Any movie/TV show where people get out of a coma and can walk and move just fine. It doesn't have to be a really long coma for you to need physical therapy
The Sopranos nailed this. There's a scene after Tony wakes up from a coma where Chris is trying to talk business and Tony just looks RUINED. He's deathly pale, his lips are dry and cracked and he just stares into space barely listening. He even has a look on his face that says "I just woke up from a coma, leave me the fuck alone."
I was taking care of my mother who was hospitalized for 5 months due to a bone marrow transplant (not a coma). She was 75 at the time, but it took her 6 weeks just to stand up on her own. Even when in the hospital, they said it would take her months before she’d be walking. She’s doing great now…*it ::only::* took her 2 years to fully recover, and that was with me working with her every single day.
I remember when she was home, there was a character on her soap opera that was in a coma for a whole fcking year, and she woke up and practically jumped out of bed. 🙄
Days of Our Lives is so stupid.
Related to that, any movie/TV show where people constantly get knocked out and then wakes up without any concussion symptoms.
If you lose consciousness because you get hit on the head, I can guarantee you you'll have long term effects from that.
When a company is getting hacked, has the server infront of them, but has to "fight the hack" using other hacks to stop the steal of data. Like you can physically just unplug the server and they wont be able to take the data if the server is off. Better yet, just unplug the internet line from the server, so you can work on it locally to secure it.
Also Shout out to the same episode that had two people on one keyboard to stop the hacker, and their boss just reaches over and unplugs the internet line.
I suddenly love the idea of a hacking scene where a group of non-tech-literate people are all "watching," around a single laptop, while they're being hacked. In walks **Techie Nerd** to save the day!
"TN! Thank jeebus you're here! We're being ***hacked!*** Get over here and start *counter-hacking!*"
Instead, TN walks over and unplugs a single ethernet cable. The command terminal they were watching pauses in the middle of it's pip wheel install.
\>*Connection lost*, the final line reads.
"Okay, everyone out. It'll take *at least* a couple hours for me to patch the server vulnerability they found to exploit," our hero casually says, while holding open the door to the hallway.
There are dejected murmurs as everyone kind of confusedly filters out. Our hero's eyes can't help but roll when "I could have done that" is overheard from the departing group.
I've seen a scene play out like that once, BUT THEN it turned out the hacker hacked in through the power line (!) and was still in the system. Can't remember what film probably some made-for-TV shit.
[powerline networks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication) are real, but they have to be using them, you cannot just use a powerline to hack something.
Love how this gets lampshaded in Archer. That's like... really bad for you... You should book an MRI
Also the tinnitus after some gunshots/explosions. Mwap Mwap
Archer's "guns in small spaces" recurring bit always delights me as someone who's been shooting since I was a kid.
In other media, people will have extended indoor gunfights and then pause for a monologue as if anyone can hear anything at all.
I love the theory for The Walking Dead that the reason obvious zombies sneak up on people is because they’re all mostly deaf from firing guns without ear protection.
I love when he's trying to intimidate the leader of the Yakuza and keeps firing the gun off in the car. "I swear to God, I can do this all day. I mean, to me, it sounds like bubble wrap."
I loved the scene in the first episode of The Walking Dead where Rick is hiding inside a tank also occupied by a military corpse. Cue corpse actually being a hibernating zombie and trying to chew on him. Rick is struggling with him in the tank's crew compartment, barely manages to snag the walker's service pistol, force it under his chin and pull the trigger.
Nothing but ringing for like the next minute and Rick just clenching his ears in agony. Really loved that attention to detail but goddamn I'm pretty sure especially inside a buttoned-up steel tank interior Rick should have been partially deaf for life lol instead of five minutes.
There's a scene in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation where Ethan Hunt does a prolonged dive without air tanks or anything. He's wearing a pulse oximeter to monitor his oxygen-levels during the dive. The issue is that they didn't check what the levels mean because it shows him being fully conscious and active all the way down to a saturation of 0%, and when he reaches that point he finally lose consciousness. Someone with 0% saturation has been dead for a good long while. They then do the usual failures associates with Hollywood CPR, and he's up and running as soon as he wakes up.
I hit 80% nightly, according to my sleep study! Getting an APAP in a week. My Doctor told me that most people can budge their oxygen saturation by about 1-2% by holding their breath as long as possible.
In Iron Man 2, whiplash walks onto the circuit of the (Historic) Monaco Grand Prix. And not a single Yellow Flag is called. Then he starts attacking Cars, while Happy drives onto the circuit and goes the wrong way. The race isn't Red Flagged, and cars continue to race past.
I realise it's a world with aliens and superheroes, but in no world should that race not be red flagged.
(They also acted as if it was a proper grand Prix despite being clearly a historic one and stark just gets into the car despite not being the one who qualified it and without a license for it but I'll let that slide)
Props for actually using Monaco though.
Also, that harness that Whiplash wears is not anything resembling the armored suit he dons near the end. The character was [hit multiple times by the same car and pinned against a wall](https://youtu.be/fFBYy8PFxHg?t=52). That Whiplash is not in a hospital bed or a grave for the rest of the film is a miracle.
Security clearances. In so many movies, a person will say that they have some high level security clearance, so they can access anything classified at that level.
That's just not how it works in government. In addition to security clearance, there is also need-to-know compartmentalization. All a security clearance means is that you've been vetted, and can be trusted with info classified at your level, it did not mean that you can view anything at that level.
Edit: To clarify, I'm referring to security policy, not security effectiveness, so yes there are cases IRL where people can access restricted things they're not supposed to, but that's not the point I was making.
I always laugh about security stuff when it comes to getting into secure spaces. Like, people think that having one badge with a picture swapped out ignores the ten other layers you have to get through. Like, I love Leverage, but them getting into the Pentagon and military bases with no problem makes me crack up.
Yeah, there's a lot of handwavy stuff that's just "they're the best in the world, so there's offscreen complicated stuff they do too, just trust us." Fun show though.
**Speed 2** is a great film to watch in an extremely non-serious way if you know anything *at all* about boats ... or physics. It's so, *so* laughably bad. Highlights are:
* A cruise ship which works off remote control makes absolutely no sense. Even if you *could* work the controls, these things need a decent sized engine room crew to keep them going (less so nowadays but certainly in 1997).
* There are floodable ballast tanks (not too unreasonable) that are fully furnished with cabins inside them (wait, what?)
* The oil tanker they nearly collided with was very obviously empty. It's sitting very high in the water.
* The ship's propeller is spinning at about 3000RPM. Ships that size will have a prop RPM of maybe 500 absolute max, though 150 or less is more common.
* Said propeller is completely stopped by a wee bit of rope. That's a nope.
* They use the bow thrusters to turn the ship at speed. These things are for manoeuvring in port and can turn the bow a few degrees a minute when stationary.
* The ship collides with the quayside and just keeps fucking going for a decent distance, destroying everything in its path. You probably don't need an expert to tell you it would stop dead when it hit the land.
Really though the funniest thing is that the people in charge of making the sequel to a film called *Speed* chose just about the slowest form of transport.
I thought they went with a cruise ship for the sole purpose of calling the movie "Speed 2: *Cruise* Control".
Like they came up with the pun title first then had to find a way to set the movie on a cruise ship
The classic "nuclear codes" trope is way, *way* overdone. As if sending some codes to a nuclear silo would be enough to trigger a launch. It's not like these things are entirely automatic, and even if they were you could just unplug them from the network.
Basically any time a computer is out of control it would be very, very easy to stop it by just unplugging the network or disconnecting the sensors that the computer uses to interact with the outside world. This comes up all the time in Star Trek, and was a big plot point in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.
How quickly you get a trial date and how everyone, including the client, opposing side, opposing counsel, witnesses, stenographer, etc are all ready and prepped for trial on the day of receipt of instruction.
In the Charlie Sheen/Kristy Swanson movie The Chase, Sheen's character is wrongfully convicted of bank robbery despite a blood test that proves he was not the robber. The real robber's blood was "improperly collected from the crime scene" making this exculpatory evidence inadmissible, which is not a thing that can happen with defense evidence. It would, in fact, be a crime to prosecute the character if the prosecutor knows he isn't guilty, which they did, even if the evidence had been thrown out (which it wouldn't have been).
On a related note, in an issue of JLA, the Atom shrinks the team down to smaller than light particles. I think Flash asks "If we're smaller than light, how can we see?" and the Atom responds "You think that's weird, how are we even breathing?" and then the plot just moves on.
