Impressively accurate meme. 4650630 is indeed a 2x2 lime slope peace.
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.
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.
Try working in cyber security.
“I’m going to build a GUI in Visual Basic”
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.
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 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?
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
20mm vulcan guns on most us jets, because you can’t jam a bullet
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.
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
The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang as she communicates with the tower.
It usually doesn’t take much work to get stuff like that right.
And yet, so many pieces of media still get it wrong
What’s the vector, Victor
we have clearence, clarance
Hm… she uses some of the right words, but it’s not accurate to how a pilot would speak. There’s way too many words.
“Island approach, IG99 checking in VFR on top, over” would be “Island approach IG99 inbound”
“Island tower” would still be “Island approach,” and “Island tower, this is IG99 requesting vectors to the initial, over” would be “Island approach, IG99 inbound, you there?” or something.
Also, WarGames was very accurate, except for the “WOPR having artificial general intelligence” part.
nmaps a good choice to hit when your manager walks by. Always good to have it run in a loop on a terminal you can quickly tab over to from YouTube.
I’ve been working for Microsoft for the last two years now and have committed maybe 250 lines of code in total. Ask Me Anything.
How long will Win 10 IoT be viable for gaming and home use?
Probably late in October.
Edit: misread this as “how long until”
Nmap isn’t encouraged where I work. I ran it once on a customer’s IP a couple months when I first started here. The firewall interpreted it as an attack, and blocked us for 20 mins. Except we had a BOVPN connection to them, so 20mins never reset because it thought we kept hitting it. Since we needed to hit it to change the setting manually, it was pretty annoying to fix, though one of our guys managed about 5-6 hours later that night.
(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!
https://screenrant.com/heat-shootout-scene-marine-weapons-training/
IDK how much of that being shown to marine recruits is real, or if so, how much was just because the marine trainers wanted the recruits to have something badass they could aspire to for themselves. But apparently there’s a bit of truth to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhV2u4a_pV0
Joe Pesci apparently did the same thing in Goodfellas, with wanting full load blanks in his gun for shootout scenes.
Just once I would like a movie about a computer person that doesn’t focus on their over-exaggerated autism
The Matrix (1999)
Every character in the matrix has turboautism.
Well that’s because the main character is a trans girl, and who’s ever heard of a trans girl who wasn’t autistic?
The Net with Sandra Bullocksies.
Or at the very least make it some different type of autism expression, give me the tired autist who is very aware of social situations but doesn’t give a shit anymore. Or even manic goblin autist who has found stability in a form of controlled chaos, no I don’t mean in a manic pixie dream girl sorta way I mean they shot put a fucken wrench through a wall to kill a fly that’s been annoying them for the last 40 minutes sorta way.
the only good one i know is abed from community
Your second example is Wrench from Watch_Dogs 2 to a T
I wanna be friends with that second one
Hang on to your butts!
How about Goldeneye? Two computer people in main roles and I don’t think either can be really called autistic.
Boris is sure interesting, but not autistic. Maybe dips into the spectrum at most.
Anti-Trust (2001). Also has early GNOME in some shots as well
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
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?
[email protected] ~200 subscribers
[email protected] ~100 subscribers
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Wow they’re all inactive, but thanks!
Good. It’s Reddit culture and doesn’t belong here.
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.
Maybe the movie was about epilepsy ?
We have unlocked you full potential… seizures.
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
I mean for history half of Wikipedia is garbage western liberal based narratives. Movies are at least wrong for entertainment.
Wikipedia is usually pretty good for math and science at least. So there is that. And then movies are just wrong to a comical degree. The good will hunting hallway proof still annoys me.
half of Wikipedia is garbage western liberal based narratives
Not what we were talking about, but okay. Are you sure you are not the one who’s suffering from narratives?
Tankies never miss a good opportunity to bitch about liberals, even when it’s not relevant to the discussion at all whatsoever.
What do communists hate more than anything? A decentralized system where the people consuming the product are the ones creating the product, and it’s all governed transparently by the people involved getting together and having councils about what’s going to happen.
What do communists love? Putin and the way he operates the Russian government, internally and geopolitically.
It’s just basic common sense, basically. Oh also they love calling people “bootlickers” if they don’t agree with any of the above. It’s all completely sensible.
I’ve got a chemistry degree and I do reenactment and how average people lived throughout history is a big hobby of mine.
