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“You Are Going To Be Dead, My Dude”: 50 Internet Users Ruin Popular Movie Tropes With Their In-Depth Knowledge
We all know that unless we’re watching a particularly well-researched and historically accurate documentary that the things featured in films and TV shows simply aren’t real. The writers and directors have to take certain creative liberties to create drama and tension and move the story along.
However, once you know something to be factually false, it can take you out of the story. Redditor u/Eatar sparked an interesting discussion on r/movies when they asked everyone to use their technical knowledge to ‘ruin’ popular movie tropes for everyone else. Scroll down to see what they shared. But be warned, Pandas, you might not be able to look at fire alarms, chloroform, silencers, and courtroom drama the same ever again!
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#1
“Enhance!”
Anytime they take some grainy footage or picture then the tech specialist taps a few buttons, zooms in, and makes the license place of the car in the parking lot 2km away fully legible. Like pulling the pixels from thin air.
That’s not how that works, that’s not how any of that works.
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#2
My sister is an architect and absolutely hates the spy trope of maneuvering through the air vents. air vents are designed to hold air, not people. they’d certainly collapse under the weight of fully grown, muscular man.
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Plus, even if it didn't collapse, it would be like crawling through a drum kit. The bad guys would hear you two floors away.
#3
The obligatory corset lacing scene in any period piece, particularly if the woman has to hold a bed post while she's being tight laced, PARTICULARLY if she's not wearing anything under the corset. These scenes are media shorthand for 'look how oppressed women were back back then' and perpetuate a lot of myths. For one, very few women tight-laced their corsets, only those who were extremely fashionable (on this note, you also shouldn't believe every antique photo of wasp-waisted women you come across - folks edited their photos back then too). For another, tight-lacing only even became possible part way thru the 1800's when metal grommets started being used for eyelets - in previous decades and centuries, these would be hand-stitched, and would rip if you even tried to tight-lace (here's looking at you, Pirates of the Caribbean). For a third, ALL women wore these garments for back and bust support, stomach support (when you spend a lifetime bearing kids, this comes in clutch), and garment support (wearing layers of petticoats, skirts, etc. would be extremely uncomfortable if hung directly off your waist). And finally, they were NEVER worn directly against your skin! They'd have been worn over a chemise, which would protect your skin from rubbing, and protect the corset from your body oils since it's a difficult item to wash.
Becky Samuel 11 months ago
If you're looking at Pirates of the Caribbean for historical accuracy you're going to have a hard time.
When we go to the cinema or put on a movie at home, we’re entering into a sort of unspoken agreement with the team behind the entire project. They promise to entertain us somehow. Meanwhile, we subtly promise to go along with the story… so long as most things make sense within the context of the story.
The audience willingly suspends its disbelief, and in return, they get to go on a journey of adventure, intrigue, romance, mystery, horror, or all of the above.
#4
If you put the lights on the inside of your space helmet, you wouldn't be able to see s**t outside of your space helmet.
Of course, if you put the lights on the outside then we wouldn't see your pretty face. 😞
#5
Any server room ever, or whenever they put racks of high power computer equipment in a scene to make it look techy, and then proceed to have a normal conversation at normal volume. Server rooms and server hardware is f*****g loud. The fans are f*****g loud. The ac units are f*****g loud. I generally need hearing protection when I’m in a server room. Literally no movie server rooms are realistic.
Spencer Smith 11 months ago
Thank You!: This one drives me nuts! If you're talking to someone in a server room, you're shouting. Looking at you "Free Guy".
#6
Against popular opinion, an explosion will not “blow you to safety”. You are going to be dead, my dude. A shockwave can cause rupture of your lungs in an instant as well as where any gas pockets in the body live. Gut, sinus cavities, ears. Thermobaric shockwaves can leave a spider web of fractures in the skull. Long story short, if you’ve been thrown by a blast, you may not be dead now but you will be soon.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
"Thermobaric shockwaves" Google that if you never want to sleep well again.
The main issue when it comes to immersion is believability. When building up the world of the film, the director, producers, and writers have to pay attention to how the details work together in unison. Let’s reiterate that everything has to make sense in the context of the story that’s being told.
For example, you can certainly enjoy a story about knights, dragons, and political intrigue even though dragons don’t exist. However, everything would fall apart if you suddenly added poor story development, stiff dialogue, irrational battle tactics, and illogical character motivations that flip-flop from one episode to the next. The events can (and even should!) be dramatic, but they have to be somewhat grounded and believable. You have to build up to the payoff instead of slapping your audience with illogical ‘twists’ that will make them grumble at the water cooler the next day.
#7
A ton of foley effects are basically just things we've been trained to expect earlier use in other movies. Swords don't make *shing* sounds when they're just being waved through the air (or even when pulled out of most types of scabbard), and even when hitting other swords they make more of a clacking sound most of the time. Punches are sometimes more realistic but a lot of movies use foley from smashing watermelons. Real eagles make sounds more like seagulls (the standard foley sound is a hawk). The MGM lion roar is actually a tiger sound. My favorite: a lot of animal sounds in movies are actually just Alan Tudyk.
