Dumb things in movies

What EVER.

But the Empire really, really needs a good Dental Plan.

After the WAVE.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch a single episode of this series, but I’ve got to ask: Does McGarrett still say “Book 'em, Danno!” every week? :dubious: :confused: :frowning:

I haven’t seen it since the first run, and did not watch it regularly, but I believe he said, “Book him, Danno!”

Depends on who the perp(s) were. :smiley:

Police have their guns on a bad guy. Bad guy takes a hostage and tells all the cops to put their guns down. They do. :smack:

Or you can bludgeon someone with it.

Generally, you have to be registered, ie, licensed, to carry, but the gun itself doesn’t have to be. You can carry any gun you own.


I have a very specific bone to pick with The Good Wife*. They keep wanting to do death penalty stories, so they have executions in Indiana, because the show is set in Chicago, and Illinois doesn’t have the death penalty.

Well, sorry, but since the show has been on the air, the only executions in Indiana have been the three fictional ones on The Good Wife. Since the moratorium was lifted in the 70s, there have only been a few more than a dozen executions here, IIRC, and one of those was Timothy McVeigh, which was a federal execution in Terre Haute.

Also, death row in Indiana is in Indianapolis (Terre Haute is even further away), which is about 5 1/2 hours from downtown Chicago. But the characters zip back and forth as though all they have to do is hop the border, which granted is about 75 minutes from Chicago.

This is not to mention that no one facing the death penalty would hire some general purpose out-of-state lawyer. He’d want a DP specialist, and a lawyer like that would not practice in a non-DP state.

Been wantin’ to say that for a while.
*Yes it’s a TV show, not a movie, but this has been bugging me.

I’ve turned off a lot of lights over the years and have never heard a loud echoing ka-thunk.

Let’s make some androids that look just like humans and fill them with blood! WTF

Dinosaurs sound like lions/tigers because of course they do. I mean, they’re reptiles. Why don’t they hiss? Why don’t they sound like giant chickens?

Someone hangs up on you in a movie, you get dial tone. Huh? I always get that voice. “If you’d like to make a call…” No dial tone for minutes.

All right, not a lot of people have seen androids and live dinosaurs, but who hasn’t been hung up on?

One of the intriguing things about the original 1933 King Kong is that the T. Rex in it DOES hiss – it doesn’t roar.
as related in Goldner and Turner’s book The Making of King Kong, Cooper and Schoedsack contacted the American Museum of Natural History in New York on just this issue (as they had on many details regarding the dinosaurs), and received a reply that they claim boiled down to “Dinosaurs didn’t roar, you idiots – they’re reptiles!” But they couldn’t have them be silent, either. So Murray Spivak and his sound crew came up with the weird sort of hissing thing, which I believe one of the sound technicians did simply using his mouth.

Kong’s roar, on the other hand, was made by mixing several different animal roars together.

Actually, even in Peter Jackson's 2005 remake they don't exactly roar:

And meanwhile, the good guy is hitting everything with every single bullet while not even getting scratched (yeah, I’m looking at you Arnold “Commando” Schwarzenegger…).

And ancient battles (up to the 17th century at least) were apparently fought by mobs of men charging into each other with no formation, no command structure, or no discipline beyond mass brawling.

But dinosaurs were not reptiles. They were dinosaurs. Their closest living descendants aren’t reptiles, they’re birds, which are capable of many types of vocalization.

I’m semi-quoting from the book. And in 1933, even people at the AMNH were calling dinosaurs “reptiles”. Certainly nobody back then would be making the “dinosurs are birds” argument.

It’s not blood, it’s coolant and lubricants. That’s why it’s white! :slight_smile:

The movie-makers were decades ahead of their time! :smiley:

I want to see a dinosaur movie where the hulking predatorsaurus rears back and emits a blood-curdling “Cock-a-doodle-doooo!”

Kicking open doors and shooting locks.

Finding an old car or truck that’s been sitting in a barn for years and you get in turn the key and it starts right up.

Also, I saw one of those scenes where a tech is trying to break into a secure server and a bunch of source code goes scrolling up the screen and there’s an obvious syntax error in the code.

People turning to look behind while running away from someone/something. I’m pretty sure if I had to run for my life, I’d run till I couldn’t run any more or until I was certain there were no footsteps within earshot. OK, I probably can’t run 100 yards before collapsing, but still… :wink:

Any time a person on tv or in movies is science-ing something (pipetting, mixing reagents in flasks, looking at something under a microscope), the all the lights in the room are turned off except for one small, eerily-glowing blue light source illuminating only the direct field of work. When my husband or I see this on a show, we cheerfully make fun of the Sexy Science Lighting.

All the scientists I know have the lights in the room turned on when they’re doing small, precise work in a lab. You risk pipetting inaccurately if the lights are all shut off!

The Revenant when Leo’s character was in the river during mid-winter for that length of time. Per the movie that had to be a substantial amount of time.

Ever been in river water in mid-winter ? I have up to waist deep and I don’t think that scene is credible.