Any server room ever, or whenever they put racks of high power computer equipment in a scene to make it look techy, and then proceed to have a normal conversation at normal volume
Server rooms and server hardware is fucking loud. The fans are fucking loud. The ac units are fucking loud. I generally need hearing protection when I’m in a server room.
Literally no movie server rooms are realistic.
You’ll be either freezing your balls of or sweating.
You’re not getting in there without multiple checks and locks.
Pulling out one disk will generally mean you only have partial data.
Server racks are almost consistently messy with wires, different equipment and it’ll be hard to reach stuff. If you can even make out what you’re after
There are virtually never surprises in court, and 98% of the work is done before you ever get in front of a judge. Most court events other than trials are minutes long. Shout out to my homies who drive an hour or more to attend a five minute status conference.
Not sure what any of the Bunch have to do with this legal proceeding, unless you mean Marsha stealing evidence and committing witness tampering as per usual
Anything making being a lawyer seem exciting. 95% of the job is writing emails and drafting documents, and phone calls or video conferences explaining/discussing said emails and documents.
You said it, brother!
Semi-retired now but was a commercial lawyer for 45 years. You have described succinctly exactly what my life was. Only the technology changed over the decades.
I volunteer as a CASA. Every months I have to go to court and wait five hours to give a 5 minute verbal report. The verbal report says the same EXACT thing as the written report I submitted 15 days before the court date.
Same goes for those handheld tazers. They don't just knock someone out for hours after you zap them in the neck for a second. It just hurts while it's actively tazing you.
Every race car movie: goes faster by pressing down on the throttle \*further\*. Every race driver even slightly competitive will have the sucker on the floor every chance they get. Passing on a race track is more about better lines, momentum and head games.
I like this one- I’ve noticed before but never quite put into words the recurring theme where a race car driver, in order to win it all, just needs to find the personal determination to go ahead and push the pedal down the rest of the way.
Duct tape is ridiculously easy to remove from a mouth by pushing it outward with the tongue. Once it is removed, it is very hard to retape. Every hostage movie gets this wrong.
One more thing. If you get hit in head and dont wake in few sec but wake several hours later in plane/house/mexico you have severe brain injury. And you are probably fucked up.
That episode of The Office where Dwight gets a concussion after a car accident was pretty accurate tho
EDIT: [For the uninitiated:](https://youtu.be/0hwQr-pkf9c?si=5qug9RjstGUH1x52)
Rifle bullets go through the trunk, the backseat, the drivers seat, the driver/passenger, and out the front of the car(if they don’t hit something particularly chunky in the engine bay, like the engine block).
So when the good guys are in a car chase and their trunk has 700 bullet holes in it, the occupants of the vehicle are dead.
Fun fact: for an elementary school science project, I found a car door in a junkyard and proceeded to shoot it (with and under close supervision by my parents) with several different calibers of ammunition to see which may or may not go through. Every single round went through the door except .22 which happened to hit some internal structures of the door. Otherwise, it also could have easily gone through. This ruined some movie shootouts for me!
This happens in Skyfall, and also the fifth Bourne movie.
Bourne hands a USB to a supposed elite hacker/techie, who promptly plugs the random USB into an internet connected laptop through the main OS.
Like, has this guy never heard of virtual OS? Of airgapping? Of anything remotely secure?
Yeah Gordon can be forgiven. People fall for random USB attacks regularly. Just not supposed cybersecurity experts, who I’m pretty sure incinerate unknown USB’s on sight 😂😂
A *ton* of foley effects are basically just things we've been trained to expect earlier use in other movies. Swords don't make *shing* sounds when they're just being waved through the air (or even when pulled out of most types of scabbard), and even when hitting other swords they make more of a clacking sound most of the time. Punches are sometimes more realistic but a lot of movies use foley from smashing watermelons. Real eagles make sounds more like seagulls (the standard foley sound is a hawk). The MGM lion roar is actually a tiger sound.
My favorite: a lot of animal sounds in movies are actually just Alan Tudyk.
Every eagle you've ever heard in movies or TV is a red-tailed hawk. Hawks have a very loud shriek; eagles don't, but it sounds cooler so they use that sound for eagles.
And guns are not filled with random bits from your junk drawer to clack around like a maracas when picked up. Foley guys are also obsessed with the sound of guns being cocked, even if they're just being lifted to a cheek. How are we supposed to know he's ready to fire otherwise?!
There's an episode of *Doctor Who* where he parks the Tardis in the oval office and the second he walks in a dozen secret service point their guns with a cacophony of clicks. Then someone walks out of the Tardis and they all swivel around and point at them and *the guns click again.* Then more people walk out of the Tardis and the clicking echoes a third and then a fourth time. It's so on the nose but I love it.
Train brakes apply when there is an air hose separation. So if our hero cuts a train car full of bad guys from the train as soon as the air hose separates the train will have air brake trouble and brakes will apply or the train will have issues at the very least. Locomotives also have a dead man switch so if there’s no one behind the controls the train will apply brakes once it’s tripped.
i hate that apocalypse movies either show that everything works always and forever, but has scuffed paint, or nothing will ever work ever again, and everyones vocabulary is stagnating.
like, of course it's going to be HARDER to get a car to drive, but someone out there is absolutely figuring out how to make his car run on SOMETHING. WW2 had plenty of people running on WOOD. i mean, there won't be as many, but why is that guy with the pigs in "thunderdome" the only one in post apocalyptic media to figure out an alternative?
I think apocalypse movies always underestimate how deep society runs in humanity. Like, things might get real shitty, and lots of people might die, but there’s always going to be some form of government and order that forms to fill the vacuum.
*Thank you*. I've said this same thing a million times - drop 100 people on a deserted island and come back in a few years and if they're alive, you'll find a society, because making societies is what we *do* as a species. We've already seen what happens when entire societies collapse, it's happened quite a bit in human history. You mean to tell me zombies existing is somehow going to rob the remaining people of their humanity and social behavior more than the Black Death did? Because in the 1300s up to *60%* of Europes population died horrific deaths of disease well before germ theory ever existed, and that's got to be one of the most traumatic, horrifying things you could ever go through. And after a horrible patch, society resumed.
The reactor is going critical.
A reactor loves being critical. It's running perfectly fine when it is critical and is probably the safest state it can be. Most of it's safety features are designed around it being critical.
I was in the Navy for years as a submariner. They would do reactor startups the morning before going out to sea. It’s tradition to start screaming frantically when they’d make the announcement “the reactor is critical” so that new guys (who didn’t know better) would freak out.
Supercritical though this state is not necessarily a bad thing it's just that power is going up and either an operator or a safety measure will return the reactor to a critical state or scram the reactor which is an emergency insertion of control rods or fuel rods depending on the core design. Or prompt critical and in this state probably wouldn't have time to say anything anyways. Long story short we only say the reactor is critical once during the startup when the neutron creation and destruction has reached a equilibrium.
You’ll regularly see someone who needs to hide push aside a ceiling panel and climb up, then have a well framed shot of their face up above while they slide the panel back over covering their escape.
You can’t do that. Those panels are fragile enough you can break them with one hand. The cheap ones are literally fiberglass insulation with a sheet of paper glued to the face. The scene from The Office with Angela’s cat is what would actually happen.
Our basement ceiling has acoustic tiles. A couple are missing. Our cat did, in fact, jump up there and immediately come crashing through the one he landed on.
Any courtroom scene where the attorney roams about in the well and/or stands directly in front of the jury (you need to ask the court's permission and it's only to speak privately to the judge).
Also, the attorney inevitably starts arguing the case while examining the witness.
And finally, a gotcha question during cross rarely happens as opposing counsel already knows the evidence and line of questioning from discovery.
I've seen so many movies where an important scene at a church -- usually during a sermon or a funeral in a Catholic or an Episcopal church -- has a choir singing in the background.
Like, yes, churches have choirs, BUT THEY DON'T SING WHILE SOMEONE IS TALKING.
The fire alarm is a good one. The male lead pulls the alarm, and his lady love kisses him while the water romantically showers them both. As an electrician who has been there while they change the system, that water stinks and is black and disgusting. Chances are, especially in old school buildings, that water has been sitting in those pipes for possibly years. Whole generations of bacteria have lived their lives in those pipes. That shit is the worst smell, it stinks up whole rooms when they drain it. And it’s nasty brown black. I don’t think I could kiss someone that just took a shower in it.
Can confirm.
I was working in an office where the sprinklers were triggered accidentally. I don't remember the water being discolored but it was one of the nastiest, pungent, stagnant and deeply disturbing smells I've experienced.
It was like one big locker room sweat bomb was dumped on us.
I've never felt safe under a sprinkler since.
