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Post by snsurone on Apr 22, 2019 20:04:51 GMT
Has anyone else noticed that when there are thunderstorm scenes on film and TV, there are flashes of lightening and crashes of thunder about every two seconds?
In my 70 years, I've lived through numerous storms, and I've never seen a phenomenon like that!
Are there parts of this country where that happens?
Or is it only for "dramatic effect"?
OT: As a child, I was absolutely scared to death of thunder and lightening.
Well, as the years passed, the fear lessened, but what really cinched it was my junior year of college.
One night, there was a freak thunderstorm, and at each crash, the girls in the dorm squealed in fright.
I said, "Don't tell me you're still scared of thunder?!"
It was so funny, that I was cured!
Of course, after 9/11, when I hear a thunder crash, I pray that's all it is!
I kinda thought you posters could use a laugh.
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 22, 2019 20:47:29 GMT
My issue with movie/TV thunderstorms is that the thunder never sounds like it does in real life. Even those little white noise machines with a "thunderstorm" mode have been able to capture a realistic recording of thunder; why can't movies ever seem able to?
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 22, 2019 21:09:33 GMT
Really, Snsurone -- 70 ?
Your posts seem much more like -- early 30s !
Energetic, lively, funny, knowledgeable ...
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 22, 2019 21:24:41 GMT
My issue with movie/TV thunderstorms is that the thunder never sounds like it does in real life. Even those little white noise machines with a "thunderstorm" mode have been able to capture a realistic recording of thunder; why can't movies ever seem able to? It's rather the same as it is with gunshots, isn't it? The "pop" they make in real life simply isn't as dramatic as the throaty percussion of movie gun sound effects. So it goes with thunder; that melodramatic combination of "crack" and "crash" makes an impression more alarming than the rolling rumble one tends to hear in reality. Another thing you don't usually get in films is the delay between the flash of lightning and the sound of thunder so commonly experienced (unless you're right in the midst of that storm activity). Optical and sound effects people like the impact of the bolt of lightning and crash of thunder occurring simultaneously. One very nice (and uncharacteristic) use of the delay, brief as it is, occurs in 1939's Wuthering Heights: My one real life experience that differed was a few years back when a lightning strike took the top half off an evergreen in a neighbor's yard no more than a hundred feet away: the sound, both a "bang" and a "boom" all at once, was the loudest thing I'd ever heard; the accompanying flash, even with the drapes closed, was the brightest light I'd ever seen; they both took place in the same instant. Come to think of it, a whole thread could probably be filled with examples of things that don't really sound the way they do in movies. Fistfights, for example. Film makers need that "impact" sound effect to sell the idea that physical contact between fist and face has taken place when it actually hasn't. Watch a fight scene from any classic film with the sound muted, and that illusion of contact is completely absent, exposing the "swing and miss" technique of actors and stuntmen - aided by proper camera angles - for what it is.
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Post by slimeysteve on Apr 22, 2019 21:39:36 GMT
Poltergeist does a good job with realistic thunderstorms. I barely watch any movies besides the 3 Poltergeist films so I wouldn't have any other reference.
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 22, 2019 22:06:41 GMT
There is a standard two-forked lightning effect: I wonder where it came from? I've seen it dozens of times since the 1960s at least.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 22, 2019 22:12:55 GMT
Oh, you need to spend some time in what is commonly called "tornado alley," primarily the state of Oklahoma. I spent a lot of time there in my youth, and I can tell you that what you describe is definitely a component of the worst of storms in that part of the country ("flashes of lightening flashes and crashes of thunder about every two seconds"). It's really hard to believe unless you see it in person, particularly when thunder and lightening are wrapped tornadoes.
Here's an example of lightening that is less threatening, however. I'm not sure what state it's occurring in, but in my youth I saw many a storm just like this.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 22, 2019 22:37:16 GMT
Here's an example of lightening that is less threatening, however. I'm not sure what state it's occurring in, but in my youth I saw many a storm just like this. Oh, boy! That's very nice. So nice that if I'd seen it first in a movie, I probably wouldn't have believed it. And nice as well to know that nature can still top Hollywood. Thanks for that, spiderwort.
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Post by snsurone on Apr 23, 2019 11:13:46 GMT
Really, Snsurone -- 70 ? Your posts seem much more like -- early 30s ! Energetic, lively, funny, knowledgeable ... Yes, Matt--I'm 70. Although I mostly feel like 90+! But thank you for the compliment.
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Post by snsurone on Apr 26, 2019 16:39:00 GMT
Spidey, I've been scared of tornados my entire life.
And seeing pictures of the destruction they cause, I think my fears are justified!
Thank goodness they're very rare in NYC.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 27, 2019 0:43:30 GMT
Poltergeist does a good job with realistic thunderstorms. I barely watch any movies besides the 3 Poltergeist films so I wouldn't have any other reference. What about the recent remake? 
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Post by snsurone on Apr 28, 2019 12:10:29 GMT
Poltergeist does a good job with realistic thunderstorms. I barely watch any movies besides the 3 Poltergeist films so I wouldn't have any other reference. What about the recent remake? ALREADY, there's a remake of this movie??? Jeeze!!!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 28, 2019 13:29:13 GMT
What about the recent remake? ALREADY, there's a remake of this movie??? Jeeze!!! It was adequate, but missing that 80's magic.
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Post by slimeysteve on Jun 3, 2019 0:25:10 GMT
Poltergeist does a good job with realistic thunderstorms. I barely watch any movies besides the 3 Poltergeist films so I wouldn't have any other reference. What about the recent remake? 
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