Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
Hacking/computer programming. They type wildly fast while shouting things.
Most of it looks like this but infront of a monitor, scrolling the wheel occasionally.
How big a house an average person can afford.
Another version of this - how big an apartment/house an artist can afford.
Not if you presume they have rich parents.
Yes, and how nice it is, and how ckean it is, and how littke their csr breaks down and how sparkly and well maintained or their workplsce is, or how brilliant their job is despite being an “average, underdog hero”
How big a house an average person can afford doesn’t necessarily precisely track how big a house the average person actually purchases, mind.
I’m so very sorry I set off your well technically trigger.
Getting hit on the head and staying unconscious for an extended period of time.
No… No that’s not how that shit works. If you’re hit on the head so hard that you are lying on the ground limp, you’re either dead, dying, or have received sever brain damage.
No that’s not how that shit works
sh.itjust.works
The good guy winning.
The relaxed position of mammalian eyelids leaves them open. Muscles must contract for the eyes to be shut. Dead creatures cannot contract their muscles so their eyes remain open after they die.
You cannot shut their eyes for them by closing their eyes with your hand. Morticians place contacts in cadaver’s eyes while preparing the body for a wake. Those contacts grip the inside of the eyelids so that they remain closed.
This is why some cultures have funerary traditions in which objects are placed over the eyes.
TL;DR: you and your loved ones won’t close their eyes when they die.
This is a really big one. I have to revise all of my heroic self insert fantasies where i cover up a dead person’s eyes
Like when you’re at the bank and a bank robber shoots a bunch of people and then you jump out from cover and start covering all the corpses eyes super fast.
I don’t remember well if it was NakedGun, Loaded Weapon or Hot Shots where the eyes of a body stayed open until it was hit in the face.
Cops being the good guys.
Imagine an evil terrorist organization coming into the picture, and it’s up to REAL COPS to stop them.
And like real cops, they end up taking a detour to Walmart, where a woman was accused of stealing so they pull out their guns and kill a baby.
Oh is this too real? My bad.
Honestly, watch any crime documentary and you realize how often cops are absolutely incompetent.
Wow, that’s a pretty sweeping statement. I know some cops, and let me tell you, I don’t need to watch a documentary to know that they are incompetent.
I like watching suspect interviews, all the cops follow the same script, if people would just shut up and ask for the lawyer far fewer crimes would be solved.
I tell my kids to treat cops like vampires, never let them in the house and sticking to your rights is garlic to them.
Cops are your friend (remember we’re talking to children here) up until the moment you are accused of a crime. If they think you’re involved in something, stop talking and ask for a lawyer!
Nah, cops are not your friend, I’m a 50 something white male, I have called the cops 3 times in my life.
When I was 15 I found a guitar in the woods, cop did everything he could to pin the theft on me, even searched my house.
Late 30s some kid stole my sons bike, we knew who did it but the cops just said well we didn’t see it happen so we can’t do anything.
At 50 a friend attempted suicide, I called an ambulance, cops got there first, walked right past my unconscious friend and started poking around the house.
I raised my kids to stay out of trouble and stay away from cops.
Fair enough. Keep the dogs in and the cops out!
I think they were basically as decent as possible in The Perfect Neighbor, unfortunately. I could be wrong, though.
Nah you’re probably not wrong haha. I’m sure there are good examples. But for the most part all I hear and watch is absolutely terrible detective and police work.
Getting knocked unconscious.
the classic : no cleanup after sex
Also how everyone is like wrapping their entire body up in sheets to get up from the bed. As if they weren’t literally just fucking lol
This made one scene in the Fallout TV series very effective.
Yes and i think this would be a healthy thing to show.
Absolutely.
characters awkwardly rolling up toilet paper and changing the bedsheets for 10 minutes
Loudness of gunshots. Every action hero would be deaf.
Archers being told to “hold”. Nobody’s holding a +100lbs warbow.
