What’s a movie or scene that you think you’d enjoy more if you knew less about whatever is going on in it than you actually do?
Classic examples are things like electricians having a hard time watching scenes with electricity in them or history buffs getting mad watching period pieces, etc.
A recent one that stands out to me at the moment is the nonsensical machine towns from Mortal Engines…my brain can’t get past wondering where they build the parts or how they moved the historical buildings stone by stone.
Another one of mine is in Deep Blue Sea when the scientist lady stands on top of her wetsuit and electrocutes the shark…which fries the shark and her tape, but somehow nothing else is damaged and she’s fine because she…stood on a wet piece of rubber?
Oh, that’s a good one! The books do a really good job on that score too. I haven’t seen the last 2 seasons of The Expanse, but I really like what I have seen.
I also bump into this every time I see bulletproof killer robots. Metal is tough, but real machines are surprisingly delicate! (Don’t even get me started on the power problems…)
…I do love giant and/or killer robots though, so this stuff tends to get pretty broad leeway from me.
I went to school for audio engineering and so it often throws me out of the movie when a microphone is used as a visual which would be totally inappropriate for what it’s being used for in the movie. I can’t think of an example off the top of my head, but it’s happened several times.
Anything music-related, pretty much … a pharmaceutical commercial with a band director who has no idea how to conduct and lands on her right foot on 1 & 3 while marching, people who are supposed to be professional musicians but don’t even know how to hold their instruments, etc.
