Has your job ever ruined a film

Anything IT based is almost always arseways. Lots of typing endless nonsense code, bugger all use of a mouse or trackpad. It's the movie shorthand for "computers".

My own personal nerdy wristwatch interest would be another one. They almost never get watches right in period films. My fave flic of all time is probably Lawrence of Arabia(how O'Toole didn't get an oscar for that is beyond me). Set in WW1, yet he wears a WW2 watch. *watchnerd twitch* :mad::D

Looking at stuff set in the medieval and everyone is dressed in brown rags is a nonsense, but that's shorthand for the medieval(it was actually quite colourful and castles in particular were gaudily painted). Or when you see a road like this in "ancient time" like Rome or Greece or whenever.



that's another shorthand for "olde times", yet no road looked like that before the invention of the automobile. OK, you think of a horse and cart. Where's the horse in relation to the cart? Exactly, you see it. The green bit in the middle would be just as worn down as the rest of the road.

Another one is in American films where a car with a manual gearbox(traaaansmission) is onscreen. Changing gears in what appears to be a ten speed gearbox means going way faster. Might go over in the US of A where most people "can't drive stick" but looks daft to even your grannie who drives her 90's Starlet to mass every day.

American rewriting of history is another one. In WW2 flics you'd swear they were the only ones on the good side. Indeed I'm surprised they even show the Germans or Japanese being in the mix at all. Though great directors like Clint Eastwood(who couldn't be more conservative Go USA! in personal politics) don't do this. Then again he's of a very different generation, when meaning over artifice mattered more.

I would tend to switch off the critique and contrarianism when enjoying a film or TV drama though. You kinda have to. They're a fantasy, a break from reality, that's what they do. A physicist or cosmologist if they were that much of a Sheldon Cooper anally retentive couldn't possibly enjoy it. Teeny tiny Scarlett Johansson in a skin tight catsuit(hello!) beating seven shades of ordure out of huge muscly blokes is a total nonsense, but it's great to watch. Drama in essence is the suspension of disbelief. I mean Shakespeare was a big hit in his day and droves of the common man and woman and the well heeled piled in to see his(and others like Marlowe) plays and loved them, even though to modern audiences they'd be horribly stilted and all the women's parts were played by blokes in drag.