Movie Mechanics Spoiler Syndrome

[Richard Hed]

Good movie. Sometimes They do not leave facts stand in the way of fiction.
Independence Day and American Battleship also good ones.

Independence day I could only take once. Good enough for excitement, but too corny to watch twice. Have never seen American Battleship.

 

[Ken I]

Yep, an ornithologist friend of mine is infuriated by incorrect bird calls (for the location).
All Hollywood frogs go Gribbitt - that's the Californian tree frog used for everything.
In Memphis Belle, the jukebox in the movie was not yet built (Jukeboxes are another one of my hobbies).
My son is a stunt driver (the Super Snake in Death Race II) watching it with him I commented on one drift - clearly going out of control - "you didn't pull that off" - no he lost it but the director thought it looked cool and tried to strategically "cut" it in. Won't fool any savvy driver.
And cars just have to explode:-

At 1:20 in the explosion blew the doors and boot off - none of which were secured as they should have been - I was standing with the film crew and that door landed behind us. The director Raoul Rene was furious.
And Star Wars infamous Kessel Run in 12 parsecs - a unit of distance not time - they doubled down on the error in a later episode - I'm guessing they might be pushing the narrative to mean bending timespace to shorten the distance to 12 parsecs ??? So it might be cool science fiction.

Specific knowledge does tend to spoil the illusions, actions and dialogue somewhat.

Regards Ken I

 

[cheepo45]

Anything to do with a metal shop always has angle grinder sparks flying!

 

[GreenTwin]

I saw a video of how they make sound effects for movies, and now all I can think about during fight scenes is somebody smacking a head of cabbage with a bamboo pole.

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[Wheat47]

Hoping this falls into the WHATEVER category per forum description
I do not have a degree in mechanical engineering but I have always had a fair amount of mechanical aptitude. Understanding how mechanical things work has always been easy for me (unlike electronics where there are no visible moving parts, only magic smoke)

Wifey complains I have the annoying habit of pointing out inconsistencies in movies and tv shows.
Example:
Car chase scene-guy shifts from top gear (5th) down to 4th and the revs drop and car goes faster
Car thief hot wires a new car by pulling 2 wires from under the dash, sparking them together a few times then roars off........having not disabled the steering wheel lock
Bad guy works the slide on his semi-auto pistol then to show he is serious he works it again........in real life that would have ejected the unspent round.

Just a few silly examples. Wifey says "youre not supposed to notice those things" LOL
Does anyone else suffer from movie mechanics spoiler syndrome?

Fun to look for those things. I usually don't see them until the 2-3-4 rerun. Remember the old Wagon Train series??
Once or twice, I saw high voltage power lines on the horizon!!!

 

[Wheat47]

Anything to do with a metal shop always has angle grinder sparks flying!

And no safety gear!!! Saw one once where the bench grinder was running backwards and throwing sparks
in the guy's face!!!

 

[L98fiero]

Yep, an ornithologist friend of mine is infuriated by incorrect bird calls (for the location).
All Hollywood frogs go Gribbitt - that's the Californian tree frog used for everything.
In Memphis Belle, the jukebox in the movie was not yet built (Jukeboxes are another one of my hobbies).
My son is a stunt driver (the Super Snake in Death Race II) watching it with him I commented on one drift - clearly going out of control - "you didn't pull that off" - no he lost it but the director thought it looked cool and tried to strategically "cut" it in. Won't fool any savvy driver.
And cars just have to explode:-

At 1:20 in the explosion blew the doors and boot off - none of which were secured as they should have been - I was standing with the film crew and that door landed behind us. The director Raoul Rene was furious.
And Star Wars infamous Kessel Run in 12 parsecs - a unit of distance not time - they doubled down on the error in a later episode - I'm guessing they might be pushing the narrative to mean bending timespace to shorten the distance to 12 parsecs ??? So it might be cool science fiction.

Specific knowledge does tend to spoil the illusions, actions and dialogue somewhat.

Regards Ken I

You don't have to get very deep into movies for the wrong bird call, the sound EVERYONE uses for the bald eagle is actually the red tail hawk, the bald eagle call is a series of weak chirping whistles, of course that wouldn't fit the image.

