The L-shaped sheet.
Prometheus. So very Prometheus.
Except for more than 5 minutes.
Modern video game console - 1980s arcade style sound effects.
Toddler aged character supposedly cries, but it sounds like a newborn.
I don’t find anything about black bras unrealistic. But women wearing bras during sex or while sleeping. That’s just silly. If they don’t want nudity, there’s so many more realistic things they could be wearing. Related to that, a man and woman in bed together with the woman fully covered but the man showing his bare chest.
People answering the knock on the door in 4 seconds; always finding a parking space right in front of where they’re going; odd changes of speed in chases - now chaser is way behind, next shot they’re caught up, next back, when both are at maximum speed; knowing the telephone number without looking it up (possible now, didn’t used to be) people playing the flute and moving fingers obviously at random
I didn’t take me out of watching it, but recently I watched Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”. Early there is a scene where a drunken Cary Grant is driving a car on a road with high cliffs next to the ocean. He gets pulled over by Glen Cove, NY police. There are no cliffs like that on Long Island, it’s a flat island of dirt left over from the last ice age.
That ain’t the biggest problem. See Water. The camera might be able to see the hideous monster sneaking up on the heroine from below (at midnight, in swamp water), but the girl certainly won’t (blurry human vision underwater, natch-is that a sea lion?). But she does anyway.
People who end a conversation on the phone by just hanging up without saying goodbye.
Actually, NO I don’t know why they do that.
And B, I have a relative that has started doing that. WTF?
A character looks through binoculars. Cut to an insert of what they’re seeing, with two overlapping circles framing the shot.
I get why they do it, it’s shorthand for “what’s in the binoculars” but that’s not how things actually look through binoculars.
It never used to register on me until someone else (maybe in a thread here, I don’t know) pointed it out. Now every time it happens I get a little taken out for a second. Thanks whoever pointed it out…
It’s like when people don’t shut car doors. It’s a movie convention that takes out extraneous chat and cloying, smarmy small talk when it doesn’t advance the story. It would actually distract from it, because film has it’s own language, and all those see yas and goodbyes would have a meaning in a film. You’re supposed to realize it’s not real life and not adopt it. I don’t think anyone would want to see a movie that left that stuff in, unless it was intentional in some hipster indie thing.
This seems to be a list of things in films that don’t occur as in your lives. This really affects your experience?
In the opera “The Abduction of Figaro” by P.D.Q. Bach, there’s a tearful farewell scene, where the young lover gets a flower from the little flower girl, to give to his true love, before they must part.
The lover takes the extra moment actually to pay the flower girl.
It’s a jolly good spoof on all those similar scenes in many movies and plays where the actual business of payment is abridged because it’s extraneous to the drama.
An awful lot of “Cabbie! Follow that car!” scenes have ended with the cabbie getting stiffed for the fare.
Iced drinks wherein the ice has almost or completely melted.
Bit actors that aren’t given any lines when they clearly should have lines given the context of the scene. I understand they do this so they don’t have to pay the actor scale, but damn.
Star Wars: Sonic bombs in the vacuum of space? I mean, come on guys! SMH.
Did some one already say people who are wearing under garments after sex?
Or kiss passionately before brushing their teeth?
Under white blouses?
Under everything?
Black bras are not the default.
At one point in The McKenzie Break, Brian Keith (the camp’s commanding officer) tells an orderly behind a desk to check on something that’s aroused his suspicions. The orderly just nods his head and proceeds to straighten the papers on his desk.
This earned a strong snort of derision from my brother, who had just gotten out of the Air Force. He said something to the effect that the orderly would have had his ass handed to him if he didn’t even bother to say “Yes, sir.”
Blindspot is a recent offender on this. “Jane Doe” has been abducted, tattooed, and dumped in the middle of NYC. And as she emerges naked from the bag they stuffed her in, she’s wearing make-up.
On*** That Girl***, Marlo Thomas never had so much as a hair out of place whenever she was awakened in the middle of the night (and with full makeup on too).
Once you know to look for it, you’ll notice that immediate family members on screen very seldom bear any resemblance to each other. Now, you can’t expect movies to cast actors who look as similar as they can in real life, but they usually don’t even bother to match up things like skin tone and hair color, let alone specific ethnicity. Occasionally they do try to create the illusion of a family resemblance by, say, giving mother and daughter the same hair style, but not often enough IMO.
The most obvious example I can think of would be the Dumphys on “Modern Family.” Look at this picture: not one of those people bears any resemblance to any other one! Either the kids are adopted or Claire sleeps around, because she gave birth to a freakin’ Benetton ad.
By raw coincidence, just last night I was watching an old episode of “The Rat Patrol.” In the show, the guest star is Sgt. Troy’s brother. I kept noticing there really was a hell of a strong resemblance.
Turns out that the guest star was Nick George, Christopher George’s real-life brother!
(In Star Trek: the Next Generation, wasn’t Picard’s brother played by Patrick Stewart’s real-life brother? Or am I misremembering dreadfully?)
Obviously, in the great majority of cases, you’re very right in your observation.
You know what else NBNW depicts that doesn’t actually exist? A private home and airstrip on top of Mount Rushmore.
The dry mountainous geography of Long Island during the training scenes in the film Pearl Harbor made me laugh.