Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
graphical user interfaces making sounds
Also screens that project whatever is being displayed onto the face of the person.
Though I give a pass to Jurassic Park when the DNA code was being projected onto the velociraptor. Rule of cool, so I’ll allow it.
Suppressed weapons. Shit is still loud, anyone anywhere near it will hear it. Also, when a bullet hits a person or any other surface the impact sound is loud as well.
Hitting people with beer bottles. You take a beer bottle to the head and you’re probably done for.
Beer bottles not so much, I’ve been hit with a beer bottle and a wine bottle, hurt but adrenaline is a hell of a drug. I have seen a guy do the super cool break the bottle on a table to threaten a guy once, he needed 20 or so stitches when the neck of the bottle shattered in his fist. But it did stop the fight.
I’ve seen a guy take a ball bat to the head and kept fighting. Adrenaline exists for a reason.
It’s not as consistent as your point about the silencer but also people absolutely both can 1) keep going after being shot, getting hit once and instantly, silently, being down for the count isn’t that realistic and 2) a lot of people haven’t actually experienced real pain to understand how bad real pain is you don’t get shot and just suck air through your teeth tie a piece of fabric around it tightly then act totally normal, pain can be physically and mentally disabling, especially after a few minutes and the endorphins wear off. I understand shooting people to have them fall down and start screaming bloody murder while also trying to scramble to shoot you back isn’t necessarily good story telling but if it was part of story telling I think a lot of shootings would be skipped in plot lines
- a lot of people haven’t actually experienced real pain to understand how bad real pain is you don’t get shot and just suck air through your teeth tie a piece of fabric around it tightly then act totally normal
Tbh, it depends on the person. I’ve broken a finger before, and while it hurt like hell I didn’t scream in pain. I was silent while thinking oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck in my head while trying to get to safety.
That being said, once the adrenaline wore off I had signs of shock. I couldn’t stand for long before getting tunnel vision
I tore an Achilles tendon once, and for the first 20 minutes, I was still able to walk, but I was literally blacking out. I didn’t feel much pain, but my vision just kept getting dark. When I stopped walking, my vision returned. The pain came afterward 😶
I’ve had a double lung transplant with no epidural, I did physical therapy on ECMO, real pain is mentally disabling. I’ve broken both my arms, the first one I sat for 40 minutes before decoding I should go to urgent care, the other arm I drove myself there. Once you cross your personal threshold for pain you’re more animal than human.
I think listening to your buddy dying all night in No Man’s Land is a staple of WW1 films.
Pulling people out of a burning building. In reality the smoke and fire is so bad, you ain’t seeing shit. And I spoke to a firefighter who’d been doing it for 35 years. He said he responded to thousands of burning buildings and the number of times anyone’s been saved out of a burning building? Exactly zero. That always stuck with me.
I’m pretty sure it’s negative numbers actually, I saw this video once on YouTube where firefighters were carrying people up ladders and putting them inside the burning buildings
I think… That video might have been backwards… Or you were remembering it in reverse? 😂
The heat alone is off the fucking charts, too. These are 1,100-1,500F. Like trying to walk through an oven only 3 or 4x hotter.
Though I fully agree with you i do recall this youtube video from a few years ago of a guy running back into his burning home to save his dog and he got him out alive.
If you know exactly where you’re going, and the path is not itself in flame, and the residual heat+smoke have not yet rendered both your path and your patient’s current location unsurvivable, then it is possible.
The movie trope of covering your mouth with a rag and walking through rooms which are actively on fire, trying to find someone who has been inside that same room getting asphyxiated and/or cooked for several minutes is most definitely not real.
Any time a car or other vehicle is involved in an accident, it erupts in a massive explosion or fireball. If every car did that IRL, the fire department would never be out of a job knowing how they hand out licenses like candy.
When I was 16 I swerved to miss a recliner in the roadway (yeah you read that right) and ended up careening off the road down an embankment. As soon as I was stopped at the bottom, I was convinced I had to clear the area because obviously the car was about to explode. It did not. So anyway that was my first and worst car accident. Why there was a recliner in the roadway is a mystery I will never solve.
there is a large overlap in the Venn diagram of people who wouldn’t notice if an entire ass recliner fell out of their pickup truck and people who fail to properly secure cargo in their pickup truck
True true… but it was situated like, fully reclined. One idea was that knuckleheads placed it there as a prank, bro. But the other, probably more reasonable, is your idea.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it flopped open like a book upon hitting the pavement
I also wouldn’t be surprised if knuckleheads placed it there like that
People drinking in situations where nobody would be drinking.
And, obviously, running faster than explosions.
You just need to ignore explosions like that
If you look at them, they will hurt you (a bit)
I’ve read that drinking is often used to communicate depression or stress to viewers. I always found it odd that everyone has a bar in their house so I started thinking about it more and did some reading.
A lot of explosions in movies are, as I understand it, gasoline explosions (which produce a deflagration). Those are impressive and very visible and orangy and don’t actually create all that much pressure, so damage from the pressure wave or shrapnel isn’t so much a thing. You can do the stoic walk out of an explosion thing.
I think that the video of the Beirut explosion, which is large and filmed from a distance, so you can see the shockwave traveling over time, drives home how there is a lot of force going on in the air.
I can’t stand how movies and TV shows depict people. Nobody talks like that in real life, or walks like that. They don’t make those facial expresions, or say those words. It just makes them deeply unnerving for me. Its weird, because other people either don’t notice it at all or even prefer it for some reason.
