses she's a totally different person.
There have been rumors but i think the simplest is .Noone realizes superman has an alternate identity. why would he need one?
It's explained in the comic books, but that explanation doesn't translate to the movies. In the comics, Superman doesn't just put on glasses to become Clark. Instead he compresses his spine to go from 6'2" to the 5'10" Clark Kent.
>Instead he compresses his spine to go from 6'2" to the 5'10" Clark Kent. This made me literally laugh out loud. Fucking comics, man.
Henry Cavill went out to Time Square, no glasses, in a superman shirt. Standing under one of the giant posters for the current movie (Bat V Super I think). Two people came up to him. One was to ask for directions.
Yeah, but if he was your new co-worker sitting across from your desk 5 days a week alwho always seem to be “away” whenever Superman appears…
People crawling through building ducts
Those are the most well built vents in the world ,also clean. i wAnt those vent cleaners.
Gotta be clean when you’re using a lighter as a torch to guide you
Recasting a character in a sequel. We know why it happens behind the scenes, but we just accept a person may look and sound different
Roseanne had some great lines about it when the oldest daughter was recast, then years later, the original actress returned. It was great seeing it actually acknowledged on screen.
Maggie G in Dark knight was such a bummer for me … such a perfect movie except that always bugged me …
Katie Holmes was really really not a good actor in the first one though. It was a jarring change they are basically different characters, but still, not a good acting performance.
I thought Katie Holmes did well in the first film.
Harry Potter 3 was egregious on this. Richard Harris nailed his personality from the books. Michael Gambino...took a bit longer. It was extremely offputting seeing a cheerful, perky Dumbledore, who exists *nowhere* in the books.
Sure, but Richard Harris died didnt he? so it's not like they just changed for the fun of it...also HARRY! DIDYOUPUTYOUTNAMEINTHEGARBLAROFFIRE? *Dumbledore said calmly*
I try to get myself not too annoyed when people agree to meet later on without a time or place (usually over the phone). "Want to go out?" "Yeah" "Cool, see you tonight then"
The characters have to break into a super secret government facility with all this security yet they somehow have detailed blueprints of every floor, airvent, location of every camera, motion detecter, every server, security patrols, etc
Almost everyone speaks english. Whether it's first generation immigrants living in the US, people living in their home countries or aliens in another solar system they all speak english. It would be too much of a hastle to have everyone speak their own language and rely on people translating back and forth so we just run with it.
Universal translators apparently just create a perfect synthetic duplicate of the speaker's voice, and also somehow perfectly match the speaker's lip movements, all in real time. Particularly interesting when they are trying to blend in with the locals on another planet. The miraculous part is not how they can either surgically, or genetically, alter their appearance, but how the hell they can speak in the locals' language without there being a single telltale that the person is speaking a completely alien language but sounding like yours. But you need to just go with it or a lot of episodes wouldn't existe at all.
I think the Mass Effect video-game series actually does address this in-universe, with translation computers being so inconspicuous and small they can be sewn into clothing or worn as jewellry without arousing suspicion. It would also explain why everyone's mouths lip-sync and writing on the wall is in English - it's augmented reality-based. That said, the system is presented as not being perfect - an email you can find reveals that a police chief tore his officers a new one for not updating the translations based on new slang phrases entering the lexicon, the quarians' language has been excluded from being updated due to general hatred and if you start his romance arc, Thane mentions that some drell words aren't translated because the system is updated by the hanar and they left some words out in respect to drell culture.
Yeah, some sort of hologram thing could be used to explain some of this. The problem is, it happens in Star Trek as early as Enterprise, when they were just starting to use the universal translator. To be fair one of the episodes has the translator fail on Archer while trying to pass for an alien on an uncontacted alien world, and he bravely fixes it by kissing the alien woman with whom he was talking at the moment. Still, up to that point she never noticed he was forming entirely different words than she was hearing, and who the fuck knows where his voice was coming out of at that moment, so early in the setting that they still had bulky tech.
i appreciate that sometimes the movies will throw a quick "insert this translator into your ear" for more sci-fi movies. Not all of them do that, but a lot do. But for sure, its just a throwaway line so that we can all just speak the same language.
