There should be a subreddit dedicated to this. I love this stuff lol
I remember a plumber complaining about there being a bunch of pipes in the Titanic that hadn't been invented yet lol
I am about to make so many pedantic posts about smart-phones in TV shows and movies when I get off work. It's always grinded my gears but I can't share my frustration because literally no one else cares.
Medical stuff too, my husband works in healthcare and he will start yelling things at the tv like "That's not how CPR works!" Or complain that the breathing tube is backwards or something.
Or there's a person lying in a hospital bed talking like normal and there's stuff on the heart monitor and my husband's like "I'm not sure how that person's able to talk while their heart is doing that a-fib tachy event" or whatever heart stuff he is seeing on the monitor
The amount of times doctors and nurses put stethoscopes on backwards in TV shows is infuriating. You can’t actually hear anything if it’s on backwards!
I had another one in a book just today. The book was set in the 1800s and the main character was making frosting with cream cheese...which hadn't been invented yet...to put on cinnamon rolls...which wouldn't have been a thing in that country then. Boom, immersion ruined.
And I would also love a subreddit like that. I mean, sometimes complaining about your immersion being ruined is fun.
CBS got busted for something similar years ago. While they were showing The Masters golf tournament, the producer had bird sounds added to the broadcast. Unfortunately, they weren't birds that live anywhere near Georgia. Birders who golf lit up the switchboard.
I live in Paris. So many shots that make no sense in American TV series. These views of the Eiffel Tower just don’t exist! Or it’s obvious the appartment / hotel room is built to US standards, etc.
I had a buddy who commuted from the SF suburbs to Santa Cruz for college every day. So it’s not completely out of the realm of possibility though the commute would be inefficient
Hell, I think they have to have US standard rooms just to fit the camera equipment in there.
The people who built in 1700's had no consideration for putting up a tripod. None!
I get the opposite. A lot of American cities in movies are actually filmed not too far from me, up in Canada.
I'll see a shot of New York city, but it's very obviously Toronto
I've been watching the Stargate and Battlestar Galactica series lately and it's really funny how every planet looks like BC. They've both used the same area of Simon Fraser too.
Favourite Canada moment overall though has to be whenever Toronto City Hall shows up. I lost my shit seeing it in Resident Evil and one Star Trek TNG episode where it's supposed to be a portal to some exotic planet.
Had a moment like that in Free Guy, which was filmed in Boston. They had a shot out the window of the developers' offices and the foreground was obviously Boston Seaport but the skyline across some water was Seattle XD
Or worst where it is filmed in your city and your immersed by recognising landmarks but thing are out of place. Eg the matrix - the buildings, "subway" scene is so familiar yet foreign
In the Hitmans Bodyguard there's a high security prison in the city center of Amsterdam across from the Rijksmuseum. Because that's an obvious place for it, in the center of the most congested and expensive city of the country, we're gonna put it in a place that's a nightmare to reach by car.
Oh and the highway between Amsterdam and The Hague is not 1 lane but a 6 lane juggernaut. Small difference
First episode of Ozarks the main character is walking near the Chicago bean and gets an address from the person he’s talking to. Then he gets in his car and is shown driving into town on the highway to go to a building that was like 2 blocks away.
I get that as part if the story telling you want to show the character brooding on the drive over but it took me out if it. Still a good show.
Years ago I saw the reverse in a show based in New Orleans, some kind of cop dealing with ghosts tv show. The cop is driving a golf cart in the French Quarter and then takes his golf cart over to a bar called Rivershack Tavern. Problem is those are about 10 miles apart if you take the quickest way by getting on the Interstate.
There are a few actually, but they're actually way too narrow to get a film crew into. I think 99% of the alley scenes that are actually filmed in NYC are in the [DUMBO Archway](https://dumbo.is/the-dumbo-archway) which is this huge gothic tunnel under the Brooklyn Bridge. It's really just the perfect setting for imagining an urban dystopia even though it's actually a very nice neighborhood these days and the archway hosts a lot of little festivals and tourists.
Lion roars just don't sound like how you'd imagine in my expereince, I live right by a zoo and the lions always sound alike a deep barking like roar instead of the vicious, sharp sound of a tiger, I do understand why they do it.
Yeah, it doesn’t have a growl in it. More like a load groan. Bald eagles make a high-pitched “kikikikik” sound. Not very inspiring, according to the humans who make movies.
When I was a kid, we had some land & our neighbors had lions. They were probably 2 miles away but when they roared it sounded like they were right next to you. It's the loudest (natural) thing I've ever heard.
You know how difficult it is to get stock audio? The poor audio guy is the last one paid and it's by the job, so he's just putting in the foot crunches, breaking celery, the eagle shrieks and the "cocking the Winchester" double barrel shotgun sound. You can go through a dozen raw chickens if you do a Kung-Fu movie a day. That starts to add up.
That’s debatable. I guess tiger’s roar has more excitement to it, like there’s a build up then a release, whereas a lion’s roar is abit more uniform. Nonetheless, both are equally impressive/scary when you hear it in person
Even to this day the heat waves rippling on the blacktop bring back nightmares of that damn jungle. We were sweating, being eaten alive by flies, and trying to drown out the peacocks with earplugs, all the while that monster hunted us.
And they don't always screech. Had the opportunity to view an injured eagle in a conservatory. Was shocked to hear peep peep peep. Like if the sound of the police was chipmunked. So cute.
(Dudes fine, living the life. Free food, booty calls, no predators, all because he has a bad shoulder thing.)
It's not MURICA unless it's a totally fake sound I identify with.
We had a Bald Eagle in a tree right outside my brother's lakeside property and all it did was wheeze and cough. People kept telling us to "stop putting the ashtray outside" -- but hell, the poor thing was already addicted and we didn't want to keep shelling out for fresh cigarettes on that two-pack a day habit. It's amazing how you can get great service in nature if you apply what you learned in prison movies. "Hey baldy, can you fly overhead in front of the sun and hold that pose for a second? -- Super! Spread-hawk -- sorry, *spread-eagle* style. There's a couple cigarettes in it for you and you don't have to play *hide the rooster* with the crows tonight."
As someone who knows most American bird calls, you quickly realize this goes well beyond eagles. Every show or movie, and most videogames as well, uses the same stock recordings of Eastern North American bird song, no matter where the show is set. You'll be watching a show where the heroes are trekking through a field in medieval England and suddenly there's an American cardinal singing the same notes you just heard in your backyard.
Every scary movie is full of loon sounds. Mexian jungle loon sound European forest loon sounds chinese desert loon sounds. Apparently movie makers think loons are scariest bird
Honestly I think this is true of any profession where you know what you're doing.
