Current Events > Here's a thing that annoys me in modern movies Hollywood movies. (grandpa rant)

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The obsession with touch screen functionality. I mostly notice it in Marvel movies, but because of their popularity it has creeped into other films. Notably the new Godzilla movie.

Whenever theres a sciency scene in a Marvel movie Tony Stark or Mark Ruffalo always do a bunch of adjustments on a touch screen. These things mean nothing. It's obvious that the director just told them "yeah just do some finger shit on the glass panel, we'll put in an effect later". There's no rhyme or reason in the stuff they do. It looks like their hands have Tourettes. Its like that scene in Star Wars Episode 2 where Natalie's Portman is running on a conveyer belt and swaying around to avoid hammers and shit. If you watch some behind the scenes stuff about the film George Lucas is talking about how cool it is that theres nothing there and they just put it in later and at most she's reacting to vague shapes coloured for blue screen. Like you can see its not real acting and that there's nothing fucking there. I get that touchscreens are more visually appealing than scientists doing sciency stuff on a keyboard and letters popping up on a screen, but there has to be a way to do this stuff without the most notable thing about the scenes being how the actors' hands seem to be having an epileptic seizure.

God damn that topic title >_>
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Meh, I don't mind.
I've grown accustomed to it due to any time someone's "playing a game with a controller" or "uber-hacking" in movies and shows. If I can get past obvious fakery when it comes to things I'm knowledgeable of, I can get past the sci-fi holographic touch screen nonsense.
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I find it better to see than just mashing keys like NCIS
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DarthAragorn posted...

I find it better to see than just mashing keys like NCIS

I don't understand people who criticize that scene.

Like it was obviously a joke. And it was hilarious.
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I guess it could be worse.

We could be watching them mess with random dials and backlit buttons on a giant mainframe that keeps making bleepy noises, then sit around waiting for a two-word answer to come out on a spool of tickertape.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

The obsession with touch screen functionality.

Well at least you're original lol
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