RealityChuck, you're an ignorant twat.

[Fenris]

From your incompetent cooking advice which is usually objectively wrong–saying that there’s no bacterial growth from letting meat repeatedly thaw and refreeze being just one example, to your being so badly wrong about someone else’s history that the author you were maligning (JMS of Babylon 5 fame) actually registered and spent several posts schooling you about the facts, to your know-it-all, condescending tone and attitude on purely subjective issues, you’re one of the more annoying little pricks on the Dope, but your most recent spewage is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

From here

The OP says

Suspension of Disbelief Unsuspended
So I’m watching a Clint Eastwood/Kevin Costner movie that I recorded off TV, A Perfect World, in which Costner plays an escaped convict who, along with another convict, are driving along a Texas highway in a '59 Chevy with a kidnapped kid being held as hostage. The movie is set in 1963 (made in 1993).

Costner is driving, and his conversation with the other convict in the back seat is shot from what would be outside the windshield. The audience can see the passing countryside through the passengers’ side windows and the rear window.

The gear-shift lever is in park.

Except during the same conversation and a punch to the other convict’s nose by Costner, when the scene is shot from the back seat and the gear lever is hidden by the front bench seat back support, which would be correct with the gear lever in drive. The camera angle returns to the car interior from the windshield and the car is in park again. This happens twice more before I delete the turkey.

Someone else comments

Then, later, FairyChatMom says

I find myself distracted and amused when a scene switches vantage point like that, and I notice a glass that’s full from front view but half empty from back view, or a character whose hands are clasped together when seen from the left, but spread out or pocketed from the right. I always figured it was the case of a film editor getting really tired late at night and not paying attention to continuity details. These things only irritate me when they pull me out of the movie, and that generally just happens when the movie is marginally decent anyway.

Because Chuck is an utterly incompetent writer, it’s impossible to tell which of the two he’s responding to, but this is his response:

@RealityChuck

Frankly, if that sort of thing bothers you, you have no business watching movies portraying fiction, and should probably stay away from fiction in all forms. Stick with your National Geographic Documentaries, if you can avoid having them ruined by your own silly nitpicking.

I mean, it’s fun to see something like that, but for it to be anything other than an amusing bit of trivia, the viewer has to have a real problem understanding what “fiction” is.

My suspicion is that you’re not bringing this up not because of any real outrage about it, but just to show people how clever you were to spot it.

Which, yeah, is probably just barely ok by CS rules. Barely. But it’s still an asshole thing to say.

But more than it just being a douchy thing to say, Chuckles, aren’t you the guy who wrote a long, very dull rant about how dumb and unrealistic the movie ALIEN was?

The guy who wrote drivel like:

There’s a detecting device. It detects "microcurrents of air. Nice – only this would mean that every time you moved it, it would go off. A small thing, but jarring.

and who wrote

(Though I did find the fact they were smoking cigarettes extremely jarring. It’s not like there’s plenty of air in space.) "

?

And aren’t you the guy who’s so fundamentally disturbed by these “jarring” errors, that you’ve linked to the incredibly tedious review over 50 freakin times on the SDMB?

Oh yes. Yes you are.

So…I suspect you made your post not because of any real outrage at the OP or FairyChatMom, but just to show people how big of a dick you are you were to make it. Congrats! It worked.

(To everyone else, no, he’s not the worst person on the internet, or even on the board, but damn, his “first with the wrong answer” and condescending attitude is annoying, especially since we keep ending up in the same thread.)

[jjimm]

Yes, I’ve noticed a high proportion of obnoxiousness emanating from your target.

He sneered at me in the Monticello thread. Sneered, I tell you.

Fie on him.

[pseudotriton_ruber_ruber]

Fenris, he’s a prince and a gentleman and a scholar and a wit in cooking and movies threads, at least compared to how he behaves in baseball threads where he puts his arrogant, obtuse, grandiose opinions on display with monotonous regularity.

[Derleth]

Oh, but he’s a Published Author, who’s been providing quality F&SF for decades. Decades.

Oh, and did I mention he was Published?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

I had just read the “Suspension of Disbelief” thread earlier today and I remember reading RC’s post and thinking “Wow, what a jerk. Why would you come into the thread and then post that?”

[Ike_Witt]

@Derleth

Oh, but he’s a Published Author, who’s been providing quality F&SF for decades. Decades.

Oh, and did I mention he was Published?

Unlike JMS, it would seem.

[Fenris]

Another “charming” response from our resident know-it-all and all around jackass.

@Chefguy

One scene in Christmas Story that always bothers me is when someone in Ralphie’s class calls him a “geek”. It may have been a common word in the 40s, but I don’t remember it being used in the 50s.

