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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 7:15a, 1/30/26
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Not sure if already said, but as an ER doc, I get annoyed with how easily people die from being shot in movies. You shoot someone and they drop dead, instantly. There are only a couple of spots in the body that will do that to someone.

I've taken care of people shot in the head, hit the brain, and he was awake and talking when he made it to the ER.

Also taken care of someone with a deer rifle shot to the heart, made it to the ER, but not much longer after that.


My wife is an ER doc, and the two things she constantly complains about: CPR consistently being done incorrectly and women giving birth to babies that are obviously weeks old.


I get the baby thing, who is really going to let some studio borrow their newborn baby? Otherwise you get that weird rubber doll from American Sniper.
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In reply to SpreadsheetAg • 7:51a, 1/30/26
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Bruce Almighty said:
rjhtamu said:
Not sure if already said, but as an ER doc, I get annoyed with how easily people die from being shot in movies. You shoot someone and they drop dead, instantly. There are only a couple of spots in the body that will do that to someone.

I've taken care of people shot in the head, hit the brain, and he was awake and talking when he made it to the ER.

Also taken care of someone with a deer rifle shot to the heart, made it to the ER, but not much longer after that.


My wife is an ER doc, and the two things she constantly complains about: CPR consistently being done incorrectly and women giving birth to babies that are obviously weeks old.


My favorite is when someone flatlines and they use a defibrillator to jump start their heart. That's not what happens... if someone is flatlined, the defibrillator doesn't get their heart to start beating again...
V-fib and pulseless v-tac
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In reply to et98 • 8:05a, 1/30/26
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I'll add the trend in crime shows (Castle, High Potential, etc) where the department brings on some magical consultant that is insanely all-knowing in nearly every subject and solves every single crime while making the detectives look incredibly incompetent.
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8:54a, 1/30/26
When someone racks the slide on a semi auto handgun and, if you know what to listen for, you know that the gun is empty.
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9:07a, 1/30/26
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When a single cop serves in all the following roles at the same time:
Detective
Witness interviewer
Suspect interrogator
Neighborhood beat cop
Traffic cop who pulls people over after high speed chases
Crime scene investigator
Lab technician
Computer hacker
Paramedic
SWAT commander
Sniper
Hostage negotiator
Arresting officer
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In reply to O.G. • 9:15a, 1/30/26
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O.G. said:
When someone racks the slide on a semi auto handgun and, if you know what to listen for, you know that the gun is empty.

To me it is worse when they are in a shootout and already unloaded a few rounds, have not changed the magazine, and then rack the slide for effect even though there is a round in the chamber. And the round in the chamber is not ejected.
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9:41a, 1/30/26
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Women walking up with full makeup on. and their hair perfect.
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In reply to wangus12 • 10:06a, 1/30/26
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wangus12 said:
I'll add the trend in crime shows (Castle, High Potential, etc) where the department brings on some magical consultant that is insanely all-knowing in nearly every subject and solves every single crime while making the detectives look incredibly incompetent.

Are you talking about In The Heat of the Night?
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In reply to O.G. • 10:18a, 1/30/26
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When someone racks the slide on a semi auto handgun and, if you know what to listen for, you know that the gun is empty.
How about when they fire their gun and there is zero kick?
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In reply to StinkyPinky • 10:31a, 1/30/26
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Nah thats just because they are so strong that they negate any force from the kick
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10:58a, 1/30/26
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Why do so many TV shows and movies show the family sitting at a table in the morning full of food. Eggs, bacon, toast, coffee and orange juice and always a grapefruit sliced open and no one scarfs it down. Dad always grabs a quick gulp of coffee and a bite of toast and says he has to run and the kids run off for the bus leaving all of that food.

Growing up we didn't get a meal prepared on a school day very often and had to make do with a bowl of cereal. If Mom actually put out a spread we would scarf it down in record time and no way in Hell my Dad would have left a full plate.
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In reply to bonfarr • 11:01a, 1/30/26
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Amen
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In reply to bonfarr • 11:02a, 1/30/26
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An hour and a half of cooking and an hour of cleanup to get the kids off to school at the crack of dawn? Yeah, that doesn't happen much in the real world.
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In reply to bonfarr • 11:03a, 1/30/26
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I've always noticed the opposite. Dad sits there leisurely reading the paper then finally looks at his watch and moseys off to work. Nobody I knew ever got up earlier than they had to. You grab a quick bite and are out the door.

I guess in movies they work those fictitious 9-5 jobs I've always heard about.
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In reply to bonfarr • 11:16a, 1/30/26
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And it always looks like its 11AM outside
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In reply to double aught • 11:18a, 1/30/26
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double aught said:
I've always noticed the opposite. Dad sits there leisurely reading the paper then finally looks at his watch and moseys off to work. Nobody I knew ever got up rwrlier than they had to. You grab a quick bite and are out the door.

I guess in movies they work those fictitious 9-5 jobs I've always heard about.

