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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
People driving straight on the highway need to move the wheel around at all times to stay straight. Also, the drivers can look away from the road for like 10 seconds without it being a huge issue that would otherwise be scary and dangerous.
Basically any time someone playing a chef or cook on TV picks up a knife I fly into a rage.
I'm not even a chef but they'll also turn in a full kitchen without regard sometimes.
If you're turning, you keep that garbage pointed NOT where you are turning.
Almost any depiction of how consent works.
One of the GIJoe movies ends with an underwater arctic base being crushed by ice that is dislodged from a bomb blast on the ice shelf above. Neat except ice doesn't sink. I'm sure there are all manner of inaccuracy in those movies but that one really stuck with me.
Ice sinks to a certain point. If being attached to the shelf was holding that ice up higher than it would float, it'll sink.
Don't know if the movie shows it sinking further than that though, but the general assertion that ice doesn't sink at all is definitely mistaken.
Seems like you clearly didn't follow the instructions to turn off your brain.
In the dark knight the police convoy encounters a roadblock (burning fire truck) and goes onto the lower road into an obvious ambush, rather than just... Go onto the incoming lane and around the truck
All of this stuff makes me wonder how hard it would be to make a fully pedantic story.
I've seen books where the hero was on the verge of winning but gets randomly concussed by a piece of shrapnel. Disoriented, hospital.
Another where the hero had hearing loss issues from solo pistol badassing too much, sans ear protection. (Forgot the titles of these stories).
But what would it take to meet everything? Imagine Superman. Now he has to mind his acceleration to save people. He also has to mind distribution of force, since he can't lift a plane without puncturing it. (Maybe he can make a little energy net under the plane somehow to distribute pressure?) And then he has to mind the Law of Conservation of Energy unless he splits apart matter somehow. And then this and that...
Will adherently realistic changes downrank most stories? I for one laugh my ass off when The Rock flexes his broken arm cast off in F&F.
Dialogue existing in the John Wick films is totally unrealistic. The next film should just be him saying "What?" For 90 minutes with a high pitched squeal in the background
Thinking of your Superman example and an ubermensch having to think about everything, I think several comics and media that have explored aspects of this idea.
I remember reading that there's a Spiderman story arc where it's revealed that Peter Parker is holding back his "true" strength for nearly the entire time he's been Spiderman. It's only been his true strength of character that has made sure that he "pulls his punches" far enough back so as to not kill or harm the people he's fighting or saving.
I also think about Robert Kirkman's Invincible comic/animated series that explores how powerful people decide, either intentionally or accidentally, the fates of those around them, often with dramatic and violent conclusions. Invincible is the story of Superman if Clark Kent wasn't raised by an American family in the mid-West and was instead raised for another more sinister reason.
Gwen Stacey died of whiplash when Spidey tried to catch her with a web shot and she stopped too fast, snapping her neck.
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
That water pollution is neon green goo, air pollution is thick black smoke, or radioactive waste is only in drums.
Most of it is invisible and you don't know about it until it's too late.
In action films, serious injuries heal with just a few hours’ sleep, no recovery needed.
Characters wake up with flawless hair and makeup, looking as fresh as ever :D :D :D
Ooh and how many women apparently wear the HIGHEST quality water proof make up at all times!
Guns that never need to be reloaded, even after hundreds of shots
or when someone runs through airport security in seconds to catch a flight. In real life, security lines, tickets, and checkpoints would definitely slow that down
TBF, that trope was established back when you could get all the way to the gate before showing your ticket.
It might be funny to see it subverted by catching them at modern security, though
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
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.
Holy moly this thread got a lot of comments! Is Lemmy growing up? Are we big now?
People talking over each other. Other than IASIP, I can't think where they get this right.
God, what I REALLY hate is when they depict someone getting really quiet near the end of their sentence, effectively cutting themselves off, and THEN the other person speaks...
Like that's not even a realism fuck-up, that's just terrible directing.
Watched that terrible dracula on a boat movie last night, every scene between two people was an exchange of a perfectly spoken diatribe or 5 minutes of expositional speeches. Back and forth. Forever.
I can't understand why they don't attempt to make movie dialogue sound like real people talking. It's as bad as laugh-tracks in terms of breaking immersion and making it feel like you're watching a bad stage play.
If a girl doesn’t like you, but you just keep pursuing her, everything will eventually work out and you’ll be happy together.
I love scenes where a character hotwires a car by:
reaching under the steering wheel and pulling a panel off. It isn't held on by fasteners or anything, it's just like wedged in place.
A bunch of loosely coiled wires tumbles out. In front are two thicker wires that are cut, stripped and tinned.
The character strikes these two wires against each other like attempting to strike a match, mostly to make sparks.
The sound of a car engine turning over plays.
Climb in, shut the door, put it in gear and drive off.
When the computer hacker character clicks 8 keystrokes and says, "I'm in!"
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.
Any kind of severe allergic reaction is going to ruin your week. If you're in anaphylactic shock, you don't just pop some antihistamines or an epi-pen and carry on with your day. And you certainly should not be moving around.
This happens in many shows. At least My Girl was more accurate.
I hate to say it because so much of this show was actually really excellent and accurate but in the Chernobyl miniseries they totally did the "radiation is contagious" thing and it is just not true.
Things and people that are irradiated/hit by radiation in a situation like a reactor failure or contact with radioactive waste do not become radioactive. They can have radioactive particles on their clothing/skin or inside their body if they have ingested/inhaled radioactive material, but they are not emitting radiation themselves. Furthermore, a thin sheet of paper or cloth will stop the kind of radioactivity that would be emitted by such material, if it is on the outside of a person's body.
Anyways the point is that the woman whose husband was dying of radiation poisoning and then she went in and spent time with him did not lose her baby because she spent time with him. That's just not how it works.
Lots of environmental contamination-related stuff in movies is inaccurate but that one is the most recent I can think of.
When a character wakes up in the hospital.
They've been out for three days. They're obviously in real bad shape, every time they move they grunt.
Then they just rip out the IV and pulse monitor. But not any of the ekg wires. And then just leave.
Good luck getting down the hallway in that shape.
I just fired a gun right next to your head, neither of us was wearing ear protection, and now we're having a conversation at normal volume and we can understand each other just fine.
Bonus points for grenades going off indoors, and nobody having a concussion after.
A more mundane one, but people on reasonably normal incomes living in a house that's at least one order of magnitude more expensive than they could ever afford even if they purchased it twenty or thirty years ago. Its particularly bad in things set in expensive areas like London or New York or Tokyo. Like being able to afford a house in central London rather than renting a flat with three other people takes substantial money, you aren't going to be afford that if you work in a supermarket.
Recently, I've been mindful of how long fights are in movies.
Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don't think that's how a real sword fight would look.
Fights where it's mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.
Fist fights without a smack and dead. It's fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.
I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it's such unnatural movement.
And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.
Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it's faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.
It's certainly prevalent.