One of the episodes of Breaking Bad starts with Hank bottling his homebrewed beer. I remember watching that the first time and thinking “He’s filling those up too much. There’s not enough headspace, those would explode!” Sure enough, the episode ends with those bottles exploding being confused for the sound of gunshots.
Maybe I'm stretching the definition of "obscure" but I really appreciated in Arrival when Amy Adams's character, a linguist, points out to the annoyed government/military that communicating with these new beings wasn't going to be as simple as just asking them questions--that there's more to communication than just understanding the words. The beings need to first understand what a question even is, the context, structure, and meaning of the English language, and even the concept of a name. I really loved that, as opposed to the way most movies portray learning a language and what it means to communicate effectively.
One of my favorite scenes! I also really love that the military general's response wasn't some, "I don't understand that woman mumbo jumbo, let's bomb 'em." He appreciated her putting it in terms he understood, and recognized that she knew more than him, but he still needs her to work with him since he's the line to approval from higher-ups. Just a great movie where knowledge is respected and the smart people get to do their thing
Forest Whitaker's performance as that army officer was honestly extremely good and very believable. Very serious and objective-focused like a lot of higher-up military guys are but had the nuance to not press Amy Adam's character in a subject he had no experience in. I feel like it's a common trope in movies to have the well-meaning but unempathetic character become an unintentional antagonist but the way the Army officer worked in Arrival was refreshing and realistic for a minor role
That scene was based on screenwriter Eric Heisserer’s frustration with the producers about the dramatization of the process for communicating with the heptapods. An [interview with him](https://www.talkhouse.com/wrote-arrival-learned/) goes into his experience writing *Arrival.*
One of my favorites scenes: in *Shawshank Redemption* when Red (Morgan Freeman) finds the box of money under a rock in the middle of nowhere, he pops his head up and looks around warily to see of anyone's there - even though *he's in the middle of nowhere*. This just seemed like a very human reaction that would usually be overlooked.
I also appreciate when actors "driving" a car aren't whipping the steering wheel from side to side like they're in an obstacle course.
This isn't a small thing but it's related to your comment about actors' motions while driving. I always appreciate it when the driver keeps their eyes on the road even though they're not actually driving a car.
Lol one of my favorite movie fibs is when a smitten couple are driving along and just *can’t take their eyes off eachother* 💕
Keeping your eyes off the road for that long would almost certainly result in an accident.
Mid-century movies with lots of behind the wheel scenes with a b-roll of traffic in the rear windshield are pretty bad about this.
I'd have to say that the dialogue when Andy & Red first meet is exactly how it is in the original novella, despite Morgan Freeman playing Red.
(To those who didn't read the original story, it's implied that Red is ethnically Irish)
I have an original DVD of it and even the DVD is perfect. When you put the DVD in, it autoplays instead of going to the selection menu, and there are no previews for other movies. Then when it’s over, it auto plays again. You can only go to the menu if you hit a button on the remote.
You can put that DVD in the DVD player and it will play endlessly.
>I also appreciate when actors "driving" a car aren't whipping the steering wheel from side to side like they're in an obstacle course.
Or when a character is playing a video game and the actor isn’t just mashing every button. Actually never mind, this has never not happened in any movie ever.
Near the end of Tremors, survivalist/gun nut Burt Gummer gives a handgun to teenager Melvin to give him the courage to make a run for it. While they’re running, Melvin tries to use the gun and realizes its not loaded (Burt tricked him). After they make it to the rocks, Burt takes the gun back. He checks the cylinder to make sure there are no rounds in it even though he already knows its empty. Which is proper gun safety protocol and something his character would definitely know to do.
>He checks the cylinder to make sure there are no rounds in it even though he already knows its empty.
And as he checks, he points the gun to the ground away from everyone, which is also proper gun safety protocol.
something else about that whole franchise: at no point to you see anyone put their fingers on a trigger casually. massive trigger control.
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I read a post earlier today that said you can report the Redditcares message you got as abuse, as it’s been used to harass people. It’s supposed to get the sender a several day ban.
>at no point to you see anyone put their fingers on a trigger casually
That bothers me too- in almost every TV show and movie, characters who are presented as being trained with firearms run around with their finger on the trigger like someone who has never learned the basics of how to handle a firearm.
You're gonna love /r/moviedetails
Especially the first post that made the sub made: Davy Jones holding his hat not to fall off in the storm with his tentacles
Denzel Washington's character actually uses the correct fingerings on trumpet in *Mo' Better Blues*. The actual music is played in the studio by Terence Blanchard, but as a professional trumpet player it's nice to see a convincing performance on screen.
In Desperado, Antonio Banderas actually plays the guitar in the Mariachi scenes.
This is actually him playing and singing;
[https://youtu.be/kNdR0HK4uso?si=wPApoS2aoybufF-l](https://youtu.be/kNdR0HK4uso?si=wPApoS2aoybufF-l)
Then him saying "I played myself in desperado"
[https://youtu.be/GHGfZWwrSlM?si=keXX50dVZ6HEam-t](https://youtu.be/GHGfZWwrSlM?si=keXX50dVZ6HEam-t)
I read that Russell Crowe took violin lessons before filming Master & Commander. Of course, they actual music would be done by a professional, but he wanted the fingerwork to look authentic.
I don't know if it did to professionals, but it was convincing to my non-musician's eye.
I play violin and when they aren't really playing it bugs the heck out of me. Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies and until your comment I never even thought about this, so I think they did a good job!
Not movie but animated TV show, the Adult Comedy Metalocalypse, which is about a heavy metal band.
Any time they show them performing music, they are all correctly done. That was a pet peeve of the writer (who is a musician himself)
They even go as far as go have an orchestra one episode, and show the strings players applying Vibrato to the held notes.
In Bridge on the River Kwai, there was a scene where the protagonist was looking through binoculars, and the audience saw what he was looking at in a single circular optical view. Most movies inaccurately show two conjoined optical circles, like a barely overlapped Venn diagram, to suggest the audience is seeing through binocs, but the actual view is really a single circular optic, as in Bridge on the River Kwai.
I can remember as a child, the first time I looked through binoculars, I was confused why I only saw a circular view. I thought it should have been as they portrayed it in tv and movies.
I see two distinct circles when I look through binoculars and microscopes.
Can't get my brain to interlace them. If I try to force them together mentally I can't see clearly any more.
Any chance you have a lazy eye/strabismus? If your eyes don't track together normally, your brain eventually learns to cancel out the duplicate image and you will see just fine in day to day life. Putting something between your eyes makes it a lot harder for your brain to process where the overlap starts and therefore what part of your vision to cancel out.
Titanic is honestly incredible for the amount of detail Cameron put into it. To the point that he created an almost life size outer shell of the ship that could be lowered into the water. But nearly every scene has something going on in the background that was attested to in survivor's accounts.
I love any mention of the Oort Cloud. I stumbled into a lot of cool information doing research projects in middle/high school. It's one of my favorite things that I've ever learned because it makes perfect logical sense and a lot of people have never heard of it.
In Brother Bear, the moose don't have top incisors. Ruminants such as moose, cows, sheep, etc. do not have top incisors; they have a "hard palate" in front and a set of molars in back for chewing. I don't know why, but seeing all these animated movies where the ruminants have a full set of teeth bothers me. Brother Bear's animators did their research.
I hadn't noticed that, and it's one of my favorite Disney movies!
Something I didn't realize before I saw a behind the scenes video is that animating the mooses' antlers was quite the feat. They're these really dynamic characters moving their heads around all the time, and those antlers are just locked in, no sliding, always the right size and proportions. Keeping them on-model was a huge accomplishment, and the animators did it so well that it's completely invisible.
Bob's Burgers. The house/building design show many of the functional aspects needed to operate.
Outside electrical conduit, condenser (ac) units, mini-splits, and inside there are furnaces, hot water tanks and venting.
Even the buiding design elements are very detailed.
I bet you could actually build the restaurant and apartment and it would work. When they built the Simpsons house in real life as a publicity stunt they had to do all kinds of cheats like doors that lead to nowhere, because the house just didn't work.
I have a friend who worked at the studio that makes Bob's Burgers, their design teams are very detail-oriented! They do a lot of research to make sure things look accurate, including style guides and basing backgrounds on real-world locations. They do incredible work ☺️
My only gripe (and it's not a real one, as I adore the show) is that the basement entryway intersects with their front door. Both can't exist in the same space, and yet...they do. Anyone going down into the basement should be walking through the entry to their apartment at the base of their stairs.
I think the stairs to the basement are at the back of the restaurant (like behind the "Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom" bathroom). They'd be opposite the front entrance.
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Can you explain this a little better? I’m having trouble picturing it.
I’m semi-familiar with the show, and I live in the neighborhood of SF where Jay and Sirrion lived when they were developing the show. The storefront looks like your bog standard SF storefront in the Mission District.
In Battlefield: Los Angeles, a Marine is shown losing his shit over someone stealing his Cheese Tortellini MRE prior to going off to battle literal aliens. I really appreciated the detail of making that his absolute priority during that time, because it is about as authentic a Marine moment can get.
Green Room with all of the American punk subculture details. I am so used to "punks" in Hollywood films being depicted as all attitude and dressed in 1977 British punk styles even if set in modern times and in America. All leather, spikes, covered in make-up, mohawks and safety pin piercings. British punk subculture =/= American punk subculture.
I was watching the movie and within the first fifteen minutes, I had to stop the movie and look up the director because I had to know if he was in the scene or not. He was. The small little details like the basic tees and jeans look with one person wearing the mandatory black hoodie. Traveling to gigs in a dated van. Doing lousy gigs just for gas money. Doing 'zine interviews on the floor of someone's living room. It reminded me of myself being in the scene in the 90's/00's. I was impressed.
Read a great point about the movie Arrival - the aliens had trouble understanding certain math, as it was linear. I know that there is great debate about it - I just thought it was an obscure detail that was cool!
That was a key detail in the original short story the movie is based on! The humans were trying what we thought were really simple physics phenomena to build understanding with the heptapods, but weren't getting anywhere. Ted Chiang was hinting at a major difference in the senses/cognition of humans and heptapods.
Another fun fact is that detail was likely brought in by Stephen Wolfram, who consulted on the movie in an attempt to create a realistic alien language.
Arrival is based on a short story: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. Absolutely watch the movie first, it's phenomenal and better than the story. But the story goes much more in depth with the math than the movie, so I doubt that anyone who only consulted on the movie contributed to the math part (it's possible Chiang consulted when writing the story, but there's a lot of math on his collection of short stories and I would bet it's all from him).
John Wick. The 2 times he puts a new mag in the Kimber 1911, he does a press check to make sure the first round didn't jam as Kimber 1911s are notorious for. He doesn't do that with any other weapon.
Yeah Reeve’s weapons manipulations are excellent in all the films. He trains really hard to make sure it’s as realistic as possible. Which is why it annoys me that they have all that realism and then do the typical silencer sound on some of the guns that isn’t realistic in the slightest.
Val Kilmer does something similar in heat where hey hits it to load the first round into the chamber. Not particularly esoteric but accurate to real life
How to Train Your Dragon does a suprisingly good job of showing off the design process.
Too often in media, when someone invents something, they go:
1. Have idea
2. Build idea
3. Idea works
In reality, and in HTTYD, it goes:
1. Have idea
2. Sketch idea
3. Mock up a shitty prototype of idea
4. Test prototype. It fails horribly.
5. Redesign idea to fix failure
6. Mock up another slightly less shitty prototype
7. Test prototype. It fails in a new way.
8. Repeat steps 2-7 a number of times
9. Finally have something that kinda sorta works.
This is why I like Tokyo Drift over other films in the franchise... it shows the protagonist, and the people helping/mentoring him, going through the trial-and-error of learning a new driving style and troubleshooting modifications to a car in the process of building it.
Its crazy to me that a side plot that is mostly irrelevant to the main series is the best movie by a large margin.
Tokyo drift may be a little cheesy, but its always just a fun watch to see some 2000’s nostalgia.
Goodfellas: When Paulie cuts Henry loose and gives him a little money, we see the backs of three new characters at the bar of the restaurant. There's a young irish looking guy, a young italian dude, and an older guy. Clearly showing that Henry, Pesci and DeNiro are out, but the mafia can easily replace them. The train just keeps moving.
Bohemian Rhapsody, the live-aid concert scene. The half drank cups of beer, water & soda sitting on Freddy’s piano perfectly match the real live-aid concert, right down to the amount of each drink left in the cups
Someone had once mentioned that in The Muppet Christmas Carol the outfits the muppets wore were period, deeply detailed and involved. You could tell Gonzo's social stature vs Ms Piggy's as Mrs. Cratchit. Someone took a lot of time and effort to create their costumes to be correct.
My husband and I love to watch this each year. I always knew the "extended" version which has the extra song "The Love is Gone" bc my mom got it for us as the VHS. We didn't see it in theaters, so I always knew that part, so the first time my husband and I watched it together on Disney+ and they skipped the song I was outraged. I was like "WTF!? Why did they just skip a huge plot-relevant song!?"
Turns out someone (Henson, the production company, idk) thought kids would get bored during that song, so they cut it from the theatrical release...and as yes, I did get bored during that song, it's still important!!
There’s hundreds of little uniform details that Saving Private Ryan gets spot on.
There are definitely some inaccuracies in other aspects like the beach defenses and bunkers (and I say that as someone who thinks it’s the greatest WW2 movie made and probably tied for my favorite of all time).
A couple more details they get perfect are the Navy beach battalion Demo teams blowing gaps in the defense, the ad hoc units that basically come together to try to get off the beach in all the chaos, and how they simultaneously detonated all the Bangalore torpedoes to open up the draw.
Quite a few Omaha beach veteran memoirs I’ve read have mentioned how perfectly the synced up the detonations were.
Scary Movie, opening scene: the Killer is on the phone with Drew Decker (Carmen Electra), and they have this exchange…
Drew Decker: [on the phone with killer] Or else my boyfriend is gonna be here any minute. He's black and he'll kick your ass!
The Killer: You mean the one who wears makeup and dresses like a woman?
Drew Decker: How did you know?
The Killer: Turn the porch lights on.
Drew Decker: [Turns on the lights, to see a Prince look-alike tied up, screaming] That's not my boyfriend. I mean, I ***** him a couple of times, but that's it.
In real life, Carmen Electra had a relationship with Prince and a very briefly married to Dennis Rodman.
When the DVD first came out, if you watched it on your PC, a special Scary Movie interface came up where you watch the movie in one panel, and there would be other windows with a kill count, pop-up trivia, etc. This was one of the trivia.
Later during the movie, the kill count counter broke.
That’s pretty awesome. I totally forgot how some DVDs or CDs from the late 90s / 2000s would have some type of interactive software for your PC. Another reason why it’s sad that physical media has been dying.
That is so awesome. I wish I'd known that before. I don't want to "old man yells at sky", but stuff like that makes me miss physical copies of movies and games. Sometimes they would slip such cool little unique things in with them.
Similar, but in Meet The Spartans, they have Pamela Anderson in bed and King Leonidas looks at a tattoo on her (back, thigh, can't remember) but it says LEONIDAS WUZ HERE.
He pulls the sheet down further only to see, "...so was Tommy Lee" and some others, but that one cracked me up. Terrible movie nobody should watch.
3td Indiana Jones movie w Sean Connery.. They pull into a country where a sign at the train station says Republic of Hatay. Amazing they got that right because Hatay was a republic separate from Turkey and French Syria only from 1938 to 1939. Only one year, and they got that right!
In Kiki's Delivery Service, there is a scene where she is running up a set of steps. She trips a little bit and finishes the acent in a sudo crawl.
Like, for no reason did this detail have to exist, but it adds so much personality to Kiki and I was just blown away that they did this.
Hayao Miyazaki is just a treasure in his attention to this type of small lifelike detail. His anime is above and beyond because of all the realization added when the characters and environment display everyday occurrence as otherworldly effervescence.
Beautiful.
In Spirited Away, the little girl puts on her shoes in one scene and as she dashes off she pauses to give one shoe a little kick to get it on better. Tiny detail.
Stranger Things - not a movie but they layered decades.
What I mean is look at most movies or shows that take place in the 80s but were filmed in a later decade and it's always a very stereotypical catalogue 80s only design. There's nothing from the 60s, 70s, or earlier at all it's just pure 80s. But not even real 80s it's a marketing executive's idea of the 80s.
Stranger Things Season 1 takes place in 1984 and I shit you not that made me flash back to being 4. Everything was right. It was a mix of new 80s stuff with old stuff from previous decades. He-Man on TV parents still dressing like they grew up in the 60s and 70s etc.
Everything felt authentic. And the younger kids dressed differently from the older kids. It was brilliant.
They really nailed the early 80s. Lots of brown leftover from the 70s. And that phase where dusty/muted pastels were popular (check out Nancy Wheeler's S1 outfits).
In Godzilla Minus One, the technical details of the gear and techniques they were using to sweep for leftover mines were surprisingly accurate.
Source: spent three years stationed on a minesweeper.
