No more paying for cabs or drinks by just grabbing a bill from your pocket without worrying about the amount or expecting change.
Not in my experience. Real video gaming usually involves twisting, turning, and also yelling if the character in the game doesn’t respond quickly enough.
I personally get to vet all paid product placements going forward. Don’t worry, most don’t bother me a bit. So far only these two are prohibited:
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[li]No boxes of Dunkin’ Donuts. Ironically they look too much like the knockoff ‘Donuts Donuts’ boxes that I am used to seeing in TV and movies and it takes me out of the moment.[/li][li]No one is allowed to encourage a colleague in need of information to “Bing it!” No one is ever going to adopt Bing as a verb like we all did for Google, Microsoft. Just accept it.[/li][/ol]
Ever heard of lawsuits?
Probably, but if I based all my decisions on how I would feel if it happened to me, I’d be a much better person
Depends on the game I guess, or the type of people. Unless its Mario Kart, the kind of rapid contortions I typically see on screen is exaggerated nonsense
Doesn’t the disclaimer at the end protect against that? When they say “None of this is based on a real story, everything you see is fictional”, its an effort to stave off money grubbers saying “This movie was based on me, pay me!”. I’m pretty sure it would be easy to prove that a random phone number is just that: random. So for the sake of immersion and accuracy, I’d tell them to take that chance. If they accidentally pick a person’s number, oh well. What are they going to sue for really? Annoyance? Its not harassment because its not on purpose
I would insist that I be in charge of determining where they can insert commercials into movies. I understand why commercials are necessary. But when you’re watching Pulp Fiction, and Pumpkin and Honey Bunny have just taken over the diner, and he comes over and sticks the gun in Jules’ face, you can not then cut away to some motherfucking lizard trying to sell me insurance and expect to just pick things up where you left off.
They seem to make more of an effort to give female characters distinct looks. Odd that you would mention NCIS. Sasha Alexander was on that show in its first few seasons, and she had very dark hair. A few years later she was cast alongside Angie Harmon on Rizzoli & Isles and her character is kind of medium blonde. I don’t know if it applies in this particular case, but I have heard it said that producers won’t cast two blondes or two brunettes for fear that the audience won’t be able to tell them apart.
I hear ya, but it can work. There was an English comedy called One Foot in the Grave about an old man named Victor who seemed cursed by the gods, and his long-suffering wife. In the last episode, the wife, Margaret, is mourning her husband’s death at the hands of a hit-and-run driver. There are flashbacks showing the events leading up to his death. Margaret confides to her minister that the one thought that keeps her going is the chance to find the driver and kill him. Margaret does find solace by making a new friend who has also just lost her husband. On a visit to the friend, Margaret discovers that she’s the killer; she had been driving to the hospital to have one last moment with her dying husband. Margaret is in the perfect position to take her revenge, if she wants it.
And then we see her walking out to her car and driving off with a wistful look on her face, then a montage of all various indignities suffered by Victor in his last days. It’s fucking brilliant.
I read David Toma’s (the real life detective that the TV show was based on) autobiography and he had the opposite complaint. He said TV and movies make it look like a guy can get stabbed in the back, slap a bandage on and be good to go, whereas in real life he was in the hospital for over a month and took two or three months before he could go back to work.
FYI, that “Edgy Young Chick” is older than me, and I have a kid in college.
I won’t question whether it’s well done, or smart writing; you and I may not agree on whether “smart” is a prerequisite for “enjoyable” or “satisfying.” I happen to think, for example, that Arlington Road was a pretty smart movie, and that was the movie that basically made me stop watching movies.
Yes! I swear, I’ve been a big fan of T.V. and movies for almost 50 years, and until I started reading the Dope, I had no idea that anyone expected them to be realistic. I just always assumed that they take place in an alternate universe where those things that make the drama more exciting and the comedy funnier and the love story more romantic were the way things work. If I want real life, it’s there to experience. If I want entertainment, I have no desire or expectation that it be realistic.
