How sad are you ?

[superspud]

Ok so it's a sad thing to admit, but lets see how many of you others here are as sad as I am. Truthfull now, no "what me, nah never!" sorts.

I was watching a film the other day and I spotted they had a large round glass jar on the floor the type you get plants in at the local g/c. My first thoughts on seeing this empty jar was "my god I could grow something in that", then there was the film where they were growing something else, I forget what now, and I thought "yeah right, as if that would grow there".

So how many of you have done that ?.

[froglets]

Not quite that, but while watching a Hitchcock film which was supposed to be set in some exotic place in Autumn, I looked at the background to the plane shot and muttered about the plants being obviously spring in Pinewood.

[irnhed]

I do it all of the time.

My wife and I were watching the Vampire Diaries the other night (don't ask...) and they were digging.

As they're in America, they were using long spades that don't have a handle, and a kind of a pointy flat bit (technical terms there).

I made the interesting observation that they were taken across to the US by Irish immigrants back in the day, and that they were a traditional Irish tool shape.

Can't quite explain the look I got, but it was certainly clear that I wasn't as fascinating as I believed.

[irnhed]

Oh, another one (you've got me started now).

We were watching Eastwick (can you see a theme) and all of the ariel shots of the town show gorgeous Autuminal trees that are typical of north-east coast America.  Must go over to New England in the 'Fall' sometime.

All of the scenes shot in the streets showed lovely green trees at the height of Summer. 

[Rosymacposie]

Yep me too!  Was watching an old episode of 'Rosemary and Thyme' and I saw the 'bed' they where working on...........that's just a load of compost from bags  dumped in a heap to make it look like a flower bed..  Definitely a sad person.  :-[

[ACE]

For a minute you had me thinking about SAD Seed Acquisition Disease. We all have that affliction.

[Jeannine]

Me too,movies with flowers from different seasons in the same shot are my pet hate, and I pick  gardening books apart too, I sit there reading muttering things like "well that won't work" etc..yep I need to get a life!!

XX Jeannine

[PurpleHeather]

I love the Christmas Specials they make in summer with deciduous trees in full leaf covered in artificial snow.

Estate agents would be advised to re-shoot the photos they have for the houses for sale since it is easy to spot how long the property has been on the market by what is showing in the garden.

When I see a period drama I look out for television aerials and even a sky dish. I notice they cut most so that they do not show the top of the roof.

When actors pick up a pen to write, how many of them are left handed.

My niggle is to note how often (Eastenders/Coronation St. particularly) where the characters are supposed to be working class and not at all wealthy they order a drink and do not finish it before leaving the pub. How many poor people would do that in real life with the price of a drink in a pub?

When watching old series on the box, to try to work out how long ago it was when they were made, I watch out for the car windscreens to see if they show a date on the tax disc.

Remember the Sweeney? they always had cars crashing and you could tell which cars would crash by their age denoted by the letter on the number plate.

Think that lot puts me in the very sad to ever so sad box.

[Jeannine]

Watch actors when at dinner, it is amazing how they manage to sit there and NOT put anything in their mouths, or they put a tiny bit in and spend the rest of the scene chewing what is long gone.

The digging spades someone mentioned are used in the UK too, the very long handle saves your back  as you don't bend over as much and the pole allows you to pull back without having to grip in small space.. much easier to dig with I find.

XX Jeannine

[Mr Smith]

 When I was little I always counted the bullets the 'Lone Ranger' fired and  wanted a six shooter that fired bullets all day long, :)

[antipodes]

AAAh ha ha excellent thread.
I admit that I love films that talk about gardening. French films very often feature gardens and vegetable gardens, as food is so important here  ;)

Some things that annoy me in movies:

• People going into dark places - duuuh turn the bloody light on you fool!
• People go into places and don't close the door behind them - then later you see the door closed??!! wat??
• The way the actors wake up in the morning and they are shaven, their hair nicely combed etc - or they've just being "doing the wild thing" but they are still in their pyjamas??? sounds tricky to me!!
• No one ever locks their car, and they never get stolen.
• And yeah, hunger would be solved in Africa if everyone on film actually ate what they were served and didn't just leave it on the plate before leaving the restaurant!

[busy_lizzie]

My OH and I are always looking at gardens on plays and films rather than the plots. We particularly like Midsomer Murders for that, and spend more time viewing the gardens than the murders. We have become so sad that it is not only gardens we are looking at but wallpaper, kitchen equipment and even colour schemes. Glad to hear we are not alone after all in our madness!  ;D busy_lizzie

[goodlife]

I'm that sad.. that when going for 1 week holiday abroad "to get away from all this" after couple  of days I started taking cuttings from Hotel planters and transfering them to our room balcony box ::)...it was all empty and sad...I always wondered afterwards if they did take..or did somebody else lookafter those ;D

[macmac]

MY OH has one of the spades mentioned and he swears by it.Having suffered back problems he finds it cuts out the bending.When his back "goes"it's no fun ,it happened once  on the lottie planting spuds and they sent 2 ambulances  :o neither of which could get him on to a stretcher so they put a ramp up and he crawled like livestock into the ambulance. :)
He spent some time in A&E apologising about the mess (muck ,straw soil etc)trying to convince them he wasn't sleeping rough :(
To get back to the original thread we often TUT at gardening progs when they make so many things look quick and simple when they're not.I blame them for all the newbie plotholders who only last 5mins 'cos it's too hard  >:(

[shirlton]

Ower Tone is one for that . If they are flying in a plane he will say " That wasn't the one they got in to.

[elvis2003]

I noticed an actual camera in eastenders a couple of months back,no,noyt a camera that one of the cast was holding but an actual camera used to film the prog.ive been searching for it on youtube to post here.......im off to get a life now

[Jeannine]

Best one I remember was in an old film, I forget the name but anyway the hero was verbally standing up to his boss which happened to be a woman, giving here what for and all the time his fly was open.

And come on now be honest...how many of you have watched Braveheart and  counted every time a kilt flew up and showed the actors underwear when we all know in those days nobody wore undewear under a kilt.  The really silly thing is they showed their bums as a gesture in the film but they didn't have pulled down underwear in view so thay all took it off for that shot...shame it would have been a better movie if I could have counted bare bums when The kilts flew up.

Am I sad or what.

[PurpleHeather]

Am now making a mental note to watch braveheart to see the actor's knickers.

[saddad]

OH cringes when we go to the cinema as anything "historical" is invariably very wrong....
My youngest was not impressed byt the Sarmatians in "Arthur" who were too "cataphractoid" in their armour...
but I agree with ACE about SAD...  ::)

[Jeannine]

Hair styles were completely wrong for the period in Dr Zhivago XX Jeannine