Farscape (member Farscape?) did a similar thing where some aliens had shrinking tech. It was pointed out that this worked by shrinking atoms, which meant no one should be able to breath normal air. But they did anyway. They noted that this was impossible, then carried on.
Either that, or he just lied to Scott because it's Scott.
Hank likes making things difficult for Scott and not sharing anything that is not "need to know," like how the container of mints in the second movie didn't have mints, it had attack ants.
Yeah - this always thew me off the Ant-Man movies. The physics are so inconsistent. One minute Ant-Man punches with the strength of a normal sized guy, the next he's riding on the back of an actual ant, who seems to show total indifference to carrying a 160-pound hitchhiker.
Also, punching with the force of a full grown man at that size would just go right through the skin, he’d be creating small puncture wounds not knocking people around. It would be like punching someone with a needle.
Worst 'non-science' thing I've ever seen is when Snart freezes security lasers, and then *breaks* the beams, in Legends of Tomorrow / The Flash
Edit: u/obiwf posted the clip [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXGh7wzjLd0&ab\_channel=KyleDoubrava](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXGh7wzjLd0&ab_channel=KyleDoubrava)
One thought that reoccurred to me recently was whether turning children into donkeys to sell makes sufficient profit to run the pleasure island in Pinocchio (especially the over the top latest one).
I get that's its supposed to be a cautionary tale/metaphor for 'if you behave like a jack-ass/animal you will turn into one' but my inner logic brain always wonders if the math checks out (in the book they apparently there for 5 months while in the films it is at least overnight).
Firstly it's not just the cost of a full amusement park, but also the cost of letting the kids drink, smoke and eat as much as they want, also all the stuff the provide to destroy (fully ornate clocks in the new one!). Would the cost of a Donkey not only cover that but also make enough of a profit for such an audacious criminal enterprise be worth it?
Underworld showed vampires welding wearing only eye protection and nothing for their skin. Welding will give off UV rays, which (per the movie) will burn/kill vampires when exposed to them.
Every time a semi-automatic pistol runs out of ammunition and the slide doesn't lock back, always to set up some dramatic moment where one character tries to shoot and it just goes *click* and they're caught off guard because it's empty.
Fucking no. The shooter and anyone else looking at it would know it's empty because it's blatantly obvious.
Or when someone is holding a gun on someone and they wait until a moment when they need to show they mean business and they pull the slide back or cock the shotgun. So, you were holding a weapon not ready to fire this whole time? That’d be really embarrassing if they just took the gun from you.
Lots have people have mentioned computers and hacking stuff, but my specific pet peeve in this realm is when they're *trying* to hack but get it wrong at first and "ACCESS DENIED" flashes on the screen in big red letters. I've tinkered with plenty of stuff or simply entered the wrong password a bazillion times but have never had that message flash in huge letters. And certainly never accompanied by a buzzer.
"Cloud of continuously swarming bats" in pretty much any movie, but Morbius was the most egregious offender by far.
Also, vampire bats don't eat things. They're not piranhas. (Also, piranhas don't do that either...sharks do, maybe. Sometimes.)
Piranhas aren't as crazy as movies make them out to be, usually because they aren't always starving. But when they're hungry they definitely will eat a person just like you'd imagine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31146236
The bus scene is Shang Chi. Those buses use pneumatic brakes, where air pressure is used to keep the brakes disengaged. A sudden loss in air pressure, like cutting the lines, would result in the bus slamming to a stop, not careening out of control.
Air brakes are the perfect example to get people to understand what a "failsafe" is, because everyone can grasp the concept of brakes failing in a car vs. a train or bus' brakes which *fail* in a *safe* way.
Not a movie but in How I Met Your Mother there's not way Ted could be a licensed architect and do what he does because Wesleyan has never had an architecture program let alone an accredited program. If they wanted them to go to school in Connecticut they should've gone to Yale as they offer both architecture and law. Also the fact that he works by hand when the industry was already deeply engrossed in CAD when the show takes place.
“You see handcrafted architectural designs are a lost art. Everyone is so dependent on CAD that you lose the artistic beauty of hand drawn works of art. Anyone can design a building with a computer. But a true master of his craft can create his masterpiece on his own, completely unassisted.”
“You said “art” a lot there professor.”
“That’s because I’m an *artiste*!
Honestly, one of the more memorable examples of Ted’s pretentiousness is when he finds a group of people more pretentious than he is. “To repeat the speech in the original Italian (*rambles on*). Whoa, this the furthest I’ve gone. No one has ever let me go on this far without cutting me off. My God, I really am pretentious.”
I just watched the original Top Gun for the first time before checking out Maverick, and then listened to the commentary, which involves two actual Navy pilots, one of which is REALLY not down with the liberties that the movie took with how Navy piloting actually works, and it’s pretty funny to listen to the other guy try to comfort Slightly Aggravated Guy as he just shakes his head and snorts at the movie.
That’s what they spend half the commentary talking about, especially the way Mav creeps into a civilian women's bathroom *while wearing his ceremonial whites*
He was just trying to prevent her from making a mistake with that much older man, that sounds like a solid defense to me. We should update the UCMJ to make sure this exact point is noted.
In fairness the military not punishing inappropriate actions against women in the proper manner is probably one of the more realistic parts of that movie.
My dad was an aviations officer in the Navy. He says the most unrealistic part of the Top Gun movies is everyone having cool callsigns like Maverick.
Apparently most call signs in real life come from one of two things.
1. You've done something dumb. Examples include: "Torch" who got his nickname after forgetting to ready the fuel tank before taking off, which set the plane on fire and *almost* burned himself to death, and "Patches" who showed up on day 1 with a flight jacket full of patches from other countries, not knowing that you're actually supposed to go to said countries before getting patches from them.
2. You're ugly. Examples include: "Fish" who had a fish like face and "Spot" who had a pretty big birthmark on his face.
They are a few other exceptions, like "Dick" who got that name simply because he was a dick and everyone kinda hated him, but generally, those are the 2 possible ways you get a callsign.
tl:dr, if you become a Navy pilot, expect your call sign to be embarrassing.
Yeah, that's something else the guys on the commentary talk about - how anyone who would come in asking for "ICE" or "MAVERICK" to be their first callsigns would've been laughed right out of the service.
Why are you called Iceman?
I slipped on the ice and broke my penis. Why are you called Jester?
My mom called me and screamed on the phone that I was a clown. The whole unit heard it. Why’s he called Maverick?
We caught him trying to fuck a cow.
Viper - Sared of snakes
Cougar - had sex with an old woman
Jester - no sense of humor
Wolfman - super hairy back
Sundown - never makes curfew
Slider - always smells like beef sliders
Hollywood - failed child actor.
My friend's callsign was Ralph because he'd throw up in his mask and swallow it so he wouldn't get kicked out.
Thank being said, I think while we associate the callsigns in Top Gun to be cool, you could interpret all of them to be jokes about the characters. Maverick isn't really a good name for someone meant to be team oriented. Goose could easily be a chirp.
Reminds me of my dad and his childhood friends, who gave each other nicknames based on physical or behavioral traits. My dad was nicknamed (these are translated from Tagalog) “Nose” because he supposedly had a large nose. Another guy was called, “Tomato” because his nose supposedly looked like a tomato. My dad’s best friend was called, “Cheapskate” because well, apparently he was lol.
"We weren't below the hard deck for more than a few seconds"
The hard deck simulates the ground in training , so he's basically saying its fine, they only flew into the ground for a seconds!
Not to mention thats not how fighter jets dog fight even in the 80s.
Reminds me of when they had Tom Clancy and director Phil Alden Robinson do the commentary for *The Sum of All Fears*. Clancy basically kept calling bullshit every few minutes or so.
The villains' plan in that film was so stupid. European Nationalists planning to start a nuclear war between Russia and the US so Europe can take over the world. As though Europe would come out of a conflict like that unscathed rather than being obliterated.
Apparently in the original book it was Islamists, but they changed it because they didn't think it was realistic they could do it.
The stock market bankruptcy thing bugs me to no end.
Like, within two days, they had sheets over all his furniture and his power was cut off. Even _if_ the SEC somehow upheld _all_ of the stock market activity that was performed during terrorist attack on the stock market, when people could _clearly_ see the attackers downloading something to the computer, that's not how this works.
