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Instead of being an ass please try to understand that some personality types do things like this because that's how we are wired. I count... ...seconds the
by UI_at_80x24 5y ago
Instead of being an ass please try to understand that some personality types do things like this because that's how we are wired.
I count...
...seconds the hero is underwater
...seconds until the bomb is going to explode
...number of bullets fired from a 6-round revolver
...etc
I don't like it all the time. Hell at times i wish I didn't, but I also cackle with glee when I discover a mistake in the continuity of a film that depends on these plot devices. So it's 50/50 love/hate thing for me.
I already know I'm kind of atypical with most aspects of my life but your advice is as helpful as telling an introvert to just go out and socialize more. Please be aware that words like yours rub salt in an open wound. I'd be fucking normal if I could help it.
- kbenson 5y agoIt also makes those movies that really try to adhere to not breaking the suspension of disbelief for those things all the greater. I too often find myself counting time and bullets. Stuff like that doesn't always arise in a vacuum, for me it was being exposed to movies that toed the line enough in most aspect that completely if iring certain things (like time or bullet counts) took me out of the film because it was so egregious, and then once you start seeing those things, it's hard not to be aware of them. But, like I said above, those directors that go the extra mile to make everything line up provide that little extra bit of joy, just like little plot loose ends being nearly resolved when lesser directors wouldn't care to address them.
- User23 5y agoDoubtless continuity goofs are a thing. But have you tried considering that a movie is a narrative? Try imagining that there are actual real events that the storyteller is describing, and then imagine that storyteller is only human and considerably less attentive to minutiae than you are. Perhaps the storyteller forgets to tell about the time the cowboy switched revolvers, or spends more time talking about what the hero is doing than the remaining time on the fuse would seem to permit.
- yesenadam 5y ago> Instead of being an ass No matter what personality type you are, please don't talk to people like this on HN. Thanks. To ask someone to be aware of the effect of their words moments after being gratuitously rude to them, to jump on strangers because they don't already somehow know you and your needs, seems unreasonable. The GP's comment seemed perfectly mild and reasonable to me.
- bmn__ 5y agoYou would enjoy <http://www.nitcentral.com/index_legacy.htm http://www.nitcentral.com/index_legacy.htm>.