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Post by msdemos on Jul 21, 2021 18:15:14 GMT
What are some of the things that filmmakers will often "fudge" in the name of entertainment (in other words, sacrificing total realism for the sake of keeping a storyline moving) ?? For instance, how many times have you seen a film where the protagonist has to remove a manhole cover in order to get in, or out of a sewer system? The typical metal (usually, cast iron) manhole cover often weighs in excess of 200 pounds, and thus (almost always) requires a tool of some kind in order to pry it out, yet how many times have you seen the film character simply reach down and pull the cover up out of the hole with no tools of any kind, as if it weighed no more than 50 pounds, or so?  What are some other examples of things in movies that filmmakers often fake in order to avoid stopping a story dead in its tracks ??  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jul 21, 2021 18:30:55 GMT
The time needed to travel from point A to point B. I don’t need to see every second of the journey but at least account for the amount of time that passed.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 21, 2021 19:30:59 GMT
The time needed to travel from point A to point B. I don’t need to see every second of the journey but at least account for the amount of time that passed. On a similar note, geography in movies is usually way off. In Jason Bourne, they go from Bally's Casino to the Riviera in one shot. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 21, 2021 21:15:41 GMT
Finding a parking spot.
They always find one!
They never have to wait or circle around.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 21, 2021 21:21:40 GMT
Getting thrown through a glass window and being relatively fine, in real life you would be bleeding all over and needing a trip to the ER.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 21, 2021 21:25:22 GMT
Pretty much any period piece set in a non-English speaking country (Ancient Rome, Medieval France, Nazi era Germany, etc) that characters just happen to speak English with a foreign accent rather than the actual native language. Funny how that works.
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Post by Marv on Jul 21, 2021 23:09:03 GMT
Id imagine everything above elementary level sciences. I don't know science enough to mention specifics but i imagine theres more than a handful of movies that scientists groan at.
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Post by ck100 on Jul 21, 2021 23:09:18 GMT
A lot of the car stunts and crashes in films like Fast & Furious which defy physics and gravity.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jul 21, 2021 23:18:36 GMT
A lot of the car stunts and crashes in films like Fast & Furious which defy physics and gravity. There’s no way the bus in Speed would successfully make that jump on the unfinished road in real life. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 21, 2021 23:24:28 GMT
A lot of the car stunts and crashes in films like Fast & Furious which defy physics and gravity. That reminds me of the car jump scene in "Gone in 60 Seconds", there's no way that car would still be running, the wheels would get blown out, the axle would break and the engine would have gotten damaged:
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Post by Marv on Jul 21, 2021 23:25:05 GMT
A lot of the car stunts and crashes in films like Fast & Furious which defy physics and gravity. There’s no way the bus in Speed would successfully make that jump on the unfinished road in real life. Correct. A few years ago we tried it here in Pittsburgh and...well...  ![]() ![]()
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Post by drystyx on Jul 21, 2021 23:53:29 GMT
The ol' knock out punch. Always handy. Just hit someone who has a non speaking role and you can knock him out with one punch, just one punch, 100 times out of 100. And knocked out people don't suffer any serious effects.
And of course the guy goes into a crowd and pulls a gun out and gives orders, and no one runs away. I can tell you that I've always been the first one to the door when that happens, and there are plenty of people ready to run over me if I'm not out the door fast enough. People run from guns. That's what they do.
And the "hierarchy of gun accuracy". "Good guys, bad guys, worst guy, and hero". Good guys can't hit a single thing. Bad guys can hit any good guy except the one hero, killing them in one shot or one action. Worst guy can hit anyone but the hero, and the hero is the top of the food chain. Just once I'd like to see a "good guy" beat a "bad guy" in a movie, just for a change from the usual formula.
People allowing themselves to be kidnapped at gunpoint in a crowded place, to be taken to an isolated place. Now what idiot lets that happen to him? No one from the hood lets it happen more than once, if they happen to survive that one time.
Falling from a plane with no parachute, a great distance to fall, and not breaking any bones. Just getting up and shaking it off.
Walking on the wing of a flying airplane.
People running through strange locations they haven't been to, turning around and around, and never getting lost.
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Post by ck100 on Jul 22, 2021 0:03:35 GMT
Pretty much all the injuries Harry and Marv get in Home Alone would kill a person in real life.
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 22, 2021 3:18:33 GMT
The lead character in a period picture/military-based film almost never has a hairstyle appropriate to their situation. Mary McDonnell in Dances with Wolves doesn't wear her hair in the style of the Lakota women she's grown up with. Bill Murray somehow escapes the Army buzz cut given to the other recruits in Stripes. And no woman in 1963 America--no one--ever wore their hair like Emma Stone's in The Help; her fashion-conscious mother would never have allowed her out of the house with that look.
On a related note, where did all those women on 1960s TV Westerns find false eyelashes out on the frontier?
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Post by gw on Jul 22, 2021 3:27:08 GMT
Lack of road noise in cars, guns firing dozens of rounds without reloading, cars jumping without damage to suspension.
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Post by Spitfire926f on Jul 22, 2021 3:56:25 GMT
Immediate results from diagnostic tests in hospitals.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 22, 2021 4:04:57 GMT
A character gets shot, beaten, thrown out of a fourth story window, and trampled by a buffalo stampede. Now we are at the hospital where friends and family are anxiously awaiting news. A doctor enters and says, "He's going to be fine." Everybody sighs and hugs.
But wait. How about a little more detail, doc. When will he be "fine"? Wil he need therapy? What other medical follow-up?
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Post by Cat on Jul 22, 2021 5:10:44 GMT
Sometimes it's just plain old toughness. Like the bathroom fight scene in Pineapple Express. Red got knocked senseless with a bong. Makes sense it would make him loopy, but a minute before that, his head was smashed through a toilet and he was okay, even though that would have been a knockout and or kill shot. It always stood out to me as a "how can you possibly be conscious after that?" kinda moment.
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Post by ellynmacg on Jul 22, 2021 7:49:54 GMT
People--usually men--get hit on the head, black out, and regain consciousness with little more than a groan, a clutching of the scalp, and maybe a complaint of "Oh, my aching head." Most people who are hit on the head hard enough to lose consciousness--i.e., suffer a concussion--do something much more drastic when they come to: they throw up.
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Post by sostie on Jul 22, 2021 11:24:54 GMT
The time needed to travel from point A to point B. I don’t need to see every second of the journey but at least account for the amount of time that passed. On a similar note, geography in movies is usually way off. In Jason Bourne, they go from Bally's Casino to the Riviera in one shot. Wonder Woman and 28 Weeks Later are really good examples of getting these really wrong (though you'd only know the latter was if from London)
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