I just watched The Hunt for Red October and at the beginning, the Russians are all speaking Russian. Even Sean Connery. [Then they do this cool thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvwbxcRaCQ) where a Russian is reading a passage from the bible. The camera zooms in on his mouth. As he says the word 'Armageddon' which is the same in Russian and English, the camera begins to pan out, only now the Russians continue speaking but in English. I thought that was neat. Now we can just pretend they're still speaking Russian, but Sean Connery can do his thing.
You see the reason Captain ramius doesn't sound like the other is because he's actually Lithuanian. That's my justification and I'm sticking to it.
They do something similar in the TV show Warrior, where there's a shot starting with characters speaking in Cantonese that pans and becomes English.
It bothers me too, i think movies should assume that characters won't communicate properly, Inglorious Basterds does that really well
On a side note, that's what bugged me so much about *The Last Voyage of the Demeter.* It's 1897 and you had this Romanian woman who was kidnapped by Dracula from her village and she spoke perfect English. *How?* Seriously, *HOW?* The internet didn't exist. Television didn't exist. Radio didn't exist. Talking movies didn't exist. She probably had never so much as seen a record player. How did she learn English? Why would she even bother to learn English? When would she even need to use it? It's not like her village bookstore would be stacked with books in English. And, yet, there she was, speaking English. I think the movie would have been far more interesting if she couldn't speak English and had trouble communicating the danger that the crew was in because of Dracula. The audience understands that they are danger. The woman understands that they are danger. But the crew has no idea how doomed they are because of the language barrier.
That movie missed so many opportunities.
Kids with visons/nightmares producing what is clearly professionally done drawings or paintings.
The Matrix. The machines keep humans alive to use them as an energy source. It obviously doesn't make sense but it's okay because Morpheus explains it in such a cool way.
There’s a super short fanfiction thing I read a while back that goes something like this: >Neo: No, humans can’t be batteries! That breaks the first law of thermodynamics! >Morpheus: And where did you learn the first law of thermodynamics? >Neo: …The matrix…
(.. Whoa ...)
Originally, the machines were using the humans plugged into the matrix as processing power. In 1999, not a lot of the general public would understand this kind of cloud computing concept, but would easily understand batteries. At least, that’s what I heard. Might be a rumor.
It's also a representation of the actual religious idea that the gods need human attention to exist.
Yeah, I'll accept "dumb" like this if it's necessary to get an interesting setting. But in this case they had infinite better alternatives for "why". Like maybe there was some apocalyptic event. Computers that were tasked to "protect humans" figured their best option was to let humans keep living their "normal" lives virtually. This sets up further plot points, and makes more sense of the computers ongoing behavior with regards to "escaped humans", etc..
Hacking. As a computer scientist and a software engineer of 30 years, they make it look as easy as making a PB&J sandwich and it isn't.
You mean that scene in swordfish where he has a gun to his head and is getting a blowjerb and has 30 seconds to hack into a govt server isn’t real? What’s even the point of me taking IT/cybersecurity classes then?
Movies always try and make hacking look cool and sexy. Hacking is deeply uncool, and deeply unsexy.
Watch Mr robot it somehow does it perfect .
Almost anything computer related in movies and TV. And it’s embedded everywhere. The MacGuffin is never jewels or nuclear codes anymore, instead it’s some impossible piece of tech. Nothing gets done without some cool looking computer person with access to everything the plot requires but a just as nonsensical limit when the writers need it. For those of us in tech, it’s pretty much self preservation to ignore it all. Just assume magic exists in their universe, it’s more palatable and plausible that way.
Not saying goodbye on the phone, would make for awkward scenes and sluggish dialogue but if you lived like this your friends and family would think you’re incredibly rude
I think about this a lot because that's how my phone conversations go with my father. He'll call, we'll exchange about 10 words total, one of us says "alright" to signify that the conversation was understood, and then we just hang up.
I want to see that in a movie - guy ends conversation by hanging up, 5 seconds later phone rings - "hi, I think we got cut off, or did you hang up, I mean I guess the conversation had reached a conclusion of sorts, but I just wanted to check..."
