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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Impressively accurate meme. 4650630 is indeed a 2x2 lime slope peace.

https://www.toypro.com/gb/product/6082/slope-2-x-2-45/lime

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago
[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

This is the kind of rant I came here for

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

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

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, these sharks aren't going to fuck themselves, buddy, get back to work.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

That weed won't smoke itself either

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[–] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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!

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

They probably didn't even record any sounds when they shot the scene.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate it when they have a modern fighter jet firing it's guns and it sounds like "thunka thunka thunka thunka".

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Do they even still mount guns on fighter jets or do they just use missiles?

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

20mm vulcan guns on most us jets, because you can't jam a bullet

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[–] MBM@lemmings.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

When the Hollywood movie shows anything related to your home country / language

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.

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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

insert any European watching Eurotrip, where London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome are all shot in Prague

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[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

When British person learns Serbian for one night. No, you can't be that intelligent.

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[–] piboy@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, yall laugh but thats some pretty damn specialist knowledge there

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Autists gonna autist

Source: am autist

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

What, are we supposed to believe there is a parallel universe where Lego produced lime green slopes in the 1980s? Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

How can someone pay attention to this level of detail?

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Some things you just know.

I’m an aviation nut. I can spot right away when a movie has an incorrect aircraft type or livery. And don’t even get me started on cockpit layouts. If you have a particular interest, usually you can spot some glaring issues that others wouldn’t even notice.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a fellow aviation nerd, what do you think about Top Gun? Or the sequel?

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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They can't not

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

I would have probably noticed too – I had legos in the 90s and had never seen a lime piece until much later.

I don't consider myself a lego enthusiast, just an old dude who played with them when I was a kid.

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[–] Chronic_Intermission@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I love that he has a bell to ring, presumably when he gives up on a movie so he can announce to the room when he's going to get up and walk away from it. His girlfriend/wife already knows what's going to happen. It's been 10 years, and he still hasn't picked up what she's putting down when she asks if he wants to watch Netflix and chill.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago

I just assumed that's the guy from cinemasins. ding

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought of Hector from Breaking Bad when I saw that.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are you guys telling me that you don't see the part numbers when you look at LEGO pieces?

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

This channel has a lime piece as the logo if you squint your eyes.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The original bottom pics were for something quite different lol

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