Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
How often emotional vulnerability leads to positive outcomes.
So true, really common one, and that cuts to the heart of the “fakeness” that hollywood conveys in its movies
sauce?
What exactly are you hoping for here?
i don’t believe in bottling-up emotions. it creates people whose unpredictability makes interactions with zem a quaking tightrope.
Poor people living in condos.
I find that they too often exaggerate the wisdom of following the orders of the bad guy. Like, if they say “drop your weapon or I shoot the hostage” okay sure, maybe consider dropping your weapon, depending on circumstances. If it’s “give me the MacGuffin I need to release the neurotoxin and kill fifty million people or I shoot the hostage” maybe don’t do that.
Give me the bomb that will kill a hundred people or i will shoot this single hostage!
Sure, okay, i will because i don’t get basic arithmetics…
I prefer a more deontological approach. Don’t do bad things, even if they threaten 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.
Horror/suspense movies where the character slowly turns their head to see what’s behind them. A normal person would whip their head around pretty quickly if they feel/hear something scary.
The “American hero” trope. No such thing.
The message in films that police, law, and the military are protectors and heroes instead of “every soldier, cop, and bureaucrat are complicit if not actively engaged and fully believing fascists.”
Movies get a lot of support from those institutions as long as they portray them in a positive light. The US military has an office in Hollywood to ensure cooperation.
Pretty much everything
Most dishonest about? The existence of superpowers, probably. People can’t fly in real life, or summon hammers, or shoot webs from their wrists.
See, to me this sounds like calling someone dishonest for claiming they “had their head in the clouds.” Oh, what’s that, your head wasn’t actually a mile in the air? You god damn liar.
It’s not dishonesty when everyone understands the meaning. If you present an intentional fantasy, the audience knows it’s a fantasy. Everyone is in on it.
I was trusting this same mutual understanding that sometimes you say things you don’t really mean to guide people to understand that I did not mean what I said literally. All movie tropes, like romance tropes and hacking shenanigans, rely on this same contract.
Firearms in general.
Supressors as well. If two guys were walking through an airport shooting at each other everyone would still know it. Also a suppressor has a pop on the first shot.
If you have your firearm knowledge from movies and TV you don’t know anything except what Hollywood wants you to think.
When is the last time you saw someone in a movie hotwire a car?
According to every movie I’ve seen, the way it’s done is you reach under the steering wheel and yank down a panel that is apparently velcroed on. A bunch of loose wires dump out, including two wires conveniently in front whose ends are conveniently stripped and tinned. You grab these two wires and strike them against each other like flint and steel. This apparently switches on the vehicle’s electrical and ignition systems, disengages the steering lock and engages the starter motor.
Funnily enough you actually could hotwire a plane like that; because of how magnetos work, turning the ignition systems on is accomplished by disconnecting a couple wires.
The truth. All movies are Hollywood-, make-believe fairytales. Took me ages to find out that even documentaries only a show a particular glimpse of reality.
Cinema is the art of lie. However some documentary can create shit that permeates truth.
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
A whack to the head just puts people to sleep for a few minutes and then they carry on like normal.
Any time a car or other vehicle is involved in an accident, it erupts in a massive explosion or fireball. If every car did that IRL, the fire department would never be out of a job knowing how they hand out licenses like candy.
When I was 16 I swerved to miss a recliner in the roadway (yeah you read that right) and ended up careening off the road down an embankment. As soon as I was stopped at the bottom, I was convinced I had to clear the area because obviously the car was about to explode. It did not. So anyway that was my first and worst car accident. Why there was a recliner in the roadway is a mystery I will never solve.
there is a large overlap in the Venn diagram of people who wouldn’t notice if an entire ass recliner fell out of their pickup truck and people who fail to properly secure cargo in their pickup truck
True true… but it was situated like, fully reclined. One idea was that knuckleheads placed it there as a prank, bro. But the other, probably more reasonable, is your idea.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it flopped open like a book upon hitting the pavement
I also wouldn’t be surprised if knuckleheads placed it there like that
