Re: accents.

Just because the actor is from the same country as the character, it doesn't mean that the accent is genuine. It is perfectly reasonable, for example, to criticise an Australian actor whose natural accent is a cultured one for overdoing a "bogan" accent when playing such a character. It's always puzzled me why it is that Americans refer to "British" accents. English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish accents (yes, NI isn't part of Britain but it is part of the UK, so its people have British nationality) are very different from each other. The Yanks can't narrow it down to one of those? And there are numerous and very different accents in each of those places. It's perfectly reasonable to criticise an actor who'se natural accent is south London for badly faking a south Yorshire accent (both of which are English accents). Hence the criticism of the Sherlock Holmes performances for fake "British" accents is not necessarily invalid.

I'm sorry, but if the real Statue of Liberty's head is smaller than the car-sized prop in Cloverfield, how do crowds of people stand around inside her crown and look out through the slats?

Took this out:

• Royce from Predators quickly deduces that they are on an alien planet, which would confuse many viewers because it's so obviously a tropical area. Anyone familiar with survival checklists, which Royce would be as a former soldier turned mercenary, would come to the same conclusion he did.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this example is supposed to mean. What does it mean, "Anyone familiar with survival checklists...would come to the same conclusion (that they're on an alien planet)". Have you been to an alien planet? How does being a survivalist give you the ability to qualify whether or not you're on Earth? As far as anyone knows, no human has ever been on an alien tropical planet. The example doesn't make any sense.

Is there a trope about shooting/stabbing that always leave blood stains IMMEDIATLY after the shoot/stab ? Like in a movie, if someone get stab in the stomach, there will always have immediatly blood on the clothes, or even blood pouring. If there's not, it'd seems unrealistic, but IRL, if you are stabbed in place like stomach with no veins cut, there will be hardly any blood coming out, or really just a few. It will be internal bleeding for the most.

Cut this:

* When non-immigrant people in US shows (excluding those in New Mexico and parts of Arizona) are shown eating "Mexican food", it will almost always be Tex-Mex food, with many of the dishes (like fajitas) completely invented and developed in the US but loosely based on Mexican food, rather than merely Americanized-Mexican food like with most other foreign cuisines.

Because how is it an example? When Americans eat "Mexican" food in Real Life, we are usually really eating Tex-Mex food. When Americans are shown doing the exact same thing on television shows, that's just Truth In Television, not Reality Is Unrealistic. It would be the latter if television shows were showing Americans typically eating Mexican food, as opposed to Tex-Mex food labeled as Mexican, because producers were afraid that audiences would think it unrealistic to show Americans eating fajitas at a "Mexican" restaurant.

Should this be considered Trivia, and not on the main page of works? I don't know if there are any pages where this is particularly cluttering, but it still seems as though it's less of a "Media convention" and more of a "Factoid about the real life repercussions of such conventions."