Media hurts me so much.
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’m not into Lego (coz it costs too much) but the lime part really stands out.
When the Hollywood movie shows anything related to your home country / language
Including the United States, if you live anywhere outside of southern California.
When British person learns Serbian for one night. No, you can’t be that intelligent.
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.
Oh yes for sure, this particular example is just pretty extreme, I think that might be part of why it wasn’t as well known in Europe? I only saw it years later myself. Maybe it’s just that Europeans weren’t as keen to laugh at their own stereotypes. Also I had just watched it the night before so the example was fresh in my mind. To be clear I laughed my as off watching it, it’s all good (though I do wonder if some of the humour would still fly today).
When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.
#amateur hour
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How can someone pay attention to this level of detail?
when you interact with something on such a deep level, for me i’m a linux enthusiast and computer hardware nerd. I know quite a bit about computers, networking, operating systems and malware. These things are just second nature.
Basically all implementations of these things in movies, shows or generally any media at all, is pretty inaccurate, unless it’s not the direct focal point, in which case it’s “accurate enough” because it literally doesn’t matter and could be some obscure implementation of something.
It’s like if you hired someone, who doesn’t know anything about that particular job position, to do that particular job (because that’s literally what happens more of the time) they just pay someone to “make it happen” and it does, and it’s often not very accurate.
When it does happen accurately, thank god they hired some weird grey beard with archaic knowledge on unix and historically relevant hardware setups, because holy shit does it add SO much to the media.
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.
Watch Flight Risk with Marky Mark. I was laughing out loud in the theater at some of the “inaccuracies”
At least they get some credit for using an actual aircraft. They filmed using an actual Cessna 208 on a platform.
https://sonycine.com/behind-the-scenes-flight-risk/
All in all, despite the rather silly nature of the movie, I quire enjoyed it. Was fun.
As a fellow aviation nerd, what do you think about Top Gun? Or the sequel?
I haven’t seen the sequel, but the original was filmed in actual F14 aircraft, so I’d be amazed if the cockpit layout was wrong.
TBH my take on it is that they pretend fighters are still doing the same thing as in WWII or maybe Korea, just with missiles. No BVR or anything. There is this Indian short that was more tense for me than the whole of Top Gun and it feels so much closer to the real thing.
That said, I don’t like Tom Cruise because of his slavery side gig and IDK jack about Indian-Pakistani relations, so take it with that in mind.
ADHD is a bitch.
I know, I live with it since 1990
Did you not take the hyperfixation perk? Rookie move. There’s supposed to be one thing you’re permanently weird about.
I have one of those but doenst work for long, maybe I should get an upgrade. My autistic husband on the other hand, I see him being able to notice details like that.
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.
They can’t not
Yeah, yall laugh but thats some pretty damn specialist knowledge there
Autists gonna autist
Source: am autist
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.
Uh, yeah, well, whenever you see something like that in a Stephen King movie…Derry’s evil did it.
And in Xena: warrior princess, a wizard did it.
I put on my robe and wizard hat
This channel has a lime piece as the logo if you squint your eyes.
The original bottom pics were for something quite different lol
Ding, ding, ding, ding
Do tell eyelash flutter
It was about minorities in media
Link?
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.
I just assumed that’s the guy from cinemasins. ding
I thought of Hector from Breaking Bad when I saw that.
Bang, zoom, straight to the moon.
Are you guys telling me that you don’t see the part numbers when you look at LEGO pieces?
I’m this way with knitting VS crochet, as well as watching if someone is actually knitting or “knitting.”
The whitewashing of Fritz Von Erich in Iron Claw. Also Mike had his feet in the proper place for that head lock.
Am I stupid or is this AI?
It’s 4chan
Strong argument.
Im not making an argument. It’s 4chan, of course it is stupid. (to be clear 4chan/ the post us stupid not you)
To be extremely clear, I joined Lemmy explicitly to be fucking stupid. I’m already banned for shit posting on other sites…
¿porque no los dos?
I do want Taco Bell right now! Thank you for reminding me!
which part?
Lime
Lime is a color
It’s a fruit.
who tf downvoted you
The Nefarious Demiurge.
It’s an electric vehicle rental company.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(transportation_company)
You might be stupid, yeah.
Are the sentences not making sense, is that it?
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