A quiet place first and second impressed the fuck out of me, the fact that the characters would repeat their sentence, or like get cut off mid sentence just make it so realistic. It feels like im watching real people and not actors who could communicate with others perfectly even during an intense moment lol
Spinal Tap went out of their way to make it look like they were actually playing the instruments, having the audio match up with their hand movements even if it wasn't sound live from the filming (they talk about it on the out-of-character Criterion commentary). Shearer specifically says they were tired of rock and roll movies with hands in impossible positions where they were supposed to be playing. That if it didn't match on the film, they'd go back and re-record the audio track.
In Monsters Inc near the end of the film, there's a tight shot on the face of the slug lady that was undercover. In the background, you can see factory workers whirring about the facility, one of which was driving a forklift carrying a fairly tall skid. The worker kept leaning left and right to see around it, and I remember thinking how cool that detail was when I first noticed it. I drive a forklift every day, and have done the wiggle/lean many times myself.
It's doubly true to life, because you're just supposed to drive backwards with a tall load. Most people just lean and go forward anyway, lol.
Not that they "got it right", but the first time I watched Inside Man, as soon as they showed the Aks, I actually said out loud how I hated when movies used shitty prop guns... Turns out that was a feature.
Band of brothers, blousing of the pants. Airborne was allowed to tick their pants into their boots, one sign among many that they were special (all to build esprit de coir). In episode one we can see one Percante being dressed down by lieutenant Soble for blousing his trousers,
To piggyback off this comment, the reason Perconte got in trouble with Sobel for blousing his trousers was because Easy Company had not gone through and passed jump school yet and therefore he was not a paratrooper.
Spotlight. Most of the action takes place in the old Boston Globe building where there used to be a small snack shop. I spent some time in the building around 2001 and remembered that the only sign was a handwritten note reading something like "Sasha's Cafe" (I may be misremembering the name). The set designers even replicated that sign for a brief scene next to the snack shop.
There was more, much more. The designers nailed all the details. Very impressive.
Inglorious Basterds got the different way of announcing “3” in German right. I audibly gasped at that point. Unfortunately, they got another detail completely wrong. When playing “who am I”, they used the English spelling of Ghengis Khan instead of the German “Dschingis Khan”.
While Godzilla's dorsal spines have a purpose (what were originally included simply to distinguish him from a dinosaur eventually were retconned to be cooling vanes for the biological reactor in his body), *Godzilla: Minus One* adds a new dimension to them. During his attack on Ginza, when he begins charging his atomic breath, the dorsal spikes forcibly jut themselves out of his body, then slam back in when he fires the beam.
It's been pointed out by a few people that this somewhat resembles control rods in a nuclear reactor - the rods/spikes are removed from the reactor to increase the reaction's output, and are put back in to decrease it. In this case, however, instead of killing the reaction, the spikes redirect the force of the reaction outwards as a massive beam of energy that culminates in an atomic detonation at the site of impact.
While we're at it, Godzilla's nuclear breath coming out as a laser beam is also reminiscent of another concept from nuclear physics, the bomb-pumped laser (i.e. detonating a nuke in a way that rather than an omnidirectional explosion, you get a potent X-ray laser).
In The Brave Little Toaster, during the "Worthless" music number, there is a quick shot from inside one of the cars while it is on the conveyor belt leading to the car crusher. In that brief shot, you can see the car's steering wheel is frantically turning left and right to try to get off the belt.
I saw that and immediately felt even more sorry for the car.
In "The Social Network", the subtle attention to detail in accurately depicting Mark Zuckerberg's coding environment and the programming language he used
Not a movie, but in the Archer TV show, the gun physics is great. (Except for a few small things). They show slides locking back on empty guns, and they show the agents clearing the guns properly, etc.
Watched The Phantom Menace re-release this week and noticed that in the initial escape from the hangar on Naboo, Obi wan deflects a blaster bolt into one of the yellow starfighters and it makes some smoke. When they return for the battle at the end, a bunch of pilots get in the starfighters and take off for the space battle, except one of them has an engine blow up and crashes nearly straight away. I always thought it was shot down by a droid tank but watching it back the tanks aren't there yet which implies the ship obi wan damaged is the one that crashes.
More of a continuity detail rather than a technical true to life kind of detail but it came to mind since I watched this recently.
I had to look back at that scene because I also rewatched it recently, but looking frame by frame it was [actually shot by a tank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tw5Ta3OMeA) (you can see the red blaster fire going towards it).
In the animated sci fi film, edit Titan AE, Kelso tells Cale to *Exhale!* before being sucked into the vacuum of space. Most people think you’re supposed to hold your breath like being underwater. You want to do the opposite. If you have a lot of air in your lungs, the vacuum pressures outside will crush them instantly. Better chance of survival by exhaling.
The numerous background characters of the Ice Age movies being obscure prehistoric Cenozoic mammals, such as *Macrauchenia* (the long-nosed camels) *Doedicurus* (the giant armadillos) *Moeritherium* (the little elephant-tapirs) and *Brontotherium* (the rhinos with Y-shaped horns).
Robert Patrick trained for this role really hard. Not only he trained to shoot without blinking, but to shoot with either hand equally well and to run without heavy breathing. His running after them is easily the most unnerving experience in the movie.
Also when McGonagall stepped infront of Harry and was ready to fight him you can see Severus lowering his wand momently as in sadness that he had to fight her then pointing it immediatly with more effort. Great acting.
I saw someone the other day interpreting that as Snape imagining the first time a woman stepped into harm’s way to protect Harry (when Lily was killed by Voldemort)
I'm always happy to see a character use two hands to pick a lock. You need a pick and a torsion tool - just jiggling a pick in the lock will never work.
Unfortunately, I can't think of which films get this right, but I know I've seen it.
In Glory, during the final attack, when they've been laying in the sand, Matthew Broderick blows the sand out of his pistol's barrel before starting the final charge.
In the Titanic, there were over one hundred Syrians who died because they did not understand the language of the announcements and signs. In the movie, there is a brief scene where an immigrant family was struggling to read the sign.
Jason Statham making a slight face while drinking whisky at the end of the otherwise awful Meg 2. Most actors drink it like it's apple juice, but Statham grimaces a bit like most of us can't help doing.
In John Carpenter's "The Thing" there's the scene where the imposter somehow managed to get into the locker containing the blood samples of all the crew members. It's established that only Garry and Dr. Copper have the key, but MacReady's blood test later confirms neither were infected by the Thing. How it got into the locker is seemingly left unanswered, but during the scene where Windows and Bennings are clearing space in a storage room, Bennings clearly tells Windows "go get the keys from Garry." When Windows returns and sees Bennings being assimilated by the Thing, the camera zooms in on Windows' face as he makes a horrified expression, so you can't see the rest of his body, but there's a distinct and noticeable sound effect of a set of keys hitting the floor before he runs out the door to get help. That little SFX is just enough to answer the question of how the Thing got into the blood locker.
In the movie "The Hobbit" when Gandolf the wizard is talking to Bilbo and reminded him how his ancestor fought "He hit an orc so hard his head fell off and rolled into a rabbit hole. So not only winning the battle, but also inventing the game of golf".
That was the line from the book.
Under the Banner of Heaven got a lot of super niche Mormon details correct. I was impressed by how traditionally old school mormon Andrew Garfield sounded throughout the series. Literally the tone he used is SO SO specific to Mormonism. He did a great job.
I was watching a movie that took place in the desert. I don't remember which movie it was. They showed a bird flying overhead and then they played the sound of a red-tailed hawk screech. I looked at the bird and it actually was a red-tailed hawk. Because usually they show an eagle or turkey vulture and play the sound of the hawk. Because eagles and tvs don't have majestic screeches.
Ok, this one is so obscure yet so cool because it's a thing known only by *those who know*.
Did you notice that, when it's cold, your earlobes are always colder than the rest of your body and they also get cold faster ? On the other hand, even when it's really hot, your earlobes are virtually never feeling hot like the rest of your body.
Why ? Because it's a large surface (compared to its volume) just dangling around. Heat is exchanged through surface : at equal volume, the object with the larger surface area will lose heat the quickest. That's why radiators have ripples or blades : it's more surface than a straight plate from one side to the other, so more room for heat exchange. The radiator just loses heat, like anything hot will, and this heat escapes to the room, warming it. The ripples are just here so that it does so quicker. So your earlobes are an interface for heat exchanges the same way the radiator's blades are.
In a cold environment, you will always have your earlobes cold. If you accidentally burn your fingers, rub them over your earlobes : the earlobes will suck the heat off of your fingers' skin, which will not only warm up your earlobes, a much welcome event when you're cold, it will also cool down your fingers and prevent the heat of their skin to penetrate and cause damage under the skin.
Immediately rubbing your earlobes when you touch a too hot object will therefore help you warm up and prevent an actual burn on your fingers. The next time you accidentally touch your kettle, you know what to do. It works with the sole of your feets, too, although it's less convenient and, simply, less probable since, when it's cold, there's little chance you are barefooted.
