Does experience in this hobby ruin some fiction for you?

[jamasianman]

Before I started this hobby, I read one of the Jack Reacher books, Never Go Back. The movie is very different from the book. Not going to go deep into the specifics, but Jack Reacher is on the run with a woman and is trying to stop a criminal conspiracy. They find a meth lab in the forest and burn it down, take the money. Later they find out Reacher may have an illegitimate daugter and the badguys want to use her to scare him away with accountability or threat of her death. So in order to get ahead of the villains, they need to find her. Reacher uses a payphone and calls up an escort service to get a 1k escort to meet them. An hour later she shows up in a limo at the payphone thinking they want a threesome. Reacher says he wants her to use her excellent conversation and social skills to go to the office where the records are kept and find the name of the woman and the daughter. She protests at first due to the risk of fraud or whatever but he says its an easy payout. She goes in and out and gets the name for them very easy, then she leaves.


Now that I've experienced this hobby and know what its like, does this scenario not seem absolutely ridiculous looking back? The author is (Lee Child), and obviously doesn't know how this would actually go down. It takes place in New York but I guess he didn't do enough research. But whenever there is gun action he knows how they all work in great detail. I learned that detective special 38 guns only have use in close quarter shootouts, for in the same room because of the short barrel. So when I watch a korean movie and see a woman snipe a guy from 100 feet away with that gun it seems corny.

Anyone else ever have an experience like this when watching a movie or reading a book?

 

[angry anderson]

Before I started this hobby, I read one of the Jack Reacher books, Never Go Back. The movie is very different from the book. Not going to go deep into the specifics, but Jack Reacher is on the run with a woman and is trying to stop a criminal conspiracy. They find a meth lab in the forest and burn it down, take the money. Later they find out Reacher may have an illegitimate daugter and the badguys want to use her to scare him away with accountability or threat of her death. So in order to get ahead of the villains, they need to find her. Reacher uses a payphone and calls up an escort service to get a 1k escort to meet them. An hour later she shows up in a limo at the payphone thinking they want a threesome. Reacher says he wants her to use her excellent conversation and social skills to go to the office where the records are kept and find the name of the woman and the daughter. She protests at first due to the risk of fraud or whatever but he says its an easy payout. She goes in and out and gets the name for them very easy, then she leaves.


Now that I've experienced this hobby and know what its like, does this scenario not seem absolutely ridiculous looking back? The author is (Lee Child), and obviously doesn't know how this would actually go down. It takes place in New York but I guess he didn't do enough research. But whenever there is gun action he knows how they all work in great detail. I learned that detective special 38 guns only have use in close quarter shootouts, for in the same room because of the short barrel. So when I watch a korean movie and see a woman snipe a guy from 100 feet away with that gun it seems corny.

Anyone else ever have an experience like this when watching a movie or reading a book?

Quit hobbying .

 

[masterblaster]

Umm what?

 

[luvsdaty]

There's a reason why it's called fiction bruh.

 

[80watts]

In case you haven't noticed, all those movies have a suggestion, and the movie is based on that suggestion. The suggestion might not be logical.
Storytelling 101.

 

[Newb808]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
Yeah I’m ok with fiction. The alternative might not play as well in an action movie screenplay.
Imagine in a movie the character is looking for an escort and he starts checking the ads and Twitter, then checks on boards before sending booking requests. He then loses patience, thinks with his little head, gets baited and switched and ends up at an AMP. 🤣

 

[blakealridge]

The way sex workers are portrayed in media is horrid, with two exceptions I can think of: Firefly and Nathan for You.

 

[Larry's Torch]

The only fiction I've had ruined by this hobby is the fantasy that quickly dissolves during a very disappointing session.

 

[Banged_Up]

There are parallels. In my head I look like Tom Cruise and I’m hung like John Holmes, in my mirror I look like well, me.
Fiction and fantasy are tied together. We are allowed to travel vicariously through the author.
Some of the women I’ve had dates with while pooning are way out of my league in real life but any dumb dumb can finance a fantasy.
When fiction and fantasy cross the line into reality, that’s when the mushrooms are exceptional. We just have to separate the two.
I do get what you are saying, I worked in the movie industry for a while, once you see how it’s done it all becomes very fake. I haven’t been to a theatre in over 25 years. Most movies are just bunky tripe.

 

[rlock]

Now that I've experienced this hobby and know what its like, does this scenario not seem absolutely ridiculous looking back? The author is (Lee Child), and obviously doesn't know how this would actually go down. It takes place in New York but I guess he didn't do enough research. But whenever there is gun action he knows how they all work in great detail. I learned that detective special 38 guns only have use in close quarter shootouts, for in the same room because of the short barrel. So when I watch a korean movie and see a woman snipe a guy from 100 feet away with that gun it seems corny.

Anyone else ever have an experience like this when watching a movie or reading a book?

I'll just be happy when movies stop showing people get hit by perfect sniping headshots when the shooter's using a black powder musket / pistol.

 

[Uncled]

I'll just be happy when movies stop showing people get hit by perfect sniping headshots when the shooter's using a black powder musket / pistol.

I like it when someone shoots from the hip, especially with a handgun, without having to line up the gunsights with their eye, and they manage to hit the intended target every time.

I also like it when rival gunmen stand out in the open and blaze away at each other, when most sensible people would probably try to get behind some cover if possible.