Moosy Girl 11 months ago
As one redditor once put it: “In Encanto, Alan Tudyk voices a Toucan. He also voices Hei Hei the chicken in Moana. This proves that Alan can handle the birden of voice acting.“
#8
Tying a rope around your waist will not save you from a fall. Climbing harnesses go around yout pelvic bone and hips. They are designed to stretch to cushion your fall and place all your body weight on your a*s, which can take it. Tying a random rope around your waist will crush your internal organs and break your spine.
#9
In apocalypse the leather and natural fiber stuff will rot away first and the polyester and Lycra and spandex will last forever. So road warriors will be in lulu lemon.
"There can be a dragon. The dragon can swear, smoke cigars, and drink whiskey if it wants to. But if it starts talking about cigars and whiskey and gets basic facts (which are easily found) wrong, someone's going to notice, and that will pull them out of the moment. The audience will willingly accept the big stuff, or they wouldn’t watch the movie. It's the small stuff that's distracting, and sometimes you wonder if they could've avoided it,” writer and movie fan Christopher Burke explained to Bored Panda earlier.
#10
Mine is a complete misunderstanding of the weight of money. I think Way of the Gun pretty well nailed it, in that our protagonists wanted a million dollars in unmarked twenties and fifties or something, and I think it was two good-sized heavy-a*s duffel bags. This is accurate, because the weight of an American bill is about a gram, so you can figure the math from there.
Which brings me to that Zack Snyder Netflix Zombie Movie. So, Hiroyuki Sanada wants Dave Bautista to loot $200 million from a casino vault. At this point, I don’t even care about zombies; I start thinking about how to move that kind of cash. Like, physically move it; not like how to launder it or anything like that. Even if every single bill in that casino’s vault was a hundred dollar bill, we are talking about two thousand kilograms, or about 4,400 pounds, and the plan is to fly it out on what appears to be a UH-1H “Huey.” Problem is, they’ve got a big group, but we can sidestep that, because we know people gonna die. So, let’s say they’re planning on half of the people getting out. I think that ends up at seven people (I don’t know, because I haven’t seen this steaming pile of s**t since it was new), and we will just ballpark each person at 70 kilos, or about 154 pounds, which leaves about 2500 pounds for payload and, y’know, fuel. Well, now we’re already down to $100 million and change, which is great for the seven people, but this is still assuming everyone who walked into the casino with cash had $100 bills and nothing else.
At this point, Dave Bautista should have done some basic math on the napkin of the s****y restaurant he was working in and told Hiroyuki Sanada to go f**k himself, and everybody would have been a lot happier, including the audience.
Multa Nocte 11 months ago
This is one of the best critiques I have ever read, especially that last paragraph.
#11
Electricity has no idea what color wire it is flowing through. While there are standards colors for certain things (Black and red come to mind), trusting the mad bomber to follow any kind of color scheme is never done.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
IRL the bomb squad uses what's called a disruption charge. It's a shaped charge with a layer of inert material like water. basically they kill the bomb with another bomb. The idea is to separate every bit of the bomb from every other bit of the bomb before the bomb goes boom.
#12
The fire alarm is a good one. The male lead pulls the alarm, and his lady love kisses him while the water romantically showers them both. As an electrician who has been there while they change the system, that water stinks and is black and disgusting. Chances are, especially in old school buildings, that water has been sitting in those pipes for possibly years. Whole generations of bacteria have lived their lives in those pipes. That s**t is the worst smell, it stinks up whole rooms when they drain it. And it’s nasty brown black. I don’t think I could kiss someone that just took a shower in it.
Kari Panda 11 months ago (edited)
Also, some places don’t use water. I work in a big, very old library and we have books/documents dating back centuries. In case of a fire, the rooms they’re kept in will fill with argon which will suffocate any people left in there. Only a handful of our employees are authorised to enter these rooms, and they need to undergo a special training. There is some waiting period for them to leave before the gas starts streaming in, but it’s not much. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it was ~ 1 minute.
"Every now and then, I find myself focusing on something that just takes me out of it. Information is readily available. I would rather that the movie makers created a fictitious train, such as the T line, than use a real line and have it go where it doesn't belong (and no one has a problem with this)," the author gave an example of how subway systems should (not) be used in films.
"Using Vancouver or Toronto for Brooklyn is fine. I accept that. Using Hoyt–Schermerhorn as a stand-in for City Hall is fine, too,” he urged the teams creating movies to do some proper fact-checking so that they could maintain the immersion for more people for longer.