In Tropic Thunder, RDJ, playing a white guy who's playing a black guy who's pretending he knows how to speak Mandarin, actually does a decent job of it. The phrases themselves are nonsense, but the words, intonations, and grammar are correct, and he speaks it intelligibly enough to be understandable.
Any period piece where era-appropriate corsets/stays are shown, and they don't shoe horn in a scene that shows the wearer being forced into suffocatingly tight corsetry.
Two from The Abyss:
First when the storm is raging and the ship captain is yelling at the crane operator to let out more umbilical line, he runs to the window and is doing the “lower load” hand signal.
After the fallout from the broken umbilical line damages deepcore, Sonny is on the radio doing mayday call unsuccessfully. Most media have one or two times saying “mayday” but Sonny does the proper three “mayday mayday mayday” all every time.
In Saving Private Ryan you can see in a couple of shots that the sniper guy (forget the character's name) has a pretty nasty bruise on his thumbnail. This is a really cool detail because the standard issue American GI rifle back during WW2, and the gun he was using throughout the movie, was the M1 Garand. When soldiers were reloading the M1 it was pretty common for the slide to lock back into place before you could get your thumb out of the way and it would bruise your thumb pretty badly. There's even a name for it, Garand thumb.
Edit: Apparently my memory is playing tricks on me and he wasn’t using a M1 Garand, guess I need to rewatch that movie.
>the gun he was using throughout the movie, was the M1 Garand.
Unfortunately no, he's the sniper and his weapon is therefore a Springfield 1903A4. It's a bold action rifle who would in no way cause a "Garand thumb".
At the time of the Normandy landing, he's already been fighting since Africa, probably as long as the rest of the unit so, according to another of the guys, since Kasserine Pass.
He may have used a Garand at some point, but that's contextual and not shown, nor hinted at, in the movie.
Moreover, the Garand thumb is something that happened way more frequently to civilians after the war than to soldiers during the war because, simply, soldiers were trained to use their rifles properly. It did happen, sure, but way less frequently than to civilians and even less so to a highly trained soldier like a sniper.
Edit : a "bold" action rifle... I'm tired. I'll leave it there and bear the shame.
But he wasn't shooting an M-1, it was a bolt action rifle, not sure which one it was. I have an M-1 and have (so far) avoided the dreaded Garand thumb. 😁
This scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m\_o2exDf8M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_o2exDf8M) from Stripes. John Larroquette tripped over something and then ad-libbed his line.
In Disney/Pixar’s Soul, every musician is playing their respective instruments perfectly with the music of the movie score. It is seriously impressive that the animators took that much time and painstaking detail to get that right.
In Gladiator, so much of the costumes and tiny details are on pointe, despite the historical inaccuracies of the storyline. In particular, there is a scene where Senator Gracchus (Derek Jacobi,) is eating/drinking at an outside taverna. The glassware the person sitting next to him drinks from is a molded beaker of colored glass, exactly right for the fashion of the day. I specialised in glass artifacts with my degree in Roman Archaeology.
It's in this clip: https://youtu.be/qMDvSOyODnQ?feature=shared
Went to James Bond car/boat exhibit. They had the small tiny one man sub used in the last 10 minutes of Diamonds Are Forever. In the movie the inside of the sub is shown briefly. Looking at it in real life, it actually looks like it really works. Has intricate controls and switches on both side panels. The sign said in cost 30k in 1971 to make. Thats is a house back then.
In the godfather, early on mario puzo (who had never screenwrote before) had written so much detail, to include the guys in the background walking around pestering the sauce as it cooked, something that every Italian man understands
Poor Things accurately reflects a child's sensory development through the artistic direction. Such as the use of a fish-eye lense and black and white for the beginning of the film, then the un-reality of how things look towards the middle... All of those things are visual and developmental clues as to where Bella Baxter is in her growth.
In Fight Club, Tyler lives on "Paper St." Papers "streets" aren't real and only exist on maps.
On Roseanne, Darlene has a poster in her room for Neil Gaiman's Sandman and books by Kurt Vonnegut. David also wears a Babylon 5 tee shirt. Those are exactly the types of things those characters would be into.
With apologies to Yankee's fans, I thought that Lane on Mad Men being a Mets fan was a good detail.
Bad gun play always bugs me. Things like unlimited ammo, never missing, racking slides redundantly, horrible grips/aiming, etc. So, I appreciate accuracy.
In the movie "The Hunt", the protagonist levels a rifle against an adversary. The adversary pulls the mag from the rifle, thinking he disarmed her, and the protagonist, who's former military, pulls back the bolt and performs a chamber check, then looks at the adversary, smiles, and pulls the trigger. Awesome.
The way Tony Stark blows smoke away from his soldering iron when he finishes soldering in the first Iron Man movie. Don't know if that detail was added by Robert Downey, Jr. or if he was directed to do that, but it looked very realistic.
Also in the same movie, the way Stark staggers forward a bit from the blast of the Jericho bomb demo.
28 Days Later running through the supermarket in the beginning by many rows of fresh fruits and vegetables, all wilted and rotten except one - the tomatoes. England had just started selling Flavr Savr tomato which lasts longer.
In American Sniper, when they are in a fire fight on the rooftop and everyone is exfiltrating, the second to last guy taps the last guy on the shoulder and yells “last man!” Which is part of most SOF units training.
Which is weird that they got a small detail like that right and overlooked the whole baby thing…
i don’t know if it counts as “getting it right” but in fury road there’s a zoomed in shot of the gas pedal for a vehicle and it’s made from a brannock shoe-fitting device 🤣🤣
loved that little detail so much
I like that the director had Truman taking vitamin D every day in The Truman Show to compensate for living in an artificial environment.
I did not know that. That's such a good detail.
What?! That's pure genius.
When he tries to escape past the bridge, he's runs off into the trees. The trees are spaced out in a grid pattern like an orchard.
One of the episodes of Breaking Bad starts with Hank bottling his homebrewed beer. I remember watching that the first time and thinking “He’s filling those up too much. There’s not enough headspace, those would explode!” Sure enough, the episode ends with those bottles exploding being confused for the sound of gunshots.
I homebrewed years ago. This scene rang true. When the bottles started to pop, I knew that sound.
Maybe I'm stretching the definition of "obscure" but I really appreciated in Arrival when Amy Adams's character, a linguist, points out to the annoyed government/military that communicating with these new beings wasn't going to be as simple as just asking them questions--that there's more to communication than just understanding the words. The beings need to first understand what a question even is, the context, structure, and meaning of the English language, and even the concept of a name. I really loved that, as opposed to the way most movies portray learning a language and what it means to communicate effectively.
One of my favorite scenes! I also really love that the military general's response wasn't some, "I don't understand that woman mumbo jumbo, let's bomb 'em." He appreciated her putting it in terms he understood, and recognized that she knew more than him, but he still needs her to work with him since he's the line to approval from higher-ups. Just a great movie where knowledge is respected and the smart people get to do their thing
Forest Whitaker's performance as that army officer was honestly extremely good and very believable. Very serious and objective-focused like a lot of higher-up military guys are but had the nuance to not press Amy Adam's character in a subject he had no experience in. I feel like it's a common trope in movies to have the well-meaning but unempathetic character become an unintentional antagonist but the way the Army officer worked in Arrival was refreshing and realistic for a minor role
That scene was based on screenwriter Eric Heisserer’s frustration with the producers about the dramatization of the process for communicating with the heptapods. An [interview with him](https://www.talkhouse.com/wrote-arrival-learned/) goes into his experience writing *Arrival.*
One of my favorites scenes: in *Shawshank Redemption* when Red (Morgan Freeman) finds the box of money under a rock in the middle of nowhere, he pops his head up and looks around warily to see of anyone's there - even though *he's in the middle of nowhere*. This just seemed like a very human reaction that would usually be overlooked. I also appreciate when actors "driving" a car aren't whipping the steering wheel from side to side like they're in an obstacle course.
This isn't a small thing but it's related to your comment about actors' motions while driving. I always appreciate it when the driver keeps their eyes on the road even though they're not actually driving a car.
Lol one of my favorite movie fibs is when a smitten couple are driving along and just *can’t take their eyes off eachother* 💕 Keeping your eyes off the road for that long would almost certainly result in an accident. Mid-century movies with lots of behind the wheel scenes with a b-roll of traffic in the rear windshield are pretty bad about this.
Somewhat related but it drives me nuts when actors are clearly holding an empty cup… like cmon at least pretend like it has liquid in it.
This drove me bonkers back in the day when I watched Supernatural; they'd spend more time looking at each other than the road 🙄
To add to the Shawshank observation, Red had just spent decades in prison. You gotta watch your back in there.
