Why You Should Learn to Ruin Movies for Yourself

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2 ай бұрын

In which JB shares a thought about the benefits of ruining movies with facts, or at least of using facts to pierce the fourth wall enough to separate your understanding of reality from your enjoyment of movies and TV shows.
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@polarknight5376 2 ай бұрын

If your problem with Lord of the Rings is "how did they get tomatoes and potatoes? those are from the americas." My counterpoint is "how did they get horses and humans? Those are from earth."

@bigunone 2 ай бұрын

Man I didn't even think about the potatoes, not being in Europe, today they are universal. Firearms and cars, in the first "Fast and the Furious" Dom's car throws a rod and he just grabs a gear and floor boards it. The second Mad Max the semi still had air pressure to start after sitting there so long. When "Days of Thunder" came out I went with friends, a married couple she sat between us and had to endure a pair of car guy making comments to each other over her head. Afterwards She told us next time we sat next to each other! I won't even start on firearm silliness

@azzgunther 2 ай бұрын

I've often seen people say "I used to take news reporting seriously until I read an article about my profession." It takes that perspective to realize how much our sources of information distort the truth.

@GoodandBasic 2 ай бұрын

One hundred percent. This same litmus test strategy is incredibly useful in judging the reliability of the news. JB

@OffgridEcuadorMountainFamily 2 ай бұрын

I noticed that not to long ago the Internet removed most all of the proto German history , stories, and also changed alot of definitions of words. Basically trying to hide all of The old history. Even took down maps , photos, drawing etc. It bothers me to see that

@whynotdean8966 2 ай бұрын

Important addendum: This doesn't mean you should interrupt the movie every 5 minutes to point out inaccuracies. Keep them to yourself, unless it's commented upon by others, or unless it's especially egregious.

@GoodandBasic 2 ай бұрын

Yes. In the right group of friends it can be fun to keep a commentary going, but try not to be excessively annoying. JB

@forgingluck 2 ай бұрын

For me it's the architecture. I use buildings and set design the same way you describe using the foods. Set designers are absolute geniuses that can make it look really good, but accuracy to location, period, or even just self referential space is often lacking.

@riuphane 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting approach! Great things to consider. Also important to be able to do this without ruining the experience, for yourself or others. My subject tends to be physics, though computers are often misrepresented as well. Really depends on the genre too.

@PKMartin 2 ай бұрын

The thing that gave it away for me was wizards fighting dragons - I'll happily lump pre-Columbian potatoes in with the fantasy aspects :) Another important question is "does the plot hinge on this inaccuracy?". LOTR minus potatoes would proceed largely the same way; the problem is when a whole courtroom drama hinges on some last minute piece of evidence which in real life would have come up during discovery weeks before trial, or the police tell the protagonists "you have to wait 48 hours before you can file a missing person's report"

@floramew 2 ай бұрын

That wasn't the take I was expecting, but I love it. I'm usually That Guy who "ruins" movies with facts like that, because I think it's funny, and I try to share it as funny when I do. (Honestly, I've found tone matters SO MUCH for everyone's experience here.) But yeah, like. Ask anyone and they "know" Hollywood is all fake, but like... When you have no base of knowledge to compare to, you don't know WHICH parts of movies are fake. And it's easy to take for granted what's "obviously" fake to you, in your field, but it's not at all obvious to those without that specialty.

@floramew 2 ай бұрын

I can't say I have *one specific* field, because my main field is fiction itself. But I do love science and gathering facts and learning in small ways. So I'll sit here and scoff about a yellow piece of glass that's called citrine, even though the way it's shaped isn't crystalline at all it's clearly carved or... Like, the thing about glass is that it's amorphous on a molecular level, which is why it breaks all wild like it does. True crystals are like Lego bricks, you're not likely to break a Lego structure diagonally -- it'll break along the boundaries of bricks first.

@WorBlux 2 ай бұрын

Middle earth history was different than pre-modern europe. The elves likely introduced all sorts of exotic vegatables to the men of Numenor.

@JSEvans-or5xe 2 ай бұрын

Hi JB, in your opinion is it better to be a generalist with lots of interested that at 5" deep and a many others that are 2-3" deep or an expert in 1 or 2 things that is 1' deep and a few others that are 2-3" deep?

@GoodandBasic 2 ай бұрын

I think it depends on what you want to do. If you want to do something that requires being an expert, then prioritize depth. But for me, I've always wanted to be a Renaissance man generalist. JB

@offgridsolitude 2 ай бұрын

The vegetables is what tipped you off that the Lord of the Rings wasn't real? 😄

@natalierinehart7109 2 ай бұрын

This video started off strong. Then it got better. It was good, and basic.

@GoodandBasic 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! That's the hope. 😁 JB

@jimcooper4578 2 ай бұрын

ever seen cinema sins? he made a career out of ruining movies in a hilarious fashion. also i always have to groan when i see inconsistencies suspension of disbelief is fine if there's a reason given for it, on the same token get right what you can. for instance I'm a primitive technologist and in the movie prey the main character uses stone tools in a completely wrong way but what really bothers me are the things that could have been fixed with five minutes of research weren't, for instance she makes a rope out of pine boughs for her signature weapon which cant really be done but simply by changing that to a different wood would make it entirely possible. Real rope and cord can be made with willow bark and grows in the same area they were filming it would have taken no extra time or change to the story to make it correct.

@scripter13 2 ай бұрын

Spoiler Alert: I am that friend

@paulbyerlee2529 2 ай бұрын

So that thing I've been doing since god knows when ruining movies for everyone your saying is a good thing.😂 I've been working hard to suspend my disbelief just so I can watch a movie like a normal person.

@saxazax 2 ай бұрын

such mistakes are not made in 'great' works of art music literature and film. hollywood rarely gets all the deatils right. there have been adaptations of the vikings as emotional sissies when the truth is the opposite