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.
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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
When the movie shows anything to do with your job/hobbies
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
they do the same thing with phone rings.
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Try working in cyber security.
“I’m going to build a GUI in Visual Basic”
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This is the kind of rant I came here for
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
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.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
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.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 days 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.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 4 days ago
Just once I would like a movie about a computer person that doesn’t focus on their over-exaggerated autism
OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 4 days ago
The Matrix (1999)
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Every character in the matrix has turboautism.
OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Well that’s because the main character is a trans girl, and who’s ever heard of a trans girl who wasn’t autistic?
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Net with Sandra Bullocksies.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 4 days ago
the only good one i know is abed from community
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Your second example is Wrench from Watch_Dogs 2 to a T
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I wanna be friends with that second one
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Hang on to your butts!
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How about Goldeneye? Two computer people in main roles and I don’t think either can be really called autistic.
Boris is sure interesting, but not autistic.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Anti-Trust (2001). Also has early GNOME in some shots as well
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 days ago
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: youtube.com/@Insider
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It usually doesn’t take much work to get stuff like that right.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And yet, so many pieces of media still get it wrong
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 days ago
Hm… she uses some of the right words, but it’s not accurate to how a pilot would speak. There’s way too many words.
“Island approach, IG99 checking in VFR on top, over” would be “Island approach IG99 inbound”
“Island tower” would still be “Island approach,” and “Island tower, this is IG99 requesting vectors to the initial, over” would be “Island approach, IG99 inbound, you there?” or something.
grue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Also, WarGames was very accurate, except for the “WOPR having artificial general intelligence” part.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
nmaps a good choice to hit when your manager walks by. Always good to have it run in a loop on a terminal you can quickly tab over to from YouTube.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Nmap isn’t encouraged where I work. I ran it once on a customer’s IP a couple months when I first started here. The firewall interpreted it as an attack, and blocked us for 20 mins. Except we had a BOVPN connection to them, so 20mins never reset because it thought we kept hitting it. Since we needed to hit it to change the setting manually, it was pretty annoying to fix, though one of our guys managed about 5-6 hours later that night.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
How long will Win 10 IoT be viable for gaming and home use?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
(BTW, the corpsman scene leaves me sobbing, every time, no exceptions.)
Gun related scenes are top notch in John Wick. I love how real shit happens like he loses ammo count or jams, instantly remedies the situation. And believe this, plenty of gun nuts counted for him and I’ve never heard anyone call out an inaccuracy.
Also like how there’s nothing fancy. For example, look at what the The Sommelier recommends; Glock pistols, AR-15 rifle and a Benelli for a shotgun. No idea how Hollywood resisted gimmicky bullshit, but I would have screamed if they came with a funky looking KelTec.
The action, morseo in the first movie, is on the bleeding edge of believable. I’m sure by now everyone who has any interest has seen Keanu practice guns, and before that martial arts for *The Matrix".
Hard to overstate how difficult all that is. Targeting while moving is hell, worst with a pistol, but even a shotgun isn’t much better. Notice how he reloads the shotgun before he’s out of ammo, doesn’t have to pump it? You can do the same with a semi-auto anything, don’t shoot the last round before reloading.
I could train like that for weeks and never come close. I can ping every piece of steel, over and over, but even at a creeping walk? LOL, nope. Fuck me, I can’t even master the violin or combat load with a 12-gauge. Hmmm, I’m off tomorrow and have plenty of shells.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 days ago
screenrant.com/heat-shootout-scene-marine-weapons…
IDK how much of that being shown to marine recruits is real, or if so, how much was just because the marine trainers wanted the recruits to have something badass they could aspire to for themselves. But apparently there’s a bit of truth to it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhV2u4a_pV0
Joe Pesci apparently did the same thing in Goodfellas, with wanting full load blanks in his gun for shootout scenes.
Contemporarium@lemm.ee 3 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.
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
hactar42@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
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!
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
They probably didn’t even record any sounds when they shot the scene.
Aganim@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I hate it when they have a modern fighter jet firing it’s guns and it sounds like “thunka thunka thunka thunka”.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do they even still mount guns on fighter jets or do they just use missiles?
MBM@lemmings.world 3 days ago
When the Hollywood movie shows anything related to your home country / language
Justas@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 days ago
#amateur hour
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
insert any European watching Eurotrip, where London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome are all shot in Prague
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
i mean, to be fair basically no movie is shot in the place where it’s plot originated. Same for TV shows.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Oh yes for sure, this particular example is just pretty extreme, I think that might be part of why it wasn’t as well known in Europe? I only saw it years later myself. Maybe it’s just that Europeans weren’t as keen to laugh at their own stereotypes. Also I had just watched it the night before so the example was fresh in my mind. To be clear I laughed my as off watching it, it’s all good (though I do wonder if some of the humour would still fly today).
dukatos@lemm.ee 3 days ago
When British person learns Serbian for one night. No, you can’t be that intelligent.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Including the United States, if you live anywhere outside of southern California.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’m not into Lego (coz it costs too much) but the lime part really stands out.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
You don’t understand how awful it is to have studies both physics and history. Everything is so horribly misrepresented everywhere all the time. I’m losing it
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Hey, these sharks aren’t going to fuck themselves, buddy, get back to work.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
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lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 days ago
Is there a username_checksout community, yet?
taiyang@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
ugh, i feel like twice a week im having to tell people “using one hundred percent of your brain is called a fucking seizure”
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
We only use 10% of our brain, just like a traffic light only uses 1/3 of its lamps.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Maybe the movie was about epilepsy ?
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We have unlocked you full potential… seizures.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
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
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’ve got a chemistry degree and I do reenactment and how average people lived throughout history is a big hobby of mine.
Media hurts me so much.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
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.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 days ago
Not what we were talking about, but okay. Are you sure you are not the one who’s suffering from narratives?
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Tankies never miss a good opportunity to bitch about liberals, even when it’s not relevant to the discussion at all whatsoever.