Have you ever wondered why...

mike_d wrote in post #9369265
I've found that pretty much any time Hollywood shows a subject I have more knowledge of than the average person, they get it completely wrong.

That's true of everyone. Whatever you happen to know, when you see it portrayed on television or movies, it will be wrong. Even when the show is about television or movie production, it will be wrong.

So do the dead bodies.

Naturalist wrote in post #9374161
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.

The dumb thing is that they always stop to load the chamber of a semi-auto 'way after they've already stepped into the danger zone...and are trying to sneak around quietly.

stsva wrote in post #9379107
"Lasers" (always with the finger quotation marks) are in Austin Powers - Star Trek has phasers.

Sound in space has always bothered me, but I was rather pleased to see in the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" that they used plain old bullets, HE missiles, and nukes.

Coolest thing ever in the new Star Trek movie:

Engineering spaces were a sea of pipes, valves and other "analog" hardware despite being several hundred years in the future. No warp cores or containment fields to be seen.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #9382564
Coolest thing ever in the new Star Trek movie:

Engineering spaces were a sea of pipes, valves and other "analog" hardware despite being several hundred years in the future. No warp cores or containment fields to be seen.

Another dumb Star Trek (TNG, especially) thing: They're so far in the future humans are marrying non-humans. Yet, even long after a devastatng nuclear war, heavy national accents abound in Star Fleet. No, I don't doubt there might still be humans enclaving themselves to preserve such distinctions--it just doesn't seem likely to me that any appreciative number of such people would joint Star Fleet.

Spock always bothered me, being half human and half vulcan. Biologically speaking, his father would have had better luck mating with a cabbage. At least a cabbage would have DNA descended from the same roots.

RDKirk wrote in post #9382617
Another dumb Star Trek (TNG, especially) thing: They're so far in the future humans are marrying non-humans. Yet, even long after a devastatng nuclear war, heavy national accents abound in Star Fleet. No, I don't doubt there might still be humans enclaving themselves to preserve such distinctions--it just doesn't seem likely to me that any appreciative number of such people would joint Star Fleet.

However (going by your "nom de monitour") your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson does just that!

Another one for Jay!

OK, so this was a spoof, but it's still worth mentioning as Hollywood seems to make these mistakes without meaning to!

Who could forget the classic propeller sound of the Boeing 707 jet-airliner....
"By the way...............is there anyone in here taking any photos?"

I'm still looking for that button that everybody presses in a cockpit of a large jetliner that causes the plane to skydive towards the ground... Been working nine years as a pilot now and I still haven't found it. What's up with that?

Tom H. Photography wrote in post #9383936
I'm still looking for that button that everybody presses in a cockpit of a large jetliner that causes the plane to skydive towards the ground... Been working nine years as a pilot now and I still haven't found it. What's up with that?

You obviously were off that day.

neilwood32 wrote in post #9384078
You obviously were off that day.

I wish I had that many off days

Everyone knows that button eh Jay?

I always wonder why in sci-fi movies they carry humungous giant weapons. At least in Star Trek the phasers are small, but i always wonder why those communicator badges they wear seem to have only audio ability.
I particularly love those movies where the enemy shoot 'death ray' guns while riding on dinosaur-like animals.

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