 

[timo_gross]

Hoping this falls into the WHATEVER category per forum description
I do not have a degree in mechanical engineering but I have always had a fair amount of mechanical aptitude. Understanding how mechanical things work has always been easy for me (unlike electronics where there are no visible moving parts, only magic smoke)

Wifey complains I have the annoying habit of pointing out inconsistencies in movies and tv shows.
Example:
Car chase scene-guy shifts from top gear (5th) down to 4th and the revs drop and car goes faster
Car thief hot wires a new car by pulling 2 wires from under the dash, sparking them together a few times then roars off........having not disabled the steering wheel lock
Bad guy works the slide on his semi-auto pistol then to show he is serious he works it again........in real life that would have ejected the unspent round.

Just a few silly examples. Wifey says "youre not supposed to notice those things" LOL
Does anyone else suffer from movie mechanics spoiler syndrome?

I just noticed that US cars explode all the time, no matter what happened.
They just go up in flames all the time. So it is really surprising that they have steering wheel locks, they will explode shortly after beeing started anyway, so why bother to lock anything.

 

[ShopShoe]

"Anything to do with a metal shop always has angle grinder sparks flying!"

And how many times do we see a "machine shop" where there's a whole lot of arc welding going on?

... And a nod to UK, Australia, etc made programs where the same stock footage of that famous large steam pumping engine is supposed to be everything from a ship engine to part of a chocolate candy bakery.

--ShopShoe

 

[Nerd1000]

Here's one for the science fiction fanatics:

Everyone knows spaceships should not have wings, right? So in "Hard" science fiction shows like The Expanse, the spaceships are of course wing free.

This of course completely ignores the fact that any spaceship with an onboard nuclear reactor should have "wings" in the form of the heat radiators needed to avoid having the powerplant melt down. Even the International Space Station has such radiators if you look closely.

 

[Peter Twissell]

Ah, but we also see that many of those sci-fi spaceships are somehow capable of taking off and landing from the surface of planets - the 'wings' presumably provide lift in atmospheres and double as radiators.

Once we step into the realms of fantasy, we can justify anything...

 

[L98fiero]

Here's one for the science fiction fanatics:

Everyone knows spaceships should not have wings, right? So in "Hard" science fiction shows like The Expanse, the spaceships are of course wing free.

This of course completely ignores the fact that any spaceship with an onboard nuclear reactor should have "wings" in the form of the heat radiators needed to avoid having the powerplant melt down. Even the International Space Station has such radiators if you look closely.

Trying to pick an issue like that is hard as just like we don't know how they have gravity on their spaceships, we don't know how they generate their power or if it's even electricity. Like Peter said, "Once we step into the realms of fantasy, we can justify anything..."

 

[Sprocket]

Once we step into the realms of fantasy, we can justify anything...

And isn’t that why we go there?

 

[Richard Carlstedt]

I am lot like all of you, and it drives my wife nuts as I point out errors. Like when a girl is chased by a bad guy- Where does she run to--not to where a lot of people or open air, but into a dark closet or room... and on it goes.- So i go critical whenever its a shoot out
Perhaps because of a real life situation that I was involved in 35 years ago ( by accident ! ) I was on the edge of town (sticks) and did not know two things.
There was a armed bank robbery in another town (1) and that I was driving behind the bank robber in his pickup truck at about 40 MPH when the cops threw up a road block in front of us ( 2 CARS) and I stopped about 100 feet behind him and then 3 squad cars came up behind me- SIRENS ...guns drawn all over the place *** .... I made my self as small as possible and saw what cops do in such a situation. scared the hell out of me . until a cop came and told me to back out and get out .....the guy had a machine gun but surrendered..
I still remember the gun on the ground (face down) handcuffed and two cops standing over him with shotguns aimed at his head....

***a bit of experience, as a kid ( 12 -14?) I would hunt rabbits with my brothers and one time my brother shot a rabbit and when he picked it up, one leg was jumping a lot- uncontrolled reflexes , and my brother said "he's scared" he will die...... so here it is , when i stopped my truck and the first cop car stopped with squealing tires just in front of my truck , before the squad even stopped , the cop came out with his shotgun and I saw his right leg doing the same thing- NOW THAT scared me and then I knew how serious it was.

believe me, cops have cover all the time, never out in the open
Rich