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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I just assumed that's the guy from cinemasins. ding

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought of Hector from Breaking Bad when I saw that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Bang, zoom, straight to the moon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This channel has a lime piece as the logo if you squint your eyes.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Impressively accurate meme. 4650630 is indeed a 2x2 lime slope peace.

https://www.toypro.com/gb/product/6082/slope-2-x-2-45/lime

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How can someone pay attention to this level of detail?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I know, I live with it since 1990

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Did you not take the hyperfixation perk? Rookie move. There's supposed to be one thing you're permanently weird about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I have one of those but doenst work for long, maybe I should get an upgrade. My autistic husband on the other hand, I see him being able to notice details like that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some things you just know.

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

As a fellow aviation nerd, what do you think about Top Gun? Or the sequel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Watch Flight Risk with Marky Mark. I was laughing out loud in the theater at some of the “inaccuracies”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

At least they get some credit for using an actual aircraft. They filmed using an actual Cessna 208 on a platform.

https://sonycine.com/behind-the-scenes-flight-risk/

All in all, despite the rather silly nature of the movie, I quire enjoyed it. Was fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I would have probably noticed too – I had legos in the 90s and had never seen a lime piece until much later.

I don't consider myself a lego enthusiast, just an old dude who played with them when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They can't not

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, yall laugh but thats some pretty damn specialist knowledge there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Autists gonna autist

Source: am autist

[–] [email protected] 201 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 201 points 2 days ago (13 children)

When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

This is the kind of rant I came here for

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm well aware of why they don't use the actual sounds, I don't expect them to actually go out of their way to get recordings for it lol. It's just very noticeable when you're familiar with the sirens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I hear you! I work in the field and felt like giving context, it's hard to know what's common knowledge and not sometimes. The main point is, a lot of this stuff isn't "mistakes" but either deliberate so as not to distract or just way more convenient for the production pipeline.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They probably didn't even record any sounds when they shot the scene.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I especially hate it when you see a Warthog firing the old Avenger and they've made it sound like a slightly more rapid version of the original Gatling Gun. So underwhelming.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ugh, i feel like twice a week im having to tell people "using one hundred percent of your brain is called a fucking seizure"

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, these sharks aren't going to fuck themselves, buddy, get back to work.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That weed won't smoke itself either

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Just once I would like a movie about a computer person that doesn’t focus on their over-exaggerated autism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hang on to your butts!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every character in the matrix has turboautism.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The hacking scene in the Matrix sequel is actually pretty accurate.

“My Cousin Vinny” is almost entirely realistic as far as the courtroom scenes.

A mobster reported that Joe Pesci generally plays a very accurate gangster when he plays a gangster in movies. Most of the time, he’s this weirdly dark violent loose cannon outlier, because they can’t just make every character a psychopath and have people enjoy watching the movie, but he’s the one that is playing the role accurately.

When “King of the Hill” showed Bobby doing stage magic, it was all real magic tricks with his hands and props positioned so that he’d be able to really do the things he was showing.

The corpsman scene in “Captain Phillips” was very legit.

Everything else is a bunch of crap.

There’s also this stuff: https://youtube.com/@Insider

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Are you guys telling me that you don't see the part numbers when you look at LEGO pieces?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The original bottom pics were for something quite different lol

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