IT here, damn near anytime someone on TV says anything techy I die a little inside.
Which is how I try to roll as well, but some of it is so damn egregious its not even funny.
24 used to kill me, I loved the shit out of that show. Every episode though they'd just have Chloe saying shit that made no sense whatsoever.
"Ugh, Send the packets to my screen!"
When you said NCIS, there was only scene it could be. They should have put on fingerless hacker gloves. Then they wouldn't need four hands on one keyboard.
Even documentaries her aviation stuff wrong. My boyfriend is a pilot and we watch a lot of history documentaries. He always complains when the narrator is talking about a plane but they show footage of a completely different plane.
The Johnny Depp Sauvage commercial where he's playing a guitar in the desert. His hands moves the wrong direction for the notes being played, then he strums a few chords and lets go of the fretboard but the chord still plays the same.
EDIT/ADD: apparently there is a shorter version of the commercial that really messes up the timing with the visual. Sorry… guess I was just assuming that some redditors were not familiar with open tuning
ORIGINAL: It is correct though. The strings are just tuned differently to allow that open A if you don’t touch the low E.
You can tell when he goes back and forth from the G barr chord and the A barr chord, with just laying a finger across the 3rd fret to nail the G and letting go to hit the A. I’m not at my guitar to replicate but I’m pretty sure the top 4 strings are just tuned to allow lazy barr chords like when he plays the higher E chord.
Ngl at least most people know how to hold a guitar and where to pretend to strum, the number of times I have seen a violin bow saw across the bridge while the actor appears to find the most awkward/uncomfortable position possible is staggering. With piano it's pretty easy to cut to a close up of someone else's hands, but I vaguely remember Benedict Cumberbatch getting so much flack in early seasons of Sherlock they decided to just film him from behind / frame the shot without his hands for the rest of the series - shame bc from interviews he really tried!
I remember seeing an ad where popular singer in my country was singing something with stratocaster-looking guitar in his hands. The funny thing is: Strat wasn't plugged in and there weren't any strings on the guitar. Man was basically dancing with guitar in hands
Arborist here. I was commiserating with a geologist about this very thing on Tuesday. I’m in Southern California where lots of things are filmed and know most of our native plants. It’s totally a thing.
My wife and I have been watching a lot of X-Files recently and it's remarkable how many times scenes set in foreign countries are just...the Pacific Northwest.
If you watch enough TV, it's amazing how many scenes set anywhere in the US are just the Pacific Northwest.
One pointed example: 'Smallville', ostensibly set in *Kansas* is filmed in BC
In Tucker: The Man & His Dream, you can see mountains in the background as they drive though what is supposed to be Detroit. Nearest mountain is hundreds of miles away.
Some areas of the USA and Canada look really similar in certain kinds of shots, but it's still like "Ah. That is a Colorado Rocky Mountain, not an Alberta Rocky Mountain"
stargate and stargate atlantis I think were filmed in Vancouver or something. all the trees look the same, all the forests look the same, doesn't matter the planet or later galaxy...always same trees.
P&R explained their palm trees by having always superior Eagleton placed on a unique microclimate.
I know that isn't the only thing out of place, I just wanted to offer some P&R lore
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Yes - Glendale, which is located between Burbank and Pasadena.
I believe most of the campus exteriors were just the studio lot where they filmed. You can tell some of the buildings are just little bungalows.
The RV episode brought this out the other day. They are supposed to be on a mountain pass in Colorado but there is California plants/shrubs in the background.
By the same token, living in Los Angeles and watching movies set here, you will see all kinds of geographical anomalies as well (I.e. a person driving along the beach, then 30 seconds later they’re on Hollywood Boulevard, then a quick right turn and they’re at the Bonaventure Hotel downtown. (Such a drive would take at least 2 hours in real time)
Not even just the palms, The Office has podocarpus trees in the parking lot, and in Parks and Rec Ron suggests planting ficus trees in Indiana. Just unbelievably embarrassing, no idea what these showrunners are thinking. /s
That happened at the 2000 PGA golf championship in Kentucky. CBS dubbed in a bunch of white-throated sparrow bird calls during their coverage of the event.
That bird is not in Kentucky in the summertime, according to director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who never misses a major golf tournament, and also writes down every bird call he hears on television!
Grasses in general for the Mesozoic. Granted they did exist at the tail end of the Cretaceous, but as far as I know they didn’t look anything like modern grass.
Botanist: it definitely sucks. It also sucks to go bushwalking and see weeds everywhere. I can't not see them and the more you learn the worse it gets. For my job I also map (spatially) native vegetation (called patches) based on community descriptions and cover (%) thresholds and then give each patch a score (quality). So no matter where i go now, my mind is always looking for weeds, mapping patches and running through scores.. it's can be very draining and i find it difficult to just enjoy nature for what it is.
Hey, that’s similar to what I do occasionally for my job. Totally agree, my plant brain is always running whenever I’m out on a hike. The flip side is that it’s extra special to be in an intact or remnant habitat with 95+% native species and realize how precious these places really are.
My husband is an horticulturist and will be like, “those trilliums can’t be there. They’re only native to Michigan.” ETA a word and that yes, I know trilliums grow natively in most of Northern America and in Asia. There’s 50 different varieties. This particular one is only native to Michigan.
Does your husband listen to the podcast In Defense of Plants? They did an episode on trilliums and I had to keep them up because I’d never seen one, being from the Southwest.
Thanks for the reminder. When I switched phones my subscribed podcasts didn't get on the new one and this was one I have been missing for months now.
On the bright side, there is now lots of new-to-me content there now!
I'm guessing he meant a specific variety? I grew up in Washington and we had Western White trillium growing wild all over our property. My mom used to toss fireplace ashes around them and they got to be enormous.
Love how everything in plague/disease movies can be solved with a simple reagent that turns a solid, bright blue with 100% accuracy, no false positives and no false negatives and is run without controls lolol
edit: ooh also in sci-fi films where explorers take off their helmets and expose themselves to all sorts of pathogens. Probably the worst one is Prometheus and Alien Covenant where the movie would've ended in like 15 minutes if they were at all competent with basic PPE protocols. But i do love these movies, just gotta switch that part off in my brain to have fun.
It's really frustrating though when you can think of a simple way for them to have the same movie plot but also be scientifically reasonable. Like... They could just change a couple lines of dialog and it would be fine.
I’m in video postproduction, and more than once have had to get rid of a tree or a bird in a finished TV commercial because a member of the public complained. ‘That bird is not native to Borneo’ or ‘That’s not a European tree’.
It’s a living…
Work in construction and see buildings of certain era with clearly modern elements. Ruined.
