Not just that, but always the anchor says "For those of you just joining us..." Then does a exposition dump

I stopped before that, I think around the time the guy in the cool car banged some soccer mom. It was just a sign that we weren't exploring the human condition wither otherworldly tropes, but just throwing shit at the plot wall.

I think this is covered by the Pym particles explained in Ant-Man.

Ant-Man makes lots of things, and himself, turn giant, so by Occam's razor, why not say Hulk's mutations allow his cells to access the same mechanism.

I saw 28 Years Later on a plane. I could have just slept instead. It wasn't terrible, but it was certainly more artistic than I expected. Soooooo close to morbidly charming, but ended up just short of the line.

Exactly right. If the plot depends on people making bad decisions that no one would ever make, its bad plot!

What? Revolvers are really common. They're incredibly reliable, in a way that a semi auto mag fed pistol isn't.

A revolver rotates the cylinder and the hammer falls on each individual round. If the ammo is bad (incredibly rare but it happens) then nothing happens, but just pull the trigger again and you're not jammed or anything.

A mag-fed semi auto, while higher capacity, has WAY more complicated moving parts. There's tons of ways it can jam up or malfunction, and since all the ammo is stacked in the same spring-tensioned magazine, if there's a problem you have to clear the jam in order to fire anything else.

If you're in a position where you are actually pulling the trigger your fine motor skills are gone because of adrenaline. Clearing a jam like that isn't something you'll be able to do effectively without a ton of training, and most people don't have that kind of training.

So a lot of people prefer a revolver. It's only 6 shots instead of 11, 17, whatever, but you KNOW you'll get six shots, and the thinking is if that's not enough then 17 probably isn't either. It's personal preference.

But yeah, they're not just "grandfather" guns.

28 Years Later isn’t nearly as good as 28 Days Later, but it’s way better than 28 Weeks Later. IMO

Honestly 28 Years a very different movie than the others, but it’s good.

Not always for me. If it's too ridiculous, I may wake up. Like "alright, I'm out"

28 Years Later felt like it was mostly a setup for The Bone Temple, which was a trip.

What gets me, is they had The Rock with his little tank truck that would ALMOST believable be able to drag it around maybe, but still probably not very fast. Hell at one point they || Swap the real safe to a garbage truck || and I would find it more plausible that they put some huge engine in the back of that and sped it around more easily.

Shaun of the Dead does a nice bit using this classic trope of turning the TV on exactly at the right moment.

And Community, as mentioned in another comment.

Yeah, I'm watching the show Below right now, and they're faking into the "we can't advance the plot without a failure to properly communicate" rhythm, as expected with Netflix, and so much modern TV in general.

I'mma about to ruin medical shows/scenes for y'all. And once you see this, you cannot unsee it. the source for all this is the 15 years I spent riding in the back of the bus as a medic.

When you see a scene in the ER and a critical patient arrives, all the doctors go rushing into the exam room and start doing things and arguing about what to do. If we put this stupidity aside for a moment and roll back the scene to the beginning we will see the mistakes the show makes every time.

First, doctors don't rush into the exam room the moment the patient arrives. The doctor, just one and not a whole squad of them, will wait for a moment or two to let the medics and nurses get the patient on to a bed and the triage nurse gets the medic's report.

When the Medics and the cot leaves the room, the doctor will walk to the doorway and stop. Most of them will actually lean against the door jam and just look for a minute or so. They are making their first assessment of the patient from that distance and begin to formulate a treatment plan. Doctors are ACTUALLY TAUGHT to do this medical school. And they practice it because it's hard to remember in an oh shit moment and hard to do. Even us medics are taught the same thing. If the TV doctor does NOT do this, this is your first warning that this a bullshit medical show no matter what the producers and actors claim about realism. This is basic and fundamental to ER medicine and would be soooo easy to do. This is the point where I'm out and ne'er to be seen again.

The second mistake that gets made is that the doctors themselves do very little of the actual treatment of the patient. They stand off to the side and tell the nurses what they want them to do. The nurses do most of the work. The doctor observes and directs. Only if a procedure that requires a doctors skill and knowledge to do, do they get hands on. So that's the second bullshit thing in these shows.

And finally, doctors do not consult in the patient's room unless it absolutely can't be avoided. Which is very rare. They have a room, generally behind the nurses station where they go for that. I have been in there with doctors on occasions when I asked for a teaching moment to further my skills as a medic from one of them. And no matter what hospital, that's where we would go.

That's a better review than I would have given 28 weeks later.

Glad to hear it was better than 28 Weeks Later, but honestly it wouldn't take that much.

