DOES THIS BOTHER YOU?

Chess as props in movies.  To imply a little class (?), completely undone by bishops moving straight up files, rooks running all over the place and kings moving ever how many spaces! Do u find this irritating?   

I find ambiguous, capitalized thread names, designed simply to attract attention, to be irritating.

:P.

And I thought I might be a little too easily irritated.  Therefore, the question, which u didn't bother to answer.

I'm not easily 'irritated' ... I thought it was quite funny that in Searching For Bobby Fischer, the protagonist named the openining before it was even played :P.

But other than that we're good :).

Movies get a lot of stuff wrong. As a musician, I find myself rolling my eyes when there are scenes with models pretending to play instruments or actors conducting an orchestra. There are some that get it right and it's always fun to see. 

One movie that got it right was "The Competition" with A. Irving and R. Dreyfuss. They were convincing as pianists until Dreyfuss got up to conduct the orchestra... it was pretty bad.

Pretty much anytime you take someone to a movie that actually knows something about the subject matter, that person can rip the use of props and dialogue to shreds, as far as content is concerned.

So, yeah... the idea of chess as an indicator of sophistication is silly just as with anything else... music, a library filled with unread books, etc. But it doesn't irritate me, just makes me laugh.

My local coffee shop has chessboard tables set up with the black square in the right hand corner.

I don't mind it so much. The chess board is just there to set the ambiance of a scene. It bothers me a lot more when they screw up the science in science fiction movies, like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact"

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Perhaps it's the chairs that are set up wrong....

Nope, because they're against the window and there's no chair on the window side.

My movie-chess pet peeve is that every game seems to end with

"Ah!"  (Makes a move)  "Checkmate."

Dear screenwriters: It's unusual for a mate to occur without a check or two shortly beforehand, and it's very unusual for a game to be one move from mate without either player noticing! 

Speaking of "Checkmate" has anyone seen this terrible crime thriller crap movie? Mr. Kung Fu Carradine is in it, but it's mainly this blonde chick who isn't even remotely attactive. The bad guy decides who he murders next by using the city map as a chessboard. He plays the cops and then some stuff happens and I fell asleep.

Anyway, yes, I too find it very annoying when there's a chess game going on between two characters who are having an ultra-intense discussion about an upcoming bank heist where each move symbolizes a foreshadowing in the story. Then out of the blue one guy mates because all bank robbers are chessmasters. There is of course the possibility that neither of them knows WTF the other is doing, but to save face they each pretend they know what's going on.

Love it, JasonFahy!  Let's hope they get the message. 

Very recently, I saw a chessboard "fully set-up" for a game to start in the foreground of a scene and, I swear, all the pawns were lined up on the back row with the striking pieces on the next row!  I was so flabberghasted that I didn't really get a good look at the striking pieces, but there was definently something wacky about them, other than where they were.

Even Mr. Spock finds Captain Kirk's Checkmate "irritating".

I haven't managed to work a chess board into any of my movies yet, but you can rest assured that when I do it will be used properly.  The last short film we made, there was a little glass chess set in the office we used, but it never made it into any of the shots.

I find Daleks irritating, but never for long.

To me what i find amazing in film is when you have 5 or 10 bad guys with automatic weapons and one good guy with a pistol and although there must be a few hundred rounds going off the good guy never takes a hit but manages to get all the bad guys. either he is really good at avoiding bullets flying around or the bad guys are really poor shots.

The newest Indiana Jones was really bad about that.  How many bullets can you dodge by running in a straight line? 

Yes, ACQ, I saw part of that terrible movie.  Last night, in fact, just b /4 I posited my question.  It's called "Final Move".  It would have been better had the "first" move never been made.

And I really get wormrose and others who have pointed out that many things are  wacked out.  I refer to it as DIS-INFORMATION, and it's so rampant across the board, that I sometimes wonders if our enemies r distoying us by turning our brains into swiss cheese.  I mean, have u actually watched any children's programing lately?  Poor things, their brain have to be mush.

And the Daleks!!!   They need to go back to their non-dimension and stay there!Just when u think DR. u no Who has rid us of them forever, here they r again!!! 

WE''RE DOOMED, I TELL U!!   DOOMED!!!!!

p. s.  Remember, just because ur paronoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get u.

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