Suitcases never have anything in them. You can’t unsee it.
I’m in IT. It gets comical.
I like to imagine Gibbs just unplugged the monitor.
I had to walk out of Hackers in the theater.
“Whoah… he has a 9600 baud modem!”
(when 28,800 was commonplace and 33,600 was coming).
RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
I’m still hopeful…
I mean, imagine the world without ARM.
hackers is maybe not the most accurate with the technology but it gets the culture dead right
Haha I’ll bet! What’s one of your favourites?
Real time firewall battles.
Hacking a missile in flight might be a tad funnier. (season finale of the worst season of Arrow)
How can there be a worst season of Arrow?
personally a big fan of
[typing complete gibberish on multiple keyboards at once, followed by the immortal line:] “I’m in.”
Haha even I know that’s bullshit
I’ve seen C++ code being used as log output
All of it. All of it is wrong.
Some actors actually know how to type now, but I imagine with cell phones being people’s sole exposure to computers… We are going to get actors mashing keys again soon
At the end of “Stand By Me”, my uncle was a typing double for Richard Dreyfuss because apparently he could not type.
Damn, I still can’t watch that clip without feeling weird when River Phoenix disappears.
Ha! Good point
They did a pretty good job (not perfect though) on Mr. Robot and the Millenial trilogy.
Person of Interest did pretty well too.
*clickety clickety clack
“I’m in.”
Pretty sure it’s comical for most people, don’t need that much knowledge to see how fake it often is.
Cups, too. Coffee mugs or other opaque containers will sometimes be used to gesticulate, and you can just tell from the way they move it that there’s obviously nothing in it. They can’t get away with it when the glass is clear, but if it’s an opaque cup, more often than not it’s completely empty and the lack of weight to it gives it away.
This is the one I notice the most. That and uneaten food.
Here’s a fun one tho. In the shows Inspector Morse and to a lesser extent (Inspector) Lewis, actor Kevin Whately is constantly stuffing his face with food. Like, i don’t know if they pumped his stomach between takes or if everything was just shot twice and moved on, but goddamn that man could eat
Lmao yes, they get up from the table and the meal is completely untouched.
This annoys me to an unreasonable degree. We’re watching Shameless (US) and they are constantly gesticulating with empty coffee cups and I get mad every time.
People make plans to meet and never go over the details… like a time, or a place. It’s always missing some critical information you would need if you were actually going to meet someone
Oh I know that’s infuriating
when someone is on a phone call on their mobile the screen is not showing the call screen.
An extension of this is the screen stays on when it’s up to their face, almost all smartphones will turn the screen off when they detect they’re against a face during a call.
Medical and psych. The beefy male orderlies in white tackling people. 10% of the time it’s like that, more so on a child or adolescent unit, but mostly it’s hey, let’s go talk over here about your feelings and come up with better choices and that works. Being heard, works. Most of the time, the orderlies wear street clothes. The shot is real but it goes in a muscle not the neck.
Surgical Tech here. OR scenes are pretty comical. Order of, or even complete absence of head cover / mask in relation to hand scrub. Touching shit that isn’t on the sterile field. Using the wrong instruments. Leaving during an inappropriate part of the case.
The intro of the Dr Strange movie comes to mind - iirc they have masks initially, but they just disappear mid-operation, then he fishes a bullet out of the brain with a pituitary rongeur, everybody oohs and aahs and then he just leaves lol. He must have a really good tech if he expects them to close the dura, repair the skull, and close the scalp, not to mention cutting/drilling through all that shit to get initial access in the first place.
…and it’s hailed as one of the better OR scenes, lol.
the dramatic pull down your mask with your bloody sterile gloves always gets a physical reaction from me like I’m yelling at the student to stop back away and don’t touch anything else
Empty casings not being ejected from guns. It doesn’t even need to be shown - just splice in a sound effect, FFS!
Stock sound effects are comically misused sometimes. I think my favorite was in one of the Schwarzenegger movies (True Lies?) a helicopter (with no wheels) lands kinda hard, and you hear a car-tires-screeching-to-a-halt sound.
Also not really an error, but once you recognize a stock sound effect, you’ll start hearing it constantly. Like every single time someone sits down to eat, they make the exact same silverware-clanking-against-the-plate sound (especially in shows like Chopped - every time the judges go in for a bite, same clickety-clank.
That and clicking metal every time someone handles a weapon. Like, is your pistol grip super loose or something? Why did picking up a gun make an oily metal clack?
Of course I know the real reason. We’re trained to expect it and something seems “off” when we don’t hear those sounds. Like using a hawk sound for an eagle, or a tiger’s roar for a lion.
once you recognize a stock sound effect, you’ll start hearing it constantly
Like everyone’s favorite stock sound effect, “Man getting bit by an alligator, and he screams.”
Wilhelm scream
It’s super minor, but I think the ones that annoy me the most are when they’re showing an off angle of someone talking, but their jaw doesn’t match the words. Normally it’s to show the responders face.
