Hollywood and the entertainment industry is loaded with idiots. Yet the major media will ask them important questions on serious issues.
Now that's funny stuff.
Now that's funny stuff.
It's only a movie. It's only a movie.
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I saw a show where someone was stealing bottles of wine from the wine cellar, but they didn't know who or how. Then they see a short video of construction workers carrying their lunches. One of the protagonists has an epiphany. He hits like 3 keys and suddenly there is a moving graphic showing that the bottle will fit inside the guy's thermos. Maybe 30 seconds and 3 keystrokes since they saw the thermos and they already have a movie about it.
I just read a book where the protagonist not only cocks the hammer on their Glock, but takes the safety off with an audible click as well.
It hurt to read.
It hurt to read.
My brother and I were watching "The Patriot" by Mel Gibson.
It was on VHS tape.
We had to pause it in amazement to discuss what we saw.
Watching the British march away, you hear the drums beating the cadence and there is a sound delay. That was cool but my genius brother calculated that the sound effect delay was precisely accurate to the distance portrayed!
Why would Mel or his people even bother with that?
How did they even do it?
My conjecture was that the accuracy was the merest happenstance.
Have you ever seen a gun movie where they got the distance delay of the gunshot sound effect right?
It was on VHS tape.
We had to pause it in amazement to discuss what we saw.
Watching the British march away, you hear the drums beating the cadence and there is a sound delay. That was cool but my genius brother calculated that the sound effect delay was precisely accurate to the distance portrayed!
Why would Mel or his people even bother with that?
How did they even do it?
My conjecture was that the accuracy was the merest happenstance.
Have you ever seen a gun movie where they got the distance delay of the gunshot sound effect right?
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Quigley Down Under did a pretty good job.
I just read a book where the protagonist not only cocks the hammer on their Glock, but takes the safety off with an audible click as well.
It hurt to read.
The old Alistar McClean spy novels were rife with that kind of stuff but with earlier weapons.
I try not to let this stuff get to me, but sometimes it's like they didn't put forth any effort at all. What's worse is when they went to lengths to write gun stuff into the script, and it's completely wrong.
We watched a movie recently about the FBI hunting an active shooter that had inherited guns from his military father. The main weapon was an "X25 vintage sniper rifle", which on screen was a sporterized Enfield 303. The "OSS assasination pistol" was a Micro-Uzi, of course being fired one-handed and full auto...
I try to ignore all the uncocked 1911s, and Glocks being 'cocked' with a clicking sound every time the hero turns a corner, but if you're going to write gun stuff, please hire someone that knows what they're talking about.
Next, we can talk about motorcycle and car sounds that are dubbed in...
My wife stopped on that movie and I was too lazy to go do something else. The thing I was wondering about was why none of the firearms "experts" were questioning the distance, angles, and penetration of the skyscraper glass windows and still getting precision hits. I guess that's why they call it entertainment.
Car sounds, oh yeah. I always liked the ones where someone is driving an automatic, but the dubbed sounds are that of a standard.
There were a large number of plot problems besides the gun nomenclature!
I will give them credit for a somewhat plausible storyline that hasn't already been done 100x by hollyweird.
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If it's got Morena Baccarin in it, I can probably watch with the sound off. The wardrobe department in Stargate and Firefly certainly found some good outfits for her.
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If it's got Morena Baccarin in it, I can probably watch with the sound off. The wardrobe department in Stargate and Firefly certainly found some good outfits for her.
She's mostly in a puffy jacket and stocking cap, without makeup. Still looks damn good.
Tom Selleck seems to be a stickler for historical accuracy pertaining to firearms and tack in his Westerns. One of my favorite actors.
She is a looker.If it's got Morena Baccarin in it, I can probably watch with the sound off. The wardrobe department in Stargate and Firefly certainly found some good outfits for her.
Stargate was good, Firefly was terrible
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She is a looker.
I have to disagree on your Firefly take. The studio ruined the show. They aired episodes out of order, which made it terribly hard to follow. I recommend watching it in the order it was meant to be shown. Much better show that way.
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