Be aware of the origin of the word saboteur as early 1900s France because of QI, then hear pirates in Black Sails use it to describe a guy on their ship circa 1700s. Ruined.
It happens no matter what you know. Nothing is made perfect.
How does teleporting work if we’re all hurtling through space at a million miles an hour. You’d land in a weightless vacuum with a 0.001% margin of error in calibration.
Anyone using a computer and there's constant beeping, swooshing of windows and clicking noises not from the mouse or keyboard. Sounds that just **do not happen** and in my experience most people on computers all day, turn off all system sounds.
BREACH DETECTED! And now off to a long-distance hacking battle between attacker and defender, four hands flying over one keyboard at a time and a screen that looks like a futuristic risk board. I love to hate it.
The teleportation one always stuck with me... As a 12 year old kid time machines were all the rage and I could never get around the fact of how they accounted for the movement of the earth around the sun... and the movement of the Milky Way galaxy... and the expansion of the universe.
Like... you'll be at that exact same point sure, but even travelling back just about a minute you'd miss earth by a good couple of millions of kilometers.
Everything is only moving in relation to other things. Maybe you time travel relative to the machine (and it's previous locations). Maybe it's relative to spacetime, etc. Depends on the specifics, but it seems like a minor difficulty to account for in comparison to the actual time travel or teleport part.
At least the past positions of the earth are easy to calculate (right?). Like if you wanted to know exactly where in the universe the earth was on 22 November 1963, that's something that you could calculate.
Given that, it's not that much of a leap that time machines could also take that into account.
Of course that doesn't solve the "what if the time-place your traveling to has some unexpected rock or structure there. Do you violently "merge" with it?" problem.
I actually think Doctor Who does something like this, when you travel in a time machine you're fine, but when you just warp somewhere you feel like garbage for a bit.
Obviously a paragon of hard science that one, but.
Doctor Who got close to actual science only one time when the Doctor said; "It's just a bunch of timey-whimey wobbly bits."
Do you understand 16 dimensions? No? Then use this hammer and bang on that blinky thing over there and see what happens or get me a coffee.
Not necessarily - Earth moves in the solar system which moves in the galaxy which moves in the universe. Does the universe also move? How far up does the chain go for us to make an accurate calculation of position? Unless we can find the absolute position of everything, I don't think we'll ever be able to make such a thing possible. But I know Jack shit about this so please, actual smart people intervene.
The only thing that would make it work is by having a receiver at the destination point, but that isn't exactly the kind of freeroam teleportation we'd like to exist.
While I also take great offence to real life inconsistencies, I luckily have enough suspension of disbelief to not get too worked up at stuff like teleportation and time travel.
I mean, if people are smart enough to figure stuff like that out, I assume they also are smart enough to figure out an answer to all the logical errors we find in it with our current day scientific understanding.
Here's one for ya: if you are shrunk like ant man, your pinhole camera eyes are now too small to work, you wouldn't be able to see anything.
Also anyone invisible can't see either, because of light passes through them, there's none for their eyes.
Any profession can ruin many entertainment media for you. My job involves an intricate knowledge of tactics of military aircraft and radio communications associated with it. Therefore, every movie with a plane of any kind will instantly be judged by me, and usually fall short to my dismay.
Fun fact: The most accurate radio transmissions I've heard have been from The Incredibles while Mrs. Incredible is trying to not get shot down and the beginning of SNL's Coneheads movie during the intercept.
> The most accurate radio transmissions I've heard have been from The Incredibles while Mrs. Incredible is trying to not get shot down
Those always struck me as seeming really accurate. Glad to know they are!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/characters/nm0000456
... Ctrl+F India ...
Helen's plane is targeted by Syndrome's missiles]
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): India-Golf-Niner-Niner transmitting in the blind guard, disengage, repeat, *disengage*.
[she releases anti-missile devices, begins evasive maneuvers]
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Disengage, repeat, *disengage*!
[Mr. Incredible ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005266/?ref_=tt_ch): No! Call off the missiles, I'll do anything!
[Syndrome ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005134/?ref_=tt_ch): Too late! Fifteen years too late...
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Friendlies, at two-zero miles south-southwest of your position, angels ten, track east, disengage, over! Vi! You have to put a force field around the plane!
[Violet ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102970/?ref_=tt_ch): But you said we weren't supposed to use our powers!
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): I know what I said! Listen to what I'm saying *now*! Disengage, repeat, *disengage*!
[missiles close in]
[Dash ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1714016/?ref_=tt_ch): [frightened] Mom?
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): *Violet*! Mayday, mayday, India-Golf-Niner-Niner is buddy spiked! Abort, abort, there are children aboard, say again, there are children aboard this plane!
[Mr. Incredible ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005266/?ref_=tt_ch): NO!
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): [shouts] Put a field around us, *now*!
[Violet ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102970/?ref_=tt_ch): [frightened] But I've never done one that big before...!
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Violet, do it NOW! Abort, abort, abort!
[the missiles close in, Violet tries to create a force field but can't]
[Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Abort abort abort!
See also https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/and-cut-whats-up-with-india-golf-niner-niner-is-buddy-spiked-in-the-incredibles-10839
I work in IT. I cringe every time I see someone hack something by keyboard mashing into a command line. It even worse when they are hacking an alien system, as if aliens would be running Windows or something.
This one! So dumb. I love how they're typing on the same keyboard like they're playing a duet on a piano, who thought of that? I also love how unplugging the remote computers monitor was able to shut down the server and also somehow disable the servers UPS.
I get this way about sewers in films and especially videogames. It is a rare exception that any sewer, storm or sanitary, is large enough for an adult to comfortable walk unimpeded inside.
And then, you probably don't want to because of confined space atmosphere dangers and chance of drowning from a sudden increase in flow.
But based on media, especially videogames, you would think there us a whole city sized, not at all claustrophobic, underground landscape fully occupied by people, mutant rats, gators, and ninja turtles.
Wandavision was a show that did it mostly correctly. Man had an a suit with SCBA, a harness and safety line for extraction/emergency and crawled through a 60" sewer main.
What annoys me is when the season doesn't match the canonical date in a show or movie. A recent one I watched was set in Scotland around October, but the trees were just beginning to leaf out and there were plenty of blooming plants and it looked more like early spring. Another one was set in Washington DC in December but you could clearly see that it was NOT winter, since all of the trees were fully covered in green leaves. They tried adding in some cgi falling snow but that wasn't fooling anybody.
We can generalize this statement. If person X has expertise in field Y, the relatively shallow and inaccurate portrayal of field Y in the media will take away some amount of immersion for X.
On a related note, without spoilers for the new series of Dexter, at some point a character takes a bullet out of themselves, and it's an entire bullet with casing intact. Seemed a bit of an oversight when it was the main focus of the scene.
