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Dont base your knowledge on movies

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allisolm said:
Couches. Couches stop all bullets. If anyone is EVER shooting at you, just duck down behind the couch and you will be fine. I know because it works that way in every movie and TV show.
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and car doors don't stop ar-15/ak-47 bullets either.
it goes thru one door and out the other door. 😱

Newell Steamer said:
Silencers on guns don't make a thwip noise when fired, they are still pretty fucking loud.
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not on a .22 😛
 
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MustISO said:
After a long night of sleep, roll over and passionately kiss your partner. Your mouths will be fresh and minty.
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ya... morning sex. Everyone is always fresh and ready to screw rather than needing to dart to the bathroom to let out a gallon of pee.
 
oh also, any time you pull a knife out of anything, wood, plastic, air, you name it - it makes a metal scraping sound.
 
allisolm said:
Couches. Couches stop all bullets. If anyone is EVER shooting at you, just duck down behind the couch and you will be fine. I know because it works that way in every movie and TV show.
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Also they use anything metal no matter the depth of the object. Impenetrable!
 
shortylickens said:
Oh, exploding fireballs in general.

Most explosions do NOT make fire. They might set off a fire if there were flammable things in the vicinity and other objects were propelled into them in the correct manner.
Hand grenades dont make flame, they make fast moving shrapnel. Mortars are the same. Most bombs dont flame, homemade or military. Powder exploding generally does not.

Interestingly, Die Hard 3 actually had a very accurate explosion right at the very beginning.
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I'm guessing you have seen a lot of shops in your day.
 
My dad got some of his life's morals from watching the history channel.

"Life's not fair son" [Totally out of context]

I'm like "Yea that is what the Kennedy family said to JFK, I saw it too on history channel"

Lets just say my dad is not really that wise.

But this is pretty common. Few people know wtf they are doing and where they learned what they know.
 
shortylickens said:
Injections too.
Dexter always makes people pass out as soon as the needle hits their skin.

Doesnt matter how powerful the drug is, that shit has to cycle thru the body first. Even if he got the artery leading right to the brain, its still going need a short time to take effect.
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Intravenous injections are pretty instant.


The only problem I have are "silencers". Supressors don't muffle the noise, they just eliminate the muzzle crack (which is what makes a gun shot so easily identifiable as a gun shot) and makes the direction of the noise incredibly hard to pin point.
 
You guys are focusing on the obvious stuff. There are far more subtle things in movies that people take wrongly to heart. 😛
 
slugg said:
One of my annoyances that most people seem to ignore is the way pills are portrayed in movies. For example, if a character has a headache, he'll swallow a pill and *instantly* feel better. I have yet to see a pill that kicks in literally instantly!
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Stuff like this is one of the more subtle ones, but I see tons of people expecting their Tylenol to kick in faster than it ever really does.
 
OverVolt said:
Stuff like this is one of the more subtle ones, but I see tons of people expecting their Tylenol to kick in faster than it ever really does.
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BC Powder works pretty quickly. But, that is simply because it is easier to digest and get into the blood stream. Smashing up an aspirin would have the same effect (and taste just as awful).
 
In movies (and television), you'll have characters begin dialogue serving as exposition in one location, have a revelation that causes them to leave that location, jump cut to the characters traveling or at another location and they continue their conversation as though no time has elapsed. I mean, sure, I guess in theory you could do that, but my wife gets really pissed every time I tell her "hold that thought for 45 minutes so we can resume without missing a beat for dramatic purposes." Turns out the 45 minutes they cut is just one character repeatedly hitting the other and calling them a jerk.
 
People are totally inured to violence. I guarantee at least half of the people in real life would simply freeze when shot at, near explosions, eye witnessing assassination, splashed with blood and gore or, just slapped around.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
In movies (and television), you'll have characters begin dialogue serving as exposition in one location, have a revelation that causes them to leave that location, jump cut to the characters traveling or at another location and they continue their conversation as though no time has elapsed. I mean, sure, I guess in theory you could do that, but my wife gets really pissed every time I tell her "hold that thought for 45 minutes so we can resume without missing a beat for dramatic purposes." Turns out the 45 minutes they cut is just one character repeatedly hitting the other and calling them a jerk.
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To be fair, I have done this without intention.
Talk about something, get interrupted for whatever reason and sort of lose train of thought.. and then an hour later.. "oh yeah! dude, we/I never finished that conversation! so anyway, blah blah..." 😛

Those minor things I usually completely ignore in movies, because as someone interested in fiction, I understand the intent/purpose and appreciate skipping unnecessary time, so that more film time can be devoted to other events.
Sometimes there are better ways to do it, but usually, proper sequences would leave most people leaving the theater or getting bored with the five hour movie.

Other events though, can be more creatively dealt with and sometimes even incorporated realistically, but for added impact for the less intelligent among us, they spice it up and turn it up to 11. The subtle more realistic approach can actually be made to be just as dramatic, but it's so damn rare.

Probably one of many reasons I so thoroughly enjoyed Europa Report. I think they handled things exceptionally well, with a little creative license but otherwise rock-solid (they did work with NASA after all).
 
Pretty much anything medical, anything relating to or occurring in space, and most of the stuff happening in Captain America 2 in particular.
 
They almost never use 22's in movies, silencer or not.

And there is only one revolver in the entire world that can be silenced, some piece of shit russian gun that no one uses anyways. All other silencers have to be used on automatics, or rifles.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
and most of the stuff happening in Captain America 2 in particular.
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What? A movie based around the premise that, while in a world where Gods and mutants and magic exist (not to mention gamma radiation gives you the ability to mutate into an invincible hulk), a serum can increase a man's physical attributes to a level beyond that of any human who can then crash into an iceberg and be frozen and subsequently revived 60 years later to fight another said super soldier, that he knew as a child, with a bionic arm whose memory can be erased at will for a secret, international organization with advanced technology that has been infiltrated at the highest levels by another secret (albeit evil) corporation? Most of the stuff in this movie wasn't 100% accurate? Holy Underwear Batman!


Next up, we hear about how unrealistic it was for Bruce Willis to find out he was dead at the end of a movie about a boy who could communicate with spirits!
 
JEDI said:
and car doors don't stop ar-15/ak-47 bullets either.
it goes thru one door and out the other door. 😱


not on a .22 😛
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That reminds me of Top Gear when Jeremy tried to stop a bullet with a sandbag in a car door. Of course nothing got stopped and the bullet shattered and made several holes.
 
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