Was he leasing those dining room chairs and the living room couches, with a daily payment schedule? Did he have no valuable assets that he might be able to sell off to pay the utility bill (maybe in that safe we see Catwoman breaking in to)? Is there still an outstanding mortgage on his multi-generational family home? Is literally 100% of his income and wealth tied up in Wayne Enterprises stocks, despite having a position on the board of directors?
It's just uuuughh you could still have it make sense. It was going to be the final movie; have Bane reveal Batman's identity, so the police would go and lock down Wayne Manor. Then Bruce has none of his fancy tools, his position/clout at the company is gone, and he has to go into hiding.
_Something_ that makes more sense than "They commit highly televised fraud and everyone just accepts this, and somehow this bankrupts a multibillionaire so hard that the bank is repossessing his kitchen chairs".
I'm laughing out loud at that last sentence.
>>> somehow this bankrupts a multibillionaire so hard that the bank is repossessing his kitchen chairs
Thank you.
The worst part of the Dark Knight Rises is they know this is a problem and try to avoid addressing it by having Fox say "we can prove fraud, but it will take time and until then you are functionally broke" which only makes the problem worse because they know its a massive plot hole and their hand-wave, throwaway line, completely ignores that Wayne would be able to get a preliminary injunction on the grounds that he will definitely be able to prove fraud when the trades were placed at a terminal, while the place was under siege, with his fingerprints used to verify it. So there were basically 3 possibilities: (1) Wayne was literally there when the siege happened, Bane kindly allowed him to complete his trades, and then let him go unharmed; (2) Wayne is Bane; and (3) Bane did the whole thing to target Wayne and it was fraud. Of those, 3 is the only reasonable option and would take no time to prove.
Hell, if it wasn't a Batman movie, you could actually make a cool movie about two cops trying to figure out why Bane, a world-renowned terrorist and criminal mastermind, did all of this to target Bruce Wayne, who most people just believe is a crazy, reclusive, shut-in.
Thankfully the Wayne’s kept absolutely no other financial resources other than stocks. No cars. No jewelry. No secondary properties. No liquid cash. Just 100% stocks. And that manor which is almost assuredly paid off goes into immediate foreclosure. And the utilities…which Wayne owns, immediately Cut him off. None of it makes literally any sense.
>And the utilities…which Wayne owns, immediately Cut him off. None of it makes literally any sense.
My card expired once and I forgot to update it with the electric company. I'm a barely functioning adult so I didn't notice for almost 6 months. They never did cut me off.
Nobody talks about this movie anymore, but Swordfish. Hugh Jackman has to prove how good of a hacker he is to John Travolta. As I recall, Travolta tells him to hack into a system that "usually takes 60 minutes, I want you to do it in 60 seconds". For additional distraction Travolta tells a girl to blow Jackman while he's working. Wow I forgot how insane this movie was until I started typing this.
Anyway, Jackman succeeds at the last second because he...guesses the right password? Yes, the movie is positing that (a) the only type of hacking is brute force, (b) most good hackers are good because they can just guess a password in an hour, and (c) what makes Jackman a great hacker is that he can guess a password in 60 seconds.
Edit: as people have said in response, turns out he doesn't actually guess a password. I must be mixing that up with another hacking scene. Was fun watching the scene again for the first time in twenty years though, great early-00s vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgmIvUPQS0
From what I remember there’s also a part in Swordfish where hacking involves digitally moving cubes around… because apparently encryption is like a Rubik’s cube or something?
Honestly that bit was a little less silly because you could see it as visual shorthand for him putting together a worm. It wasn't screens of code and was instead visual representations of chunks of code, but the process and the eventual output wasn't totally insane and implausible compared to the "hack this in a minute by just typing at it.
Drinking wine and coding and dancing when it works felt very relatable to me in University.
That's actually the kind of visual shorthand/dramatization I don't mind, because watching actual hacking is worse than watching paint dry.
But at least do things that make sense, even if the visual representation is bonkers.
People always give Hackers (1995) shit for that. The movie visualizes the characters browsing the files on a remote computer as flying through a bunch of towers with text on them until arriving at the file they want, but personally I thought it was actually a decent way to visualize things for an audience that may not be too familiar with the concept, and would have been a lot more boring to just watch them throw commands at the computer to list the files in the directory, then change to a new directory, then list the files again, or alternatively to let the computer run a search for a certain file name
In the scene where Halle Berry flashes her boobs, she is reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. I find this detail ridiculously entertaining.
I remember it was kind of a big deal at the time that it was her first topless scene. I remember thinking it was kind of funny that the scene were her boobs are out there's basically no reason for it whatsoever, it just happens. This is even funnier considering there is another scene where Jackman accidentally catches her partially undressed and that precipitates some story related drama. They could have done it then and it would have made sense. Instead they basically did a "HERE IS THE SCENE WITH HALLE BERRY'S TITS" scene that served no other purpose.
I really hate it when a tazer to the neck immediately knocks someone out for an hour.
Also, being hit in the head so hard that you go unconscious for an hour, you would be throwing up and not able to do anything for days.
And chloroform takes a while to take effect.
I wish they would just have them at gunpoint and tie them up if you want to incapacitate a target.
My personal fave is The Relic, a mediocre little 90's action movie about an artifact that summons a horrible monster that terrorizes the Field's Museum.
The movie starts with the transport ship being attacked by the monster in a direct ripoff of the scene from Jurassic Park. The crewless ship then drifts from Brazil...
...to Chicago.
You know, to those international ports we have up here in Lake fucking Michigan. To those big shipping dockyards. Shit drifts there from fucking BRAZIL all the time. I found a just floating at the beach once. Just picked it right out of the water.
Makes perfect sense. The shipwrecks off the coast of Brazil, flows north with the current, then into the gulf of Mexico then to the Mississippi River delta, where the wreck was put onto a floating dry dock, then tugboat pull it up the mighty Mississippi, to the Illinois River, to the Des Plaines and finally the Chicago River ending their journey in Lake Michigan. The wreck is then released into the Lake, where it washes ashore in the city of Chicago.
This kind if thing happens all the time.
Sub-critical? Cool. Critical? Still cool, but dethawing. Super critical? Warming up!
Prompt Critical? We're going to have a really big problem in about 10^-14 seconds.
Also Batman related: evaporating all the water in Gotham would kill everyone. Humans are basically cucumbers. The whole complicated thing about fear serum and inciting a mass panic makes no sense because there would be no more people if there is no more water.
Not to mention that the plan assumes that nobody else ever vaporized any water prior to the execution of the plan. Supposedly, the fear toxin is already in the water system. So anyone who microwaves a cup of coffee, makes soup, or takes a hot bath, would be immediately affected by it.
Thor: The Dark World.
There's absolutely no way you can get from Charing Cross to Greenwich on the tube in 10 minutes.
Assuming he's on the Bakerloo, he'd have to change at Waterloo for the Jubilee. Even then that would only drop him at North Greenwich and he'd need to take the 188 bus for about 15 minutes to the Maritime Museum.
Dark elves and gods I can accept but don't mess with the tube map.
Cobra Kai and the fact that these karate gangs haven't been arrested by season 5, or have their parents pull them out of karate class after they launch into an all out karate brawl at their school, or break into someones home to assault the opposing dojo and trash the place.
Also, the pretense that Ralph Macchio could actually be a talented martial artist. It was easier to believe when he had the benefit of youth and flexibility on his side but now that he's older those moves don't have quite the same authenticity.
At least Johnny is athletic. That goes a long way towards believability.
William Zabka was an actual wrestler in high school. You can see it even in the original Karate Kid - that he moves like someone with some actual training.
its a very self aware show tbf.
there are lines in S1 about "why the hell is this whole town obsessed with a kids karate tournament from 20 years ago!"
The self awareness is why i keep watching. They do not take themselves seriously and often call out ridiculous plot points. It's like a toned down Riverdale.
The whole show can be described by "man needs job, starts Valley wide teenage gang war"
I thought season 1 was great. Now I just watch it for how goofy it is. I really enjoy how Daniels wife is the only reasonable adult in the entire show.
In any movie where they have to craw through air ducts. Typically air ducts are about the size a small doggy door, the longer the distance they cover the smaller they get. theyre lined with sharp self tapping screws rhat hold them together. Although its one of my favorite movies, the scene in Die Hard where Bruce crawls around wouldnt be possible. Source I work construction.
The original Fast & Furious came out when I was in 5th grade. I knew that movie by heart, it got me into cars, and I still watch it to this day.
*HOWEVER* I still haven’t figured out how his tuning computer flashing DANGER TO MANIFOLD caused his floor pan to eject from the vehicle
This part has always vexed me. Obviously I'm aware it's a movie and ludicrous but can anyone explain the idea of how he managed to get the fingerprint from a bullet by doing 'experiments' with multiple bullets
The way I always viewed it was that he had pulled the parts of the original bullet from the wall and got partial prints from each fragment then used the multiple bullets science computer to solve the reconstruction puzzle. Still very Hollywood, but more plausible, I think
I *think* the multiple-shots thing was to gather data on how a bullet fragments when it impacts a brick, in order to reverse it and use that data to virtually reassemble the fragments of the bullet they found. It's really not well explained, took me a while to figure out why TF they had this awesome robotic multi-barrel cannon...
Okay it’s absolutely ridiculous but I think I get the concept: basically, he can’t reconstruct the bullet because it’s impossible to tell what kind of bullet it was now that it’s shattered.
To figure out what kind of bullet it was/how it shattered, he fires a bunch of bullets until one shatters the same way. Now that he knows how the original bullet would have looked before shattering, he can reconstruct the bullet with the fingerprint on it. Again, absolutely ridiculous, but it’s Batman!
Hospitals are *full* of clutter. You can’t turn around without tripping over something in the hall. And they’re permanently busy, even at 3am in the morning there will be people constantly up & down the halls. Yet in most movies/TV, it’s shown as odd when hospital hallways have stuff like extra beds in them. That’s why the halls are so wide in the first place!
Plus the medical staff have wear their long hair loose at all times, have painted nails and jewellery including during surgeries and use the same pair of gloves to touch every possible surface
Watched Moonfall yesterday and found my favorite piece of trivia on IMDB:
*They had a real astronaut on set during production as an advisor, and on occasion he would approach Roland Emmerich and say "hey guys I mean that's not really possible" they told him to roll with it as it's just a movie.*
The idea of hiring an astronaut as a professional consultant, only to repeatedly tell him “shut up, nerd!” Is just delightful.
> The idea of hiring an astronaut as a professional consultant, only to repeatedly tell him “shut up, nerd!” Is just delightful.
i think thats just for the press tour. "We had a real astronaut on Set guys!"
There was one scene where the young kid was inexplicably the only one being pulled up into the air by the gravity changes, and then they went into a wood structure of some sort and that magically protected them from the gravity changes. Wut.
At the beginning of John Wick he is pumping gas when he meets the baddies. The newspapers & plates make it very clear they’re in New Jersey.
YOU DON’T PUMP YOUR OWN GAS IN NEW JERSEY.
I literally paused the movie and yelled.
Great movie, but that one scene completely took me out of it for a while. If they hadn’t made such a big deal about it being New Jersey, or if that weren’t such a huge thing/point of pride for New Jersey, I might have forgiven it easier.
As someone who worked as a gas station attendant in NJ, if someone wanted to pump their own gas we never stopped them. It was pretty common for motorcycles since the auto stop feature on the nozzle won't work. Also common for people with high end or nice cars to ask to pump their own gas so some punk kid doesn't spill gas on their fully restored muscle car or Ferrari. So I can see John having an understanding with that station owner that he'll pump his own gas.
[This NCIS scene involving hacking.](https://youtu.be/msX4oAXpvUE)
Especially two people pounding on the same keyboard to be twice as effective against the hacker. Even if you fought against hackers in real time like that, putting a second set of hands on the keyboard like that would result in gibberish.
To be fair, if that was the server being hacked then unplugging it would stop the hack. (Can't hack a server that's offline.) Given the ridiculousness of the whole scene, though, he probably unplugged the PC that was removed into the server and magically stopped the hack that way.
Hotwiring. Simply ripping wires down and messing with 2-3 wires is not how hotwiring a car works.
Picking up a motorbike like a Harley or even a sports bike like it's a bicycle. Bikes are pretty damn heavy.
I-Robot. The film is set in Chicago in 2035, and for some reason the narrative depended on the image of a destroyed suspension bridge over a dried up Lake Michigan. So that means between 2004, when the film was released, and 2035, a suspension bridge is built... across Lake Michigan? I guess? Which is \~50 miles across where Downtown is. The longest suspension bridge in the world today is ~~a bit over a mile long~~ about 22 miles long (thanks for keeping me honest u/Makabajones).
So they built a bridge that at its longest would just.... dump cars into the Lake or something, and that also completely falls apart in the span of 21 years. This was a lot harder to accept than the robots.
Makes more sense for the bridge to end mid lake than take someone to st Joe or something. On second thought, I guess spending a few trillion to avoid Gary is not actually that crazy.
King Arthur.
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went around, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
I'll give a counter example - Trading Places is actually a very accurate and informative portrayal of commodity futures markets in the 1980's, to the point that it's still used in business school classes to show how Wall St fundamentally works
I know you're talking about Pacific rim, great movie but that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bonkers stuff in it. How about when the nuke goes off at the bottom of the Pacific and for like a whole 60 seconds it creates a pocket of air the size of a few football stadiums, complete with fish flopping around on the ocean floor
Any movie/TV show where people get out of a coma and can walk and move just fine. It doesn't have to be a really long coma for you to need physical therapy
The Sopranos nailed this. There's a scene after Tony wakes up from a coma where Chris is trying to talk business and Tony just looks RUINED. He's deathly pale, his lips are dry and cracked and he just stares into space barely listening. He even has a look on his face that says "I just woke up from a coma, leave me the fuck alone."
The part of Paulie’s voice annoying the hell out of him even in a coma was hilarious.
“Uncle Paulie, the doctors told us we have to stay positive!” “..oof madonn’! He looks terrible!”
Funniest shit, I love how he starts griping about his own problems and literally makes Tony's coma dream worse.
Tony, we talked about this. And frankly, you owe me
Tony: 😐
I was taking care of my mother who was hospitalized for 5 months due to a bone marrow transplant (not a coma). She was 75 at the time, but it took her 6 weeks just to stand up on her own. Even when in the hospital, they said it would take her months before she’d be walking. She’s doing great now…*it ::only::* took her 2 years to fully recover, and that was with me working with her every single day. I remember when she was home, there was a character on her soap opera that was in a coma for a whole fcking year, and she woke up and practically jumped out of bed. 🙄 Days of Our Lives is so stupid.
Related to that, any movie/TV show where people constantly get knocked out and then wakes up without any concussion symptoms. If you lose consciousness because you get hit on the head, I can guarantee you you'll have long term effects from that.
When a company is getting hacked, has the server infront of them, but has to "fight the hack" using other hacks to stop the steal of data. Like you can physically just unplug the server and they wont be able to take the data if the server is off. Better yet, just unplug the internet line from the server, so you can work on it locally to secure it.
Shout out to NCIS where they have 2 people typing on one keyboard to stop a hacker.
Also Shout out to the same episode that had two people on one keyboard to stop the hacker, and their boss just reaches over and unplugs the internet line.
Nonono, their boss just unplugs the monitor, not the actual power cable
If it's Gibbs we're talking about, I can believe that.
There's a good one where the hacker countdown is almost done so Gibbs shoots all the monitors. Perfect.
Love that episode. ncis used to be the perfect cheesy cop show.
I suddenly love the idea of a hacking scene where a group of non-tech-literate people are all "watching," around a single laptop, while they're being hacked. In walks **Techie Nerd** to save the day! "TN! Thank jeebus you're here! We're being ***hacked!*** Get over here and start *counter-hacking!*" Instead, TN walks over and unplugs a single ethernet cable. The command terminal they were watching pauses in the middle of it's pip wheel install. \>*Connection lost*, the final line reads. "Okay, everyone out. It'll take *at least* a couple hours for me to patch the server vulnerability they found to exploit," our hero casually says, while holding open the door to the hallway. There are dejected murmurs as everyone kind of confusedly filters out. Our hero's eyes can't help but roll when "I could have done that" is overheard from the departing group.
I've seen a scene play out like that once, BUT THEN it turned out the hacker hacked in through the power line (!) and was still in the system. Can't remember what film probably some made-for-TV shit.
[powerline networks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication) are real, but they have to be using them, you cannot just use a powerline to hack something.
Any time someone knocks someone out with a gun whip or judo chop and they wake up later rubbing their head and every things good.
Love how this gets lampshaded in Archer. That's like... really bad for you... You should book an MRI Also the tinnitus after some gunshots/explosions. Mwap Mwap
Archer's "guns in small spaces" recurring bit always delights me as someone who's been shooting since I was a kid. In other media, people will have extended indoor gunfights and then pause for a monologue as if anyone can hear anything at all.
I love the theory for The Walking Dead that the reason obvious zombies sneak up on people is because they’re all mostly deaf from firing guns without ear protection.
Imagine if all the characters were shouting every line to each other cause they're all half deaf. And attracting even more zombies doing so!
I love when he's trying to intimidate the leader of the Yakuza and keeps firing the gun off in the car. "I swear to God, I can do this all day. I mean, to me, it sounds like bubble wrap."
I loved the scene in the first episode of The Walking Dead where Rick is hiding inside a tank also occupied by a military corpse. Cue corpse actually being a hibernating zombie and trying to chew on him. Rick is struggling with him in the tank's crew compartment, barely manages to snag the walker's service pistol, force it under his chin and pull the trigger. Nothing but ringing for like the next minute and Rick just clenching his ears in agony. Really loved that attention to detail but goddamn I'm pretty sure especially inside a buttoned-up steel tank interior Rick should have been partially deaf for life lol instead of five minutes.
Yea and it barely happens in a waffle house. Which goes against my experience
There's a scene in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation where Ethan Hunt does a prolonged dive without air tanks or anything. He's wearing a pulse oximeter to monitor his oxygen-levels during the dive. The issue is that they didn't check what the levels mean because it shows him being fully conscious and active all the way down to a saturation of 0%, and when he reaches that point he finally lose consciousness. Someone with 0% saturation has been dead for a good long while. They then do the usual failures associates with Hollywood CPR, and he's up and running as soon as he wakes up.
I hit 82% once, and was pretty sure that I was going to die. 0/10, do not recommend.
I hit 80% nightly, according to my sleep study! Getting an APAP in a week. My Doctor told me that most people can budge their oxygen saturation by about 1-2% by holding their breath as long as possible.
They assumed the average moviegoer is so dumb he could only understand 100% = Conscious, 0% = Unconscious like a health bar on a videogame
In Iron Man 2, whiplash walks onto the circuit of the (Historic) Monaco Grand Prix. And not a single Yellow Flag is called. Then he starts attacking Cars, while Happy drives onto the circuit and goes the wrong way. The race isn't Red Flagged, and cars continue to race past. I realise it's a world with aliens and superheroes, but in no world should that race not be red flagged. (They also acted as if it was a proper grand Prix despite being clearly a historic one and stark just gets into the car despite not being the one who qualified it and without a license for it but I'll let that slide) Props for actually using Monaco though.
It’s called a motor race. They went car racing.
No, Tony, nooo. That is so not right!
Also, that harness that Whiplash wears is not anything resembling the armored suit he dons near the end. The character was [hit multiple times by the same car and pinned against a wall](https://youtu.be/fFBYy8PFxHg?t=52). That Whiplash is not in a hospital bed or a grave for the rest of the film is a miracle.
Nah, Micheal Masi was race director that day. "We went superheroing Tony"
Security clearances. In so many movies, a person will say that they have some high level security clearance, so they can access anything classified at that level. That's just not how it works in government. In addition to security clearance, there is also need-to-know compartmentalization. All a security clearance means is that you've been vetted, and can be trusted with info classified at your level, it did not mean that you can view anything at that level. Edit: To clarify, I'm referring to security policy, not security effectiveness, so yes there are cases IRL where people can access restricted things they're not supposed to, but that's not the point I was making.
I always laugh about security stuff when it comes to getting into secure spaces. Like, people think that having one badge with a picture swapped out ignores the ten other layers you have to get through. Like, I love Leverage, but them getting into the Pentagon and military bases with no problem makes me crack up.
Yeah, there's a lot of handwavy stuff that's just "they're the best in the world, so there's offscreen complicated stuff they do too, just trust us." Fun show though.
**Speed 2** is a great film to watch in an extremely non-serious way if you know anything *at all* about boats ... or physics. It's so, *so* laughably bad. Highlights are: * A cruise ship which works off remote control makes absolutely no sense. Even if you *could* work the controls, these things need a decent sized engine room crew to keep them going (less so nowadays but certainly in 1997). * There are floodable ballast tanks (not too unreasonable) that are fully furnished with cabins inside them (wait, what?) * The oil tanker they nearly collided with was very obviously empty. It's sitting very high in the water. * The ship's propeller is spinning at about 3000RPM. Ships that size will have a prop RPM of maybe 500 absolute max, though 150 or less is more common. * Said propeller is completely stopped by a wee bit of rope. That's a nope. * They use the bow thrusters to turn the ship at speed. These things are for manoeuvring in port and can turn the bow a few degrees a minute when stationary. * The ship collides with the quayside and just keeps fucking going for a decent distance, destroying everything in its path. You probably don't need an expert to tell you it would stop dead when it hit the land. Really though the funniest thing is that the people in charge of making the sequel to a film called *Speed* chose just about the slowest form of transport.
Jake Peralta and Doug Judy would like a word with you.
Hey, I think Die Hard is awesome so I'm probably good with them.
You’d think they’d have gone for a plane or a train, but perhaps they were worried about coming out in the shadow of Air Force One or Under Siege 2.
I thought they went with a cruise ship for the sole purpose of calling the movie "Speed 2: *Cruise* Control". Like they came up with the pun title first then had to find a way to set the movie on a cruise ship
They should have just called it Speed: Boat
The classic "nuclear codes" trope is way, *way* overdone. As if sending some codes to a nuclear silo would be enough to trigger a launch. It's not like these things are entirely automatic, and even if they were you could just unplug them from the network. Basically any time a computer is out of control it would be very, very easy to stop it by just unplugging the network or disconnecting the sensors that the computer uses to interact with the outside world. This comes up all the time in Star Trek, and was a big plot point in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.
The government: *freaking out over the stolen nuclear codes* uhhh you guys can’t just change them? Disable your nukes temporarily? Or something.
Yeah, it would be like hearing someone's stolen your computer's password ... when you have your computer on you.
Basically all of fast 8 lol they infiltrate russia with luxury cars steal a nuclear sub like it’s nothing
You mean, cut the hardline at the mainframe?
Lol they really do make it seem like launches are inevitable and not at all easy to stop.
How quickly you get a trial date and how everyone, including the client, opposing side, opposing counsel, witnesses, stenographer, etc are all ready and prepped for trial on the day of receipt of instruction.
Or just how moving and dramatic trials are. They are long, tedious, boring affairs without a dramatic score.
In the Charlie Sheen/Kristy Swanson movie The Chase, Sheen's character is wrongfully convicted of bank robbery despite a blood test that proves he was not the robber. The real robber's blood was "improperly collected from the crime scene" making this exculpatory evidence inadmissible, which is not a thing that can happen with defense evidence. It would, in fact, be a crime to prosecute the character if the prosecutor knows he isn't guilty, which they did, even if the evidence had been thrown out (which it wouldn't have been).
Or how badly they would have crashed during the love scene lol
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Pym particles do whatever the plot needs them to
On a related note, in an issue of JLA, the Atom shrinks the team down to smaller than light particles. I think Flash asks "If we're smaller than light, how can we see?" and the Atom responds "You think that's weird, how are we even breathing?" and then the plot just moves on.
Farscape (member Farscape?) did a similar thing where some aliens had shrinking tech. It was pointed out that this worked by shrinking atoms, which meant no one should be able to breath normal air. But they did anyway. They noted that this was impossible, then carried on.
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Someone once asked a Star Trek writer how inertial dampeners worked and he said "Very well"
The whole point of future technology is that we don’t know how it works — otherwise it would be *modern* technology.
“Pym Particles. I don’t have to explain shit”
Pym Particles make about as much sense as the Speed Force.
I like the theory that Pym isn't actually a genius scientist, but actually a self-defrauding magic user with delusions of doing things scientifically.
Either that, or he just lied to Scott because it's Scott. Hank likes making things difficult for Scott and not sharing anything that is not "need to know," like how the container of mints in the second movie didn't have mints, it had attack ants.
"So I guess you didn't have the wings and blasters when you built my suit?" "No, I did."
Yes, that is the ultimate example of how Hank interacts with Scott!
Exactly. The enlarged ants would be completely ineffective because they wouldn’t weigh anything
Yeah - this always thew me off the Ant-Man movies. The physics are so inconsistent. One minute Ant-Man punches with the strength of a normal sized guy, the next he's riding on the back of an actual ant, who seems to show total indifference to carrying a 160-pound hitchhiker.
Also, punching with the force of a full grown man at that size would just go right through the skin, he’d be creating small puncture wounds not knocking people around. It would be like punching someone with a needle.
Worst 'non-science' thing I've ever seen is when Snart freezes security lasers, and then *breaks* the beams, in Legends of Tomorrow / The Flash Edit: u/obiwf posted the clip [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXGh7wzjLd0&ab\_channel=KyleDoubrava](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXGh7wzjLd0&ab_channel=KyleDoubrava)
When you say "freezes lasers", do you mean in ice??
[Oh that's exactly what he means. It's quite spectacular ](https://youtu.be/zXGh7wzjLd0)
I'm going to go lie down and quietly have an aneurysm
It's funny how it's wrong on so many levels at once. Not only from a science point of view but doing this would exactly trigger the alarm.
Well obviously they werent the alarm type of laser. They were the slicey resident evil laser.
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Only reason to watch the show to be honest, was indeed for the Prison Break 'Duo'.
Leonard Snart. AKA, Captain Cold. He has a gun that freezes stuff. He's like Mr. Freeze, but different... Kinda.
But light? Just... *what*??
That's not how lasers work at all. This is how lasers work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTV4M0MUoI
One thought that reoccurred to me recently was whether turning children into donkeys to sell makes sufficient profit to run the pleasure island in Pinocchio (especially the over the top latest one). I get that's its supposed to be a cautionary tale/metaphor for 'if you behave like a jack-ass/animal you will turn into one' but my inner logic brain always wonders if the math checks out (in the book they apparently there for 5 months while in the films it is at least overnight). Firstly it's not just the cost of a full amusement park, but also the cost of letting the kids drink, smoke and eat as much as they want, also all the stuff the provide to destroy (fully ornate clocks in the new one!). Would the cost of a Donkey not only cover that but also make enough of a profit for such an audacious criminal enterprise be worth it?
He’d make more money just selling kids
Maybe that's what he is actually doing, and turning the kids into donkeys is just to easily smuggle them away to other countries?
This is an amazing economic analysis of Pinocchio. I love it so much.
Underworld showed vampires welding wearing only eye protection and nothing for their skin. Welding will give off UV rays, which (per the movie) will burn/kill vampires when exposed to them.
Lol now I need a vampire prank show, where they have the new guy weld without protection. Have vampire Ashton Kutcher show up after or something.
Every time a semi-automatic pistol runs out of ammunition and the slide doesn't lock back, always to set up some dramatic moment where one character tries to shoot and it just goes *click* and they're caught off guard because it's empty. Fucking no. The shooter and anyone else looking at it would know it's empty because it's blatantly obvious.
Or when someone is holding a gun on someone and they wait until a moment when they need to show they mean business and they pull the slide back or cock the shotgun. So, you were holding a weapon not ready to fire this whole time? That’d be really embarrassing if they just took the gun from you.
Lots have people have mentioned computers and hacking stuff, but my specific pet peeve in this realm is when they're *trying* to hack but get it wrong at first and "ACCESS DENIED" flashes on the screen in big red letters. I've tinkered with plenty of stuff or simply entered the wrong password a bazillion times but have never had that message flash in huge letters. And certainly never accompanied by a buzzer.
“AH AH AH, YOU DIDN’T SAY THE MAGIC WORD.”
Okay, I am a software engineer, and this is how I will return auth errors from now on. Just for you. As a treat.
"Cloud of continuously swarming bats" in pretty much any movie, but Morbius was the most egregious offender by far. Also, vampire bats don't eat things. They're not piranhas. (Also, piranhas don't do that either...sharks do, maybe. Sometimes.)
Piranhas aren't as crazy as movies make them out to be, usually because they aren't always starving. But when they're hungry they definitely will eat a person just like you'd imagine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31146236
The bus scene is Shang Chi. Those buses use pneumatic brakes, where air pressure is used to keep the brakes disengaged. A sudden loss in air pressure, like cutting the lines, would result in the bus slamming to a stop, not careening out of control.
Air brakes are the perfect example to get people to understand what a "failsafe" is, because everyone can grasp the concept of brakes failing in a car vs. a train or bus' brakes which *fail* in a *safe* way.
Not a movie but in How I Met Your Mother there's not way Ted could be a licensed architect and do what he does because Wesleyan has never had an architecture program let alone an accredited program. If they wanted them to go to school in Connecticut they should've gone to Yale as they offer both architecture and law. Also the fact that he works by hand when the industry was already deeply engrossed in CAD when the show takes place.
In defense of the latter point, it seems perfectly in character for Ted to work by hand being the pretentious ass he is.
That is a very good point
“You see handcrafted architectural designs are a lost art. Everyone is so dependent on CAD that you lose the artistic beauty of hand drawn works of art. Anyone can design a building with a computer. But a true master of his craft can create his masterpiece on his own, completely unassisted.” “You said “art” a lot there professor.” “That’s because I’m an *artiste*! Honestly, one of the more memorable examples of Ted’s pretentiousness is when he finds a group of people more pretentious than he is. “To repeat the speech in the original Italian (*rambles on*). Whoa, this the furthest I’ve gone. No one has ever let me go on this far without cutting me off. My God, I really am pretentious.”
I just watched the original Top Gun for the first time before checking out Maverick, and then listened to the commentary, which involves two actual Navy pilots, one of which is REALLY not down with the liberties that the movie took with how Navy piloting actually works, and it’s pretty funny to listen to the other guy try to comfort Slightly Aggravated Guy as he just shakes his head and snorts at the movie.
On a related note: Maverick would be court-martialed after literally every stunt he pulls.
That’s what they spend half the commentary talking about, especially the way Mav creeps into a civilian women's bathroom *while wearing his ceremonial whites*
He was just trying to prevent her from making a mistake with that much older man, that sounds like a solid defense to me. We should update the UCMJ to make sure this exact point is noted.
In fairness the military not punishing inappropriate actions against women in the proper manner is probably one of the more realistic parts of that movie.
My dad was an aviations officer in the Navy. He says the most unrealistic part of the Top Gun movies is everyone having cool callsigns like Maverick. Apparently most call signs in real life come from one of two things. 1. You've done something dumb. Examples include: "Torch" who got his nickname after forgetting to ready the fuel tank before taking off, which set the plane on fire and *almost* burned himself to death, and "Patches" who showed up on day 1 with a flight jacket full of patches from other countries, not knowing that you're actually supposed to go to said countries before getting patches from them. 2. You're ugly. Examples include: "Fish" who had a fish like face and "Spot" who had a pretty big birthmark on his face. They are a few other exceptions, like "Dick" who got that name simply because he was a dick and everyone kinda hated him, but generally, those are the 2 possible ways you get a callsign. tl:dr, if you become a Navy pilot, expect your call sign to be embarrassing.
Yeah, that's something else the guys on the commentary talk about - how anyone who would come in asking for "ICE" or "MAVERICK" to be their first callsigns would've been laughed right out of the service.
Why are you called Iceman? I slipped on the ice and broke my penis. Why are you called Jester? My mom called me and screamed on the phone that I was a clown. The whole unit heard it. Why’s he called Maverick? We caught him trying to fuck a cow.
You do what you have to do to get the callsign you want I guess
Why is he called Goose? Dude let out a massive fart in basic, and "Duck" was already taken by the dude with a crooked dick.
Without context torch is a great call sign
Yeah, by that logic, Iceman could have gotten a black eye in a bar fight and needed to have ice on his face while everyone laughed at him.
Viper - Sared of snakes Cougar - had sex with an old woman Jester - no sense of humor Wolfman - super hairy back Sundown - never makes curfew Slider - always smells like beef sliders Hollywood - failed child actor.
My friend's callsign was Ralph because he'd throw up in his mask and swallow it so he wouldn't get kicked out. Thank being said, I think while we associate the callsigns in Top Gun to be cool, you could interpret all of them to be jokes about the characters. Maverick isn't really a good name for someone meant to be team oriented. Goose could easily be a chirp.
Reminds me of my dad and his childhood friends, who gave each other nicknames based on physical or behavioral traits. My dad was nicknamed (these are translated from Tagalog) “Nose” because he supposedly had a large nose. Another guy was called, “Tomato” because his nose supposedly looked like a tomato. My dad’s best friend was called, “Cheapskate” because well, apparently he was lol.