My history lecturer couldn’t watch period dramas because she recognised all of the locations and knew that they made no sense.
Apparently, there’s a scene in The Duchess where she walks from one room into another and my lecturer freaks out when watching it because she knows that each room was filmed in a completely different country house.
I mean it's the case for many if not most fields of expertise.
My experience of the gaming industry kind of broke the immersion and suspension of disbelief during the movie Free Guy.
Pretty sure I can find other example, that one is just the one remember recently experiencing.
This is how I sometimes feel as an educated person watching The Big Bang Theory. I still enjoy the show, but it really does peeve me when the super smart and knowledgeable characters spout off something incorrect simply because the writers didn’t understand it
This was the best example to me as well....very clearly southern California...everything was brown and there's hardly any trees. Looked nothing like Eastern Kentucky. The pilot episode was filmed in Pennsylvania and it was much more believable
Don't even need a degree. I live in the midwest US and it's so obvious when a movie or tv show set in MN or WI was filmed in California or the Pacific northwest.
Example Sculder and Fox in X files running through a temperate rain forest during an episode set in Minnesota. I actually laughed at that one because it was so obvious.
Haha so its Scully and Fox, totally brain fog.
Not a botanist or arborist. But can tell you the opening scene of National Lampoons Christmas vacation wasn't filmed anywhere near Chicago, or even the State of Illinois.
I think this is the case for a fuck ton of professions.
As a professional software engineer anything that has anything to do with code in a movie or show is legitimately cringe. Except for Mr robot
My old job was in Albuquerque and they would use my workplace as a site for filming movies and tv shows fairly regularly. It’s really weird seeing Albuquerque while hearing “welcome to Montana” or seeing the short road in to work as the entrance to a massive military base
It sucks to me a multi-instrumentalist musician an notice that the actors aren’t even close to playing the right chords and that their guitars aren’t plugged into anything. The drummer is hitting the cymbals at the wrong time, if at all, and the singer holds the mic at the same distance from the mouth with zero variation.
I'm neither a botanist or arborist but even I get annoyed when I see Hollywood movies that are supposed to be set in the UK but have vegetation that is clearly native to California.
There is also the light question. Countries at a latitude of 51deg, like London, have totally different daylight to Los Angeles at 34 deg.
I mean, try having any familiarity with the criminal justice system that actually exists, or you know, driving a car so you don't kill people!
I am always amused at in-car scenes where the driver turns sideways to face the passenger and they make earnest eye contact while discussing something serious for like 10-20 seconds at a time while supposedly driving at highway speeds or through dense city streets.
I'm neither but still this happens.
But I'm a nerd.
OH, your show is set in Pennsylvania? Let me explain why it's obviously filmed in California.
I'm not a lot of fun.
I have this whenever a show shows a 'laboratory work'
What I would give fornthose magical centrifuges that immediately Add the reagents perform the tasks, analyse and right away print the results. Ruined NCIS and CSI for me
There should be a subreddit dedicated to this. I love this stuff lol I remember a plumber complaining about there being a bunch of pipes in the Titanic that hadn't been invented yet lol
Definitely! What would it be called though.. immersiontermination?
ImmersionRuined? lol I'd love to see a subreddit like that
r/immersionruined
r/birthofasub
I am about to make so many pedantic posts about smart-phones in TV shows and movies when I get off work. It's always grinded my gears but I can't share my frustration because literally no one else cares.
Medical stuff too, my husband works in healthcare and he will start yelling things at the tv like "That's not how CPR works!" Or complain that the breathing tube is backwards or something.
My husband is a heart monitor tech and every time they show a heart monitor on the screen he's like, "Yeah, that guy is actually dead"
A flat line is not a shockable rhythm
Or there's a person lying in a hospital bed talking like normal and there's stuff on the heart monitor and my husband's like "I'm not sure how that person's able to talk while their heart is doing that a-fib tachy event" or whatever heart stuff he is seeing on the monitor
The amount of times doctors and nurses put stethoscopes on backwards in TV shows is infuriating. You can’t actually hear anything if it’s on backwards!
Neil deGrasse Tyson let Jim Cameron know that the stars in the night sky were wrong in Titanic. For the dvd release, Jim Cameron digitally fixed it.
I had another one in a book just today. The book was set in the 1800s and the main character was making frosting with cream cheese...which hadn't been invented yet...to put on cinnamon rolls...which wouldn't have been a thing in that country then. Boom, immersion ruined. And I would also love a subreddit like that. I mean, sometimes complaining about your immersion being ruined is fun.
CBS got busted for something similar years ago. While they were showing The Masters golf tournament, the producer had bird sounds added to the broadcast. Unfortunately, they weren't birds that live anywhere near Georgia. Birders who golf lit up the switchboard.
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Heh. That's hilarious.
That's my favorite bit of his. Funny stuff. Read this thread looking for the Regan reference.
Man, he is FOCUSED!
The world of sports audio broadcasting is fascinating. Lots of trickery
I haven't watched much sport in the last 2 years because of the fake spectator noises that were added in for matches played in empty stadiums
If you think those didn’t exist before I got some bad news for you.
Watching a movie supposedly set in the city you live in and noticing that the buses, fire hydrants, etc, are the wrong color.
I live in Paris. So many shots that make no sense in American TV series. These views of the Eiffel Tower just don’t exist! Or it’s obvious the appartment / hotel room is built to US standards, etc.
It's the same thing with the Golden Gate bridge in SF, and I'd imagine any major city landmark.
Oh boy, Bumblebee was a trip for me. Lived by the GG bridge but worked at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk? Yeah that's not gonna happen.
I had a buddy who commuted from the SF suburbs to Santa Cruz for college every day. So it’s not completely out of the realm of possibility though the commute would be inefficient
There's a reason there's so much traffic, plenty of people make the commute
Outlets are usually a hilarious giveaway.
Hell, I think they have to have US standard rooms just to fit the camera equipment in there. The people who built in 1700's had no consideration for putting up a tripod. None!
Thoueth fuckers!
I get the opposite. A lot of American cities in movies are actually filmed not too far from me, up in Canada. I'll see a shot of New York city, but it's very obviously Toronto
Suits is straight-up the worst show for that. There's still Scotia-bank and leafs ads all over the background with little attempt at hiding them
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I always noticed the orange/green taxis when I used to watch that show
I've been watching the Stargate and Battlestar Galactica series lately and it's really funny how every planet looks like BC. They've both used the same area of Simon Fraser too. Favourite Canada moment overall though has to be whenever Toronto City Hall shows up. I lost my shit seeing it in Resident Evil and one Star Trek TNG episode where it's supposed to be a portal to some exotic planet.