I think Ward Cleaver started that breakfast trend?
You're from down South,
And when you open your mouth,
You always seem to put your foot there.
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In reply to double aught • 11:25a, 1/30/26
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double aught said:
SpreadsheetAg said:
Bruce Almighty said:
rjhtamu said:
Not sure if already said, but as an ER doc, I get annoyed with how easily people die from being shot in movies. You shoot someone and they drop dead, instantly. There are only a couple of spots in the body that will do that to someone.

I've taken care of people shot in the head, hit the brain, and he was awake and talking when he made it to the ER.

Also taken care of someone with a deer rifle shot to the heart, made it to the ER, but not much longer after that.


My wife is an ER doc, and the two things she constantly complains about: CPR consistently being done incorrectly and women giving birth to babies that are obviously weeks old.


My favorite is when someone flatlines and they use a defibrillator to jump start their heart. That's not what happens... if someone is flatlined, the defibrillator doesn't get their heart to start beating again...

V-fib and pulseless v-tac


CPR for 20 seconds and they magically pop up like waking up from a dream. Never mind the cracked cartilage, throwing up and/or farting from someone thumping on your chest for 20 minutes.

Pulling a fire alarm and hearing a bell ringing in a new-ish building instead of the beeps.

Pulling a fire alarm and having all the sprinkler heads go off.

For the gun ones, I swear there was an episode of Sons of Anarchy where the sound effect was cocking a revolver and the biker du jour was holding a Glock.

Speaking of SoA, spending all day doing gangster shlt on a Harley and having pristine white shoes.
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In reply to double aught • 11:29a, 1/30/26
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I've always noticed the opposite. Dad sits there leisurely reading the paper then finally looks at his watch and moseys off to work. Nobody I knew ever got up rwrlier than they had to. You grab a quick bite and are out the door.

I guess in movies they work those fictitious 9-5 jobs I've always heard about.

My dad left real early and had a bowl of oatmeal at 5:30a at counter at the diner with other ranchers.

As for me, my mom had her own brokerage firm and was not a morning person. Since I was 7 or so, I had to get myself up, make my own breakfast, get dressed/ready, and then open the bedroom door to tell my mom I'm off to school.

Two much older half sisters and one half brother. If we had a big family breakfast with all of the meats, eggs, toast, pancakes, fruit, juice, coffee, etc. it only happened at the restaurant!!
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I don't remember having anything for breakfast before school other than toast, cereal or a pop-tart. Definitely not bacon and eggs (as a child I wasn't a fan of either).
You're from down South,
And when you open your mouth,
You always seem to put your foot there.
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In reply to DG-Ag • 12:12p, 1/30/26
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Same here
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In reply to wangus12 • 12:14p, 1/30/26
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wangus12 said:
Nah thats just because they are so strong that they negate any force from the kick
Good point, didn't think about that
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As a Gen X I had a full breakfast almost every morning. My mom was a part time therapist so made time in the morning to fatten me up!

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In reply to bonfarr • 1:11p, 1/30/26
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bonfarr said:
Why do so many TV shows and movies show the family sitting at a table in the morning full of food. Eggs, bacon, toast, coffee and orange juice and always a grapefruit sliced open and no one scarfs it down. Dad always grabs a quick gulp of coffee and a bite of toast and says he has to run and the kids run off for the bus leaving all of that food.


Set dressers want a full table because it looks good on camera.

Director doesn't want to worry about continuity when shooting scenes of people eating and talking.

So the table is full but the script calls for characters to just grab a piece of toast and bail.
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In reply to KidDoc • 1:47p, 1/30/26
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As a Gen X I had a full breakfast almost every morning. My mom was a part time therapist so made time in the morning to fatten me up!


My dad was an early riser and we always had a hot breakfast every morning.

I took after him and give my kids something hot and hearty every morning now too. I cheat a bit with frozen pancakes and waffles on some days, but always bacon or sausage with it. We go through a lot of eggs with breakfast tacos, omelets, sandwiches, etc.

Sorry for the thread derail.

Back to movies -- the ease at which bad guys are knocked out, sometimes with shoves or body blows, allowing heroes to escape. And once a bad guy goes down, he never gets up to chase.

Evidently, using a karate move like flipping a bad guy over kills them, because they never get up either, allowing the hero to brush hands clean and make a clever remark before moving on.

Metal scraping sound when a sword is removed from a leather sheath.

There is always a tough guy and cronies at every bar that start sheet when a hero is just wanting some time to himself.
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In reply to KidDoc • 2:14p, 1/30/26
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KidDoc said:
As a Gen X I had a full breakfast almost every morning. My mom was a part time therapist so made time in the morning to fatten me up!


