gwilks98

It's annoying and overused. I noticed it's used all over the place, but only learned it's history (and coined name) one boring sunday afternoon.


http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/
The sound effect is at the bottom of this page.

Once heard in a movie, I immediatly lose any sense of realism that the movie attempted to build. (It's like watching a movie only to have the Energizer Bunny march across the screen.) The only thing that's worse IMO is seeing directors add beeping sounds if there's the onscreen actor is working on a prop computer.

Someone out there tell me I'm not alone in my anal retentiveness....

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j00 are VERY alone...

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MikeD

Have never even noticed it, much less been annoyed by it...

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BigJon

Never noticed this one...but there is a scream that I always hear in movies, a female scream, that I hate.

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Thesifer

I never knew it was all the same sound effect, didn't really listen. I would have to say so far you are alone There are a lot of movies on there that I can't say would lose "realism" to me from one scream.

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oblongmelon

ayeee...now the power of suggestion is going to have me listening for that scream in every movie I see..it's bad enough I went and ff'd Under the Tuscan Sun to the part where the washer gets struck by lightening to see if I could hear it...(I did)....*sigh*

Kevster

Well I guess you and I are the only ones then - I notice it all the time because I tend to notice little details like that. I agree, it gets annoying after a while. There's nothing like Hollywood to rehash old crap and try to make it look new again.

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BigJon

I thought of another one...

(very obscure...only few will know what I'm talking about)

The sound doors made when they open/close in X-Com UFO Defense. They use it in TONS of movies for a "futuristic door" effect.

Kevster

Another is many of the sounds used in the original Doom game. I swear you hear tons of those sounds in movies, tv shows, etc.

ShawnLee

Oh yeah, very much so. There were movies where I had flashbacks to playing that game (or more accurately, watching my brother play that game while I waited for him to vacate the computer).

And I'm with gwilks. I can't stand movie computers that beep or have cool noises or have crazy video transitions, just because a computer nerd uses them.

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LOL...I love you Obby.

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