#13
Private investigators existing in some legal gray area where they’re willing to risk their lives/do highly illegal s**t for clients. I make good money as a PI, I’m not about to risk my license to do anything illegal for a client, and I’m certainly not going to get in a fist fight on the roof of a high rise building.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago
The number of programmes where the PI breaks the law, in the name of justice, is legion. My other pet peeve is, Private Detective. Detective is a rank, not a job. It's the same as saying Private Sargent, or Private Colonel.
#14
As someone who competitively rode horses for over a decade, my husband now reflexively looks at me whenever a horse appears on screen because there's always just so many things I have to eye roll at.
The most common offense is the horse neighs that are piped in as the hero rides on/off screen. Amazing that they're vocalizing without moving their mouth/nose.
The "majestic stallion" is almost NEVER a stallion as they're notoriously difficult to work with, and you shouldn't pair with an unexperienced actor. And sometimes you can tell the horse changes gender or markings between scenes due to multiple horses being used.
Some actors and actresses are pretty good riders, but a lot of them are just hanging on for dear life.
I'm also remembering at the end of Hidalgo, Viggo's character let's his horse go free and as he's dramatically galloping away you can clearly see he still has horseshoes on. Like congrats he's free, but is gonna be crippled in no time with no one maintaining those shoes.
Becky Samuel 11 months ago
And the horses can be ridden 18 hours a day without any attention, just drop their reins once it gets dark and pick them up again in the morning to a totally fresh horse that is ready to canter or gallop straight away.
#15
There are virtually never surprises in court, and 98% of the work is done before you ever get in front of a judge. Most court events other than trials are minutes long. Shout out to my homies who drive an hour or more to attend a five minute status conference.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago (edited)
Real court cases (usually as reenactments) are beyond boring, from a tv point of view.
#16
Gun silencers don't magically make bullets completely quiet.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
Fun Fact: Mythbusters NEVER did an episode about silencers/suppressors because they didn't want to show people how to commit a crime.
#17
The scientists who knows everything about everything…That person doesn’t exist. I work as an organic chemist, and I regularly have to consult with biochemists and molecular biologists because it’s not feasible to be an expert in even field that are directly adjacent to my own.
#18
People cutting the palm of their hands when blood is needed. I would prefer to cut a lot of places on my body BEFORE the palm of my hand because YOU NEED THAT. You are going to be moving that hand. It's not a trivial pain either.
Maybe if you've got a love handle, or part of a butt cheek. Maybe someone can help me out with "best place to draw blood." I'm pretty pain resistant, but some of the worst injuries to heal are the palm. Or between the fingers.
Norm Gilmore 11 months ago
There's the movie trope of people cutting their palms to clasp together to become blood brothers. Be a TOTALLY different movie if they are rubbing their butt cheeks together..🤣
#19
Autism isn't a superpower. My extensive knowledge of geeky s**t isn't useful, I hate math, and no movies ever want to talk about the intense fear of death a lot of autistic folks deal with.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago (edited)
Savants can have, for want of a better term, super powers. But that is a very different condition from Autism.
#20
Virologist here. Any movie, be it 28 Days Later zombie movie, or any other movie with a dangerous virus that acts in seconds or minutes is a Hollywood trope. Viruses do not, cannot act that fast. At best you might have something happen after 24 hours but even that is fast.
Why? Because the virus has to do some things in the body that take time. It needs to get in, find a receptor to bind to, go through the process of getting into a cell. Then once in the cell it has to go through the process of reproducing itself, then releasing those viruses which find other cells and do the same process. It does not happen in a blink. Those steps take some time.
Nor are you infectious immediately on exposure. Again the virus has to go through this process above before someone will be infectious.
And if you really want to talk about real life, be it COVID, the flu or common cold, you will get exposed to the virus, it will go through this process over a day or so, then you will be infectious but will not yet have symptoms. You are infecting others before you know you have millions of virus particles inside you. So if you are at work and a coworker has a cold it is good to avoid them, but if you interacted with them the day before when they had no cold, you were potentially exposed and may get the cold yourself. And as I teach students, the symptoms you experience are not due to the virus, but your immune response to the virus. Otherwise you would not be asymptomatic yet have the virus raging inside of you. When your body recognizes the foreign invader you start to get symptoms. One last tid bit, you are sick longer than you are infectious. With a cold you might be infectious till day three or four of symptoms or so, then no longer, but you still have several days of symptoms to go.
Ironically as a scientist, my beef with 28 Days Later was just this. Yet having zombies running around eating people I am able to suspend belief. I am a scientist hypocrite.
Roxy222uk 11 months ago
Doesn't make you a hypocrite. We buy into certain things when we watch the film or drama, but we need the rest of the world to work correctly otherwise it literally becomes meaningless. There was a scene in an episode of The Walking Dead where a car rolled backwards off a bridge. In one shot it fell off the bridge tail first and in the next shot it landed on all four wheels at the same time. Also, the inhabitants suffered no ill effects whatsoever, not even slight jarring. A lot of people were cross about how unrealistic it was but the response from others was 'but you're watching a film about a zombie apocolypse? And now you're saying **that's** unbelievable?' Yes, yes we are. We bought into zombies. We didn't buy into basic physics not working. If literally anything can happen how can we care?