This is precisely what i was thinking of when i made this post!
I’ve known people who do put-on the “romcom/sitcom protsgonist persona” which you describe - overly bubbly, intonating words wrong, corporate speak - and long story short, they’re always untrustworthy.
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of realism in scriptwriting. Cinematographers seem to have tried realism in just about every aspect except characters’ speech.
Obviously real dialogue has limitations like stuttering, mispronouncing, forgetting/saying the wrong word, talking over each other, etc. but I feel like there are other traits of natural conversation that could be worked in without fully compromising comprehensibility
The only examples I know of that attempt speech realism are Primer and United 93
Getting hit on the head and staying unconscious for an extended period of time.
No… No that’s not how that shit works. If you’re hit on the head so hard that you are lying on the ground limp, you’re either dead, dying, or have received sever brain damage.
No that’s not how that shit works
sh.itjust.works
Getting knocked unconscious.
How easy it is to twist someones neck to kill them.
Honestly an important reality check. I’d convinced myself it was super easy
Cars explode after an accident.
Passwords can be guessed.
Up and Down exists in outer space.
Passwords can be guessed.
You would be shocked how often they can be.
Season plus year with a ! Is still very common.
That’s cause people think changing the password all the time is safer, all it does is force people to choose the easiest password or write them on a piece of tape under the mouse mat.
I am glad NIST says if it’s protected by MFA you don’t have to reset passwords.
I’m an IT guy and we have mandatory password changes. I just increment the numbers on my password every time since it (at least for now) is sufficient for our ruleset. I assume that majority of our users does something similar.
All I see if I type my password here is
*******That’s weird, when I type it, it says “hunter2”
Hacking.
tap tap tap I’m in.
Honourable mention is NCIS Dual keyboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQYears back, I remembered watching the Wargames scene where the computer was trying to “guess a passcode”. Which it was doing remotely. Determining one digit at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNBdjVO04Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qOV8xonfY
I said, “This is completely ridiculous. That’s not how any kind of real world authentication system works.” Dramatic, yes. Realistic? No, never happen.
Some years later, there was a severe remote exploit for the filesharing feature for Windows 95 and 98 systems. Not only had the Microsoft person who designed the thing stored the password to a share in plaintext instead of hashing it, but there was also a bug where the server’s authentication system could be sent a malformed message and only validated as many bytes of the password as had been specified in the authentication message. Someone promptly went out and wrote an exploit to brute-force access to a share by just asking it to only validate the first byte, try each, get in in at most 256 tries. I look at that and say “yeah, but it also exposes the next byte of the password itself, and those probably persist even after the thing is patched, not to mention the potential for credentials reuse for other things”. I go modify Samba’s smbclient to iterate through the thing, extract the password one byte at a time. I message a buddy who has a Windows 98 machine on the network, “hey, can I break into your machine for a sec?” He comes up “Uh, okay. What are you up to, tal?”
I fire it up and we’re sitting there watching his password be printed on my Linux box’s screen, one letter at a time. I said, “This is exactly like that scene in Wargames that I said could never, ever happen in real life, was just Hollywood. Guess that showed me.” He says, “fucking Microsoft”.
One man’s Linux is another man’s OS/2.
Honourable mention is NCIS Dual keyboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQTop hacking scene of all time!
I somehow didn’t see that episode. But now that I’ve seen that scene, it is certainly one of the all time UNIXest of Systems
that’s a lot of cuts
Not as many as what’s his face jumping a fence in one of the Taken films.
what’s his face
Leapin’ Neeson!
That’s the gold standard for hacking, by far. But this also deserves a mention for pushing the bounds of technology, way ahead of it’s time: https://youtu.be/fQGbXmkSArs?is=Ud3PG9ymvBif7h2T
FYI the ?is= part of the yt link is extra tracking data for google. You can drop it and the link still works
Righto, fixed it. Thanks!
Thank you for this nugget of GLORIOUS stupidity!
You may enjoy the full 30 min movie: https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?is=_W2I155QGzzzlvNh
It’s a goldmine of insanity!
I belive I might just!
Thank you again
Cute Asian girl with green hair and a side ponytail: “I’m in!”
Six keystrokes later: “Ok I pulled up the floor plans to the building, disabled the cameras and unlocked all the doors.”
Defibrillators. They don’t start a heart that is stopped. They stop arrhytmias and give the body a chance to return to a normal rhythm.
Oh man! I never knew
Yeah, they’re the heart version of “have you tried turning it off and back on again?”
Sometimes they don’t even turn the heart back on. But that’s still better than when the heart spasms uncontrollably. CPR and meds can then jump start the heart again.
Remember: 30 chest compressions to the beat of staying alive and then 2 breaths for resuscitation in repeat. Start this as soon as you find someone unconscious and not breathing. Pumping the heart as soon as possible is key.
I prefer using the beat of Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust
Highway to hell works as well but might be a bit macabre.
Giving birth. In movies and TV shows it’s always this sudden thing. Like “My water broke! The baby is coming!” then there is some pushing and screaming and bam, baby. In reality, having a baby takes many many hours and often times days, even with induced labor.
Yeah
Coffee cups and suitcases.
and bags of groceries
CPR
Yes! CPR will keep you alive long enough for the defribullator to stop your heart.
Also, it’s not even vaguely gentle. Broken ribs are extremely common