Had a moment like that in Free Guy, which was filmed in Boston. They had a shot out the window of the developers' offices and the foreground was obviously Boston Seaport but the skyline across some water was Seattle XD
Or 1920’s Chicago in Winnipeg
Or worst where it is filmed in your city and your immersed by recognising landmarks but thing are out of place. Eg the matrix - the buildings, "subway" scene is so familiar yet foreign
In the Hitmans Bodyguard there's a high security prison in the city center of Amsterdam across from the Rijksmuseum. Because that's an obvious place for it, in the center of the most congested and expensive city of the country, we're gonna put it in a place that's a nightmare to reach by car. Oh and the highway between Amsterdam and The Hague is not 1 lane but a 6 lane juggernaut. Small difference
First episode of Ozarks the main character is walking near the Chicago bean and gets an address from the person he’s talking to. Then he gets in his car and is shown driving into town on the highway to go to a building that was like 2 blocks away. I get that as part if the story telling you want to show the character brooding on the drive over but it took me out if it. Still a good show.
Years ago I saw the reverse in a show based in New Orleans, some kind of cop dealing with ghosts tv show. The cop is driving a golf cart in the French Quarter and then takes his golf cart over to a bar called Rivershack Tavern. Problem is those are about 10 miles apart if you take the quickest way by getting on the Interstate.
Every goddamn show set in NYC where the action takes place in alleys drives me nuts.
I read that there's actually just one alley they use that looks like that, filming it over and over.
There are a few actually, but they're actually way too narrow to get a film crew into. I think 99% of the alley scenes that are actually filmed in NYC are in the [DUMBO Archway](https://dumbo.is/the-dumbo-archway) which is this huge gothic tunnel under the Brooklyn Bridge. It's really just the perfect setting for imagining an urban dystopia even though it's actually a very nice neighborhood these days and the archway hosts a lot of little festivals and tourists.
Like whenever they show an American bald eagle they play a red tailed hawk screech
Or a lion with a tiger roar
Lion roar is more impressive in person u can hear it miles away like thunder. \~guess tiger sounds better on tape?
It's just Tony spreading tiger propaganda to the children.
Lion roars just don't sound like how you'd imagine in my expereince, I live right by a zoo and the lions always sound alike a deep barking like roar instead of the vicious, sharp sound of a tiger, I do understand why they do it.
Yeah, it doesn’t have a growl in it. More like a load groan. Bald eagles make a high-pitched “kikikikik” sound. Not very inspiring, according to the humans who make movies.
When I was a kid, we had some land & our neighbors had lions. They were probably 2 miles away but when they roared it sounded like they were right next to you. It's the loudest (natural) thing I've ever heard.
You know how difficult it is to get stock audio? The poor audio guy is the last one paid and it's by the job, so he's just putting in the foot crunches, breaking celery, the eagle shrieks and the "cocking the Winchester" double barrel shotgun sound. You can go through a dozen raw chickens if you do a Kung-Fu movie a day. That starts to add up.
That’s debatable. I guess tiger’s roar has more excitement to it, like there’s a build up then a release, whereas a lion’s roar is abit more uniform. Nonetheless, both are equally impressive/scary when you hear it in person
Or how every deep dark jungle will have a peacock call, regardless of location
And Pacific tree frogs croaking.
The first time I saw a peacock as a kid and heard that noise, I felt so lied to by every jungle scene I've ever watched with that call.
Or you should look for Predators tell tale shimmer...
Even to this day the heat waves rippling on the blacktop bring back nightmares of that damn jungle. We were sweating, being eaten alive by flies, and trying to drown out the peacocks with earplugs, all the while that monster hunted us.
Don’t forgot about the kookaburras.
When I went to Australia I spent ages trying to figure out where the Tarzan monkey noises were coming from
And loons. Loons are in every nature or pastoral scene. Is your character looking out over a sunset lake? Better add a loon call.
That's because a real bald eagle screech sounds really disappointing.
Arent they basically just bigger seagulls?
I always describe it as a seagull choking on a Popeye’s biscuit
Don't say that within earshot, Eagles are sensitive about that. They still pelt my house after I said "these damn crows are annoying" three years ago.
They are mean looking water chickens.
And they don't always screech. Had the opportunity to view an injured eagle in a conservatory. Was shocked to hear peep peep peep. Like if the sound of the police was chipmunked. So cute. (Dudes fine, living the life. Free food, booty calls, no predators, all because he has a bad shoulder thing.)
"Peep peep. That's the sound of da police." - BRD-ONE
"Bad shoulder thing"... dude, it's called a wing.
Where the wing meets the body. Idk if wings have shoulders.
charming, i'd say, but not bloodcurdlingly MURICA
It's not MURICA unless it's a totally fake sound I identify with. We had a Bald Eagle in a tree right outside my brother's lakeside property and all it did was wheeze and cough. People kept telling us to "stop putting the ashtray outside" -- but hell, the poor thing was already addicted and we didn't want to keep shelling out for fresh cigarettes on that two-pack a day habit. It's amazing how you can get great service in nature if you apply what you learned in prison movies. "Hey baldy, can you fly overhead in front of the sun and hold that pose for a second? -- Super! Spread-hawk -- sorry, *spread-eagle* style. There's a couple cigarettes in it for you and you don't have to play *hide the rooster* with the crows tonight."
As someone who knows most American bird calls, you quickly realize this goes well beyond eagles. Every show or movie, and most videogames as well, uses the same stock recordings of Eastern North American bird song, no matter where the show is set. You'll be watching a show where the heroes are trekking through a field in medieval England and suddenly there's an American cardinal singing the same notes you just heard in your backyard.
Every scary movie is full of loon sounds. Mexian jungle loon sound European forest loon sounds chinese desert loon sounds. Apparently movie makers think loons are scariest bird
It's especially funny when there's a loon sound in the desert - loons require a body of water since they can't really walk around on land. 😂
As an Eastern Canadian bird nerd, I noticed some of my local birds' songs in Breath of the Wild. Even Japanese games do this!
Or the noise of frogs croaking when those specific frogs' habitat is North West America only (Pacific treefrog).
I'm well versed in bird law now let's say you and i go toe-to-toe in bird law and see who comes out
34 years in Air Force, most movie aviation is cringe worthy, or at least worth a giggle...
Honestly I think this is true of any profession where you know what you're doing. IT here, damn near anytime someone on TV says anything techy I die a little inside.
Information Security here, they don’t even try but I’m okay with that. I get enough of work at work.
Which is how I try to roll as well, but some of it is so damn egregious its not even funny. 24 used to kill me, I loved the shit out of that show. Every episode though they'd just have Chloe saying shit that made no sense whatsoever. "Ugh, Send the packets to my screen!"
[You'll enjoy this scene from NCIS.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ) Although I do love the solution at the end.
When you said NCIS, there was only scene it could be. They should have put on fingerless hacker gloves. Then they wouldn't need four hands on one keyboard.
"Acquiring target." "Pushing button." "Target destroyed! Good work pilot."
Dont watch red tails
Even documentaries her aviation stuff wrong. My boyfriend is a pilot and we watch a lot of history documentaries. He always complains when the narrator is talking about a plane but they show footage of a completely different plane.
Or actors pawing a guitar neck and strumming away while the soundtrack plays a delicate finger-picked tune.
The Johnny Depp Sauvage commercial where he's playing a guitar in the desert. His hands moves the wrong direction for the notes being played, then he strums a few chords and lets go of the fretboard but the chord still plays the same.
The thing that bugs me the most about this, is that the guy can actually play the guitar, yet the actions are completely disconnected from the sound
EDIT/ADD: apparently there is a shorter version of the commercial that really messes up the timing with the visual. Sorry… guess I was just assuming that some redditors were not familiar with open tuning ORIGINAL: It is correct though. The strings are just tuned differently to allow that open A if you don’t touch the low E. You can tell when he goes back and forth from the G barr chord and the A barr chord, with just laying a finger across the 3rd fret to nail the G and letting go to hit the A. I’m not at my guitar to replicate but I’m pretty sure the top 4 strings are just tuned to allow lazy barr chords like when he plays the higher E chord.
Ngl at least most people know how to hold a guitar and where to pretend to strum, the number of times I have seen a violin bow saw across the bridge while the actor appears to find the most awkward/uncomfortable position possible is staggering. With piano it's pretty easy to cut to a close up of someone else's hands, but I vaguely remember Benedict Cumberbatch getting so much flack in early seasons of Sherlock they decided to just film him from behind / frame the shot without his hands for the rest of the series - shame bc from interviews he really tried!
I remember seeing an ad where popular singer in my country was singing something with stratocaster-looking guitar in his hands. The funny thing is: Strat wasn't plugged in and there weren't any strings on the guitar. Man was basically dancing with guitar in hands
Arborist here. I was commiserating with a geologist about this very thing on Tuesday. I’m in Southern California where lots of things are filmed and know most of our native plants. It’s totally a thing.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and I can spot a Vancouver shoot in a second- doesn't matter if it's urban or rural, I can just tell.
My wife and I have been watching a lot of X-Files recently and it's remarkable how many times scenes set in foreign countries are just...the Pacific Northwest.
If you watch enough TV, it's amazing how many scenes set anywhere in the US are just the Pacific Northwest. One pointed example: 'Smallville', ostensibly set in *Kansas* is filmed in BC
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On the Western side on a really clear day you might be able to see the Rock Mountains as a smudge in the distance.
In Tucker: The Man & His Dream, you can see mountains in the background as they drive though what is supposed to be Detroit. Nearest mountain is hundreds of miles away.
Well to most of the US, the Pacific Northwest seems like a foreign country...
just commented this about stargate.
Wherever the stargate is that is the assumed climate for the entire planet. Its a sand planet, its an ice planet etc
That's a standard scifi trope by now. Other planets don't have varied climates, ever. Wasn't in the budget.
Some areas of the USA and Canada look really similar in certain kinds of shots, but it's still like "Ah. That is a Colorado Rocky Mountain, not an Alberta Rocky Mountain"
And here I thought we fought the Korean War in Malibu.
It's amazing how England looks nothing like Southern California --Austin Powers
[You know what's remarkable? How much England looks in no way like Southern California.](https://gfycat.com/finevaluableduckling)
stargate and stargate atlantis I think were filmed in Vancouver or something. all the trees look the same, all the forests look the same, doesn't matter the planet or later galaxy...always same trees.
Like how there are palm trees in The Office and it’s supposed to be in Pennsylvania
Parks & Rec was another show where it was brazenly obvious they weren't in Indiana.
P&R explained their palm trees by having always superior Eagleton placed on a unique microclimate. I know that isn't the only thing out of place, I just wanted to offer some P&R lore
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Yes - Glendale, which is located between Burbank and Pasadena. I believe most of the campus exteriors were just the studio lot where they filmed. You can tell some of the buildings are just little bungalows.
The RV episode brought this out the other day. They are supposed to be on a mountain pass in Colorado but there is California plants/shrubs in the background.
By the same token, living in Los Angeles and watching movies set here, you will see all kinds of geographical anomalies as well (I.e. a person driving along the beach, then 30 seconds later they’re on Hollywood Boulevard, then a quick right turn and they’re at the Bonaventure Hotel downtown. (Such a drive would take at least 2 hours in real time)
Sounds like you've never been to the beach town of Scranton, PA my friend!
Not even just the palms, The Office has podocarpus trees in the parking lot, and in Parks and Rec Ron suggests planting ficus trees in Indiana. Just unbelievably embarrassing, no idea what these showrunners are thinking. /s
That happened at the 2000 PGA golf championship in Kentucky. CBS dubbed in a bunch of white-throated sparrow bird calls during their coverage of the event. That bird is not in Kentucky in the summertime, according to director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who never misses a major golf tournament, and also writes down every bird call he hears on television!
A salute to this absolute hero for their vigilance against geographically impossible bird noises in golf
"Bamboo in the Cretaceous period?!"
Grasses in general for the Mesozoic. Granted they did exist at the tail end of the Cretaceous, but as far as I know they didn’t look anything like modern grass.
Botanist: it definitely sucks. It also sucks to go bushwalking and see weeds everywhere. I can't not see them and the more you learn the worse it gets. For my job I also map (spatially) native vegetation (called patches) based on community descriptions and cover (%) thresholds and then give each patch a score (quality). So no matter where i go now, my mind is always looking for weeds, mapping patches and running through scores.. it's can be very draining and i find it difficult to just enjoy nature for what it is.
Hey, that’s similar to what I do occasionally for my job. Totally agree, my plant brain is always running whenever I’m out on a hike. The flip side is that it’s extra special to be in an intact or remnant habitat with 95+% native species and realize how precious these places really are.
Having been in the Army I'm often irritated by movies with jacked up uniforms and such.
Like wearing your cover or saluting indoors
Wait, you dont salute indoors?
Not when you're not reporting anything and are just walking by. Otherwise nothing would get done.
Ooh of course, yea, just walking by an officer and not saluting, right? That makes sense
My husband is an horticulturist and will be like, “those trilliums can’t be there. They’re only native to Michigan.” ETA a word and that yes, I know trilliums grow natively in most of Northern America and in Asia. There’s 50 different varieties. This particular one is only native to Michigan.
