5 Childish Mistakes Every Movie Makes
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You forgot "Hacking by hastily typing random shit on a keyboard with 40 different windows open, flashing random images on the screen".
They need to do another one of these and catch more them common movie mistakes. There are A LOT of them that they missed.
They didn't forget, they made a video about that a while ago
Oh and wetting a keyboard ruins the whole computer, and zooming in on pictures by saying "enhance" keeps the picture non-blurry despite a set resolution.
one time I saw a scene where the guy pretended to type...he didn't even let his fingers touch the keys..lol it was very clear too.
"Launch the cuber-nuke!"
1. Women never carry handbags/purses unless they are about to serve a plot function.2. Nobody ever locks their car.
Or wear a seatbelt.
And when someone breaks into a car, they can always find the keys in the visor above them.
Taking one puff off a cigarette 🚬 and then throw it away! 🤬
@@daryldixon3685 This is mostly due to the fact that Hollywood doesn't know how money or cigarettes work (especially the prices of cigarettes today).
"Let's go on a date"
"8 o clock?"
"See you then!"
Um, what place? Where are you going to meet up? You don't know where each other lives. Do you even have each other's numbers? Who will pick up who (i.e. who will drive)? What kind of food do you feel like? Can you do spicy?
Organising events is the most inaccurate-to-real-life situations we see in movies!
Yeah they do that a LOT!!
That shit fucked me up as a kid cause i didnt know how the fuck to move that forward after "wanna go out?"
You missed the biggest thing with gibberish in bars!!!! When people say "gimme a beer"..... What FUCKING KIND... we LITERALLY HAVE OVER A HUNDRED!!!
Hookieloa Haha.
Really? In my country if someone asks for a beer they just give him the cheapest beer automatically and i've been to other countries and never had to specify what type of beer i want, i don't see a problem here
Mananpicar in my country if you dont specify, they give you the most expensive one
Would it confuse you if someone in a film were to say to the bartender "A pint of beer. Monty." or "I'll have a glass of Monty" and then gets a beer? By association alone, Monty would clearly be the brand of beer in question, so would it really be that all that confusing?
Hookieloa Then people come into my real bar when it's packed n say GIMME A BEER they get the one closest to me or the most expensive
Perhaps the most obvious flaw along these lines is the conclusion to nearly every horror or thriller movie, where the hero, after a frantic struggle, manages to kill the menace that has been stalking them and has already killed their close friends, relations and neighbours who comprise all other witnesses. The hero at last contacts the authorities to explain the series of events leading to the scene of mangled bodies strewn around, and the bloody murder weapon they are currently brandishing... "Yes, ma'am, you say a crazed killer/shady government agent/mythical monster/alien did all this? And you absolutely had to stick this implement right up there? Do you have anyone who could corroborate your story? They're all dead? And the monster evaporated in the sunlight? How convenient. No, ma'am, it's not that we don't believe you, but we have to consider you as a prime suspect in a multiple homicide. Now, put the axe down slowly..."
That's why I always skip town after I defeat the supernatural serial killer.
+MinesAGuinness That's sort of how it goes in Terminator/T2, where the lady who defeats the killer robot from the future is committed to a mental hospital.
+handsomebrick One of the many things that makes it a classic.
Very well put. That's why I don't call the authorities after I survive a horror movie plot. I just try to wipe my fingerprints off of all surfaces and walk away whistling inconspicuously...
It's also really annoying when the police just let the survivors leave, as if they don't need to bring them to the station for further questioning. That's what always bothered me about the end of Die Hard; the police probably have a thousand questions for John Mcclane (and they probably also want to get him to a hospital to treat his extensive injuries), but they just let him get in a limo with his wife and drive off. I'll admit, it's a cool way to end the movie, but to me it's the least believable thing in a movie full of unbelievable things.
number 6: If you knock on someone's door and they don't answer, just walk in and start going through all their stuff.
We don't use guns in my country but if I found someone rooting around my home , Jesus Christ would things get violent fast
..…. You guys don’t do this? 😅
-Classrooms full of students running out of the classroom as soon as the bell rings
-people asking each other out without agreeing on a date, time and place
-they never finish their meals when eating out
I don't know what kind of school you went to, but EVERYONE is trying to leave with the bell
People never say goodbye at the end of phone calls.
@@TheKnownUniverse1 somehow the bell only rings before recess or school ending. (Don't they ring after every period?) (actually my current school dosen't have bells. Also we don;t run out because lessons are actually interesting and valuable. also that would be rude)
Also, the only reason to order a drink in a bar is so you can then ignore it completely, and eventually leave without even taking one sip of it.
Yeah, that's like walking into a restaurant and ordering "meat".
That's hilarious, I always assumed in the U.S. they just didn't say goodbye on the phone.
The video is correct. If I don't say goodbye the person I was talking to will call back.
sl0ptart I thought the exact same when I was younger. Just rude.
Im an aussie and I dont say goodbye over the phone....but I know others do (there is an exception, I say goodbye to people that wont shut up on the phone)
I wonder how old the "not saying goodbye" thing is because I remember watching that on TV as a kid (in America) and noticing that TV shows and movies seemed to ALL be doing that (except maybe sitcoms).
The whole reason for that isn't to represent actual culture. In writing (novels, screen writing, etc) people are told to cut the fat and get to the gist of the conversation. Only so many minutes/pages a work can be. So polite niceties are cut to save time (and because some "experts" call that boring.)
I don't like how this video ended abruptly without saying goodbye.
indeed! how unpolite!
+NerdSync
I agree! I feel that people should
That should take a note from you scott
Ikr unsubbed!
Yeah, how else would we know the video is over if you don't say goodbye?
So that's the truth!
As an italian who have always watched a lot of american movies (since America is the major movie producer and seller worldwide), I've always wondered if americans actually hung up phone calls randomly after a sentence, without saying "bye" or something like that.
I've always made jokes about how much time we italians spent in saying goodbye to one another at the end of the phone calls comparing to americans which just hung up at the end of a sentence.
My whole life has been a lie! ahahah
Yea American movies can be stupid sometimes. The one that really gets me is when someone says "hello is anyone there" in their own empty house if they heard a noise. Who does that besides a few crazy people.
+Uncommon Sense_360 Yeah, Right?
+Diamoci al Cazzeggio We're not all fat also. Only 90% or so. lolol
+Diamoci al Cazzeggio unfortunately so much of what is seen in the media and movies about american's is compleatly false. Even the good stuff, like small towns being quant and willing to accept anyone for who they are, it's actually the opposite, you move to a small town that you and your family have never been too you will instantly become the 'weird" person.
+The Sqoou lol, isn't it like the opposite? by that i mean in american movies most people are pretty or at least thin whereas in reality many are overweight. not judging, just going by statistics and what i hear ^^
You missed Hotel's and restaurant kitchens. Movie characters walking through Restaurant Kitchens and Hotel back of house areas will not be ignored, they will be stopped by staff and politely turned around and walked back to the front of house areas. Also people infiltrating Room Service, Function staff or Housekeeping, would not just be allowed to walk in and start working randomly. They'd need to apply for a job. go through interviews, orientation, and several weeks training. Anyone just randomly trying to go through a staff entrance would find themselves stopped by a security door and most likely Security staff.
