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I rarely do that, but i did once with 28 Weeks Later where the army when they found out someone is infected inside the colony, just made everyone come out of their own room that is safe and isolated, and wait inside a huge room, which inevitably caused everyone to just get nibbled and infected. They also ordered personel to station at the place where they’re unprotected from sprinter, and inevitably got nibbled and turned. I just give up. The series never recovered after that from what i’ve heard.
28 Days Later was fantastic. 28 Weeks Later was shit sandwich. I’ve not yet seen 28 Years Later.
I still haven’t watch 28 days later, currently not in the mood for horror. But definitely in my watchlist.
That’s not “stupidly unrealistic though”. Because the unrealistic part (everybody waiting together in the waiting room) actually plays a huge part in the plot moving forward. That’s just bad writing.
Going the the post office on a sunday is something that can be easily tweaked without changing the rest of the plot.
But it’s still stupidly unbelievable though, whether or not the plot hinge on this shouldn’t matter imo. But i guess it’s not minute enough in this case.
A shit plot is not better…?
I just want a movie where somebody “says turn on the TV”, and the main character does, and it’s just halfway through an episode of The Big Bang Theory or something because who’s tuned to the news channel.
There’s a scene in Community about this, where Abed is narrating a story, and when a story character turns on the radio, and its just playing conventional chill music instead of anything notable. Abed then points out that it’s unlikely the radio would have anything notable right as they turned it on.
Who uses a TV anymore?
If they want to make it realistic, they’re texting a link.
They are not only on the news channel, but they always switch on the TV just in time to get the exact information they needed to hear at that specific moment. All while not tuning in in the middle of a sentence, just perfect timing from start to finish.
To be fair, if it was a zombie apocalypse scenario in the states, the national network news would have cut in on the local broadcast and the talking heads would be yapping 24/7 for the ratings. Every channel. There’s be a good chance that you’d turn on your TV right to a newscast about the zombies.
Now something like an insane killer escaped from a mental institution would be at most a ticker across the bottom of the local broadcast after a brief local cut in when the story broke.
I mean, it’s a movie. They have license to cut out the boring parts seamlessly.
Funny what can pull you back into reality and out of the temporary relief we get to enjoy when watching a movie. Some people are better at ignoring the absurd and out of place.
That’s how you lucid dream. You realize the absurd, then wake up in the dream. Then, it goes where you want it.
Perhaps they had better things to do than watch paint dry.
But then there’s the films that nail even the most pointless things
I love that level of detail in books! Reportedly in the first 6 books of the Wheel of Time every time they mention the moon, it’s in the correct phase. Iirc it’s never relevant to the plot.
I dont understand, makes sense, what’s the problem?
My wife loves hocus pocus.
Every year I’m like… That zippo wouldn’t light. The fluid would have evaporated ages ago. Look at the cobwebs, it’s obviously been there for years.
She just reaches over, softly touches my and says 7u5k3n, it’s a movie.
Lol
So yeah there’s nothing wrong here.
Edit: softly touches my arm. Haha apparently I I accidentally’d a word
They could have just used a normal lighter (with butane)…
Yep. Could have But the virgin makes a show of lighting it.
It’s just one of those things in movies where it’s product placement and it needs to light. But it just bothers me. Lol
Inconsistencies in movies or shows do that to me. Happens.
Softly touches your what? Please elaborate
Hahahaha whoops
His ‘broomstick’, and after she does that touching it begins to rise up… like magic!!!
I’m like this if a movie’s plot can only happen because of bad communication.
I was able to tolerate more of this in movies than I used to after acknowledging that tons of people in real life suck at communication.
I count bullets. If someone with a revolver fires off 20 rounds in a row without a pause, the show/movie lost credibility and I’m taken out of it. Extra bad if they later try to use ammo as a plot device to raise drama, ugh.
Was watching the latest season of slow horses. Great show, I fully recommend. However… a couple of assassins that kept firing their pistols while chasing someone annoyed me. Sure, there was time to reload and it’s plausible that they simply didn’t show that. But what are the odds that they were carrying 3-4 spare clips with them? Especially since they weren’t wearing tactical gear anything of the sort.
Guns are absurd in almost all movies anyway. Zero reaction to firing in enclosed spaces, powering through a gunshot wound by using muscles that basically no longer exist because a bullet ripped through them, etc. And it’s not even just action movies, it happens all the time.
That’s a subtle one. If a revolver fires 7 or 9, unforgivable. If it fires 20, they knew damn well what they were doing and it’s a Machete Kills style comedy, we’re back to acceptable.
This unironically looks pretty cool. It looks like an ESP8266 dev board at the top with a few DIP ICs below that
Looks like an Adafruit Feather nRF52
I hate when an actor clearly doesn’t even understand how to hold and aim a gun and their character is supposed to be competent at it.
Cate Blanchet’s character in Borderlands is a recent and particularly obvious example. In the movie’s trailer she is shown holding and aiming a rifle like someone who clearly never held a gun before and my understanding is that her character was supposed to be a highly competent gunslinger.