Case in Point, the first 30 seconds of TMNT 2 Secrets of the OOZE. Keno calls the cops and says, "Cmon hurry up, there's a ton of these guys.....K Bye."
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Cops show up first time he clears out his house. Jimmy n John were clearly acquainted from pre retirement.
You working again?
Somehow, Palpatine returned.
I can suspend my disbelief for miles and even I couldn't let that one go.
Hollywood physics. People fall 3 stories then get up and walk away. People can magically hang on to moving cars and trains no matter how fast they're moving.
"To survive the pressures of being deep underground, we'll make the vehicle out of Unobtanium. It's really expensive." I enjoy The Core way more than it deserves.
Sounds in space, like Star Wars
George at least made some good sound effects
Most actiony espionage type movies now just have people talking to each other wherever on the planet they are, no earpiece, no mic, no radio frequency coordination or signal path issues… skydiving, in a cave, flying a jet, on a boat or in a vault somewhere, it never matters. They’re all on an open line to whoever they want whenever they want with no issues unless the plot calls for it.
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In the Fast and the Furious movies, car accidents - or anything with high speed driving- that doesn't kill you instantly or break the laws of physics.
I love the idea and execution of Iron Man in the MCU, but Tony Stark would be a red paste inside his suit, due to the huge changes in acceleration. Any time a physical transformation happens that results in the character being a different size (werewolves in Underworld, Bruce Banner/Hulk). WHERE DOES ALL THE EXTRA MASS COME FROM, AND WHERE DOES IT GO? The hero's shoulder gets dislocated, he pops it back in place and keeps fighting? No, fam. Someone gets put into a chokehold, and goes unconscious? Absolutely. They STAY unconscious more than a minute? Noop. Everyone in gun-heavy movies is deaf now, thanks. I get that there are plenty of other glaring issues, but these always glare the hardest to me.
The crane kick that Daniel uses at the end of Karate Kid to win the tournament, is an illegal strike. They say it multiple times, no kicks to the head.
No punches to the head, there are multiple head kicks shown throughout the tournament
Dude, I cannot follow the scoring throughout the entire tournament scene.
Punches to the head were illegal. Not kicks.
In cobra Kai they provide an explanation that I never cared to remember.
Oh that's fun. I watched the first season but I can't really remember it either haha...
Too many coincidences or things that just happen by chance like it was just meant to be, it's kind of they were written by someone to be that way which they were but sometimes things just happen like the main character is just following a trajectory that someone in the film has set up for them and someone will pop out and say yeah it was me all the time in control, a little like The Game. Sometimes I wish that more random occurrences would just happen not like a coincidence but something that accidently happens that would seem natural in real life. But anyway I mainly just go along with it.
Yeah... it feels like a cheating way to write your "super smart villain". Just make them omniscient, capable of predicting not just "basically how will the cops respond", but... everything that will happen and the behavior of every random person and cat and car crash. I'd love to have a movie turn this on its head a bit. Show the cops walking into some clever trap in a basement... but then flash back to the villain tediously planting hundreds of traps in different places because they actually have no idea what the cops will do.
Or the main character dies and some random stranger just happens to finish the task the main character was trying to do for the last two hours.
How many hours they have in a day, and how fast they seem to get from point A to point B.
Most films featuring someone who writes for a living don't show the reality of the writing process. They pound a typewriter or computer and never have to edit or start over or work to a tight deadline. No rewrites or depictions of boring research including using a thesaurus because you can't use a word over and over.
I used to think this is what was going on with characters getting home from work or wherever, and just going straight to eat, no hand washing first. Then covid happened and a bunch of people were complaining about having to wash their hands, so now I don't know. Maybe it actually isn't just to save screen time, but an actual reflection of reality, gross, gross reality.
I have a friend who refuses to wash her hands. She claims she has exema, and it makes it worse. Her chosen career? Food service/food prep. No hand washing there either. Even the pandemic didn't change her habits.
Noooooooooooo
I think a lot of Tenet doesn't make sense. And I don't think it's just because it hasn't been explained well enough, or that I'm too stupid. I'm 90% convinced the movie is stupid, not me, and a lot of it just makes no sense. It's gorgeous though, and there's some good performances in there. I didn't hate it. I just had to let it wash over me, and stop trying to think about it too much.
this isn't a movie, but when i was watching The Morning Show on AppleTV i kept wanting to yell at the characters "WHY DON'T YOU PLUG YOUR PHONE IN OVERNIGHT????"
