TV's bloopers and mistakes

[goku]

maybe the worst one that comes to mind is an episode of CSI where they find what is believed to be a dead body in a pool. to the side there is a cable that is sparking and jumping around. a closer look behind some bushes reveals a little-bity car battery that is hooked to the cable :hihi:

 

maybe hollywood doesn't know that a car battery couldn't do that :(

 

i wonder how many people saw that and automatically knew that wasn't possible?

[goku]

in an episode of Bones, they're taveling down the road in a car talking to one another. the camera is filming from inside the car, the background is moving to give the effect of the car moving down the road. suddenly the background changes :(

 

wasn't someone suposed to catch that during editting?

[modest]

maybe the worst one that comes to mind is an episode of CSI where they find what is believed to be a dead body in a pool. to the side there is a cable that is sparking and jumping around. a closer look behind some bushes reveals a little-bity car battery that is hooked to the cable :hihi:

 

maybe hollywood doesn't know that a car battery couldn't do that :(

 

i wonder how many people saw that and automatically knew that wasn't possible?

 

A car batter can easily kill a person an make a lot of sparks.

 

A person can be killed with less than an amp (it's the current that kills you, not the voltage). A car batter regularly operates 500 amp starters - so it's more than deadly.

 

If you have sweaty hands and you grab each terminal of a car battery you may well be meeting your maker... especially if you have any open cuts. It happens.

 

As far as the sparks - maybe the killer hooked up a capacitor and/or voltage manipulator up to the battery. Basically, making it into a giant stun gun. Have you seen the sparks a stun gun can make with a little 9 volt battery? It's certainly possible.

 

~modest

[goku]

As far as the sparks - maybe the killer hooked up a capacitor and/or voltage manipulator up to the battery. Basically, making it into a giant stun gun. Have you seen the sparks a stun gun can make with a little 9 volt battery? It's certainly possible.

 

~modest

oh no, see that's the point. no amplifier, nothing. one wire was in the pool the other was on the side of the pool. sparks and smoke going everywhere and the wire it's self was moving around like an angry snake.

 

and as small as that battery was, couldn't had much more than 400 CCA's

 

another one i just thought of, i like watching the CSI's, an episode of CSI: MIAMI had a dodge charger that ran on bio-diesel :doh:

[goku]

some while back the news was showing flooding in california, the reporter was reporting and in the backgroung was a backhoe. the reporter pointed to the backhoe and called it a doser :doh:

[modest]

oh no, see that's the point. no amplifier, nothing. one wire was in the pool the other was on the side of the pool. sparks and smoke going everywhere and the wire it's self was moving around like an angry snake.

 

and as small as that battery was, couldn't had much more than 400 CCA's

 

Ok. I'll take your word on that part - I mean... I didn't see it :doh: Knowing Hollywood, It probably looked something like this.

 

 

~modest

[goku]

great picture! maybe not quite that much but close

 

next time you watch something, look for the bloopers but be carefull it is addictive :doh:

[Moontanman]

I love watching for bloopers like jet contrails in the sky of a western. The whole battery hooked up to a pool sounds kinda lame, I didn't see it but water doesn't conduct electricity well enough to hurt you if it was hooked up in that manner. what was the problem with a Dodge Charger running on bio-diesel? You can put a diesel in car and a diesel can be hopped up to be very a very hot engine.

[goku]

oh yea, i've got a powerstroke myself and it is a hot rod.

i think it was a charger, a new car dodge came out with just a few years ago, reminds me of a station wagon and it's got the V-10 in it i think?

 

any way, it was a brand new car and the fuel line was running below the oil pan and was leaking bio-diesel

 

or is it a magnum?

[Moontanman]

oh yea, i've got a powerstroke myself and it is a hot rod.

i think it was a charger, a new car dodge came out with just a few years ago, reminds me of a station wagon and it's got the V-10 in it i think?

 

any way, it was a brand new car and the fuel line was running below the oil pan and was leaking bio-diesel

 

or is it a magnum?

 

If it was a gasoline engine and it was leaking bio-diesel then we have problem for sure:doh:

[goku]

just thought of another one, there is gas on the floor someone thumps a cigarette that lands in the gas and BOOOOOOM :beer:

[Boerseun]

Not a TV blooper, but nonetheless:

 

In the epic movie Mel Gibson made about the Incas just before the Spanish arrived (the name escapes me now), the hero of the tale is strapped to a chopping block to serve as a human sacrifice to keep the sun shining. Just then, of course, the moon shifts in to place in front of the sun, causing an eclipse. The hero breaks away and runs like hell and escapes the bad guys. That very same night, he's shown making his elaborate escape from the Bad Guys, helped along by the light of a very bright full moon, hanging ever-so-helpfully in the sky.

 

Now I don't know about you guys, but when Hollywood makes glaring mistakes like this, blatantly underestimating the average intelligence of its viewers (from whose pockets they make their lavish living, after all), I get very, very unhappy with the state of things.

 

Is it Mel Gibson, a devout Catholic who, if he goes by the Word of his Pope, have only admitted the world isn't flat as of the late 1980's, who really doesn't know any better, or do Hollywood really, really believe in humanity's endless ignorance?

 

A solar eclipse can only occur when the moon is new, between the Earth and the Sun. A full moon can only occur half a month later, when the moon is on the other side of its orbit. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that simple fact.

 

I can understand fairies and elves and dragons and regular crap like that in movies, when there's a clear stamp "FANTASY" on the movie poster.

 

But a "serious" historic epic like this shouldn't mess up such common trivialities.

 

Suspension of disbelief is one thing. Crass stupidity is a totally different ball game, however.

[Boerseun]

Apologies - the movie is, of course, "Apocalypto".:naughty:

[freeztar]

In the epic movie Mel Gibson made about the Incas just before the Spanish arrived (the name escapes me now)

 

Apocalypto

 

It was a decent movie, though I abandoned any idea of historical relation before viewing it.

 

Now I don't know about you guys, but when Hollywood makes glaring mistakes like this, blatantly underestimating the average intelligence of its viewers (from whose pockets they make their lavish living, after all), I get very, very unhappy with the state of things.

It depends. :naughty:

What's more important, imo, is people pointing out discrepancies.

 

A solar eclipse can only occur when the moon is new, between the Earth and the Sun. A full moon can only occur half a month later, when the moon is on the other side of its orbit.

 

Although I know what you mean, my pedantic-ness forbids me from not commenting :eek_big:. Substituting "its orbit" for "the Earth, in the same phase, 180 degrees opposite (diameter), approximately 14 days later" would work better.

 

But a "serious" historic epic like this shouldn't mess up such common trivialities.

I certainly didn't watch Apocalypto thinking that it was serious.

Suspension of disbelief is one thing. Crass stupidity is a totally different ball game, however.

 

Mel Gibson? Crass stupidity? Surely you jest? :eek_big: