{"id":2649,"date":"2013-08-27T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:51:58","slug":"film-blunder-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/08\/27\/film-blunder-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Blunder Blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>I found a YouTube account CinemaSins<\/a>, which produces a series of videos with titles that start, “Everything Wrong With…” It sounded like fun, so I watched Everything Wrong With Jurassic Park In 3 Minutes Or Less<\/a>. Some of it is remarkably observant and often funny. But it is wrong at times. For example, it notes a page from a tabloid taped on the lab refrigerator that proclaims, “Space Aliens Stole My Face!” The video notes sarcastically, “Exactly the kind of article I would expect archaeologists and paleobotanists to hang on their fridge.” This is not an error. This is the video maker assuming that scientists are stodgy and humorless. When I was in graduate school, I had numerous covers from the Weekly World News<\/i> covering my lab walls, including the classic “Bat Child Found in Cave.” It was observant of the video maker to see the story, but clueless not to realize it was put up as a kind of joke.<\/p>\n

It also makes other errors by simply assuming the worse. For example, it misunderstands what is happening when Hammond gets out of the helicopter. But overall, it isn’t bad. It seems that CinemaSins is mostly interested in humor. Things are far, far worse for MovieBlunders<\/a>. This isn’t to say that it is bad. As a matter of fact, the level of detail is truly amazing. The problem is that the blunders are sometimes their own, and since they take it more seriously, it is worse when they are wrong. I watched their video Everything Wrong With The Matrix<\/a>, but it is actually about the whole series:<\/p>\n