Pet Peeves/Things That Happen in TV and Movies That Would Never Work In Real Life.
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Actually, that part about people making long speeches... ignore that. As usual, Calvin & Hobbes said it better than I could.
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for Jul 18, 1992 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com
The first three panels are what Calvin imagines he would talk like if he were in a TV show.
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for Jul 18, 1992 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com
The first three panels are what Calvin imagines he would talk like if he were in a TV show.
Speaking of which...
When you watch a show set in old times - pioneer days of the US, ancient Greece, whatever, any time more than a century before now - and they are wearing makeup they didn't even have back then.
Makes me want to personally fly out to wherever the director is and show him the definition of "anachronism."
When you watch a show set in old times - pioneer days of the US, ancient Greece, whatever, any time more than a century before now - and they are wearing makeup they didn't even have back then.
Makes me want to personally fly out to wherever the director is and show him the definition of "anachronism."
When a mom cooks a huge breakfast and the family rushes down the stairs the kids take a sip of the orange juice , the dad grabs his coffee and briefcase and heads out the door and the mom grabs her keys and leaves.
1. The super working mom most likely wouldn't get up and make a huge breakfast.
2.No one touches the food.
3. NO ONE PUTS AWAY THE FOOD.
Imagine coming home from work to a table full of old food... yuck.
1. The super working mom most likely wouldn't get up and make a huge breakfast.
2.No one touches the food.
3. NO ONE PUTS AWAY THE FOOD.
Imagine coming home from work to a table full of old food... yuck.
About the zombie apocalypse yards, a friend at work came up with a viable Theory. Perhaps the same virus that turns humans into ravening monsters turns goats into obsessive-compulsive. Where normal goats would eat a yard down in a ragged fashion, infected goats are obsessed with eating the yard to a precise length all over.
One of my biggest annoyances in the world of entertainment is a lack of continuity, and specifically, "genetic inconsistencies", such as (everybody put your nerd hats on):
* The main character (as an adult) has blue eyes, and yet, the main character (when portrayed as a child) has brown eyes, or vice versa. I could be wrong, but eye color does not change as we get older, nor should it change across a character's storyline. And speaking of which...
* The television show, "Growing Pains". Did anyone else notice that the parents on this popular family sitcom both had blue eyes, and yet, the actress they chose as their daughter (Tracey Gold) had brown eyes?
Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but eye color is the result of two genes, and blue eyes can only be produced when 2 recessive genes are present. This would mean that brown eyes would not be possible because the gene needed to produce them--the dominant gene--would be absent.
I know this seems nit picky, but to an adopted child who looks like no one else in her family, these things stand out to me like... Wonder Woman with brown eyes. Ahem. (I haven't seem the movie yet and I'm sure Gal Gadot is amazing, but every rendition I've ever seen of WW portrays her with blue eyes, not brown.)
And now you can all see why my original career as a big-league Hollywood director went straight down the tube. I was too busy picking out actors with consistent eye colors that I didn't have time to pay attention to their actual acting skills.
And finally, for the big finale:
Did this bother anyone else?
* The fact that Luke Skywalker asks Leia if she remembers her real mother in Return of the Jedi, and she answers, "Just a little bit. She died while I was very young." And then the prequel had their mother dying... in childbirth.
I remember sitting in the theater wondering if the writers of the prequels had even BOTHERED to watch the first 3 movies (I've read theories about "Force memories" to explain Leia's explanation and other assorted mumbo jumbo...) But that doesn't stop me from thinking, "Is a little continuity between some of the biggest movies of all time really too much to ask???"
I can hardly wait to see everything they casually "forget"... in the "new" Han Solo movie.
Stay tuned.
* The main character (as an adult) has blue eyes, and yet, the main character (when portrayed as a child) has brown eyes, or vice versa. I could be wrong, but eye color does not change as we get older, nor should it change across a character's storyline. And speaking of which...
* The television show, "Growing Pains". Did anyone else notice that the parents on this popular family sitcom both had blue eyes, and yet, the actress they chose as their daughter (Tracey Gold) had brown eyes?
Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but eye color is the result of two genes, and blue eyes can only be produced when 2 recessive genes are present. This would mean that brown eyes would not be possible because the gene needed to produce them--the dominant gene--would be absent.
I know this seems nit picky, but to an adopted child who looks like no one else in her family, these things stand out to me like... Wonder Woman with brown eyes. Ahem. (I haven't seem the movie yet and I'm sure Gal Gadot is amazing, but every rendition I've ever seen of WW portrays her with blue eyes, not brown.)
And now you can all see why my original career as a big-league Hollywood director went straight down the tube. I was too busy picking out actors with consistent eye colors that I didn't have time to pay attention to their actual acting skills.
And finally, for the big finale:
Did this bother anyone else?
* The fact that Luke Skywalker asks Leia if she remembers her real mother in Return of the Jedi, and she answers, "Just a little bit. She died while I was very young." And then the prequel had their mother dying... in childbirth.
I remember sitting in the theater wondering if the writers of the prequels had even BOTHERED to watch the first 3 movies (I've read theories about "Force memories" to explain Leia's explanation and other assorted mumbo jumbo...) But that doesn't stop me from thinking, "Is a little continuity between some of the biggest movies of all time really too much to ask???"
I can hardly wait to see everything they casually "forget"... in the "new" Han Solo movie.
Stay tuned.
Well, my eyes changed color when I was in my early 20's they turned green. Weird but true!! And yes I looked it up eye color does change with age, but it's rare.
(From another thread)
Ooooh, I KNEW I was forgetting something! Sorry Kim, I'll take care of that right away.
Ahem...
Oh come on seoulsearch, do you always have to find fault with EVERYTHING?! Can't you just watch the movie and be happy? Or if you find it intolerable can't you just turn it off? Why do you always have to nit-pick everything to death?
*Lynx lopes away smugly, conveniently leaving out any mention that he was the one who came up with the thread idea.
There, backlash taken care of. Sorry Kim, I won't forget again.
Ooooh, I KNEW I was forgetting something! Sorry Kim, I'll take care of that right away.
Ahem...
Oh come on seoulsearch, do you always have to find fault with EVERYTHING?! Can't you just watch the movie and be happy? Or if you find it intolerable can't you just turn it off? Why do you always have to nit-pick everything to death?
*Lynx lopes away smugly, conveniently leaving out any mention that he was the one who came up with the thread idea.
There, backlash taken care of. Sorry Kim, I won't forget again.
(From another thread)
Ooooh, I KNEW I was forgetting something! Sorry Kim, I'll take care of that right away.
Ahem...
Oh come on seoulsearch, do you always have to find fault with EVERYTHING?! Can't you just watch the movie and be happy? Or if you find it intolerable can't you just turn it off? Why do you always have to nit-pick everything to death?
*Lynx lopes away smugly, conveniently leaving out any mention that he was the one who came up with the thread idea.
There, backlash taken care of. Sorry Kim, I won't forget again.
Ooooh, I KNEW I was forgetting something! Sorry Kim, I'll take care of that right away.
Ahem...
Oh come on seoulsearch, do you always have to find fault with EVERYTHING?! Can't you just watch the movie and be happy? Or if you find it intolerable can't you just turn it off? Why do you always have to nit-pick everything to death?
*Lynx lopes away smugly, conveniently leaving out any mention that he was the one who came up with the thread idea.
There, backlash taken care of. Sorry Kim, I won't forget again.
In the meantime... I've got some OCD goats to oversee as they mow my lawn... in preparation for the zombie apocalypse, of course.