Number 1 also applies to School of Rock. How does Jack Black impersonate a teacher for weeks, basically kidnap a bunch of kids and then end up not getting arrested AND opening up his own music after school program?
One of the biggest ones is how in the movies people seem to have an off switch on them which simply knocks them out precisely for a needed amount of time. Watch any combat sports knockout: people take headkicks to the face from the world's best fighters and for someone to go absolutely, completely unconscious is an extreme rarity - people get dazed and disoriented, but quite rarely literally go to sleep - not to mention, they usually wake up in a minute or two, not hours. A person may indeed be knocked out for hours if he was hit with an heavy, solid object, but in that case the unbelievable thing in films is how the same person just wakes up, dusts of their jacket and carries on to kick ass. Not, you know... Suffer results of a concussion and possibly die without medical help.
Nick Zardiashvili yes! They do that one a LOT!
In Avengers, one kick knocks a bad guy to the ground forever. Eventually bad guys are littering the streets and none of the regains consciousness to fight again.
In reality the severity of a head injury is judged by how long they were unconscious. Anyone knocked out for several hours has major brain damage and/or is dead or will soon be. Most likely brain dead. Getting knocked out in a real fight usually lasts around 30 seconds. Give or take. But if you're hit on the head and able to be picked up, carried into a vehicle, driven to a place, carried into a building, put into a chair in a sitting position, held there while you're securely tied up. You probably won't survive for long with that much trauma unless you get immediate medical care.
fuck it. Give me prison time. No way in hell I'm going through the bureaucratic limbo of form filling for the government.
+Azivegu but you will fill forms in prison. Unless of course you are illiterate, than you just put your thumb here and you agreed to be a lab rat for the gov.
Anderson Andrighi but if I'll be free to start my very own prison gang, and they will do all my forms for me =3
+Azivegu Wow...ummm...wow.
+Azivegu Please you'd get handed around like a joint, only you'd be the one smoking.
+Azivegu ahhhh, put three fingers up ur BEEE
How about the fact that the vast majority of movie plots hinge on the premise that adults can't have simple conversations? Like, the "conflict" (as in, the reason the movie exists) is something happens, it's all a big misunderstanding, and the entire movie the characters run around being mad at each other because they can't talk like adults and clear things up. There would be literally no plot in a lot of movies if writers stopped doing this. It's really lame though and I'm tired of seeing it.
Roger Ebert identified the "idiot plot," which requires the characters to be incapable of noticing something that's perfectly obvious to the audience, otherwise the central problem would be solved too soon! (One example is the Princess Diaries sequel, where her mother wants to marry her off and the pretender to the throne is young, single and handsome...)
Most ppl can’t have simple straight forward honest conversations with one another. You only have to read internet comments to realize this truth
Not Obligated uh yes random stranger because if you treat ppl like this that you do not know I can only imagine how you treat those in your life. How we act behind close doors, or behind screens if you prefer shows who you really are. Have friends. Have a life. Not European. But good guess I suppose. Enjoy your CZcams account you made just to troll.
Someone runs off in the middle of a misunderstanding and there's only a half-hearted attempt at chasing after them. I hate that in movies!
I think that got started a long time ago with a show called “Three’s Company”. The landlord or someone overheard a part of a conversation and ran with it, even though it totally pertained to someone or something else.
Bad science. BAD SCIENCE EVERYWHERE.
Seriously movies tend to just gloss over scientific explanations that make no sense whatsoever.
Also movie timing is ridiculous; "Lemme just run this through this giant database; Oh I instantly got the answer!" or DNA test being done in a few hours or being unable to trace a call because the person on the other end hung up. NOPE.
That happens a lot in Criminal Minds. That lady on the computer can find literally anything the investigators need on the internet in seconds. In real life it would take at least a few hours to find anything, if she found anything at all...
Joelle Jansen You're right! science is bad!
Actually hackier nerds have desktop environments designed to use only the keyboard, like it was in the good old days before they came up with mouse. There are still only rare instances where two people would type in the same keyboard, though.
@@petitio_principii you only need a keyboard if you are alredy in an command-prompt or something similar, but most ofbthe time you would need a mouse at least in the beginning.
Bad science bugs me. What’s worse is when the show tries to explain the science and does so poorly.
For example the CDC scene in Walking Dead in which they tried to explain the zombie virus, and showed neurological function of a human pre- and post-virus. They showed just the brain stem being active in the zombies. Sorry, but the brain stem controls the most basic and automatic functions of the body. The bare minimum to keep someone alive. if the only brain activity is in your brain stem you would be comatose in the best-case scenario. Not only would you show no intelligent behavior but you would have no access to sensory information, be able to move your muscles to eat/walk, etc.
The defibrillator in basicly every movie or series they are used. magical current impulses dont bring ppl back to life if the heart stopped, cariopulmonary resuscitation does. a defi is just used to stop ventricular fibrillation - as the name already indicates, so it actually stopps the heart when its not beating correctly rather than restarting it.
that this shit is still present in modern film and tv is so bull. i mean it can literally cost lifes if ppl that somehow get hands on a defibrilator think, they can restart a heart with that thing.
Then how come they are now putting diy "AED" boxes on every other street corner?
+John Doe because most of the time when people having a "heart attack" it will start with ventricular fibrillation. this is a very dangerous state because the brain wont get enough O2 which can cause serious damange pretty fast. to make things worse, during that time its practically impossible to use cariopulmonary resuscitation to any greater success. thats why u have to stop the heart first using a defi to be then able to restart it properly with CPR.
I didnt say that it isnt an important tool. its probably the most important tool to prevent sudden cardiac death. the way it work is just the complete opposite of what film, tv and even games (like battlefield) suggest.
in the very end tho CPR is what makes the heart beat again and no current impulse can do that, thats just complete hollywood bullsht
+Roman Randhahn Not necessarily stop it. But there's a certain part of the beat, the t-wave, that a defibrillator will induce fibrillation and probably kill you But the rest of the time it would probably just pointlessly defibrillate/burn you. Very ill advised still.
+John Doe Those defibrillators detect the heart beat and won't shock a healthy beat, or at the wrong time, making them essentially 'safe'. The ones in the movies simply deliver a shock when you press a button though.
+Gradius The ones in movies are operated by professionals who don't need an automated voice telling them how to do their job.
I hate that about phone calls too. I also hate the way they smell in movies. They sniff really hard several times before they realize there's a disgusting smell somewhere. You don't have to snort every bit of gross smelling air around you to know something stinks. Just breathe normally.
+Sketchy Fella Partially agree, but my dad actually often does the smelling thing when he notice an unusual smell, sometimes I do it too
+Sketchy Fella Ehh, the sniffing is somewhat realistic. Sometimes I get a slight whiff of something, and have to do a heavier sniff or two to confirm that I did indeed smell what I thought I smelled.
+Sketchy Fella It's called the job of acting, they want YOU(the viewer) to know they are smelling something so they fave to be expressive about it.
Jay Medina
It's bad acting. You can portray heartbreak by clinching your hand across your chest and throwing your arm over your eyes and wailing "woe is me", or you can show a subtle, sorrowful look across your face. It's one of those old acting bits left over from the days of stage acting, before they could put a camera in your face. They had to be more emotive for the people in the back of the room. Now, not so much.
You might inhale deeper to make sure the smell wasn't an illusion, that's accurate. Now, if you do it loudly and several times, however; or worse, whip your head all over the place while you snort that scent...
