Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

What you mean?

 

When they were making Barfly, Charles Bukowski was an on-set consultant. The best take verbally of a particular shot had the character leaving half of his beer on the table when he left. Bukowski objected and said that he would never, but never, leave part of a drink behind, so they had to dig through the other takes and find the best one in which the glass was drained and dialogue be damned.

 

I mean that it's not the editor's job to pay attention to the rakor (continuity... stuff in the live scene). He might not even step on the set. He's too god damn busy. He's the miracle worker that has to perform his magic to cover the minor or major fuck ups of the rakor though that happened during the shootings. They really do perform magic, but they've got their limits. A single scene might last for days and if it happens to be reshot weeks, perhaps months later, crazy stuff pop out from nowhere. If someone gets the blame it's the director. He makes mistakes and he learns and hopefully they won't be repeated again.

 

Okay, maybe continuity editor was the wrong term. I meant the person who gets credited at the end of the film / TV show as "Continuity... Mary Smith"

And why is this role always filled by a woman, by the way?

 

Same with casting. Always seems to be a woman, or someone identifying as such.

 

I love my dogs, but they are so annoying when I am trying to write. The bigger one will shove her head beneath my hand as I'm trying to type or lay her head on my keys. the little one will chew on my toes or chew on things he shouldn't and I'm running after him to get it out of his mouth.


I've got ideas! pleeeeese let me get them out!!

 

I'm glad I know you're not a dude.

 

What are they going to do, call the actors back and re-shoot the scene because someone was wearing the wrong colour sweater?

 

Actors should be kept in carbonite, with their wardrobes, until the final cut of the movie is finished.

 

... Especially considering:

 

i'm totally confused right now

 

That's probably for the best.

 

Should never happen in the first place.

 

I shall take your word for it

 

As a vegan weightlifter.. people asking me repeatedly, "Where do you get your protein bro?"... Even Arnold has mentioned that he is now mostly vegetarian. The greatest meat-eating bodybuilder of all time now consumes the majority of his protein from plants.

(Men's Health - Arnold shows his fridge: )

Job interviewers and managers who post listings that say that they 'require x amount of experience' and then at the end of the ad mentioning 'no experience required/willing to train'.

People wanting to talk about politics and their opposing views.

 

Tbh, I'm not sure whose job it is to keep track of those things. I think it's everyone's job. I, too, believe that a change of sweater mid-scene is extremely difficult not to spot, so... who knows? But, yeah, the director ought to have noticed it, I mean come on!

If only.

 

Websites that put out 30 second samples of various sound effects, but try to protect it by having a softly spoken woman saying "Demo" every 3 seconds.
What, you really think I can't find the sound of a crackling fireplace somewhere else???

 

Judging from the mind-numbing, water-torture repetition of so many advertisements, I guess those of us who enjoy watching football on television are dumber than a bag of hammers.

 

I'm too polite to say that on this forum, but that's always been my impression

 

People under the age of 70, especially women, who wear fedoras. We get it, Carmine. You're hip.

 

Hmmm. I wear one. Does it matter that mine is a fedora because I know the difference between that and a f%*^&#(g trilby?

There used to be a hat shop in the mall called Fedora something something that sold nothing but trilbies. All the identical... last? Just fifty different color patterns of the same thing. But zero fedoras.

 

Veterans exempted.

 

People who put fake reindeer horns on their pets, take their photos, and post them on social media at Christmas time. WHY? The poor critters always look bewildered, and never look as if they're enjoying themselves. Why can't people treat animals with dignity and allow them to be themselves? Animals. Without horns. Unless they grow them themselves.

 

The things that pass as news worthy these days. The hourly bulletin on the radio just now thought it was relevant to report that Ringo Star is ‘sad’ about not being able to visit family in the UK, and that not being able to see his kids over the festive period makes him ‘miserable’.

What exactly is the point of this report???? What has this revelation achieved?? Why do they find it necessary to inform us of these things??? And I hate the way the newscaster emphasises words like ‘sad’ and ‘miserable’ as though these are the important and relevant aspects of the report.

Fucking non-news!!!