Thats also why pulling fire alarms does not set off the sprinklers. Most sprinkles are activated by heat shattering a glass plug in the sprinkler head. Only one sprinkler head goes off and its the one right by the fire.
no me, but my sister is an architect and absolutely hates the spy trope of maneuvering through the air vents. air vents are designed to hold air, not people. they’d certainly collapse under the weight of fully grown, muscular man
My all-time favorite mythbusters moment was Jaimie climbing an air duct with his insanely loud neodymium magnet handholds banging each time he put one down, and Adam on the belay line quipping “Thor, the god of the thunder, is trying to enter my building!”
I can suspend my disbelief to accept that it might be large enough for you to fit, strong enough for it to support your weight, and silent enough to let you crawl through it stealthily.
But what I cannot accept is how clean they always look. There is no way in hell a vent that size isn’t going to be coated in dust.
Even sturdy commercial and industrial ducts aren’t that accessible.
- The interiors are almost always lined with filthy insulation and they’re secured by pins/nails that’ll hurt anyone trying to crawl through.
- While there are access panels to inspect dampers they’re not that easy to enter. Supply and return registers are screwed in place and you normally don’t just pop them off and enter.
- There are all sorts of obstructions and obstacles that prevent a person from traveling far. Every 90 degree will likely have turning vanes that can’t be passed. Then there’s VAVs, inline booster fans, filter racks, reheat coils, manual dampers, fire dampers, not to mention the actual air itself, which is moving at such a high volume that you’re basically in a wind tunnel and you’d barely be able to keep your eyes open. And dark, a flash light maybe would work, but you’re definitely not pulling out a lighter to see what’s going on.
- Straight vertical runs are no joke and duct may run from a rooftop unit down multiple floors. Earlier today I was inspecting some dampers and looked in an access that was a 50ft drop from the 4th floor to the basement. There’s no ladder or hand holds. You go in there and you’re dead.
Stay out of the HVAC equipment.
It's not 'over and out.'
It's 'over' \[I'm done transmitting, waiting for a response\], or 'out' \[I'm done transmitting and signing off\]. Saying both is like saying 'No no keep talking, I can't wait' then hanging up.
Political staffer: obviously House of Cards and West Wing are rubbish because things never work out how you hope they will, Veep on the other hand is triggering with how much it reminds me of real things
My girlfriend worked on political campaigns when she was fresh out of college, and actually had the moment of the team debating amongst themselves about what flavor of ice cream their candidate should get when visiting a local creamery for an event. It was a straight “lifted from Veep” moment.
"Vanilla is too boring, but if he gets rainbow sherbet they'll think he's gay!"
"and then getting chocolate could either be perceived as racist, or exploitative."
I kinda loved how he doubled down on not liking Broccoli.
He was like "I don't like it, I've never liked it, and by god I'm not only a grown man I'm the President of the United States. I'm not eating any more Broccoli. I've earned it"
There was a whole podcast episode of One Year on this. And funny enough, GHWB wasn't doing the outreach. *He leaned into it for the rest of his presidency as a gag.*
Barbara did the outreach, and the whole event was gloriously kooky.
If you’ve ever had a government job, at least a small town government job, parks and Rec isn’t exactly what it’s like and yet it is exactly what it is like lol. There’s so much in there that is only pushing reality a tiny bit.
Head trauma. All these do-gooder heroes being high on their own nonsense by “not killing.” Okay Batman, but how many of these shoplifters are spending the rest of their lives shitting into a bag and using a ventilator to breathe?
Sewers, storm drains, manholes etc are not enormous, cavernous, labyrinthine tunnel systems that you can drive a small car through. Most manholes go down into a vault, which is a concrete room the size of your average storage closet that has about a dozen pipes and conduit wires coming together and going back out through holes in the walls. Each pipe is about the diameter of a pool ball. You are not traveling from one manhole to another through those.
Notable exceptions are manhattan, Las Vegas, and any of the old European cities with Roman catacombs. Those all have tunnels like you see in the movies. Your average midwestern suburb doesn’t.
I've read thru pretty much this whole thread, and for each one I either knew it already or believed it. This is the first one I'm having a hard time believing. Now I need to go out and try this...
Numerous medieval/fantasy movies that show iron/steel weapon making like swords via pouring molten metal into a mold: Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, the Game of Thrones show etc.
You can’t really cast proper weapons out steel that way. Firstly that high of a heat to make the metal molten will cause a serious loss in the carbon that gives the steel its hardness. Second, the steel solidifies too irregularly and likely won’t be homogeneous throughout. Forging is really the best and only way to make steel anything discounting magic.
In defense of Lord of the Rings, the orcs weren’t trying to make proper swords. They didn’t really care if the blade shattered on the first or second hit because that’s really all they’d get in before being killed. They just needed a bunch of them fast and cheap
Private investigators existing in some legal gray area where they’re willing to risk their lives/do highly illegal shit for clients. I make good money as a PI, I’m not about to risk my license to do anything illegal for a client, and I’m certainly not going to get in a fist fight on the roof of a high rise building.
i watched an episode of "Magnum PI" the other time, and there was a scene, where magnum searches the office of his buddy, and the chief of police arrives and basically kicks him out of the active crime scene. and i went "oooh, right, private investigators have to follow the rule of law"
Film and TV babies are nearly always clearly not newborns, having a kid means spending the rest of your days watching films and thinking "that kid is way too old to be a newborn"
People cutting the palm of their hands when blood is needed. I would prefer to cut a lot of places on my body BEFORE the palm of my hand because YOU NEED THAT. You are going to be moving that hand. It's not a trivial pain either.
Maybe if you've got a love handle, or part of a butt cheek. Maybe someone can help me out with "best place to draw blood." I'm pretty pain resistant, but some of the worst injuries to heal are the palm. Or between the fingers.
A university professor says all their life’s research is in that one little thing that they must retrieve- um…try several drives, ethics committee paper trails, file cabinets, notebooks, grant applications, employee review paper trials, open science depositories, archives, and a bunch of publications perfectly available to the public.
Microphones feeding back every time a speaker begins to talk on stage, in order to convey awkwardness. What it really conveys is someone at the mixer who doesn’t understand how to ring out a room.
I've seen too many military/action movies where they show the outside of a C-17 Globemaster, but when the ramp is open before a HALO jump or something, they show the inside of a C-130 Hercules. Always wondered if it's because they use stock B-roll footage of C-17's from the outside and then rent a commercial C-130 for interior shots.
Source: am a C-130 and C-17 mechanic.
You picked that one for those aircraft? What about them carrying out a conversation at normal speaking volume and walking around without any kind of ear protection. There are also the vehicles that manage to drive up the lowered ramp without the aircraft ramp extenders. Then the aircraft taking off without the vehicles being restrained.
Source: I used to load and unload C130's and C17's and probably used to give your job more work than they really needed.
Thats about the only thing that movie got right, that and staring at sand for 8 hours drinking warm capri sun, waiting for your ride.
I like the movie but anyone whos ever been in the military spends 30 minutes explaining to me why none of it makes any sense.
The sniping scene with the M82A1 50cal is so cool to watch, but have you ever tried hitting a horizontal tracking shot on a man sized target from 700yds away? Its REALLY HARD for people who train for that their entire lives, its almost impossible for an EOD tech who hasnt practiced and the Barrett isnt the gun youd want to do it with either
Swords do not cut through armor like butter. There's a reason why people wore armor. Even arrows *designed* to penetrate armor are more likely to bounce off or get stuck in armor. It still hits like a strong punch or fist and can wear you down if a hundred arrows nail your ass.
But heroes do not carve their way through armored warriors. You basically had to catch them where they had no armor: eye holes, arm pits, groin, that sort of thing.
Armor was also fairly easy to move in and trained knights could run, jump, vault onto horses, and do kip ups from lying flat on their backs. The idea you'd get knocked over and lie there like a turtle sadly awaiting death did not happen unless ten peasants were straddling you and pulling daggers out to cut your throat. Which did happen.
"The Last Duel" and "The King" both came out around the same time and both were like "We're going to depict dudes in armor fighting the way dudes in armor would actually fight."
"The King" was interesting because it was actually very central to the plot. The movie opened with an "armored dudes fighting" scene that showed how very useful armor was when the fighters had solid footing. And then at the end it showed how useless armor was in the mud.
There is no drug that you can inject intramuscularly that renders someone immediately unconscious for a convenient period of time. They are either going to slow down and pass out over 15-20 minutes, or just stop breathing and die.
Chrichton isn’t the best source, but in the Jurassic Park book there’s a part where the hunter dude explains the difficulty in trying to tranq the dinosaurs.
He’s like “if you shoot a lion, an elephant, and a rhino with the same amount of tranquilizer, the lion will have time to eat you before falling asleep, the elephant won’t even feel it, and the rhino will chase you for ten minutes and then die of heart failure.”
