this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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[–] [email protected] 148 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

wait till this kid learns about sound effects libraries

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I still chuckle every time I hear the Wilhelm scream.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Once I knew to listen for it, I find it jarring and cringeworthy tbh. Really takes me out of a movie

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Buzz Lightyear makes that sound when he’s knocked out of Andy’s window.

I think a Nazi or two also scream Wilhelm-like when Indiana Jones punches them off a car.

In TLOTR: The Two Towers, some dude is falling at Helm’s Deep and does a Wilhelm. I think it’s after a scary flying beast that’s naughty picks him up and drops him from really high up.

In Spidey Into the Spiderverse, Spidey punches a crook and the crook Wilhelms about the audacity to be hit by Spidey.

When Luke Skywalker gets his hand chopped off by a sharp light blade that’s burning hot and stuff, he screams Mark Hamilly, and not Wilhelmly. Thank you, Luke.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago

Man, a comic book speech bubble in a Spiderverse movie that just says "Wilhelm Scream" would be hilarious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

This comment could've kept going for another thousand paragraphs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Same. It breaks the immersion and reminds people that they’re watching a movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

They used it perfectly in The Hangover. I never listen for it, but they made it painfully obvious and got a surprised chuckle out of me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago

That one rusty door opening sound.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Noooo! Those are the real sounds of Aquaman swimming through the ocean at 90 mph!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Foley artistry is really cool to learn about

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

It was my dream job, when it was actually a guy making sounds. Now it's all digital and on a computer. That's no fun. I wanna smash fruit with weapons and make weird noises for movies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Good ol' General Series 6000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Or Turbosquid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Wilhelm intensifies

[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I swear some comic movie fans are the stupidest people alive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I swear some ~~comic movie~~ fans are the stupidest people alive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Touché, seems like every fandom has its mouth breathers.

Well, except for Our Flag Means Death fans at least as far as the folks I've interacted with. Figures that a queer pirate rom-com would generally have a pretty wholesome fandom (although there's probably shitty OMFD fans too, heh)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean I still find it funny, I find it entertaining when it's found out that an extremely high cost production used something that I have access to

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 weeks ago

It's more common than you think

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just a crumb of media literacy for an old seppo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He is responsible for making me the way I am…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A clever folk hero, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If a movie isn't brave enough to put their main actor into deep water with no breathing equipment with a ton of sharks just for the poster picture, then I'm not watching it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Finally, someone said it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

The movie would have made more money if someone was mauled by a shark and it led to a boycott

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That last Aquaman movie is genuinely one of the worst things I have ever watched.

I stole it and I still wanted a refund.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

That reminds me of the time Beavis and Butt-Head tried to get free popcorn and otherwise annoy girls during a Twilight movie, got thrown out, and demanded a refund after sneaking in.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think I made it halfway through. On 4 tries.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought at first they had left the watermark in (no pun intended). That would've been a big fuckup.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Are you saying that mofo can't breathe under water? Cause if so, I want my money back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair I would have expected a tiny bit more effort.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

For the poster? Nah. They're right, that's what stock photos are for. What, you want them to whip up a unique CGI model for no discernable improvement in quality in a still picture?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No. I want them to photograph real sharks. No CGI.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Good news! Someone already did and is selling that photo in stock photo services!