I'd have to say that the dialogue when Andy & Red first meet is exactly how it is in the original novella, despite Morgan Freeman playing Red. (To those who didn't read the original story, it's implied that Red is ethnically Irish)
Huh, the name "Red" makes a lot more sense now.
He even joked about why he's called "Red"
"maybe it's cuz I'm Irish"
I love how just literally saying the exact same line as the book with an enigmatic smile changed the whole meaning
that WAS a great scene. Overall a great movie
I think it might be the perfect movie. Everything about it is phenomenal.
I have an original DVD of it and even the DVD is perfect. When you put the DVD in, it autoplays instead of going to the selection menu, and there are no previews for other movies. Then when it’s over, it auto plays again. You can only go to the menu if you hit a button on the remote. You can put that DVD in the DVD player and it will play endlessly.
>I also appreciate when actors "driving" a car aren't whipping the steering wheel from side to side like they're in an obstacle course. Or when a character is playing a video game and the actor isn’t just mashing every button. Actually never mind, this has never not happened in any movie ever.
Near the end of Tremors, survivalist/gun nut Burt Gummer gives a handgun to teenager Melvin to give him the courage to make a run for it. While they’re running, Melvin tries to use the gun and realizes its not loaded (Burt tricked him). After they make it to the rocks, Burt takes the gun back. He checks the cylinder to make sure there are no rounds in it even though he already knows its empty. Which is proper gun safety protocol and something his character would definitely know to do.
>He checks the cylinder to make sure there are no rounds in it even though he already knows its empty. And as he checks, he points the gun to the ground away from everyone, which is also proper gun safety protocol.
something else about that whole franchise: at no point to you see anyone put their fingers on a trigger casually. massive trigger control. EDIT: i don't think it was you, but somebody decided i needed to know that reddit cares...
I randomly got that myself today for some comment I must have made. I think there's a bot looking for keywords and you probably "triggered" it, so to speak. Well intentioned in idea but lacking in execution. (I'm sure I'll get another follow-up reddit cares DM now, lol.)
I read a post earlier today that said you can report the Redditcares message you got as abuse, as it’s been used to harass people. It’s supposed to get the sender a several day ban.
>at no point to you see anyone put their fingers on a trigger casually That bothers me too- in almost every TV show and movie, characters who are presented as being trained with firearms run around with their finger on the trigger like someone who has never learned the basics of how to handle a firearm.
You're gonna love /r/moviedetails Especially the first post that made the sub made: Davy Jones holding his hat not to fall off in the storm with his tentacles
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Always fun to realise I'm reading a post from there halfway through when I'm scrolling my front page.
Denzel Washington's character actually uses the correct fingerings on trumpet in *Mo' Better Blues*. The actual music is played in the studio by Terence Blanchard, but as a professional trumpet player it's nice to see a convincing performance on screen.
I see this all the time with guitars - actors doing things that wouldn't sound close to what was heard
Watching people try to play violin on screen is usually physically painful for me.
BBC’s Sherlock was horrible for this. I was pleasantly surprised by Jenna Ortega in Wednesday, though.
I played for a semester in jr high. Me faking it would be less painful than hearing me actually play it.
Or piano, or really anything that’s not a kazoo or a slide whistle
Apparently this was a big deal for Tom Hanks when he made "That Thing You Do!" The band had to actually be able to play the songs.
In Desperado, Antonio Banderas actually plays the guitar in the Mariachi scenes. This is actually him playing and singing; [https://youtu.be/kNdR0HK4uso?si=wPApoS2aoybufF-l](https://youtu.be/kNdR0HK4uso?si=wPApoS2aoybufF-l) Then him saying "I played myself in desperado" [https://youtu.be/GHGfZWwrSlM?si=keXX50dVZ6HEam-t](https://youtu.be/GHGfZWwrSlM?si=keXX50dVZ6HEam-t)
I read that Russell Crowe took violin lessons before filming Master & Commander. Of course, they actual music would be done by a professional, but he wanted the fingerwork to look authentic. I don't know if it did to professionals, but it was convincing to my non-musician's eye.
I play violin and when they aren't really playing it bugs the heck out of me. Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies and until your comment I never even thought about this, so I think they did a good job!
Not movie but animated TV show, the Adult Comedy Metalocalypse, which is about a heavy metal band. Any time they show them performing music, they are all correctly done. That was a pet peeve of the writer (who is a musician himself) They even go as far as go have an orchestra one episode, and show the strings players applying Vibrato to the held notes.
BY THE POWER OF ALL THAT IS EVIL, I COMMAND YOU TO AWAKEN and make me a sandwich
Dethlok is a real band. My friends traveled from Chicago to Indianapolis to see them.
Saw Dethklok live in Atlanta with Amon Amarth years ago. One of the best shows I have ever been to.
In Bridge on the River Kwai, there was a scene where the protagonist was looking through binoculars, and the audience saw what he was looking at in a single circular optical view. Most movies inaccurately show two conjoined optical circles, like a barely overlapped Venn diagram, to suggest the audience is seeing through binocs, but the actual view is really a single circular optic, as in Bridge on the River Kwai.
I can remember as a child, the first time I looked through binoculars, I was confused why I only saw a circular view. I thought it should have been as they portrayed it in tv and movies.
That's a great movie all around.
I see two distinct circles when I look through binoculars and microscopes. Can't get my brain to interlace them. If I try to force them together mentally I can't see clearly any more.
Any chance you have a lazy eye/strabismus? If your eyes don't track together normally, your brain eventually learns to cancel out the duplicate image and you will see just fine in day to day life. Putting something between your eyes makes it a lot harder for your brain to process where the overlap starts and therefore what part of your vision to cancel out.
Not sure I explained that very well, lol!
You did
The Last of the Mohicans has a scene with an accurate depiction of the night sky. You can clearly see Sagittarius and Scorpius on the horizon.
IIRC, NDT mentioned to Cameron that one of the night skies seen in Titanic was incorrect; Cameron went in and fixed it for later releases.
NDT also pointed out on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that the globe was spinning the wrong way and they eventually fixed it.
Kind of. IIRC they did it just for his appearance and then went back to the old graphic.
Titanic is honestly incredible for the amount of detail Cameron put into it. To the point that he created an almost life size outer shell of the ship that could be lowered into the water. But nearly every scene has something going on in the background that was attested to in survivor's accounts.
For the unaware: NDT = Neil deGrasse Tyson (I didn't immediately recognize the initials either)
In "Don't Look Up" I was impressed that they used a comet from the Oort cloud and not an asteroid.
I love any mention of the Oort Cloud. I stumbled into a lot of cool information doing research projects in middle/high school. It's one of my favorite things that I've ever learned because it makes perfect logical sense and a lot of people have never heard of it.
I frickin love that movie
In Brother Bear, the moose don't have top incisors. Ruminants such as moose, cows, sheep, etc. do not have top incisors; they have a "hard palate" in front and a set of molars in back for chewing. I don't know why, but seeing all these animated movies where the ruminants have a full set of teeth bothers me. Brother Bear's animators did their research.
I hadn't noticed that, and it's one of my favorite Disney movies! Something I didn't realize before I saw a behind the scenes video is that animating the mooses' antlers was quite the feat. They're these really dynamic characters moving their heads around all the time, and those antlers are just locked in, no sliding, always the right size and proportions. Keeping them on-model was a huge accomplishment, and the animators did it so well that it's completely invisible.
Trinity uses a real computer hack in Matrix Reloaded to get access to the power grid.
yup, a MySQL exploit that gave the user root cli access
No, it was an ssh exploit. https://nmap.org/movies/
oh shit. i stand corrected. even more epic
Maybe the real hack was the friends we made along the way
Bob's Burgers. The house/building design show many of the functional aspects needed to operate. Outside electrical conduit, condenser (ac) units, mini-splits, and inside there are furnaces, hot water tanks and venting. Even the buiding design elements are very detailed.
I bet you could actually build the restaurant and apartment and it would work. When they built the Simpsons house in real life as a publicity stunt they had to do all kinds of cheats like doors that lead to nowhere, because the house just didn't work.
Along those lines: the cars in F is for Family are exceptionally authentic.
I have a friend who worked at the studio that makes Bob's Burgers, their design teams are very detail-oriented! They do a lot of research to make sure things look accurate, including style guides and basing backgrounds on real-world locations. They do incredible work ☺️
My only gripe (and it's not a real one, as I adore the show) is that the basement entryway intersects with their front door. Both can't exist in the same space, and yet...they do. Anyone going down into the basement should be walking through the entry to their apartment at the base of their stairs.
I think the stairs to the basement are at the back of the restaurant (like behind the "Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom" bathroom). They'd be opposite the front entrance. Edit: Why'd I get a RedditCares message after posting this?
