Warp wrote:
>   So why are movie makers so afraid of putting a realistic pause between
> the lightning and the thunder?

I *have* noticed that in a couple of places, where you see an unexpected 
  explosion, the sound follows realistically later, and it's actually 
kind of distracting. (Like, in the first Final Fantasy when the plane 
blows up, as an example.)

I've also noticed that's *not* true when the lightning isn't close 
enough to affect the characters. If they're (say) standing out on the 
balcony talking, and the storm is out over the city somewhere, the 
lightning and thunder don't go together. It's only when the lightning is 
playing a part in the plot or mood that it happens at the same time, I 
think.

Maybe the trope is so there it would be distracting to have it realistic.

I recently watched a movie with "realistic" dialog. Four people in a 
garage start-up, all talking at once, all using technical terms and 
pointing at things and upstaging each other, half the time mumbling. It 
was pretty awful, even tho that's how you'd really do it in real life. 
However, not actually *being* there, not having binocular vision (so you 
can see around someone pointing at something) and not having binaural 
hearing (so you can listen to two people talk at once) made half the 
movie incomprehensible. (The other half was incomprehensible because it 
was a time-travel movie and they never told the audience who was (or 
even how many were) the "new" guy and who was the "original" guy :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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