What Grinds My Gears: TV & Movie Edition

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What Grinds My Gears: TV & Movie Edition

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This is where I bitch about things in TV shows and movies that annoy me (some times for no good reason except it just does)

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You know what really grinds my gears?

Stana Katic's hair in the first 3 seasons of Castle. That hair stylist should have been fired after the first week. every time I saw her the first thing I thought was "man that hairdo looks kak"

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You know what really grinds my gears?

The Twilight CGI baby/toddler. Why the fuck would you CGI a child??? could they REALLY not find a kid on this entire planet that kinda looks like the one that Stephenie Meyer's retarded brain thought up? and they didn't even do a good job of it!

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You know what really grinds my gears?

shows like CSI: (All of them) where they can endlessly zoom in on an image or video and then press a magic filter button to get a clear picture. Do they not have consultants on these shows or even just somebody on that set that has ever used a computer IRL that can go "hey... hey guys. you can't actually do that..."

or do these show runners just think their audience is THAT stupid ('merica excluded). I once saw an episode of CSI: Brixton moord en roof or which ever one of the countless franchises it was and they literally took an already blurry image from a CCTV feed of a car, zoomed into one of the nuts holding the license plate on, pressed the magic button and got a clear reflection in this nut of the other vehicle involved in this crime. WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.

At least Castle gets it right :D

 
I wont bother looking for a clip but what grinds my gears is obvious procut placement and ads in tv shows = one of the biggest ones that does this is Bones = They get in a car and then explain the how the car works and why they love it. . .I know they need it to pay for the show somehow but when you are 6 seasons in and need product placements that obvious then the show is doing something wrong.
 
Wyvern said:
I wont bother looking for a clip but what grinds my gears is obvious procut placement and ads in tv shows = one of the biggest ones that does this is Bones = They get in a car and then explain the how the car works and why they love it. . .I know they need it to pay for the show somehow but when you are 6 seasons in and need product placements that obvious then the show is doing something wrong.
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Well it worked they are on session 10 already :D

Another thing that grinds my gears is syfy series turning into full drama series and lose all the cool stuff from the syfy.
 
Crzwaco said:
Well it worked they are on session 10 already :D

Another thing that grinds my gears is syfy series turning into full drama series and lose all the cool stuff from the syfy.
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Yea they should have stopped already - I stopped watching the show.
 
What grinds my gears:

Hacker movies / shows, where people HACK and you see this 3D shit flipping on screen. Or where they use terms incorrectly.

Hacking is not some hotshot guy that gets girls, driving fast cars and drinking fancy drinks in bars. It's a guy in his 30s, living with his parents, with long oily hair and acne that you can see through his neckbeard. Probably has a job as a network engineer or Unix security specialist.
 
TBlaar said:
What grinds my gears:

Hacker movies / shows, where people HACK and you see this 3D shit flipping on screen. Or where they use terms incorrectly.

Hacking is not some hotshot guy that gets girls, driving fast cars and drinking fancy drinks in bars. It's a guy in his 30s, living with his parents, with long oily hair and acne that you can see through his neckbeard. Probably has a job as a network engineer or Unix security specialist.
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this reminds me:

People on TV/movies that use computers never use a mouse. do they know ALL the shortcut keys!?!? :wtf:
 
I saw an episode of CSI once, where 2 people were using the same keyboard to do stuff on different screens.... I mean I even... whaaa????
 
From most "cop" shows:

"Let's keep him on the line while we trace his call" - Most exchanges are digital, so tracing a phone call is immediate. For two parties to speak to each other the voice data needs to know how to route to the other side. In other words you make the call and your location is known. Cellphone triangulation is just as quick and will be accurate to about 15-20 meters.

Heroes shoot villains once in the arm and they're as dead as anything. Hero takes bullet to the head and not only lives but continues to kick ass.

What hacking looks like to movies:

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What hacking looks like in real life:

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seriously though, the endings. When a good guy holds a gun to a bad guy and the friends goes "Dont do it....DONT DO EEEEET!!"
Or that timings, 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 ms to spare before the bomb goes, trains hits the car, air runs out, cavalry arrives, etc.
 
Lack of continuity:

how bloody hard is it to remember which eye you had the patch on. or which leg was in a cast. or how full that beer was in the previous frame.
 
MalicE said:
Lack of continuity:

how bloody hard is it to remember which eye you had the patch on. or which leg was in a cast. or how full that beer was in the previous frame.
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Maybe he took a sneaky sip when the camera was on someone else? :P

My gears get unmeshed by bombs that conveniently has an LCD displaying the time before the explosion.. I'd never put that on, it's just extra effort for nothing!
 
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Maybe he took a sneaky sip when the camera was on someone else? :P

My gears get unmeshed by bombs that conveniently has an LCD displaying the time before the explosion.. I'd never put that on, it's just extra effort for nothing!
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yeah and why do Hollywood bombers colour code the wires on their bombs using a universal colour system that all law enforcement agencies have the manual for?
 
MalicE said:
yeah and why do Hollywood bombers colour code the wires on their bombs using a universal colour system that all law enforcement agencies have the manual for?
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The same reason no hollywood baddie with an assault rifle cannot hit a single target while emptying the mag, but Mr Hero will pop him from 100m in the head with a pistol.

Which also brings me to "The magic pistol" you know, the one that NEVER runs out of ammo or that magically runs out of ammo just in time for the character to deliver a bad-ass line while dramatically changing magazines.
 
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