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Onyxmeth on 18 January 2009

I just got done watching Independence Day on TNT, and minus any other of the thousand little quirks in the movie, it really got me thinking about the thing I hate most about some movies. Why is it when a bomb is on a timer, or a sports game in a movie is running through it's final minutes and seconds, that time seems to slow considerably? Will Smith had 30 seconds on a timer to get out of that silly mothership before this nuke detonated. Approximately 1 min. 30 sec. later, the bomb explodes. Why? The timer is of your own creation movie makers! If you need a minute-thirty to get the scene rolling, then just make the timer for a minute-thirty! I think it becomes even more overbearing that now we have a show like 24 that manages to keep a running clock for 24 hours and doesn't miss a beat. Sports movies, action movies, anything with a timer.

Make. It. In. Real. Time.

Rant over. Thoughts and opinions?



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d21lewis on 18 January 2009

And don't get me started on Dragon Ball Z! Planet Namek was going to explode in 5 minutes. It took 10 episodes for those 5 minutes to pass!



Onyxmeth on 18 January 2009
d21lewis said:
And don't get me started on Dragon Ball Z! Planet Namek was going to explode in 5 minutes. It took 10 episodes for those 5 minutes to pass!

Christ. At that point my mind would have snapped like a slim jim and my ape would have taken a big old shit. Seriously, why are certain people that make this entertainment that fucking brain dead? If Planet Dragon Ball Z is going to explode in 5 minutes, you've got exactly 4 minuters and 55 seconds to get it done in! I want that last five seconds to recuperate from having had to watch DBZ for almost five minutes.

 



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scottie on 18 January 2009
Onyxmeth said:

I just got done watching Independence Day on TNT, and minus any other of the thousand little quirks in the movie, it really got me thinking about the thing I hate most about some movies. Why is it when a bomb is on a timer, or a sports game in a movie is running through it's final minutes and seconds, that time seems to slow considerably? Will Smith had 30 seconds on a timer to get out of that silly mothership before this nuke detonated. Approximately 1 min. 30 sec. later, the bomb explodes. Why? The timer is of your own creation movie makers! If you need a minute-thirty to get the scene rolling, then just make the timer for a minute-thirty! I think it becomes even more overbearing that now we have a show like 24 that manages to keep a running clock for 24 hours and doesn't miss a beat. Sports movies, action movies, anything with a timer.

Make. It. In. Real. Time.

Rant over. Thoughts and opinions?

 

In alot of cases the 1:30 shows what 3 different groups of people do in the 30s before the explosion



Onyxmeth on 18 January 2009
scottie said:
Onyxmeth said:

I just got done watching Independence Day on TNT, and minus any other of the thousand little quirks in the movie, it really got me thinking about the thing I hate most about some movies. Why is it when a bomb is on a timer, or a sports game in a movie is running through it's final minutes and seconds, that time seems to slow considerably? Will Smith had 30 seconds on a timer to get out of that silly mothership before this nuke detonated. Approximately 1 min. 30 sec. later, the bomb explodes. Why? The timer is of your own creation movie makers! If you need a minute-thirty to get the scene rolling, then just make the timer for a minute-thirty! I think it becomes even more overbearing that now we have a show like 24 that manages to keep a running clock for 24 hours and doesn't miss a beat. Sports movies, action movies, anything with a timer.

Make. It. In. Real. Time.

Rant over. Thoughts and opinions?

 

In alot of cases the 1:30 shows what 3 different groups of people do in the 30s before the explosion

What movie is that? It sure isn't Independence Day. It took them over a minute just to get out of the ship, and the camera never cut to any other scene.

 



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Munkeh111 on 18 January 2009

I agree, 24 has spoiled everything like that. I was watching the West Wing (DVD) recently, and they were counting down to something happening, and it didn't take the 3 minutes we were told it would take, it really spoils the immersion. In 24 I am so hooked in that I do check my watch to see the time on TV



Galaki on 18 January 2009

Yeah well. You can't blame them. They might be in a different holographic world with considerably slower time during filming.



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SnesTea on 18 January 2009

In spaceballs, when the ship is about to blow up, the countdown goes:

10, 9, 8, 6, and then the guys say, what happened to 7, then the computer says just kidding. it continues, then once it gets to 0 it says have a nice day instead of just blowing up.

In FF7: Advent Children, when Barret says Cloud has 10 minutes to fight Sephiroth, it is 10 minutes until they show him again. Cloud finishes off Sephiroth in 6. I was really happy about that.



akuma587 on 18 January 2009

I always count the timer to see if it matches up. I am ecstatic when it does.



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BringBackChrono on 18 January 2009

Reminds me of the Boxing anime Hajime no Ippo
Whenever someones down, and the referee starts the count, it can go on for anything between 3-4 min, while the boxer who is down goes into flash-backs to gather mental strength to get back up.
DragonballZ was the master of this art, though. They could stretch time like no one else can.

Another thing that i have seen is most of the time bombs are defused in the last 3 seconds(especially the last).



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