As a siren enthusiast, it gets old hearing the same few stock sounds used for civil defense sirens in films. You'll get British WW2 siren sounds despite the movie taking place in the US, or they'll show a siren but with audio from an entirely different siren. Even the recent Twisters movie even got it wrong, showing an American Signal Tempest-121 mechanical siren going off with audio from a Whelen electronic speaker siren.
It's practically all one specific wall mount model, only the problem is that it was dubbed from a record recording, so it has warble on it. And you can very clearly hear it.
There's a few reasons for this, firing the real siren on set is not practical due to the audio levels, they could maybe record it separately but that's an extra thing to do, and why bother when "air_raid_siren_004.wav" is right there? Also audiences are used to "air_raid_siren_004.wav" and they'll know immediately what it's supposed to be, if you played the real sounds and it's too unusual, it'll make the audience think about it and take them out of the story. There's so much stuff like this I'm filmmaking where if you stop to think about it critically for a second it doesn't make sense, but that's the point they don't want you thinking about that, they want you thinking about the story and the characters. I know that's frustrating when it's your topic but I'm sure you're glad they do it like this in any other case.
You don't understand how awful it is to have studied both physics and history. Everything is so horribly misrepresented everywhere all the time. I'm losing it
Psych background, it's bad too but nothing makes me scream more than the "you only use 10% of the brain" crap. When that movie all about that came out I absolutely lost it.
Reminds me of the scene in Friends when Rachel looks Ross dead in the eye and says Jurassic Park could have happened and his entire brain goes into meltdown
I mean for history half of Wikipedia is garbage western liberal based narratives. Movies are at least wrong for entertainment.
Wikipedia is usually pretty good for math and science at least. So there is that. And then movies are just wrong to a comical degree. The good will hunting hallway proof still annoys me.
Or at the very least make it some different type of autism expression, give me the tired autist who is very aware of social situations but doesn't give a shit anymore. Or even manic goblin autist who has found stability in a form of controlled chaos, no I don't mean in a manic pixie dream girl sorta way I mean they shot put a fucken wrench through a wall to kill a fly that's been annoying them for the last 40 minutes sorta way.
Or drugs. I was a heavy drug addict for a good portion of my life and it’s so annoying how directors will be so up their own ass about “research” but can’t even do a simple google search to see the difference between a meth and a crack pipe (crack pipes are just a glass tube with steel wool shoved in one end. Meth pipes are the ones with the bowl on the end of the stem.) or how pupils react to opiates vs stimulants. Not every fucking drug makes them big.
The first movie I saw where the character does a shot and overdoses on heroin and if zooms in on her face and her pupils turn to pinpoints I was amazed lol. (The plane movie with Denzel Washington)
I know it’s not a huge deal and people that haven’t done hard drugs (which I understand is most people lol) it just bothers me how easy it is to take 5 seconds to do a google search on the directors phone for accuracy
I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can't outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don't follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.
lol yup one thing I can't ignore are helicopter and plane sounds. There could be an actual friggin blackhawk landing (Jack Ryan is a perfect example) and they edit in incorrect sounds!
I love that he has a bell to ring, presumably when he gives up on a movie so he can announce to the room when he's going to get up and walk away from it. His girlfriend/wife already knows what's going to happen. It's been 10 years, and he still hasn't picked up what she's putting down when she asks if he wants to watch Netflix and chill.
What, are we supposed to believe there is a parallel universe where Lego produced lime green slopes in the 1980s? Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
when you interact with something on such a deep level, for me i'm a linux enthusiast and computer hardware nerd. I know quite a bit about computers, networking, operating systems and malware. These things are just second nature.
Basically all implementations of these things in movies, shows or generally any media at all, is pretty inaccurate, unless it's not the direct focal point, in which case it's "accurate enough" because it literally doesn't matter and could be some obscure implementation of something.
It's like if you hired someone, who doesn't know anything about that particular job position, to do that particular job (because that's literally what happens more of the time) they just pay someone to "make it happen" and it does, and it's often not very accurate.
When it does happen accurately, thank god they hired some weird grey beard with archaic knowledge on unix and historically relevant hardware setups, because holy shit does it add SO much to the media.
I’m an aviation nut. I can spot right away when a movie has an incorrect aircraft type or livery. And don’t even get me started on cockpit layouts. If you have a particular interest, usually you can spot some glaring issues that others wouldn’t even notice.