#21
Chloroform takes ages to have an effect. You wouldn’t just touch a rag doused in it to their face and then they’re out … you’d be there a good 10 minutes.
#22
Duct tape is ridiculously easy to remove from a mouth by pushing it outward with the tongue. Once it is removed, it is very hard to retape. Every hostage movie gets this wrong.
#23
Rifle bullets go through the trunk, the backseat, the drivers seat, the driver/passenger, and out the front of the car(if they don’t hit something particularly chunky in the engine bay, like the engine block).
So when the good guys are in a car chase and their trunk has 700 bullet holes in it, the occupants of the vehicle are dead.
#24
Swords do not cut through armor like butter. There's a reason why people wore armor. Even arrows *designed* to penetrate armor are more likely to bounce off or get stuck in armor. It still hits like a strong punch or fist and can wear you down if a hundred arrows nail your a*s.
But heroes do not carve their way through armored warriors. You basically had to catch them where they had no armor: eye holes, arm pits, groin, that sort of thing.
Armor was also fairly easy to move in and trained knights could run, jump, vault onto horses, and do kip ups from lying flat on their backs. The idea you'd get knocked over and lie there like a turtle sadly awaiting death did not happen unless ten peasants were straddling you and pulling daggers out to cut your throat. Which did happen.
#25
Chest Compressions on an Unconscious Person: In reality, CPR is not a light pressing of the chest. It’s the physical equivalent of a car crash. Some 200 lb EMT *attempting to push to a point about two inches behind your body at *100-120 beats per minute. Even highly athletic caregivers have to swap out every *2-10 minutes or so to make sure you’re being sufficiently pulverized. Ribs often fracture. When it’s really bad, the whole chest feels like a sponge. TLDR: you do NOT want your 90 year old grandmother receiving CPR.
#26
Typically, a cigarette thrown into a puddle of gasoline will simply go out rather than igniting the gasoline.
#27
Babies are born with an umbilical cord attached. And healthy babies look purple for a few seconds.
#28
The majestic shriek associated with movie eagles is most likely that of a red-tailed hawk. eagles have a high squeaky call and chirp like little b**ches.
ReadBannedBooks 11 months ago (edited)
And the bird call "oo-oo-oo-ah-ah-ah" we often hear in movies placed in the jungle is the kookaburra, native to Australia and New Guinea, not Africa or South America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc_-icFHwQo
#29
The reactor is going critical.
A reactor loves being critical. It's running perfectly fine when it is critical and is probably the safest state it can be. Most of it's safety features are designed around it being critical.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
"Meltdown" is a far better term for what happens when a reactor fails. At Chernobyl, the reactor heated to around 5000% of design specs in a few hours. The fuel and control rods melted and pooled into the bottom of the reactor. It takes a lot of heat to melt carbon BTW.
#30
A bullet wound to the shoulder isn’t just a flesh wound. Taking a bullet to the shoulder isn’t something you can “work through”. Something like that will have you rolling around in agony unable to focus, or you go into shock. Also bullets don’t always pass through, they can ricochet off bone and travel around the body. A bullet can enter your leg, run up the inside of the body and shread every organ it comes into contact with. They have previously found bullets in the brain that entered via the foot too.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
Not sure about the foot to brain, but OP is talking about tumbler rounds. They came up with them during the Vietnam War. The bullet impacts, strikes the bone and then travels along the bone doing more damage. Nasty stuff. Last checked, using that type of ammunition was a war crime.
Gizmo 11 months ago
A .22 caliber bullet is often more deadly than a larger round because it tends to ricochet off of bones and cause more internal damage, as opposed to a larger caliber that may pass straight through. And I'm not sure about the foot to brain either, but there have definitely been cases of being shot some place rather benign, like the arm, and the bullet ending up in the chest.
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TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago
And this post doesn't even consider our anatomy - We have major blood vessels running through our shoulders and thighs that supply the limbs with oxygen, some unlucky hit and we bleed out in less than 2 minutes. Same with the argument that cops should shoot people in the legs - those are packed densely with blood vessels and police forces use hollow points to prevent casualities... same result, so a hit in the torso is actually safer for the suspect
Dak Janiels 11 months ago (edited)
Exactly!! Sooo many times they show someone getting shot or stabbed in the thigh, and they groan and keep going - B S!! Your thigh not only has a massive amount of blood traveling through it, but it's operational integrity is essential to keep going. Injured muscle and tissue swells, cramps and spasms preventing you from moving freely, even if you 🙄 *take a deep breath and grunt*.