With that in mind, the one pet peeve that I would fix is that a recast would always be the default when an actor leaves a show. To go back to Downton Abbey for a moment, why, oh, why, when British shows have a much better track record with recasts, did they feel the need to kill Matthew off just because Dan Stevens left the show? There are plenty of attractive British actors who could have admirably filled the part and retained the integrity of the story. This holds true for almost every show. I’m not saying that no one should ever be killed off (or suddenly have to move to Paris), but it should be a planned exit that fits the storyline, not a result of an actor leaving. I’ll occasionally make an exception if a beloved actor dies, because it gives fans a chance to grieve, but other than that, I always prefer a recast.
No shaky cams in TV/Movies. I propose increasing funding to the “Dolly and Steadycam Operators and Kneecapping Goons Local #437”.
If it’s not too broad, I’d like to have a volunteer come in and glance over the dialogue written for characters by script writers from a different demographic and make sure it makes sense. Like a teen who can say “People my age grew up wanting to be like Lebron, not Michael Jordan.” Or an urban black guy to say “Nobody has said ‘Yo that’s wack!’ in 20 years, if ever.”
It’s not as if one of them is going to become president of SAG/AFTRA or anything…
But I agree with this, except that you have to allow for somethlng like 18-year-olds playing 14-year-olds if only because of child labor laws.
However, my pet peeve is, no more animated shows having different sets of continuities. What I mean is, you can’t have a show have continuity for some things but not others.
Case in point: The Simpsons.
Homer and Marge are always in their high school “class of 1984,” but then it turns out that Marge went to college in the early 1990s.
They mention on a number of occasions that Sideshow Bob was first arrested (for framing Krusty for armed robbery) “in 1990” even though none of the kids would have been born in 1990 if none are older than 10 now.
Apu’s nephew Jamshed and Selma’s adopted daughter Ling get older, while the other kids on the show - including, apparently, Jamshed’s sister - don’t.
Well, it’s a tossup between “no more obviously silkscreened signs, banners, and flags in settings where they clearly would not have been available,” or “no anachronistic technology when an even vaguely period-appropriate version would have been available (save for outright parody, deliberate and not half-assed production design, outright science fiction, etc. etc.)”. But I think the latter is overreaching it.
Okay, but a really pet peeve one?
“Green Lanterns—the superheroes—don’t get to wear the sigil of a green lantern on a white disk on their costume, unless the costume design has white on it someplace else, too.”
I’m…I’m sorry, I know there’s a history there, and I know I’m the only one. But it just bugs the hell out of me.
It’s like a big loose thread on someone’s jacket, or a picture frame that’s just too crooked. It’s just obsessive-compulsively distracting.
I guess I’ve watched too many old sci-fi movies, but I grimace when I see a man and a woman running and the woman ALWAYS falls down and can’t get up without help from the man. Either pick yourself up and keep moving, or make it so the man falls down sometimes. Or just watch where you’re going, morons.
With this sort of mindset - maybe you had better not enter this or some other industries. No disrespect but - yeah.
Oh hell yes! I freaking hate the Wilhelm Scream. Complete immersion breaker.
Re: Firearms, if someone gets shot while wearing body armour don’t just have them get up, peel back their clothing to show it and then get on with life as usual - make them sore and bruised for a while - like they have just absorbed 400ft lbs of impact energy on their ribs.
Also, guns are loud, unless someone has earplugs in the won’t be hearing very well after a shootout (thumbs up to Black Hawk Down for acknowledging this).
I’m not sure I’m entirely following you here. There’s supposed some other white on the outfit somewhere; Green Lanterns have a dress code?
I think what he’s getting at is that he’d rather Green Lantern uniforms looked more like this.
I have two peeves. One is when someone is looking at grainy low rez surveillance footage and with a simple “enhance!” they can then read the print on a medicine bottle. Same with a small jpeg.
The other is whenever someone demonstrates a skill in something, especially when the character is a female (because no way could a female have an actual aptitude on her own), it’s because their dad or other relative was one and they are now an expert by osmosis. Car’s broken down? I can fix it. My dad was a mechanic. Leg broken? I can fix it. My uncle was a doctor. Need some rube goldbergian device? My brother was a mechanical engineer. Drives me nuts. No one can just have an interest or aptitude in something. There always has to be a trite reason.
No more scenes when Person 1 goes to tell Person 2 something, but Person 2 cuts them off, and then talks about something that takes the wind entirely out of Person 1’s sails, and then they ask what Person 1 was going to say so they smile weakly and say it doesn’t matter or tell them that dinner’s ready or whatever.
Lame.