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and a lot of tv show car scenes ate filmed on a lowbed tow truck. once you notice the height difference you can’t really unsee it.
In The Shining, when the family is being given a tour of the hotel fairly early in the movie, they get shown the walk in fridge. There is a shot of the door to the fridge from the hallway and then a cut to a shot from the back of the fridge looking toward the door. The hinges are on opposite sides between the two shot. Immersion ruined.
When the movie is filmed at 27 frames per second instead of 26. Ugh.
What pisses me of is when major studios make an entire show about a specific profession but cant be bothered to consult anyone from said profession
Is this a jab at Armageddon?
No, Blade Runner. It’s quite obvious that they didn’t bother to talk to a single actual replicant hunter when writing that script.
My biggest pet peeve is how fucking rude people are getting off the phone in movies. They just hang up.
I mean I yearn for that world but am painfully aware that it doesn’t exist.
not in the movie Phone Booth
Scientists doing everything and coming up with ideas on their own without any assistants or collaboration. They are also somehow mad genius experts on every field, like they are also physicist, biologist and engineer all in one. Most scientists in real life are specialist because it is impossible to be a generalist. There are also no such thing as home laboratories. You can’t work in an uncontrolled and unregulated environment because it affects not just results of experiments, but health and safety is a major issue if things go awry.
“But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!”
‘Stand back, I’m an orthodontist.’
“Over and Out”. No, it’s either “Over” or “Out”.
Close your fucking dust cover.
You salute when wearing a hat.
TIL
Texting someone? This is the first time you’re doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.Lately, I find weather maddening. It’s either a non-issue mid-season light sweater weather, extremely consistent across all movies and films ever made, unless it’s a monsoon like downpour -but everyone is immediately dry unless it’s a plot point. Rarely, it snows, a snows that never settles, never gives any problems, never freezes anyone’s hands.
I’ll go the other way with this – sunglasses. Yeah of course they protect your eyes, yes of course people everywhere should be wearing them in summer.
But they don’t where I’m from. People just squint and avoid the sunlight. People wearing sunglasses have skeevy undertones.
The number of people in arctic conditions without head coverings is maddening.
No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles or puts the key in. There is always a motorcycle with a helmet sitting on it with the key inside.
Similarly but even more nerdy is a car making one swerve on dirt, that requires switching traction control off. Top Gear did a bit on it where they were hired to record a chase scene for a movie, and insisted on the following shot;
“You have to hold the mode button for ten seconds to turn off Traction Control!”
cue ten quiet seconds of holding the button
When two people state at each other while talking for several minutes and one of them is driving.
I know someone who does this IRL. It’s terrifying being in a car with them.
The way they insert IVs. Your veins don’t run perpendicular.
crime is investigated and doctors treat people
Your purse was stolen? We’ll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.
The news is complicit here too.
BBC news: “Is your local phone shop guy part of an international criminal gang network? Let’s hunt him down on the street and ask him in whatever broken english he has.”
Meanwhile, a guy is actually walking around with a machete at the hospital near my work because he came to finish off a guy he’d wounded earlier (I shit you not). Not even a mention. A small clipping in a local newspaper.
And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.
It’s ok, just slouch down in the seat.
PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.
Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.
And while we’re at it… in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?
I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn’t make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn’t move correctly.
And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?
Actually those things really are ubiquitous in NYC and environs.
we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.
Someone pointed this out to me once, and now I can’t unsee it. It drives me mad. Every cup, every scene… Weightless and fake.
PUT SOMETHING IN THE DAMN CUPS
So what, you’re telling me you don’t tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
Happy family time and joined breakfast with bacon and cereal every morning.
They don’t get fat though since they never eat the breakfast.
