That's Not How It's Done!
Have you ever watched a show or film, read a book or played a game, only for something to happen but YOU knew better through personal experience?
Watching a video review the other night. 2 of the 3 reviewers were doctors. They saw someone faint and a 'doctor' came over. They were laughing at how he wasn't doing anything right. I also remembered an episode of the Simpsons. Bart was a boy scout watching itchy and scratchy. Rather than laugh he gave out about how the knot used on scratchy wasn't correct.
Do you ever do this? Maybe from a job or hobby and thinking "That's not how it's done!"
Watching a video review the other night. 2 of the 3 reviewers were doctors. They saw someone faint and a 'doctor' came over. They were laughing at how he wasn't doing anything right. I also remembered an episode of the Simpsons. Bart was a boy scout watching itchy and scratchy. Rather than laugh he gave out about how the knot used on scratchy wasn't correct.
Do you ever do this? Maybe from a job or hobby and thinking "That's not how it's done!"
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But I will say that anything about cars in movies really bugs me the most. I can't watch any Fast and Furious movies for that reason.
The show Scorpion is great for this. The science is nearly always wrong. A show about geniuses written by idiots.
I watched it once only because it happened to be on when I turned the TV on. I continued to watch for a few minutes only because of the number of actors that I recognized (some of which I really enjoy). I honestly can't think of a show I've ever watched that was worse than this. It was the episode where they use dry ice to stop tornados. I hope everyone in my part of the country watched that episode so they are prepared for next tornado season.
Saying something wrong-- now that's a different story.
But I will say that anything about cars in movies really bugs me the most. I can't watch any Fast and Furious movies for that reason.
Wait...So I'm not supposed to use the shifter like I'm angrily mixing a batch of cookie dough?
But I will say that anything about cars in movies really bugs me the most. I can't watch any Fast and Furious movies for that reason.
those movies haven't been about cars for a while now the last one that came out had a scene where vin diesel and Jason statham had a sword fight with huge wrenches, and the rock shooting a giant Gatling gun on a broken leg. (I may have the actors mixed up) but yeah they are fucking ridiculous and it is fantastic
But I will say that anything about cars in movies really bugs me the most. I can't watch any Fast and Furious movies for that reason.
those movies haven't been about cars for a while now
I wouldn't know. I never made it past the first one.
And I never will.
But I will say that anything about cars in movies really bugs me the most. I can't watch any Fast and Furious movies for that reason.
Wait...So I'm not supposed to use the shifter like I'm angrily mixing a batch of cookie dough?
That's actually a pretty good one. People constantly shift gears in movies at times when shifting gears wouldn't make sense.
This reminds me of another one. For some reason, in TV or in movies, when people are driving, they have to move the steering wheel all over the place even though they are going in a straight line.......
And while there's always a place and a reason for stereotypes to exist, to see that an already heavily-stigmatized hobby like RPGs is continually cast in that kind of light to the masses just makes me wish I could educate people more on the subject.
I mean, there is Piranha Acid which is a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. But it's not exactly instant like the movies...and it's only really used by companies who make CPU chips....and the fumes are highly corrosive.
You will never find a movie or TV show that gets any of that right. /thread
Wait! Go back a frame. There. Zoom... and enhance! *blurry face becomes completely recognizable*
Alright, to make a short story long, Captain Cold has a freeze gun that freezes things to absolute zero. He gets a partner who has a heat gun that, well, shoots fire. The Star Labs gang finds out that the heat gun heats things to "absolute hot" and decides that the guns will cancel each other out if the streams cross. What's so bad about this? Absolute zero is a measurable temperature. It's 0 degrees kelvin or, get this, about 460 degrees fahrenheit. That's about what you'd set your oven at to heat up a frozen pizza. Believe it or not, that's not the absolute hottest temperature in the universe unless you think the sun is only about as powerful as an electric oven. Hint: it's a bit hotter at just about 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.
When people are playing video games in movies and they don't even 1cc it......I mean come on they are spending all this money to make this right and the person can't even 1cc it.
This really is the worst. Bunch of rocket 80s scientists.
Modern pinball machines in movies with electromechanical pinball sounds from the 60s. Modern video games making Atari and 80s arcade sounds. It's gotta be some kind of inside joke.
I can't help but laugh when (and, yeah, it's a staggeringly common occurance) someone in a movie/TV show is playing a handheld game system (typically a Game Boy or Game Gear) and is playing furiously, accompanied by plenty of sound effects...despite the fact that there is clearly no game in the thing.
Absolute zero is a measurable temperature. It's 0 degrees kelvin
Fixed it for you.
I think my best example is Swordfish...how he broke 1028bit encryption under a minute on a laptop at some random place under a gun to his head and a girl giving a blow job. I don't think I recall any movie trying to show realistic world through a so distorted prism of movie script.
Hackers was worse, but the same goes for any movie that tries to do computers. And yeah, I notice things like this all the time and cringe when appropriate.
No, Megan Fox, that isn't a Holly double pumper.