Why is it that every single bomb in a movie or a TV show for that matter has a very obvious number keypad and huge digital readouts to tell you that it's counting down to zero, or some other preset time?
Why do they do that?
Would a real bomb in the real world have a huge freaking number display to say "hey I'm counting down," or "It's not yet xx O'clock" when I am about to blow up?
I just find it very annoying and contrived.
It's one of those hollyweird tropes that they never want to let go of, just like an enormous, red "ACCESS DENIED" accompanied by a monotone female hag voice, or a huge, green "ACCESS GRANTED" when someone is 'hacking' something. It's so facepalm+groan-inducing, I can't stand it.
It would be interesting to see realistic bombs in movies, without all the colorful wires they can cut.
It would also be interesting to see REALLY STUPIDLY LOUD GUNS (guns are _RIDICULOUSLY_ loud, even with a 'silencer', which isn't even called a 'silencer' in actual reality, the real world is probably something like 'suppressor') that cause side effects, like making car alarms go off, or make someone not hear anything for a long time, except loud ringing in their ears, experience PAIN from the loudness and so on.
But nope, we always see people firing guns as if it's not a big deal, not even much recoil, and definitely no thought into any sound problem whatsoever. The guns sound really weird anyway, there's always some 'PHEW' sound, like every single gun is partly 'sci-fi-movie 'ray gun' hybrid'. Even in The Matrix, when Smith is shooting Neo, we get the 'phew phew phew'-sound in the 'faraway shot', and only get a better sound when we cut to a closer view of Smith.
In a movie, ANY gun can be silenced easily, and it ALWAYS sounds like a tiny 'phew'-sound. Again, why a 'phew' sound anyway? Why not just a silent version of a muffled crack-sound? WHY IS THERE SO MUCH PHEWING?!
In any case, these stupid movie tropes are something hollyweird seems to LOVE, so we will probably never get rid of them. The ONLY movie I can think of where a (fake) gunshot causes ANY kind of 'stupidly loud audio' problem, is 'National Lampoon's Vacation', where Audrie loses her hearing for awhile when the bartender shoots Clark with a fake shotgun.
Can anyone think any other situations?
I mean, wouldn't it be funny if people reacted realistically to (THE LOUD) gun sounds every time a gun is shot in a movie?
I've always laughed at the lack of recoil on a bunch of guns that I know have some nasty recoil.
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