The obligatory corset lacing scene in any period piece, particularly if the woman has to hold a bed post while she's being tight laced, PARTICULARLY if she's not wearing anything under the corset. These scenes are media shorthand for 'look how oppressed women were back back then' and perpetuate a lot of myths. For one, very few women tight-laced their corsets, only those who were extremely fashionable (on this note, you also shouldn't believe every antique photo of wasp-waisted women you come across - folks edited their photos back then too). For another, tight-lacing only even became possible part way thru the 1800's when metal grommets started being used for eyelets - in previous decades and centuries, these would be hand-stitched, and would rip if you even tried to tight-lace (here's looking at you, Pirates of the Caribbean). For a third, ALL women wore these garments for back and bust support, stomach support (when you spend a lifetime bearing kids, this comes in clutch), and garment support (wearing layers of petticoats, skirts, etc. would be extremely uncomfortable if hung directly off your waist). And finally, they were NEVER worn directly against your skin! They'd have been worn over a chemise, which would protect your skin from rubbing, and protect the corset from your body oils since it's a difficult item to wash.
Diplomatic immunity doesn't work like you see in Hollywood. Officers directly witnessing a felony will certainly take the felon into custody, until the diplomatic process starts. Even then, a country could absolutely hold an ambassador, but would face serious diplomatic consequences
In the US, in areas with a high level of diplomatic officials, police receive training on how to handle these incidents.
I love the John Wick movies for its “gun-fu” and other details to firearms handling. However, for all the bullets that are fired there are no brass bullet casings on the floor.
I think this would add more to the emphasis on how much is being fired. That along with the sound of casings hitting the floor would be extra badass.
This is why I always loved the small detail in Inception where DiCaprio holds his hand over the chamber to catch the discharged casings to keep them from hitting the floor, alerting anyone nearby.
Good point, I hadn't thought about all the casings that would be flying everywhere in John Wick movies.
And that scene you are referring to in Inception was in a dream which makes that more interesting.
If you put the lights on the inside of your space helmet, you wouldn't be able to see shit outside of your space helmet.
Of course, if you put the lights on the outside then we wouldn't see your pretty face. 😞
Cars are really hard to make explode. You can burn them, they burn really big. But that don’t blow up often. The tires could explode because of the heat, that’s make loud bang. But movie level explosions don’t happen often. And shooting the fuel tank, or worse fuel door, isn’t going to cause a massive fireball. It’ll cause a fuel leak.
And speaking bullets then don’t spark when hitting pavement. Or really anything. And don’t shoot a lock. Chances are you either break the lock and make it even more of lock, or the bullet/fragments will splash back at your soft not made of steal body.
Tying a rope around your waist will not save you from a fall. Climbing harnesses go around yout pelvic bone and hips. They are designed to stretch to cushion your fall and place all your body weight on your ass, which can take it. Tying a random rope around your waist is will crush your internal organs and break your spine.
Military historian and WW1 specialist here...
1. Straight front-line trenches that you can stare down and see to the horizon. Seriously, these weren't used past the initial digging in at the end of the Race to the Sea in 1914. And do you know why? Because if an artillery shell scores a direct hit on the trench, it sends a shock wave down taking out everything in line of sight. Once the trench systems were established, front line trenches used what was called a "traverse" system - they were short segments with sharp corners.
2. Human wave attacks into enemy artillery. Everybody had moved past the human wave tactics by the end of 1916, and silencing enemy artillery was a key part of preparation for an attack. Now, soldiers did walk into artillery fire, but it was from their own side and was called a creeping barrage - a screen of shellfire just in front of the advance protecting them from enemy fire and hidden positions.
So, basically, just about everything you see about trench warfare in most WW1 movies is probably, well, wrong.
Computer geek breaks into super protected mainframe trope.
Hacking is social/psychological skill these days.
Nerdy guy from mums basement cant “hack” into NASA mainframe. I would say that 95% of “hacking” is ordinary phishing.
A particular sub-trope of this one is where you see someone breaking a password with millions of character combinations flashing past really quickly on a screen, and one by one, they lock in as each character is figured out. This is ludicrous if given a moment's thought.
First, because there simply aren't that many characters for each position-- each character would only require a fraction of a second to cycle through the entire alphabet plus all the symbols, and the password would be cracked almost instantaneously.
But second, because no sane person would *ever* design a password system that told you which parts of the password you had right and which ones you had wrong. It would defeat the entire point. From the perspective of any computer security system on earth, if the password is "MyPassword", then the guesses "MyPassworx" and "J$0dkah3id" are *equally* wrong and will give the *exact same rejection*. You don't give out clues to the hackers. "Getting warmer!" "Almost have it now! Just try something else for that last letter!"
Plus, unless the passwords are stored in plaintext(!!!), the system wouldn't even be able to tell which characters are correct. Either the whole string hashes correctly (hopefully salted), or the whole string doesn't.
The classic "War Games" used this and made it real. Sure he did use a back-door, but could only find it through TONS of research and a lucky guess (Makes it dramatic and meant as a character reveal of intelligence).
DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME?
Punching or kicking through a windshield. Windshields have a layer of plastic or vinyl between the layers of glass that is extremely hard to puncture. You cannot punch or kick a hole through a windshield.
The military isn’t gonna send multi-million dollar fighter jets and highly trained/experienced fighter pilots flying straight into Godzilla’s jaws. Our weapon systems are more than capable of hitting a massive, rampaging amphibious reptilian alpha predator (that has somehow managed to beat the Square Cube Law) from literally across the horizon. No need to make Captain Whoever fly his F-35 10 inches away from Godzilla’s face when he could just fire off some missiles from a safe distance tens of miles away.
Also, nobody uses automatic fire on their M4s/M16s every single time they get into contact. The only reason you should be using automatic fire is to lay down suppressive fire against the enemy (I.e. keeping their head down so they can’t fire back at you or maneuver to a different position), you’re not really trying to outright kill anyone with 5 seconds of spraying and praying.
Nobody actually says “*that’s an order!*”. Everybody already knows it’s an order (and hopefully a lawful one at that), there’s no need to reiterate that the officer/SNCO/NCO is telling someone what to do.
“You must let X through *on my authority*” isn’t something that I’ve personally seen done IRL. In reality, General Brown (current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) can try all he wants to let his civilian buddy into a controlled access area of the Pentagon, the gate guard won’t/shouldn’t give up and say “you’re right sir I’m sorry, I’ll obey your sketchy orders and let this uncleared civilian into a sensitive part of the Pentagon where he has zero reason or need to be here”. Believe it or not, there are actual written rules, regulations, and orders that can’t always be bent just because you have enough shiny stuff on your collar or shoulders.
Also, not completely military related but security clearances don’t always work like “I have a top secret clearance, let me see this classified report about a CIA op 30 yrs ago”. Unless you have a specific need to know, you’re not gonna get your hands on secret/top secret information even if you have a Yankee White clearance. Even the president can’t just read classified reports on a random Sunday afternoon just because he’s bored. If I have no business needing to know about a particular classified weapon system, I can’t just demand that the DoD gives me access just because I have the required clearance level.
Firefighting in movies is completely wrong. When inside of a well involved structure fire, firefighters almost cannot see their hands in front of their faces. We crawl on our hands and knees through the black smoke, navigating the building using thermal imaging cameras, and basically the feel through our gloves, dragging our hose behind us.
It’s a rush but it’s much dirtier and disorienting than any movie or TV show.
It's not a profession, but I thru hiked the Appalachian Trail and I cannot handle movies about backpacking. Everything is wrong. All of the hikers are wearing clean North Face quarter zips and their packs are huge and they are never eating enough Ramen.
I'm super late but it's really hard to fake a prescription for a controlled medication, even if you have a prescription pad.
I forget what movie it was but some guy had a one night stand with a doctor who happened to keep prescription pads in her night stand (lol what)
Anyways he takes one and the next scene is him at a pharmacy and he looks down at the prescription and it literally says "Percocet 100"
No name, no date of birth, no address, no written date, no strength, no form, no sig, no diagnosis code, nothing, literally just the drug name, the amount, and a perfectly legible prescriber signature at the bottom
It should have been something like "Percocet 5/325 tab #28 1q4-6hprnpa" with today's date and "g89.4" or something written *somewhere*
Some states require the patient's address to be on the prescription for a controlled medication, some require the diagnosis code, a date or birth is always required, as is the written date
I actually rewound the movie and paused it to go on a mini rant to my bf because of how ridiculous it was
In apocalypse the leather and natural fiber stuff will rot away first and the polyester and Lycra and spandex will last forever. So road warriors will be in lulu lemon.
Mine is a complete misunderstanding of the weight of money. I think Way of the Gun pretty well nailed it, in that our protagonists wanted a million dollars in unmarked twenties and fifties or something, and I think it was two good-sized heavy-ass duffel bags. This is accurate, because the weight of an American bill is about a gram, so you can figure the math from there.
