Have you ever wondered why...

JWright wrote in post #9373580
* * * Some of that stuff is ridiculous... I mean, who wants a camera that barks like a dog when you take a picture?

From some of the ringtones I've heard from people's cell phones, a barking dog camera wouldn't surprise me in the least.

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
H. L. Mencken

JWright wrote in post #9373580
I was a hard hat diver in the Navy and while "Men of Honor" was a reasonably well done film about a true story, there were parts of the movie that made me cringe. The whole part about the recovery of the missing nuke was historically inaccurate and the encounter with the submarine was pure Hollywood...

Submarine combat (and air combat for that matter) is always shown at essentially collision range in films. I think that this is done because actual realistic air / sea combat would be almost impossible for the audience to follow on screen.

Real submarines fight with explosive robots that have ranges of tens of thousands of meters. They do not fight at a distance that allows both subs to appear on the screen at the same time.

JeffreyG wrote in post #9373738
On CSI the evidence technicians shoot their evidence pictures with dSLRs without looking through through the viewfinders. They alss use the popup flash instead of a ringflash.

Of course, these same technicians go out on busts and participate in suspect interrogations too which seems strange. They can get DNA evidence turned around in a matter of hours and their office seems to have a limitless budget for every single case.

This is probably one of the more accurate details in these shows. Everything about these shows is so far off for what happens in real life. I've been to the LVMPD CSI "lab" and it isn't a big smoked-glass building. It's a trailer out back behind the station. And their CSI techs aren't cops, so they don't carry guns or arrest people. It's a civilian position. In fact, it's a civilian position in most jurisdictions in the US. I could never watch these shows though, the acting and writing is horrific. Ask any CSI tech what they think about the show. Please give them about 10-15 minutes, so they can stop laughing, to answer your question.

If you think the gaffs associated with photography in movies and on TV is bad, you should spend a few mintues in my shoes and enjoy the giant cringe whenever they show videojournalists and the 1001 ways (all wrong) to use a hand-held TV Camera... UGH...

The "Zoom and Enhance" technique is even less doable with video and yet they are able to read license plates and ID Tags from low-res security cameras and do slow-motion footage from systems that traditionally record one frame per second as well. *PUKE*

CalPiker wrote in post #9373969
* * * Ask any CSI tech what they think about the show. Please give them about 10-15 minutes, so they can stop laughing, to answer your question.

I suspect that's pretty much the same reaction you'd get from people in any line of work asked to comment on a show based on that line of work, and for good reason.

Who can forget wrist watches being worn by extras in the movie Ben Hur??

Or sneakers in the crowd scenes in "Spartacus."

My Hollywood pet peeve is when they have the sound effect of someone cocking a revolver and they're holding a semi-auto pistol that is already locked and cocked.

This could make a great thread,, "Movie Cock Ups"

yogestee wrote in post #9374205
This could make a great thread,, "Movie Cock Ups"

There's a site created years ago, called nitpickers.com, that has a lot of the mistakes that people find in movies and TV shows. It's a fun site to check out.

IMDB has a "Goofs" section for each title as well...

20droger wrote in post #9373611
One scene I love was the enlargement of the photograph in Mel Brook's "High Anxiety" to show the he was riding the elevator in the background. It's so intentionally absurd that it cracks me up every time.

The thing is , with Mel Brooks, you know he intentionally did it as a send up. His parodies are among the best!

JeffreyG wrote in post #9373738
On CSI the evidence technicians shoot their evidence pictures with dSLRs without looking through through the viewfinders. They alss use the popup flash instead of a ringflash.

Of course, these same technicians go out on busts and participate in suspect interrogations too which seems strange. They can get DNA evidence turned around in a matter of hours and their office seems to have a limitless budget for every single case.

CSI New York, i think are now using Macro flash heads. Although the rest of it is pretty unbelievable.

How do they get evidence on CSI without compromising it? I mean they walk around entire properties without any form of covering dropping hair, skin, fabric etc. Watch any REAL CSI and you will find all in one suits, bootees, facemasks, gloves etc to enusre no contamination.

Jay will appreciate these gaffs:

Scene-Group of people are boarding a private jet. Clearly a Cessna Citation. Next scene shows a Lear Jet taxiing out to the runway, then a Falcon jet during take off. In flight is a Gulfstream G-Five jet, then back to a Learjet landing. Lastly a close up of the Cessna Citation as the same folks get off (usually with a suspisciously familiar cloud formation in the back ground - just like the one at the departure airport).

Also, there is the scene of a C-130 engine (or other turboprop) starting or shutting down with the accompanying sound of a WWII radial reciprocating engine. Drives me crazy . . .

golfecho wrote in post #9377718
Jay will appreciate these gaffs:

Scene-Group of people are boarding a private jet. Clearly a Cessna Citation. Next scene shows a Lear Jet taxiing out to the runway, then a Falcon jet during take off. In flight is a Gulfstream G-Five jet, then back to a Learjet landing. Lastly a close up of the Cessna Citation as the same folks get off (usually with a suspisciously familiar cloud formation in the back ground - just like the one at the departure airport).

Also, there is the scene of a C-130 engine (or other turboprop) starting or shutting down with the accompanying sound of a WWII radial reciprocating engine. Drives me crazy . . .

Stuff like this happens a lot. Departure scene is a 727 and the arrival is a 707, etc. Best parody ever though was "Airplane" where all the exterior shots of a 707 are met with the drone of radial engines.

Probably the most glaring in a war movie comes from "Midway" where a WWII carrier ramp strike is portrayed by a rather well known bit of footage showing an F9F Panther (Jet) breaking up on landing.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #9378625
Probably the most glaring in a war movie comes from "Midway" where a WWII carrier ramp strike is portrayed by a rather well known bit of footage showing an F9F Panther (Jet) breaking up on landing.

I think the most glaring goof in a war movie is every time someone grabs a recently fired machine gun by the barrel. Audie Murphy even did it, and he was a soldier in real life with lots of combat experience.
Put the whole nine yards down a belt fed browning and you aren't going to get your hand anywhere near the barrel for awhile. It is definitely gonna bother your hand a little.