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OT: Hollywood makes me crazy.

RudiJG1 said:
Boy, if you think all of this is bad, be grateful you aren't a birdwatcher like me...Hollywood puts certain species in the most unlikely places, and the calls of a red-tailed hawk and the common loon are THE movie-makers' most misused "natural" sounds.
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...more specifically, red-tailed hawk screams when eagles are soaring ;)

The bald eagle sounds like a chicken. Not the big screaming bird hollywood makes it to be.

I'm a bird person too :d
 
And here they were, thinking we didn't notice. ;) To fr. Bill's comment - yeah, I love it when they show an exterior of a Citation cruising through the clouds, then cut to an interior with room to stand up and put your arms over your head, seats six across.
 
mike_cyul said:
As soon as any aircraft sequence comes on the television, my wife shoots me a look, rolls her eyes, and says "here we go..." :costumes:


Mike
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Haha ditto

I always thought "Flight of the Intruder" was fairly accurate in the aircraft it depicted but my memory maybe fading as its been ages since I have seen it.
 
I know what you mean, the same can be said about a lot of the cop shows on TV. Case and point, CSI Miami.
 
It's not just Hollyweird, the TV people are just a notorious, especially on golf coverage. One can hear birds that are not native to the course they are playing on, I have heard it more than once.

The peckerheads that run these ideas through the producer are just that, peckerheads!

Caz
 
being a ductman, everytime i see someone climbing through the ductwork in a movie my wife and step kids tell me "don't say it"

because i ignore them, every single time, and point out all the things that would never be like that in real life. ever notice that the inside never has any screws or jagged edges? it's always shiny and clean? no dirt? the elbows never have turning vanes, or splitters? you never see motor operated dampers, spray humidifiers, smoke detectors, fire dampers, etc.
 
chinookmark said:
and the final battle in Behind Enemy Lines, with the two Hueys hovering out in the open taking on the entire Serbian army. That stuff is what gets me.
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But I love that scene, LOL :Banane09:

Yep, love heli scenes when they change choppers or use fake ones, like the fake Hind in Rambo
 
cheezyflier said:
being a ductman, everytime i see someone climbing through the ductwork in a movie my wife and step kids tell me "don't say it"

because i ignore them, every single time, and point out all the things that would never be like that in real life. ever notice that the inside never has any screws or jagged edges? it's always shiny and clean? no dirt? the elbows never have turning vanes, or splitters? you never see motor operated dampers, spray humidifiers, smoke detectors, fire dampers, etc.
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I also enjoy how much room there is inside those ducts - and how each and every one can support the weight of several men and their battle gear. ;)
 
My most recent favorite was watching the NASA TV coverage of one of the Space Shuttle’s return to Earth. They do a good job, most of the time, so I was shocked to hear the narrator voice say: “Ok, the de-orbit burn was perfect, and entry interface will be in about 30 minutes; that’s when the Shuttle will begin to heat up as it begins to feel the effects of Earth’s gravity.”
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I thought maybe he just miss-spoke, and just swapped the word “atmosphere” with “gravity” in all the excitement. But as atmospheric entry interface came closer and closer, he said it again, twice!
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I’ve watched three Shuttle returns now on NASA TV, and the narrator voice did not make that mistake again. Somebody must have smacked him upside the head with a science book or something.
 
My wife and I were watching one of those "hate it when this happens" type show the other night. The particular segment was about a crash on a carrier.

The first shots were of a F-9 Panther hitting the round down. Then, as the pilot began ejection from his aircraft, it became a Tornado, and in the remaining shots, it turned into a Skyray. Amazing transformation. We need an aircraft to be able to do that!

NC
 
kilo delta said:
Almost forgot this one.......Executive Decision,

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The F-117 was so top secret that we didn't even know it had a passenger compartment. Good thing they thought to put that upward extending transfer tube!

Speaking of bombs ... which wire do I cut on my alarm clock to make it count faster?
 
i hate the fact that every car that crashes goes up into a massive fireball, or the never ending clips, or the total disrecard for anything historical, o and i hate the fact they still use that tom cruise thing :kilroy: :monkies:
 
Or that ridiculous Harrier scene in True Lies
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I'm sorry but, taken in the context of the film I find it ridiculous that anyone can have a problem with it. It's a comedy for crying out loud, a million other things happen in it that would never happen in "real life". :rolleyes:
 
Which appalling film was it that had escape pods on Air Force One and where he landed it on a the airstrip he was learning to fly a Cessna from?

That was "Executive Decision" or something equally muppetous.
 
I'm very close to throwing up everytime I see that spanish abomniation of a 109 disguised as an "Emil" in a movie about WW2.

Or whatever tank depicting Tigers/Panthers or any other german tank.


But then again, it's all Hollywood. Shut off your brain and throw everything over board you know about warfare and aviation.


P.S: I've been told that the russian war opus "Liberation" seems to be very accurate in terms of equipment on both sides.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151852/
 
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