#111

Besides the point, though. This is about things that pull you out of a film. Also it’s very very easy to not do this so why not just not do this?

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#112

sticking strictly to a cities geography is a very very easy thing to? i don’t have much experience making films but i’d imagine there’s some very good reasons they can’t be completely accurate on that stuff

#113

because directors care about location in terms of mise-en-scene not in terms of geographical accuracy

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#114

There’s probably a half-way house between “sticking strictly to a city’s geography” and making people who have a vague understanding of geography put their head in their hands, though.

You know, I’m just putting that out there.

#115

It’s still not really much of an excuse. A lot of what we’re talking about can be resolved by just a little more thought about showing a passage of time or maybe just scouting for a location closer to one of your two end points or even providing just a little more context.

Basically it’s fine but don’t expect to take everyone with you if you do things that might seem silly to some of your viewers. Maybe that doesn’t matter as much as the ‘mise-en-scene’ or maybe it might if someone had mentioned it to the filmmakers early enough? Who knows…

#116

we both live in cities where a lot of filming takes place & lord knows it pisses me off when a car drives around the corner of one street and pulls straight up in front of a building that’s 5km away (I’m looking at you Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) but really, the vast majority of the audience don’t have a clue so why spoil the shot for the sake of ‘realism’

Brain-eating zombies attacking from all sides ? OK, I’m with you.

Leaving the Denham Roundabout at the 3rd exit taking the A412 towards Slough and then later appearing on the Uxbridge Road section of the A40. WHAT?! I’M LEAVING THE CINEMA!

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#117

Well this is kind of beside the point: these are inadvertent things that will cause this. Comparing zombies to detail like this is spurious as you know: the whole essence of suspension of disbelief is what you present as ‘real’ to help support the unreal elements of your story.

So the answer is: it’s like that because people can’t be bothered or because they actually don’t get how someone else might find their lack of attention to detail irritating. Either way they could fix it but they don’t.

#118

when someone is driving a car and they move the steering wheel from side to side even though they are on a straight road. really winds me up. or when they’re driving, moving the steering wheel randomly and looking directly at their passenger while they talk to them for long periods of time. LOOK AT THE ROAD YOU FUCKING JERK.

the joker’s plan in the dark knight really blags head. like it makes no sense at all. “oh but that was the point cos he’s the chaos”. FUCK OFF YOU JERK.

#119

I still think Thor 2 could have done so much better though. There’s literally no reason for him to be told the wrong directions on the tube when he could have been told the right directions. Did the writer / director have some aesthetic preference for the bullshit direction rather an accurate one? The accurate one would have been better because it would have been pedantic and added to the humour of the scene.

#120

this is, without doubt, the dumbest one of them all

(as I pointed out upthread)

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#121

Jonathan Creek was awful for driving and talking scenes. Caroline Quentin would spend five minutes directly engaged with Creek without ever once glancing at the road. It almost felt deliberate.

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#122

that’s like when venice is mentioned in dark knight rises and it made me suddenly think, wait so this is set in our world? so that means leeds and colchester presumably exist in the same world as a batman? after that i couldn’t focus on the film. tadcaster and bristol…bane and the league of shadows…wtf.

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#123

:joy:

#124

I think by that point in the film my brain had already been bludgeoned into submission by Doctor Who going at being a Tolkien rip-off like it was fucking Shakespeare.

#125

the worst for this is Skyfall

“so I’m 100% sure that Bond will be passing through the underground tunnel at the exact moment I derail a tube train which bursts through the wall towards him”

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#126

you guys should avoid Escape from New York, approximately none of it was filmed in Manhattan

#127

i kept picturing my old-skool yorkshire dad watching the takeover of gotham live on sky news with a mug of tea and some biscuits and his slippers on being like, “bloody ell, look at this. that bane’s a bit of a bad shit isn’t he. this is worappens when you don’t have a strong labour movement.”

also EVERYBODY would know bruce wayne was batman after a quick google. can imagine glenn greenwald exposing it on the intercept and being like, “this is what happens when we cede democratic rule of law to private interests.”

i’ve gone off on a slight tangent here.

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#128

sorry @grievoustim that was meant to be reply to thread

#129

I love Escape from New York!

#130

skyfall was basically the dark knight too, which also broke SOD for me.