Bad Script Writing

[AK_Chappy]

Ok,<br />How many of you have ever watched a TV show, movie, etc. that just had blatantly bad script writing. I catch certain things because of my experience in that area.<br /><br />For Example.<br />My wife is watching an episode of ER that she DVR'd a while back. I look up, they have a guy up on top performing CPR, but the victim is looking around (wife said the lines were something like "his heart has stopped!!!, but he is conscious, so point where it hurts, ok) <br />Being a CPR instructor, and knowing a little bit about the human body, that is just completely impossible. It is possible to not be breathing, but have a heartbeat. It is impossible to breath [EDIT] normally, be alert and looking around [/EDIT] and not have a heartbeat.<br /><br />Another example,<br />Going way back. Diehard, ejection seats on a C-130 aircraft???? Oh, this movie has too many to list.<br /><br />I can't remember the name of the movie.<br />Plot was they break into a C-5 aircraft in flight to steal a Top Secret airplane. They get in by climbing down the refueling boom of a KC-10 aircraft.<br />This one has too many to list also, though.<br /><br />No purpose on this post really, just like mindless jabbering... <br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[Drowned Rat]

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It is impossible to breath and not have a heartbeat.<br />

Not impossible.<br /><br /> Cough CPR

 

[AK_Chappy]

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DR,<br />That is for "a type of heart attack brought on by rapid and erratic heart beat"<br />The quote is right off that website.<br />The person would still have a heart beat. Not a steady one, but a heartbeat.<br />That is one of the reasons we taught to look for "signs of circulation" as opposed to a pulse.<br /><br />I will amend the point to say "steady normal breathing"<br /><br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[deputydawg]

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Cough CPR is for rapid eratic heartbeat, not for a stopped heart. <br /><br />I see these bad scripts in most cop investigative shows like CSI. I can't stand to watch that! The whole show is so stupid and written so poorly! I don't know if it is CSI or another forensic roadkill show like it, but the same genious dude collects evidence, processes every peice, knows it all about everything from forensic entemology to blood spatter to you name it. Then in the end the forensic guy goes for arrest warrants and questions witnesses and suspects. Now even close to real life! DNA testing within hours, fingerprinting and analysis within hours, posative ID off of partial finger prints<br /><br />On one of the lethal weapons the good guy shoots a bad guy with a nail gun from probably 6 to 8 feet away and kills him. Although possible not very likely to happen.

 

[Link]

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Had to do a edit.. AK I saw this and ignored it with 0 posts.. figured it was about puter programing <br /><br />deputydawg <br />Oh CSI Miami (sp)<br />Agree with you. Bad script and inter action between people.<br />Orginal CSI I do watch. But the same thing. Hollywierded out with the lab rats chasing down the bad guys. (but it would be pretty boring just watching them do finger prints for a hour) <br /><br />Jag.. loved the show for the most part. However Lawyers chasing bad guys?? Give me a break.

 

[kenimpzoom]

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Regarding the movie Diehard, all the planes are circling above waiting for the airport to open when there are about a dozen other airports within 100 miles of the Dulles Airport.<br /><br />If they were low on fuel, they could have glided to another airport.<br /><br />However, remember, its just a movie, and America is full of gullable idiots.<br /><br />Ya know that if you shoot a cars gas tank, the car will explode flying into the air and three other cars around it will blow up too. <br /><br />Ken<br /><br />Ken

 

[Bob_VT]

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Continuity Errors! They are great. Such as the woman with a digital watch on her arm in the movie Titanic, the wrist watches on the arms of the ZULU warriors in Zulu, Camera reflections in glasses and mirrors,dead people breathing, soda bottles/drinks showing differant levels of being full. I was in a movie and I was asked to "double" for a fill in shot for Stacy Keach and pour some champagne. Just my hands were used....well I was told to roll my sleves one turn at the cuff and I did. Wouldn't know it...Stacy Keach has the bottle in his hand and his sleeves were down...as he (me) poured they were rolled... as the people drank the sleeeves were back down.<br /><br />Watch the chase scene in Bullitt (which is a classic) and count how many times the hub caps appear on and off through the chase, count how many times they pass the same green VW bug.<br /><br />When I do special effects work and I am asked to make a car explode I always have a "signature" mark in my work. People involved in the making of the movie look for it and usually leave it in the shot. <br /><br />Bottom line - we watch everything, we talk about it. It all makes money.

 

[TilliamWe]

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I keep telling my wife to write down her story ideas cause they are so much better than the ones on TV. You want bad script writing, try watching Passions on NBC daytime! Uuughh. Being unemployed totally stinks!<br /><br />As far as CSI Miami, Eric mentioned 16 digit VIN in season one. Wrong, they are 17 digits.<br />And I love the real CSI, but did you all see the one with the Fiero and the jacked up truck? All kinds of errors in that one, all auto related. But that's not bad script writing, that's faulty technical advice.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Not a hijack just an answer<br />TilliamWe - first yes being unemployed sucks (my job eliminated last month). Second.... producers get FLOODED with scripts and many never get read because they have to be funded to be produced. Lastly- technical advice? What advice - they rarely seek any advice at all... these are mostly movie making geeks who do not know the real world.

 

[deputydawg]

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Then there is that poor coyote chasing that fast bird! I mean come on!!! Any real coyote would give up after a few times. Then how many times will be fall off a cliff before he thinks about it and stops? Also do you really think ACME makes that many different products? Rockets, giant slingshots, catapaults, magic holes in the ground... It is so obviously a fake! Then when the coyote sends off for the magnet and roller skates or rockets and bombs, whatever he orders, the product arrives within seconds. Now we all know how fake that is. It takes at least 4 to 6 weeks not counting the waiting period for buying explosives.

 

[deputydawg]

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[AK_Chappy]

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LMAO <br />DD, those don't count!!!<br /><br />That is the way cartoons are supposed to be. Not like today's sets of cartoons. <br />Nothing beats Bugs and Wile E. cartoons.<br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[BassMan283]

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Bob, another thing about Bullitt: Macqueen apparently has a 10 speed Road Ranger in that Mustang. Maybe that's why he's double clutching all his up shifts.