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Author Topic: Too easy to change a tire. Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-05-2004 02:21 AM                        Well I drove on the tire. North to Ian's theatre (snazzy marquee by the way) and then south to the Century Theatres headquarters where I parked my car and went to San Francisco with a friend to watch some comedy. Apparently I can secure a tire to my car. I'll let you know how it goes when I decide to lower my 2002 Jetta and put flames on the sides and trick out the muffler.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-05-2004 02:51 AM                     What I never understood was why the aluminum had to be transparent in the first place...  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-05-2004 03:03 AM                     quote: Does anyone ever just "watch" movies anymore? Or are we just looking for technical inaccuracies. Hell no. Finding inaccuracies is fun. I think I maybe the only one to have noticed this one: In "Stuck On You" the brothers pull up to a jack in the box drive through and order 2 jumbo jacks, a sourdough jack, 3 fries, and 3 pepsis . The employee reads back the order, pepsis included. Jack In The box only serves Coca-cola products.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-05-2004 03:08 AM                     Mike, Mike, MIKE... What are we going to do with you? You actually noticed that? You noticed THAT!? Was the movie that bad? Or do you haunt your local Jack in the Box?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-05-2004 11:36 AM                     Actually, the movie really was that boring. Too dramatic for a comedy. (Topics now covered in this thread: 3)  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-05-2004 01:32 PM                     Ian can be bought with food. I mean, jeez, I was there for over an hour before Scott showed up with a sandwich and I don't even get a mention! Hint for future attention whores: chocolate eclair.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-05-2004 09:42 PM                     Why do movie computer terminals: A) present text s-l-o-w-l-y one character at a time, in monochrome green or amber? Some of us might remeber monochrome screens, but I never saw any computer slow enough that the text came out that slow, not even a PET. Teletypes were pretty damned slow, but it's been at least 25 tears since anyone seriously used a teletype as the user interface on a computer. B) "beep" with every frigging character that gets languidly pooted out on the screen? I remember monochrome, but never in my life have I seen a terminal that beeps like that.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2004 12:29 AM                        quote: My daughter is about to buy her first car. She will not go anywhere till she has changed a tyre, & other basic stuff. Common sense really. Other basics she must master before she can use the car: Gluing the rear view mirror back on when it falls off the windshield Gas siphoning Cutting donuts Moonshiner's Turn  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-07-2004 12:00 PM                        Please explain that "Moonshiners Turn" for those of us who don't know.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-07-2004 12:35 PM                     Scott, ask Norm... He is an expert at performing them A 'Moonshiner's Turn' aka 'Trooper Turn' is making a U-turn in a big hurry by locking the rear wheels and having the car swing around to the opposite direction. You see it in movies and 'Dukes Of Hazzard' quite a bit. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-07-2004 02:21 PM                        That's what I thought. But I've just never heard of that before... I'd call it the Dukes of Hazzard turn. Just like whenever I get airborn going over hills really fast in San Francisco it is appropriately "getting Streets" (eg. "The Streets of San Francisco")  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-08-2004 09:12 AM                        Whether it be computer inaccuracies that make your job harder because people think its real, or it be commercials that tell people they can drive thier SUV like idiots in a snow storm that end up killing others on the freeway in Utah its all the same. You cannot stop idiots from crossing your path. It isn't just computers that they don't understand. The majority of film patrons actually think that thier movie they are about to see at the movie theater is on video tape. It never stops them from acting like fools and showing up late and asking if we can rewind it for them. They are shocked to learn it is actually film. When I drive Utah's freeways, I am always shocked to see people driving 70 mph in a snow storm. We had 900 accidents in Utah in the first 24 hours of our strom last week. MOst of them were SUV's. I understand the Computer deal. I grew up with them. I was raised on them. My dad worked on the Apollo space project back with Lockheed Martin when I was a child. You say computer, I say baby toy! I hate it when people can't get it through thier skulls that it isn't simple at all, and never will be. Someone has to put in the hard work because Majel Barret Roddenberry will not be speaking to you from your computer and make you a cup of Klingon Coffee! AAAAUGH... I just let movie slips go. The computer bit was funny from my perspective, because it showed the utter disbelief in the on site engineer when Scotty spoke into the mouse. As for suspension of disbelief, that is all up to the individual. If you can't leave your work at work, then it will be harder to suspend it all. It's harder for film techies to leave work at work, since most of them see the movies at work as it is. As for me, I just let my mind go (easy for me, most of it is gone anyway) and watch the danged film. If it is good, I let things slide, If it is bad, then it is just bad. If I didn't like it, then who cares what I point out in it, it was bad, plain and simple. Often some technical slips are not slips at all, but are that way for some reason or another, intended or planned. Let's see any of us make a movie and see if it can stand up to perfection. Dave  |  IP: Logged

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