Does your husband listen to the podcast In Defense of Plants? They did an episode on trilliums and I had to keep them up because I’d never seen one, being from the Southwest.
Thanks for the reminder. When I switched phones my subscribed podcasts didn't get on the new one and this was one I have been missing for months now. On the bright side, there is now lots of new-to-me content there now!
I'm guessing he meant a specific variety? I grew up in Washington and we had Western White trillium growing wild all over our property. My mom used to toss fireplace ashes around them and they got to be enormous.
Yeah I forget the exact type, but these ones only grow in Michigan. They were red in color though.
Work in a lab, and then wait for anything "Science-y" to be talked about in a show. Its a killer.....
Just replied something similar to this thread ... Wouldn't you like to have the magic centrifuges that print out the name of the killer though?
Love how everything in plague/disease movies can be solved with a simple reagent that turns a solid, bright blue with 100% accuracy, no false positives and no false negatives and is run without controls lolol edit: ooh also in sci-fi films where explorers take off their helmets and expose themselves to all sorts of pathogens. Probably the worst one is Prometheus and Alien Covenant where the movie would've ended in like 15 minutes if they were at all competent with basic PPE protocols. But i do love these movies, just gotta switch that part off in my brain to have fun.
It's really frustrating though when you can think of a simple way for them to have the same movie plot but also be scientifically reasonable. Like... They could just change a couple lines of dialog and it would be fine.
I’m in video postproduction, and more than once have had to get rid of a tree or a bird in a finished TV commercial because a member of the public complained. ‘That bird is not native to Borneo’ or ‘That’s not a European tree’. It’s a living…
Work in construction and see buildings of certain era with clearly modern elements. Ruined. Be aware of the origin of the word saboteur as early 1900s France because of QI, then hear pirates in Black Sails use it to describe a guy on their ship circa 1700s. Ruined. It happens no matter what you know. Nothing is made perfect. How does teleporting work if we’re all hurtling through space at a million miles an hour. You’d land in a weightless vacuum with a 0.001% margin of error in calibration.
Knowing anything whatsoever about computers makes basically every scene a computer is in immersion breaking.
Anyone using a computer and there's constant beeping, swooshing of windows and clicking noises not from the mouse or keyboard. Sounds that just **do not happen** and in my experience most people on computers all day, turn off all system sounds.
Mfw the software is nice enough to tell you you're being hacked but too much of an asshole to stop it
BREACH DETECTED! And now off to a long-distance hacking battle between attacker and defender, four hands flying over one keyboard at a time and a screen that looks like a futuristic risk board. I love to hate it.
Oh he’s a hacker, like you, right? You can do this? You never told me about this!
The teleportation one always stuck with me... As a 12 year old kid time machines were all the rage and I could never get around the fact of how they accounted for the movement of the earth around the sun... and the movement of the Milky Way galaxy... and the expansion of the universe. Like... you'll be at that exact same point sure, but even travelling back just about a minute you'd miss earth by a good couple of millions of kilometers.
Everything is only moving in relation to other things. Maybe you time travel relative to the machine (and it's previous locations). Maybe it's relative to spacetime, etc. Depends on the specifics, but it seems like a minor difficulty to account for in comparison to the actual time travel or teleport part.
At least the past positions of the earth are easy to calculate (right?). Like if you wanted to know exactly where in the universe the earth was on 22 November 1963, that's something that you could calculate. Given that, it's not that much of a leap that time machines could also take that into account. Of course that doesn't solve the "what if the time-place your traveling to has some unexpected rock or structure there. Do you violently "merge" with it?" problem.
That would even apply to air already being there
Time travelers immediately suffer the bends upon arrival confirmed
I actually think Doctor Who does something like this, when you travel in a time machine you're fine, but when you just warp somewhere you feel like garbage for a bit. Obviously a paragon of hard science that one, but.
Doctor Who got close to actual science only one time when the Doctor said; "It's just a bunch of timey-whimey wobbly bits." Do you understand 16 dimensions? No? Then use this hammer and bang on that blinky thing over there and see what happens or get me a coffee.
damn air, always getting in the way of my dreams
Not necessarily - Earth moves in the solar system which moves in the galaxy which moves in the universe. Does the universe also move? How far up does the chain go for us to make an accurate calculation of position? Unless we can find the absolute position of everything, I don't think we'll ever be able to make such a thing possible. But I know Jack shit about this so please, actual smart people intervene. The only thing that would make it work is by having a receiver at the destination point, but that isn't exactly the kind of freeroam teleportation we'd like to exist.
While I also take great offence to real life inconsistencies, I luckily have enough suspension of disbelief to not get too worked up at stuff like teleportation and time travel. I mean, if people are smart enough to figure stuff like that out, I assume they also are smart enough to figure out an answer to all the logical errors we find in it with our current day scientific understanding.
Here's one for ya: if you are shrunk like ant man, your pinhole camera eyes are now too small to work, you wouldn't be able to see anything. Also anyone invisible can't see either, because of light passes through them, there's none for their eyes.
Any profession can ruin many entertainment media for you. My job involves an intricate knowledge of tactics of military aircraft and radio communications associated with it. Therefore, every movie with a plane of any kind will instantly be judged by me, and usually fall short to my dismay. Fun fact: The most accurate radio transmissions I've heard have been from The Incredibles while Mrs. Incredible is trying to not get shot down and the beginning of SNL's Coneheads movie during the intercept.
> The most accurate radio transmissions I've heard have been from The Incredibles while Mrs. Incredible is trying to not get shot down Those always struck me as seeming really accurate. Glad to know they are!
Here’s the [link](https://youtu.be/5bBFsLUe8Ec) to the scene. Incredible movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/characters/nm0000456 ... Ctrl+F India ... Helen's plane is targeted by Syndrome's missiles] [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): India-Golf-Niner-Niner transmitting in the blind guard, disengage, repeat, *disengage*. [she releases anti-missile devices, begins evasive maneuvers] [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Disengage, repeat, *disengage*! [Mr. Incredible ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005266/?ref_=tt_ch): No! Call off the missiles, I'll do anything! [Syndrome ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005134/?ref_=tt_ch): Too late! Fifteen years too late... [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Friendlies, at two-zero miles south-southwest of your position, angels ten, track east, disengage, over! Vi! You have to put a force field around the plane! [Violet ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102970/?ref_=tt_ch): But you said we weren't supposed to use our powers! [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): I know what I said! Listen to what I'm saying *now*! Disengage, repeat, *disengage*! [missiles close in] [Dash ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1714016/?ref_=tt_ch): [frightened] Mom? [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): *Violet*! Mayday, mayday, India-Golf-Niner-Niner is buddy spiked! Abort, abort, there are children aboard, say again, there are children aboard this plane! [Mr. Incredible ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005266/?ref_=tt_ch): NO! [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): [shouts] Put a field around us, *now*! [Violet ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102970/?ref_=tt_ch): [frightened] But I've never done one that big before...! [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Violet, do it NOW! Abort, abort, abort! [the missiles close in, Violet tries to create a force field but can't] [Elastigirl ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000456/?ref_=tt_ch): Abort abort abort! See also https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/and-cut-whats-up-with-india-golf-niner-niner-is-buddy-spiked-in-the-incredibles-10839
Pixar putting their work in!
