In the days before Texas Hold em they almost always played 5 card draw. They made it seem like it was a game of skill. The more skillful player won. But unlike hold’em or more so 7 card stud there are no probabilities to master. There’s no math. There’s only thinking “Did he get his cards or is he bluffing?”
LOL mrAru is O neg, I am AB neg. We confused the hospital when I asked if he could be my specific onsite donor if I needed surgery to rearrange my insides [which knock wood I have not yet had to do] They hadn’t had anybody ask that in recent memory.
Similar…so many former super-models in casts.
Another one…“But I don’t have that much…”
AND??? Bet what you have.
I read it to mean that s/he’s never watched a movie or TV show in which someone “someone is shown dropping or throwing a handgun that lands on a hard surface, [and] the sound played is the same as an empty soup can landing on a hard surface.”
Can’t say as I have, either.
A couple of my favorites have been named, the empty pistol where the slide doesn’t lock back, and defibrillating asystole. I’ll add how the ridiculously over powered enemy does literally the only thing that won’t kill the good guy. The terminator/alien/demon grabs you by the throat, or the ankle and dramatically flings you 20’ into something deformable enough to reasonable survive after shaking your head a couple of times like a pro wrestler. They’ve established that they have enough strength to crush your trachea or snap your bones, and you’re a really, really, really important target, but they don’t, silly T/A/D.
I will say that I have delivered a baby in the elevator, and they can come out quite precipitously, although there will be blood. OTOH, TV newborns almost never look like real newborns.
Preface: this is to respond to a couple of points from previous comments, plus present a “gaffe” that hasn’t been mentioned yet as far as I can see. I’m just doing it as a straight text because I don’t want to figure out how to pull multiple quotes.
• I guess by now it’s clear that one person’s “gaffe” is another person’s “reasonable dramatic license”.
No disrespect to the various comments about getting military items wrong, but military types are absolutely fanatic about such things. I learned this while perusing IMDb “goofs” and “trivia” entries; almost every movie or TV show involving military culture and weapons has several corrections, often extremely picky, Aspergerish minutiae.
It’s one thing to point out interesting stuff, e.g. that a particular weapon actually changes without explanation during the scene, i.e. the character is using weapon X at the beginning of the shoot-out, but at the end is holding weapon Y. That’s sort of “gaffe-ish”, or at least a continuity error.
But some military-minded nitpickers seem to assume that dramas should apply minute, anal scrutiny to military gear, protocol, weapons, and vehicles-- as if, say (making this up) sleeve chevrons two inches from where they’re supposed to be ruins the experience.
• I get the reasons why food is rarely handled realistically: it’s technically both risky and boring for actors to actually eat food on set, much less eat a meal as if they were sitting at home or in a restaurant. It’s obvious that the food is a prop, and they rely on a generous suspension of disbelief and expect viewers to “pretend” that the use of food is realistic.
But to my mind, this is also lazily or sloppily abused. People are forever jumping up and abandoning fully-loaded plates. I just happened to watch a “Perry Mason” rerun with a scene in which Della Street pours out coffee for Perry and Paul Drake in Perry’s office. Just then a call comes in that requires the men to depart, so they instantly jump up and abandon the freshly-poured coffee without even a sip or longing backwards glance.
Damn it, you know Paul Drake, at least, would pick up the cup and drain it before leaving! This could be done without requiring an actor to actually gulp down real hot coffee.
• The one “gaffe” I haven’t seen yet is that on TV, refrigerator doors are commonly left open; people open them for some reason, and then just stand there with the door hanging open.
As a kid, in my house it was understood that you open the fridge, get what you need, and close the damn thing. Of course there are times when one is rooting for an item, or otherwise keeps the door open for some practical reason. But in Teeveeland, people just walk away, and those doors just stay open without reason or explanation for the rest of the scene. I always want to reach through the screen and close that damn door hanging open for no good reason! 
Mr. Jean Shepherd just smiled.
Mr. Jean Shepherd just smiled.
That’s a fine response. It’s what side pots are for.
Hair styles that don’t fit the period. “Happy Days”, and “MASH”. Shows set in the 50’s where everybody has a 70’s hairstyle, the era when those shows were made. (except the Fonz).
Even some westerns from the 30’s and 40’s, you can almost tell the period when they were made based on the women’s hairstyles.
On a related note, when actors are pretending to drive a car while giving their lines, they have a tendency to turn the wheel back and forth rhythmically such that it they were actually driving a car would have them swerving all over the road like a drunken sailor.
^ Or, the driver turns his/her ENTIRE HEAD 90 degrees to face the passenger. No one’s peripheral vision is that good.
When two people are conversing on their cell phones and one party disconnects. The other person then hears a dial tone.
There are also those shows set in the the 17th Century or whenever, and yet the characters’ teeth looks healthy. Not like you’d expect for characters living long before dentistry was as sophisticated or widely available.
Also, in poker, rich guy takes the deeds to the ranch out of his pocket and bets it. Wouldn’t be allowed. See: table stakes. In the later Casino Royale, Le Chifre bets his car like this. The dealer protests about table stakes, but allows it. No way. They can’t get 4% rakeon a car.
In the apartment fight in the first Bourne movie, the bad guy’s sub-machinegun went click-click-click when it ran dry. :smack:
I don’t think a pineapple would last long at the bottom of the sea.
Nitpick: The weapon used is a Galil MAR which isn’t classified as a submachine gun as it fires rifle-caliber cartridges and not pistol cartridges.
Child labor laws mean that babies and young toddlers can’t be on screen very long. This leads to using twins/triplets, and in a pinch, a doll held in such a way that you don’t see its face. Viewers get that, we really do. But dolls come in all sorts of sizes. And apparently prop dolls don’t, because if they did, a 20 pound, 29" one-year-old wouldn’t magically become a 2 pound 10" blanket wrapped doll in another scene.
Spring for an appropriately sized doll for actors to hold, for God’s sake.