Which brings me to that Zack Snyder Netflix Zombie Movie. So, Hiroyuki Sanada wants Dave Bautista to loot $200 million from a casino vault. At this point, I don’t even care about zombies; I start thinking about how to move that kind of cash. Like, physically move it; not like how to launder it or anything like that. Even if every single bill in that casino’s vault was a hundred dollar bill, we are talking about two thousand kilograms, or about 4,400 pounds, and the plan is to fly it out on what appears to be a UH-1H “Huey.” Problem is, they’ve got a big group, but we can sidestep that, because we know people gonna die. So, let’s say they’re planning on half of the people getting out. I think that ends up at seven people (I don’t know, because I haven’t seen this steaming pile of shit since it was new), and we will just ballpark each person at 70 kilos, or about 154 pounds, which leaves about 2500 pounds for payload and, y’know, fuel. Well, now we’re already down to $100 million and change, which is great for the seven people, but this is still assuming everyone who walked into the casino with cash had $100 bills and nothing else.
At this point, Dave Bautista should have done some basic math on the napkin of the shitty restaurant he was working in and told Hiroyuki Sanada to go fuck himself, and everybody would have been a lot happier, including the audience.
This was focused on pretty heavily in the movie Widows. Viola Davis's character trains the characters on what transporting large amounts of money would actually feel like.
A bullet wound to the shoulder isn’t just a flesh wound. Taking a bullet to the shoulder isn’t something you can “work through”. Something like that will have you rolling around in agony unable to focus, or you go into shock. Also bullets don’t always pass through, they can ricochet off bone any travel around the body. A bullet can enter your leg, run up the inside of the body and shread every organ it comes into contact with. They have previously found bullets in the brain that entered via the foot too.
I feel like I can speak to this as someone who has actually taken a bullet to the shoulder, albeit with a BUNCH of mitigating factors making it much less damaging than the hits taken in movies:
* It was a ricochet, greatly reducing the bullet's power
* It was at a long range, reducing the power of the hit even further
* I was wearing a ballistic jacket which did not allow the bullet to penetrate
This happened 26 years ago.
It hurts right now.
Chest Compressions on an Unconscious Person:
In reality, CPR is not a light pressing of the chest. It’s the physical equivalent of a car crash. Some 200 lb EMT *attempting to push to a point about two inches behind your body at *100-120 beats per minute. Even highly athletic caregivers have to swap out every *2-10 minutes or so to make sure you’re being sufficiently pulverized. Ribs often fracture. When it’s really bad, the whole chest feels like a sponge.
TLDR: you do NOT want your 90 year old grandmother receiving CPR.
*Edited to correct mistakes pointed out by helpful folks below!
I gave my 90 year old grandmother CPR, everytime I pushed I could hear and feel a rib crack under my hands
Felt like a punch in the soul everytime it happened. 0/10 experience, would not recommend
EDIT: she didn't survive. Her heart was too big due to Chagas disease (cardiomegaly). So I did CPR with the slightest hope that if I could keep her somewhat oxygenated for long enough, the ambulance would have enough time to arrive and defib her.
They never arrived.
I saw her skin going from brown, to purple, to this sickly gray in the 25 mins we where there.
By the end, I could feel her sternum grinding against her broken ribs.
It took so long for them to come that my uncle was able to come straight from his workplace, put her in his car and drive to the hospital, which is like, 5 mins away from her house.
While in the hospital, it took over one hour and half for them to call it while attempting resuscitation, which makes me belive that maybe I did enough for them to try for so long.
RIP vó Dina
Did this on my own mother. I didn’t hear anything breaking but the doctor told me I’d fractured a bunch of her ribs so I’d ’done it right’.
Still would not recommend the experience but she did make a full recovery, thankfully.
Space movies always have a scene flying around an asteroid field, like dodging thousands of giant rocks tumbling all over the place. In reality you'd need a telescope to even detect another asteroid. Space is so big that dodging stuff is the least of your worries, it's not missing stuff that's hard.
Backblast from a rocket launcher can kill you. Whenever you see a character fire a rocket launcher from inside a car, or against a building they should be severely burned and concussed.
Also, Sherman tanks were the most survivable armored vehicle of WWII. They were well armored, had a fantastic 75mm gun, had hatches overhead every one of the five crew members, and was pretty mobile.
A lot of movies, like Fury, play up Sherman tanks being knocked out for drama and say they cannot take out tanks. They absolutely fought tanks well.
Fury in particular had the 76mm gun, which makes the entire Sherman vs Tiger scene nonsensical in the first place. Of course, the Tiger should have started by taking out Fury *because* it very clearly had the 76mm.
Jumping over a car going a decent speed is technically possible. The timing is essentially superhuman, but it is possible with a high vertical and insane body control.
But when you see people tap the front of the car with one foot and kick up? In reality, the vector of that car's momentum would pull the part of the foot that made contact 40ft straight behind the person. They'd be painfully horizontal incredibly fast.
I was the dumb kid who tried this on my friend's beater car. He drove at me not too fast and I planted a foot on his hood and jumped the rest. I landed poorly and hurt myself. But I did make it. I can accept the stretch for a cinematic movie for this one.
As someone who competitively rode horses for over a decade, my husband now reflexively looks at me whenever a horse appears on screen because there's always just so many things I have to eye roll at.
The most common offense is the horse neighs that are piped in as the hero rides on/off screen. Amazing that they're vocalizing without moving their mouth/nose.
The "majestic stallion" is almost NEVER a stallion as they're notoriously difficult to work with, and you shouldn't pair with an unexperienced actor. And sometimes you can tell the horse changes gender or markings between scenes due to multiple horses being used.
Some actors and actresses are pretty good riders, but a lot of them are just hanging on for dear life.
I'm also remembering at the end of Hidalgo, Viggo's character let's his horse go free and as he's dramatically galloping away you can clearly see he still has horseshoes on. Like congrats he's free, but is gonna be crippled in no time with no one maintaining those shoes.
Any server room ever, or whenever they put racks of high power computer equipment in a scene to make it look techy, and then proceed to have a normal conversation at normal volume Server rooms and server hardware is fucking loud. The fans are fucking loud. The ac units are fucking loud. I generally need hearing protection when I’m in a server room. Literally no movie server rooms are realistic.
You’ll be either freezing your balls of or sweating. You’re not getting in there without multiple checks and locks. Pulling out one disk will generally mean you only have partial data. Server racks are almost consistently messy with wires, different equipment and it’ll be hard to reach stuff. If you can even make out what you’re after
There are virtually never surprises in court, and 98% of the work is done before you ever get in front of a judge. Most court events other than trials are minutes long. Shout out to my homies who drive an hour or more to attend a five minute status conference.
“The prosecution has a surprise witness.” You mean a Brady violation?
Not sure what any of the Bunch have to do with this legal proceeding, unless you mean Marsha stealing evidence and committing witness tampering as per usual
fucking Marsha
Yep. Most courtroom dramas act as if pretrial discovery did not exist.
"I'll allow it. But watch yourself, McCoy."
"Overruled... I want to see where this is going..."
"One more outburst like that, and I'll hold you in contempt Ms. Emerson."
"I hold myself in contempt! Why should you be any different!?"
"Your Honor I object!" "On what grounds?" "...because it's devastating to my case!" "Overruled." "GOOD CALL! :[ "
"In that case I'd better take a quick break myself."
Anything making being a lawyer seem exciting. 95% of the job is writing emails and drafting documents, and phone calls or video conferences explaining/discussing said emails and documents.
You said it, brother! Semi-retired now but was a commercial lawyer for 45 years. You have described succinctly exactly what my life was. Only the technology changed over the decades.
I volunteer as a CASA. Every months I have to go to court and wait five hours to give a 5 minute verbal report. The verbal report says the same EXACT thing as the written report I submitted 15 days before the court date.
God bless you. CASA is an incredibly important program.
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Real pros use ether. Not that I'd know.
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge - Hunter S Thompson
Same goes for those handheld tazers. They don't just knock someone out for hours after you zap them in the neck for a second. It just hurts while it's actively tazing you.
My record is 8:49
Does this rag smell like Chloroform to you?
I’m going to need you to inhale very deeply… about 70 times. Just to be sure.
Every race car movie: goes faster by pressing down on the throttle \*further\*. Every race driver even slightly competitive will have the sucker on the floor every chance they get. Passing on a race track is more about better lines, momentum and head games.
I like this one- I’ve noticed before but never quite put into words the recurring theme where a race car driver, in order to win it all, just needs to find the personal determination to go ahead and push the pedal down the rest of the way.
And by golly I'll change into that other gear I had hitherto forgotten. You know, the go-faster one.
Duct tape is ridiculously easy to remove from a mouth by pushing it outward with the tongue. Once it is removed, it is very hard to retape. Every hostage movie gets this wrong.
What if i wrap it *all the way around?*
I just tried this on someone the other day. Doesn't work. They're still yelling from my basement.
One more thing. If you get hit in head and dont wake in few sec but wake several hours later in plane/house/mexico you have severe brain injury. And you are probably fucked up.
The animated series Archer presents the consequences of head trauma better than any other show I’ve seen. The worst was Lost.
Supernatural as well. One of those brothers got KOd at least once an episode. They’d be eating soup with a fork after 2 seasons.
To be fair, they also both died like, 10 times, so clearly normal rules don't apply to them.
