Me when film has people dressed as aliens: this is fine Me when film has Sydney dressed as LA or Toronto as NY: fuck this bullshit (I have never got over my rage at 'The Matrix' featuring the El Alamein fountain and Commonwealth Bank ATMs in an allegedly American city, virtual or not) - ThreadSky

causticcovercritic.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Me when film has people dressed as aliens: this is fine
Me when film has Sydney dressed as LA or Toronto as NY: fuck this bullshit

(I have never got over my rage at 'The Matrix' featuring the El Alamein fountain and Commonwealth Bank ATMs in an allegedly American city, virtual or not)

Comments

helodare.bsky.social•26 days ago

Maybe that’s the future after the collapse of the US. Just spitballin’ Imagine if everyone got an old Commbank money box. My mind is going into weird places

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•26 days ago

"You've lost all your human rights, but have this moneybox."

helodare.bsky.social•26 days ago

At least you’ll have some metal that you can sell for scrap

stevie1666.bsky.social•26 days ago

See, I didn’t know this, & now feel I need to watch it again…

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•26 days ago

stevie1666.bsky.social•26 days ago

And my wife just told me all Kiwis & Aussies already knew this🤣😂🤣

roq11.bsky.social•26 days ago

Last year I wondered why NASA astronauts apparently got buried 10min from my apartment in Berlin.

roq11.bsky.social•26 days ago

It kind of kicks you out if the show but maybe 50 people might recognize that spot so I can understand why cost efficiencies would win this one…

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•26 days ago

I REFUSE TO BE REASONABLE ABOUT THIS

sibaerisch.bsky.social•26 days ago

When people are portrayed as fluent enough to pose as natives and their command of the language is so bad, it's incomprehensible to me.

If I need subtitles to understand your German/French/Russian you did a bad job

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•25 days ago

Absolutely maddening.

sibaerisch.bsky.social•26 days ago

My favorite thing is when I can tell that they got someone to write accurate sentences but then just handed those to the actor to do his best with.

It's somehow worse than when both the sentences and the performance are bad

roq11.bsky.social•26 days ago

It’s always funny when comedians are imitating the German language and it’s mostly based on American actors trying to shout Nazi commands in WW2 movies.

roq11.bsky.social•25 days ago

I know I’ve seen what you’re describing a hundred times, but I’ve been racking my brain for an hour now, and no examples come to mind…

roq11.bsky.social•26 days ago

He was technically speaking English but Sean Connery as a Spanish nobleman is even less believable than the concept of immortality.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•25 days ago

An Originally Egyptian Spanish nobleman, with Christopher Lambert trying to pass as Scottish in the same film.

aptronym.bsky.social•26 days ago

Because I'm boring and prefer social realist films that tend to be filmed where they're set, I seldom get this sort of aggravation, but this was filmed in Syd so the bits that were identifiably so, amused me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_(2020_film)

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yeah, that was a fairly egregious case. Australian director, too.

aptronym.bsky.social•26 days ago

I only saw it to support one of the actors, whom I met up with a few times when they were filming (long story).

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ooh, somebody knows Elisabeth Moss

aptronym.bsky.social•26 days ago

Oh not her. Will DM.