Hocus Pocus is kinda wild. 90's Disney laughing at a kid being a virgin at 15.

And if you don’t get 6 shots you advance the chamber and get the others.

With a mag you gotta swap mags and unjam and ya dead.

While I disagree with guns for self defense if you were gonna get a pistol: get a shotgun.

We still laugh at the scale of their city council election. Our town is larger than Pawnee, and you're lucky if the people running spend money to make lawn signs.

Let alone run commercials and have a huge debate 😆

It didn't stop me from finishing Prometheus, but what grinds my gears is when the supposedly biologist was trying to pet the alien and it attacked him. Any trained biologist would know not to try to pet animals which you don't know if it's timid or not.

that's the one that stood out in my sleep deprived state :P

I find it unrealistic for any movie involving contact with aliens to not even consider how our and their microbial life would interact with each other. There should be a default rule of "oh you touched the alien? Ok, you will be the quarantine subject that we will monitor to make sure you haven't caught some slow developing disease that will inevitably kill any earth life in your vicinity because we haven't developed any kind of resistance to it".

Except instead of "touched the alien" it would really have to be "entered their atmosphere with your ship" because the ship itself could bring back contaminants that would eventually destroy all life on our planet. And maybe even entering the atmosphere isn't needed if microbial life occasionally gets swept into space by extreme weather, meteor interactions with the atmosphere, maybe solar ones also. Including this because it's plausible that earth life originated elsewhere and was just seeded here by some event that allowed life to escape some other location and survive to come here. We've also had ships return to earth with life detectable on their outside--because someone on earth sneezed on it before it was launched and the microbial life wasn't destroyed by being in space.

Similar line of thought when they go on the alien planet and just breathe the atmosphere because they detect oxygen.

But they will share all the details with any random supporter waiting for the procedure to be finished in the otherwise empty waiting room, right?

Whenever evil antagonist broadcasts his evil message on every major advertisement screen and TV in the world (and PC/mobile device), with full audio.

It's been way too long since I watched Raiders, but I remember it being great so I'll have to watch it again.

That definitely sounds stupid. The only saving grace might be that U-boats, unlike modern submarines, very rarely went underwater. They had diesel engines that ran the engines on the surface and also charged batteries. They could use the batteries underwater, but they didn't last long. When they attacked they'd go underwater so they could ambush the ships they were attacking. But, to set up for that attack they'd race ahead of the ship while staying above the water, then go under for the ambush. Even a lot of the attacking happened above the water. Yes, they had torpedoes, but they also had deck guns. Since their targets were mostly commercial ships, they didn't have to worry about the ships shooting back.

On the other hand, the fact they were used on the surface meant that there was almost always a crew on the conning tower. Technically you could do everything without using the conning tower bridge. But, they almost never did. Even during storms they were up on the conning tower, not sheltering inside. It was awful being exposed to the elements like that, but the visibility through a periscope was awful compared to standing outside.

Those opening scenes in an empty London were amazing. It's a zombie movie, and if I try I can remember scenes with zombies. But, I mostly remember the opening, the buckets on the roof, travelling in the cab, etc.

Like all good zombie movies, it's really about how people cope with the changes to the world.

Is he going to make it, doc?

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There can always be a south east to any place, especially if the person is not from there.

The one that gets me is people flying backwards when hit by a bullet / shotgun blast.

I can accept it in movies that aren't going for realism, even though it annoys me. But, I've seen it in movies that are trying for a gritty realism aesthetic, and after that I just can't enjoy the movie. Add to that movies where silencers go "pfft", or someone uses a pillow as a silencer, or people shoot guns without ear protection or hearing damage.

Taking a perfectly good true story or novel and ruining it and/or changing it in unnecessary ways

So I still need to watch bone temple if I watched 28 years later?

You guys are just making up words atp.

Like its honestly one of more believable situations. Look at Home Alone, those parents saw Kevin not once yet decided to leave the driveway. They got on a bloody plane without him

I know what you mean, but the Wikipedia article even says it's "on the southeast coast of India."

I just looked. There is an Andhra Pradesh and a Tamil Nadu that very squarely fall in the south-east category. Just like the Philippines is the South East of South East asia.

Oh yeah? Evolve yourself back into the fucking sea!

Whales and dolphins: hold my legs

Funny enough, writing a GUI using VB.NET isn't even a bad idea, it just didn't have anything to do with the task

This is hilarious because it would also resolve that part where the person saying to turn on the TV basically needs to be psychic because they almost always tune in at the start of the presentation where it isn't even clear yet what the presentation is about.