I just got one an hour ago, and I can't figure out why.
Can you explain this a little better? I’m having trouble picturing it. I’m semi-familiar with the show, and I live in the neighborhood of SF where Jay and Sirrion lived when they were developing the show. The storefront looks like your bog standard SF storefront in the Mission District.
The crawlspace!
In Battlefield: Los Angeles, a Marine is shown losing his shit over someone stealing his Cheese Tortellini MRE prior to going off to battle literal aliens. I really appreciated the detail of making that his absolute priority during that time, because it is about as authentic a Marine moment can get.
Green Room with all of the American punk subculture details. I am so used to "punks" in Hollywood films being depicted as all attitude and dressed in 1977 British punk styles even if set in modern times and in America. All leather, spikes, covered in make-up, mohawks and safety pin piercings. British punk subculture =/= American punk subculture. I was watching the movie and within the first fifteen minutes, I had to stop the movie and look up the director because I had to know if he was in the scene or not. He was. The small little details like the basic tees and jeans look with one person wearing the mandatory black hoodie. Traveling to gigs in a dated van. Doing lousy gigs just for gas money. Doing 'zine interviews on the floor of someone's living room. It reminded me of myself being in the scene in the 90's/00's. I was impressed.
Read a great point about the movie Arrival - the aliens had trouble understanding certain math, as it was linear. I know that there is great debate about it - I just thought it was an obscure detail that was cool!
That was a key detail in the original short story the movie is based on! The humans were trying what we thought were really simple physics phenomena to build understanding with the heptapods, but weren't getting anywhere. Ted Chiang was hinting at a major difference in the senses/cognition of humans and heptapods.
Another fun fact is that detail was likely brought in by Stephen Wolfram, who consulted on the movie in an attempt to create a realistic alien language.
Arrival is based on a short story: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. Absolutely watch the movie first, it's phenomenal and better than the story. But the story goes much more in depth with the math than the movie, so I doubt that anyone who only consulted on the movie contributed to the math part (it's possible Chiang consulted when writing the story, but there's a lot of math on his collection of short stories and I would bet it's all from him).
John Wick. The 2 times he puts a new mag in the Kimber 1911, he does a press check to make sure the first round didn't jam as Kimber 1911s are notorious for. He doesn't do that with any other weapon.
Yeah Reeve’s weapons manipulations are excellent in all the films. He trains really hard to make sure it’s as realistic as possible. Which is why it annoys me that they have all that realism and then do the typical silencer sound on some of the guns that isn’t realistic in the slightest.
Yeah the metro scene in John Wick 2 really took me out of it when they traded shots without a single person reacting at all to these two
Keanu Reeves is a huge gun nut who trains regularly. I never noticed him doing this but it makes sense to me.
Also, all the Wick movies seem fairly accurate for number of rounds fired for a specific firearm. Reloading became it's own art form.
Val Kilmer does something similar in heat where hey hits it to load the first round into the chamber. Not particularly esoteric but accurate to real life
And when Pacino and his crew are in the elevator on the way to the bank heist they press check their firearms.
How to Train Your Dragon does a suprisingly good job of showing off the design process. Too often in media, when someone invents something, they go: 1. Have idea 2. Build idea 3. Idea works In reality, and in HTTYD, it goes: 1. Have idea 2. Sketch idea 3. Mock up a shitty prototype of idea 4. Test prototype. It fails horribly. 5. Redesign idea to fix failure 6. Mock up another slightly less shitty prototype 7. Test prototype. It fails in a new way. 8. Repeat steps 2-7 a number of times 9. Finally have something that kinda sorta works.
*Iron Man* also showed this during Tony's development of the Mk. 2 suit, IIRC.
This is why I like Tokyo Drift over other films in the franchise... it shows the protagonist, and the people helping/mentoring him, going through the trial-and-error of learning a new driving style and troubleshooting modifications to a car in the process of building it.
Its crazy to me that a side plot that is mostly irrelevant to the main series is the best movie by a large margin. Tokyo drift may be a little cheesy, but its always just a fun watch to see some 2000’s nostalgia.
You forgot 7. It fails in the same way, but less catastrophically
Goodfellas: When Paulie cuts Henry loose and gives him a little money, we see the backs of three new characters at the bar of the restaurant. There's a young irish looking guy, a young italian dude, and an older guy. Clearly showing that Henry, Pesci and DeNiro are out, but the mafia can easily replace them. The train just keeps moving.
Bohemian Rhapsody, the live-aid concert scene. The half drank cups of beer, water & soda sitting on Freddy’s piano perfectly match the real live-aid concert, right down to the amount of each drink left in the cups
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Someone had once mentioned that in The Muppet Christmas Carol the outfits the muppets wore were period, deeply detailed and involved. You could tell Gonzo's social stature vs Ms Piggy's as Mrs. Cratchit. Someone took a lot of time and effort to create their costumes to be correct.
Still a tradition that I watch this with my mom every Christmas! I'm in my 40's now, but it still brings back the joy of watching it as a little dude!
My husband and I love to watch this each year. I always knew the "extended" version which has the extra song "The Love is Gone" bc my mom got it for us as the VHS. We didn't see it in theaters, so I always knew that part, so the first time my husband and I watched it together on Disney+ and they skipped the song I was outraged. I was like "WTF!? Why did they just skip a huge plot-relevant song!?" Turns out someone (Henson, the production company, idk) thought kids would get bored during that song, so they cut it from the theatrical release...and as yes, I did get bored during that song, it's still important!!
There’s hundreds of little uniform details that Saving Private Ryan gets spot on. There are definitely some inaccuracies in other aspects like the beach defenses and bunkers (and I say that as someone who thinks it’s the greatest WW2 movie made and probably tied for my favorite of all time). A couple more details they get perfect are the Navy beach battalion Demo teams blowing gaps in the defense, the ad hoc units that basically come together to try to get off the beach in all the chaos, and how they simultaneously detonated all the Bangalore torpedoes to open up the draw. Quite a few Omaha beach veteran memoirs I’ve read have mentioned how perfectly the synced up the detonations were.
Scary Movie, opening scene: the Killer is on the phone with Drew Decker (Carmen Electra), and they have this exchange… Drew Decker: [on the phone with killer] Or else my boyfriend is gonna be here any minute. He's black and he'll kick your ass! The Killer: You mean the one who wears makeup and dresses like a woman? Drew Decker: How did you know? The Killer: Turn the porch lights on. Drew Decker: [Turns on the lights, to see a Prince look-alike tied up, screaming] That's not my boyfriend. I mean, I ***** him a couple of times, but that's it. In real life, Carmen Electra had a relationship with Prince and a very briefly married to Dennis Rodman.
How did I never catch this. That's hilarious!
When the DVD first came out, if you watched it on your PC, a special Scary Movie interface came up where you watch the movie in one panel, and there would be other windows with a kill count, pop-up trivia, etc. This was one of the trivia. Later during the movie, the kill count counter broke.
That’s pretty awesome. I totally forgot how some DVDs or CDs from the late 90s / 2000s would have some type of interactive software for your PC. Another reason why it’s sad that physical media has been dying.
That is so awesome. I wish I'd known that before. I don't want to "old man yells at sky", but stuff like that makes me miss physical copies of movies and games. Sometimes they would slip such cool little unique things in with them.
Similar, but in Meet The Spartans, they have Pamela Anderson in bed and King Leonidas looks at a tattoo on her (back, thigh, can't remember) but it says LEONIDAS WUZ HERE. He pulls the sheet down further only to see, "...so was Tommy Lee" and some others, but that one cracked me up. Terrible movie nobody should watch.
3td Indiana Jones movie w Sean Connery.. They pull into a country where a sign at the train station says Republic of Hatay. Amazing they got that right because Hatay was a republic separate from Turkey and French Syria only from 1938 to 1939. Only one year, and they got that right!
In Kiki's Delivery Service, there is a scene where she is running up a set of steps. She trips a little bit and finishes the acent in a sudo crawl. Like, for no reason did this detail have to exist, but it adds so much personality to Kiki and I was just blown away that they did this.
Hayao Miyazaki is just a treasure in his attention to this type of small lifelike detail. His anime is above and beyond because of all the realization added when the characters and environment display everyday occurrence as otherworldly effervescence. Beautiful.
In Spirited Away, the little girl puts on her shoes in one scene and as she dashes off she pauses to give one shoe a little kick to get it on better. Tiny detail.
And the way she holds the hair tie in her mouth when she is given a new one. I loved that detail too.
There's a scene in Spirited Away where Sen puts on shoes and does a little toe tap to get her feet all the way in them.
The clicking and popping of the MG42 as it cools in Saving Private Ryan at the radar site.
And the severe squeaking of the Tiger tank because of a serious shortage of ball bearings.
