Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[Ryujin]

Outrun the tidal wave? Outrun the explosion?

Amateurs!

I’m going to outrun the SUNRISE!!

People on action movies don't run from explosions. They casually walk away from them without looking back.

 

[Artamo]

People on action movies don't run from explosions. They casually walk away from them without looking back.

Preferably with a dove flying off behind them too.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yes, it’s not explained for ages why their faces look like that (they all look as if they have acromegaly or similar) until after the heist, and almost in passing, you could easily miss it if you haven’t worked it out.

I just started watching Steal and I literally immediately assumed as soon as I saw more than one of them, that they'd done that for the sake of making themselves hard to conclusively ID by people and facial recognition. It didn't so much scream "acromegaly" to me as "Cro-Magnon man" (or Buffy vampire), those incredibly wide upper nose bridges and heavy brow ridges especially. Also you can tell they're prosthetics because they're so obviously unnatural (like the weird blue contacts one of the black guys is wearing - almost no human has eyes that colour, regardless of ethnicity) and kind of falling off a couple of times - I assume that was intentional, not just a blooper - (and the same black guy with the contacts has a goatee so fake it's completely obvious, but it still obscures his appearance). But unnatural isn't a big problem because they're there to make them harder to ID. I haven't got far but at least two of them had skin tones that looked fake too, possibly just caused by all the cover-up for the prosthetics.

You were certainly right to recommend it as getting a lot of little details right. I did think none of them being bothered by the prosthetics/contacts and rubbing at them or the like was a little implausible but perhaps that will be justified by practice or something.

The first actually questionable thing is a guy saying they might be made to sign NDAs about the event. < Extremely loud incorrect buzzer > I could go into detail, but no, you can't make people sign NDAs after the fact in the UK (worst case, they say no, you fire them, they probably have a decent case for unfair dismissal, and they can speak freely about the whole thing to whoever they choose), and if you try to, they're unlikely to be legally effective (there needs to be actual offer, consideration and acceptance - many NDAs lack this and are thus legally weak or ineffective in the UK), and they can also never, ever prevent you talking to the police, regulatory boards, solicitors, etc. about criminal activity.

Of course that same guy kind of seems like an idiot, so maybe he's just an idiot, I guess we'll see!

(The "this is the room with the good biscuits for guests, we nick them from time to time" and "I always wondered what the other floors looked" stuff rings appallingly true btw as someone who works in precisely that kind of building/environment lol. Also liked the micro-details like Sophie Turner's characters shirt is un-ironed and wrinkly, very real)