Things you think movies get wrong everytime when it comes to______
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Anything involving military uniforms.
Seriously, that law people like to quote about uniforms having to be inaccurate hasn't been valid for decades.
Awards in the wrong spot, rank upside down, all the other minor nit-picks...watching movies like that isn't good for ones sanity.
Seriously, that law people like to quote about uniforms having to be inaccurate hasn't been valid for decades.
Awards in the wrong spot, rank upside down, all the other minor nit-picks...watching movies like that isn't good for ones sanity.
Are you by any chance a fan of Lindybeige?Gabanuka said:
OT: Most medieval battles are unrealistic, to my knowledge it was mostly two formations trying to break each other, not everyone breaking off to fight individually.
Movies get everything wrong. That's kinda the point. Movies are supposed to entertain, not inform(with some rare exceptions).
This is what I was going to put. It's supposed to heighten the tension but it just makes me roll my eyes now. I don't even know very much about guns (always been more into martial arts but I don't have the hours to go into how unrealistic fighting is in movies & games; youtube some real street fights and you'll start to get the idea) but that has always irked me...especially when they pump the shotgun like 4 or 5 times before actually firing it. wtf?chadachada123 said:
NCIS gets a lot of other things wrong. Like... say... two people typing on the same keyboard to make the computer go faster.chadachada123 said:
Abby and McGee should know better.
This is oddly an issue I've been having trying to make a "realistic" hacking game.purf said:
The stuff that's easily accessible as source material is "Hollywood Hacking" and the other stuff are games made by hackers to train other hackers. Not to mention the Hollywood Hacker games still manage to be overly complex while taking plenty of liberties.
There is literally a game where you hack by coding in assembly. It's brilliant and its mad but it doesn't help my project. :/
Dat N-Key rollover.ObsidianJones said:
Jacking cars by fiddling with the key slot for five seconds.
Its called a SUPPRESSOR and it REDUCES noise, there is no such thing as a silencer for guns.
Assassinating people with sniper rifles. Movies always gloss over how freak-en hard it is to find a good firing position, that is not blocked and has a good escape route. That convenient abandoned building with the open window that over looks their hotel room (with the big bay window that they will conveniently stand by for several moments) does not exist IRL.
Its called a SUPPRESSOR and it REDUCES noise, there is no such thing as a silencer for guns.
Assassinating people with sniper rifles. Movies always gloss over how freak-en hard it is to find a good firing position, that is not blocked and has a good escape route. That convenient abandoned building with the open window that over looks their hotel room (with the big bay window that they will conveniently stand by for several moments) does not exist IRL.
Well all the obvious ones are gone; guns, video games, hacking, computers in general.
So I'm just going to say it's weird the way that they'll portray people who are into BDSM (or any other fetish stuff), dominatrixes or whatever, as being "in character" all the time and having their entire life revolving around it. Like in a lot of crime dramas, where of course they greet the investigating officers in full black leather because naturally they don't have anything else to wear.
So I'm just going to say it's weird the way that they'll portray people who are into BDSM (or any other fetish stuff), dominatrixes or whatever, as being "in character" all the time and having their entire life revolving around it. Like in a lot of crime dramas, where of course they greet the investigating officers in full black leather because naturally they don't have anything else to wear.
The way you describe assassination there... I'm not saying you're wrong, but the way you describe it makes it sounds like you have personal experience. Like you're really a professional assassin (maybe the Sniper from TF2) who always gets frustrated with people telling him how easy his job must be because they've seen it a million times on TV.NWJ94 said:
"Awww noo, they've developed petrochemical industries, aww, those bloody Trojans!"BlazeRaider said:
Ancient/the middle ages. The weapons are wrong, how they are used is wrong, the tactics are wrong, the strategy is wrong, the ideology is wrong, and even the culture is usually wrong. The only example that comes to mind that goes against any of these trends is the directors cut of kingdom of heaven. It still gets most of it wrong but it at least gives glimpses of how things actually were, and in this area I'll take whatever victories I can get, even if they are pathetically bad.
Oh man, I was about to post about this. TV shows and movies in general get computers wrong, but this and the police chase through Second-Life (may not have been on NCIS) are the two dumbest things I've ever, ever seen, and are, frankly, inexcusably inaccurate.ObsidianJones said:
Basically everything about space.Eddie the head said:
Heat, cold, radiation, gravity, Newton's laws, scale, asteroids, gas clouds, relativity, optics, logistics, black holes, supernovae, galactic motion, communication. No movie I know gets everything about space right.
So much this. I'm always a bit annoyed when someone says "Enhance!" and a picture magically reveals information it does not contain.purf said:
All movies have some basis in reality. Generally, if you don't get enough of that reality right, the movie feels a bit weird. How much of reality actually matters depends on the type of movie of course, nobody is going to care about space physics in Star Wars, while they would care if everyone was walking on his hands.spartan231490 said:
Geo Da Sponge said:
Lol, now that I reread it I do sound like a professional hit-man. Which is weird since sniper is my least favorite class in TF2 along with the spy. Since my main is soldier I suppose I would be the (short lived) hit-man trying to rocket jump up to the hotel room with an RPG.
I would say whenever they base a movie off a book, they always change something just for the sake of it. Like in Return of the King, I believe rangers were supposed to come off those Umbarene? ships, and you could have had like a 30 sec clip of Aragorn getting them but nope, invulnerable ghosts are better(who thought that?).
Well I've given up on medical dramas altogether now since they can't be bothered to do anything even half right.
I don't think I have ever seen an EKG even remotely right despite it being so incredibly simple to do, some displays of CPR border irresponsibility if people actually attempted to use them the way they saw it on TV and defibrillation is magic anyway.
And I once caught a few minutes of Dr House where the patient was sitting in his bed with a <url=https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbZF38QxRetGh7IffpJwraphF1rQLGsLwuzVDSjUWsihqTFpsK>Stifneck, a very temporary pre-hospital trauma device which is in no way intended to be worn longer than a few hours. I thought House strived for accuracy!
I don't think I have ever seen an EKG even remotely right despite it being so incredibly simple to do, some displays of CPR border irresponsibility if people actually attempted to use them the way they saw it on TV and defibrillation is magic anyway.
And I once caught a few minutes of Dr House where the patient was sitting in his bed with a <url=https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbZF38QxRetGh7IffpJwraphF1rQLGsLwuzVDSjUWsihqTFpsK>Stifneck, a very temporary pre-hospital trauma device which is in no way intended to be worn longer than a few hours. I thought House strived for accuracy!
A bit off-topic since nowadays most movies do not have the car crashes - must go BOOOM anymore, but yesterday I saw a bit of a Denzel Washington flick "Deja Vu" and... they must have felt the need to make up for this: Three cars exploded - because they were pushed aside.
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Medieval European armor and combat. The armor itself weighed less than what a modern marine carries, it was only around sixty pounds total, and was incredibly well designed. It allowed for great speed and maneuverability, while offering great protection. Also medieval knights did not just relentlessly bash at each other with their swords. The martial style of the time was as evolved and complex as any Asian art and was incredibly fast, agile and deadly. No movie, game, or show (other than some documentaries) has ever, as far as I know, properly shown this.