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When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies
As a siren enthusiast, it gets old hearing the same few stock sounds used for civil defense sirens in films. You'll get British WW2 siren sounds despite the movie taking place in the US, or they'll show a siren but with audio from an entirely different siren. Even the recent Twisters movie even got it wrong, showing an American Signal Tempest-121 mechanical siren going off with audio from a Whelen electronic speaker siren.
This is the kind of rant I came here for
There's a few reasons for this, firing the real siren on set is not practical due to the audio levels, they could maybe record it separately but that's an extra thing to do, and why bother when "air_raid_siren_004.wav" is right there? Also audiences are used to "air_raid_siren_004.wav" and they'll know immediately what it's supposed to be, if you played the real sounds and it's too unusual, it'll make the audience think about it and take them out of the story. There's so much stuff like this I'm filmmaking where if you stop to think about it critically for a second it doesn't make sense, but that's the point they don't want you thinking about that, they want you thinking about the story and the characters. I know that's frustrating when it's your topic but I'm sure you're glad they do it like this in any other case.
I'm well aware of why they don't use the actual sounds, I don't expect them to actually go out of their way to get recordings for it lol. It's just very noticeable when you're familiar with the sirens.
I hear you! I work in the field and felt like giving context, it's hard to know what's common knowledge and not sometimes. The main point is, a lot of this stuff isn't "mistakes" but either deliberate so as not to distract or just way more convenient for the production pipeline.
Try working in cyber security.
"I'm going to build a GUI in Visual Basic"
they do the same thing with phone rings.
It's practically all one specific wall mount model, only the problem is that it was dubbed from a record recording, so it has warble on it. And you can very clearly hear it.
You don't understand how awful it is to have studied both physics and history. Everything is so horribly misrepresented everywhere all the time. I'm losing it
Psych background, it's bad too but nothing makes me scream more than the "you only use 10% of the brain" crap. When that movie all about that came out I absolutely lost it.
ugh, i feel like twice a week im having to tell people "using one hundred percent of your brain is called a fucking seizure"
We only use 10% of our brain, just like a traffic light only uses 1/3 of its lamps.
Reminds me of the scene in Friends when Rachel looks Ross dead in the eye and says Jurassic Park could have happened and his entire brain goes into meltdown
Hey, these sharks aren't going to fuck themselves, buddy, get back to work.
That weed won't smoke itself either
Is there a username_checksout community, yet?
Or drugs. I was a heavy drug addict for a good portion of my life and it’s so annoying how directors will be so up their own ass about “research” but can’t even do a simple google search to see the difference between a meth and a crack pipe (crack pipes are just a glass tube with steel wool shoved in one end. Meth pipes are the ones with the bowl on the end of the stem.) or how pupils react to opiates vs stimulants. Not every fucking drug makes them big.
The first movie I saw where the character does a shot and overdoses on heroin and if zooms in on her face and her pupils turn to pinpoints I was amazed lol. (The plane movie with Denzel Washington)
I know it’s not a huge deal and people that haven’t done hard drugs (which I understand is most people lol) it just bothers me how easy it is to take 5 seconds to do a google search on the directors phone for accuracy
I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can't outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don't follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.
lol yup one thing I can't ignore are helicopter and plane sounds. There could be an actual friggin blackhawk landing (Jack Ryan is a perfect example) and they edit in incorrect sounds!
They probably didn't even record any sounds when they shot the scene.
I especially hate it when you see a Warthog firing the old Avenger and they've made it sound like a slightly more rapid version of the original Gatling Gun. So underwhelming.
I hate it when they have a modern fighter jet firing it's guns and it sounds like "thunka thunka thunka thunka".
Do they even still mount guns on fighter jets or do they just use missiles?
20mm vulcan guns on most us jets, because you can't jam a bullet
They do still mount guns on most. Notable examples of gunless fighters I can think of are the F-117 Nighthawk and the F-4 Phantom. F-117s weren't really fighters, and got the F designation to lure in crazy fighter jocks. F-4s were later fitted with a gun pod, and then (IIRC) retrofitted with a gun.
yes but they all go bbbbuuuuuurrrrrtttt
When the Hollywood movie shows anything related to your home country / language
When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.
insert any European watching Eurotrip, where London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome are all shot in Prague
i mean, to be fair basically no movie is shot in the place where it's plot originated. Same for TV shows.
When British person learns Serbian for one night. No, you can't be that intelligent.
The hacking scene in the Matrix sequel is actually pretty accurate.
“My Cousin Vinny” is almost entirely realistic as far as the courtroom scenes.
A mobster reported that Joe Pesci generally plays a very accurate gangster when he plays a gangster in movies. Most of the time, he’s this weirdly dark violent loose cannon outlier, because they can’t just make every character a psychopath and have people enjoy watching the movie, but he’s the one that is playing the role accurately.
When “King of the Hill” showed Bobby doing stage magic, it was all real magic tricks with his hands and props positioned so that he’d be able to really do the things he was showing.
The corpsman scene in “Captain Phillips” was very legit.
Everything else is a bunch of crap.
There’s also this stuff: https://youtube.com/@Insider
(BTW, the corpsman scene leaves me sobbing, every time, no exceptions.)
Gun related scenes are top notch in John Wick. I love how real shit happens like he loses ammo count or jams, instantly remedies the situation. And believe this, plenty of gun nuts counted for him and I've never heard anyone call out an inaccuracy.
Also like how there's nothing fancy. For example, look at what the The Sommelier recommends; Glock pistols, AR-15 rifle and a Benelli for a shotgun. No idea how Hollywood resisted gimmicky bullshit, but I would have screamed if they came with a funky looking KelTec.
The action, morseo in the first movie, is on the bleeding edge of believable. I'm sure by now everyone who has any interest has seen Keanu practice guns, and before that martial arts for *The Matrix".
Hard to overstate how difficult all that is. Targeting while moving is hell, worst with a pistol, but even a shotgun isn't much better. Notice how he reloads the shotgun before he's out of ammo, doesn't have to pump it? You can do the same with a semi-auto anything, don't shoot the last round before reloading.
I could train like that for weeks and never come close. I can ping every piece of steel, over and over, but even at a creeping walk? LOL, nope. Fuck me, I can't even master the violin or combat load with a 12-gauge. Hmmm, I'm off tomorrow and have plenty of shells.
EDIT: Speaking of jams, there's an unscripted "stovepipe" in The Way of The Gun that Benecio del Toro clears with a textbook move. I've managed to do that once I saw it!
The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang as she communicates with the tower.