I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
That water pollution is neon green goo, air pollution is thick black smoke, or radioactive waste is only in drums.
Most of it is invisible and you don’t know about it until it’s too late.
Well how else are you gonna visualize those things for the audience. Same with green smell clouds coming off of something or someone who smells bad. It’s difficult to make the audience understand and care about something invisible
Weirdly fragile characters, im a durable guy and frankly speaking I am not gonna break my leg by kicking a piece of metal on accident, so why do characters who say get thrown around like rag dolls have weirdly low durability towards what should be painful but not serious injuries based off of previous instances. I will accept weird falls without too much questioning though
The show I remember being praised for being the opposite was Netflix’s Daredevil. The fighting sequences were well done and long lasting because people kept getting up instead of just lying there after taking a couple of kicks.
Any kind of severe allergic reaction is going to ruin your week. If you’re in anaphylactic shock, you don’t just pop some antihistamines or an epi-pen and carry on with your day. And you certainly should not be moving around.
This happens in many shows. At least My Girl was more accurate.
When the computer hacker character clicks 8 keystrokes and says, “I’m in!”
Don’t forget looking around the office to find a clue as to what the password is. It’s either the dog’s name or the owner’s favourite baseball player.
Op team sees a family photo on the desk, hacker back at HQ googles the birthday - Bingpot!
The password was “password”.
Or if it’s Chip from marketing, it’s the letter A.
Two people draw guns in each other’s faces point blank but nobody fires. Instead they have a tense conversation.
Talkin’ to you, Malcolm Reynolds and Saffron (or Yolanda or Bridget or whatever).
Bother’s me too a bit. Like, you’re not gonna out-react the other guy while dodging his bullet, are you? Then again, killing someone instantly isn’t as easy either, so there’s a bit of time to fire back… but if it’s one of those scenes where they literally have the gun in the other person’s face, like up against their nose almost? Then you could just shoot the other guy without worrying much, I feel.
Quiet conversations on airplanes and dance floors as if there’s no background noise.
Love this! Normal people would be straining to hear in these situations.
Last night I walked in when my daughter was watching some show, and I noticed behind the characters who were talking everybody else was dancing, but there was no music at all - not even toned down. Very weird staging lol, like a high school prom for mimes. I’ve never seen that before.
Enhance!
The Red Dwarf bit on this is great
No zoom mode?
Lets Enhance is a pretty great supercut, but nothing beats the original Blade Runner scene.
enhance 224 to 176
enhance, stop
move in, stop
pull out, track right, stop
center and pull back, stop
track 45 right, stop
center and stop
enhance 34 to 36
pan right and pull back, stop
enhance 34 to 46
pull back, wait a minute, go right, stop
enhance 57 to 19
track 45 left, stop
enhance 15 to 23
give me a hardcopy right there
I love scenes where a character hotwires a car by:
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reaching under the steering wheel and pulling a panel off. It isn’t held on by fasteners or anything, it’s just like wedged in place.
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A bunch of loosely coiled wires tumbles out. In front are two thicker wires that are cut, stripped and tinned.
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The character strikes these two wires against each other like attempting to strike a match, mostly to make sparks.
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The sound of a car engine turning over plays.
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Climb in, shut the door, put it in gear and drive off.
in defense of that first point, I’ve been in plenty of cars where the panel under the steering wheel was easy to rip off, whether it was screwed in or not.
Plastic is not that strong. especially if its an older car.
especially especially if its a older car thats spent its life in a hot climate.
I remember gta chinatown wars on the DS have an elaborate minigame to hotwire a car, probably wasn’t realistic too, I just liked how it took some time.
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The horror movie character who searches a scary room by walking in and immediately looking intently up at the ceiling, while slowly turning around until he ends up backing into the dangerous thing he somehow didn’t notice.
CPR. Doing 2-3 chest compressions, seconds apart, and then some mouth to mouth, followed by 2-3 more chest compressions. Or the needle into the heart thing. Or the shock a flatline thing. All of it. It’s just all wrong.
On Andromeda? I believe it was, a villain used the stereotypical twist the head to break the neck and they fall over dead bit. The character proceeded to be not dead and did the stereotypical express their love while dying in the protagonist’s arms bit, talking and moving their neck as if it wasn’t broken. And then died.
The Dark Knight trilogy really wanted to be a realistic, grounded take on the Batman mythos, so they dropped the more fantastical elements of some characters’ backstories. Ra’s Al Ghul was no longer immortal, Bane didn’t have super steroids, the Joker wasn’t permanently bleached by chemicals…then there’s Two-Face.
I guess they thought acid burns were too unrealistic, so they gave him regular burns…apparently without knowing that burns that severe would be so painful that he wouldn’t even be able to remain conscious, much less run around the city on a killing spree. I mean, you can see exposed muscle in some places. There’s a line where Gordon says he’s rejecting skin grafts, and I remember thinking, “WTF are you talking about? He should be in a medically induced coma, not making healthcare decisions.” Half of his body was an open wound; I’m amazed he didn’t die of infection 15 minutes after he left the hospital.
There was an analysis of Nolan and post-Nolan Batman that argued that once you strip away all the fantastic parts of Batman, all the Clayfaces and Mr. Freezes and Poison Ivies and the sentient robots and uncanny weirdness, all that is left is a bunch of problems that frankly the cops should be able to handle, and that Batman at that point is just a cop who is willing to violate people’s Constitutional rights.