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This^^^!! I mean, even the toughest guy around isn't going to "wince" and keep going. Same with being stabbed - the movies where a guy has a knife thrown into him or get stabbed, then pulls it out??? Umm, you are still BLEEDING, and thats on top of all of those cut muscles and tendons while the veins and vessels are leaking your life lubricant. IF you could still move and focus while being physically debilitated (I don't care how strong/muscular you are), unless the knife missed every vein, vessel and artery, with your adrenaline, you are going to bleed to weakness and fatigue in about 2 to 3 minutes and pass out shortly after.
John Harrison 11 months ago
They've also found bullets that entered the foot and wound up in a safety deposit box in San Bernardino, after taking a left turn at Albuquerque.
Some guy 11 months ago
The real question is why the victim was standing in a safety deposit box in San Bernardino in the first place, regardless of what route they took to get there.
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Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 10 months ago
oh walk it off!! 'tis but a scratch!! (no, it's a bullet to the brain, idiot!! ref: Regarding Henry) although i did like the explanation about the blood loss for the actual brain damage.
Stephen Hutchison 10 months ago
My Mom's second husband, the day that their divorce was final, decided to play on her pity so she'd NOT divorce him. So he parked in front of our small rented house in his car, and yelled out to her, and she sent me next door to have the neighbors call the police. So he took his 30.06 rifle and put the butt on the floor and aimed it at his left deltoid, intending to crease the skin. The rifle moved, he hit the shoulder joint. So when she was appearing in court before the judge to finalize the divorce she got to explain that he wasn't there because "the damn fool idiot shot himself in the shoulder for pity." The judge found it risible.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
Given how painful my shoulders are without a bullet in them, I'm certain it would be agony!
Riley Quinn 11 months ago
People who get shot in the movies and continue on with occasional wincing is hysterical. I've been stabbed, and shock kept me alert enough to drive myself to the ER. But that's a lot different than a bullet moving through my body.
kansasmagic 11 months ago
You mean you can't just disinfect and seal the wound by packing it with gunpowder, lighting it on fire, and then go about your business? You lied to me Rambo....you lied.
Thomas Biorogue 11 months ago
Depends on the round and the person. My FIL accidentally shot himself through the leg with a .22 rifle. Cleaning it. Passed through. Luckily it missed main artery and bone. He stuffed the wound himself and wouldn't go to the doctor. Walking around just fine. Kept it clean and packed for about a week before MIL forced him to go. He was in his 70s and was afraid they were going to take his guns. Funny thing was, the doctor inspected it and basically told him to keep doing what he'd been doing as far as wound care. He did have to report it and they investigated and determined it was indeed an accident not due to age or anything like that.
#31
I work for the airline industry.
Because of that I *cannot* watch Die Hard 2, anymore.
In the movie, terrorists shut down a Washington DC airport.
Literally all the plane had to do was divert to another airport.
There’s like a dozen all within thirty minutes: DC Reagan, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, even LaGuardia or JFK.
Also they wouldn’t fly a military prisoner such as General Esperanza into a civilian airport.
They’d fly him to an Air Force/military base.
#32
Dart guns do not instantly incapacitate anyone. The chemicals used for immobilization take anywhere from 3 to 20 minutes to work.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago
As proved in nature docos. Want to pat the big kitty cat thirty-seconds are the dart's gone in. Be my guest!
#33
It's not 'over and out.'
It's 'over' [I'm done transmitting, waiting for a response], or 'out' [I'm done transmitting and signing off]. Saying both is like saying 'No no keep talking, I can't wait' then hanging up.
#34
Giving a diabetic insulin is the last thing you want to do when they are displaying signs of hypoglycemia, which is usually what you see happen in movies and TV shows. In this case, you'd be advised to give them something with sugar in it, like a soda.
Aileen Grist 11 months ago
Yes - smell their breath to know if it's hypo or hyper, if in doubt give sugar in liquid or dissolve in the mouth form and get to medical help
#35
I just want to see people charge their cellphones at night on a movie. Just once.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago (edited)
And have it fully charged for the next day's emergency. Where's the story in that?
#36
Numerous medieval/fantasy movies that show iron/steel weapon making like swords via pouring molten metal into a mold: Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, the Game of Thrones show etc.
You can’t really cast proper weapons out steel that way. Firstly that high of a heat to make the metal molten will cause a serious loss in the carbon that gives the steel its hardness. Second, the steel solidifies too irregularly and likely won’t be homogeneous throughout. Forging is really the best and only way to make steel anything discounting magic.
#37
Computer geek breaks into super protected mainframe trope. Hacking is social/psychological skill these days. Nerdy guy from mums basement can't “hack” into NASA mainframe. I would say that 95% of “hacking” is ordinary phishing.