You forgot, "You need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person report."
In india we need 72 hours
In my country you xan contact police in the first minute, especially if it's a minor.they will help searching immediatly and give out information to all police officers to habe a look. Also they check typical hiding places and runaway places.
@@oporajitoD according to a indian lawyer - A Missing person complaint can be given at anytime. However the Police will issue the missing person report only after 24 hours have lapsed for individuals over 18 years of age and men. However if you are able to give a clear suspicion as to why the person is missing, police may generate missing person report even before that.
A Missing person complaint is a complaint which the police will acknowledge and immediately register the FIR but a Missing Person report which contains the photograph of the missing person, description etc will be generated only after 24 hours (unless the MP is a woman or a child or minor) wherein the description and photo will go out to the police database and also using a copy - a newspaper publication can be done.
I remember my grandmother once watching a Mexican soup opera. A five year old kid goes missing and the police tells them to check back in 72 hours :D
That makes sense.
@@cybercop3108
people buy food or a drink in a movie. take a bite or a sip and that's it.
this always annoys me.
if I pay 7 bucks for a drink 8m dam well gonna drink it.
and nobody in real life lights a cigarette takes 2 drags then throws it away.
Bill Murray is Groundhog Day ate every donut during every take :-) but otherwise I agree with you
That had to be a terrible scene to do. At first, it's great, but after a few takes, he's gotta feel like shit. Runs a strange parallel to the actual Groundhogs Day story, actually. Great. Great. Good. Good. Good. Good. Meh. Bad. Bad. Bad. BAD. MAKE IT STOP!
I gotta tell ya man. One of the FIRST things we tell young actors coming up is to NEVER finish your food. Because it will FUCK you up, you'll have to take a stupid little bite every one of your eighteen takes for a fucking 90-second scene
Just because it's totally justified, and an essential part of an actors tradecraft, it is no less annoying when you notice it
I saw a lady do that once. she lit it in her car outside a store, got out, walked the 5 feet to the door, puffed on it a couple times then tossed it and went in. I was shocked
i always think that the cops tasting drugs in films are actually adicts themselves.
1. they cannot help themselves but get a little hit when see all those tasty drugs
2. how do they know what the drugs taste if they arent familiar with them
3. they are giving themselves an excuse for failing drugs test
4. is it a coincidence that its always ott ego maniacs that are jumping in to rub coke on their gums
+Gordon Arthur I always think that the filmmakers are addicts when that happens.
+Gordon Arthur I remember watching a documentary where they interviewed a cop that had gone undercover for some time in the dope game. He said he felt retarded the first time they were sent to pick up a few bricks of heroin because he saw in movies how they dig their fingers in and taste it, except he didn't know it was heroin. The only real reason I could see to do anything like that would be to try a small amount, if the substance is white, and see how numb your mouth gets (more numb it is generally means its not as cut). His didn't numb at all, he got a finger full of heroin (generally very brown looking) and it tasted about as bad as you could imagine a processed drug cut with nasty shit would taste like and the crew member with him gave him the dumbest look.
Haha
+Bill F I would very much like to watch that documentary, if you can remember the name.
+Gordon Arthur Well you forgot number 5. In order for the officer to recognize the drug from just a little taste, that means he had to do drugs prior, so he can learn the difference, right? Furthermore he had to do a plethora of drugs and acquire experience in order to be able to identify a drug so quickly, from a plethora of possibilities.
"Oh... this doesn't taste like cocaine... it takes like... *anthrax*!"
hahahahaha.... or bleach
Or cyanide!
Anything to do with cameras.
"Enhance."
"Wait, hold on, analyze that will ya."
CAMERA RESOLUTION DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY
Super Troopers!! Enhance!
Rick & Morty had a good joke when this happened and the President screamed to use their 50 million dollar software to enhance it.
Also, at 3:30 the guy with the gun totally just turned around pointing his gun at the guy behind him WITH HIS FINGER ON THE TRIGGER. I've never held a gun in my life and I know that's not safe practice.
indeed, you keep your finger over the safety catch ready to push the safety off and then pull the trigger. people running round tense areas with the safety off in films is almost as bad as the other cliche of cocking the weapon (i.e. the process that puts a round in the chamber) after brandishing said weapon for dramatic effect; ffs you do not threaten someone with a weapon that you haven't made ready yet
Some guns have the safety mechanism in the trigger, so you are actually sometimes meant to run around with your finger on the trigger. It's still only something you should do if you think you might actually have to fire it in the very near future, but it isn't always the sin it's made out to be
While doing cocaine ;) tango and cash - awesome movie :)
@Roger Balcer he's holding a revolver your comment is irrelevant. Your entire comment is built around handguns not to mentions its only modern handguns that are generally built with only internal safeties rather than external. I refuse to buy any handgun that doesn't have a hammer and external safety.
One thing that my girlfriend and I always discuss after horror movies is how the main character watches all their friends die or be tortured in front of them and then at the end of the movie everything is fine. No post-traumatic stress, no grief or emotional damage they just walk away to their normal lives!
Kevin Rivera that on chic had ptsd in the scream movies
None of these bother me as much as the movie (and tv) belief that the human heart is like a car engine, and you can jump-start it with electricity.
Also the "out of frame out of sight" that was a good joke in silent movies but that make zero sense in suposedly realistic thrillers. Something that should be visible (or at the very least audible) to the character long before they get into frame still manages to surprise them as if it came from outter space.
I hate it when women scream when they find a dead body, even if the dead person was old and died in the their bed. Or when they see a dead person lying on the ground. A real person would assume it was a sleeping homeless person. Or at least check to see if they were dead, at which time they would not scream. They might swear but not scream. People only scream when they are surprised or under attack (having a spider land on you is both).
And people screaming when there is an explosion or the lights go out. I was in a crowded grocery store during a thunder storm when lightening hit the building and the lights went out. There was a huge crash and sudden darkness and no one screamed. A couple of people swore. But mostly there was a brief moment of quiet until people started taking out their phones and using the light from their phones to continue shopping!!!! The store had to use a megaphone to tell people to leave because the cash registers won't work without electricity. The customers would have happily continued shopping in the dark.
definitely! and what about when people react to murder/blood/vomit by immediately throwing up?
I made a very similar comment on another vid. It's ridiculous. Unless the body dropped down or popped out at you suddenly. Then you might yell, briefly, but you wouldn't carry on like a banshee.
I can understand screaming if it's gruesome. But yeah, almost always a woman, almost always screaming. Women tend to disproportionately find dead bodies in movies and TV probably just so they can have them scream dramatically 😂
@Roger Balcer Not only in that movie.
Daughters are what feels like ALWAYS super scared and screamy and refuse to move in moments of crisis until their parents waste precious time to calm them down.
I don't know how real children are, but I think they would rather just do what they're told because they know this is not the right time to act up. If even mommy and daddy are scared, shit's gotten real.
@Snoi Med I think under these circumstances it's a different thing than in a country that is mostly safe. If there is a real threat to your life, I can understand that people panic more easily.
How about the loud noise lights make when they turn them on?
It always makes the sound of a prison gate slamming shut or something!
