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Post by drivebyluna on Sept 4, 2012 0:21:27 GMT -5
That's why I love the HBO series Girls. There's a scene when the main character, Hannah, has sex with her sort-of boyfriend and it's so incredibly awkward and hilarious. Not in a Sex and the City way type of hilarious, but more of a "oh god, I probably know someone who's experienced that" type of hilarious.
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Post by sam on Sept 4, 2012 18:20:04 GMT -5
what about vomit scenes? whenever someone vomits in the movies, very little comes out and they are finished after just 1 heave. not realistic.
don't know about you, but when i vomit...it's a commitment to the porcelain god or the ground below me. it takes me at least a few minutes to finish. plus, i'm not able to do anything or carry on a conversation immediately afterwards i'm not saying i would rather see more vomit in films, just more effort put into the vomit scene to enhance the overall experience.
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Post by sam on Sept 4, 2012 18:41:03 GMT -5
oh, and nobody knows how to smoke pot in the movies. back when i used to smoke, you are supposed to take a hit, hold it in, and blow it out. most of the time in movies they don't hold it in and when they do blow it out, there's virtually NO smoke. haven't these people seen Intervention? this used to upset me more than it does now, but it's still a pet peeve.
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Post by lynn on Sept 4, 2012 18:50:56 GMT -5
The pot one amuses me, because in high school we did a play about pot smoking and I and my friends had no idea how to look like we were smoking anything. The older kids in the class had to teach us... while the teachers weren't looking.
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Post by Scary Gary on Sept 4, 2012 18:59:35 GMT -5
Along the lines of Lynn's clothed sex scenes are the shower scenes without any nudity. Really, what is the purpose of a shower scene without the nudity? To show us that our heroine or hero is hygienic?
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Post by lynn on Sept 4, 2012 20:13:04 GMT -5
Well it's important for us to get a full sense of our characters here, whether or not they shower is terribly necessary character information.
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 5, 2012 11:11:36 GMT -5
I think I've talked about that shower scene thing on the show, it bugs me so bad. And it's for the same reason as the clothed sex scenes: They want to have a sex element but they don't want to show something that will get them a higher rating, or offend a TV sponsor. If the purpose is equally prurient, then isn't it just as offensive? We don't mind our kids oggling people while they shower or seeing people have sex, but we demand that they have no understanding of the human anatomy. That's going too far.
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 5, 2012 11:13:29 GMT -5
I'm with Sam on the vomit thing, too. When I vomit there's usually a biological imperative that drives it, and at that point it's everybody out of the pool.
Especially if there's literally a pool there. You would definitely not want to be in it then.
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Post by sam on Sept 5, 2012 11:29:19 GMT -5
sorry i keep coming back here,
but what about people typing in movies? they NEVER use the spacebar! with something so commonly used in the real world, you would think that people would think to hit the spacebar on a regular basis. you can always tell by either watching them type or hearing them type, as the spacebar has such a recognizable sound.
however, i do think Jack Torrance used the spacebar. i think he was actually typing "all work and no play..."
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 5, 2012 15:27:00 GMT -5
That's a good one. How hard would it be to type something real so it looked real?
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Post by lynn on Sept 5, 2012 18:30:35 GMT -5
Well we all know the old beef that people in movies doing any thing on a computer just type type type all the time and never use their mouse. Especially hackers. Did you see that one episode of NCIS where the two computer nerds were using the same keyboard at the same time to try to quickly outwit a hacker? Not possible unless they're psychically connected. And they're both just bashing away at it. And I bet neither of them used the spacebar.
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Post by sam on Oct 3, 2012 14:44:39 GMT -5
ever noticed the strangest things people in the movies flush down the toilet?
just remember the classic film Alligator...the upset mother thought it was a good idea just to flush the baby critter.
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Post by lynn on Oct 3, 2012 16:24:46 GMT -5
In the special features of Hot Fuzz they flush two chocolate cakes down the toilet. It's funny.
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Post by sam on Oct 3, 2012 17:22:56 GMT -5
also weird how movie people can swallow pills without any water or liquids. and then my favorites are the ones who just eat aspirin like M&M's. i have been on medication my entire life and i cannot swallow any pill larger than a weak benadryl without a drink. and for God's sake...i would never crunch down on any pill that isn't baby aspirin.
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Post by lynn on Oct 3, 2012 19:03:04 GMT -5
Yeah, the pill swallowing thing is funny. I have to use a tonne of water to get things down. But there is an element of mind over matter, my Ben didn't believe he could swallow pills when I first met him, he said he just couldn't do it and always had to have dissolving asprin, but then he just needed to take something and I just yelled at him like a parent, "just swallow it now!" and he just did it out of habit of obedience to people who yell at him and it just worked. Sometimes you just have to swallow the bitter pill.... but I agree, movies suck. At pills.
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