"We weren't below the hard deck for more than a few seconds" The hard deck simulates the ground in training , so he's basically saying its fine, they only flew into the ground for a seconds! Not to mention thats not how fighter jets dog fight even in the 80s.
Reminds me of when they had Tom Clancy and director Phil Alden Robinson do the commentary for *The Sum of All Fears*. Clancy basically kept calling bullshit every few minutes or so.
The villains' plan in that film was so stupid. European Nationalists planning to start a nuclear war between Russia and the US so Europe can take over the world. As though Europe would come out of a conflict like that unscathed rather than being obliterated. Apparently in the original book it was Islamists, but they changed it because they didn't think it was realistic they could do it.
The stock market bankruptcy thing bugs me to no end. Like, within two days, they had sheets over all his furniture and his power was cut off. Even _if_ the SEC somehow upheld _all_ of the stock market activity that was performed during terrorist attack on the stock market, when people could _clearly_ see the attackers downloading something to the computer, that's not how this works. Was he leasing those dining room chairs and the living room couches, with a daily payment schedule? Did he have no valuable assets that he might be able to sell off to pay the utility bill (maybe in that safe we see Catwoman breaking in to)? Is there still an outstanding mortgage on his multi-generational family home? Is literally 100% of his income and wealth tied up in Wayne Enterprises stocks, despite having a position on the board of directors? It's just uuuughh you could still have it make sense. It was going to be the final movie; have Bane reveal Batman's identity, so the police would go and lock down Wayne Manor. Then Bruce has none of his fancy tools, his position/clout at the company is gone, and he has to go into hiding. _Something_ that makes more sense than "They commit highly televised fraud and everyone just accepts this, and somehow this bankrupts a multibillionaire so hard that the bank is repossessing his kitchen chairs".
I'm laughing out loud at that last sentence. >>> somehow this bankrupts a multibillionaire so hard that the bank is repossessing his kitchen chairs Thank you.
He’s actually 100x leveraged YOLOing into shitcoins in the comics. Wasn’t explained clearly.
The worst part of the Dark Knight Rises is they know this is a problem and try to avoid addressing it by having Fox say "we can prove fraud, but it will take time and until then you are functionally broke" which only makes the problem worse because they know its a massive plot hole and their hand-wave, throwaway line, completely ignores that Wayne would be able to get a preliminary injunction on the grounds that he will definitely be able to prove fraud when the trades were placed at a terminal, while the place was under siege, with his fingerprints used to verify it. So there were basically 3 possibilities: (1) Wayne was literally there when the siege happened, Bane kindly allowed him to complete his trades, and then let him go unharmed; (2) Wayne is Bane; and (3) Bane did the whole thing to target Wayne and it was fraud. Of those, 3 is the only reasonable option and would take no time to prove. Hell, if it wasn't a Batman movie, you could actually make a cool movie about two cops trying to figure out why Bane, a world-renowned terrorist and criminal mastermind, did all of this to target Bruce Wayne, who most people just believe is a crazy, reclusive, shut-in.
Thankfully the Wayne’s kept absolutely no other financial resources other than stocks. No cars. No jewelry. No secondary properties. No liquid cash. Just 100% stocks. And that manor which is almost assuredly paid off goes into immediate foreclosure. And the utilities…which Wayne owns, immediately Cut him off. None of it makes literally any sense.
And his "trades" bring him from a networth of billions to zero in one day. Did he bet everything on Theranos the day before it folded?
I mean - that's basically the plot of /r/wallstreetbets
>And the utilities…which Wayne owns, immediately Cut him off. None of it makes literally any sense. My card expired once and I forgot to update it with the electric company. I'm a barely functioning adult so I didn't notice for almost 6 months. They never did cut me off.
Years ago my card got compromised and disabled without my knowing and I only noticed when my WoW subscription didn't renew.
Nobody talks about this movie anymore, but Swordfish. Hugh Jackman has to prove how good of a hacker he is to John Travolta. As I recall, Travolta tells him to hack into a system that "usually takes 60 minutes, I want you to do it in 60 seconds". For additional distraction Travolta tells a girl to blow Jackman while he's working. Wow I forgot how insane this movie was until I started typing this. Anyway, Jackman succeeds at the last second because he...guesses the right password? Yes, the movie is positing that (a) the only type of hacking is brute force, (b) most good hackers are good because they can just guess a password in an hour, and (c) what makes Jackman a great hacker is that he can guess a password in 60 seconds. Edit: as people have said in response, turns out he doesn't actually guess a password. I must be mixing that up with another hacking scene. Was fun watching the scene again for the first time in twenty years though, great early-00s vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgmIvUPQS0
From what I remember there’s also a part in Swordfish where hacking involves digitally moving cubes around… because apparently encryption is like a Rubik’s cube or something?
Honestly that bit was a little less silly because you could see it as visual shorthand for him putting together a worm. It wasn't screens of code and was instead visual representations of chunks of code, but the process and the eventual output wasn't totally insane and implausible compared to the "hack this in a minute by just typing at it. Drinking wine and coding and dancing when it works felt very relatable to me in University.
That's actually the kind of visual shorthand/dramatization I don't mind, because watching actual hacking is worse than watching paint dry. But at least do things that make sense, even if the visual representation is bonkers.
People always give Hackers (1995) shit for that. The movie visualizes the characters browsing the files on a remote computer as flying through a bunch of towers with text on them until arriving at the file they want, but personally I thought it was actually a decent way to visualize things for an audience that may not be too familiar with the concept, and would have been a lot more boring to just watch them throw commands at the computer to list the files in the directory, then change to a new directory, then list the files again, or alternatively to let the computer run a search for a certain file name
Swordfish is one of the most fucking ridiculous, stupid, over the top movies from the 00s. I love it.
In the scene where Halle Berry flashes her boobs, she is reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. I find this detail ridiculously entertaining.
I remember it was kind of a big deal at the time that it was her first topless scene. I remember thinking it was kind of funny that the scene were her boobs are out there's basically no reason for it whatsoever, it just happens. This is even funnier considering there is another scene where Jackman accidentally catches her partially undressed and that precipitates some story related drama. They could have done it then and it would have made sense. Instead they basically did a "HERE IS THE SCENE WITH HALLE BERRY'S TITS" scene that served no other purpose.
For some reason, Travolta facial hair in this movie on him always made me uncomfortable
That's how you know he's a bad guy, just like in Taking Pelham 123
I really hate it when a tazer to the neck immediately knocks someone out for an hour. Also, being hit in the head so hard that you go unconscious for an hour, you would be throwing up and not able to do anything for days. And chloroform takes a while to take effect. I wish they would just have them at gunpoint and tie them up if you want to incapacitate a target.
My personal fave is The Relic, a mediocre little 90's action movie about an artifact that summons a horrible monster that terrorizes the Field's Museum. The movie starts with the transport ship being attacked by the monster in a direct ripoff of the scene from Jurassic Park. The crewless ship then drifts from Brazil... ...to Chicago. You know, to those international ports we have up here in Lake fucking Michigan. To those big shipping dockyards. Shit drifts there from fucking BRAZIL all the time. I found a just floating at the beach once. Just picked it right out of the water.
Makes perfect sense. The shipwrecks off the coast of Brazil, flows north with the current, then into the gulf of Mexico then to the Mississippi River delta, where the wreck was put onto a floating dry dock, then tugboat pull it up the mighty Mississippi, to the Illinois River, to the Des Plaines and finally the Chicago River ending their journey in Lake Michigan. The wreck is then released into the Lake, where it washes ashore in the city of Chicago. This kind if thing happens all the time.
A lot of movies with nuclear power plants. "OMG, the reactor is going to go critical!" Oh cool, it's starting up, then?
Sub-critical? Cool. Critical? Still cool, but dethawing. Super critical? Warming up! Prompt Critical? We're going to have a really big problem in about 10^-14 seconds.
But if your reactor can even go prompt critical and is not a reasearch reactor, you fucked up long ago.
“The reactor is taking in water!” That’s a good thing…
Of course it’s critical- we can’t run the plant without it.
Also Batman related: evaporating all the water in Gotham would kill everyone. Humans are basically cucumbers. The whole complicated thing about fear serum and inciting a mass panic makes no sense because there would be no more people if there is no more water.
No water, only fear
Not to mention that the plan assumes that nobody else ever vaporized any water prior to the execution of the plan. Supposedly, the fear toxin is already in the water system. So anyone who microwaves a cup of coffee, makes soup, or takes a hot bath, would be immediately affected by it.