Electricity doesn't make any sounds when you get zapped most of the time either
+bradlbe It's the big, heavy industrial switch that makes the noise, not the electricity. The sound is believable to me. When I was little, all residential wall switches make a loud click-clack sound. You couldn't turn on the light to check on the baby without waking the baby. There was a transition to silent switches.
+Ken Collins I think what he means is when they flip a light switch and you hear a loud slamming sound every time a light in the hallway turns on. Not in every small house but when they turn on a light in a hanger or prison.
+Seven Billion, I know that's what he means. I'm drawing a lesson from the past. Switches make noise and you have to design them to be silent. I don't think there is any reason to make giant industrial-sized switches silent. I think the sound is realistic.
Ken Collins i guess. I mean iv never actually been in a hanger/prison so i wouldn't really know.
Power cut to Wayne Manor? Hello... What no generator with two weeks worth of deisel? Bat Cave has a nuclear reactor right? As for his place being seized and cleared out of stuff in a day? What small army of movers raided the place with nobody watching. Damit you know Alfred would have put up a fight and locked down the house and hid the silverware.
+Robert Davidson HID the silverware? Alfred would have gone Sebastian Michaelis on those bastards and FOUGHT them with the silverware. This is Alfred bloody Pennyworth we're talking about here.
+Robert Davidson Remember, Alfred was off crying about Bruce needing to fight Bane.
Right about everything else though. Maybe the repo guys took the batcave too.
+Justin Barnes I don't even want to think bout how big of a tow truck that they would need to haul out an under ground cave.
+Robert Davidson Also did all the other shareholders also get their shit taken? Bruce doesn't even actually own Wayne Enterprises. He's literally just the majority shareholder.
+Robert Davidson Yeah, the problem with rendering a billionaire truly "bankrupt" is that it's not a light-switch achievement. As the video pointed out, he would have liquid assets and certain things paid for in clear. For creditors to come after him would only result after legal delays and wrangling. If they wanted to completely isolate him financially, it would have been better for Bane to "hack" into the IRS or something so that all his assets were frozen or seized by the government, which *can* work as quickly as shown.
as a brit, I always thought the phone hang up thing was just standard procedure in the states and that it's only in our culture you're supposed to say a little 'bye bye' or 'see ya' when you're done.
My mind is blown
Ash Mckinlay nope, we do it here in the states. If someone doesn't say it I assume they lost signal and call right back.
Ash Mckinlay I often don't say goodbye because I'm a bloody movie star.
Ash Mckinlay this opens a whole new discussion on how Americans are perceived in other countries as a result of terrible movie making!
In Ireland, we end phone conversations thusly: "Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye-bye, bye. Oh, did you hear about your cousin?"
Ash Mckinlay we say good or a form of it depending on who your are on the phone with. We're not animals
#6: Relatable material on TV is ALWAYS on the moment the person needs to see it! Turn on the TV and BOOM! The important news flash that needs to be seen is on RIGHT NOW! Really? How's that possible?
I love when a character opens open that 1200 page law book or opens that certain file folder and BAM there it is! Instantly! A mini montage showing some semblance of passing time and endless searching goes a long way.
I'm also a fan of the elusive tape recorder which is always set not just at what they need to listen to, but at the beginning of what they need to listen to, as if some kind little investigatory faerie rewound it for their ease.
In reality you'll probably be hearing Michael Haggins "Daybreak" before anything important happens.
Btter still: phone rings. Character answers. Person at other end says "turn on channel 3. Now". Character switches on the TV (which comes on instantly) and there's the news article, BAM.
To answer your question: no, of course it's not possible! Given that most news articles on TV are no more than 30 seconds long, by the time the TV has switched on the story would be pretty much over - never mind dialling the number, waiting for the call to ring, waiting for the other person to answer...
Christopher Bedford
There are 24 hour news channels which will cover stories for much longer....
I love the scene in just about every crime movie where the witness is alone with the killer and blurts out, "I know what you did and i'm going straight to the police!" Duh. Way to get yourself killed, but they seem to do it every time.
Ned Stark in Game of Thrones.
I'm going to tell all the enemies my plan to out their crimes to the king, before the king gets back from his hunt
i always hated that too; like why the hell would you tell the person you just saw murder a few people that you were going to rat on them.
@@1369Stiles Mate you have no clue how many hundreds of witnesses I've murdered in rdr2 because they say those exact fucking words.
This is a somewhat common Darwin prize runner-up gimmick in real life as well.
People have actually started doing the whole not saying goodbye thing at the end of phone calls. I used to work as a receptionist and, while it makes sense for someone to do that when they're angry or something, most of the times people would do that would be after perfectly normal conversations. It used to irritate the shit out of me. Like, where's your common decency? I'm not a fucking robot! Spare 2 seconds to let me know that I don't have to continue talking into an empty receiver.
Okay, rant over.
A friend from America always does this. I thought it was an American thing.
+Lex Man It's an asshole thing.
+Poodlekisses I not only truncate valedictions but often just end my
+Heather Spoonheim hahahaha this comment was way too clever, I actually fell for it 😂😂😂
+Lex Man it might be a younger generation American thing. It only really happened with teens, with a few adults sprinkled in here and there. And I know this makes me sound way older than I am, but it's one of the reasons I hate teens now. Like the few years that exists between us actually makes a world of difference apparently
How about the fact that you cant stop the hackers from penetrating your firewall, but you can program a nice little progress bar that shows to the nanosecond when the hackers have penetrated your firewall. :)
nalk20 although not likely it is possible. A lot of hacking is algorithmic so you could calculate when it will be completed but not necessarily be able to stop it in that period of time.
Yo the hanging up thing tho... sometimes I'll say "bye mom" too quietly, or my mic is covered, or I hit the button too quickly, etc and my mom calls me back immediately and says a variant of "ERIN RENEE IF YOU EVER HANG UP ON ME AGAIN I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL..."
Everyone who orders a beer in a movie just asks the waiter, "Gimme a beer." The waiter never stops to ask what kind. Especially weird since most of these scenes take place in bars, where they have a ton of different kinds of beer.
In Germany it's like that. If you want a Pils, you mostly say beer. If you want Weizen you say weizen. One pub has his own default Pils and default weizen, If you want something else you can explain this of course
It’s like that in Sweden. You can say ”a beer please!” and the bartender will give you the house draft beer, the cheapest.
What really gets me is when people say "hello is anyone there" in their own empty house if they heard a noise. Seriously who does that besides a few crazies here and there.
But really can't speak on the ordering drinks..all that fancy talk is for the special snowflakes. Beer or Rum and coke, anything else I'll need a menu or ask the bartender what's the strong drink they can make.
+Uncommon Sense_360 (I'm a barman), it annoys me when people ask for something like "Rum and Coke". We have like 8 different rums, 3 of which are commonly mixed with coke, if you want Morgans Spiced Rum and coke, ask for Morgans Spiced and coke.
+Uncommon Sense_360 And then upon the realization that it is someone (or something) unsavory, run up the stairs and into their bathroom when their front door was RIGHT THERE BEHIND THEM!
+Uncommon Sense_360 Saying "Hello?" or yelling out is *literally* the best ting you can do if you suspect someone is in your house in bascially all instances. Absolutely nothing crazy about not wanting to corner a thief and make them a murderer.
+Uncommon Sense_360 Right, so special snowflake officially lost all of its meaning
If I was a cop I would totally do my best to lick all the drugs I find. Thats why I will never be a cop.
