Things you're tired of seeing in movies
- Thread starter Joosh
- Start date
Well, Spock said that Khan didn't think in 3 dimensions. So, to a 2 dimensional thinking Khan, space sectors would make sense.
When the hero/heroine punches the baddy in the face/jaw/head, and sends them FLYING backwards dozens of feet. First of all, to just LIFT someone up off the ground with a head punch (assuming your average movie bad-guy 200 pounds or more) requires a LOT of force, let alone to PROPEL them backwards. I'm not talking about stumbling backwards and they fall down, I'm talking about how the body goes flying through the air.
It's just NOT going to happen like that with a human being, even if the hero/heroine is a bulked up fighter / power lifter / martial arts expert / Special Forces / whatever.
And when the hero/heroine has SUPER strength, then a blow to the head with significant force to hurl the entire body backwards dozens of feet would ALSO be strong enough to first either:
1) Tear the jaw/skull segment loose from the rest of the head, therefore just making a big splatter mess, while the nearly decapitated body falls backwards, or...
2) Completely decapitate the body
It's just NOT going to happen like that with a human being, even if the hero/heroine is a bulked up fighter / power lifter / martial arts expert / Special Forces / whatever.
And when the hero/heroine has SUPER strength, then a blow to the head with significant force to hurl the entire body backwards dozens of feet would ALSO be strong enough to first either:
1) Tear the jaw/skull segment loose from the rest of the head, therefore just making a big splatter mess, while the nearly decapitated body falls backwards, or...
2) Completely decapitate the body
Last edited:
That's easy for YOU to say, Superman.
Right? Talk about "Fine Red Mist"...
I think "The Boys" got this type of hitting/power mostly correct.
The ONLY time I've ever seen someone really moved, I'm talking feet, but any kind of hit was a flying sidekick. I put my friend into the drywall, I'm talking completely between the studs, when I was about 15. 
He was okay. After that flying kicks were only allowed in the center of the room.
He was okay. After that flying kicks were only allowed in the center of the room.
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Biff, being mostly full of hot air, was actually much much lighter than he appears; thus George could spin him around with a well placed punch.
Cephus
Master Member
Honestly, get a needle and poke your thumb. It's a whole lot simpler if you just have to prove you're human.
p51
Sr Member
I don't have the time to go into details, but I'm familiar with this as a real-world concept. These days among those who still do it, the cut is very small. I'm told it has always been thus, especially in the day when you could (and often would) get it badly infected in an era before medicines.I assume that's a relic of what was easiest to film. Not only is it dramatic, but it's easier to hide a teeny blood packet to smoosh in your palm, against a dull or rubber blade, than it is to film an arm cut.
The folks in such tribes who did these kinds of things weren't stupid.
Bugs me to and I thought to myself while watching that episode “that’s gonna come up on the things we’re tired of seeing in movies thread”
I think they do that palm cut thing so it's completely obvious what's going on, on screen. You'd pretty much disable that hand with that deep of a cut and it would need stitches. I think.
Similar threads
