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When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies
As a siren enthusiast, it gets old hearing the same few stock sounds used for civil defense sirens in films. You'll get British WW2 siren sounds despite the movie taking place in the US, or they'll show a siren but with audio from an entirely different siren. Even the recent Twisters movie even got it wrong, showing an American Signal Tempest-121 mechanical siren going off with audio from a Whelen electronic speaker siren.
they do the same thing with phone rings.
It's practically all one specific wall mount model, only the problem is that it was dubbed from a record recording, so it has warble on it. And you can very clearly hear it.
Try working in cyber security.
"I'm going to build a GUI in Visual Basic"
This is the kind of rant I came here for
There's a few reasons for this, firing the real siren on set is not practical due to the audio levels, they could maybe record it separately but that's an extra thing to do, and why bother when "air_raid_siren_004.wav" is right there? Also audiences are used to "air_raid_siren_004.wav" and they'll know immediately what it's supposed to be, if you played the real sounds and it's too unusual, it'll make the audience think about it and take them out of the story. There's so much stuff like this I'm filmmaking where if you stop to think about it critically for a second it doesn't make sense, but that's the point they don't want you thinking about that, they want you thinking about the story and the characters. I know that's frustrating when it's your topic but I'm sure you're glad they do it like this in any other case.
I'm well aware of why they don't use the actual sounds, I don't expect them to actually go out of their way to get recordings for it lol. It's just very noticeable when you're familiar with the sirens.
I hear you! I work in the field and felt like giving context, it's hard to know what's common knowledge and not sometimes. The main point is, a lot of this stuff isn't "mistakes" but either deliberate so as not to distract or just way more convenient for the production pipeline.
You don't understand how awful it is to have studied both physics and history. Everything is so horribly misrepresented everywhere all the time. I'm losing it
Hey, these sharks aren't going to fuck themselves, buddy, get back to work.
That weed won't smoke itself either
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Psych background, it's bad too but nothing makes me scream more than the "you only use 10% of the brain" crap. When that movie all about that came out I absolutely lost it.
ugh, i feel like twice a week im having to tell people "using one hundred percent of your brain is called a fucking seizure"
We only use 10% of our brain, just like a traffic light only uses 1/3 of its lamps.
Maybe the movie was about epilepsy ?
We have unlocked you full potential... seizures.
Reminds me of the scene in Friends when Rachel looks Ross dead in the eye and says Jurassic Park could have happened and his entire brain goes into meltdown
I've got a chemistry degree and I do reenactment and how average people lived throughout history is a big hobby of mine.
Media hurts me so much.
Just once I would like a movie about a computer person that doesn’t focus on their over-exaggerated autism
The Matrix (1999)
Every character in the matrix has turboautism.
The Net with Sandra Bullocksies.
Or at the very least make it some different type of autism expression, give me the tired autist who is very aware of social situations but doesn't give a shit anymore. Or even manic goblin autist who has found stability in a form of controlled chaos, no I don't mean in a manic pixie dream girl sorta way I mean they shot put a fucken wrench through a wall to kill a fly that's been annoying them for the last 40 minutes sorta way.
the only good one i know is abed from community
Hang on to your butts!
Or drugs. I was a heavy drug addict for a good portion of my life and it’s so annoying how directors will be so up their own ass about “research” but can’t even do a simple google search to see the difference between a meth and a crack pipe (crack pipes are just a glass tube with steel wool shoved in one end. Meth pipes are the ones with the bowl on the end of the stem.) or how pupils react to opiates vs stimulants. Not every fucking drug makes them big.
The first movie I saw where the character does a shot and overdoses on heroin and if zooms in on her face and her pupils turn to pinpoints I was amazed lol. (The plane movie with Denzel Washington)
I know it’s not a huge deal and people that haven’t done hard drugs (which I understand is most people lol) it just bothers me how easy it is to take 5 seconds to do a google search on the directors phone for accuracy
I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can't outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don't follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.
lol yup one thing I can't ignore are helicopter and plane sounds. There could be an actual friggin blackhawk landing (Jack Ryan is a perfect example) and they edit in incorrect sounds!
They probably didn't even record any sounds when they shot the scene.
I especially hate it when you see a Warthog firing the old Avenger and they've made it sound like a slightly more rapid version of the original Gatling Gun. So underwhelming.
The hacking scene in the Matrix sequel is actually pretty accurate.
“My Cousin Vinny” is almost entirely realistic as far as the courtroom scenes.
A mobster reported that Joe Pesci generally plays a very accurate gangster when he plays a gangster in movies. Most of the time, he’s this weirdly dark violent loose cannon outlier, because they can’t just make every character a psychopath and have people enjoy watching the movie, but he’s the one that is playing the role accurately.
When “King of the Hill” showed Bobby doing stage magic, it was all real magic tricks with his hands and props positioned so that he’d be able to really do the things he was showing.
The corpsman scene in “Captain Phillips” was very legit.
Everything else is a bunch of crap.
There’s also this stuff: https://youtube.com/@Insider
The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang as she communicates with the tower.
It usually doesn't take much work to get stuff like that right.
And yet, so many pieces of media still get it wrong
What's the vector, Victor
Nmap In The Movies
Also, WarGames was very accurate, except for the "WOPR having artificial general intelligence" part.
nmaps a good choice to hit when your manager walks by. Always good to have it run in a loop on a terminal you can quickly tab over to from YouTube.
I've been working for Microsoft for the last two years now and have committed maybe 250 lines of code in total. Ask Me Anything.
When the Hollywood movie shows anything related to your home country / language
insert any European watching Eurotrip, where London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome are all shot in Prague
i mean, to be fair basically no movie is shot in the place where it's plot originated. Same for TV shows.
Oh yes for sure, this particular example is just pretty extreme, I think that might be part of why it wasn't as well known in Europe? I only saw it years later myself. Maybe it's just that Europeans weren't as keen to laugh at their own stereotypes. Also I had just watched it the night before so the example was fresh in my mind. To be clear I laughed my as off watching it, it's all good (though I do wonder if some of the humour would still fly today).
When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.