Maybe snort a little, just to be sure
Nice picture! 40oz to freedom! 👍
If you don't get to lickthe drugs then what even is the point?
omg smh
Never can be too sure. Kids might find it...and lick it...before...I get the chance...
How about how movies and TV give bladed weapons WAY too many sound effects? A sword does not go "SHIIIIING!!" when drawn from its sheath. A knife does not go "SHIIIIING!!" when simply being SWIPED THROUGH THE AIR.
leftover trope from the days of radio when you didnt see the sword but heard the SHHIIIIING and knew it was a sword
If all the "unnecessary" sounds were removed from movies, it would be boring. Like explosions in space.
Only Daredevil would be able to hear it.
And fighting moves and pre-fighting coreographies cut the air making "woosh" sounds as if people had long staffs for arms and legs. That's probably specially the case in martial arts movies and those Japanese rainbow-colored live-action supeheroes with giant robots. It's possible that there are even head nodding noises, as they also nod a lot.
This is like every sci-fi in space, where we hear the engines, the explosions, LASER (and also see named laser...)
Okay, I know it would be very dull to just see some explosions, without any sound
mean girls phone conversation works though xD
+Gizmos Monster I was gonna say, wouldn't a bad guy want to keep his conversations short and lacking in detail? If you're in a mob or terrorist organization and you need a goodbye for every phone call, you most likely will need to find a new career.
Scratch that, you'd be sleepin with the fishes!
+Justin Barnes I dunno, if I was a crime boss I'd end all my calls with. "Kisses. *kissy noises*"
Geary youd be a very successful crime boss
What about the worst one of all? :
'Call me!'
'Ok',
End of scene.
No one exchanged #'s?!
How can you call someone when you don't have their #?! That's not reality!
+SylviaisGod
Not all of them, and what about when no one gets a last name?
+SylviaisGod
How would they do that?
+SylviaisGod
What about when no SURNAMES are given though?
+SylviaisGod
You can't just ring up say, 200 Amanda's in a row
+Max Stirner - More proof that the screenplays must be written by telepaths.
The phone bit, not saying "bye". FINALLY! I frigging HATE movies doing this, it's just rude.
My thoughts exactly!
He did say there are some reasons to not say bye. But for normal conversations...
Don't forget how people answer the phone in movies too. "Talk to me," or "Yeah?" .. everyone says Hello? or informally something like what's up?
This guy in the video makes a childish mistake when he says "If Bruce Wayne's shares all went up for sale at once, the FDIC would notice right away." The FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. They have nothing to do with the stock exchange. That would be the Securities Exchange Commission or SEC They deal with suspected criminal activity in the stock market.
Anyone else embarrassed they didn't notice that?
lol fail detected
Good call - I guess he remembered seeing that FDIC sign in a bank one time and thought "derp".
I don't live in the US, thought maybe the SEC had changed its name or that there had been a change in responsibilities amongst the many many many *many* regulatory agencies you have in that complicated country of yours ;)
Flip 3206-How is it childish? Some people don't know about any of this because they don't have money to invest so none of it's relevant to them.
People always just walking away from their cars in the middle of a large city, without putting the windows up or locking the car.
Lol. NO ONE in movies/TV has their car windows up! But seriously, don't we have the ability to erase the reflections of camera & crew from the windows?
Or putting the top up if it's a convertible.
They also get to park right in at the front steps of the building they're visiting. No parking lot blocks away for them!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices the phone thing. Annoys the hell out of me.
+Matthew Todd I always thought they did so to keep the pace. Imagine a movie that includes 20 phone calls (like X Files type stories), you're probably saving 1-2 entire minutes of redundant goodbye stuff by cutting it out. With that said, they typically show us people dialing or at least answering, so, my theory has its flaws. ;)
+Stéphane Lavergne At the very least, you can take 1 sec and say "bye" before you hang up in a movie
+hakasims Spped Dialing takes too long.
+Matthew Todd I know. Especially when they give long complicated instructions to someone and just hang up without warning, assuming they heard and understand it all.
+Matthew Todd Me too. I often loudly have to blurt out "goodbye!" for the sake of the characters on screen. I hope it makes them feel better, but I know it is folly.
The phone thing has been bugging me forever, but I assume it's just a custom to save movie time for other "more important stuff". Like, you don't see people going to the bathroom unless it advances the plot for some reason.
Still, not saying "goodbye" never ever in phone conversations is weird.
Also, random littering, done by the good guys even. They throw stuff to the street, probably to indicate it's worthless or their anger, but still, bad manners.
The phone thing is part of a larger "Yeah, but..." to do with all dialogue. No-one talks like people do in movies and TV. They, um, pepper their speech with, like... random pauses and punctuations, get sidetracked, and unless they are delivering a speech they have previously prepared for some reason, rarely go on for 2 or 3 minutes on some topic or other without ever leaving a gap that someone else will try to jump into, even if it's just to agree with them.
But, if dialogue were REALLY realistic, it would suck. There would be no flow, and it would sound odd to us, even though it would match what we hear from everyone we know every day
DeNiro actually addresses the “taste the drugs” thing in “Showtime,” a movie I am fairly certain only ten people watched, and two of them were my husband and I on a shitty date night attempt when our kids were toddlers (thus compelling us to see a movie-any movie-on those rare occasions when we managed to score a babysitter.)
Can we all agree that The Dark Knight Rises had stupid plot holes and silly plot devices and move on like adults? Can we please do that? Its been done to death.
+Jeffrey Sam yes, yes we can.
+Jeffrey Sam Nah.
+Jeffrey Sam Your right about it's plot holes being beat to death, although I hadn't personally heard the "how money works" problems mentioned yet. I really enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises, but Bruce Wayne's instant & complete financial ruin stuck out to me more than any of the other problems.
+Jeffrey Sam No. People deserve to know just how mediocre those movies are.
+wmfivethree Agreed, there could have been way more logical ways for Bruce to become bankrupt. For instance, having board members that are plotting against him, like Miranda and Dagett did. And since the movie takes place 8 years after The Dark knight, they would have had plenty of time to slowly bankrupt the company and Bruce along with it.
As a poor person none of that shit in Batman occurred to me, and now I feel used :)
+HitchensImmortal You were the least common denominator and didn't even know it. :P
+CountArtha Do you mean lowest common denominator? I'm really asking, because least common denominator would be something else, like a demographic so uncommon that it isn't planned for.
+MarshmanNo1 Actually the relevant real math phrases use "least" and "lowest" interchangeably.
Well, right. In math, it doesn't make any sense to differentiate. Common denominators occur with the same frequency, and so least and lowest can easily be interpreted as the same thing. Used in a social context, though, least common and lowest common can more easily be thought of as entirely different things.
For example, Adam Sandler films are successful because they contain a lot of fart jokes, sex jokes, etc. Everyone gets that, because everyone farts, has sex, and so on. These kinds of things are often referred to as "lowest common denominators" because of their commonality, not because of their actual value, which cannot be truly quantified.