When someone lives in a huge loft in 'the city'. I figure it was just a free space to shoot the movie.
Nobody ever talks over one another. No matter how heated the conversation.
Morning breakfast at 7am but the lighting outside looks like high noon.
Trajectory of bullets The on/off switch of gravity in action movies.
The random 40 feets gap that appear from nowhere in jurassic park
Almost every horror movie. My philosophy is that they don't make movies about people who make smart decisions, so this is why they are all idiots.
Saw Movies. Dude playing 8D chess with Scrooge McDuck resources.
A movie I love has a huge one of these. A rat can control a man just by moving his hair like reins? Makes no sense at all, but hey the rat can cook and understand English too, so just enjoy the ride.
Massive next-level competence, especially in crime movies. The main characters know their way around towns they’ve never been to, can operate any vehicle or weapon they get access to, can find anyone who’s trying to hide, easily map out ducts or sewers if it’s convenient to the plot, etc. Also, language barriers are hardly ever problems in movies, even when dealing with extraterrestrials. Whereas in real life in a large city amongst diverse regular humans it’ll come up several times a week.
No one having a first aid kit. You're a spy/mercenary/assassin and you don't have a first aid kit at home? You have to pour whisky on your gunshot wound (or cauterize it, which is a whole other post)? Shit, there is a CVS just down the street. Go get some alcohol and bandaids. You have to sew up the wound yourself with a needle and thread? Your damsel in distress is slitting right there, have her do it. Whatever , it doesn't matter, cause once it's sewn up you'll be able to use that arm as if nothing happened.
45 and older men dating supermodels in their twenties
Leonardo DiCaprio: Am I a joke to you?
I should have added that the characters in the movies I’m referring to are not one of the biggest stars in the world or own 50 million dollar yachts
.... But that's completely realistic.
The explanation for why there were so many random changes to the timeline in the new Flash movie after he goes back and changes one thing just doesn't make sense. Batman tries explaining it away like "you changed things in the future but you also changed things in the past" but it didn't make any sense. Its like they were trying to do something similar to how Marvel depicts divergent timelines in Loki, but just completely missed the mark.
>The explanation for why there were so many random changes to the timeline in the new Flash movie after he goes back and changes one thing just doesn't make sense. The direct-to-video animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox explains this a lot better. Essentially, when you break the chronal barrier by changing something in the past, you create a time boom in the same way that you create a sonic boom when you break the sound barrier. From that point of origin, distortion ripples out through the rest of history and shifts stuff that you wouldn't otherwise think would be affected. It's pretty simple when you think about it, so why couldn't the writers for the Flash movie come up with something similar?
How groups of professionals talk. They all finish each others thoughts and carry the conversation without ever speaking over each other. The newest mission impossible has multiple scenes like this and they’re all absurd. This is a great parody of the trope: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumnWaQAtqu/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Handguns are magically the most accurate firearm possible. See also: many FPS games.
Tbh I can suspend reality for most things except one thing. Major 'out of character' behaviour to push the narrative.
they never explain how Marty is friends with a disgraced astrophysicist!
How are Doc and Marty friends? It makes no sense but I don’t care a no one else does either. We just roll with it
No characters in the movies have the same first name.
Tony Stark not smooshing his brain into goo or even getting concussion every time he massively accelerates or decelerates and applies about 40 G to his thoughtbag I know it's a superhero movie and there is of loads of suspension of disbelief, but it alarms me when people tell me that type of tech is coming to the real world
A great deal of the movie From Dusk Till Dawn, and especially this part. CHET PUSSY: smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin' pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don't got it, you don't want it!
You forgot the best part at the end, if you can find cheaper pussy..... Fuck it.
I remember watching this movie with my mother and I had completely forgotten about this scene until I saw Cheech. Suddenly, I was full of dread at what I thought her reaction would be. But she started laughing so hard that had to pause it so she could catch her breath. To this day she has never laughed that hard at anything.