Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
In anti-authoritarian movies, they don’t go beyond what happens after the revolution or “the day after” as Slavoj Zizek always say. Unfortunately in real life, post-revolutions do not always lead to a happy ending. Just ask most of post-colonial states. Only a handful succeed and become prosperous and secure.
This is a notable fact! Again, inaccurate movies will push viewers into making bad choices.
One of my favourite games ever, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, talks about this a lot. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure and no matter what end goals you focus on you will have to make many choices that sacrifice your own character’s happiness, or that of their family, in some way, just to make sure that you don’t get a “bad ending” where your faction loses during the revolt at the end of the game.
I’m thinking about it a lot because it’s sequel comes out soon.
Two TV shows which manage to accurately convey revolutionary failure are Andor and Deutschland 83
How big a house an average person can afford.
Yes, and how nice it is, and how ckean it is, and how littke their csr breaks down and how sparkly and well maintained or their workplsce is, or how brilliant their job is despite being an “average, underdog hero”
Another version of this - how big an apartment/house an artist can afford.
Not if you presume they have rich parents.
How big a house an average person can afford doesn’t necessarily precisely track how big a house the average person actually purchases, mind.
I’m so very sorry I set off your well technically trigger.
Sex and relationships in action movies.
The whole “hot chick gets horny for the hero after a traumatizing couple of hours” thing gives a pretty messed up view of relationship building.
This one definitely turned me off the first Terminator movie. I mean I know it’s critical to the plot but it still makes me roll my eyes.
The 80s and 90s were rife with that trope. I don’t know if modern action flicks are as bad.
I remember Speed made a joke about this at the end. A crack about “Relationships built on life threatening traumas don’t last” or something lol
And it was proven by Speed 2 I guess.
Or as comedian Kyle Kincaid said, the idea that the action hero could still get it up.
Injections always annoy me. Shanking people in the neck with ridiculously fat needles. Or how bout Pulp Fiction where they stab her through the sternum? Also going in the arm, but the angle’s totally wrong and they’d basically be stabbing right through the vein lol
Or how bout Pulp Fiction where they stab her through the sternum
Lol, i didn’t think about it until now, but that doesn’t make sense you’re right.
Yes i don’t think laypeople know how much care has to be taken with injections
In pulp fiction it’s an adrenaline shot directly to her heart. It is actually a legit medical treatment, but pretty rare / last resort.
Usually bad guys with guns can actually aim those guns. Or at least if they can’t the fact that there’s 50 of them means that eventually one of them will hit you.
Hacking/computer programming. They type wildly fast while shouting things.
Most of it looks like this but infront of a monitor, scrolling the wheel occasionally.
Pretty much everything
CPR
Yes! CPR will keep you alive long enough for the defribullator to stop your heart.
Also, it’s not even vaguely gentle. Broken ribs are extremely common
Getting hit on the head and staying unconscious for an extended period of time.
No… No that’s not how that shit works. If you’re hit on the head so hard that you are lying on the ground limp, you’re either dead, dying, or have received sever brain damage.
No that’s not how that shit works
sh.itjust.works
The “American hero” trope. No such thing.
Getting knocked unconscious.
the classic : no cleanup after sex
Yes and i think this would be a healthy thing to show.
Absolutely.
characters awkwardly rolling up toilet paper and changing the bedsheets for 10 minutes
Also how everyone is like wrapping their entire body up in sheets to get up from the bed. As if they weren’t literally just fucking lol
This made one scene in the Fallout TV series very effective.
How often real people have to go to the bathroom.
This one is always hilarious. Like James Bond will be out on some mission for several days and I’ll be like “damn, I wonder where he took a shit”
I feel like this is something left out of pretty much every survival video game. You have to figure out how to get food and water etc, but you never have to dig a hole to shit in. It is part of being alive.
I imagine the LOTR council scene, but they’re all peeing behind trees.
“AND MY AXE!”
Explosion and gun sounds in spaaaaceeee!
Gun sounds in general. All those action heroes are deaf after that indoors shootout
MWOP
Ok, Archer!
Bruce Willis would agree
mawp… mawp…
“Would you like me to wait while you answer that?”
–Steve Carell as Agent Maxwell Smart, after having a training pistol shot right next to his ear in a prior scene.
(Goofily enough, that scene features a slow motion CGI bullet flying through the air… With the casing still on lmao)
Millennials/gen Z with their phone sound on. I get it’s to fill otherwise blank space in the sound, but we’re not texting with the click-click-click-click.
Early PCs didn’t play beep-boop sounds when you typed or when displaying a letter on the screen either, so join the crowd. I mean, people would have shoved a screwdriver through the speaker diaphragm if they had to listen to that all day.
If you go all the way back to teletypes, okay, there was an impact sound, and computer keyboards were significantly noisier up until membrane and rubber domes became popular, but that’s about as far as reality takes one.
