“Call me at 555…”
When I was a young lad fake phone numbers really pissed me off.
There’s a service that will give real phone numbers for movies and TV, and setup a related voice message to play when you call.
Shoehorned romantic stories.
Just give me my damn movie.Top Gun for example.
When the scene is incredibly quiet because they want to make one moment seem even louder than it actually is
Characters repeatedly “dying” but then surviving again. That’s why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
This is so important! People like to be surprised by inciting incidents, not by the consequences of them. Showing a character dying and then not having them die is a good way to make the audience think you’re lying when you’re not.
Jon Snow has re-entered the chat
Haha fair enough you got me there
Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters. Everyone would normally think it’s too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows. Except the “killing off characters” thing ,the show was well made.
1890 beggars with … Perfect teeth!
And medieval people with good skin, even the poor people
Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Im honestly not super bothered by it. Why have an actor cough if it doesn’t mean something?
I think it can be done well, but it’s often done poorly. Like a closeup of a character coughing is pretty obviously going to mean something later, it’s so predictable as to be boring. IMO, a good Chekhov’s Gun is something that surprises you at first but makes sense when you remember it later, or at least something where you have to keep guessing when it’s going to come up. The viewer should feel clever for picking up on it. Knives Out is a great example of this being done well many times over.
Yeah, they’re always needs to be a checkovs gun for things
I think it comes down to different approaches to writing. One is to only keep what’s absolutely necessary to the plot. Done well, this can result in a tight narrative, but done poorly it can be way too predictable.
Another is to add little details that, while not necessary to the plot, may make the world/characters feel more real. Done well you can get some believably human characters, but done poorly it just feels bloated.
Similarly, there is only one reason for a woman to vomit in a movie.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn’t even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don’t respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don’t get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don’t get time to “breathe”.
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it’s derided as predictable, or lauded as “tight”. It’s a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.
Bad foreign languages. It always annoys me when an actor is pretending to be fluent in a language while it’s obvious that they’re not. And not just for the main actors, sometimes even the extras sound like confused tourists working their way through a phrase book.
It’s most likely because the movie was filmed somewhere other than on location, but it still annoys me.I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.
So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.
No, you need two people typing on the same keyboard to prevent a hacker from infiltrating their system.
Here’s some sugar for you
Such a good show. :D
Except for that one scene in The Matrix Reloaded where we get to see actual vulnerabilities exploited.
That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.
But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.
I’m pretty sure we can do this with a bash script. Now I want it.
Mr. Robot
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
It’d be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.
People being tied up with ropes that are an inch in diameter. That’s not how knots work!
Similarly, handcuffs that you could just slip out of.
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn’t going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
Wilhelm scream. It was cute in like 2007 when the internet called attention to it, and now it’s in everything and is no longer funny or interesting.
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they’ve seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it’s not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
And it would be so hot as well. Server racks expel uncomfortable heat. Without an industrial sized HVAC system your improvised datacenter would become a sauna in a matter of minutes. There’s a reason datacenter would be a warehouse sized fridge if it wasn’t for the extreme heat that the server racks output. You need thick coats to enter those places for how cold they are, but only because they’re battling the heat from all those chips and other electronics.
Being in a volcano or near lava and not burning up.
Ringing landline phones. They’re always SO LOUD and ring at least four times before someone picks up in nearly every scene they’re featured in. I’m just trying to quietly watch a movie late at night without waking anyone.
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they’re on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