That’s not an anachronism. Even granting that the exact time period of the film is vague (though seems to be after 1939 and probably before 1950), the word was used, though not in the modern sense. Back then, a “geek” was a sideshow act where a man would bite the heads off live chickens. Really.

@OED

2. U.S. slang. A performer at a carnival or circus whose show consists of bizarre or grotesque acts, such as biting the head off a live animal.

1919 Billboard (Cincinnati) 25 Oct. 74/4 (advt.) At Liberty—Snake charmer or geek man; would like to join show going south.
1935 Amer. Mercury June 229 Geek, a degenerate who bites off the heads of chickens in a gory cannibal show.
1948 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Mar. 25 An amiable alcoholic who keeps a real live chicken-eating geek in his garden.
1961 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Jan. 62/2 He‥enslaves a ‘geek’, a dumb sideshow stooge whose daily routine consists of being exhibited in a pit which he has to dig for himself.

The current meaning didn’t develop until the 1950s. Calling Ralphie a geek was a far greater insult in the rough time frame of the film than it is today. It combines halfwitted with disgusting, and was clearly used outside of carnival use.

Once again, this is the issue with people complaining about anachronisms bringing them out of the story – many times the errors they see are merely their own ignorance.

Because that thread needed a silly, irrelevant (the film (IIRC) used the word in the “nerd” sense, not the “biting heads off chickens” sense), condescending lecture on the meaning of the word " geek"

:rolleyes:

[Frank]

I’ve always thought that one does not need to be a good artist to be a good critic. However, one can be a bad artist and a bad critic, as RealityChuck proves.

[Rhythmdvl]

I have no comment on his posts, but I do like thinking that the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver has a reality chuck.

[needscoffee]

Hate to rain on your pitting, but he’s not wrong about the thawing/refreezing of meat, provided the temperature of the meat doesn’t rise above refrigerator temperature. This is according to the County Health Department.

I have no idea about anything else written here.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

If I can just chime in, it’s his review of Gattaca that chaps my ass. It’s along the lines of Alien: both movies are pretty soft SF, but he reviews both movies as though they’re ultra-hard SF that explain every technological innovation in mind-numbing detail, and so anything they don’t explain must not have been invented yet. Gattaca doesn’t explain specifically how there’s a low-cost gene-sequencing device; therefore they don’t have one; therefore the gene-sequencing ID machine is absurd.

It’s a totally insane way to review movies, but he links to those reviews all the time as though they’re timeless works of the art.

[RaftPeople]

I read the Alien review and I agree with the cigarette thing and have now crossed Alien off my top 10 list.

Look, they may have solved interstellar space flight as well as been able to create artificial intelligence almost indistinguishable from humans, but there is no way they figured out how to filter the air, nfw.

[MsWhatsit]

He comes across a bit high-handed in a lot of his posts, more so lately, but that one in the suspension of disbelief thread was ridiculous. Has he failed to notice the vast, vast number of “let’s nitpick movies for fun!” threads (hell, not just threads; entire websites) over the years? Accusing someone of “having no business watching fiction movies” is just… what the hell, dude?

[jjimm]

@needscoffee

Hate to rain on your pitting, but he’s not wrong about the thawing/refreezing of meat, provided the temperature of the meat doesn’t rise above refrigerator temperature. This is according to the County Health Department.

Yeah, I agree, and there was a British government health spokesperson on the radio yesterday saying exactly the same thing. And UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is now removing its “freeze on the day of purchase” and replacing it with “freeze by ‘best before’ date”.

[Dallas_Jones]

Fenris, are you aware that another web site has stolen your OP word for word?

http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=1159438

There is a thread about it in ATMB.

[RaftPeople]

That site is Red in WOT - avoid.

[Larry_Mudd]

Oh, christ. Don’t even pay any attention - he likes to present himself as an Authority, but he is consistently wrong-headed.

Don’t worry about it - just remember that any asshole is entitled to an opinion, and ignore his frequent suggestions that you ought to give his any more weight than you do anyone else’s. That’s what everyone else does.

[Loach]

Wow I missed the JMS smack down. That was fantastic.

[running_coach]

@Dallas_Jones

Fenris, are you aware that another web site has stolen your OP word for word?

http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=1159438

There is a thread about it in ATMB.

Check out the stats of the jackass who did the stealing.

Total Posts: 101,268
Posts Per Day: 218.37

[Una_Persson]

@Derleth

Oh, but he’s a Published Author, who’s been providing quality F&SF for decades. Decades.

Oh, and did I mention he was Published?

This is sort of on-topic, but isn’t he the gentleman who had that whole series about alternate history Greek myths that did pretty well and got some award? I mean, has he outed himself under his IRL name and published his resume? I honestly can’t remember.