#38
Lifelong mental patient here. It's only the rich people -- like Hollywood screenwriters -- who go to see a therapist and that therapist writes them a prescription. That's because they're seeing a psychiatrist who does hour-long talk sessions. Keep in mind, it's expensive enough to see a therapist with a PhD, but to see one with a PhD *and* an MD, you need to spend a lot of money. Us plebes over here are seeing a therapist for talk, and seeing a psychiatrist for meds. You don't make some big breakthrough in your session and then your therapist writes you a scrip. It just doesn't happen that way.
Diana Lucas 11 months ago
This true. My daughter saw a therapist then had to go to a different doctor to be evaluated to maybe get a scrip.
#39
Red laser dot on someone from a sniper
Snipers would not ever project a laser pointer over at someone they're trying to shoot, firstly it would not be accurate at all because bullets drop while the laser light stays straight.
it would also alert the enemy and give away their exact position.
and lastly, why would they need a dot on their target? They're already looking through a scope with crosshairs showing where the bullet will hit
Laser Pointers on guns is an actual thing but it's only really used for close range work where you may not be able to aim quickly or easily, such as chasing feral pigs with a shotgun from a vehicle
Greg Baughman 11 months ago
They have these new laser scopes that don't do the dot... you see the dot in the scope, but not on the target. They are way cool.
#40
Gasoline has a shelf life. If the apocalypse was a few years ago, the gas that is left isn't going to work so great anymore.
Jrog 11 months ago (edited)
Gasoline in cars or small tanks can be fine for about 3 months, but still usable for about one year with minimal loss of performance and some risk of potential engine issues. It would still be kind of usable for two to three years, but muck deposits would be a real issue then. Older engines and 2-strokes were far more tolerant to bad fuel. Gasoline can be stored by manufacturers in controlled conditions for much longer though, since most of the issues come from the degradation of additives and ethyl compounds: in case storage is needed, the gasoline is stored before additives are put in. This can extend storage life up to five years.
#41
Car airbags never deploy.. the car chases are so extreme with multiple collisions, and not one airbag (that has been a required standard safety feature since 1998) ever goes off.
Grant Johnson 11 months ago
The air bags never deploy, but the entire car explodes at the slightest touch.
#42
A university professor says all their life’s research is in that one little thing that they must retrieve- um…try several drives, ethics committee paper trails, file cabinets, notebooks, grant applications, employee review paper trials, open science depositories, archives, and a bunch of publications perfectly available to the public.
Pieter LeGrande 11 months ago
Not to mention all the notes, etc of all the subordinate researchers and assistants. Plus all the previous drafts and proof copies.
#43
Microphones feeding back every time a speaker begins to talk on stage, in order to convey awkwardness. What it really conveys is someone at the mixer who doesn’t understand how to ring out a room.
#44
Space movies always have a scene flying around an asteroid field, like dodging thousands of giant rocks tumbling all over the place. In reality you'd need a telescope to even detect another asteroid. Space is so big that dodging stuff is the least of your worries, it's not missing stuff that's hard.
Roxy222uk 11 months ago
I always loved the scenes in Star Trek (the original series, yes I'm that old) where they had to go through an asteroid field, and the cameras got all shaken about. I was a little disappointed when I found out that asteroid fields are extremely spaced out and it would be very poor steering to continually hit them.
#45
Gun fights indoors without ear protection, everyone’s ears would be bleeding. I love how the cartoon show Archer actually makes fun of this consistently. Actually just bullet physics in general in movies.
Norm Gilmore 11 months ago
The Sopranos did this (I presume accurately) when a hit was carried out in a car with the assassin yelling in pain from the noise when he fired his gun.
#46
Not a mechanic, but those scenes/schemes where the villains cut the break lines and the hero only discovers this while driving down the highway at full speed or down a hill towards a crowded area?
Unless you're driving a manual, good luck trying to get out of your garage and getting into reverse or drive without your foot on the brake. Cutting the break line would pretty much brick your car these days and inconvenience you.
#47
Cars are really hard to make explode. You can burn them, they burn really big. But that don’t blow up often. The tires could explode because of the heat, that’s make loud bang. But movie level explosions don’t happen often. And shooting the fuel tank, or worse fuel door, isn’t going to cause a massive fireball. It’ll cause a fuel leak.
And speaking bullets then don’t spark when hitting pavement. Or really anything. And don’t shoot a lock. Chances are you either break the lock and make it even more of lock, or the bullet/fragments will splash back at your soft not made of steal body.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago (edited)
I grew up believing that US cars always blew up, through watching TV. So I was grateful that we had non-incendary English, European, and Japanese cars on our roads.
#48
You’ll regularly see someone who needs to hide push aside a ceiling panel and climb up, then have a well framed shot of their face up above while they slide the panel back over covering their escape.
You can’t do that. Those panels are fragile enough you can break them with one hand. The cheap ones are literally fiberglass insulation with a sheet of paper glued to the face. The scene from The Office with Angela’s cat is what would actually happen.