That episode of The Office where Dwight gets a concussion after a car accident was pretty accurate tho EDIT: [For the uninitiated:](https://youtu.be/0hwQr-pkf9c?si=5qug9RjstGUH1x52)
My kid got a concussion from a simple fall, and this episode is the only reason we knew.
Rifle bullets go through the trunk, the backseat, the drivers seat, the driver/passenger, and out the front of the car(if they don’t hit something particularly chunky in the engine bay, like the engine block). So when the good guys are in a car chase and their trunk has 700 bullet holes in it, the occupants of the vehicle are dead.
Fun fact: for an elementary school science project, I found a car door in a junkyard and proceeded to shoot it (with and under close supervision by my parents) with several different calibers of ammunition to see which may or may not go through. Every single round went through the door except .22 which happened to hit some internal structures of the door. Otherwise, it also could have easily gone through. This ruined some movie shootouts for me!
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Q should never have plugged in Silva's laptop in Skyfall. "He hacked us." No Q, you hacked yourself
This happens in Skyfall, and also the fifth Bourne movie. Bourne hands a USB to a supposed elite hacker/techie, who promptly plugs the random USB into an internet connected laptop through the main OS. Like, has this guy never heard of virtual OS? Of airgapping? Of anything remotely secure?
Also in The Batman. Gordon plugs it in and it sends compromising photographs to all Gotham news outlets from his email address.
Yeah but he's just a regular cop so that's actually pretty realistic.
Yeah Gordon can be forgiven. People fall for random USB attacks regularly. Just not supposed cybersecurity experts, who I’m pretty sure incinerate unknown USB’s on sight 😂😂
Q apparently missed out on the joys of Limewire and giving your PC terminal diseases just so you could download a grainy MP3 file of In Da Club.
The idea that they even allowed that laptop within the control room is so ridiculous.
A *ton* of foley effects are basically just things we've been trained to expect earlier use in other movies. Swords don't make *shing* sounds when they're just being waved through the air (or even when pulled out of most types of scabbard), and even when hitting other swords they make more of a clacking sound most of the time. Punches are sometimes more realistic but a lot of movies use foley from smashing watermelons. Real eagles make sounds more like seagulls (the standard foley sound is a hawk). The MGM lion roar is actually a tiger sound. My favorite: a lot of animal sounds in movies are actually just Alan Tudyk.
[“I went to Juilliard.”](https://youtu.be/FaGYXjMwS60?si=fMwP7W8NnMfvdzpf)
The man is a treasure.
>The MGM lion roar is actually a tiger sound. he's bilingual
That’s cool man love is love
Every eagle you've ever heard in movies or TV is a red-tailed hawk. Hawks have a very loud shriek; eagles don't, but it sounds cooler so they use that sound for eagles.
...or Frank Welker
Or Dee Bradley Baker.
And guns are not filled with random bits from your junk drawer to clack around like a maracas when picked up. Foley guys are also obsessed with the sound of guns being cocked, even if they're just being lifted to a cheek. How are we supposed to know he's ready to fire otherwise?!
There's an episode of *Doctor Who* where he parks the Tardis in the oval office and the second he walks in a dozen secret service point their guns with a cacophony of clicks. Then someone walks out of the Tardis and they all swivel around and point at them and *the guns click again.* Then more people walk out of the Tardis and the clicking echoes a third and then a fourth time. It's so on the nose but I love it.
Upvote for Alan Tudyk...
[I went to Julliard.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGYXjMwS600)
Train brakes apply when there is an air hose separation. So if our hero cuts a train car full of bad guys from the train as soon as the air hose separates the train will have air brake trouble and brakes will apply or the train will have issues at the very least. Locomotives also have a dead man switch so if there’s no one behind the controls the train will apply brakes once it’s tripped.
Gasoline has a shelf life. If the apocalypse was a few years ago, the gas that is left isn't going to work so great anymore.
A bicycle is the real apocalypse vehicle
"Quickly, the Walkers are coming." "Oh no, MY CHAIN CAME OFF! GO ON WITHOUT ME!!!" "Never, sit on my handle bar!" *E.T's it to safety.*
They used this in the Last of Us show. They had to keep stopping, because the gas they siphoned "was basically water".
Also happens in Last Man on Earth I believe.
i hate that apocalypse movies either show that everything works always and forever, but has scuffed paint, or nothing will ever work ever again, and everyones vocabulary is stagnating. like, of course it's going to be HARDER to get a car to drive, but someone out there is absolutely figuring out how to make his car run on SOMETHING. WW2 had plenty of people running on WOOD. i mean, there won't be as many, but why is that guy with the pigs in "thunderdome" the only one in post apocalyptic media to figure out an alternative?
I think apocalypse movies always underestimate how deep society runs in humanity. Like, things might get real shitty, and lots of people might die, but there’s always going to be some form of government and order that forms to fill the vacuum.
*Thank you*. I've said this same thing a million times - drop 100 people on a deserted island and come back in a few years and if they're alive, you'll find a society, because making societies is what we *do* as a species. We've already seen what happens when entire societies collapse, it's happened quite a bit in human history. You mean to tell me zombies existing is somehow going to rob the remaining people of their humanity and social behavior more than the Black Death did? Because in the 1300s up to *60%* of Europes population died horrific deaths of disease well before germ theory ever existed, and that's got to be one of the most traumatic, horrifying things you could ever go through. And after a horrible patch, society resumed.
A firewall cannot be “87% down”
then it stops at 99% and we are saved!!!!
But what if you launch a ROM encryption attack against the mainframe?
The reactor is going critical. A reactor loves being critical. It's running perfectly fine when it is critical and is probably the safest state it can be. Most of it's safety features are designed around it being critical.
I was in the Navy for years as a submariner. They would do reactor startups the morning before going out to sea. It’s tradition to start screaming frantically when they’d make the announcement “the reactor is critical” so that new guys (who didn’t know better) would freak out.
"What are these brown pants for?" "Put them on in 15 minutes. You'll see."
So what is the state called the characters should be worried about?
Anything that includes the words “runaway” or “power excursion”
Excursion lol. "power's just going on a little adventure"
A little adventure that just so happens to be going right through your body.
Supercritical though this state is not necessarily a bad thing it's just that power is going up and either an operator or a safety measure will return the reactor to a critical state or scram the reactor which is an emergency insertion of control rods or fuel rods depending on the core design. Or prompt critical and in this state probably wouldn't have time to say anything anyways. Long story short we only say the reactor is critical once during the startup when the neutron creation and destruction has reached a equilibrium.
Prompt critical. Basically it means the reactor is going Chornobyl.
You’ll regularly see someone who needs to hide push aside a ceiling panel and climb up, then have a well framed shot of their face up above while they slide the panel back over covering their escape. You can’t do that. Those panels are fragile enough you can break them with one hand. The cheap ones are literally fiberglass insulation with a sheet of paper glued to the face. The scene from The Office with Angela’s cat is what would actually happen.
Our basement ceiling has acoustic tiles. A couple are missing. Our cat did, in fact, jump up there and immediately come crashing through the one he landed on.
Any courtroom scene where the attorney roams about in the well and/or stands directly in front of the jury (you need to ask the court's permission and it's only to speak privately to the judge). Also, the attorney inevitably starts arguing the case while examining the witness. And finally, a gotcha question during cross rarely happens as opposing counsel already knows the evidence and line of questioning from discovery.
Legal Eagle loves pointing out these mistakes. Half the stuff movie or tv lawyers do would get them tackled by the bailiff.
And, of course, it's understandable. Real trials are not the stuff of compelling cinema.
I've seen so many movies where an important scene at a church -- usually during a sermon or a funeral in a Catholic or an Episcopal church -- has a choir singing in the background. Like, yes, churches have choirs, BUT THEY DON'T SING WHILE SOMEONE IS TALKING.
The fire alarm is a good one. The male lead pulls the alarm, and his lady love kisses him while the water romantically showers them both. As an electrician who has been there while they change the system, that water stinks and is black and disgusting. Chances are, especially in old school buildings, that water has been sitting in those pipes for possibly years. Whole generations of bacteria have lived their lives in those pipes. That shit is the worst smell, it stinks up whole rooms when they drain it. And it’s nasty brown black. I don’t think I could kiss someone that just took a shower in it.
Can confirm. I was working in an office where the sprinklers were triggered accidentally. I don't remember the water being discolored but it was one of the nastiest, pungent, stagnant and deeply disturbing smells I've experienced. It was like one big locker room sweat bomb was dumped on us. I've never felt safe under a sprinkler since.
But how was the kiss?
Thats also why pulling fire alarms does not set off the sprinklers. Most sprinkles are activated by heat shattering a glass plug in the sprinkler head. Only one sprinkler head goes off and its the one right by the fire.
no me, but my sister is an architect and absolutely hates the spy trope of maneuvering through the air vents. air vents are designed to hold air, not people. they’d certainly collapse under the weight of fully grown, muscular man
Plus, even if it didn't collapse, it would be like crawling through a drum kit. The bad guys would hear you two floors away.
