Haven’t seen the new BSG, but wonder - do they also still use “feldecarb” as a fake curseword? I actually still use that one from time to time, as a replacement for sh*t, which is how they used it in the original BSG, IIRC.
The Dr. Davis that I know is great. 
I do work in a hospital, and do know one. I’ll have to listen to the overhead pages in hospital scenes and see if there’s such an overload of Davises.
I’m kind of that way with the city of Chicago. If the movie/TV show is blatantly set in Chicago, that’s not so bad. I’ll be thinking “I used to work there” or “cool, Michigan Avenue” but I’ll still be “in” the story. E.R., Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Blues Brothers fit in this category.
But if it’s not explicitly definitely Chicago, then I’m thrown off. The Matrix had references to Chicago street names and the like but the skyline didn’t look like Chicago. The Dark Knight was practically a love letter to Chicago architecture, but since my brain “knows” that it’s supposed to be Gotham City, I kept going “oh hey, that’s ________” in practically every outdoor scene. I think the worst for me was showing a restaurant (a view of the awning down the alleyway) that’s a half-block from Union Station; I’ve passed that place every day for years.
Another thing that took me out of a film was a return of the “rumble seat” concept - I saw The Dark Knight at an IMAX theater which also had deep bass speakers built into the seats, and when ‘called for’ by the sound of the movie, the speakers in the seat would kick in and vibrate the hell out of you. Trust me, this was not as potentially “interesting” as it would sound. I was stuck in a middle seat in a long, packed row, and spent the last third of the film desperately trying to get my bladder to STFU already.
So, are you familiar with The Sausage King of Chicago then? 
Oh, of course. I was just thinking about that scene over the weekend, actually.
What bugs me is when they don’t get the local details right. ER is terrible at this. I remember once when they kept talking about a big accident on “the 290”. It’s “290” or “the Eisenhower” or “the Ike”… But nobody - NOBODY - ever calls it “the 290”!
Oh yes, definitely true. And E.R. plays extremely fast and loose with geography of the city as well, or at least was when I stopped watching years ago.
A movie I can’t even watch now is Bridge on the River Kwai. Because I now know how the Japanese treated their prisoners, I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough to think that a prisoner faced down a camp commander instead of losing his head within a few seconds.
Watching Defiance on Sunday showed me something else that brings me out of the film. I get distracted trying to see how accurately the equipment and props are done. Near the end of the film, I’m looking at the panzer III and thinking, “They got the MG mount wrong!” Likewise, when bombs are going off, I can’t help but notice that they’re “Hollywood” bombs. And the small arms don’t sound right. This had become a bigger problem for me ever since *Saving Private Ryan *went to such lengths to get the details right.
Similar thing from the movie/novel “Christine.” There’s a reference by some curmudgeonly character to to kids “cruising the orange belt.” The various colored belts around Pittsburgh aren’t discrete highways. They are what you would get by taking a colored marker and drawing a belt by connecting enough pre-existing roads. Whoever was responsible for the line, Stephen King ultimately I guess, didn’t know as much about Pittsburgh as what he thought he did.
Oh man, we’re dying over here. That is my new favorite Web site! I’m ordering right now, and very soon the King’s meat will be in my mouth!
Well that wasn’t actually part of the tale, only the narrated parts were.
Been to a coffee shop in San Francisco lately?
As a bit of a beer snob, this always makes me cringe. Most bars around here have at least 10 beers available.
Anyhoo, whenever I encounter stuff like this that takes me out of a movie, my roommate’s response is always, “88 miles an hour, dude.”
How do you differentiate between what is and is not part of the Dilios’ tale?
Does this happen often in films? TV series yes, where you have a continuity issue, but I can’t recall it happening in a movie.
That’s an LA problem. All the freeways in LA seem to be called “the 405” “the 10” and so on, and so writers born and raised, or who have lived most of their adult lives in southern California have no idea that people in other parts of the U.S. don’t tend to refer to their highways with the definite article in that fashion.
For me, one of the things that jars me out of a film is the token/shoehorned people of color. Much as I want to see minority actors getting work, having an all-white cast would be far preferable to having a minority character in a setting or relationship that makes no sense. Or worse, having a minority character in place just so that they can play to a stereotype (i.e. the domineering black woman who may or may not have a heart of gold, the Asian scientist or doctor, the sassy Latina) for comedic effect. Blech.
All but the Queen parts and the final charge was the way i saw it.
Yes, native Seattleite here and Gray’s Anatomy does this. We call them “lattes”, not “cafe lattes”. It’s called “I-5”, not “The 5” or “The I-5”. Bloody Californians…
Well, you just KNOW Nicole is a Sausage Muncher.
Is “The 405” or “The 101” type speech common anywhere but California?
Southern California. No one in San Francisco adds “the” in fronty of highway names. Extra irritating when the show is set in San Francisco and the characters say “We’re on the 101”
I have the same problem with Toronto, only it’s waaaay worse because 99% of movies filmed in Toronto are actually pretending to be in another city like NYC/Chicago or in Generic American Big City.
Sometimes it’s very hard to spot the Toronto locations since they’ve carefully stripped out anything obvious, especially with a high-end production like The Hulk or Cinderella Man (they actually completely transformed sections of main streets to look like they belonged to the right place/era… it was pretty weird to walk through those parts of town during the filming).
When they don’t bother to hide the noticeable Toronto stuff, though, it just drags me right out of the moment because I can’t stop thinking “hey, I know where that is!” It’s even worse when they use a recognizeable landmark, because I start wondering who could possibly expect me to believe that Toronto City Hall could be an evil multicorp’s head office in Racoon City (see: Resident Evil), or that the R C Harris Water Treatment Plant is a mental asylum (see: In The Mouth of Madness), or that BCE Place is an enclave housing the wealthy elite during a zombie attack on Pittsburg (see: Land of the Dead) You may as well try to convince me that the Empire State building is a high-end hotel. 
But Leia was a 19 year old Senator too. For some reason the SW universe was into young girls in positions of power. Stupid, but consistent.
WRT American helicopters buzzing around Cuba, Raiders of the Lost Ark had entire squadrons of Nazi troops buzzing around British held Egypt before the war. The Commies invading Area 51 in the last travesty at least disguised themselves.