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Suitcases never have anything in them. You can't unsee it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Stock sound effects are comically misused sometimes. I think my favorite was in one of the Schwarzenegger movies (True Lies?) a helicopter (with no wheels) lands kinda hard, and you hear a car-tires-screeching-to-a-halt sound.

Also not really an error, but once you recognize a stock sound effect, you'll start hearing it constantly. Like every single time someone sits down to eat, they make the exact same silverware-clanking-against-the-plate sound (especially in shows like Chopped - every time the judges go in for a bite, same clickety-clank.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Empty casings not being ejected from guns. It doesn't even need to be shown - just splice in a sound effect, FFS!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Medical and psych. The beefy male orderlies in white tackling people. 10% of the time it’s like that, more so on a child or adolescent unit, but mostly it’s hey, let’s go talk over here about your feelings and come up with better choices and that works. Being heard, works. Most of the time, the orderlies wear street clothes. The shot is real but it goes in a muscle not the neck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surgical Tech here. OR scenes are pretty comical. Order of, or even complete absence of head cover / mask in relation to hand scrub. Touching shit that isn't on the sterile field. Using the wrong instruments. Leaving during an inappropriate part of the case.

The intro of the Dr Strange movie comes to mind - iirc they have masks initially, but they just disappear mid-operation, then he fishes a bullet out of the brain with a pituitary rongeur, everybody oohs and aahs and then he just leaves lol. He must have a really good tech if he expects them to close the dura, repair the skull, and close the scalp, not to mention cutting/drilling through all that shit to get initial access in the first place.

...and it's hailed as one of the better OR scenes, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sprinklers reacting to smoke - they react to heat.

All sprinklers going off at the same time - only the ones affected will.

The water spraying out is clear - it's black sludge.

A plumber using a huge wrench under the sink, usually working on the p-trap and then water starts spraying - you don't need a big wrench for that job and there is no pressurized water inside sewers.

Archers effortlessly holding their bows waiting for the command to all release at once - the draw weight of a war bow is so immense that you're physically unable to hold it for more than seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I'm in IT. It gets comical.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

*clickety clickety clack

"I'm in."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Haha I'll bet! What's one of your favourites?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All of it. All of it is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They did a pretty good job (not perfect though) on Mr. Robot and the Millenial trilogy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Some actors actually know how to type now, but I imagine with cell phones being people's sole exposure to computers... We are going to get actors mashing keys again soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ha! Good point

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

personally a big fan of

[typing complete gibberish on multiple keyboards at once, followed by the immortal line:] "I'm in."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Haha even I know that's bullshit

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Real time firewall battles.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People make plans to meet and never go over the details.. like a time, or a place. It's always missing some critical information you would need if you were actually going to meet someone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh I know that's infuriating

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when someone is on a phone call on their mobile the screen is not showing the call screen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

An extension of this is the screen stays on when it's up to their face, almost all smartphones will turn the screen off when they detect they're against a face during a call.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cups, too. Coffee mugs or other opaque containers will sometimes be used to gesticulate, and you can just tell from the way they move it that there's obviously nothing in it. They can't get away with it when the glass is clear, but if it's an opaque cup, more often than not it's completely empty and the lack of weight to it gives it away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This annoys me to an unreasonable degree. We're watching Shameless (US) and they are constantly gesticulating with empty coffee cups and I get mad every time.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Daredevil: Born Again - Subway platform with no security cameras.

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