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"fake" things in movies that piss you off.

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Ns1 said:
I once saw a "faces of death" video where this dude gets a shotgun shell to the gut point blank.

He didn't make a noise and it sure as hell looked like he died.
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thats because he blew the guys spine out of his back. Paralyized him from the shoulders down. Even a point blank shotgun to the gut wouldnt kill you instant unless it hit the heart. Granted he would bleed out in about 15 seconds but not instant

and I googled faces of death blah blah blah and all I found was a asian guy shot in the chest by a cop. Was that it?
 
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MonKENy said:
thats because he blew the guys spine out of his back. Paralyized him from the shoulders down. Even a point blank shotgun to the gut wouldnt kill you instant unless it hit the heart. Granted he would bleed out in about 15 seconds but not instant

and I googled faces of death blah blah blah and all I found was a asian guy shot in the chest by a cop. Was that it?
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nah, it was in mexico during a riot or something. Guy turns around into a shotgun. Next thing he's on the ground.

We're talking 90's VHS here.
 
Was watching an episode of Scandal and the scene was a SpecOps team conducting a hostage rescue mission. They barge into the room where the hostages were supposed to be and there are no hostages.

Quote was "WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, where are the hostages!?"

i lol'd
 
I recently saw Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, for the umteenth time. I'm pretty sure it was made just for this thread 🙂.
 
Tactics of so called SWAT/special forces teams.

Like when they approach a narrow corridor thats obviosly a ambush but then get cut to pieces anyways and act all shocked/surprised.

Or when there is a perfect spot for a sniper to overwatch from yet the sniper has his 50lbs sniper rifle in his hands right at the front with the front line guys and ends up using his pistol instead. or getting killed first.
 
When someone dials a number, somebody always picks up the phone in the first ring. It's either that or they never pick up.


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HopJokey said:
People playing video games. Always a mash fest.
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i had a thread dedicated to this very thing not too long ago, I think it was termed "newb thrashing" or something hilarious, like button mashing and flailing your arms about at the same time.

You know what im talking about, like the VERY first time you held a controller in your hands, you jerked your arms about as if that added some sort of wii=motion to it.
 
KlokWyze said:
faces of death... been a long time lol
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Back when youtube didnt exist, there was that "dark" corner of the VHS store that had all that nasty stuff we always wanted to see.

Now...finding out that most of the shit in faces of death was fake, yes that pissed me off! lol
 
thejunglegod said:
When someone dials a number, somebody always picks up the phone in the first ring. It's either that or they never pick up.


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Both examples from the same movie:
This or this. 😉

Earlier in that same movie I was pretty sure that the phone rang a few times as the East German Russian Nazi general guy approached the gag phone, but this is the only clip I can find with original audio (well, not the original English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXDv28bJos&t=6m
 
when I used to have a land line and it would ring alot of times I was told that I picked it up so fast that they didnt even hear the phone ring on their end. So thats not that weird
 
MonKENy said:
when I used to have a land line and it would ring alot of times I was told that I picked it up so fast that they didnt even hear the phone ring on their end. So thats not that weird
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You got it backwards. It's usually shown ringing from the other end with the call interrupting something. Conversations are usually only heard one-sided when shown from the person who initiated the call and, therefore, no rings are heard.

It's strange that you single out incoming calls to land lines though. The caller will often hear superfluous rings when calling a cellphone as the cellular carrier delays while searching the network for a recipient it is not sure is still connected (especially with poor signals).
 
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AstroManLuca said:
The one I like is how, when a guy finally runs out of bullets (after firing like 40 of them from a small pistol), he'll continuously pull the trigger and it goes "click click click." That would only happen with a revolver, not a semiautomatic.
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Lots of semi-autos are double action and will indeed go "click click click".

Striker fired pistols come to mind immediately. No hammer. Glocks, for example.

I have an old Beretta pistol that is DA/SA.

I think the ratio these days is to the point where most semi-auto pistols are not single action only. They are either DA only or both DA and SA.

A 1911 type pistol is single action only, for example. It will not keep "clicking".
 
LTC8K6 said:
Lots of semi-autos are double action and will indeed go "click click click".

Striker fired pistols come to mind immediately. No hammer. Glocks, for example.

I have an old Beretta pistol that is DA/SA.

I think the ratio these days is to the point where most semi-auto pistols are not single action only. They are either DA only or both DA and SA.

A 1911 type pistol is single action only, for example. It will not keep "clicking".
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Yeah I went back and realized that I made a mistake and a lot of guns would do this.

But wait, if the slide gets locked back after you run out of ammo, wouldn't that prevent you from being able to pull the trigger more? I used to own a Glock and when the last round was fired, the slide locked back and the trigger was also locked back. Trigger position didn't reset unless you moved the slide forward again. If I wanted to dry-fire it, I'd have to rack the slide every time.
 
One I recently noticed while watching Wallander (UK version):

At the climax the main character and their buddies are looking for the bad guy. Main character breaks off (Around the corner, another room, walks or runs for 10 seconds) Cue the confrontation scene where our hero could really use some backup, this face-off goes on for an eternity. Hero must resolve the situation alone and seconds after things are squared away the buddies often with an army battalion worth of firepower appear just in time to do absolutely nothing.
 
The streets are always wet.

They do this because it's prettier. It's the same reason they take all the screens out of all the windows of all the houses ever used in movies or publications (Better Homes & Gardens, Architectural Digest).
 
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