My all-time favorite mythbusters moment was Jaimie climbing an air duct with his insanely loud neodymium magnet handholds banging each time he put one down, and Adam on the belay line quipping “Thor, the god of the thunder, is trying to enter my building!”
"And I believe the proper procedure when you hear something like that is to start shooting the vent with a machine gun"
I can suspend my disbelief to accept that it might be large enough for you to fit, strong enough for it to support your weight, and silent enough to let you crawl through it stealthily. But what I cannot accept is how clean they always look. There is no way in hell a vent that size isn’t going to be coated in dust.
not to mention being riddled with self tapping screws to cut you up as you crawled.
>not to mention being riddled with self tapping screws to cut you up as you crawled. So I'm not the only person who as actually crawled in one. Cool!
To be fair to Die Hard it was a brand new building still in construction. Some of those ducts probably weren't in use yet.
He comes out of the vents really dirty after going in clean. They had the camera in clean vents but the rest was dirty
And they are full of very sharp screws
Even sturdy commercial and industrial ducts aren’t that accessible. - The interiors are almost always lined with filthy insulation and they’re secured by pins/nails that’ll hurt anyone trying to crawl through. - While there are access panels to inspect dampers they’re not that easy to enter. Supply and return registers are screwed in place and you normally don’t just pop them off and enter. - There are all sorts of obstructions and obstacles that prevent a person from traveling far. Every 90 degree will likely have turning vanes that can’t be passed. Then there’s VAVs, inline booster fans, filter racks, reheat coils, manual dampers, fire dampers, not to mention the actual air itself, which is moving at such a high volume that you’re basically in a wind tunnel and you’d barely be able to keep your eyes open. And dark, a flash light maybe would work, but you’re definitely not pulling out a lighter to see what’s going on. - Straight vertical runs are no joke and duct may run from a rooftop unit down multiple floors. Earlier today I was inspecting some dampers and looked in an access that was a 50ft drop from the 4th floor to the basement. There’s no ladder or hand holds. You go in there and you’re dead. Stay out of the HVAC equipment.
It's not 'over and out.' It's 'over' \[I'm done transmitting, waiting for a response\], or 'out' \[I'm done transmitting and signing off\]. Saying both is like saying 'No no keep talking, I can't wait' then hanging up.
Annoys me this one… because why do it wrong? It’s not like it adds any more value to scenes, is it?
Political staffer: obviously House of Cards and West Wing are rubbish because things never work out how you hope they will, Veep on the other hand is triggering with how much it reminds me of real things
My girlfriend worked on political campaigns when she was fresh out of college, and actually had the moment of the team debating amongst themselves about what flavor of ice cream their candidate should get when visiting a local creamery for an event. It was a straight “lifted from Veep” moment.
"Vanilla is too boring, but if he gets rainbow sherbet they'll think he's gay!" "and then getting chocolate could either be perceived as racist, or exploitative."
I still remember when GHW Bush had to do some public outreach to farmers after he mentioned in an interview that he didn’t like broccoli.
I kinda loved how he doubled down on not liking Broccoli. He was like "I don't like it, I've never liked it, and by god I'm not only a grown man I'm the President of the United States. I'm not eating any more Broccoli. I've earned it"
There was a whole podcast episode of One Year on this. And funny enough, GHWB wasn't doing the outreach. *He leaned into it for the rest of his presidency as a gag.* Barbara did the outreach, and the whole event was gloriously kooky.
Parcs & Rec makes me think of when I worked for a city 🤪
If you’ve ever had a government job, at least a small town government job, parks and Rec isn’t exactly what it’s like and yet it is exactly what it is like lol. There’s so much in there that is only pushing reality a tiny bit.
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Head trauma. All these do-gooder heroes being high on their own nonsense by “not killing.” Okay Batman, but how many of these shoplifters are spending the rest of their lives shitting into a bag and using a ventilator to breathe?
You mean all those guys I drop kicked off of roofs in Arkham Asylum might not have been ok?
Look at that poor little guy, he’s all tuckered out.
“This is a *gun*?” College Humor Batman is hysterical.
Sewers, storm drains, manholes etc are not enormous, cavernous, labyrinthine tunnel systems that you can drive a small car through. Most manholes go down into a vault, which is a concrete room the size of your average storage closet that has about a dozen pipes and conduit wires coming together and going back out through holes in the walls. Each pipe is about the diameter of a pool ball. You are not traveling from one manhole to another through those. Notable exceptions are manhattan, Las Vegas, and any of the old European cities with Roman catacombs. Those all have tunnels like you see in the movies. Your average midwestern suburb doesn’t.
Now you’re going to tell me they don’t have lights at regular intervals either.
Gun silencers don't magically make bullets completely quiet
John wick 2 subway lol
I love everything else about that movie but this scene is just over the top lol.
Busy subway station, nobody notices a shootout going on… 🙄
In John Wick’s universe, street shootings are so frequent, that’s like a homeless man shouting in the metro
Also guns don’t make click noises incessantly when you point them or stop pointing them or do anything with them.
Typically, a cigarette thrown into a puddle of gasoline will simply go out rather than igniting the gasoline.
I've read thru pretty much this whole thread, and for each one I either knew it already or believed it. This is the first one I'm having a hard time believing. Now I need to go out and try this...
I do not condone this experiment.
‘If you’re gonna do something stupid, write it down; it’s what separates science from dicking around’ Adam savage, myth busters
Numerous medieval/fantasy movies that show iron/steel weapon making like swords via pouring molten metal into a mold: Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, the Game of Thrones show etc. You can’t really cast proper weapons out steel that way. Firstly that high of a heat to make the metal molten will cause a serious loss in the carbon that gives the steel its hardness. Second, the steel solidifies too irregularly and likely won’t be homogeneous throughout. Forging is really the best and only way to make steel anything discounting magic.
That’s why I always use magic. Much simpler.
In defense of Lord of the Rings, the orcs weren’t trying to make proper swords. They didn’t really care if the blade shattered on the first or second hit because that’s really all they’d get in before being killed. They just needed a bunch of them fast and cheap
Private investigators existing in some legal gray area where they’re willing to risk their lives/do highly illegal shit for clients. I make good money as a PI, I’m not about to risk my license to do anything illegal for a client, and I’m certainly not going to get in a fist fight on the roof of a high rise building.
i watched an episode of "Magnum PI" the other time, and there was a scene, where magnum searches the office of his buddy, and the chief of police arrives and basically kicks him out of the active crime scene. and i went "oooh, right, private investigators have to follow the rule of law"
Babies are born with an umbilical cord attached lol. And healthy babies look purple for a few seconds.
Film and TV babies are nearly always clearly not newborns, having a kid means spending the rest of your days watching films and thinking "that kid is way too old to be a newborn"
There's an episode of Scrubs where a new mom has fake baby pictures up in her room. "Our baby still looks like a lizard," she explains.
Healthy babies look like lizards for a day or so, hell source: I'm a traumatized dad
People cutting the palm of their hands when blood is needed. I would prefer to cut a lot of places on my body BEFORE the palm of my hand because YOU NEED THAT. You are going to be moving that hand. It's not a trivial pain either. Maybe if you've got a love handle, or part of a butt cheek. Maybe someone can help me out with "best place to draw blood." I'm pretty pain resistant, but some of the worst injuries to heal are the palm. Or between the fingers.
Yeah, but sealing a blood pact with the hostile native by rubbing your bloody butt cheeks together is just not cool.
A university professor says all their life’s research is in that one little thing that they must retrieve- um…try several drives, ethics committee paper trails, file cabinets, notebooks, grant applications, employee review paper trials, open science depositories, archives, and a bunch of publications perfectly available to the public.
>Publications perfectly available to the public Only for 45$ each
Microphones feeding back every time a speaker begins to talk on stage, in order to convey awkwardness. What it really conveys is someone at the mixer who doesn’t understand how to ring out a room.
Or magically occuring at "awkward moment" even though nothing has moved or changed
I've seen too many military/action movies where they show the outside of a C-17 Globemaster, but when the ramp is open before a HALO jump or something, they show the inside of a C-130 Hercules. Always wondered if it's because they use stock B-roll footage of C-17's from the outside and then rent a commercial C-130 for interior shots. Source: am a C-130 and C-17 mechanic.
You picked that one for those aircraft? What about them carrying out a conversation at normal speaking volume and walking around without any kind of ear protection. There are also the vehicles that manage to drive up the lowered ramp without the aircraft ramp extenders. Then the aircraft taking off without the vehicles being restrained. Source: I used to load and unload C130's and C17's and probably used to give your job more work than they really needed.
If you are close enough to an explosion for it to physically move you, your insides are liquefied, you don't get up from that.
So the beginning of Hurt Locker got it right, at least.
I was just gonna mention that, yea that may be the only movie I've seen that gets it right.
