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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (15 children)

When the driver of a car is looking more at the passenger they’re talking to than the road. Probably a dead giveaway that the scene is shot with green screen or the car being towed on the back of a truck.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I used to hate it when people kept wobbling the steering wheel around when driving in a clearly straight road but then Top Gear had an episode featuring some American cars from the 1980s and constantly correcting the steering was necessary because there was so much loose play in the system!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    My friend’s mom when I was a kid used to look at us in the back seat for minutes at a time while driving. She said she used the lines behind the car to stay in the lane. It scared the shit out of us, but somehow she never got into an accident. Granted, these were long, straight, country roads, not NYC streets.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What the hell 😳

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    I mean with the complexity of shooting in a moving car I have to wonder if it's ever done now (in all but the most extreme necessity).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All they need to do to solve the problem is make sure to focus on the road. They don't need to actually be driving, just act like they are driving by looking at the road more than their passenger.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well that's to solve the appearance, but I'm commenting with an actual physical car, on a closed road, being towed or not, etc. Don't need the bother when you can green screen it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    On any union tv show or movie in the United States, all driving sequences are either in a studio shot with a green screen or a virtual stage, or they are shot with a "process trailer" where somebody else pulls the car.

    It is very much illegal to have an actor "act" while driving, though in the low budget indie world you might find productions or cast willing to risk it in some way.

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