Those standard size bricks you see in TV and movies are 27 pounds. So you can pick it up with one hand, but not casually. This small cube weighs 400 plunds, and it is hollow. Yet you see people loading a van with the equivalent of a dozen or more of these cubes—tons of gold—and driving away normally.
(eta a plund is equal to one pound)
And a nautical plund is 1.151 pounds.
For realism, you have to have Michael Richards, who carried around a real air conditioner in his cardboard box - https://youtu.be/vJI5kU-q4RM?t=161
Something that impresses me lately is that the interaction on a smartphone is maintained, with the display actually showing a call being made, even for a wide shot.
I was a wee tyke when I saw it so I don’t remember the title but there was a movie about a Victorian-era plot to rob the Bank of England. As they were driving the 2-wheel cart away the gang was stopped by a bobby curious about something. In the midst of the conversation the floor of the cart collapsed to the street.
I saw The Lavender Hill Mob on late-night TV a week or so ago. I was impressed by how easily they loaded and transported all that gold in the back of a service van
Like the scenes set in night or dance clubs, which in my very limited experience usually have music so loud you would have to yell in the other person’s ear.
And my pet peeve is when they show a character, even a kid, apparently throwing together a Halloween costume at the last minute but having it look like it was produced by professional costumers and make up artists. (That bothered me because my last-minute costumes looked like shit.)
How do you fake a chicken? 
Every decade, in a historical drama or movie, the current style of the day in hair and makeup will be obvious on the women, anyhow. In the 20’s, it was antenna eyebrows and bee stung lips. In the 30’s, same, only with marcelled waves. In the 50’s, short bangs and red lips, in the 60’s, (in Italian Hercules movies, anyway) big blonde beehives, black eyeliner and thick lashes, pale pink glossy lips.
What is it now?
Future movies will show 2020s Americans as Instagram influencers, with glittering bronze plasticine skin and microfiber hair. Or the sort seen at Trump rallies. No middle ground.
Scruffy beards on the men, side shaved hairstyles in the women
I’m not sure! Purple/blue/pink hair on women, bald musclemen, tattoos, rings through the nose, leggings, LOL.
We’ve got a Spirit Week coming up, and on Thursday, students are supposed to dress in “retro” fashions from the 2000s. I’m not even sure what those are.
You can almost always tell the real smokers from the non-. The real smokers never make a point of actually smoking unless it’s scripted; they only take a drag when it’s convenient. Otherwise, the cigarette is basically just forgotten, and their hands move naturally like it’s not even there. Non-smokers always have to mess with it and just look uncomfortable holding it, like they don’t know what to do with it (because they don’t). John Travolta in Pulp Fiction comes immediately to mind.
Don’t forget the bright white teeth
ETA the movie Poms with Diane Keaton had an important scene set sitting in the bleachers. The wind was fierce in the some shots, non existent in others. It was really annoying to watch.
I’d go as Jack Bauer. With a hacksaw. And my date would go as Chloe.
“You just don’t get it, do you?”
Campers hiking into the wilderness always wear backpacks that are filled only with air because they obviously weigh nothing.
Next time you are in the cereal aisle at the grocery store look at all the photos on the boxes of the cereal sitting nicely in their bowls of milk. Yeah, that’s not milk. It’s white glue ala Elmer’s. Photographers use it so the can position the cereal exactly how they want it and it doesn’t get soggy.
I worked with a food photographer who, whenever he had to shoot milk or mineral water or Diet Cola or anything being poured, he’d get the liquid constructed.
As in getting it blown in glass, either clear or opaque. With or without ice cubes.
The cost of that was still a lot less than taking hours to pour and clean up and re-pour a glass or bowl full of liquid.