If you click a link, then the video starts from the beginning but it also makes sense that the person that sent the link already knows what it's talking about.

Though this wouldn't really help when that same "needs to see the future to be able to point something interesting out because it hasn't started happening yet and thus wouldn't yet be worth pointing out" gets applied to events about to happen nearby.

I wish shows would have some people just confused and not really understanding what's happening, and not just for "the helpless civilians that need to be saved" but incorporating the whole "it can take time for individuals involved in something unexpected to even understand what is going on or what they are responding to". It's kinda funny how much some fiction ignores things like the fog of war, especially ones where they have a sniper that can somehow just see everything and always has a shot (often also sitting way out in the open where they'd get counter sniped pretty quickly, like hanging from a crane, which also begs some more questions).

I think Newton would be the first to say that being appalled by things doesn't cause a torque force on corpses. Well, he would be if he wasn't dead. I guess it's really just me saying that but trying to add Newton's weight to it.

This makes me want to see a fully automatic revolver. If you're going to be absurd, lean into it.

My favorite feat of IT wizardry in a movie is in Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum's character hacks into the onboard computer of an alien spaceship using nothing but his MacBook. Of course, entire generations of scientists have failed to get into that computer but the wizz just does it overnight. Does it even use a binary system? Does it use quantum computing? What security features do alien computers have? No matter.

Better yet, he manages to coax the computer on the alien space station (which he has never had physical access to!) into letting them dock without raising the alarm.

But the icing on the cake is the virus he manages to inject into this previously unknown IT system which not only grants him full access but also plays back a laughing skull animation on an operator console he has never seen, not even while developing his virus.

Ludicrous.

I love the scene in (a movie, just realized I can talk about it without spoiling if I don't say what movie, those who have seen it will know), where there's an attempt to do a romance scam where they rob you when you get naked to have sex with the bait woman. He takes the other guy's gun, at which point the guy laughs and says it's only loaded with blanks. MC pauses for a second then shoots him in the face point blank anyways because blanks still release a ton of energy, they just don't put half of it in to a small projectile, and the guy ends up rolling on the floor in agony, blinded.

Though that shot is fired inside and I don't recall if they even acknowledge that aspect of it.

Archer definitely does, though!

To be fair, armpits are pretty quick to shave and I could see some people sticking with some personal hygiene habits in times like that just to feel a bit more normal. Also, if they don't have time for showering, shaving armpits might be one of the most effective ways to keep the smells lower, like the difference between needing to scrub a lot with a sponge or just give it a wipe.

Personally, I shave my face because once it gets to a certain length, it annoys me. Same with my head. Now I do use an electric razor for both of those and don't go down to the skin for either, so whether I kept up with that or went all mountain man would depend on access to electricity, but if I had that access, I would absolutely spend a bit of time managing that because it starts to be a distraction if I don't.

I think a lot of sitcoms rely on it because it's a way to create conflict without needing to create a bad guy.

Malcolm in the Middle is an example of a show that didn't rely on miscommunication for every plot and I realized during my first streaming watch through that there isn't a single recurring character on the show that I'd consider a decent person.

Yeah, with bad luck blanks may kill even from distance, so it's really better not to push your luck pointing a loaded gun

I'm saying that OP's post is about unrealistic movie details that don't really affect the plot. Whereas root comment's example does significantly affect the plot.

If you're wearing plate armor, you sure do. Especially if it's got cheaper plates.

U-boats, unlike modern submarines, very rarely went underwater

I've read a lot of memoirs from WWII submariners (German, American and British - not sure if there are any Japanese memoirs in existence) and they always made test dives at the start of a trip, just to make sure everything was shipshape. Even if they somehow hadn't noticed Indy clinging desperately to the conning tower, he would have been left behind pretty early on. Unless he had gills like Kevin Costner in Waterworld.

Even a lot of the attacking happened above the water. Yes, they had torpedoes, but they also had deck guns.

Fun fact: the British experimented with subs that mounted a (fixed) 12" gun taken from a decommissioned battleship. The idea was that they would surface just enough to expose the gun and then blast enemy merchant ships. This actually sort of worked, except that the remote-firing mechanism tended to get water in it and the gun would shoot its own barrel off. And since the barrel was wire-wrapped (a technique the Brits loved) the blown-off part would stay attached and act as an anchor.

It's just about the easiest language to create a GUI in, too. It's like saying "I'll write a quick Hello World in Python, and then we've got this case in the bag!"

You mean the Cyclops on xmen (marvel) or does DC also have a cyclops character that shoots a powerful laser?