• Chronic_Intermission@lemmy.world
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    I love that he has a bell to ring, presumably when he gives up on a movie so he can announce to the room when he’s going to get up and walk away from it. His girlfriend/wife already knows what’s going to happen. It’s been 10 years, and he still hasn’t picked up what she’s putting down when she asks if he wants to watch Netflix and chill.

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    Yeah, yall laugh but thats some pretty damn specialist knowledge there

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    What, are we supposed to believe there is a parallel universe where Lego produced lime green slopes in the 1980s? Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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      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.

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        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!

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          They probably didn’t even record any sounds when they shot the scene.

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          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.

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          I hate it when they have a modern fighter jet firing it’s guns and it sounds like “thunka thunka thunka thunka”.

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              They do still mount guns on most. Notable examples of gunless fighters I can think of are the F-117 Nighthawk and the F-4 Phantom. F-117s weren’t really fighters, and got the F designation to lure in crazy fighter jocks. F-4s were later fitted with a gun pod, and then (IIRC) retrofitted with a gun.

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      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

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      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

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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.

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        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

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        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.

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        I mean for history half of Wikipedia is garbage western liberal based narratives. Movies are at least wrong for entertainment.

        Wikipedia is usually pretty good for math and science at least. So there is that. And then movies are just wrong to a comical degree. The good will hunting hallway proof still annoys me.

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          half of Wikipedia is garbage western liberal based narratives

          Not what we were talking about, but okay. Are you sure you are not the one who’s suffering from narratives?

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            Tankies never miss a good opportunity to bitch about liberals, even when it’s not relevant to the discussion at all whatsoever.

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              What do communists hate more than anything? A decentralized system where the people consuming the product are the ones creating the product, and it’s all governed transparently by the people involved getting together and having councils about what’s going to happen.

              What do communists love? Putin and the way he operates the Russian government, internally and geopolitically.

              It’s just basic common sense, basically. Oh also they love calling people “bootlickers” if they don’t agree with any of the above. It’s all completely sensible.

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      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

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        The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang as she communicates with the tower.

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          Hm… she uses some of the right words, but it’s not accurate to how a pilot would speak. There’s way too many words.

          “Island approach, IG99 checking in VFR on top, over” would be “Island approach IG99 inbound”

          “Island tower” would still be “Island approach,” and “Island tower, this is IG99 requesting vectors to the initial, over” would be “Island approach, IG99 inbound, you there?” or something.

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          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.

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            Nmap isn’t encouraged where I work. I ran it once on a customer’s IP a couple months when I first started here. The firewall interpreted it as an attack, and blocked us for 20 mins. Except we had a BOVPN connection to them, so 20mins never reset because it thought we kept hitting it. Since we needed to hit it to change the setting manually, it was pretty annoying to fix, though one of our guys managed about 5-6 hours later that night.

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            How long will Win 10 IoT be viable for gaming and home use?

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        (BTW, the corpsman scene leaves me sobbing, every time, no exceptions.)

        Gun related scenes are top notch in John Wick. I love how real shit happens like he loses ammo count or jams, instantly remedies the situation. And believe this, plenty of gun nuts counted for him and I’ve never heard anyone call out an inaccuracy.

        Also like how there’s nothing fancy. For example, look at what the The Sommelier recommends; Glock pistols, AR-15 rifle and a Benelli for a shotgun. No idea how Hollywood resisted gimmicky bullshit, but I would have screamed if they came with a funky looking KelTec.

        The action, morseo in the first movie, is on the bleeding edge of believable. I’m sure by now everyone who has any interest has seen Keanu practice guns, and before that martial arts for *The Matrix".

        Hard to overstate how difficult all that is. Targeting while moving is hell, worst with a pistol, but even a shotgun isn’t much better. Notice how he reloads the shotgun before he’s out of ammo, doesn’t have to pump it? You can do the same with a semi-auto anything, don’t shoot the last round before reloading.

        I could train like that for weeks and never come close. I can ping every piece of steel, over and over, but even at a creeping walk? LOL, nope. Fuck me, I can’t even master the violin or combat load with a 12-gauge. Hmmm, I’m off tomorrow and have plenty of shells.

        EDIT: Speaking of jams, there’s an unscripted “stovepipe” in The Way of The Gun that Benecio del Toro clears with a textbook move. I’ve managed to do that once I saw it!

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    I’m this way with knitting VS crochet, as well as watching if someone is actually knitting or “knitting.”

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    Uh, yeah, well, whenever you see something like that in a Stephen King movie…Derry’s evil did it.