Sprinklers. In the vast majority of cases they react to heat - not smoke. They only go off individually rather than all at once and the water inside the pipes is black ink-like rust water sludge, not clear tap water.
Also another plumbing related: you don’t need a huge wrench under the sink and drains are not pressurized so there’s no water spraying anywhere when you mess with the p-trap.
Also archers being told to “fire”
as firing didn’t exist until gunpowder, the instruction wouldn’t make sense. Like telling a soldier now to “activate the positronic tacyons!” instead of “fire”
Loose!
Also they didn’t really do massive coordinated volleys
Basically everything and anything to do with mental health/psychology. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (or “Multiple Personality Disorder” as it used to be known) do not have “evil” alters. DID is also not the same thing as schizophrenia. OCD is often not focused on hygiene or cleanliness. Antidepressants aren’t “happy pills,” and while emotional blunting is a possible side effect (not the entire point of taking the medication!), it’s often a sign that you’re on the wrong dose or the wrong medication. People don’t typically self-harm because they’re suicidal. Eating disorders don’t always have a focus on body image and anyone of any body size can be affected. There’s no singular mental illness that causes people to be abusive or violent, and mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. Etcetera.
Awesome breakdown! You seem to know a lot about the topic so in your words, (or with a source of your choice) would you mind explaining how DID tends to manifest/how it could better be depicted in movies and television?
Well, I don’t have DID, but from what I understand, alters are just people? They might hold some traumatic memories and experiences, but they’re not like…serial killers. I recommend looking up stuff written by people with DID if you’re curious.
Romantic relationships. Way too much stalking and abuse of power. Far too many very large age gaps. All that stuff.
The age gap thing is gross. We need to get some of these people in a cold shower.
Find me a romantic comedy that doesn’t depict either of the two leads being psychotic or felonious.
Giving birth. In movies and TV shows it’s always this sudden thing. Like “My water broke! The baby is coming!” then there is some pushing and screaming and bam, baby. In reality, having a baby takes many many hours and often times days, even with induced labor.
Yeah
Sex and relationships in action movies.
The whole “hot chick gets horny for the hero after a traumatizing couple of hours” thing gives a pretty messed up view of relationship building.
Or as comedian Kyle Kincaid said, the idea that the action hero could still get it up.
I remember Speed made a joke about this at the end. A crack about “Relationships built on life threatening traumas don’t last” or something lol
And it was proven by Speed 2 I guess.
This one definitely turned me off the first Terminator movie. I mean I know it’s critical to the plot but it still makes me roll my eyes.
The 80s and 90s were rife with that trope. I don’t know if modern action flicks are as bad.
Running over a cliff and only start to fall once realizing that you just ran over a cliff.
That’s not real, you fall immediately.
Have you ever tried?? I think it could be real
*points a finger at Loony Tunes for starting it*
Hacking.
I want a realistic hacking movie, and I know how it should be done:
In plot, it needs to be an ensemble cast heist movie a la Ocean’s Eleven. But it should have a “this isn’t serious” tone similar to Down Periscope. Because it’s about a penetration testing company. They’re hired to do a full physical and digital security audit on some large company, so then we follow the crew of law abiding computer nerds and burglars as they plan and perpetrate a series of hacks and attacks on this company.
The stakes if they get caught are they hand a letter of authorization to the security team, say “good job” and report to the company that hired them that their security in that department is good, so even though they’re taking their job seriously there isn’t really any tension and they maintain a goofy sense of humor.
And you’re in luck, Jayson Street and Deviant Ollam have already pretty much entirely written this, just watch their defcon talks. Get those two guys on either side of a coffee table with a bottle of fine whiskey and you’ll have your screenplay before the bottle’s empty.
It’ll never get made though because Master Lock would sue you for even trying. You couldn’t make it without completely obliterating Master Lock.
That’s probably just a fancy gui skin over a boring port scanner and a bash script testing some 0 days.
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