Alternatively, a sitcom writer might write the character of Gary, a gay man who is secretly attracted to a straight character, Horace. While speaking on the phone, Gary may do a spot on impression of a woman, so that he might dupe Horace into building a sort of satisfying, if dysfunctional, long distance relationship, all the while letting Horace believe he is falling in love with a woman. The average viewer might think this is a ridiculous plot device, that men can't sound like women, and that the writers are taking a certain amount of creative license. But a very small demographic might share what I would call a least common denominator, some knowledge or characteristic that is not common, and know that there are actually voice training classes you can take to sound like a man or a woman. They exist to help transgendered people transition from male to female or female to male. Because this denominator is least common rather than lowest common, the writers would probably not expect most viewers to know about it, and might even find a way to work that information into the episode.
+MarshmanNo1 Very impressive.
i have been arrested almost a dozen times and never once was I read my rights at the arrest it was always during booking sometimes several hours later I was given a print of my rights they read them off I was asked if I understood if yes sign at bottom
There's a life story hidden in that comment, isn't there?
Not really I'm actually fairly law abiding. I don't do drugs I rarely drink when I do I don't drive. I just don't put up with the the bullshit some of the cops around here try to pull. And i would much rather spend a night in jail and get out the next morning than waste money on a ticket.
yeah i think they have until the question you.
They give you the same document if your being questioned
What were the arrests for?
#7: Cars racing around in town ALWAYS plow into a fruit cart! A FRUIT CART!! Are there that many obligatory fruit carts that cars HAVE to drive into??
That depends on what part of L.A. you're in...
if one were to judge american culture by our action adventure movies they would assume that guns were disposable items that are flung on the ground as soon as you run out of bullets, they would conclude that guns in america were dirt cheap
+Wanetta Renay Yes this! Heh. Altough to be fair I've seen you can buy bullets in supermarkets...
yes, well, you just never know when you will really want to shot someone, best to be prepared in case something goes down in the produce section
So, no vending machines that sell a bio-degradable Glock with 10 pre-installed bullets for a Dollar? I see a business opportunity.
Cartridges, not bullets.
Wanetta Renay lol we just buy our guns from vending machines lmao
also in movie bars:
If this is a thing...
Person: "I'll have a whiskey"
Why don't bartenders just say....
Bartender: "great that'll be money"
+Dan Peters Just another reason not to drink, as far as I'm concerned.. All these bartenders getting annoyed if you don't know exactly what you want, like you've tried everything already
+futurestoryteller If you don't know what you want you're too young to drink
Gumersindo Cebollero That's a stupid thing to say.
But I guess I shouldn't be surprised, this is the CZcams comments section.
+Gumersindo Cebollero Whenever I go to a bar, I always just get a Jack and Coke because I don't feel like wasting a ton of money on things I may or may not like just to learn alcohol terminology. I'm 26.
+futurestoryteller That's not actually true. From my experience whenever I wanted to try something new the bartender would usually enjoy starting a conversation about what's good and what isn't. Of course I don't just go up to him and say "give me a whiskey", I say something like: "What's a good whiskey within this-and-that price range?"
I've never felt they're annoyed with me for that
The one that pisses me off the most, is when a character knows a seriously important piece of information......but doesn't tell ANYONE and for no reason. Not out of spite, or anger, or jealousy, or for two snicker doodles.
The writers/directors do this so it keeps the show going and enhances the tension and drama. It's known as a McGuffin. It means they're being fucking lame and lazy and don't know how to properly write for that moment, so they just have the character NOT tell anyone. For no reason.
perfect example of this is Fin in Force Awakens.
So, let me get this straight. you were stationed on a planet sized gun, know all of the intricacies and your way around like it was your childhood tree house, but you don't happen to MENTION ITS EXISTENCE TO THE REBELLION until after it blows up an entire solar system, killing billions of people?
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That movie was one of the best definitions of the term "plot hole".
The only other movie I've seen that had more plot holes than plot, was "Prometheus".
that's not what a MacGuffin is.
A MacGuffin, is a plot device that drives the story forward, it is usually important to both the protagonist and antagonist. Some famous examples of MacGuffins are;
1. The Death Star plans or simply R2-D2 - Star Wars
2. The Ark of the Covenant - Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The One Ring - The Lord of the Rings
What you are describing is simply a plot hole.
Ignoring the fact that Finn doesn't meet the Resistance until AFTER Star Killer Base is used... as soon as he meets the Resistance he gives them his intel.
wossonjohn85"A MacGuffin, is a plot device that drives the story forward"
---I said that. It's a tool used by writers, to advance the story without actually adding to it.
The most common type of MacGuffin is an object, place, or person. Other more abstract types include money, victory, glory, survival, power, love, or some unexplained driving force.
The thing that annoys me is when people find car keys behind the sun visor. Do people really hide the keys there? Won't that invalidate their insurance?
Yeah, that's dumb. If you're going to leave your car unlocked, at least have the precaution of taking the keys with you.
Turns out 'hiding' your house key under the door mat is pretty common in real life as well as in movies...
What about the movies were as soon as the final bell goes at school the class dart for the door even when the teacher is still talking, mostly associated with American movies. Im not American but im not sure this happens, im sure the teacher says when you can go. For instance one happens in Transformers near the beginning when Sam (Shia) is talking to the class, when the bell goes everyone just gets up and leaves.
Also, no one in action movies ever get PTSD. After fights to the death and explosions, the characters always seem to be alright the next day.
+Mike Hermida THANK YOU!
+Mike Hermida To be... fair(?) most veterans who have experienced combat apparently don't experience PTSD. I've only heard this a few times, and I tried looking it up again before commenting - I found the same answer but not directly from any known reliable source (this time.) The number is said to be between 10% and 25% of veterans who have seen combat developing PTSD. While that is tragically many people, it also puts them in the minority. So maybe that's frighteningly realistic(?) Probably not though as the rest of them seem likely to have other problems. Like depression and bi-polar disorder
futurestoryteller From experience with my husband having been in a combat area, twice, I can say, at least for us, PTSD is certainly caused by being in a situation such as theirs. However, I agree that most who get it from a combat situation are probably ones who were heavily attacked or had heavy losses. My husband had it because of how the military trains and some certain things that happened on his bases in Iraq.
However, the issue he mentioned here was a typical civilian getting PTSD from some very traumatizing events categorized as "action", which any "normal" person most certainly would be affected. Military people are trained to some degree to know what to expect, civilians are not and I would wager an educated guess that 9 times out of 10, they would have severe flashbacks/repercussions from their experiences.
Jess B1110 I'm just presenting statistics, if they are to be believed; most people who experience trauma (luckily) will not develop PTSD, that's more or less across the board. There are certain specifics. For instance, a person who is assaulted is far more likely to experience it than someone who experienced a less intimate trauma, like a car wreck. That's certainly not to say that it is unrelated to their previous (or ongoing) situation, like your husband's war experience. I never said that, combat obviously causes PTSD. It just may not do so as commonly as people think. I don't think that minimizes anyone's suffering.
I don't think it should be looked at like a competition. Questioning "who was traumatized the most?" or "what kinds of people are more likely to be traumatized?" There's a statistical probability of mental trauma. I think lower likelihood is a good thing. One bad experience is enough, and reliving it is hell. The plight of that is understandable, and worth treating with care, that doesn't mean we can't be happy for those who don't have to suffer through it, even though they've been to some of the same places
+Mike Hermida They tried that with Tony Stark and people cried about it.
I've always hated the blinky light on bombs and tracers. Also, the time it takes to trace a call.
"Because A, that's a sack full of heroine friend."
