Coral

I'm not even a fan of them wearing shoes in the house.
Dragging dirt into the house overall is a problem, but also the idea of people wearing shoes all day long (inside and outside) is brutal.

Rival11

Exactly, it's nasty.

GoldenJCJ

Outside of maybe a movie showing Japanese culture, is there ever been a movie where characters take off their shoes when they go inside?

I remember a scene in Big where Tom Hanks wiped his muddy shoes on a mat before going in, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually take their shoes off when they walk in to a house.

Trevor

Is that really a thing? I know very few people who take their shoes off as they enter their house.

andicus

We do.
I also take them off when going into anyone else's house.

Noonan

What do you do during the winter in MN, just wipe your feet and let the rest of the dirt/mud get on your floors?

Draven

I can't think of a person's house I've visited in recent memory where I didn't take off my shoes (my own included).

Count Dooku

I don't take my shoes off in my house, and I don't in someone else's unless asked. If my shoes are dirty, I know it because of what I have been doing. But I don't engage in a lot of "dirty shoes" activities.

Count Dooku

In the movie Red Notice, there is a scene where Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds need to put on jackets to disguise themselves. Of course, there just happen to be a couple jackets hanging nearby that they can grab. And one of the jackets fits The Rock perfectly!

This happens a lot in films where a guy is able to grab a random jacket and blend into the crowd.

Michael Corvin

No idea if it was mentioned previously but empty coffee cups/any cups. It's super easy to tell when and actor is waving their hands/arm around hand talking with the cup and even worse when they sit the cup down to a hollow tap on a table.

Is it that hard to just put some water in the cup for for some weight? Is it used to hide a microphone? If so, can't they design a cup to simulate some weight?

GoldenJCJ

^ I notice that more and more these days. It’s especially noticeable when they fake drink. I’m not sure if they just don’t want the drinking to interfere with the dialogue or what but it looks pretty obvious. I don’t remember it being that obvious in older shows/movies.

Coral

For me, shoes are dirty if they're worn outside. Doesn't matter if you're not walking on dirt, mud or in the snow... the ground is dirty. Sidewalks, parking lots, shopping mall floors, grass... they're all dirty.

Draven

I had a short-lived Tumblr account that was going to be just examples of that phenomenon. I quickly lost interest but at this point it seems like cups with any weight are the exception in movies and on TV.

Count Dooku

To me dirty means the visible presence of something that could come off and soil a floor.

Unless it has been recently scrubbed clean, a house's floor is dirty, so my "no visible dirt on them" shoes are not going to add anything to the floor that is not already there.

Count Dooku

It's also pretty obvious when someone is carrying a box. Unless it is part of the scene for the box to be heavy, the actors carry it with no exertion of effort at all.

Michael Corvin

Cups were probably filled with booze in older shows and movies.

GoldenJCJ

I was recently watching Die Hard with a Vengeance again and this argument between McClane and Zeus always bugged me. They were starting to argue over the water bottle riddle and the dialogue goes like this:

McClane: “I’m going to put my foot up your ass you dumb motherfu…”
Zeus: “Say it! Say it! You were going to call me a (N word)!
McClane: “No I wasn’t!”
Zeus: “What were you going to call me?”
McClane: “Asshole! How’s that?! Asshole!”

It was obvious that McClane wasn’t going to call Zeus a (N-word) or an asshole. He was going to call him a Motherfucker.

RocShemp

When I was there at filming of the rooftop bar scene for The Rum Diary, it was clear Marshall Bell was really drinking booze (I could smell it since I was seated across from him during the scene). He was definitely sauced well into the shoot, but he kept shooting like a real trooper. He was near 70 at the time too.

Dunno about the rest of the cast or extras, but the gave me what tasted like those fake beers like O'doul's. Being a non actor, I was really drinking during every take rather than baby sips. After several bottles and takes, when the director was finally satisfied with the scene, I had to rush to the bathroom for a long piss.

I love how Raiders of the Lost Ark ​​​​​​​subverted this cliche when Indy mugs a random Nazi for his uniform.

Runaway

Now you've ruined the movie for me. I hate you.

JeremyM

It very well could be a sound thing. I was just watching a Chasing Amy documentary and one of the actors was talking about how he had to deliver dialogue while looking through CDs in a record store, but he had to avoid any CDs that still had the plastic wrap on them because of the sound they make (they had intermingled some unwrapped CDs).

GoldenJCJ

Well, why didn’t McClane just say he was going to call him a “Motherfucker”?! He already started saying it!!

Count Dooku

It's clear now that they made a decision to change the line, so why?
McClane never says motherfucker in the movie, but that change would not have impacted the R rating.

Possibly, it was felt that the come down in harshness from ni**er to motherfucker was not great enough.
Even though motherfucker does not have the racist component, it's still a pretty harsh way to address someone who has helped you.
John calling Zeus an asshole is less offensive profanity, like using profanity to call someone a jerk.
Calling someone a motherfucker is still pretty mean.

Trelach24

That's a pretty shocking accusation that could easily make you forget whether you were about to say motherfucker or asshole, which are pretty interchangeable.

Count Dooku

That's a good take. McClane started to say motherfucker, cut himself off, and then was so shocked by Zeus' accusation, he forgot what he had said and changed it to asshole. This is the one we should go with.

Josh-da-man

Maybe he was going to say "motherfucking asshole" or "motherfucking ******."