Annoying things about TV/Movies

Yeah, i don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor carry a realistic-looking weighty suitcase.

I watched them film an episode in a marina for a new tv show several years ago. The actors were meant to be setting out to cross the ocean in a sailboat. They were all walking down the float with huge suitcases swinging from their hands. Not only were the suitcases obviously empty, but sailors don’t carry suitcases; they use duffel bags which can be crammed into any old space.

And after people make love and are naked, if one gets up they take the sheet with them as a cover-up. Like your lover can’t see you nekkid.

^^^ They take the sheet because they are not to be shown nude in the film/show.

God bless you always!!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Holly

Apparently the sheets are never tucked in either.

Too many action movies to count:

Our hero is clinging to a ledge while the villain tries to stomp on his fingers and some how always misses. Bonus points if our hero reaches up and grabs the villain and throws him over the ledge while hanging on with one hand.

Because after 20 takes, they would wish they WERE androids.

Every director who uses shaky cam should be violently shaken until he promises never to do it again. The first Bourne movie is one of my favorite action movies. The second and third are unwatchable.

I can usually shrug off most TV/movie annoyances if I’m into the story and acting. I do, however, get a little uptight whenever someone is trying to do a forensic examination of the killer’s computer. OK, they have to compress the time, I can accept that. A forensic examination of a computer can takes days, but I get why it has to happen faster on screen. But, for the love of god, you do not conduct the examination directly on the killer’s machine! You make a forensic image of the hard dirve, make a few copies of that, and do your work on the copies. When you poke around on the keyboard attached to the killer’s PC, you are destroying evidence!

And I hate the quirky and/or socially inept computer person. Just give me a regular guy/gal who wears khakis and a button-up shirt, has an SO, and happens to understand technology.

Another thing is using digital efects to give a film an oldie feel, full of vigneting, scratches, low contrast and poor coloring, even if the video is only 30 yeras old. I’ve just watched an episode of CSI:Miami and they had a guy recording a video in a spaceship and they had to fake a VGA look like it was recorded on a 10-year-old cell phone…IT’S A FUCKING SPACESHIP.

I saw something on TV recently that was meant to be old video tape, but it had a hair in the gate and film exposure artefacts.

Actually, if you watch TBBT closely, in some episodes the characters repeatedly fold the same item several times in a row. So they are clearly taking several shots to do a simple scene and not paying attention to continuity. Even Jim Parsons makes this mistake.