Hollywood Inaccuracies

[Karen]

WHY are there always street parking places open right in front of where the main characters are going; hotels, restaurants, major office buildings? Especially in big cities

That's funny, I never notice that, but now that you mention it, I will of course! And for bank robbers - there's always a spot just across the street for the getaway car to park! NOT!

[Crayons09]

What always gets me is when they just wake up and they look beautiful. I don't know about you I usually look like I just came out of a wind tunnel when I wake up. Hair everywhere! While they wake up with not ONE hair out of place! Drives me CRAZY! Also when they have dogs that are supposedly supposed to be vishous and they are wagging their tail while they play growling noises.

[Karen]

What always gets me is when they just wake up and they look beautiful. I don't know about you I usually look like I just came out of a wind tunnel when I wake up. Hair everywhere! While they wake up with not ONE hair out of place! Drives me CRAZY! Also when they have dogs that are supposedly supposed to be vishous and they are wagging their tail while they play growling noises.

Oh, and that every woman sleeps in full makeup, and wearing a tank top or two, and is instantly awake and presentable - and no make-up on the pillowcase!

[Randi]

Oh, and that every woman sleeps in full makeup...

Oh yes, I noticed that too - and isn't it amazing how their hair stay in shape!

[RICHARD]

http://www.santaclaritaguide.com/VasquezRocks.html

Captain Kirk fought the guy in with the frog/lizard head there.

We would watch TV when we were kids and when a movie scene filmed at VR would pop up on the screeen my dad would yell out, "LOOK! Vasquez Rocks!"

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I hate it when photos are 'fixed'.

In beginning of The Right Stuff, Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood's faces are 'photoshopped' into old pictures and it looks so fake.

Oh and I hate dubbed voices, too!

When you watch a movie and they dub the voice in when there is a line of dialogue that includes cursing.

I also hate when Foley (sound effects dubbing) doesn't quite match the action on the screen.

[kokopup]

The Andy Griffin show is my standard, "put me to sleep", watching every night.
The scenes of Mayberry North Carolina are reasonable but when they go out of Mayberry to county roads or lakes it becomes very obvious that they are shooting in California. Most rural roads are filmed in orange groves with no signs of an Oak tree anywhere. it is true that North Carolina had some dirt road back in the 50's and 60's but I have yet to see a rural paved road in a single episode.

[smokey the elder]

One editing thing that bugs me is when the sound isn't in sync with the lip movements. That can be really distracting, especially if it's a fraction of a second out-of-phase.

[kokopup]

I enable closed captions while watching most movies because of a hearing lose that dates back to my Navy days and living on an Aircraft carrier for 3 years. I have made an observation about speech patterns over the years. Today there is a lot of mumbling, with woman leading the way. When I watch older movies i do not need closed captions because most dialog is understandable. i hate the current trend of having dialog muddled or muffled by background noise. Whisper and crying dialog is also annoying.

[smokey the elder]

I need to recalibrate my home theater because the soundtrack drowns out the dialog! I've noticed that more in regular theaters, too.

[kuhio98]

The Andy Griffin show is my standard, "put me to sleep", watching every night.
The scenes of Mayberry North Carolina are reasonable but when they go out of Mayberry to county roads or lakes it becomes very obvious that they are shooting in California. Most rural roads are filmed in orange groves with no signs of an Oak tree anywhere. it is true that North Carolina had some dirt road back in the 50's and 60's but I have yet to see a rural paved road in a single episode.

Yeah, California stands in for just about every place on the planet, I guess.

An oldie "North to Alaska" staring John Wayne -- 1960 I think, has a bunch of prospectors going to Nome to strike it rich. They mill around boulders and huge pine trees. Uhh, like there aren't any trees anywhere near Nome.

In one scene they take a midnight stroll to see the stars. Quite problematic since Alaska is called The Land of the Midnight Sun for good reason. We don't see stars all summer long because the sun doesn't really set.

[Catlady711]

The movie the Jungle Book was filmed partly in the Fall Creek Falls park in Tennessee. Since I've been there several times myself I can tell you exactly which scenes are filmed there. The trees are TOTALLY different than the ones they actually filmed in the jungle, and they made the mistake of filming most of the scenes in TN from major tourist viewing areas rather than other lesser known areas of the park.

[Karen]

Oh - another. When they cast people of the completely wrong ethnicity from what they are supposed to be. Current example, on the new show "Nikita," one of the main characters is a young girl who is theoretically from Ukraine, I think it is. Not only does the character have absolutely no accent, she looks not even remotely Slavic or Russian, never mind Ukrainian. She's got cheekbones no broader than mine, for goodness sake! Are there no actresses from anywhere in Eastern Europe who could have been more credibly cast?

And when they cast a "family" and the kids look not one bit like each other, or the parents. Not in coloring, build or any details whatsoever. And when they cast the younger version of a character with a totally different bone structure, never mind looks, as the adult version, and just color the hair to match.

[RICHARD]

The Andy Griffin show is my standard, "put me to sleep", watching every night.
The scenes of Mayberry North Carolina are reasonable but when they go out of Mayberry to county roads or lakes it becomes very obvious that they are shooting in California.

I tuned into the AGS this afternoon and remembered the episode where Aunt Bea wins some flying lessons?

That was filmed at a airport/airpark three blocks away from my house here in So Cal.

My dad would park at the end of the runway to watch the planes land and it wasn't hard to figure out it was the same place in the episode.

Watch for the three smoke stacks in the background, they belong to the local power plant!