Movie Cliches

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Americans are intimidated by English accents so we cast Englishmen as villians in our motion pictures because they're scary.

I gotta agree here, when I watched Borat, I like to have P!$$ed my pants laughing so hard, i was scared someone would notice I was crying I laughed so hard

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by LordShiva
* Spaceships always fly perpendicular to the same axis. When two spacecraft encounter each other, they're always aligned on a plane and never approach at odd angles.

This isn't always true. There are moments in Star Trek where the seasoned captain goes, "Whoa, these dudes are rough! We're gonna need to use those badass maneuvers I learned while fighting the RomuKlingBorgs."

And then the ship flies beneath or ontop of the enemy's ship, catches them completely off guard, and blows them to smithereens.

And then the captain's subordinates are all like, "Dude, captain! I didn't know space was 3d. WTG!!"

And then I roll my eyes, breathe deeply, and keep watching.

[Zkribbler]

That was Wrath of Kahn -- Star Trek II

[Arrian]

Hans sounded vaguely German to me, which makes sense.

-Arrian

[BeBMan]

I admit I like the sounds in space. Once we are technologically far enough to have Wing Commander-style spacefights they should play some cool laser and engine sounds into the pilot's headphones during missions, just for the atmosphere.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Arrian
Hans sounded vaguely German to me, which makes sense.

-Arrian

The point being that he should hardly be held up as an example of hollywood demonizing brits by casting them as villians. The audience won't have any reason to think the character is a brit!

[BeBMan]

Btw, I wondered why they use sounds sparsely in nBSG, but always have missiles with smoke trails in space (not to forget the smoke coming out the Galactica when it was on fire after a missile hit in the pilot movie/miniseries)?

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Geronimo

The point being that he should hardly be held up as an example of hollywood demonizing brits by casting them as villians. The audience won't have any reason to think the character is a brit!

Agreed. Bad example.

-Arrian

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by BeBro
Btw, I wondered why they use sounds sparsely in nBSG, but always have missiles with smoke trails in space (not to forget the smoke coming out the Galactica when it was on fire after a missile hit in the pilot movie/miniseries)?

I don't think it's clear how such damage would look in space. Certainly there would be a stream of particulate debris being ejected away from the damaged area but how simliar/dissimilar it would look to smoke is hard to say.

The missiles might leave visible trails as well although it's likely they are hugely exaggerated in the show.

Has anybody heard/read whether astronauts can see rocket exhaust trails in space?

[Az]

IIRC, Clouds of dust/smoke shouldn't appear in vaccum. they are dependant on pressure and some turbolence. ( which doesn't exist in space )

[BeBMan]

Where are our physicists when you need'em.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Az
IIRC, Clouds of dust/smoke shouldn't appear in vaccum. they are dependant on pressure and some turbolence. ( which doesn't exist in space )

That isn't entirely true. Comet tails are 'clouds' of dust. negligable density certainly, but dust nonetheless.

[Az]

One of my favorites ( not sure if it's on the website )

every appartment in paris has a view of the Eiffel tower

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Az
One of my favorites ( not sure if it's on the website )

every appartment in paris has a view of the Eiffel tower

How many movies have you seen that even have apartments in paris? It's hard to draw conclusions from a sample of one or two movies.

[Zkribbler]

But they appear as streams of particles, not as clouds.

I learned this when Armstrong et al blasted off from the moon. I had expected to see them raise a big cloud of dust. Instead, the exhaust shot down, ricochetted off the moon, and then shot out in straight lines. For clouds of dust to form, you need air to turn the exhaust particles.