Your purse was stolen? We'll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.

And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.

Someone pointed this out to me once, and now I can't unsee it. It drives me mad. Every cup, every scene... Weightless and fake.

PUT SOMETHING IN THE DAMN CUPS

So what, you're telling me you don't tilt the cup to be perpendicular for every sip?

I learned recently that paper bags on set are made out of a different fabric material that doesn't make as much noise. It looks fairly good, but now that I know this I can never not see that every bag looks wrong and doesn't move correctly.

And stop using the exact same coffee cup with a Greek blue and gold antiquity pattern for every single cop show. Is there one coffee shop in NY? Spiros Coffee?

we do, it’s just that thr propmasters invested in the old shit and haven’t upgraded their kit. also it’s silicon-y and not har plastic like the old sink-y shit so it’s harder to throw into a ziplock and store until the next show - it doesn’t last as long.

And when they drink from their cup, they always tilt it like they were sipping on empty cup. Even when they just taken it from the coffee machine. When I do that I always burn my mouth, because coffee will be too hot. It takes long to coffee cool down in paper cups.

Many things the characters do that professionals in real life would say they don't do because bad things happen. But with doing things professional, the plot can't happen and there is no tension.

Is this a jab at Armageddon?

The Pitt stands out as a show that gets it right. It is over the top plot convenient dramatic as well. But they did nail the medical profession down, and it is all thanks to medical consultants.

I cannot and will never watch episode 4 again. It triggers real life memories of losing my father. It was down to a tee an almost identical reenactment of dealing with a patient with pneumonia and sepsis.

That's often true but not always, a good set dresser will make a mess if the scene and character calls for it. Typically only for "film d'auteur" though in the more commercial things it's almost always as you said.

not sure if a tv thing or american thing but everyone wears shoes indoors

This is why I like European TV. More often than not it is imperfect and not esthetically "polished" the same way. It looks more like the world is.

And wake up in perfect makeup in a setting where having makeup on at all makes zero sense

For a similar reason, I've gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:

They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though

I was watching sopranos and they have a maid walking around which is nice, it explains the neat house. But when Tony moved out, his place is covered in newspapers, pizza boxes, beer bottles, etc. I like that kind of attention to detail

That one time i got unconscious, was when i stepped on a tennis ball, flipped over and hit the ground with the back of my head. I was out for 15 seconds, no memories of the 3 days after that and then still pucked for days without being nauseous. I was lucky that my brain didn't swell or i would have had permanent damage.

Unconscious is the emergency shutdown an inch before death, serious stuff. The trivialization in movies bothers me.

Its an excuse to not depict the killing of a bunch of bad guys. "We're the good guys" remember?

The wall thing is even more stupid when the setting is Europe and the wall wouldn't give in even a tiny bit

The thrown into a wall thing had a nice subversion in Dragon Prince, mostly a kids show. A primary character, a knight, is batted by a dragon into a rock before being chased off. As they finish, they go to check on him, and he’s been permanently paralyzed from the neck down.

Actors holding gold bars always make me laugh

Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot.

Kelly's heroes comes to mind

Interestingly, $100s are still a bit less valuable per unit weight at $100/g, versus gold at about $134/g, but that's only been since about March of this year.

Gold does have other advantages, like being much less bulky, and can be readily melted into untraceable units.

Time is non-linear, we are in the 4th dimention.

Also its usually 1 digit of time left of the decimal point on the countdown timer. Usually like 3 seconds or less, sometimes they make it so dramatic that its literally last second or fraction of a second.

Like... c'mon. Make it so at like 23 second left, or 1 minute 47 second left or something random, like every bomb always get disarmed at 1 second? The fuck lol.

Namek exploding intensifies

They don't get fat though since they never eat the breakfast.

Breakfast? YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL.

(I was always late for school. Cuz that's that emotional trauma does to a child. Thanks a lot, mom!)

I know someone who does this IRL. It's terrifying being in a car with them.

Similarly but even more nerdy is a car making one swerve on dirt, that requires switching traction control off. Top Gear did a bit on it where they were hired to record a chase scene for a movie, and insisted on the following shot;

“You have to hold the mode button for ten seconds to turn off Traction Control!”
cue ten quiet seconds of holding the button

No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles

It's been a while since I rode a motorcycle, but apparently things have changed a lot.

"But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!"

'Stand back, I'm an orthodontist.'

Similarly, when a movie scientist/engineer insists a thing can't be done, until an authority figure chews them out/threatens them. Then, there's suddenly a breakthrough.

There's other ways the person in charge can help!

Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.

Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.

Or when those genius scientists say something that shows they don’t even have a high schooler’s grasp of maths.

There are "home labs" but they'd be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.

You'd think they'd make a custom trailer that's low to the ground as possible at this point.

This might be a simple goof, but a lot of the layout in The Shining (intentionally) doesn't make any sense. There's some great analysis of the insane architecture of the hotel.

Flipping shots gets done far too often in movies. I remember a particularly egregious one in one of the Harry Potter movies where all the text on the blackboard behind a teacher was mirrored lol.

Lol I just hang up on the phone when I "done" being on a call with my parents, no byes, just press the red button. They got so used to it, they never said anything about it. xD

not in the movie Phone Booth

I work in IT and talk on the phone all day and like 70% of end users just hang up at the end of calls. No goodbye or anything. It's so fucking rude

Growing up I really thought Americans just didn't say 'bye' on the phone. It always impressed me how they both knew exactly when the conversation was over.

I think it's funny how people never say bye in Suits. They just walk away or hang up.

Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.

A building company using a prop shovel for some clip, except the shovel's lacquer got chipped so they decided to re-coat it in order to have a pristine shovel.

TIL

What's the context for those last two?

My little cousin once asked me why we used to burn CD's instead of recycling them. Funny how life creeps up on you and suddenly you're old.

600 bullets in a gun magazine

Counting shots in John Wick was fun for that reason: the count actually works out

The bulletproof cars, on the other hand, are still an issue.

The number of people in arctic conditions without head coverings is maddening.

When I was like 10 I read a book about film production and it mentioned that in some movies they use shredded pieces of paper for snow and I've never been able to unsee it.

Like surely there's a better alternative that isn't asbestos

I'll go the other way with this -- sunglasses. Yeah of course they protect your eyes, yes of course people everywhere should be wearing them in summer.

But they don't where I'm from. People just squint and avoid the sunlight. People wearing sunglasses have skeevy undertones.

That was 60 years ago, and very few of those cars are still on the road.

The only incident like this I can remember is Firefly:

Simon: "Are you Alliance?"

Jubal: "Am I a lion? ...I don't really think of myself as one. Though I do have a mighty roar!"

Simon: "....I said, are you Alliance"....

Jubal: "Oh. I thought you said...." Points gun more at Simon "Where's your sister?"

I like it because it doesn't really drive the plot or anything, it's just the first time we see Jubal Early misstep, and seem awkward.

Hollywood fire noise is always cartoonish and corny. But if you've ever been close to fire, it is noisy. Campfires are noisy, though not loud enough to halt speech comprehension. Large bonfires are loud. And there's a reason firefighters learn to communicate with signs and touch. Smoke blinds and house fires are deafening.