A few of my unfavorite things - Outrunning explosions, the ONLY time this is OK is if your in the Millennium Falcon (though i suppose a movie with the Flash in it would also be ok). A quick Google will tell you that even the lowest energy explosion is going to be tens of meters per second, even an olympic sprinter isn't going to outrun one of those without, say a 100m head start.
I also hate the zoom in, presto clear image, thats some pretty advanced software that can guess what information is missing.
Exploding cars, unless they have been shot with some incendiary weapon or bazooka type thingey.
Barbarians other Fantasy characters with Californian accents and tan lines.
Many, many years ago in...The Flying Doctors, I think it was...there was a storyline of two brothers who were a little like Dumb and Dumber, and they were involved in something that required they ditch their car. They pushed it over the edge steep hill and when it landed at the bottom and nothing happened, the comment was along the lines of "But they ALWAYS blow up in the movies."
mild spoiler for Three KingsstrangedaveApril 30 2009, 07:01:13 UTC
There is that awseome scene in Three Kings where the rocket hits the tanker, and you are so expecting it to be a massive explosion - and the tanker is full of milk, not petrol, and everyone just ends up knee deep in milk. A really nice bit of playing with your expectations, and an incredible image.
I prefer when they all speak in a thick Austrian accented English myself :) . I find it a little jarring when the accents differ amongst the actors ,and the characters should have similar ones, Like Frodo's being so different to everyone else in the village. And damn right, everyone spoke in olde English in the past, you should know that :)
Of course I'm prepared to believe in flying men that can bounce bullets, so its weird what jars each persons sense of disbelief.
I always found Frodo's accent served to make him seem frailer and weaker than the other hobbits. The others looked like farmers and labourers, Frodo looked like a scholarly type who was the last person you'd imagine taking the ring all the way to Mordor.
Outrunning explosions, the ONLY time this is OK is if your in the Millennium Falcon (though i suppose a movie with the Flash in it would
also be ok). A quick Google will tell you that even the lowest energy explosion is going to be tens of meters per second, even an olympic sprinter isn't going to outrun one of those without, say a 100m head start.
I also hate the zoom in, presto clear image, thats some pretty advanced software that can guess what information is missing.
Exploding cars, unless they have been shot with some incendiary weapon or bazooka type thingey.
Barbarians other Fantasy characters with Californian accents and tan lines.
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The funny thing is, I've become so used to it that when a car doesn't explode, I'm a bit thrown.
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If we wanted total realism in medieval-setting fantasy, everyone should be talking like Grendel in the CGI Beowulf anyway. : )
I think it comes down to a taste thing - we readily accept English accents as the generic "this is a long time ago" accent.
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Of course I'm prepared to believe in flying men that can bounce bullets, so its weird what jars each persons sense of disbelief.
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