Someone coach those actors for crying out loud.
Or when people in a gunfight clearly aren’t hearing the apocalyptically loud sound gunshots would make in their situation - like in a small room or in a car.
I think the problem is that Cate Blanchett has too big an ego to be taught/learn anything, including how to act. But that’s just my humble opinion.
I don’t know enough to notice bad gunplay but anachronistic makeup/hair styling can bother me. Costumes I give some slack because it could be a budget issue.
When it’s supposed to be a post-apocalyptic/survival genre but everyone looks clean-cut, shaven, and recently showered with a day-old haircut 🙄
Oh God yes and women with no body hair in times when only sex workers would shave pits&crotch
Yeah I saw a still frame from what appeared to be some sort of post-apocalyptic movie with a grungy super-spy/bounty-hunter type woman as the protagonist. Dirty torn clothes, nappy dreadlocks, the whole works. Clearly hadn’t showered in months. And her pits were clean-shaven. I was like “wat.”
Take your finger off the trigger!
The butt of the stock goes against your shoulder, not in your armpit!
It’s just bad prop decisions. There are guns that better fit. In a cheap movie, I can forgive it. A budget over 200k? I’m upset
I don’t know enough about the division of duties to know whose fault it is, but I blame the director. It’s just lazy, and easy.
Do any modern movies use revolvers? The only reason i can see for using a revolver is if the movie is set in the past or if there’s a plot reason to be using an old gun like e.g. it was his grandfather’s
That’s a bad script supervisor. A script supervisor is responsible for scene continuity between takes. Guaranteed the shooting schedule had a dozen days of frequent high intensity filming and the script supervisor was tired from making sure really busy scenes lined up within the time allowed.
Underworld was always the one that annoyed me with their guns. Main character fires this automatic handgun for minutes and doesn’t reload.
What if there’s a cut where they could have conceivably reloaded?
I’m OK with it, if you show me at least one reload before you run out of bullets at the most dramatic opportunity.
My personal favorite was in Batman and Robin where they cut open the city’s water main and the water just keeps flowing along in a cylindrical shape… Come ON
That’s Batman Begins
The moment anyone creates a Gui using Visual Basic, we’re done.
Isn’t that the same steps as making a GUI using C#.NET?
It’s a quiote from a crimgy tv show.
I’ll accept whatever the premise of the thing asks of me to enjoy the story; that dragons exist, the main character finds a real spellbook, there’s a secret community of shapeshifters, or that there’s a long-lost secret artifact with magical properties. It’s not a documentary.
But breaking internal logic is different. Unless someone’s mentioned time travel, it’s still a huge issue that it was Sunday in one scene and Friday in another on the same day.
Some people hate ‘The Hulk’ because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure… But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can’t just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn’t get his powers from magic, did he?!
I don’t care about the extra mass, but how do his boxers work?
Some people hate ‘The Hulk’ because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure… But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can’t just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn’t get his powers from magic, did he?!
My understanding is that hulk gets his strength (and size/mass) from his anger. So in the universe, anger must have energy that hulk converts to mass
Someone explained to me that apparently in later comics it has been revealed that the gamma radiation that his anger resonates with is drawn from something called the green door which is created by a character known as the one below it all who is more or less Satan (gods nasty alter ego).
And apparently this is limitless so if he gets pissed enough he could destroy the universe as we know it.
Right… but then anger itself would require huge amounts of calories. You can’t just create energy.
Perhaps its pulled from another dimension, like Cyclop’s laser from the DCU, or maybe it’s another force of the universe, like the speed force also from the DCU. There’s endless ways to explain it.
The gamma does turn him green. Maybe that’s not just stylistic, maybe he’s photosynthesizing.
Sunlight only contains so much energy. Even if he’s managing to metabolise every bit with no loss, there’s not nearly enough light hitting him at any one moment for that to really make sense. If he’s always photosynthesising and his body storing it for later somehow… he’d put on a huge amount of weight in his non-Hulk form.
Well, I mean, he is wearing those purple shorts. Maybe they’re… battery shorts.
I mean… Marvel has clearly shown that in their world mutations just unlock some sort of magic. None of the X-Men powers make any sense in a world where conservation of mass / energy is a thing, the only possible explanation is that those genes unlock magic potential, so it’s not breaking internal logic, that a specific mutation unlocked some kind of anger-magic in Dr. Banner.
True, though I didn’t mean I had a problem with it.
Just that a supposed scientist finding there’s a gene that just lets you break physics and nobody of authority in-universe really commenting on entire branches of modern science being scrapped is too much of a stretch in logic for some.
Am I…
Am I a dad…?
This is called verisimilitude. Self consistency. If you present the setting as Our World + Premise, then we are forgiving of the premise part but not so much of the unrelated things that don’t match what we were told to expect.
Was gonna say this, fucking, yep.
Its this apparently baffling concept that even a fictional world has to be coherent and consistent within or as itself, otherwise, it seems cheesy or schlocky, obviously fake and contrived.
