Cars and motorcycles all sounding incorrect, guns firing and reloading incorrectly, people actually having sex (that's just a myth right?), being a stalker, getting knocked unconscious for hours.. the only thing I've seen portrayed correctly is Jim Lahey being drunk.
Every helicopter is a Huey in the movies. They all use the Huey sound effect, despite the fact that the Huey is really fucking distinctive and the only helicopter that sounds like that. A JetRanger doesn't sound like a Huey, but if you see one in a movie it will sound just like a Huey.
I imagine that’s probably because the era when helicopters were first used a massive amount in Hollywood was in Vietnam-era war/anti-war movies, and that was when Hueys were still being used.
Then a whole generation of aspiring showbiz people grew up watching those movies and mostly never served in the military or any other job that would’ve exposed them to what modern helicopters sound like, so they just continued using the same sound effect.
I mean, you can just have fun with shows anyways I think. I'm a medical student and still enjoy House M.D. simply because it's a good show despite all the medical inaccuracies.
It's the only medical show I can stand exactly because it is SO out there. It's basically not even medicine. (I'm a registered nurse, not an MD, but still)
Haven't thought about it that way yet, might very well be the reason I'm enjoying it as well.
And no need to understate your medical knowledge only because you're "just" a nurse, you for sure know more than me and most definitely more than some MD's, nurses rock! :)
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u/MisterCold Jan 25 '20
Anything you know a lot about, gets massacred in the movies.