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The Social Network was good about it. Someone online actually reedited the scene where he was grabbing images from frat sites and edited in scenes from other fi
by jeffool 14y ago
The Social Network was good about it. Someone online actually reedited the scene where he was grabbing images from frat sites and edited in scenes from other films, like Hacker's "virtual skyscrapers", and suddenly it was like a real Hollywood film again!
- ralfd 14y agoWe recognize when movies dumb computer stuff down, but the truth is they do it always! Imagine sitting beside a big horse nerd and every time a horse is on the screen and makes this typical horse noise they would comment "the horse didn't make the sound" or white walkers are killing the night watch behind the wall and "this horse is not really frightened but relaxed and listens curiously" or every time there is a mighty black Frisian horse in a movie, which believe me hey are a lot!, they would comment how wrong and stupid it is that Zorro/Prince of Persia/the Spartans are riding Frisians.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI have a friend who is a competitive target shooter, and he's always complaining that the shell casings are the wrong size during shootouts. Of course now he's got me doing it too...
- scott_s 14y agoMovies always abuse the gun-cocking sound, and/or have characters cock (or pump, for shotguns) the guns at inappropriate times because it looks cool.
- drblast 14y agoOr the "click, click" empty revolver sound on a semi-automatic pistol. This pretty much only happens if you're evil though. The slide just never seems to lock back like it should unless the hero has two guns that need to be thrown on the ground before he/she walks forward defiantly and grabs two MORE guns.
- nicholassmith 14y agoIf you think that's bad count how many gear changes happen in a car chase/street race in most big films that have manual cars. Obligatory 9gag http://9gag.com/gag/4026146 http://9gag.com/gag/4026146
- pyre 14y agoYou must have only read the comic, but not the comments about down-shifting for turns. :P
- nicholassmith 14y agoDid read the comments, but they still always find an extra gear to shift up into ;)
- antidoh 14y agoI don't think they dumb down on purpose, I think more often they just don't bother to talk to anyone knowledgeable.
- dredmorbius 14y agoMovies do things for visual impact. And audio impact. They're not reporting fact. They're weaving a fantasy. Whatever your field is, if you want to got stark raving mad, watch a movie made about it. At the very least, the people writing, acting, and directing your world have little or no idea of what it's really like. And even if they do, they're taking deliberate liberties to embellish or interpret the realm to make it more telegenic. An interesting exception: movies looking in on themselves -- at movies, TV, and entertainment. There's frequently embellishment, still (people and events are more glamorous / beautiful / hip than they are in reality), but there's often a lot of real insight.
- groby_b 14y agoThere's real insight whenever movies talk about people. Best example in a field I'm familiar with - "Strictly Ballroom". Sure, everybody was over the top, but anybody who was ever involved in competitive ballroom dancing will recognize all the archetypes and be able to relate to the various things said about dancers. For some reason, it's easier to swallow that characters are exaggerated, instead of facts. (This being HN, I fully expect a reply within the next 15 minutes explaining the exact psychological effect, complete with links to relevant papers ;)
- jgfoot 14y agoYou don't have to imagine a horse expert getting upset about unrealistic portrayals of horses. Check out this take on the Spielberg film _War Horse_ for a lack of "agricultural realism:" "Ploughing that stony virgin (never ploughed) field with a team of sturdy cobs would have been improbable; with a puny thoroughbred it was ludicrous." http://www.riverford.co.uk/feed/in:news/ploughing-spielberg-turnips/ http://www.riverford.co.uk/feed/in:news/ploughing-spielberg-...
- scott_s 14y agoI paused the movie on all computer shots, and they're all legit. He's using emacs to hack Perl code in the beginning, all of the computers have Linux desktops, and most importantly, when they say things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end", it sounds like something the character says all the time. Typically in movies, you can tell actors aren't familiar with the terms they're using because they emphasize them, as if they're trying them out.
- KC8ZKF 14y agoThe audio version of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE" has our hero saving data in a "ee em ay see ess file." But really, nobody ever says things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end" outside of an Aaron Sorkin script.
- bitwize 14y agoNo, they say things like "I need a SinoLogic 16, Sogo-7 Datagloves, a GPL stealth module, one Burdine Intelligent Translator, and Thompson eyephones." When all else fails, make shit up.
- KC8ZKF 14y agoSorkin has a tendency write over-specific dialog, with lots of jargon. For this he is lauded for being accurate, but it sounds stilted. Throw in three or four overwrought soliloquies, and the man wins an Academy Award. I just don't understand his appeal.
- adavies42 14y agoaudiobook narrators are really hit-or-miss on technical material, at least the kind that's sparsely distributed through some types of novels--i've heard them really butcher computer and military jargon quite frequently. (can't remember anything specific off the top of my head right now, but i think there was something fairly egregious in one of the Kris Longknife books.)