I take that back. If the stationmaster* knew* about the troupe, the logical first question would have been “Are you with the circus?” Then, after getting an affirmative reply, he would have asked “Do you know where to find Jeff Wilson?” or something to that effect.
So it still makes no sense to me that he would say “Is there a Jeff Wilson on this train?” to some random bystander.
And if he didn’t know about the troupe, how likely is it he would assume some random Joe would know who was on the train? Again, it makes no sense!
All the times peopl say “objection” your honour. Would get you thrown out.
Not to mention the flipside of that.
“But weren’t you then convicted on three counts of arson?”
“OBJECTION!”
“Withdrawn!”
“Oh, you think you can just bring up inadmissible evidence like that?”
“Well, yeah; I showed my palms and said ‘Withdrawn’. What’s the problem?”
“Tell me you realize that’s not a magic word.”
“It’s not not a magic word.”
Has to happen for quick storytelling exposition, I guess.
I was on a jury last year for the first time, and they did object a lot. But there was a difference between a real life trial and courtroom dramas: they never said the reason within earshot of the jury. They would just say “objection” and the judge would say either “sustained” or “overruled.” If it happened several times in quick succession the judge would ask the attorneys to approach the bench and they would discuss the reasons in hushed tones so the jury couldn’t hear.
It’s the general amount of abuse people can take and keep on chugging with no outward ill effects. Get knocked out? Come to, get up and are fine. No puking, disorientation, etc… Punch someone in the face bare-knuckles? No tooth gouges in the knuckles, no broken hand, etc… you’re good to go.
Get shot in the arm? You’re not only not dead, you’re good to finish the movie. IRL, you might not die, but you’d be seriously fucked up for a while and probably unable to really use the arm at all.
I always hate movie explosions that don’t produce shrapnel. It always bugs me when I see a bomb go off and it produces burst of smoke or a big orange fireball, but causes no injury to the character.
Explosives, especially military ones, kill by accelerating fragments of metal in every direction. Even if the character is not centered on the explosion, they and everything around them will be thoroughly ventilated.
Those big orange fireballs are caused by gasoline pyrotechnics. A real explosive might produce a brief flash followed by a cloud of smoke, dirt, dust, etc. If the character survives, they will not be “singed” or peppered with ash.
I hate it when characters do the “cool guy” walk while something explodes behind them. In real life, you need to duck behind something solid and stick your fingers in your ears. (And with that, why can a movie hero shoot guns all day without suffering hearing loss?)
Yeppers. You mean, you didnt have a round chambered until that moment? :eek:
Oddly on The Martian it bothered me he only had a little music to listen to, while a million songs would have taken up almost no space.
Just like on Guardians of the Galaxy- how did that cassette last all that time?
Every nation does this, showing their military winning the war almost single-handedly.
And also- you never, ever drop your gun even if the bad guy has a gun pressed to the head of the hostage. What should happen then is he shoots both of you.
This is worse in TV, but you see it in movies too.
Nobody ever eats in restaurants. They are in restaurants all the time, but they never eat.
OK, granted it’s a continuity nightmare to have actors eat the same meal over and over again, exactly the same way, but come on. Two actors meet in a restaurant, waiter brings menus and I’m trying to predict how they won’t eat. One gets a phone call and leaves. The two fight. One announces loudly that they have some gripe and they are speaking their piece and leaving. They are waiting for a third person who doesn’t show up. Nut allergy. Usually, nobody at the nearby tables are eating either.
Marcus Vindictus: “He’s a eunuch!”
I can handle this with works of pure fiction, but it upsets me when history is distorted merely to please an audience.
Man, saw one just the other day. TV, not movies. In Castle, a show I don’t like, but my wife does. There was a scene where 2 cops run into a building after a perp and split up. Cop1 sees a shadowy figure holding a gun pass behind some translucent plastic sheeting - and shoots. You got it - it was his partner. He shot him in the ass, and they played it for laughs. I couldn’t get over the fact that this cop shot without identifying his target, and if he hadn’t had lousy aim, his partner would be dead. No mention of an investigation of the shooting afterwards.
Yeah - totally stupid show having NOTHING to do with police practice, human relations, or any other aspect of real life, but that REALLY corked me.
As an ex-heavy drinker, it always bugged me how everyone would take these delicate little sips of beer. Totally foreign to my experience! (Which might explain why I’m not 12 yrs sober…:p)
The other day my wife and I were watching STNG. S2 Picard and Wesley were in a shuttle eating sandwiches, and Picard was taking big healthy bites out of his sandwich, and continuing to talk without being a total slob. Was so unusual to see someone obviously eating on film that both my wife and I commented on it.
Forget shrapnel; the shock wave is strong enough to turn your internal organs into jelly.
And no, you cannot outrun the shock wave of a blast. IIRC, they travel at around 26,000 fps. I remember one particularly stupid instance of this: The young hero dude (Keanu Reeves?) and his girlfriend outrun a humungous shock wave on a motor scooter, then tumble into a ditch and let the wave blow over them.
A shock wave won’t blow over you and leave you unharmed. It’ll fill every depression in the ground as it expands.
I thought the most overrated and ruinous moment in a movie was “You can’t handle the truth!!!” It’s supposed to be a great moment of something but it just means that the lawyer got to the witness and got him to say something he shouldn’t. The whole idea of the movie is pivoted on this and it’s truly dumb IMO.
I imagine the process of actually suspending a police officer would be a little more complex than “Give me your badge and gun.”
Probably more like: “After talking to several people as well as the department’s Legal Counsel, we have decided to suspend you. Give me your badge, ID card, gun, and the other gun, and all of your guns, and the keys to your locker, desk, building, vehicle, then have IT walk you through exporting any personal files from your computer, then call your Union Rep and go up to HR because we have an hour meeting where we will fill out a not-insignificant amount of paperwork.”
Perfectly covered in The Other Guys