I don't remember well if it was NakedGun, Loaded Weapon or Hot Shots where the eyes of a body stayed open until it was hit in the face.

Also archers being told to "fire"

as firing didn't exist until gunpowder, the instruction wouldn't make sense. Like telling a soldier now to "activate the positronic tacyons!" instead of "fire"

Or as comedian Kyle Kincaid said, the idea that the action hero could still get it up.

I remember Speed made a joke about this at the end. A crack about "Relationships built on life threatening traumas don't last" or something lol

This one definitely turned me off the first Terminator movie. I mean I know it's critical to the plot but it still makes me roll my eyes.

Years back, I remember watching the Wargames scene where the computer was trying to "guess a passcode". Which it was doing remotely. Determining one digit at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNBdjVO04Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qOV8xonfY

I said, "This is completely ridiculous. That's not how any kind of real world authentication system works." Dramatic, yes. Realistic? No, never happen.

Some years later, there was a severe remote exploit for the filesharing feature for Windows 95 and 98 systems. Not only had the Microsoft person who designed the thing stored the password to a share in plaintext instead of hashing it, which would have precluded this from working, but there was also a bug where the server's authentication system could be sent a malformed message and only validated as many bytes of the password as had been specified in the authentication message. Someone promptly went out and wrote an exploit to brute-force access to a share by just asking it to only validate the first byte, try each, get in in at most 256 tries. I look at that and say "yeah, but it also exposes the next byte of the password itself, and those probably persist even after the thing is patched, not to mention the potential for credentials reuse for other things". I go modify Samba's smbclient to iterate through the thing, extract the password one byte at a time. I message a buddy who has a Windows 98 machine on the network, "hey, can I break into your machine for a sec?" He comes up "Uh, okay. What are you up to, tal?"

I fire it up and we're sitting there watching his password be printed on my Linux box's screen, one letter at a time. I said, "This is exactly like that scene in Wargames that I said could never, ever happen in real life, was just Hollywood. Guess that showed me." He says, "fucking Microsoft".

Honourable mention is NCIS Dual keyboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Top hacking scene of all time!

That's the gold standard for hacking, by far. But this also deserves a mention for pushing the bounds of technology, way ahead of it's time: https://youtu.be/fQGbXmkSArs

Cute Asian girl with green hair and a side ponytail: "I'm in!"

Six keystrokes later: "Ok I pulled up the floor plans to the building, disabled the cameras and unlocked all the doors."

that's a lot of cuts

One man's Linux is another man's OS/2.

There's a common theme in movies

since you can only hear one side of a phone conversation

of a character repeating a lot of what the other person said for the audience's benefit. I've seen some example conversations written out showing both sides that show how ludicrous such a conversation would have to be.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEB-OoUrNuk

phone rings, main character picks it up

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." - MC

"Uhh, I'm just calling about your extended car warranty..." - poor bastard

My mother's husband does that shit though. Never says goodbye, just hangs up the phone and I'm left annoyed again.

I sat on the jury for a murder trial last year (maybe 2). It was impressive how inept both the defence and prosecution seemed and how flat out sloppy it all felt.

The story Foxfire, Esq on Royal Road is written by a lawyer, and goes into all kinds of detail about the processes they go through, and just how long things take.

Also goes into a little detail about what kind of legal adjustments the system makes for superheroes, because it's a superhero legal drama :p

It's amazing just how stupid people are

Another version of this - how big an apartment/house an artist can afford.

How big a house an average person can afford doesn't necessarily precisely track how big a house the average person actually purchases, mind.

Warp 9 to the nearest wormhole.

That's why I don't believe space travel will ever be as easy as depicted in shows like Star Trek. I cannot believe the human body can withstand such speeds. But I could be wrong. A lot of current technology, I would have said was impossible a few decades ago

That's probably just a fancy gui skin over a boring port scanner and a bash script testing some 0 days.

I want a realistic hacking movie, and I know how it should be done:

In plot, it needs to be an ensemble cast heist movie a la Ocean's Eleven. But it should have a "this isn't serious" tone similar to Down Periscope. Because it's about a penetration testing company. They're hired to do a full physical and digital security audit on some large company, so then we follow the crew of law abiding computer nerds and burglars as they plan and perpetrate a series of hacks and attacks on this company.

The stakes if they get caught are they hand a letter of authorization to the security team, say "good job" and report to the company that hired them that their security in that department is good, so even though they're taking their job seriously there isn't really any tension and they maintain a goofy sense of humor.

And you're in luck, Jayson Street and Deviant Ollam have already pretty much entirely written this, just watch their defcon talks. Get those two guys on either side of a coffee table with a bottle of fine whiskey and you'll have your screenplay before the bottle's empty.

It'll never get made though because Master Lock would sue you for even trying. You couldn't make it without completely obliterating Master Lock.

Also how everyone is like wrapping their entire body up in sheets to get up from the bed. As if they weren't literally just fucking lol

This made one scene in the Fallout TV series very effective.

Imagine being stuck in a theater for 6 years

I have a coworker whose divorce proceedings have been dragging for years now :(

Gun sounds in general. All those action heroes are deaf after that indoors shootout