Shelli Aderman 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m not going to trust the weight-bearing integrity of something so easily damaged by a school pencil! kauGU.jpg 
#50
Train brakes apply when there is an air hose separation. So if our hero cuts a train car full of bad guys from the train as soon as the air hose separates the train will have air brake trouble and brakes will apply or the train will have issues at the very least. Locomotives also have a dead man switch so if there’s no one behind the controls the train will apply brakes once it’s tripped.
What do you think ?
Guess Undheit 11 months ago
TV Tropes said, "No Bicycles In The Apocalypse". Bikes move THREE times as fast and far as walking while using the same amount of food and water. What peabrain would worry about "cool" if society broke down? Gas goes bad within months, while bicycles can be used for decades. .......... The vietcong used bicycles (NOT trucks) to beat both the yanks and the French. The Japanese used bikes to outflank the English in Malaysia during WWII. Even the yanks used mountain bikes during their occupation of Afghanistan because it was quiet and be rappelled up and down cliffs. .......... Bikes are relevant immediately, not years later. "The Walking Dead" and "28 Days Later" blathered about stealth, yet neither movie used fast and quiet bike transport.
XenoMurph 11 months ago
One word..... FICTION! If you want a documentary, go and watch a documentary.
Trillian 11 months ago
My favorite is always people hanging on from a cliff or something by just three fingers of one hand. All while dangling around.
Carl Roberts 11 months ago
The "churches are open 24/7" trope. No..you can not just walk into a church at 3am and find a priest ready to take a confession..
Bec 11 months ago
Any scene with someone hanging from a great height using their arm strength. How many adults could support their own weight much less another person and then be able to pull themselves up?
Wintermute 11 months ago
There's a difference between absurd movie tropes and nitpicking technically necessary accommodations that are made so a film flows better. Yes, we get it, we're all so smart, but I'd rather just a good story than a janky one that's technically accurate. If you're a professional at something and see an inaccuracy, just keep your mouth shut. No one is impressed, but will often be annoyed.
Justin Tyme 11 months ago
Please remember to do another "Movie Tropes" post tomorrow. We don't want to miss a day.
David Paterson 11 months ago
I can't think of any movie where people actually use money to buy things. After a while it gets annoying.
Daya Meyer 11 months ago (edited)
Movies had been always movies to me. A different world with it's own laws of of physics and yet very entertaining. Just remember to shut off your common sense and enjoy! And by the way: corsets are a part of the underwear and never meant to be seen or just a piece of garment you wear like a decorative belt above your clothes.
K. LNU 10 months ago
I agree! Same with TV shows. Turn your brain off and enjoy! Yes, you cannot get a fingerprint match in under 30 seconds, however, I wouldn't want to see the entire process either. Solving a murder in 40 minutes, great! I get an ending! But there is a reason that it is called the "entertainment industry!"
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 11 months ago
Wasn't this posted just a week or two ago? These are the same entries and pictures.
Superb Owl 11 months ago
Fights. Take multiple hits in the head, the kind of clean hits that spin your head. In reality, one of those and the fight is over.
marianne eliza 11 months ago
Thunder and lightning every time it rains. I guess it depends on the location they are pretending to be in, but don't add it in places that rarely get electrical storms. And airports closed due to Fog. I'm looking at you "Beaches". Can't fly into SFO due to fog? Use SJC or OAK.
Freya the Wanderer 11 months ago
At least "Poltergeist" got this one right
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Justin Tyme 11 months ago
The story takes place in a country where the primary language is something other than English. But the characters only speak English.
blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
And, more inaccurate than fake really, but when people go to the opera or ballet in a movie, it's some big, grand thing where everyone is in ball gowns and tuxes and milling about sipping champagne from flutes. Usually, it's a bizarre hodgepodge. People in jeans, people in "Sunday clothes", people in bizarre costumes or Bohemian athlesiure, people in some old bridesmaid gown that hasn't seen the light if day in years, little kids in princess costumes, you get the picture. And no one is milling about sipping from champagne flutes. You have limited time to run to the bathroom, get through that mile long line, and then get through the equally long snack line, which doesn't have champagne, or glassware, but does have red or white box wine in plastic cups.
blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
Can't stand the "genius = makes marble run toys + can solves a Rubik's cube + verbally solve math problems like a calculator"
Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
Molotov cocktails do not erupt in a huge, noisy explosion. They sound more like a gas heater being turned on, sort of a "whoomp". The sound of the breaking window is usually louder.
John Dilligaf 11 months ago
Knife fights, where the hero only has a few shallow scratches and carries on with only minor inconvenience. In any real knife fight the loser dies and the winner goes to the ICU.. Also cutting the sentries throat without getting any blood on you.
kansasmagic 11 months ago
When I was younger, I tried to slow down the knife fight in "Under Siege," and of course only really got a lesson in how to choreograph knife fights. First rule, apparently, is that you should just sort of vaguely wave your knife towards the other person.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 11 months ago (edited)
Woman looks at pregnancy test and three minutes later she has a baby. Biology doesn't work that fast, film makers! [/s just in case.]
