Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    Nobody has that much time in the morning, or they go to bed at 8PM.

    I want to see celebrities walking around sweaty in a hot day. Show us the sweat takes!

    Bad cell phone reception is also depicted wrong. But I’m not an expert.

    Smashing your phone does not reliably disable it. Odds are the data is completely recoverable, and the device may not have even powered down.

    Also ghosts. As far as we know ghosts are not real. Yet there’s an entire genre of movies about ghosts with varying rules.

    The amount of trauma the human body can absorb is a bathtub curve based on your morality.

    NYC should only ever be depicted with giant piles of trash everywhere.

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      24 days ago

      Also ghosts. As far as we know ghosts are not real. Yet there’s an entire genre of movies about ghosts with varying rules.

      Yeah, and what’s up with all the flying people with super strength, and talking animals too? So dumb

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      24 days ago

      Smashing your phone does not reliably disable it.

      Similarly, shooting the computer monitor won’t do anything but make it so you can’t see things!

      (I liked how it flipped in Into the Spider-Verse - Miles takes off with the computer and monitor, and Peter catches up to him while they flee, and says “Good news! We don’t need this” and chucks the monitor behind them)

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      24 days ago

      Or when someone goes down an alley in NYC. There are hardly any alleys in Manhattan. It’s a tiny island and every inch of usable space is occupied. That’s why there are piles of trash everywhere.

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      23 days ago

      NYC should only ever be depicted with giant piles of trash everywhere.

      This seems more like a trope from the 70s-90s

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        23 days ago

        as someone who walked past several giant piles of trash in Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Manhattan today, I must regrettably disagree