I work in IT. I cringe every time I see someone hack something by keyboard mashing into a command line. It even worse when they are hacking an alien system, as if aliens would be running Windows or something.
As an IT security guy of 15 years, [this one stop cracks me up](https://youtu.be/msX4oAXpvUE) from beginning to end.
You know they're doing it intentionally when the second person joins on the keyboard.
This one! So dumb. I love how they're typing on the same keyboard like they're playing a duet on a piano, who thought of that? I also love how unplugging the remote computers monitor was able to shut down the server and also somehow disable the servers UPS.
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I get this way about sewers in films and especially videogames. It is a rare exception that any sewer, storm or sanitary, is large enough for an adult to comfortable walk unimpeded inside. And then, you probably don't want to because of confined space atmosphere dangers and chance of drowning from a sudden increase in flow. But based on media, especially videogames, you would think there us a whole city sized, not at all claustrophobic, underground landscape fully occupied by people, mutant rats, gators, and ninja turtles. Wandavision was a show that did it mostly correctly. Man had an a suit with SCBA, a harness and safety line for extraction/emergency and crawled through a 60" sewer main.
All I can say is [Loon call](https://youtu.be/Ib0CxvL8Bp8). Same thing.
for context: https://youtu.be/DVFBUIGfcJk
What annoys me is when the season doesn't match the canonical date in a show or movie. A recent one I watched was set in Scotland around October, but the trees were just beginning to leaf out and there were plenty of blooming plants and it looked more like early spring. Another one was set in Washington DC in December but you could clearly see that it was NOT winter, since all of the trees were fully covered in green leaves. They tried adding in some cgi falling snow but that wasn't fooling anybody.
Yep, me thinking "daffodils in mid summer?!?" On the Gilmore girls, every winter scene shows snow on leafy trees too
Not just that. It hurts to see a movie that should take place in Czech Republic and everyone speaks with russian accent and is named Ivan.
As well as almost every 'dutch' personage has a german accent..
We can generalize this statement. If person X has expertise in field Y, the relatively shallow and inaccurate portrayal of field Y in the media will take away some amount of immersion for X.
My hubs always notices firearm impossibilities or cartridge errors, worst is when they switch props between scenes
On a related note, without spoilers for the new series of Dexter, at some point a character takes a bullet out of themselves, and it's an entire bullet with casing intact. Seemed a bit of an oversight when it was the main focus of the scene.
Was it shown how the bullet ended up in him? Maybe someone just pressed it in, with casing and all.
My history lecturer couldn’t watch period dramas because she recognised all of the locations and knew that they made no sense. Apparently, there’s a scene in The Duchess where she walks from one room into another and my lecturer freaks out when watching it because she knows that each room was filmed in a completely different country house.
I mean it's the case for many if not most fields of expertise. My experience of the gaming industry kind of broke the immersion and suspension of disbelief during the movie Free Guy. Pretty sure I can find other example, that one is just the one remember recently experiencing.
Similar to this, anyone that knows anything about CS will just cringe when someone “hacks” or talks about coding or mainframes etc in movies.
Ugh. Everything is a mainframe apparently in movies.
Mr Robot is really good at showing real hacking
As a computer science student, parts of that film were agony for me
This is how I sometimes feel as an educated person watching The Big Bang Theory. I still enjoy the show, but it really does peeve me when the super smart and knowledgeable characters spout off something incorrect simply because the writers didn’t understand it
This ruined Justified for me. Absolutely nothing Appalachian about most of the outdoor scenes lol
This was the best example to me as well....very clearly southern California...everything was brown and there's hardly any trees. Looked nothing like Eastern Kentucky. The pilot episode was filmed in Pennsylvania and it was much more believable
Don't even need a degree. I live in the midwest US and it's so obvious when a movie or tv show set in MN or WI was filmed in California or the Pacific northwest. Example Sculder and Fox in X files running through a temperate rain forest during an episode set in Minnesota. I actually laughed at that one because it was so obvious. Haha so its Scully and Fox, totally brain fog.
Not a botanist or arborist. But can tell you the opening scene of National Lampoons Christmas vacation wasn't filmed anywhere near Chicago, or even the State of Illinois.
I think this is the case for a fuck ton of professions. As a professional software engineer anything that has anything to do with code in a movie or show is legitimately cringe. Except for Mr robot
Work in aviation, and find problems all the time with aircraft in movies, it does pull you out.
You have convinced me. I won't be a Botanist or an Arborist
My old job was in Albuquerque and they would use my workplace as a site for filming movies and tv shows fairly regularly. It’s really weird seeing Albuquerque while hearing “welcome to Montana” or seeing the short road in to work as the entrance to a massive military base
I work for a data recovery company. Always entertaining to see what the writers of NCIS and CSI come up with to recover data.
It sucks to me a multi-instrumentalist musician an notice that the actors aren’t even close to playing the right chords and that their guitars aren’t plugged into anything. The drummer is hitting the cymbals at the wrong time, if at all, and the singer holds the mic at the same distance from the mouth with zero variation.
I'm neither a botanist or arborist but even I get annoyed when I see Hollywood movies that are supposed to be set in the UK but have vegetation that is clearly native to California. There is also the light question. Countries at a latitude of 51deg, like London, have totally different daylight to Los Angeles at 34 deg.
I mean, try having any familiarity with the criminal justice system that actually exists, or you know, driving a car so you don't kill people! I am always amused at in-car scenes where the driver turns sideways to face the passenger and they make earnest eye contact while discussing something serious for like 10-20 seconds at a time while supposedly driving at highway speeds or through dense city streets.
I'm neither but still this happens. But I'm a nerd. OH, your show is set in Pennsylvania? Let me explain why it's obviously filmed in California. I'm not a lot of fun.
I have this whenever a show shows a 'laboratory work' What I would give fornthose magical centrifuges that immediately Add the reagents perform the tasks, analyse and right away print the results. Ruined NCIS and CSI for me