Medical dramas often have the xray films displayed upside-down or backwards, also chess boards are nearly always set up wrong with either the pices in the wrong places or the board turned 90°
I’m a bit of an anatomy nerd. They get a lot wrong.
My friend told me about Xrays! It’s weird cos it’s not hard to find a medical practitioner to ask.
We’re basically everywhere lmao
I’m a pilot. Sometimes screenwriters do a pretty good job with aircraft, sometimes they extremely don’t. They’ll show the wrong instrument when talking about a reading (a vertical speed indicator pointing to 200 feet/min climb over dialog that says "descending through 2,000 feet) or ATC will clear someone to turn to a heading of 540 or clear them to land on runway three niner, and don’t get me started on aircraft engineering.
There’s a scene in The World Is Not Enough where James Bond shoots a powered parachute in the wing and we hear engine struggling sounds.
My favorite has to come from the movie Iron Eagle. Near the beginning, Louis Gossett Jr is tinkering under the oil dipstick door on a Cessna 150, and the following dialog is exchanged:
“How come you’re making my mixture so rich?”
“As lean as you were running, if you went into a stall you’da lost your engine and you’d never be able to pull it out.”
What the Appalachian cousin fuck are you talking about, Louis?
we hear engine struggling sounds.
Heh.
There’s a scene in The World Is Not Enough where James Bond shoots a powered parachute in the wing and we hear engine struggling sounds.
I know the exact scene you’re talking about, but you’re misremembering. He doesn’t shoot it, he skis on it.
https://youtu.be/MQQLqRYm4vg?t=269
And then presumably dies from the hard landing as he broke the fall with his legs.
Daredevil: Born Again - Subway platform with no security cameras.
Videogames and boardgames. Videogames are always depicted as the players wildly buttonmashing and getting into weird positiona for some reason.
Boardgames are not as common, but if they are they have glaring issues if they are made up or not played correctly if they aren’t. The only pefect example of doing it right i know of is hokagou saigoro club, which uses real boardgames and explains them in detail. You can play some of those games without reading the rulebook if you watched the show or read the manga.
There was some old TV show…it might have been Bewitched or I Dream Of Genie, something like that. A man and a woman are playing chess during a dialog scene. He makes a move and says “Check.” She immediately makes a move and says “Checkmate.”
I guess it’s possible but extremely unlikely you’re going to simultaneously move out of check and into a checkmate.
“Level 4 Cleared!”
When was the last time you saw a game that had numbered levels?
Three of the last three games I’ve played have numbered levels, what the hell are you talking about? UFO 50 has them all over. Deep Rock Galactic Survivor has numbered floors and tiered levels of hazard. I played some random tower defense game on my phone that has numbered waves.
In Searching for Bobby Fischer they played board games correctly, I think
If you’ve ever used a lobster grip you aren’t allowed to complain about weird grips on controllers on screen.
It’s not an error exactly, but I cannot help noticing prop paper bags (made of fake paper that doesn’t make crinkly noises) now. They stand out so glaringly.
Guy 1: Can you enhance that grainy camera picture so I can make out that license plate so I can read it? Even though the license plate is just two pixels in the original recording?
Guy 2: Sure. I’ll just use this wondertech to… ah, there you go. One click did it.
I’d like a cop show that does this but it’s conventional AI and it confidently makes up a licence plate but the cops take it seriously and commit to tracking it down.
And there should be maybe a few instances of people trying to explain in various ways “this is AI, the letters and numbers are made up, that car has like a 0.000001% chance of having had that specific random licence plate, please, stop looking for it, you’re being dumb” then the cops pretend like they understood and had an interesting conversation then they go right back to tracking the generated license plate to the best of their ability. A bit like cops who go on to order polygraphs the day after their nephew passionately tried to explain the insanity of the whole “lie detector” charade.
You can just say “zoom in, enhance” and everyone knows what you mean. It became such a meme that I think shows lean into it.
I think I’ve seen one show where it was phrased “is this all the resolution we have?”
I’ve had a good moment with a german crime show where the tech guy just said “Nope, not possible.”
A cool subversion of this one might be to zoom out, rather than in. That viewing the image close up reveals a useless jumble of pixels but zooming out reveals an image. Or they’ve been focusing on the center of frame so narrowly that a detail at the edge of shot goes missed for awhile. So many toys to play with!
Weight of objects is definitely something actors don’t seem to be trained in anymore. Everything looks light as a feather.
A less obvious thing is tossing a drink in somebody’s face wrong. Most actors toss the drink upward from the waist, which probably sends it right up their fellow actor’s nose. Sometimes you can even see a reaction when this happens. Not fun. There’s a definite technique that’s sort of a backhand flick of the wrist, that sends the liquid straight into their face instead of up their sinuses. It also puts your hand, the glass and the face a lot closer together, so they all fit in a much tighter shot. Not that I would know.