Guess Undheit 11 months ago
TV Tropes said, "No Bicycles In The Apocalypse". Bikes move THREE times as fast and far as walking while using the same amount of food and water. What peabrain would worry about "cool" if society broke down? Gas goes bad within months, while bicycles can be used for decades. .......... The vietcong used bicycles (NOT trucks) to beat both the yanks and the French. The Japanese used bikes to outflank the English in Malaysia during WWII. Even the yanks used mountain bikes during their occupation of Afghanistan because it was quiet and be rappelled up and down cliffs. .......... Bikes are relevant immediately, not years later. "The Walking Dead" and "28 Days Later" blathered about stealth, yet neither movie used fast and quiet bike transport.
XenoMurph 11 months ago
One word..... FICTION! If you want a documentary, go and watch a documentary.
Trillian 11 months ago
My favorite is always people hanging on from a cliff or something by just three fingers of one hand. All while dangling around.
Carl Roberts 11 months ago
The "churches are open 24/7" trope. No..you can not just walk into a church at 3am and find a priest ready to take a confession..
Bec 11 months ago
Any scene with someone hanging from a great height using their arm strength. How many adults could support their own weight much less another person and then be able to pull themselves up?
Wintermute 11 months ago
There's a difference between absurd movie tropes and nitpicking technically necessary accommodations that are made so a film flows better. Yes, we get it, we're all so smart, but I'd rather just a good story than a janky one that's technically accurate. If you're a professional at something and see an inaccuracy, just keep your mouth shut. No one is impressed, but will often be annoyed.
Justin Tyme 11 months ago
Please remember to do another "Movie Tropes" post tomorrow. We don't want to miss a day.
David Paterson 11 months ago
I can't think of any movie where people actually use money to buy things. After a while it gets annoying.
Daya Meyer 11 months ago (edited)
Movies had been always movies to me. A different world with it's own laws of of physics and yet very entertaining. Just remember to shut off your common sense and enjoy! And by the way: corsets are a part of the underwear and never meant to be seen or just a piece of garment you wear like a decorative belt above your clothes.
K. LNU 10 months ago
I agree! Same with TV shows. Turn your brain off and enjoy! Yes, you cannot get a fingerprint match in under 30 seconds, however, I wouldn't want to see the entire process either. Solving a murder in 40 minutes, great! I get an ending! But there is a reason that it is called the "entertainment industry!"
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 11 months ago
Wasn't this posted just a week or two ago? These are the same entries and pictures.
Superb Owl 11 months ago
Fights. Take multiple hits in the head, the kind of clean hits that spin your head. In reality, one of those and the fight is over.
marianne eliza 11 months ago
Thunder and lightning every time it rains. I guess it depends on the location they are pretending to be in, but don't add it in places that rarely get electrical storms. And airports closed due to Fog. I'm looking at you "Beaches". Can't fly into SFO due to fog? Use SJC or OAK.
Freya the Wanderer 11 months ago
At least "Poltergeist" got this one right
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 11 months ago
The story takes place in a country where the primary language is something other than English. But the characters only speak English.
blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
And, more inaccurate than fake really, but when people go to the opera or ballet in a movie, it's some big, grand thing where everyone is in ball gowns and tuxes and milling about sipping champagne from flutes. Usually, it's a bizarre hodgepodge. People in jeans, people in "Sunday clothes", people in bizarre costumes or Bohemian athlesiure, people in some old bridesmaid gown that hasn't seen the light if day in years, little kids in princess costumes, you get the picture. And no one is milling about sipping from champagne flutes. You have limited time to run to the bathroom, get through that mile long line, and then get through the equally long snack line, which doesn't have champagne, or glassware, but does have red or white box wine in plastic cups.
blatherskitenoir 10 months ago
Can't stand the "genius = makes marble run toys + can solves a Rubik's cube + verbally solve math problems like a calculator"
Stannous Flouride 10 months ago
Molotov cocktails do not erupt in a huge, noisy explosion. They sound more like a gas heater being turned on, sort of a "whoomp". The sound of the breaking window is usually louder.
John Dilligaf 11 months ago
Knife fights, where the hero only has a few shallow scratches and carries on with only minor inconvenience. In any real knife fight the loser dies and the winner goes to the ICU.. Also cutting the sentries throat without getting any blood on you.
kansasmagic 11 months ago
When I was younger, I tried to slow down the knife fight in "Under Siege," and of course only really got a lesson in how to choreograph knife fights. First rule, apparently, is that you should just sort of vaguely wave your knife towards the other person.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 11 months ago (edited)
Woman looks at pregnancy test and three minutes later she has a baby. Biology doesn't work that fast, film makers! [/s just in case.]
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