I'm from Brazil and for the longest time I actually thought that Americans didn't actually ended the phone conversations, that they just hang up, you know... like a cultural thing. Then I found out it was just in movies.
You're the 3rd person I've seen say that... I'm kind of disappointed in American directors/actors for misrepresenting us.
@@TheZenBullet You evil asocial dick!
GIRL, SAME
Also, if Miranda-thing worked like in the movies, criminals would claim every time that their rights were not read. Police in the other hand would always claim that the rights were read and "of course criminals would say that". It would make no sense.
*RingRing*
"Hello? Oh hi Character! A dead body down at the docks? No prints? No I havent fixed my.. you say that you want me to stop repeating what you're saying? "
NOTHING about Batman makes any sense. Any serious Gotham City supervillain would have simply shot him, long ago.
You mean through his bullet proof gear? Yeah, weird how no one has ever tried to shoot Batman.... expect in every fight with an armed person ever when they tried and failed to injure him.
Yeah it's really hard to shoot him in the mouth which he leaves unprotected for some ass licking reason.
Jester Muffin its harder to headshot someone than you think...significantly harder.....oh hey!! I found another trope to add to this list
Nothing a person can wear is completely bulletproof. It is just a matter of how much of which ammunition you fire at it really. And even if the shot doesn´t kill him, it will still knock him down, break some bones or make him unable to catch his breath, just by the sheer momentum of the projectile. It´s not like you´re invincible with a bulletproof gear. And I didn´t even bring up grenades.
Jirka Zalabák exactly, the bullet may not penetrate, but it'll definitely hurt. alot.
Man, Tom's been on a roll lately with hosting really good videos. Keep it up!
i once called by friend once just to say "i am not a lizard" and hang up abruptly.
3:29 loved it when Sylvester Stallone tasted the drugs and whipped around with that gun in his hand aimed right at the guy's head.
THANK YOU! for pointing out that phone thing, its so annoying, and how do they understand when to cut the call, i tell or ask multiple times before ending call.!
Ah movies...
Here's one that annoys me: Explosions in space make a shit tone of noise... even though there's no air there to propagate sound waves.
+Alex San Lyra Yeah, and don't forget about fire and fire-explotions in space.
+Alex San Lyra That's what I found so unsettling about the explosions in Gravity. Adhering to reality, the explosions in that movie were completely silent other than the musical soundtrack and it kind of threw me off until I realized that that is what would actually happen.
+Gary Horsman Yeah, Gravity hit quite a few solid notes with regard to realism. Did you now that "space trash" really is a problem? There's so much stuff up there now... satellites and such... that NASA is worried that what happened in that movie might actually happen irl. Apparently, if one of the satellites gets hit by some space debris, it might might shatter and set off that chain reaction in the movie. Kinda scary. o.O'
Alex San Lyra You're right. There is a lot of garbage up in space and no feasible solution to clean it up. As far as I've heard, the scenario in Gravity of a cataclysmic collision between debris and space stations or other manned missions, though conceivable, is not likely given the various orbit heights each occupies. This is from people like Neil deGrasse Tyson. In any case, great movie.
+Thomas Angelo There would still be a fiery explosion, but it would be pretty fast and more like a hydrogen balloon catching fire as the fuel gets consumed pretty quickly.
My dad always hangs up on me, no matter what the conversation is about.
"Dad, I'm been discharged, can you come pick me up from the hospital after my kidney surgery?"
"Now?"
"Yeah, is that-" CLICK "okay..."
If somebody abruptly ends phone conversation , I usually assume that one side off that conversation lost their signal(it has to happen sometimes when you're moving while speaking), so I call back in a minute
Lol, I'm an Englishman and I always thought that's how Americans were on the phone... How rude!
Good to hear it's not true.🤭
Mulder and Scully aren't adults. They're children in adult costumes, chasing silly monsters. adults call their lovers by their given name, not their surname.
+Byron MacGreggor But they work in the FBI. The X-Files is their actual job.
+Byron MacGreggor Nonsense Macgreggor.
+Byron MacGreggor Actually it's not uncommon at all between agents to call each other by their last names.
+Byron MacGreggor Oh wow, what a profound criticism of the X-files
+Byron MacGreggor You do know they didn't start out as lovers. They started out as professionals that didn't really want to work with each other. Thus the professional surname usage.
After they became lovers, well I wouldn't know. I stopped watching the show before that happened.
What about eating food at restaurants. Nobody in hollywood understands how that is done. The characters never touch the food in front of them and they have a brief conversation and after that they usually walk out without touching the food at all.
Like every couple breaking up. In real life people still eat the food first or at least get the food in a container
It's because everybody complains about movies where things change on the plate every time they had to edit the scene from multiple takes. So now they tell actors not to touch the food, because it is just too damned hard to make every single breadcrumb and noodle and drop land exactly where it was at the same point in the dialogue in the previous take that will get edited in after this one. They already have enough work getting the actors to move their arms and legs to the same positions.
No-one wants to watch people eat in a movie unless it is necessary to the plot, for the most part.
"Magic police spell." lol.
Loving this channel.
Taking one puff of a cigarette 🚬 and then tossing it away... 🤬
I've been wondering about the phone thing for years, but I concluded that that was the way Americans ended phone calls. I always thought that it was weird.
+SmultronsyltNatha I tend to tell everyone I love them before hanging up...even if it's the pizza guy or a telemarketer.
+SmultronsyltNatha Lol, that's great - from the outside that probably seems like something Americans might do - but no, even here in the U.S. that would be considered exceptionally rude - and it'd be so weird that everyone you did it to would call back immediately thinking they were accidentally disconnected.
+Legendary Detective Wobbaffet The pizza guy is _bringing you _*_pizza_*. It's perfectly reasonable to love him for that.
+SmultronsyltNatha That's the second time I've seen this. It's sad to think of the other things people think Americans do because of movies.
+SmultronsyltNatha Well your conclusion is wrong. That's a rude thing to do.
"I know we've had a lot of laughs together" .... Have we though?
I thought you were going to mention how people never take a bite out of their food in movies. Like in sitcoms when the mom makes break fast and they sit there and talk for a 3 minute long dialogue and then run out of the door with their back pack and never manage to take one bite of their pancakes, toast, or cereal.
And undercover police do not need to identify themselves as police. Hollywood is WAY stupid.
Anthony Hargis well they must identify themselves when they take legal action against you for example they can't tackle you to the ground and slap handcuffs on you without revealing their identity however you are correct in that they can say whatever the criminals need to hear in order to stay undercover
They need to to make an arrest or to take away your rights to defend yourself against their attempt to capture you.
I've never seen a movie/TV show that portrayed that as an actual rule. But I have seen a movie where SERIOUS CRIMINALS actually seemed to think that: "The Departed".
Lol. Leo DiCaprio joins Jack Nicholson's gang, and IMMEDIATELY the police are 100% more efficient. They ask him if he's a cop, and Leo says no. And then the bad guys are like "Well, if he says he's not a cop, then he's not a cop!"
In real life, it's true, we don't just hang up without saying goodbye. But watching characters in movies say "hi there" and "talk to you later, bye" or whatever would IMMEDIATELY start to feel obnoxious. It's actually horrible screenplay writing. If you want to see this in effect, watch Tommy Wiseau's "The Room." The characters in that movie all say "Oh hi, [character]" and make all kinds of dumb small talk -- some of it is sort of realistic, even -- but it's *painful* to watch on screen. A better screenwriter would cut those meaningless hi's and bye's because they waste time and do nothing to move the story along.
