I think I've seen it in just about every action movie that has come out in the past 10 years. Mission Impossible (all of them), Die Hard (All of them), The Expendibles (all of them)... kinda hard to name an action movie where that stupid plot device hasn't appeared lately!
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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p51
Sr Member
Your point is well made up to the Aliens reference. The drop ship was an aircraft, already in the air when its crew was slaughtered by an alien. Not even remotely the same thing as a car flipping through the air.
And yet, when it crashed it came down and flipped end over end missing our heroes within an inch of their lives. Ok... so it wasn't a car, but it was a vehicle that was able to transport people or cargo from one destination to another. Sure it's not always a car... in Aliens it was the dropship, in Mission Impossible it was cars... in Die Hard it was a chopper, in Drive Angry it was a tanker, in Transformers it was a building (ok, not a vehicle, but it was in motion and falling at the time). In any event, its getting really tiring and predictable.
Here's another good one.. I think the Mythbusters proved that many of the Hollywood explosions could never happen... especially the shooting the gas tank explosion. How many times have you seen someone shooting at a cars gas tank and it explodes to create a diversion or stop the bad guys. The Mythbusters busted that myth by shooting at gas tanks over and over again with no explosions whatsoever!
Zombie_61
Master Member
That clip illustrates another gag I'm starting to get tired of--the hero casually stepping out of a spinning vehicle in slow motion.
Edit: I just saw another one--two people wrestling for control of a handgun, a shot rings out, and they stand there staring at each other for an hour to keep the audience in suspense about which of them got shot.
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glunark
Sr Member
Well if that really happened the both of them would have some serious powder burns.
That also annoyed me a little on Gotham the other week, when the penguin shot that guy at close range with blanks and it didn't even mark him.
A blank can still kill at close range, they even knew that back in the 80s in hill street blues when JD swapped out the bullets in the SWAT leaders gun because he knew he was suicidal, and the next day he came in with a massive plaster covering one side of his face.
That also annoyed me a little on Gotham the other week, when the penguin shot that guy at close range with blanks and it didn't even mark him.
A blank can still kill at close range, they even knew that back in the 80s in hill street blues when JD swapped out the bullets in the SWAT leaders gun because he knew he was suicidal, and the next day he came in with a massive plaster covering one side of his face.
p51
Sr Member
The movie, "In Brugges" had a scene where someone tried to rob a hitman with a revolver with blanks. The tables turned, the hitman simply put the barrel right up to the first guy's eye and pulled the trigger, blasting his eye out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGuVZR9K9Jo#t=13
I cringed when I saw that scene but marvelled at how accurate that would have been and how nobody in the 'movie universe' would have thought of it.
As for real life, just check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death
Zombie_61
Master Member
For almost anyone who is old enough to remember who he was, for a while there Jon-Erik Hexum was the poster child for "Guns aren't toys, even if they're loaded with blanks". If I remember correctly, his death caused television and movie studios to issue an unofficial edict of sorts that the professional weapons handlers hired to train the actors should be more thorough and include more detailed safety training for guns with blanks.
p51
Sr Member
You said it, in regards to generations, hardly anyone under the age of 40 or so probably remembers his death.
Whenever someone shoots a pistol or a semiauto rifle the brass is shown tumbling on the floor typically within a couple of feet of the shooter's boots. All my guns (except for my FN FS2000) launches brass all over the place.
I remember I was in college when it happened. I couldn't believe someone could be so tragically ignorant.
Laspector
Master Member
That's a good one, I never thought about that. Yeah, I was out shooting this weekend and my gun launches those suckers a good 5-8 feet away from me.
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That's a good one, I never thought about that. Yeah, I was out shooting this weekend and my gun launches those suckers a good 5-8 feet away from me.
p51
Sr Member
Never thought of that, good point.
My Winchester tosses them straight into the air, I've had countless cartridges land on my head. One came right down the back of an open colar on my shirt and down my back and this was when i was shooting a stage in competition!
My 1911 tosses them backwards, a few feet behind me. The rest of the semi and full auto small arms I've ever shot that I can recall all tossed them well ahead.
Cephus
Master Member
Here's something I'm really tired of seeing in the movies... Remakes of old sitcoms! I mean comon? You can't think of anything new so you dig deep into the well for 21 Jump Street the Movie? How many old TV shows have you seen recently they have turned into movies? Here's a little list:
Wild Wild West
Addams Family
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
21 Jump Street (and 22 Jump Street)
Mission Impossible
I Spy
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Beverly Hillbillies
Dragonball Z
Dukes of Hazard
Flash Gordon
The list goes on... now some aren't too god aweful, but I dare any of you to tell me Addams Family Reunion was a good movie... or even the Beverly Hillbillies.
Wild Wild West
Addams Family
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
21 Jump Street (and 22 Jump Street)
Mission Impossible
I Spy
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Beverly Hillbillies
Dragonball Z
Dukes of Hazard
Flash Gordon
The list goes on... now some aren't too god aweful, but I dare any of you to tell me Addams Family Reunion was a good movie... or even the Beverly Hillbillies.
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