Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[p51]

How about people who don't know they're decapitated?
Sure, it happens with arms and legs, where the body doesn't realize it's gone until the arms sees that it's no longer attached, but scenes where someone's head has been severed from their body and they just stand there for a moment until the line shows up and the head slides off. Sillier still, scenes where someone is cut into cubes and they don't realize it until they break into sections.
Once that spinal cord is cut, you drop like a sack of bricks and that's that. No Looney Toons reaction to the obvious after it should have taken effect is gonna change that.

 

[joshvanrad]

Let me just cut to the chase...

I'm tired of seeing everything in everything.

 

[Treadwell]

How about people who don't know they're decapitated?
Sure, it happens with arms and legs, where the body doesn't realize it's gone until the arms sees that it's no longer attached, but scenes where someone's head has been severed from their body and they just stand there for a moment until the line shows up and the head slides off. Sillier still, scenes where someone is cut into cubes and they don't realize it until they break into sections.
Once that spinal cord is cut, you drop like a sack of bricks and that's that. No Looney Toons reaction to the obvious after it should have taken effect is gonna change that.

I mostly agree, but there is evidence the remaining oxygen in a decapitated head could maintain consciousness for several seconds, long enough for the poor sot to realize what has happened to him.
The Straight Dope: Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)?

 

[Riceball]

I mostly agree, but there is evidence the remaining oxygen in a decapitated head could maintain consciousness for several seconds, long enough for the poor sot to realize what has happened to him.
The Straight Dope: Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)?

It's also done for dramatic effect and I can buy that regardless of how realistic it may or may not be.

Something that I've been thinking of recently is how all scientists, engineers, and doctors on shows and movies are super knowledgable in every area of their respective fields. In Hollywood a surgeon is also an expert immunologist, oncologist, OBGYN, anesthesiologist, and every other field of medicine. Likewise scientists are all rocket scientists, and physicists, astrologists, chemists, biologists, zoologosist, and every other physical or life science.

 

[p51]

I mostly agree, but there is evidence the remaining oxygen in a decapitated head could maintain consciousness for several seconds, long enough for the poor sot to realize what has happened to him.
The Straight Dope: Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)?

Yeah, but if you're standing up, the body knows instantly that the head is no longer attached. You wouldn't still be standing.
The body usually jerks when the head is removed quickly (sadly, film does exist of decapitations, a couple of French executions exist and the Nazis filmed a few as well) from the shock of longer getting signal from the brain. So you wouldn't still be standing there trying to figure out what just happened.

 

[Bigdaddy]

Yeah, but if you're standing up, the body knows instantly that the head is no longer attached. You wouldn't still be standing.
The body usually jerks when the head is removed quickly (sadly, film does exist of decapitations, a couple of French executions exist and the Nazis filmed a few as well) from the shock of longer getting signal from the brain. So you wouldn't still be standing there trying to figure out what just happened.

What if you are holding the pent up energy of all the immortals you decapitated over many centuries? :lol
forgive the crappy audio remix, no idea why the poster did that. :facepalm

 

[Wes R]

It's also done for dramatic effect and I can buy that regardless of how realistic it may or may not be.

Something that I've been thinking of recently is how all scientists, engineers, and doctors on shows and movies are super knowledgable in every area of their respective fields. In Hollywood a surgeon is also an expert immunologist, oncologist, OBGYN, anesthesiologist, and every other field of medicine. Likewise scientists are all rocket scientists, and physicists, astrologists, chemists, biologists, zoologosist, and every other physical or life science.

That's been happening since the 50s scifi films, look at George Pal's War of the Worlds. Even in the special comments on the dvd i have the fans even laugh that Clayton Forrester was an expert in like 3 fields that aren't even closely related. Just seems to be a habit that has stuck around.

 

[Solo4114]

It's because every scientist is the very model of a modern Major General.

 

[p51]

What if you are holding the pent up energy of all the immortals you decapitated over many centuries? :lol

Okay, I'd forgive Highlander as they're not normal motrals.
But watch this, it happens to three people where it physcially couldn't happen for them to still be standing for any amount of time as their spinal cords are clearly cut:

 

[CopperniX]

Tired of seeing endless magazines(never reload) or people calling them clips.

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[Treadwell]

Yeah, but if you're standing up, the body knows instantly that the head is no longer attached.

yup, that`s the part I agree with. I've seen footage of people shot in the head when standing, and the body turns into a rag doll immediately. No movie "drop to the knees" stuff.


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[Laspector]

That's been happening since the 50s scifi films, look at George Pal's War of the Worlds. Even in the special comments on the dvd i have the fans even laugh that Clayton Forrester was an expert in like 3 fields that aren't even closely related. Just seems to be a habit that has stuck around.

Whoa whoa wait!! Are you telling me that there is no way the Professor on Gilligan's Island could know all that he did? That guy knew everything in the world!!......except how to build a boat....

 

[p51]

Funny how the 'know it all' profs always have a daughter the same age as the hero, huh? Where are the wives of these profs, anyway?
That said, I've known a lot of college professors in real life (I grew up in a college town and dated a few of their daughters). Many of them indeed THINK they know everything about everything. That's where I feel the show, "Big Bang Theory" is very correct, in that none of the characters will ever admit they don't know something and if they don't, will dismiss it is irrelevant.

 

[Zombie_61]

Whoa whoa wait!! Are you telling me that there is no way the Professor on Gilligan's Island could know all that he did? That guy knew everything in the world!!......except how to build a boat....

Oh, he knew how to build a boat, but they didn't have the tools to turn the materials on the island into anything usable to do so. However, he did apparently lack the knowledge to build a dugout canoe. :facepalm

 

[tain669]

Will Ferrell.

 

[The Terminator]

Paul WS Anderson's name

Oh and blind people "groping" people's faces :facepalm

 

[MFP 2020]

Modern revolvers with cylinders that go ZZZzzzzzzz. (Looking at you, True Detective.)

 

[p51]

Oh and blind people "groping" people's faces :facepalm

Good one, I'd never thought of that but the only movie it made sense for was 'The Fantastic Four' when the blind lady knew that there was something very different about Ben Grimm...

 

[The Terminator]

Good one, I'd never thought of that but the only movie it made sense for was 'The Fantastic Four' when the blind lady knew that there was something very different about Ben Grimm...

Thanks, though I can't take all the credit, I read it on the net a while back and the more I thought of it the more it seemed ridiculous :lol
In F4 it did make a little sense at least.

 

[blewis17]

I really am amazed at how many shows set in modern OR future times, still don't have top of the line security in jails, prisons, detention, cells, etc.
Some how, the hero or baddie manages to pick/ bypass the lock/ electric fence/ forcefield, knock out the one security guard, and sneak out of the detention area, without any form of video surveillance or pressure sensitive floor or other alarms that SOMEONE IS ESCAPING.