Hollywood Inaccuracies

[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.

[Cataholic]

@ Smokey the elder: I can't stand most surround sound set ups as I hear WAY too much non dialogue noise.

[Catlady711]

Timing!

You have a countdown to something exploding or being underwater, or the characters trying to avoid a tidal wave, lava, car wreck (take your pick) and they ALWAYS seem to have time to have a romantic moment, or have some serious dialoge, stop and grab a purse/child/laptop, whatever and the time never runs out on them, or they always avoid the catastrophe.

I don't know why, but that drives me nuts!

Another thing. Back when I used to watch soap operas (Santa Barbara) I always found it odd that one day could be stretched to last a week in real time, but strangely enough the holiday's ALWAYS matched up with the real life calendar. Go figure.

My favorite site for movie flaws..... http://www.nitpickers.com/