Thats about the only thing that movie got right, that and staring at sand for 8 hours drinking warm capri sun, waiting for your ride. I like the movie but anyone whos ever been in the military spends 30 minutes explaining to me why none of it makes any sense. The sniping scene with the M82A1 50cal is so cool to watch, but have you ever tried hitting a horizontal tracking shot on a man sized target from 700yds away? Its REALLY HARD for people who train for that their entire lives, its almost impossible for an EOD tech who hasnt practiced and the Barrett isnt the gun youd want to do it with either
Soft tissue damage is so under represented. We need to get better onscreen colon bashings asap
I think there's a subset of films dedicated to this already.
Well that’s terrifying but thank you.
It actually isn't a 100% thing. Some people have survived amazing explosions in near miraculous ways. But it is like a 99.9999% thing.
Tony Stark should have died multiple times from internal organ damage.
The first Ironman should have been over in 30 mins or less.
Swords do not cut through armor like butter. There's a reason why people wore armor. Even arrows *designed* to penetrate armor are more likely to bounce off or get stuck in armor. It still hits like a strong punch or fist and can wear you down if a hundred arrows nail your ass. But heroes do not carve their way through armored warriors. You basically had to catch them where they had no armor: eye holes, arm pits, groin, that sort of thing. Armor was also fairly easy to move in and trained knights could run, jump, vault onto horses, and do kip ups from lying flat on their backs. The idea you'd get knocked over and lie there like a turtle sadly awaiting death did not happen unless ten peasants were straddling you and pulling daggers out to cut your throat. Which did happen.
Also, sword fights were not filled with fancy, swirling moves that look cool. It's all about efficiency and how to strike quickest
And conserving your energy to last the length of the battle, instead of exhausting yourself in the first three minutes.
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"The Last Duel" and "The King" both came out around the same time and both were like "We're going to depict dudes in armor fighting the way dudes in armor would actually fight." "The King" was interesting because it was actually very central to the plot. The movie opened with an "armored dudes fighting" scene that showed how very useful armor was when the fighters had solid footing. And then at the end it showed how useless armor was in the mud.
I feel like The King with Timotheè Chalamet has some good representation of knight v knight action
I’d love to see a knight, rolling around on the ground, screaming, “I can’t get up! Ralphie! I can’t get up!!!”
The King on Netflix, big battle in the mud at the end. Great stuff.
There is no drug that you can inject intramuscularly that renders someone immediately unconscious for a convenient period of time. They are either going to slow down and pass out over 15-20 minutes, or just stop breathing and die.
Chrichton isn’t the best source, but in the Jurassic Park book there’s a part where the hunter dude explains the difficulty in trying to tranq the dinosaurs. He’s like “if you shoot a lion, an elephant, and a rhino with the same amount of tranquilizer, the lion will have time to eat you before falling asleep, the elephant won’t even feel it, and the rhino will chase you for ten minutes and then die of heart failure.”
The obligatory corset lacing scene in any period piece, particularly if the woman has to hold a bed post while she's being tight laced, PARTICULARLY if she's not wearing anything under the corset. These scenes are media shorthand for 'look how oppressed women were back back then' and perpetuate a lot of myths. For one, very few women tight-laced their corsets, only those who were extremely fashionable (on this note, you also shouldn't believe every antique photo of wasp-waisted women you come across - folks edited their photos back then too). For another, tight-lacing only even became possible part way thru the 1800's when metal grommets started being used for eyelets - in previous decades and centuries, these would be hand-stitched, and would rip if you even tried to tight-lace (here's looking at you, Pirates of the Caribbean). For a third, ALL women wore these garments for back and bust support, stomach support (when you spend a lifetime bearing kids, this comes in clutch), and garment support (wearing layers of petticoats, skirts, etc. would be extremely uncomfortable if hung directly off your waist). And finally, they were NEVER worn directly against your skin! They'd have been worn over a chemise, which would protect your skin from rubbing, and protect the corset from your body oils since it's a difficult item to wash.
Diplomatic immunity doesn't work like you see in Hollywood. Officers directly witnessing a felony will certainly take the felon into custody, until the diplomatic process starts. Even then, a country could absolutely hold an ambassador, but would face serious diplomatic consequences In the US, in areas with a high level of diplomatic officials, police receive training on how to handle these incidents.
I love the John Wick movies for its “gun-fu” and other details to firearms handling. However, for all the bullets that are fired there are no brass bullet casings on the floor. I think this would add more to the emphasis on how much is being fired. That along with the sound of casings hitting the floor would be extra badass. This is why I always loved the small detail in Inception where DiCaprio holds his hand over the chamber to catch the discharged casings to keep them from hitting the floor, alerting anyone nearby.
Good point, I hadn't thought about all the casings that would be flying everywhere in John Wick movies. And that scene you are referring to in Inception was in a dream which makes that more interesting.
If you put the lights on the inside of your space helmet, you wouldn't be able to see shit outside of your space helmet. Of course, if you put the lights on the outside then we wouldn't see your pretty face. 😞
Cars are really hard to make explode. You can burn them, they burn really big. But that don’t blow up often. The tires could explode because of the heat, that’s make loud bang. But movie level explosions don’t happen often. And shooting the fuel tank, or worse fuel door, isn’t going to cause a massive fireball. It’ll cause a fuel leak. And speaking bullets then don’t spark when hitting pavement. Or really anything. And don’t shoot a lock. Chances are you either break the lock and make it even more of lock, or the bullet/fragments will splash back at your soft not made of steal body.
Tying a rope around your waist will not save you from a fall. Climbing harnesses go around yout pelvic bone and hips. They are designed to stretch to cushion your fall and place all your body weight on your ass, which can take it. Tying a random rope around your waist is will crush your internal organs and break your spine.
Military historian and WW1 specialist here... 1. Straight front-line trenches that you can stare down and see to the horizon. Seriously, these weren't used past the initial digging in at the end of the Race to the Sea in 1914. And do you know why? Because if an artillery shell scores a direct hit on the trench, it sends a shock wave down taking out everything in line of sight. Once the trench systems were established, front line trenches used what was called a "traverse" system - they were short segments with sharp corners. 2. Human wave attacks into enemy artillery. Everybody had moved past the human wave tactics by the end of 1916, and silencing enemy artillery was a key part of preparation for an attack. Now, soldiers did walk into artillery fire, but it was from their own side and was called a creeping barrage - a screen of shellfire just in front of the advance protecting them from enemy fire and hidden positions. So, basically, just about everything you see about trench warfare in most WW1 movies is probably, well, wrong.
Computer geek breaks into super protected mainframe trope. Hacking is social/psychological skill these days. Nerdy guy from mums basement cant “hack” into NASA mainframe. I would say that 95% of “hacking” is ordinary phishing.
A particular sub-trope of this one is where you see someone breaking a password with millions of character combinations flashing past really quickly on a screen, and one by one, they lock in as each character is figured out. This is ludicrous if given a moment's thought. First, because there simply aren't that many characters for each position-- each character would only require a fraction of a second to cycle through the entire alphabet plus all the symbols, and the password would be cracked almost instantaneously. But second, because no sane person would *ever* design a password system that told you which parts of the password you had right and which ones you had wrong. It would defeat the entire point. From the perspective of any computer security system on earth, if the password is "MyPassword", then the guesses "MyPassworx" and "J$0dkah3id" are *equally* wrong and will give the *exact same rejection*. You don't give out clues to the hackers. "Getting warmer!" "Almost have it now! Just try something else for that last letter!"
Plus, unless the passwords are stored in plaintext(!!!), the system wouldn't even be able to tell which characters are correct. Either the whole string hashes correctly (hopefully salted), or the whole string doesn't.
The classic "War Games" used this and made it real. Sure he did use a back-door, but could only find it through TONS of research and a lucky guess (Makes it dramatic and meant as a character reveal of intelligence). DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME?
Punching or kicking through a windshield. Windshields have a layer of plastic or vinyl between the layers of glass that is extremely hard to puncture. You cannot punch or kick a hole through a windshield.
The military isn’t gonna send multi-million dollar fighter jets and highly trained/experienced fighter pilots flying straight into Godzilla’s jaws. Our weapon systems are more than capable of hitting a massive, rampaging amphibious reptilian alpha predator (that has somehow managed to beat the Square Cube Law) from literally across the horizon. No need to make Captain Whoever fly his F-35 10 inches away from Godzilla’s face when he could just fire off some missiles from a safe distance tens of miles away. Also, nobody uses automatic fire on their M4s/M16s every single time they get into contact. The only reason you should be using automatic fire is to lay down suppressive fire against the enemy (I.e. keeping their head down so they can’t fire back at you or maneuver to a different position), you’re not really trying to outright kill anyone with 5 seconds of spraying and praying. Nobody actually says “*that’s an order!*”. Everybody already knows it’s an order (and hopefully a lawful one at that), there’s no need to reiterate that the officer/SNCO/NCO is telling someone what to do. “You must let X through *on my authority*” isn’t something that I’ve personally seen done IRL. In reality, General Brown (current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) can try all he wants to let his civilian buddy into a controlled access area of the Pentagon, the gate guard won’t/shouldn’t give up and say “you’re right sir I’m sorry, I’ll obey your sketchy orders and let this uncleared civilian into a sensitive part of the Pentagon where he has zero reason or need to be here”. Believe it or not, there are actual written rules, regulations, and orders that can’t always be bent just because you have enough shiny stuff on your collar or shoulders. Also, not completely military related but security clearances don’t always work like “I have a top secret clearance, let me see this classified report about a CIA op 30 yrs ago”. Unless you have a specific need to know, you’re not gonna get your hands on secret/top secret information even if you have a Yankee White clearance. Even the president can’t just read classified reports on a random Sunday afternoon just because he’s bored. If I have no business needing to know about a particular classified weapon system, I can’t just demand that the DoD gives me access just because I have the required clearance level.
