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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 3, 2011 5:00:36 GMT 1
Screaming or yelling "No! No!" more than ten times. And I'm being generous. We get the point after the third; six if you've got Tourette's or something. I had to hear it for what seemed like two minutes at one point near the middle of the movie, which caused me to pause the film and leave the room. Bioshock does this too much. Whenever you try and rescue a Little Sister they always shout "No! No! No, NO!" in a tone so irritating that it's burned into my memory forever. You have to rescue about thirty of them throughout the game, too.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 3, 2011 9:47:29 GMT 1
The misunderstanding.
I just hate it how one of the secundairy characters overhears something one of the main characters say and tells it to the other main character in a faulty manner. It just pads the movie on for and is so annoying.
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Post by Battlechantress on Aug 3, 2011 19:35:15 GMT 1
Re: Punches to the face. Specifically, being knocked unconscious for more than a minute: brain injuries (read: loss of working brain matter) generally occur after 4 minutes without oxygen. Concussions can happen more or less instantly. Generally, however, if you have been "out" for a minute or two, you most certainly have a concussion (at the very least). This means that the villain will not be "just fine and dandy" when (s)he comes to in the pesky real world. (Or, conversely, the Good Guy who was knocked out by the Villain, who took off with the Girl.)
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 3, 2011 22:03:29 GMT 1
There we go. So it's not as bad as I thought, but still.
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Post by jklinders on Aug 3, 2011 22:06:54 GMT 1
Re: Punches to the face. Specifically, being knocked unconscious for more than a minute: brain injuries (read: loss of working brain matter) generally occur after 4 minutes without oxygen. Concussions can happen more or less instantly. Generally, however, if you have been "out" for a minute or two, you most certainly have a concussion (at the very least). This means that the villain will not be "just fine and dandy" when (s)he comes to in the pesky real world. (Or, conversely, the Good Guy who was knocked out by the Villain, who took off with the Girl.) While we are on that topic, I have noticed that in movies people are routinely getting knocked out with a single punch to the face. Really? Joe Blow down the street can knock a random person out with a single blow? Shit, if it was that easy everyone would be a mugger for a living.
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Post by docfronkensteen on Aug 3, 2011 22:24:42 GMT 1
Its still possible to get a concussion/brain damage with only a couple seconds of unconsciousness. If someone is out for hours like in some films, chances are slim they'll wake up groggily ask "where am I?", and be fine minutes later. Its more likely that they'll stay unconscious and probably die without medical attention.
Hollywood also skips out on the gross stuff again, as a lot of head injuries will lead to copious amounts of vomiting. Anyone who has had or seen someone have a bad concussion can attest to this.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 5, 2011 21:57:39 GMT 1
Whenever a character, after some traumatic event, says something to the effect of:
"Let's go. I've had enough of this place!"
BioWare games abuse this one to all hell. Really? I was planning on staying in the spaceship with your father's corpse in it for a cup of tea!
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Post by docfronkensteen on Aug 6, 2011 2:08:20 GMT 1
Also, things like this:
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Aug 8, 2011 18:21:19 GMT 1
Yet another gun-related peeve. This one actually happened in CSI: Miami, but it's hollywood bullshit nonetheles. One episode had a case where the perp fired a shot from a "hammerless" snub-nosed revolver (similar to this one, panicked, and threw the revolver over the roof of a building to get rid of it. When the revolver landed, it fired a second time. Here's the problem with this situation. A revolver, particularly a snubbie, has a 12 pound trigger pull weight and a transfer bar mechanism that keeps the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled so it's not going to discharge just from being dropped. Second, and here's the big one, the revolver was just fired. The only thing under the firing pin is an empty cartridge casing and a dead primer. There is literally nothing to fire. Yet, through some means that was never explained, the gun managed to fire a second time. I've since quit watching any of the CSI series.
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Post by jklinders on Aug 8, 2011 19:05:57 GMT 1
I'm far from being a pro gun person but me thinks that this is an example of pure Hollywood anti gun propaganda. All guns are on hairtriggers. All guns go off if you so much as breathe on them and all guns are dangerous even if unloaded and no one is ten feet from touching distance.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 8, 2011 19:19:06 GMT 1
What about that bit from The Dark Knight where Batman digs a bullet out a wall and puts it back together (or something) to find a fingerprint where the "bullet was pushed into the gun."?
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Aug 8, 2011 19:25:45 GMT 1
What about that bit from The Dark Knight where Batman digs a bullet out a wall and puts it back together (or something) to find a fingerprint where the "bullet was pushed into the gun."? As far as I know, the whole fingerprinting a gun by the striations the rifling leaves on a bullet is bull. About the best can be hoped for is the striations can tell you what kind of barrel the bullet was fired from (i.e. polygonal rifling or conventional rifling), but narrowing down the exact gun is impossible, to the best of my knowledge.
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Post by jklinders on Aug 8, 2011 19:34:42 GMT 1
I'm less of an expert but that does not even make any sense. There are probably several hundred 9mm handguns models alone with more than a few really popular ones. This trick would also not be able to catch exotic modifications...if anyone was silly enough to bother with that.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Aug 8, 2011 19:46:53 GMT 1
Not to mention a coroner/medical examiner can't tell you what caliber bullet caused a wound until they recover and weigh the bullet, at least for handgun rounds. As for the "hair trigger" bit, that shit only happens with competition guns, such as benchrest rifles and the like. Most service pistols have a minimum 5.5 lb trigger pull and many are heavier than that. It takes a pretty deliberate action to get the majority of guns to fire.
More annoying cliches is bad weapons handling. Not just guns, but all weapons. The vast majority of the stuff portrayed is shit that would get people killed if they tried it.
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Post by jklinders on Aug 8, 2011 21:47:08 GMT 1
Not to mention a coroner/medical examiner can't tell you what caliber bullet caused a wound until they recover and weigh the bullet, at least for handgun rounds. As for the "hair trigger" bit, that shit only happens with competition guns, such as benchrest rifles and the like. Most service pistols have a minimum 5.5 lb trigger pull and many are heavier than that. It takes a pretty deliberate action to get the majority of guns to fire. More annoying cliches is bad weapons handling. Not just guns, but all weapons. The vast majority of the stuff portrayed is shit that would get people killed if they tried it. I have no idea what you are talking about there Just kidding obviously, seriously don't shoot me ;D
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