You know in movies (like Constantine) where the guy stands on a desk or chair, holds up his lighter to a fire sprinkler on the ceiling, and all the sprinklers spout water? That would not happen in real life. Fire sprinklers are installed to prevent property damage, so only the one near the fire will be set off. If Constantine had done that IRL, only the sprinkler above his head would've been activated, and he would have been the only one that got wet in the scene. This always bothers me when I see it in movies.
+Nume Moon Oh really? I thought that sprinkler system is stupidly made...
51stcenturygirl Sprinkler systems are designed to prevent as much fire/water damage as possible. If all the sprinklers on the floor went off at the same time... think of all that property damage that could have been avoided if just the sprinkler above the fire went off. Why flood an entire floor when you could just create a system that allows each individual sprinkler head to activate as the fire spreads? This way, maybe only 2 or 3 sprinkler heads will need to be reset after the fire is put out.
+Nume Moon And you dont need a lighter, just press out the glass tube on the sprinkler you're under...
Ah yes, it depends on the installation and country. Thats the very reason, smoke detectors in my premises raise an alarm, but not automatical sprinkling, since they are easy to set off for false positives. The heat ones immediately sprinkle, and of course only there where the glass broke.
+George Lionon I'd also just once like to see a movie character try this thinking he'll get the entire floor wet. He stands on a chair, holds his lighter aloft, then he sets off just one sprinkler over his own head, and punchline: it's a _foam_ water sprinkler. ;p
Vary rarely does anyone in a film ever pay for food or drink, whether it be in a Montana saloon, a New York bar, a Texas food truck, a Pennsylvania diner or an LA restaurant.
My great grandma Keiser used to end phone calls without saying goodbye. When she was done saying what she had to say, she just hung up. It didn't matter if you were still talking or not. But then again, she wasn't much more polite in person, either.
Scully actually does yell at Mulder for hanging up on her a few times.
+Brendan Nikola I really thought they were going to show that! There's this part where she's like "Where the hell have you been Mulder? I've been trying to reach you! You just hung up on me and I couldn't get a hold of you for three hours!" lol
Seriously though, why didn't they show that?
I just hate the stuff with mobile phones. Either everything beeps, when you answer or hang up, every single thing the character does on the phone causes noise. Even worse when they are meant to be talking on the phone but you can clearly see the phone is on it's home screen. It's just so simple and the audience will get it.
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3:45 “You don’t lick the bloodstains at a murder scene”
- Connor sweats nervously
haha, that was funny!The thing that I always notice, especially with CSI-type dramas, is that when they're showing somebody something on a computer screen (test results, etc.), the actor is always seen typing something on the keyboard rather than using his mouse to pull up the test results. They type, but there are only graphics of the screen. Its odd!
+CyeOutsider I swear they do this shit as an injoke. NCIS had two people type on the same keyboard at once (whaaat?) to thwart a hacker. And of course the computer shows a big flashing "hacker alert" warning that someone programmed their computer to do instead of, like, blocking whoever was trying to hack it.
CyeOutsider I always hated how computer screens in movies look like they're running super HD images, streamlined animations, and moving data around like the matrix. A real CSI lab looks like it's trapped somewhere between the late 80's and mid 90's with computers running Windows at it's base level.
Also why do so many labs in movies and tv have shitty lighting?
or how they can any grainy looking camera, video, or image, clean it up, zoom it in to get a look at the face of the suspect
Thank you so much! Living in Europe most of these movie tropes made me wonder what the hell was up in the US. So it's all just Hollywood shenanigans! :D
I wonder if Christopher Nolan was encouraged to heighten the cartoonish aspects of the financial crimes. James Cameron mentions getting in trouble for having Sarah Connor lockpick a door in a realistic fashion. There are ways to make such financial crimes interesting, but ti would come down to a choice of being completely unrealistic or adding another 40 minutes of exposition to a movie that is already pretty long.
I would say: if you as a filmmaker come down to a choice of being completely unrealistic or adding another 40 minutes of exposition to a movie that is already pretty long, that just means your movie's premise sucks and you need to come up with a new one.
Some CZcams channels try to do these lists. You guys are consistently, brilliant. The best I’ve seen!
How about they always find a parking space in front of the building will enter
This is a great list. I was surprised when I had an up close and personal confrontation with the police (it was a mistake, it really was) but I was accused of shoplifting ice from a gas station (again, I really did not do it!) but when the officer questioned me, he didn't actually read me my Miranda Rights, he gave me a piece of paper that listed them. He told me to read it and then sign at the bottom in order to show that I understood them (I was a smart ass so I read them all in front of him for about five minutes). Well, nothing came of it, but you're absolutely correct: you can take a suspect into custody w/o Miranda, but they need to either hear it (or more likely sign a form with the Miranda Rights) before questioning.
Another thing is that movies think that a citizen can just "drop the charges"if somebody is arrested for a crime against them or their property. No, wrong. You can't "drop charges" once somebody has been arrested; once the police get involved, it's no longer up to you.
Geoffrey Zoref they do not have to mirandize you unless the intent is to arrest you. Questioning does not require them to give you those verbally or in writing.
The not saying goodbye thing is to maintain the tension, if they utter goodbye, the scene looses tension and the next scene has less impact.
Number two is one of my pet peeves. Rarely in movies or TV does someone say "goodbye" when they hang up.
The most silly mistakes in American movies are the way how foreign countries are shown. When an American movie plays in Paris for example, you can see the Eiffel Tower from every point. It seems that Paris has at least 52 copies of this landmark all over the town. American movies about other countries are also full with flags of these countries. In every second scene you can see a flag even it's not necessary in this countries to hang flags everywhere. My "favorite" mistake is the fact, that in foreign countries the people speak better English than her native speak (and they speak American English not British English which is taught in the most schools). Often they can't speak her native language at all. Germans in American films mostly speak something that is at best a distant realtive of a true language.
+Maret83 Completely agree and we share same "favourite" mistake. But seeing how horribly unrealistic Hollywood is about it's own country I'm not surprised how bad it is about other countries...
Regarding the tasting of narcotics... There was a movie a few years back with DeNiro and Eddie Murphy called Showtime -- Murphy, an actor playing a cop, does that thing... tasting the drugs and De Niro, the actual cop, chastises him because it could be poisoned.
Oh my GOD thank you for the part on hanging up without saying goodbye. I don't even know how many time I have ranted about that to my friends
THANK YOU for mentioning the phone call thing! This happens all the time in TV and film, and it doesn't even need to involve the caller having some sort of breakthrough because even a mundane phone call will end with the caller suddenly disconnecting after a sentence. I guess the director and writers won't want to waste time with a closing, but it is so jarring and in-your-face when this is done that you lose focus on the story and focus upon the character abruptly hanging up. BTW as a bonus these phone calls oftentimes have the two parties agreeing to meet for some reason like a dinner date but they never mention the specific time and location that would be necessary to meet up.
This is a typical TV Land phone conversation arranging a date:
Jack - "Wanna go out tonight"
Jill - "Sounds lovely! *squeal*"
Jack - "Great it's going to be so nice to see you again"
Jack disconnects call
WTF?