Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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joshvanrad
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Missiles launched from jets that track the opposing jet for like 2 minutes. Missiles do not have infinite fuel sources. They cannot just keep going forever until they hit something.
Lutso
Sr Member
I think they also, typically, go FASTER than the thing they're targeting. Not match speeds with it.
p51
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My brother was a USAF ICBM launch officer, and he said missiles in movies always looked ridiculous. He's right, you never see missiles look in movies like they would in real life. People always stand right next to the launchers, too (think, opening of Iron Man 1...) as they lift off.
You don't know the right people then. Although, in all fairness, I've known a number of people that have said the same thing.
I worked for a small municipality in my teens and that was where everyone kept keys for dump trucks, bulldozers, everything. The only time we didn't was if there was no visor to stick it in. Then we just left it in the ignition.
An ex-girlfriend drove for a car company (fancy cab service really) in Denver that did the same thing. Drivers were only allowed to have the cars out of their sight in the event of an emergency, besides that you were never supposed to be more than an open door length from the car. They wouldn't even lock them at night. Of course their storage lot was like frickin' Fort Knox, so it wasn't really an issue.
Riceball
Master Member
For that matter, whenever there's something massive that needs to be taken down, be it organic or mechanical, they always send in fighters firing air-to-air missiles which nobody in the military would bother with since they destroy by fragmentation and not through sheer explosive power. If faced with a ground threat you'd most likely see attack helos using Hellfires and the like and against an aerial target it would be either something like a Maverick or a cruise missile like a Tomahawk. The worst offender to me ID4, like air-to-air missiles would actually do anything the size of that ship, I would have launched cruise missiles and get bombers to overfly the thing and carpet bomb it not that either would have gotten through the shields but not knowing about its shields I'd figure that those would do more damage to something miles in diameter rather than flinging little metal fragments from Sidewinders and AMRAAMs.
DARTH SABER
Master Member
A real OS on a computer rather than some system that came out of sci fi.
p51
Sr Member
Not so much in movies, but I'm sick to death of women stalkers, doing violent acts against guys who don't deserve it, as comedy. If you had a male character doing that to a woman, NOBODY would be laughing.
I had an ex girlfriend stalk me and do some truly messed up things many years ago, and trust me, it AIN'T funny looking over your shoulder every moment, knowing there's a woman out there who has no concept of right and wrong and feels no responsibility for anything she does.
That crap ain't comedy.
I had an ex girlfriend stalk me and do some truly messed up things many years ago, and trust me, it AIN'T funny looking over your shoulder every moment, knowing there's a woman out there who has no concept of right and wrong and feels no responsibility for anything she does.
That crap ain't comedy.
Interesting! I guess not having been in those fields, I've never seen that. I'll now have to watch to see if the cars they do this with in movies seem to be fleet/service type vehicles. Thanks.
Lutso
Sr Member
How about a web search that's even slightly realistic and lasts longer than 5 seconds?
HilbillyBaloney
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Morgan Freeman........Oh , and Gene Hackman 
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Punching through the fully rolled up side window of a car with a bare fist.
While it's kind of rare, I really don't like the "Kid" trope. To be more specific, putting a kid in the film simply to attract a younger audience so that the little brats can have others to relate to. Like how Star Trek: The Next Generation put a kid on a bridge and outsmarting all the adults. Let the adults handle it for crying out loud. I know the kid in "Iron Man 3" wasn't bad, but he didn't really amount to anything and his "Just build stuff" suggestion that solves Tony's anxiety was shoe horned in at best. I mean, how does building christmas ornament bombs cure anxiety but building a huge army of Iron Man suits in stunning variety does not? Speaking of that kid, why does EVERY Jurassic Park movie have to have kids?
Laspector
Master Member
You really don't know? That's like asking why does every Pampers commerical have to have babies in it?:lol
They're easier for the smaller dinosaurs to eat!
Riceball
Master Member
Because they were in both books, JP & The Lost World and I don't recall very many kids in JP III, just one and he wasn't even in it all that much.
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