If Batman can be replaced by a well-outfitted SWAT team, then you’re not writing Batman well enough. Give him some insane nonsense that cops are not equipped to handle.
all that is left is a bunch of problems that frankly the cops should be able to handle
They could but they don’t because corruption.
Fundamentally, Batman isn’t about solving insane problems. He’s driven by his anger to not any other kid be an orphan like him.
That always killed me! Like… bro, a soft breeze should take him out. He’s not ready to be a villain, he’s ready to spend 5+ years in rehab.
They also bankrupted Bruce through theft.
That was one of the biggest things that took me out of that movie. They stage this huge operation at the Gotham Stock Exchange or wherever, everybody knows this giant crime is happening there, but woops, looks like Bruce Wayne has been magically bankrupted, there’s nothing we can do about it. It just took me out of it thinking, “I don’t think you can just bankrupt a billionaire like that.”
I totally agree, really took me out of the movie too.
I find it funny in a world with a billionaire dressing up as a bat, the most ridiculous thing is how they commit white collar crime. I think largely it seemed to easy and also soo stupid that batman wouldn’t have a diversified portfolio with things not all tied up in the stock market.
It’s really crazy, because not only is it obvious, the stock market has several protections for more or less this. Trading is routinely halted when weird things happen like massive plunges in price. Rollbacks are also a thing that happen somewhat regularly for all sorts of reasons.
He could also talk normally despite half of his lips being gone.
The Nolan movies always cared more about giving the appearance of realism by making everything dull and monotone than actually being realistic.
The pseudo-realism in those batman movies and comic book movies in general is a huge part of why I detest them. It’s like an uncanny gap or something. Comic book characters are inherently ridiculous and absurd so I can’t take them seriously. They ask me to suspend too much disbelief.
One specific example from the batman movies is at the end of one of them, I forget which, I think a few hundred cops charge a bunch of guys with machine guns or something? And I remember thinking in the theater they are about to get mowed down World War I style. But somehow they win, they all live, and the streets aren’t flowing with a river of blood. You want me to take them seriously, while having absurd characters and situations, and then you put them in situations where they absolutely should be massacred…I just…I’m out…
I feel like the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies did that well. Sure their absurd but it kinda works into the favor of the movie. Also the acting of basically everyone helped, especially Willem Dafoe chewing the scenery.
First time I saw the Jurassic park I thought no way would intelligent people just run around a huge and therefore dangerous Brachiosaurus or jump out of the car and run right to the ill Triceratops. That would be Darwin’s award kind of madness.
Then I studied biology, got to know some zoologists and paleontologists, and yeah, this is exactly what would happen.
See also Yellowstone National Park visitors
I think about this way too much https://chunkmcbeefchest.com/Podcast/index.php?name=2024-10-25_cmcb108.mp3
I don’t have a particular scene, but a here’s a funny conversation I had with an acquaintance:
Huh, this thing takes just 12 volts. Could run it in a car.
Wait, a car’s electricals are just 12 volts?
Yeah. The battery and most wiring around a car is 12 volts.
Wait… then what about those scenes in movies where they torture people with car batteries?
Yeah, those are fake.
looking into the distance as the realization dawns on him Those movie directors deserve jail time.
This is completely ignoring amperage and lowered resistance via saline. An automotive battery with sufficient CCA applied to sweaty or salt-water-doused skin wouldn’t be fun to be on the receiving end of. And if they’re using a picana, which they often are, things are going to be even worse.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YeSHOAqSefs
You’d still be better off just hooking into 120v AC lol.
If the skin is punctured then yes of course it would hurt a lot. But with sweat/saltwater? I’m no expert, but I highly doubt it. I remember helping a friend out with his boat (also 12v) during a hot summer, and I was holding onto the battery terminals with really sweaty hands. It was just a tingle.
Puncturing the skin has nothing to do with it. Human skin normally has high resistance, the palms and fingertips more so due to their skin being thicker and more likely to be calloused. Saline will always lower that resistance, though possibly not enough to allow for painful shocks across the width of your body from fingertip to fingertip. That’s quite a lot of resistance to overcome. There’s also the matter of the resistance provided by the terminals, but we’ll handwave that.
How often would you try to shock someone’s palms in a torture situation? How often do you expect to see current routed from the left hand all the way over to the right hand? And how likely are you to use just the lead battery terminals? Generally, you’d administer the shock across a shorter span, minimizing the most resistive part of the circuit. Any area with thinner, more sensitive skin is likely to experience thermal discomfort from a high amperage current, especially with lowered resistance. Even at 12V, it wouldn’t exactly be pleasant. The resistance is lowered even further by using thick copper cables, which are much more conductive than the lead terminals.
The picana makes it all so much worse. Ohm’s law tells us that current is equal to voltage divided by resistance. The rheostat in the picana allows the resistance in the circuit to be manipulated further at the turn of a dial. Cranking down the resistance means more current is applied, and that current is flowing through two copper conductors that are typically pretty close together. That means you have even less skin to serve as an insulator against the current, which ultimately results in more pain for the unlucky person being tortured.
Quite a few of them have several car batteries in series so as to increase the voltage. And also Which is the Killer, Current or Voltage?
“We got their hard drive!” *Holds up a power supply.
And even if it was a hard drive, what were you going to do with it? You went in there guns blazing with no warrant after you knocked on the wrong door. The evidentiary chain is well and truly broken at this point. Nothing from that scene would be able to be entered into evidence.
“I want a lawyer!”
Cops: Proceed to very thoroughly not respect Miranda law and continue to interrogate
