Has your job ever ruined a film

Oh yes! The film Creep. Its a horror about a girl who falls asleep on the tube and gets 'locked in'. She's pursued around the tunnels by a killer. The LU literally never closes. After the tubes finish, the engineering work/maintenance work begins. a lot of London Underground staff would go missing on the regular if this lad was roaming around. It can be creepy if you find yourself in a quiet section but you're never alone really.

This always drove me mad when watching the X Files.

Like seriously, these things do not exist, never in my life, across 5 continents, have I ever, been able to find Morley ciggarettes.

The reality here is that storytellers will ignore realism when it slows down the story, or when it would remove suspense or conflict.

People love John Wick but there's a scene where John and an assassin are walking through a busy subway station popping off shots at eachother from silenced guns while commuters walk around oblivious to the gun battle. The reality is that they still sound like gunshots. It would be pandemonium, but that's cliche. That's not a fun scene.

It's annoying, but you can understand why it's done. I'm another IT person here. So many movies rely on, "Just pop this USB key into this ultra-secure mainframe there and copy the data/disable the system". These systems wouldn't have have USB ports and if they did, your USB key wouldn't work. But then you don't have a fun movie.

Like Independence Day. They travel trillions of KM and the first thing they do is send ships packed with thousands of troops into our atmosphere, co-ordinating them with a simple countdown timer broadcast unencrypted over our own communications networks. And before they're even finished the initial wave they're preparing an invasion fleet?

The reality is that they would send their own satellite network ahead to establish itself and disable ours. This would be shortly followed by a fleet of small bombs that would hit every city on earth over 50,000 people, in a wave of explosions that would occur in no more than an hour. There'd be no time to run and without our satellite network there'd be little warning.

With all the major infrastructure gone and half of the population dead, 95% of the population will die from famine and disease in about a year, and then the aliens arrive to clean up and take over with very little effort.

But that wouldn't make for a very good movie.

Historical knowledge ruins a lot of things for me. I know Hollywood films supposed to be a documentaries, but when most people form their knowledge of history from TV and films, it's hard not to get annoyed by these things.

Wibbs wrote: »

When Saving Private Ryan came out an elderly chap I knew who had been involved in WW2 fighting against the Japanese in the far east including one beach assault said that got a lot of things right. Not just with the D Day landing scenes, but with the rest of the flic showing soldering as mostly involving wandering around with little going on interspersed with moments of insanity and action. One criticism from guys who'd been there on D Day was that landing scene didn't have enough blood in the water. Oh and the scene with guys being killed by bullets underwater. Water is essentially "bulletproof", so if you were fully submerged the chances a round would have enough energy to kill you after passing through a foot of water would be slim indeed.

I was just looking at a documentary on TG4 on Saturday (Hollywood in Eirinn) and they spoken to the person in charge of filming the underwater scenes in Saving Private Ryan, who was Cian de Buitléar, son of the wildlife filmmaker Éamon de Buitléar. Obviously, he wouldn't have had a say on how bulletproof the water was.

Wibbs wrote: »

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. .

yes yes it is

ChannelNo5 wrote: »

Oh yes! The film Creep. Its a horror about a girl who falls asleep on the tube and gets 'locked in'. She's pursued around the tunnels by a killer. The LU literally never closes. After the tubes finish, the engineering work/maintenance work begins. a lot of London Underground staff would go missing on the regular if this lad was roaming around. It can be creepy if you find yourself in a quiet section but you're never alone really.

In real life there was an Irish serial killer called Kieran Kelly from Laois murdering people in the Tube tunnels for over 30 years. It started in the 50s when he was on a platform talking to his best mate and believed he was going to out him as gay. So he pushed him in front of a train and killed him. He stood trial but somehow got off despite witnesses seeing him do it. It was said he got an adreneline buzz from doing it so he kept pushing random strangers onto the tracks. Eventually he was arressted one night for shoplifting and while in a police cell he strangled to death his cell mate because he was snoring. In his delirium he confessed to 16 murders on the London tube over the previous 30 years and he was imprisoned for life until he died in prison in 2001.

The extent of his serial killing in the Tube was never known by the public at the time because the London police covered it up- they were afraid if they let the public know there was a serial killer in the Tube pushing people in front of trains that there would be mass hysteria and no-one would use the Tube thus crippling the city transport system. His later murders didnt actually involve pushing people onto the tracks, by that point he was violently assaulting them, bringing them down the tunnels before strangling and mutilating them.

I used to work in a EPOS till company and recently i saw a super value add where the girl is scanning the products but I could clearly see the till program was not logged in.
My wife was delighted to hear that information:rolleyes:

Anything with cars from the 70's, 80's or early 90's. I can spot a mile off if that car/options was available that year or not. Same goes for a lot of the music playing, I'll tell you if that tune was out in that part of that year (especially 80's stuff). Not my job, just my hobby.

I've lived abroad for 15 years, anything in films that has to do with Germany, France or Africa is so often totally wrong it's infuriating.

My ex-GF and her colleague were kicked out of Jurassic Park in Germany for nearly wetting themselves laughing at how the dinosaurs were created from whatever it was (I've only seen it once and can't remember the details). She's a microbiologist with extensive experience in forensics and DNA. She was studying DNA and genes back in the early 90's when it was very niche. She described it as being similar to saying 'Abracadabra' over a petri dish.

I adore this film but imagine how crazy you'd go if your monitor made noises like this whenever text appeared on the screen. I know there is a point to it in this film and it sounds great but I couldn't deal with this irl.

I run a struggling pub in county Kerry, as a sideline I escort foreign ladies, who arrive by trawler, up to Dublin by whatever means necessary via mad indirect routes... can take days, so involves stays in characterful B&B accommodation... have never seen a film that I found implausible.