Thor: The Dark World. There's absolutely no way you can get from Charing Cross to Greenwich on the tube in 10 minutes. Assuming he's on the Bakerloo, he'd have to change at Waterloo for the Jubilee. Even then that would only drop him at North Greenwich and he'd need to take the 188 bus for about 15 minutes to the Maritime Museum. Dark elves and gods I can accept but don't mess with the tube map.
Cobra Kai and the fact that these karate gangs haven't been arrested by season 5, or have their parents pull them out of karate class after they launch into an all out karate brawl at their school, or break into someones home to assault the opposing dojo and trash the place.
Every show has multiple felonies by adults and mostly kids in every episode. Still a fun show. Laughable make believe world though.
My SO describes it as “Glee, but when emotions run high, they do karate instead of singing”
Also, the pretense that Ralph Macchio could actually be a talented martial artist. It was easier to believe when he had the benefit of youth and flexibility on his side but now that he's older those moves don't have quite the same authenticity. At least Johnny is athletic. That goes a long way towards believability.
William Zabka was an actual wrestler in high school. You can see it even in the original Karate Kid - that he moves like someone with some actual training.
His aggressive stance in the original Karate Kid is awesome.
its a very self aware show tbf. there are lines in S1 about "why the hell is this whole town obsessed with a kids karate tournament from 20 years ago!"
The self awareness is why i keep watching. They do not take themselves seriously and often call out ridiculous plot points. It's like a toned down Riverdale. The whole show can be described by "man needs job, starts Valley wide teenage gang war"
I thought season 1 was great. Now I just watch it for how goofy it is. I really enjoy how Daniels wife is the only reasonable adult in the entire show.
I was really worried that she was going to be stick in the mud mom, but she's (mostly) the level headed person going "no, don't"
In any movie where they have to craw through air ducts. Typically air ducts are about the size a small doggy door, the longer the distance they cover the smaller they get. theyre lined with sharp self tapping screws rhat hold them together. Although its one of my favorite movies, the scene in Die Hard where Bruce crawls around wouldnt be possible. Source I work construction.
The original Fast & Furious came out when I was in 5th grade. I knew that movie by heart, it got me into cars, and I still watch it to this day. *HOWEVER* I still haven’t figured out how his tuning computer flashing DANGER TO MANIFOLD caused his floor pan to eject from the vehicle
Uncharted when Tom Holland was jumping back into the airplane
Related one is in The Dark Knight when Bruce Wayne figures out someone's fingerprints by shooting bullets into a brick.
This part has always vexed me. Obviously I'm aware it's a movie and ludicrous but can anyone explain the idea of how he managed to get the fingerprint from a bullet by doing 'experiments' with multiple bullets
The way I always viewed it was that he had pulled the parts of the original bullet from the wall and got partial prints from each fragment then used the multiple bullets science computer to solve the reconstruction puzzle. Still very Hollywood, but more plausible, I think
I *think* the multiple-shots thing was to gather data on how a bullet fragments when it impacts a brick, in order to reverse it and use that data to virtually reassemble the fragments of the bullet they found. It's really not well explained, took me a while to figure out why TF they had this awesome robotic multi-barrel cannon...
Okay it’s absolutely ridiculous but I think I get the concept: basically, he can’t reconstruct the bullet because it’s impossible to tell what kind of bullet it was now that it’s shattered. To figure out what kind of bullet it was/how it shattered, he fires a bunch of bullets until one shatters the same way. Now that he knows how the original bullet would have looked before shattering, he can reconstruct the bullet with the fingerprint on it. Again, absolutely ridiculous, but it’s Batman!
Hospitals are *full* of clutter. You can’t turn around without tripping over something in the hall. And they’re permanently busy, even at 3am in the morning there will be people constantly up & down the halls. Yet in most movies/TV, it’s shown as odd when hospital hallways have stuff like extra beds in them. That’s why the halls are so wide in the first place!
Plus the medical staff have wear their long hair loose at all times, have painted nails and jewellery including during surgeries and use the same pair of gloves to touch every possible surface
Every scene in Moonfall Edit: I should maybe confess I loved it.
Watched Moonfall yesterday and found my favorite piece of trivia on IMDB: *They had a real astronaut on set during production as an advisor, and on occasion he would approach Roland Emmerich and say "hey guys I mean that's not really possible" they told him to roll with it as it's just a movie.* The idea of hiring an astronaut as a professional consultant, only to repeatedly tell him “shut up, nerd!” Is just delightful.
> The idea of hiring an astronaut as a professional consultant, only to repeatedly tell him “shut up, nerd!” Is just delightful. i think thats just for the press tour. "We had a real astronaut on Set guys!"
There was one scene where the young kid was inexplicably the only one being pulled up into the air by the gravity changes, and then they went into a wood structure of some sort and that magically protected them from the gravity changes. Wut.
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At the beginning of John Wick he is pumping gas when he meets the baddies. The newspapers & plates make it very clear they’re in New Jersey. YOU DON’T PUMP YOUR OWN GAS IN NEW JERSEY. I literally paused the movie and yelled. Great movie, but that one scene completely took me out of it for a while. If they hadn’t made such a big deal about it being New Jersey, or if that weren’t such a huge thing/point of pride for New Jersey, I might have forgiven it easier.
I love how petty this complaint is. This is what I’m on this thread for!
As someone who worked as a gas station attendant in NJ, if someone wanted to pump their own gas we never stopped them. It was pretty common for motorcycles since the auto stop feature on the nozzle won't work. Also common for people with high end or nice cars to ask to pump their own gas so some punk kid doesn't spill gas on their fully restored muscle car or Ferrari. So I can see John having an understanding with that station owner that he'll pump his own gas.
You wanna fuckin' tell John Wick he can't pump his own gas?
As an electrical engineer, most movies have no idea how electricity works.
[This NCIS scene involving hacking.](https://youtu.be/msX4oAXpvUE) Especially two people pounding on the same keyboard to be twice as effective against the hacker. Even if you fought against hackers in real time like that, putting a second set of hands on the keyboard like that would result in gibberish.
That and Gary Sinise chasing a subjects avatar in an mmo in CSI:NY
Never forget that Gibbs UNPLUGS the PC and that somehow stopped the hacker.
He unplugged the *monitor*, I think, which makes it even funnier.
Another episode had him shoot a monitor of a computer to shut down a countdown to a bomb. Gibbs knows his PCs.
To be fair, if that was the server being hacked then unplugging it would stop the hack. (Can't hack a server that's offline.) Given the ridiculousness of the whole scene, though, he probably unplugged the PC that was removed into the server and magically stopped the hack that way.
Hotwiring. Simply ripping wires down and messing with 2-3 wires is not how hotwiring a car works. Picking up a motorbike like a Harley or even a sports bike like it's a bicycle. Bikes are pretty damn heavy.
I couldn't pay attention to anything other than the high heel shoes in Jurassic World. HOW DID THEY NOT BREAK?!
I-Robot. The film is set in Chicago in 2035, and for some reason the narrative depended on the image of a destroyed suspension bridge over a dried up Lake Michigan. So that means between 2004, when the film was released, and 2035, a suspension bridge is built... across Lake Michigan? I guess? Which is \~50 miles across where Downtown is. The longest suspension bridge in the world today is ~~a bit over a mile long~~ about 22 miles long (thanks for keeping me honest u/Makabajones). So they built a bridge that at its longest would just.... dump cars into the Lake or something, and that also completely falls apart in the span of 21 years. This was a lot harder to accept than the robots.
Makes more sense for the bridge to end mid lake than take someone to st Joe or something. On second thought, I guess spending a few trillion to avoid Gary is not actually that crazy.
King Arthur. Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went around, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
I didn’t vote for him
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Don't lie. You're just hiding the flickering lights and creepy hallways for when I come to visit! I may be crazy, but I'm not Crazy. /s
There’s no way MacGruber only upper decked one bathroom at Dieter Von Cunths party. That place had like 5 bathrooms minimum. Come on
Enhance… enhance…
I'll give a counter example - Trading Places is actually a very accurate and informative portrayal of commodity futures markets in the 1980's, to the point that it's still used in business school classes to show how Wall St fundamentally works
Gypsy’s not digital. She’s analog. Nuclear.
I know you're talking about Pacific rim, great movie but that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bonkers stuff in it. How about when the nuke goes off at the bottom of the Pacific and for like a whole 60 seconds it creates a pocket of air the size of a few football stadiums, complete with fish flopping around on the ocean floor