So you became a kid doc that spends their days with kids - in other words you never grew up. Does your wife make you a full breakfast every morning?
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In crime or murder mysteries, the lead character gets in a car in daylight and by the time they drive across town to the killer's house, it's late night. Also when they call someone to tell them they've solved the crime, they never leave a voicemail before they jump into danger.
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EclipseAg said:
bonfarr said:
Why do so many TV shows and movies show the family sitting at a table in the morning full of food. Eggs, bacon, toast, coffee and orange juice and always a grapefruit sliced open and no one scarfs it down. Dad always grabs a quick gulp of coffee and a bite of toast and says he has to run and the kids run off for the bus leaving all of that food.


Set dressers want a full table because it looks good on camera.

Director doesn't want to worry about continuity when shooting scenes of people eating and talking.

So the table is full but the script calls for characters to just grab a piece of toast and bail.
Sucks though for the mom to have spent all morning to cook breakfast and no one eats it.
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In reply to StinkyPinky • 4:37p, 1/30/26
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O.G. said:
When someone racks the slide on a semi auto handgun and, if you know what to listen for, you know that the gun is empty.

How about when they fire their gun and there is zero kick?

Also, jacking the lever on a lever action rifle (this is mostly in westerns) without ever firing it.
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Women fighters beating up (thrashing) trained men twice their size.... there's a few, and I mean less than a handful, that can pull it off.

The girl in Dungeons and Dragons does a good job but gets her ass kicked a fair bit too. (More believable)

Sigourney Weaver in Aliens was awesome.

Most of the time though, it's over the top unbelievable girlpower.
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My wife and I are watching Blindspot on Netflix currently and the thing that is driving me crazy is every episode the FBI agents get in gun fights with bad guys who have fully automatic weapons using their semi auto pistols and easily take them out. Once is understandable, but every episode is impractical. 2 agents with Glocks vs 7 guys with Tec-9s, MP5s, and SCARs are not good odds yet they always win.
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Screeching tires on dirt roads

Fight scenes where guys take haymakers to the chin and keep right on going like nothing happened

Walking up in full makeup from a nights sleep
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Headrests removed from front seats (for better camera angles/visiblity). Ridiculous
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In reply to HtownAg92 • 7:35a, 2/1/26
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DG-Ag said:
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Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.

Costner and Redford are two of the few actors that didn't look like dweebs when portraying baseball players. Of course Costner played college ball I believe. Maybe even minor leagues?

Charlie Sheen played some ball and you could tell. Serrano maybe had swung a bat before. The rest of the cast in Major League was terrible. Who cares, great movie.

Keanu looked passable the two times he played a QB (or former QB F-B-I Agent).

Worst all time to me was Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf playing basketball.

Dennis Haysbert actually hit a real home run when they were filming the climactic scene of Major League I. He was so excited that he forgot to drop the bat as he ran around the bases and they left it in the movie.

The real nightmare was Wesley Snipes. Next time you watch Major League, you'll see that every time they show him running, it's in slow motion because he was a terrible athlete and not fast so they had to use a trick to make him seem super-humanly fast.

You can really notice it here. The other two guys are "face running" but their bodies are slow as *****

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CharleyKerfeld said:
HtownAg92 said:
DG-Ag said:
AustinAg2K said:
a.froman said:
Watching sports movies in which the actor or actresses are not athletes.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. An actor will go to immense lengths to learn a specific accent. They'll spend months to gain/lose weight for a role. They'll learn to mimic a famous person's specific idiosyncrasies. Spend a couple of hours learning to throw a ball? F' that. The audience will never notice the difference.

Costner and Redford are two of the few actors that didn't look like dweebs when portraying baseball players. Of course Costner played college ball I believe. Maybe even minor leagues?

Charlie Sheen played some ball and you could tell. Serrano maybe had swung a bat before. The rest of the cast in Major League was terrible. Who cares, great movie.

Keanu looked passable the two times he played a QB (or former QB F-B-I Agent).

Worst all time to me was Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf playing basketball.

Dennis Haysbert actually hit a real home run when they were filming the climactic scene of Major League I. He was so excited that he forgot to drop the bat as he ran around the bases and they left it in the movie.

The real nightmare was Wesley Snipes. Next time you watch Major League, you'll see that every time they show him running, it's in slow motion because he was a terrible athlete and not fast so they had to use a trick to make him seem super-humanly fast.

You can really notice it here. The other two guys are "face running" but their bodies are slow as *****


Actually Snipes wasn't a terrible athlete, he just was painfully slow.

Go watch the movie again when he climbs the wall to make the home run saving catch at the end, that's him, not a double. His slide in the American Express ad looks decent. If you're terrible athlete you couldn't even do those things. Also, his swing doesn't look that bad when he's hitting all those pop-ups (aside from popping it up).
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2:16p, 2/1/26
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Also on the subject of Major League originally the owner reveals towards the end of the movie that she wanted the team to win all along and figured it would motivate the team. Test audiences hated it (as they should).

They even had to reshoot the scenes of her in the owner's booth because at that point she was cheering for the team. I'm so glad they didn't go with that "twist."

That's also a thing I hate in movies where for a while there (especially post Sixth Sense) every movie had to have a twist no matter how ridiculous and stupid.
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