Would be neat if it existed…but perfect for a novel! Kind of a 007 thing, though…
Did you watch the video? Push button!!!
You don’t believe the video, do you? Special effects…
Yes, I am gullible as heck!
LOL, yeah I thought about that also @ok4450… and you are certainly correct about that. However since this is a work of fiction I think the author is taking some poetic license. Maybe the fictional people in the book are even less aware than the low, low, level of awareness displayed by real drivers at large these days.
Work of fiction I agree, but I’m not much of a Hollywood guy with all of the BS they put out so it kind of puts me off.
Several decades ago I casually met a private detective/ bail bondsman and you know what he drove? A beige Mazda 323. It blended in with everything else and kept him way under the radar. On a stakeout for an errant spouse or a bail jumping felon no one in the world paid any attention to him.
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Now that you mentioned Hollywood BS @ok4450… Nothing…and I mean NOTHING pisses me off more than when some idiot in the production office dubs a 2 stroke sound track over what is clearly a 4 stroke motorcycle. I’ve turned some films off just because of this offense…
But for some persistent reason, they seem to perpetually stick a 2 stroke sounds track onto anything with 2 wheels…and it drives me absolutely MAD I tell you.
I guess knowing every make and model bike and its engine design is one of the curses i suffer under…
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Everyone has their own Pet Peeves. Most people don’t care or wouldn’t know the difference.
My movie/tv Pet Peeve is Military. I can’t tell you how many films or TV shows I’ve seen that got the military insignia WRONG. Or a guy is wearing the WRONG medals. Anyone who’s been in the military should be able to spot the mistakes easily. But since only 0.5% of the population have actually served…the vast majority won’t spot it. Some times these movies even have military advisers on the film.
Oh I am sure that goes on @MikeInNH … I wouldn’t know myself… Maybe it is because they arent allowed to properly represent? Like the communist “somebodies” that we are at war with in some movie…some made up entity with a few facts sprinkled on top to make it palatable type of thing.
The best lies always contain a little bit of truth…just to mess with your head I say…
They should get things like Rank Insignia. You can easily look that up. I’ve seen people who are wearing Captain Bars being called a Colonel. Or a Colonel being called a General. One movie was this young 19yo who was being decorated was wearing his dress uniform and had 4 hash marks on sleeve which indicates he’s served for over 12 years (1 hash mark = 3 years). Simple things like that they should get right. I can almost forgive them for Navy ranks. More then once I’ve seen a Navy Captain (rank not title) with Army captain insignia. Navy Captain is equivalent to an Army Colonel so the insignia is an Eagle.
Two other movie/TV sound effects
Car tires squealing on dirt.
African/South American jungle movies with kookaburra calls.
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Just saw that last night.
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… and cars that would obviously have ABS, but emit screeching sounds and smoke from their tires as the wheels lock-up under heavy braking on a highway. I assume that the ABS is disconnected, in order to provide some extra… drama.
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Wildly oversteering FWD cars clearly showing the rear tires not spinning… hand brake turns.
The biggie for me is repealing the laws of physics for effect.
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How about high speed police chase’s in down town big city’s during rush hour?
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And wildly mis-matched vehicles in a close chase. On Dr. No, the Caddy hearse chasing down Bond in his Sunbeam Alpine sports car.
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I think that it’s actually a LaSalle, rather than a Cadillac.
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Very good eye! I’m not familiar with them, except that GM added them as a half step down from Cadillac.
I had a car with an oil jet. It was a
Pinto. I think it came in the standard package.
You got me thinking about P.I.s’ cars, real and fictional. Mike Hammer had a Corvette in one of the movies, Kiss Me Deadly, but I don’t think Spillane had that in the novel. Jack Reacher doesn’t even have a driver’s license, which must have really annoyed Tom Cruise. (“Either I get to explode a Vette, or I’m outta here!”)
Further back: The Avenger (Richard Henry Benson) had an unremarkable car of no specific brand. (This is before product placement.) It had all sorts of James Bond mods long before Ian Fleming started writing. Doc Savage seemed to have a new set of wheels in each novel.
The investigators I’ve talked to advise renting a car when doing skip traces or divorce surveillance (private eyes’ meat and potatoes) since you can voucher it. That’s what my guy will do if it comes to a stakeout. His friend, an M,E., uses a Jeep since it can hold more cadavers.
My pet peeve is accountability; characters do things that have far-reaching consequences which are then ignored. Dad’s was military accuracy as well; he was a Navy piolt in WWII and Korea and knew which planes were used in which theaters and when. Producers like using archival footage but go more
for spectacle than realism.
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I’m still laughing at that one… LOL… Maybe GM was into the Spy game or something? Clandestine installation of such equipment and all that. Maybe not, I’ve encountered the same oil delivery systems across many car brands over the years, so maybe its more of a big oil conspiracy thing.
All those oil spreading devices I tell ya…there are some out there right now, doing their jobs as designed.