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Rearview mirrors get removed too. Sometimes, especially on column-shift cars, the transmission is still in park.
You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:
PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.
Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.
And while we’re at it… in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?
Someone pointed this out to me once, and now I can’t unsee it. It drives me mad. Every cup, every scene… Weightless and fake.
PUT SOMETHING IN THE DAMN CUPS
Agreed. The starbucks cups being empty really ruined the immersion in Game of Thrones for me.
And when they drink from their cup, they always tilt it like they were sipping on empty cup. Even when they just taken it from the coffee machine. When I do that I always burn my mouth, because coffee will be too hot. It takes long to coffee cool down in paper cups.
I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn’t make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn’t move correctly.
So what, you’re telling me you don’t tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?
we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.
And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?
Actually those things really are ubiquitous in NYC and environs.
and a lot of tv show car scenes ate filmed on a lowbed tow truck. once you notice the height difference you can’t really unsee it.
You’d think they’d make a custom trailer that’s low to the ground as possible at this point.
My biggest pet peeve is how fucking rude people are getting off the phone in movies. They just hang up.
I mean I yearn for that world but am painfully aware that it doesn’t exist.
Growing up I really thought Americans just didn’t say ‘bye’ on the phone. It always impressed me how they both knew exactly when the conversation was over.
The conversation is over when you hang up, therefore you can never be wrong.
Lol I just hang up on the phone when I “done” being on a call with my parents, no byes, just press the red button. They got so used to it, they never said anything about it. xD
I work in IT and talk on the phone all day and like 70% of end users just hang up at the end of calls. No goodbye or anything. It’s so fucking rude
not in the movie Phone Booth
I think it’s funny how people never say bye in Suits. They just walk away or hang up.
One of the many things that annoys me about the sitcom Big Bang Theory is that as pedantic as Sheldon is, not once does he ever complain to Penny about the lack of headrests in her car. You’d think he’d refuse to ride until she replaced them. Totally immersion breaking.
Mostly tv shows I’ve noticed this, but all the sets and homes look impeccable. Not a speck of dust, not a hint of mess. Even in shows where kids live in the home. Everyone JUST got their hair trimmed, they wear pants at home and always pop in on each other. But the lack of mess is maddening.
Also in period movies and shows, even the peasants are always wearing clean clothes
I was watching sopranos and they have a maid walking around which is nice, it explains the neat house. But when Tony moved out, his place is covered in newspapers, pizza boxes, beer bottles, etc. I like that kind of attention to detail
This is why I like European TV. More often than not it is imperfect and not esthetically “polished” the same way. It looks more like the world is.
For a similar reason, I’ve gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:
They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though
not sure if a tv thing or american thing but everyone wears shoes indoors
American thing i think. I visited family in the US from Canada and they looked at me weird for taking my shoes off when I entered their home.
This is so strange to me. US Americans bring dirt in all rooms of their house, all just for benefit of not being confortable?
There’s a lot of variables and it’s not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_footwear_indoors
In the American Midwest at least, it varies by household. You basically just pay attention to what your host does.
Used to be less common to remove them, but at least as far back as the nineties, it was a thing to be aware of.
Americans don’t even take off shoes to have sex.
I’m Chinese American, I remember when I visit relatives houses, I always have to take off shoes.
I think the last time I went, I just remember not doing it since we only stopped by for like an hour, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure I just got mad I was forced to go to the family reunion thing and I was probably irritated and didn’t take off my shoes lol.
And wake up in perfect makeup in a setting where having makeup on at all makes zero sense
That’s often true but not always, a good set dresser will make a mess if the scene and character calls for it. Typically only for “film d’auteur” though in the more commercial things it’s almost always as you said.
It makes me appreciate shows like sopranos where you see an actual maid walking around to explain away the cleanliness, or episodes where Tony lives alone and the place is covered in laundry, pizza boxes and cereal bowls everywhere. Recently my wife has been watching “This is us” and it looks so sterile like a hallmark movie, I hate it.
The thing that completely takes me out of the movie / show whenever I see it is people who get knocked backwards by bullets / shotgun blasts. The maximum amount of momentum transferred by a bullet or pack of shotgun pellets is the same amount as the shove it gives to the shooter’s hands or shoulder.
If it’s in a Chinese Gun Fu, Wire Fu, Gun Wuxia type movie where everything is slightly fantastical, I can accept it as a kind of over-the-top element of that style. But, it really bothers me when it happens in something that’s otherwise fairly realistic.
Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.
To me it’s 2 things.
Driving with their windows down against reflections when filmed from the outside, even during rain, freezing temps and snow. Or when someone tries to grab them and they get in a car, apparently putting their window down before driving away, then to be grabbed through the window.
Other thing is roughly 600 bullets in a gun magazine, plus regular cars being completely bulletproof. Even when driving in full machine gun fire from a gun with thousands of bullets in a 30 round magazine, at most a window gets popped.
Texting someone? This is the first time you’re doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.I have automatic chat deletion, so mine chats are empty
The movie version of being “knocked out”.
Someone is knocked unconscious for long enough to be moved to a new location and probably tied up. And they wake up just fine. They’re able to engage in witty banter with their captor. If they manage to break free they’re able to fight effectively.
The reality? A massive concussion. Extreme disorientation. Likely to puke if they have to move much.
If you ever watch a “knockout” in boxing or MMA, the unconsciousness lasts a seconds at most, mostly not even a second. Someone’s knees go wobbly then they recover, but they’re still disoriented and uncoordinated. If they’re out for longer than a second or two, everyone’s concerned and the fighter is rushed to the hospital.
Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. “We’re the good guys” remember?
How so? Why is the alternative killing?
That one time i got unconscious, was when i stepped on a tennis ball, flipped over and hit the ground with the back of my head. I was out for 15 seconds, no memories of the 3 days after that and then still pucked for days without being nauseous. I was lucky that my brain didn’t swell or i would have had permanent damage.
Unconscious is the emergency shutdown an inch before death, serious stuff. The trivialization in movies bothers me.
When there’s a countdown in a movie where something must be done before it’s finished but the entire scene takes longer than the countdown.
Namek exploding intensifies
Time is non-linear, we are in the 4th dimention.
Also its usually 1 digit of time left of the decimal point on the countdown timer. Usually like 3 seconds or less, sometimes they make it so dramatic that its literally last second or fraction of a second.
Like… c’mon. Make it so at like 23 second left, or 1 minute 47 second left or something random, like every bomb always get disarmed at 1 second? The fuck lol.
Shitty fire sfx. Holy fucking shit, why is the campfire almost as loud as the fucking dialog!? Snap, crackle, pop! It’s so fucking grating.
Hollywood fire noise is always cartoonish and corny. But if you’ve ever been close to fire, it is noisy. Campfires are noisy, though not loud enough to halt speech comprehension. Large bonfires are loud. And there’s a reason firefighters learn to communicate with signs and touch. Smoke blinds and house fires are deafening.
@Mog_Spawn goddamnit
Something that bugged me in the new Stranger Things. In one episode, El turns on a flashlight. It’s a mag light, with a click button, but she twists it on and the sfx person still put in a button clicking noise. I’m pretty sure the light beam itself was vfx, too.
