For the love of practical effects and trick-cinematography, here's an ad for Pocari Sweat (a Gatorade-like Japanese sports drink) that has no actual computer generated images but sure-as-hell looks like it does. Yeah, it's an ad, but who cares man. If it takes Pocari Sweat money to make such an interesting and cool thing, then so be it.
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Roll film. It's time to take that reel and bring it all the way back. These cinema puns will have you watching your favorites all over again.
We get it, most movies need a central conceit in order to make the plot actually work. No one is saying that every movie should end in five minutes with a phone call or the decision to "not stay at the creepy mansion." What gets frustrating is having to watch a bunch of movies that only work because the characters involved are unbelievably dumb. It's kind of like these unrealistic movie details that will never stop being annoying.
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Sure, movies don't have the time to account for literally every plot-independent detail in a character's life. Plus, a 10-hour movie where the main character spends half their time in traffic and on the toilet wouldn't be fun to watch. Probably. But there are too many flagrant and obviously unrealistic movie moments that never get corrected. For some more movie dumbness, here's tumblr uncovering the nine types of movie posters.
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jaybyrdfilms put together this impressive one-shot scene filmed by an impressively piloted drone. The natural smoothness combined with the tight drone piloting makes it some filmmaking that would be unthinkable just a few years ago.
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Our friends at Cracked are back at it again with a fresh installment in their weekly video series, "Your Brain On Cracked." This time though, buckle up, cause it is the season finale. They provide some hilarious commentary on how some of those iconic movie villains very well might've been a bunch of knuckleheads.
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Our friends at Cracked are back at it again with a fresh installment in their weekly video series, "Your Brain On Cracked." This time they take a look at some behind-the-scenes facts that end up ruining our favorite movies. It's amazing how when some things come to light, the whole mirage comes tumbling down.
He manages to not say a single negative thing, while analyzing some ridiculously impossible moves. That's true honor.
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When the flow of logic in a film is disrupted in such a way that it takes the viewer of the film out of the experience, and into a mental roadblock, it's a bummer. Some plot holes are just too big for people to look past, and ultimately be able to enjoy the film. Consistency can go a long way in immersing the audience in the storyline, as it was meant to be experienced. Another plot hole covered recently, was that plot hole we can often see in zombie apocalypse movies/shows. Tumblr did it justice.
If only life were like the movies, but most of the time, no such luck. Yes, it'd be nice to cruise carelessly down freeways with no traffic in sight, in the middle of rush hour. Yes, it'd be beautiful to have a flowing conversation between a group of people, where nobody is talking over each other. For now, we get to experience those pleasant moments on movies. If we're lucky, we see some of it carry over into our actual lives.
We get that movies are all about getting as much plot and action across in as little time as possible, but that leads us to some interesting and totally unrealistic scenes that can make movies seem laughably unbelievable. We get it, they're movies, but dude, there's tons of stuff in movies that are just not like that in real life.
People are sharing their experiences with movies when they were kids that ultimately left them emotionally scarred. Whether it was a particularly frightening scene in a seemingly innocent movie like "Pinnochio" or maybe something more conventionally scary and in the horror genre, like "Poltergeist" this list might trigger some old fears in people.
We get it. Filmmakers use unrealistic storytelling methods in order to convey the most amount of information to the viewer in as efficient a way as possible. It would be boring to watch Joe Pesci try to find parking for twenty minutes. That doesn't mean that some of these shortcuts go unnoticed, like how this tumblr thread uncovers the very limited types of movie posters.