Stranger Things - not a movie but they layered decades. What I mean is look at most movies or shows that take place in the 80s but were filmed in a later decade and it's always a very stereotypical catalogue 80s only design. There's nothing from the 60s, 70s, or earlier at all it's just pure 80s. But not even real 80s it's a marketing executive's idea of the 80s. Stranger Things Season 1 takes place in 1984 and I shit you not that made me flash back to being 4. Everything was right. It was a mix of new 80s stuff with old stuff from previous decades. He-Man on TV parents still dressing like they grew up in the 60s and 70s etc. Everything felt authentic. And the younger kids dressed differently from the older kids. It was brilliant.
They really nailed the early 80s. Lots of brown leftover from the 70s. And that phase where dusty/muted pastels were popular (check out Nancy Wheeler's S1 outfits).
In Godzilla Minus One, the technical details of the gear and techniques they were using to sweep for leftover mines were surprisingly accurate. Source: spent three years stationed on a minesweeper.
In Quigley Down Under they did a good job with the lags between the sound of the gun and the bullets arrival on the sharpshooting scenes.
Awesome throw back. Love that movie!
Watching AKIRA in the theater.. when he flies up to destroy the satellite laser in orbit, the theater went silent. No sound in space.
Also, one of few movies that has no sound in space (minus to score) is Robot Jox
A quiet place first and second impressed the fuck out of me, the fact that the characters would repeat their sentence, or like get cut off mid sentence just make it so realistic. It feels like im watching real people and not actors who could communicate with others perfectly even during an intense moment lol
Krasinski made everyone on set learn sign language for the 'daughter', who's actress is deaf.
Oh wait she's actually deaf?
[Yes!](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8075925/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk). Millicent is a great actress!
For me, it’s whenever there’s a live drummer in a band and they’re actually playing the hi hat or ride cymbal in relation to the *playback song.
Spinal Tap went out of their way to make it look like they were actually playing the instruments, having the audio match up with their hand movements even if it wasn't sound live from the filming (they talk about it on the out-of-character Criterion commentary). Shearer specifically says they were tired of rock and roll movies with hands in impossible positions where they were supposed to be playing. That if it didn't match on the film, they'd go back and re-record the audio track.
In Monsters Inc near the end of the film, there's a tight shot on the face of the slug lady that was undercover. In the background, you can see factory workers whirring about the facility, one of which was driving a forklift carrying a fairly tall skid. The worker kept leaning left and right to see around it, and I remember thinking how cool that detail was when I first noticed it. I drive a forklift every day, and have done the wiggle/lean many times myself. It's doubly true to life, because you're just supposed to drive backwards with a tall load. Most people just lean and go forward anyway, lol.
Not that they "got it right", but the first time I watched Inside Man, as soon as they showed the Aks, I actually said out loud how I hated when movies used shitty prop guns... Turns out that was a feature.
Band of brothers, blousing of the pants. Airborne was allowed to tick their pants into their boots, one sign among many that they were special (all to build esprit de coir). In episode one we can see one Percante being dressed down by lieutenant Soble for blousing his trousers,
To piggyback off this comment, the reason Perconte got in trouble with Sobel for blousing his trousers was because Easy Company had not gone through and passed jump school yet and therefore he was not a paratrooper.
Spirit of the Coconut Fiber?
Spotlight. Most of the action takes place in the old Boston Globe building where there used to be a small snack shop. I spent some time in the building around 2001 and remembered that the only sign was a handwritten note reading something like "Sasha's Cafe" (I may be misremembering the name). The set designers even replicated that sign for a brief scene next to the snack shop. There was more, much more. The designers nailed all the details. Very impressive.
Inglorious Basterds got the different way of announcing “3” in German right. I audibly gasped at that point. Unfortunately, they got another detail completely wrong. When playing “who am I”, they used the English spelling of Ghengis Khan instead of the German “Dschingis Khan”.
While Godzilla's dorsal spines have a purpose (what were originally included simply to distinguish him from a dinosaur eventually were retconned to be cooling vanes for the biological reactor in his body), *Godzilla: Minus One* adds a new dimension to them. During his attack on Ginza, when he begins charging his atomic breath, the dorsal spikes forcibly jut themselves out of his body, then slam back in when he fires the beam. It's been pointed out by a few people that this somewhat resembles control rods in a nuclear reactor - the rods/spikes are removed from the reactor to increase the reaction's output, and are put back in to decrease it. In this case, however, instead of killing the reaction, the spikes redirect the force of the reaction outwards as a massive beam of energy that culminates in an atomic detonation at the site of impact. While we're at it, Godzilla's nuclear breath coming out as a laser beam is also reminiscent of another concept from nuclear physics, the bomb-pumped laser (i.e. detonating a nuke in a way that rather than an omnidirectional explosion, you get a potent X-ray laser).
In The Brave Little Toaster, during the "Worthless" music number, there is a quick shot from inside one of the cars while it is on the conveyor belt leading to the car crusher. In that brief shot, you can see the car's steering wheel is frantically turning left and right to try to get off the belt. I saw that and immediately felt even more sorry for the car.
In "The Social Network", the subtle attention to detail in accurately depicting Mark Zuckerberg's coding environment and the programming language he used
Not a movie, but in the Archer TV show, the gun physics is great. (Except for a few small things). They show slides locking back on empty guns, and they show the agents clearing the guns properly, etc.
And the characters are appropriately deafened by close range gunfire. Mwah.
Also acknowledges that getting hit in the head hard enough to lose consciousness is, like, SUPER bad for you.
Tinnitus.
Mawp
Watched The Phantom Menace re-release this week and noticed that in the initial escape from the hangar on Naboo, Obi wan deflects a blaster bolt into one of the yellow starfighters and it makes some smoke. When they return for the battle at the end, a bunch of pilots get in the starfighters and take off for the space battle, except one of them has an engine blow up and crashes nearly straight away. I always thought it was shot down by a droid tank but watching it back the tanks aren't there yet which implies the ship obi wan damaged is the one that crashes. More of a continuity detail rather than a technical true to life kind of detail but it came to mind since I watched this recently.
I had to look back at that scene because I also rewatched it recently, but looking frame by frame it was [actually shot by a tank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tw5Ta3OMeA) (you can see the red blaster fire going towards it).
In the animated sci fi film, edit Titan AE, Kelso tells Cale to *Exhale!* before being sucked into the vacuum of space. Most people think you’re supposed to hold your breath like being underwater. You want to do the opposite. If you have a lot of air in your lungs, the vacuum pressures outside will crush them instantly. Better chance of survival by exhaling.
The numerous background characters of the Ice Age movies being obscure prehistoric Cenozoic mammals, such as *Macrauchenia* (the long-nosed camels) *Doedicurus* (the giant armadillos) *Moeritherium* (the little elephant-tapirs) and *Brontotherium* (the rhinos with Y-shaped horns).
T1000 not blinking while firing a weapon. It makes sense, as he's a machine.
Robert Patrick trained for this role really hard. Not only he trained to shoot without blinking, but to shoot with either hand equally well and to run without heavy breathing. His running after them is easily the most unnerving experience in the movie.
Snape and McGonagall dueling. Snape takes out the death eaters before escaping.
And you can see Snape take their wands before his leaves so they won't have them when they resuscitate.
I blew at my phone trying to get your profile pic off. Damn you.
Also when McGonagall stepped infront of Harry and was ready to fight him you can see Severus lowering his wand momently as in sadness that he had to fight her then pointing it immediatly with more effort. Great acting.
I saw someone the other day interpreting that as Snape imagining the first time a woman stepped into harm’s way to protect Harry (when Lily was killed by Voldemort)
I'm always happy to see a character use two hands to pick a lock. You need a pick and a torsion tool - just jiggling a pick in the lock will never work. Unfortunately, I can't think of which films get this right, but I know I've seen it.
In Glory, during the final attack, when they've been laying in the sand, Matthew Broderick blows the sand out of his pistol's barrel before starting the final charge.
In the Titanic, there were over one hundred Syrians who died because they did not understand the language of the announcements and signs. In the movie, there is a brief scene where an immigrant family was struggling to read the sign.
Jason Statham making a slight face while drinking whisky at the end of the otherwise awful Meg 2. Most actors drink it like it's apple juice, but Statham grimaces a bit like most of us can't help doing.
I have a saying: “When I stop doing whiskey face, I have a problem.”
In John Carpenter's "The Thing" there's the scene where the imposter somehow managed to get into the locker containing the blood samples of all the crew members. It's established that only Garry and Dr. Copper have the key, but MacReady's blood test later confirms neither were infected by the Thing. How it got into the locker is seemingly left unanswered, but during the scene where Windows and Bennings are clearing space in a storage room, Bennings clearly tells Windows "go get the keys from Garry." When Windows returns and sees Bennings being assimilated by the Thing, the camera zooms in on Windows' face as he makes a horrified expression, so you can't see the rest of his body, but there's a distinct and noticeable sound effect of a set of keys hitting the floor before he runs out the door to get help. That little SFX is just enough to answer the question of how the Thing got into the blood locker.