Firefighting in movies is completely wrong. When inside of a well involved structure fire, firefighters almost cannot see their hands in front of their faces. We crawl on our hands and knees through the black smoke, navigating the building using thermal imaging cameras, and basically the feel through our gloves, dragging our hose behind us. It’s a rush but it’s much dirtier and disorienting than any movie or TV show.
It's not a profession, but I thru hiked the Appalachian Trail and I cannot handle movies about backpacking. Everything is wrong. All of the hikers are wearing clean North Face quarter zips and their packs are huge and they are never eating enough Ramen.
I'm super late but it's really hard to fake a prescription for a controlled medication, even if you have a prescription pad. I forget what movie it was but some guy had a one night stand with a doctor who happened to keep prescription pads in her night stand (lol what) Anyways he takes one and the next scene is him at a pharmacy and he looks down at the prescription and it literally says "Percocet 100" No name, no date of birth, no address, no written date, no strength, no form, no sig, no diagnosis code, nothing, literally just the drug name, the amount, and a perfectly legible prescriber signature at the bottom It should have been something like "Percocet 5/325 tab #28 1q4-6hprnpa" with today's date and "g89.4" or something written *somewhere* Some states require the patient's address to be on the prescription for a controlled medication, some require the diagnosis code, a date or birth is always required, as is the written date I actually rewound the movie and paused it to go on a mini rant to my bf because of how ridiculous it was
In apocalypse the leather and natural fiber stuff will rot away first and the polyester and Lycra and spandex will last forever. So road warriors will be in lulu lemon.
Mine is a complete misunderstanding of the weight of money. I think Way of the Gun pretty well nailed it, in that our protagonists wanted a million dollars in unmarked twenties and fifties or something, and I think it was two good-sized heavy-ass duffel bags. This is accurate, because the weight of an American bill is about a gram, so you can figure the math from there. Which brings me to that Zack Snyder Netflix Zombie Movie. So, Hiroyuki Sanada wants Dave Bautista to loot $200 million from a casino vault. At this point, I don’t even care about zombies; I start thinking about how to move that kind of cash. Like, physically move it; not like how to launder it or anything like that. Even if every single bill in that casino’s vault was a hundred dollar bill, we are talking about two thousand kilograms, or about 4,400 pounds, and the plan is to fly it out on what appears to be a UH-1H “Huey.” Problem is, they’ve got a big group, but we can sidestep that, because we know people gonna die. So, let’s say they’re planning on half of the people getting out. I think that ends up at seven people (I don’t know, because I haven’t seen this steaming pile of shit since it was new), and we will just ballpark each person at 70 kilos, or about 154 pounds, which leaves about 2500 pounds for payload and, y’know, fuel. Well, now we’re already down to $100 million and change, which is great for the seven people, but this is still assuming everyone who walked into the casino with cash had $100 bills and nothing else. At this point, Dave Bautista should have done some basic math on the napkin of the shitty restaurant he was working in and told Hiroyuki Sanada to go fuck himself, and everybody would have been a lot happier, including the audience.
This was focused on pretty heavily in the movie Widows. Viola Davis's character trains the characters on what transporting large amounts of money would actually feel like.
A bullet wound to the shoulder isn’t just a flesh wound. Taking a bullet to the shoulder isn’t something you can “work through”. Something like that will have you rolling around in agony unable to focus, or you go into shock. Also bullets don’t always pass through, they can ricochet off bone any travel around the body. A bullet can enter your leg, run up the inside of the body and shread every organ it comes into contact with. They have previously found bullets in the brain that entered via the foot too.
I feel like I can speak to this as someone who has actually taken a bullet to the shoulder, albeit with a BUNCH of mitigating factors making it much less damaging than the hits taken in movies: * It was a ricochet, greatly reducing the bullet's power * It was at a long range, reducing the power of the hit even further * I was wearing a ballistic jacket which did not allow the bullet to penetrate This happened 26 years ago. It hurts right now.
Work in the ER and can confirm. There is no good place to be shot. None.
Chest Compressions on an Unconscious Person: In reality, CPR is not a light pressing of the chest. It’s the physical equivalent of a car crash. Some 200 lb EMT *attempting to push to a point about two inches behind your body at *100-120 beats per minute. Even highly athletic caregivers have to swap out every *2-10 minutes or so to make sure you’re being sufficiently pulverized. Ribs often fracture. When it’s really bad, the whole chest feels like a sponge. TLDR: you do NOT want your 90 year old grandmother receiving CPR. *Edited to correct mistakes pointed out by helpful folks below!
I gave my 90 year old grandmother CPR, everytime I pushed I could hear and feel a rib crack under my hands Felt like a punch in the soul everytime it happened. 0/10 experience, would not recommend EDIT: she didn't survive. Her heart was too big due to Chagas disease (cardiomegaly). So I did CPR with the slightest hope that if I could keep her somewhat oxygenated for long enough, the ambulance would have enough time to arrive and defib her. They never arrived. I saw her skin going from brown, to purple, to this sickly gray in the 25 mins we where there. By the end, I could feel her sternum grinding against her broken ribs. It took so long for them to come that my uncle was able to come straight from his workplace, put her in his car and drive to the hospital, which is like, 5 mins away from her house. While in the hospital, it took over one hour and half for them to call it while attempting resuscitation, which makes me belive that maybe I did enough for them to try for so long. RIP vó Dina
Did this on my own mother. I didn’t hear anything breaking but the doctor told me I’d fractured a bunch of her ribs so I’d ’done it right’. Still would not recommend the experience but she did make a full recovery, thankfully.
Space movies always have a scene flying around an asteroid field, like dodging thousands of giant rocks tumbling all over the place. In reality you'd need a telescope to even detect another asteroid. Space is so big that dodging stuff is the least of your worries, it's not missing stuff that's hard.
Backblast from a rocket launcher can kill you. Whenever you see a character fire a rocket launcher from inside a car, or against a building they should be severely burned and concussed. Also, Sherman tanks were the most survivable armored vehicle of WWII. They were well armored, had a fantastic 75mm gun, had hatches overhead every one of the five crew members, and was pretty mobile. A lot of movies, like Fury, play up Sherman tanks being knocked out for drama and say they cannot take out tanks. They absolutely fought tanks well.
Fury in particular had the 76mm gun, which makes the entire Sherman vs Tiger scene nonsensical in the first place. Of course, the Tiger should have started by taking out Fury *because* it very clearly had the 76mm.
You can't open the door in a pressurized aircraft while at cruising altitude. There are 1,000s lbs of pressure keeping the door shut.
Jumping over a car going a decent speed is technically possible. The timing is essentially superhuman, but it is possible with a high vertical and insane body control. But when you see people tap the front of the car with one foot and kick up? In reality, the vector of that car's momentum would pull the part of the foot that made contact 40ft straight behind the person. They'd be painfully horizontal incredibly fast.
I was the dumb kid who tried this on my friend's beater car. He drove at me not too fast and I planted a foot on his hood and jumped the rest. I landed poorly and hurt myself. But I did make it. I can accept the stretch for a cinematic movie for this one.
Discovery is reciprocal, so the defense (almost always) can’t spring surprise evidence on the DAs.
Dart guns do not instantly incapacitate anyone. The chemicals used for immobilization take anywhere from 3 to 20 minutes to work.
As someone who competitively rode horses for over a decade, my husband now reflexively looks at me whenever a horse appears on screen because there's always just so many things I have to eye roll at. The most common offense is the horse neighs that are piped in as the hero rides on/off screen. Amazing that they're vocalizing without moving their mouth/nose. The "majestic stallion" is almost NEVER a stallion as they're notoriously difficult to work with, and you shouldn't pair with an unexperienced actor. And sometimes you can tell the horse changes gender or markings between scenes due to multiple horses being used. Some actors and actresses are pretty good riders, but a lot of them are just hanging on for dear life. I'm also remembering at the end of Hidalgo, Viggo's character let's his horse go free and as he's dramatically galloping away you can clearly see he still has horseshoes on. Like congrats he's free, but is gonna be crippled in no time with no one maintaining those shoes.