More Hollywood stupidity

[sceva]

How about sparks everytime a bullet hits.

 

[blujax01]

Ok, I was flipping channels the other night and caught the end of 'Escape from New York'. At the end, the lady has a Model 67 WITH A SCOPE...she's shooting at the bad guy in the Cadillac with the chandeliers for headlights, she cranks off 6 rounds (no endless 6 shooter). Of course she misses him...guess because it was AT NIGHT the scope didn't help much... I don't recall ever seeing a 67 drilled and tapped for a scope...

"That Lady" was the one and only Adrienne Barbeau.

 

[blujax01]

How about rapper ICE T who now plays a Detective on Law Order SVU. He had some real foul rap songs, anti Cop and other stuff before he found out how much money he could make on TV

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Ice T is no more a BG than you or I. Just an entertainer playing a part. And his twenty year old lyrics mimic the same sentiment as did Bogart, Edward G., and other "OG's" (Original Gangsta's) did in their time.

 

[Sprefix]

Haven't had cable in 13 years. Got about 400-425 (old) movies from Wayne, Eastwood, Bronson, Stewart, Marvin, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Costner, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Berenger, Weathers, O'hara, Hepburn, Tracy, and a few others. Clooney and his ilk are welcome to pucker up to the south end(lower posterior) of my North-bound self.

 

[speedyquad]

The idea is to establish reality in an effects or action sequence. While the story is fictional the physics and the mechanics of the devices involved needs to coincide with reality in order to sell the scene. If it's science fiction or fantasy then it's ok for devices to function in a fantastic manner.
These shows are dramas and police procedurals. Based on reality. As such the devices should work as in real life. While it's true most people won't notice a few silly discrepancies I find it distracting and takes away from the story. I've done effects work for some independant films and even though the stories were fictional and fantasy based (zombie films) the action sequences relied heavily on the establishment of reality.
To me it's just sloppy filmaking.

if everything was 100 percent accurate, there would be no fantasy to it. the viewer would not get "lost" in the story because the story would be dull and boring, and every show would fail. it is fantasy based on reality, not fantasy mimicking reality.

so in the zombie films you did effects work on, there was not anything that was less than 100% accurate , other than the zombies walking around? nothing at all? hmmmmm...hard to believe that a zombie movie would be 100% real except for the zombies...

 

[lhump1961]

My favorite-
Hero is pursuing BG through a large building/warehouse/woods/wherever.
He has cleared many rooms, walked down several hallways, up a staircase or two, and been expecting an immediate encounter with said BG, who is armed with something good like a SMG with a 1000 rd magazine.
The music eventually tells us contact is iminent, so the hero FINALLY racks his riot gun or the slide on his Superpistol to chamber a round.
Good thinking, Ace.

You're right and we see this constantly. BG has weapon pointed in the face of GG...GG not cooperating so BG racks the slide! I guess we're serious now!

 

[BE Mike]

"Blue Bloods" is a must watch show for me. The stories and acting are very good. No doubt that one will find technical fault with any show if one looks hard enough. It sure beats the acting and technical details of decades gone past. Sometimes I will notice the errors and mention it to my wife, but I don't let it become the focus of my attention.

 

[snubbyfan]

if everything was 100 percent accurate, there would be no fantasy to it. the viewer would not get "lost" in the story because the story would be dull and boring, and every show would fail. it is fantasy based on reality, not fantasy mimicking reality.

so in the zombie films you did effects work on, there was not anything that was less than 100% accurate , other than the zombies walking around? nothing at all? hmmmmm...hard to believe that a zombie movie would be 100% real except for the zombies...

The reality of the weapons were established. Good point though, even if it was established that a machete was real by hacking off a tree limb, it wasn't particularly realistic that a head could easily be lopped off by a casual one handed swing. And the amount of blood used was a filmakers quantity. So yeah, a little fantasy does sometimes help with a story line.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I gave up on Hollyweird years ago. One of my favorites is the 1953 movie "Pony Express" with Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill and Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill Hickock. They are battling rough terrain, hostile Indians and Confederates trying to detach California from the Union in 1860. But they carry Colt M1873s, Winchester M1866, M1873s and M1892s-and Buffalo Bill was 13 in 1860.

 

[Badkarma 1]

If you think this last episode was bad(I literally spewed coffee at the TV after the 10mm remark!), wait till next week! In the sneak peek it shows the Wahlberg character getting out of his unmarked as rounds bounce/spark off the side window! I've seen lowly .22LR go thru side windows like a hit knife thru butter!
I loves me some TV, but I only watch stuff like Top Gear or Sons of Anarchy. And since I got cable I seldom watch the "Big 3" at all. Think I'll watch Fort Apache tonight. Dale

 

[hsguy]

A lot of people are very good target shooters using the cup and saucer hold.
It's just not a good hold for recoil control and follow up shots.

A friend of mine blew up his Glock with factory ammo and seeing the magazine exit the bottom of the grip and dig itself into the ground cured me of any notion of using the cup and saucer hold.

 

[cddanjr]

Stephen J. Cannell.

You didn't always watch his shows for accuracy but you liked the stories and characters.

When he was alive, we called him Stephen J. Canada. He shot alot of his "hollywood" shows in Vancouver. He made the money but so did the Vancouver CANADA film crews, not the crews in Hollywood.

 

[snubbyfan]

I know it's a suspension of belief and most people don't notice but sometimes it's downright silly.
On Hawaii 50, Mcgarrett had his back turned to the bg, you hear a slide being racked, Mcgarrett moves aside and the bg's standing there with a snubby with the hammer down. C'mon now isn't that a bit much?

 

[DeathGrip]

When he was alive, we called him Stephen J. Canada. He shot alot of his "hollywood" shows in Vancouver. He made the money but so did the Vancouver CANADA film crews, not the crews in Hollywood.

Hollywood or Vansterdam It's all the same but most of the actors were from Hollywood.

I still liked his shows but didn't critique them much. I was young and dumb when most of them aired. I not so young anymore.

 

[ol' geeser]

What really scares me is these geniuses love to step up to a microphone and tell the rest of us right from wrong and how we should live our lives.

The REALLY scary thing is that so many people listen and take all that trash for gospel....

 

[cddanjr]

The REALLY scary thing is that so many people listen and take all that trash for gospel....

Yeah the silent majority that waits for the loudest group to tell them what to do. They dont take responsibility for their lives and want others to pay there way. They would rather party and live in straw houses.

 

[sipowicz]

Forget it Jake.....it's Hollywoodtown.

 

[wbraswell]

Let's not forget the old scenes of where the armed good person doesn't have the guts to shoot the bad guy.

 

[DR505]

I was a technical adviser for an episode of "Breaking Bad" (though I've never seen the show). I walked the director through a crime scene investigation for a murder from start to finish, using his set and what he was intended to film. He listened completely, patiently, and intently, and then said, "That would make for god-awful boring television." That explained everything right there.

 

[Kavinsky]

A friend of mine blew up his Glock with factory ammo and seeing the magazine exit the bottom of the grip and dig itself into the ground cured me of any notion of using the cup and saucer hold.

are you sure it was factory ammo? as I came across a case on youtube where some guy blew up a glock 23 and 27 with supposed factory ammo

and then came out latter saying that it was reloaded ammo where he forgot to crimp the bullet causing the barrel explosion

and it had split right down the middle in both cases, meaning they both used the same faulty load and blamed the gun.

but regardless with bluebloods I hope tom selleck smacked that writer up but good after the 10mm remark

like a gangbanger would even know about a 10mm, only way he would is if this was 25 years ago and saw sonny crockett carrying one!