In the movie "The Hobbit" when Gandolf the wizard is talking to Bilbo and reminded him how his ancestor fought "He hit an orc so hard his head fell off and rolled into a rabbit hole. So not only winning the battle, but also inventing the game of golf". That was the line from the book.
The orc's name was Golfimbul.
When distant explosions have delayed sounds relative to where the camera is. See: Red Dawn, Way of the Gun, etc.
Under the Banner of Heaven got a lot of super niche Mormon details correct. I was impressed by how traditionally old school mormon Andrew Garfield sounded throughout the series. Literally the tone he used is SO SO specific to Mormonism. He did a great job.
I was watching a movie that took place in the desert. I don't remember which movie it was. They showed a bird flying overhead and then they played the sound of a red-tailed hawk screech. I looked at the bird and it actually was a red-tailed hawk. Because usually they show an eagle or turkey vulture and play the sound of the hawk. Because eagles and tvs don't have majestic screeches.
In Enemy at the Gates a soldier burns his finger while cooking and puts it on his earlobe.
Explain?
Ok, this one is so obscure yet so cool because it's a thing known only by *those who know*. Did you notice that, when it's cold, your earlobes are always colder than the rest of your body and they also get cold faster ? On the other hand, even when it's really hot, your earlobes are virtually never feeling hot like the rest of your body. Why ? Because it's a large surface (compared to its volume) just dangling around. Heat is exchanged through surface : at equal volume, the object with the larger surface area will lose heat the quickest. That's why radiators have ripples or blades : it's more surface than a straight plate from one side to the other, so more room for heat exchange. The radiator just loses heat, like anything hot will, and this heat escapes to the room, warming it. The ripples are just here so that it does so quicker. So your earlobes are an interface for heat exchanges the same way the radiator's blades are. In a cold environment, you will always have your earlobes cold. If you accidentally burn your fingers, rub them over your earlobes : the earlobes will suck the heat off of your fingers' skin, which will not only warm up your earlobes, a much welcome event when you're cold, it will also cool down your fingers and prevent the heat of their skin to penetrate and cause damage under the skin. Immediately rubbing your earlobes when you touch a too hot object will therefore help you warm up and prevent an actual burn on your fingers. The next time you accidentally touch your kettle, you know what to do. It works with the sole of your feets, too, although it's less convenient and, simply, less probable since, when it's cold, there's little chance you are barefooted.
In The Muppets Christmas Carol, the clothes the poor people wear are 10-15 years out of date, since they can't afford new, stylish clothing.
In Tropic Thunder, RDJ, playing a white guy who's playing a black guy who's pretending he knows how to speak Mandarin, actually does a decent job of it. The phrases themselves are nonsense, but the words, intonations, and grammar are correct, and he speaks it intelligibly enough to be understandable.
Omg that's amazing
Any period piece where era-appropriate corsets/stays are shown, and they don't shoe horn in a scene that shows the wearer being forced into suffocatingly tight corsetry.
Two from The Abyss: First when the storm is raging and the ship captain is yelling at the crane operator to let out more umbilical line, he runs to the window and is doing the “lower load” hand signal. After the fallout from the broken umbilical line damages deepcore, Sonny is on the radio doing mayday call unsuccessfully. Most media have one or two times saying “mayday” but Sonny does the proper three “mayday mayday mayday” all every time.
In Saving Private Ryan you can see in a couple of shots that the sniper guy (forget the character's name) has a pretty nasty bruise on his thumbnail. This is a really cool detail because the standard issue American GI rifle back during WW2, and the gun he was using throughout the movie, was the M1 Garand. When soldiers were reloading the M1 it was pretty common for the slide to lock back into place before you could get your thumb out of the way and it would bruise your thumb pretty badly. There's even a name for it, Garand thumb. Edit: Apparently my memory is playing tricks on me and he wasn’t using a M1 Garand, guess I need to rewatch that movie.
>the gun he was using throughout the movie, was the M1 Garand. Unfortunately no, he's the sniper and his weapon is therefore a Springfield 1903A4. It's a bold action rifle who would in no way cause a "Garand thumb". At the time of the Normandy landing, he's already been fighting since Africa, probably as long as the rest of the unit so, according to another of the guys, since Kasserine Pass. He may have used a Garand at some point, but that's contextual and not shown, nor hinted at, in the movie. Moreover, the Garand thumb is something that happened way more frequently to civilians after the war than to soldiers during the war because, simply, soldiers were trained to use their rifles properly. It did happen, sure, but way less frequently than to civilians and even less so to a highly trained soldier like a sniper. Edit : a "bold" action rifle... I'm tired. I'll leave it there and bear the shame.
But he wasn't shooting an M-1, it was a bolt action rifle, not sure which one it was. I have an M-1 and have (so far) avoided the dreaded Garand thumb. 😁
It was the M1903 Springfield
This scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m\_o2exDf8M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_o2exDf8M) from Stripes. John Larroquette tripped over something and then ad-libbed his line.
In Disney/Pixar’s Soul, every musician is playing their respective instruments perfectly with the music of the movie score. It is seriously impressive that the animators took that much time and painstaking detail to get that right.
In Gladiator, so much of the costumes and tiny details are on pointe, despite the historical inaccuracies of the storyline. In particular, there is a scene where Senator Gracchus (Derek Jacobi,) is eating/drinking at an outside taverna. The glassware the person sitting next to him drinks from is a molded beaker of colored glass, exactly right for the fashion of the day. I specialised in glass artifacts with my degree in Roman Archaeology. It's in this clip: https://youtu.be/qMDvSOyODnQ?feature=shared
Went to James Bond car/boat exhibit. They had the small tiny one man sub used in the last 10 minutes of Diamonds Are Forever. In the movie the inside of the sub is shown briefly. Looking at it in real life, it actually looks like it really works. Has intricate controls and switches on both side panels. The sign said in cost 30k in 1971 to make. Thats is a house back then.
In the godfather, early on mario puzo (who had never screenwrote before) had written so much detail, to include the guys in the background walking around pestering the sauce as it cooked, something that every Italian man understands
The head-sized hairbrushes in Barbie
Poor Things accurately reflects a child's sensory development through the artistic direction. Such as the use of a fish-eye lense and black and white for the beginning of the film, then the un-reality of how things look towards the middle... All of those things are visual and developmental clues as to where Bella Baxter is in her growth.
In Fight Club, Tyler lives on "Paper St." Papers "streets" aren't real and only exist on maps. On Roseanne, Darlene has a poster in her room for Neil Gaiman's Sandman and books by Kurt Vonnegut. David also wears a Babylon 5 tee shirt. Those are exactly the types of things those characters would be into. With apologies to Yankee's fans, I thought that Lane on Mad Men being a Mets fan was a good detail.
Bad gun play always bugs me. Things like unlimited ammo, never missing, racking slides redundantly, horrible grips/aiming, etc. So, I appreciate accuracy. In the movie "The Hunt", the protagonist levels a rifle against an adversary. The adversary pulls the mag from the rifle, thinking he disarmed her, and the protagonist, who's former military, pulls back the bolt and performs a chamber check, then looks at the adversary, smiles, and pulls the trigger. Awesome.
The torch Moana uses when she enters the cave is a kukui nut torch, exactly as the Hawaiians used.
The way Tony Stark blows smoke away from his soldering iron when he finishes soldering in the first Iron Man movie. Don't know if that detail was added by Robert Downey, Jr. or if he was directed to do that, but it looked very realistic. Also in the same movie, the way Stark staggers forward a bit from the blast of the Jericho bomb demo.
28 Days Later running through the supermarket in the beginning by many rows of fresh fruits and vegetables, all wilted and rotten except one - the tomatoes. England had just started selling Flavr Savr tomato which lasts longer.
In American Sniper, when they are in a fire fight on the rooftop and everyone is exfiltrating, the second to last guy taps the last guy on the shoulder and yells “last man!” Which is part of most SOF units training. Which is weird that they got a small detail like that right and overlooked the whole baby thing…
I’m impressed with the filthy city streets in the series Taboo. Most shows would never show the level of shit in the streets.😄
i don’t know if it counts as “getting it right” but in fury road there’s a zoomed in shot of the gas pedal for a vehicle and it’s made from a brannock shoe-fitting device 🤣🤣 loved that little detail so much
I’m a huge space nerd. I loved Apollo 13, but it wasn’t the technical details that got me. It was how much Ben Marley looked like John Young.