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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Basically every moment of this unintentionally hilarious show.

I laughed constantly.

It helps to know archaeology, but it's so bad it's good even if you don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonekickers

In the first episode they find that the True Cross that crucified Jesus is in Britain and at the end they just kind of let it get burned up in a fire when they could have easily removed it from the fire.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 46 minutes ago

I don't have a particular scene, but a here's a funny conversation I had with an acquaintance:

Huh, this thing takes just 12 volts. Could run it in a car.

Wait, a car's electricals are just 12 volts?

Yeah. The battery and most wiring around a car is 12 volts.

Wait.. then what about those scenes in movies where they torture people with car batteries?

Yeah, those are fake.

looking into the distance as the realization dawns on him Those movie directors deserve jail time.

[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

This is completely ignoring amperage and lowered resistance via saline. An automotive battery with sufficient CCA applied to sweaty or salt-water-doused skin wouldn't be fun to be on the receiving end of. And if they're using a picana, which they often are, things are going to be even worse.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

"We got their hard drive!" *Holds up a power supply.

And even if it was a hard drive, what were you going to do with it? You went in there guns blazing with no warrant after you knocked on the wrong door. The evidentiary chain is well and truly broken at this point. Nothing from that scene would be able to be entered into evidence.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 35 points 3 hours ago

The Dark Knight trilogy really wanted to be a realistic, grounded take on the Batman mythos, so they dropped the more fantastical elements of some characters' backstories. Ra's Al Ghul was no longer immortal, Bane didn't have super steroids, the Joker wasn't permanently bleached by chemicals...then there's Two-Face.

I guess they thought acid burns were too unrealistic, so they gave him regular burns...apparently without knowing that burns that severe would be so painful that he wouldn't even be able to remain conscious, much less run around the city on a killing spree. I mean, you can see exposed muscle in some places. There's a line where Gordon says he's rejecting skin grafts, and I remember thinking, "WTF are you talking about? He should be in a medically induced coma, not making healthcare decisions." Half of his body was an open wound; I'm amazed he didn't die of infection 15 minutes after he left the hospital.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 8 minutes ago

It always bothered me that two-face has no pronunciation problems with only half a pair of lips

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

The pseudo-realism in those batman movies and comic book movies in general is a huge part of why I detest them. It's like an uncanny gap or something. Comic book characters are inherently ridiculous and absurd so I can't take them seriously. They ask me to suspend too much disbelief.

One specific example from the batman movies is at the end of one of them, I forget which, I think a few hundred cops charge a bunch of guys with machine guns or something? And I remember thinking in the theater they are about to get mowed down World War I style. But somehow they win, they all live, and the streets aren't flowing with a river of blood. You want me to take them seriously, while having absurd characters and situations, and then you put them in situations where they absolutely should be massacred..I just..I'm out..

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago

They also bankrupted Bruce through theft.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That was one of the biggest things that took me out of that movie. They stage this huge operation at the Gotham Stock Exchange or wherever, everybody knows this giant crime is happening there, but woops, looks like Bruce Wayne has been magically bankrupted, there's nothing we can do about it. It just took me out of it thinking, "I don't think you can just bankrupt a billionaire like that."

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

He could also talk normally despite half of his lips being gone.

The Nolan movies always cared more about giving the appearance of realism by making everything dull and monotone than actually being realistic.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago

First time I saw the Jurassic park I thought no way would intelligent people just run around a huge and therefore dangerous Brachiosaurus or jump out of the car and run right to the ill Triceratops. That would be Darwin's award kind of madness.

Then I studied biology, got to know some zoologists and paleontologists, and yeah, this is exactly what would happen.

[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago

Space Flight.

I walked in on my roommate watching "Don't Look Up" right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.

We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It's not some crazy mystery. This isn't Gravity where they add a window that doesn't exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It's not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.

A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That's the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn't necessary for good story telling.

[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Anyone who hasn't done a Mun landing shouldn't get to direct space scenes.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

We just watched "The Trap" last night. There was a major pop concert that ended in time for family dinner time during daylight. In the concert, they were depicted having time to make multiple trips to the merch tables and concessions, and in one of those trips, they talked like it was an intermission to change the stage set between songs.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 53 points 4 hours ago

When someone’s falling hundreds of feet and when they’re inches from the ground a super hero swoops in from the side to grab them.

Sure, they didn’t hit the ground but not only did you catching them slow down their vertical velocity just as fast as the ground would have, now you’ve accelerated them horizontally so fast that they’re now twice as dead as they would’ve been otherwise

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

My head canon, at least with Superman, is his powers. He doesn't have multiple unrelated powers, but only 1 main one. Instinctive momentum control.

  • Flying - Momentum control

  • Bullet proof - Momentum stopped at the point of contact.

  • Heat beams - Changing the momentum of particles he's focused on.

  • Holding a plane by a thin aluminium sheet - Adjusting the momentum of the plane directly.

  • No sonic booms, or massive wind - momentum nulling on the nearby air.

In this case, catching a falling person safely makes complete sense. He just nullifies their momentum before they hit.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I guess you could explain it like that, but I'd really prefer it if they just started writing Superman stories with a more realistic depiction of the world around Superman in mind. It would add more drama since, while Superman himself is invulnerable, the rest of the world isn't, so Supes should have to be extremely careful with how he uses his powers if he's actually going to save anyone.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 3 hours ago

Every once in a while, it's subverted. IIRC, that's how Gwen dies in Spiderman comics.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

I appreciated The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for that reason. Gwen was falling so fast that when she was caught I honestly thought her neck snapped and I didn’t notice her skull hitting the floor

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Similarly- when a person is hanging off a building or cliff by one arm, and holding something heavy or another person with the other. It requires an INSANE amount of strength to hold that position, let alone actually haul them back up.

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[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Where in countless mystery/thriller stories bad guys arrange meets in huge open deserted buildings, to be uninterrupted. In the real world, the place will securely locked and gated, or multiple houseless people will have already moved in there.

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

That's why I always have my criminal conspiracy meetings at Starbucks or Wendy's.

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