Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Treadwell]

Reminds me of this week's Gotham: Alfred got a knife buried in his side and again in his back, and he just asks for bandages and goes on a raid with the coppers, apparently not bleeding to death, internally or externally. All righty then!

 

[dascoyne]

True. And nobody ever bleeds out in movies the amount they would in real life.
I wish I didn't know this first-hand, but someone bleeding out creates a massive pool of the red stuff.

Well there's always the possibility of massive internal bleeding depending on where the wound is.
Superficial major vasculature in the neck ought to bleed out as you describe (unless the vessel spasms), but fatal trauma to other major branches of the aorta (e.g. Femoral, iliac) can result in significant internal compartment bleeds (e.g. psoas bleeds) that you might not see externally.

 

[gunnerk19]

when a character gets a deep cut, but it only bleeds a little. I've bled more when I've cut myself shaving. Then the actor moves around, but the minor amount of allegedly fresh blood doesn't run or drip.

Impaled thru the shoulder blade and upper chest by something four inches in diameter, just missing the spine, and walks off with her buddies at the end of the movie like there's nothing to it. :facepalm

 

[Solo4114]

Someone gets their throat slit and they are dead in 2 seconds. I've never actually seen someone get their throat cut, but I would imagine it would take more than a second or two to bleed out and die.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y231/gunnerk19/4gHNnxC4PLTIUJhgWz0Oz72qQRY_zpsdii2t8mk.jpg

Impaled thru the shoulder blade and upper chest by something four inches in diameter, just missing the spine, and walks off with her buddies at the end of the movie like there's nothing to it. :facepalm

Verhoven has always been good about showing lots of blood and over-the-top violence, but not the realistic results therefrom.

In the same film, there's really no reason why sucking out the guy's brains would cause, like, all of the fluid in the SKIN in his head to be sucked out too. And Rico ABSOLUTELY gets, like, a 5"-at-its-widest wedge jammed through where his femoral ****ing artery is, and then -- like a ******* -- PULLS IT OUT and doesn't bleed out in seconds.

 

[p51]

Whilst we're on the death subject.

How come dead bodies in movies/tv never fart? I've shifted more dead people than I care to remember and they all let out a sneaky one as the gasses start shifting. So potent they could knock the flies off a bucket of s***, strip the paint off a footlocker!

And they've never crapped or wet themselves either. Hollywood gives a lot more dignity in death than actually exists.

In all fairness, that'd be so gross looking that your average viewer couldn't handle it.
More realistic, yes, but way more than your normal person could stomach.
Dead people never smell on those crime shows where they're on the slab, days/weeks later. I always think those lab people on those shows must have had their sense of smell killed before taking the job for it not to bug them.

 

[mattycsi]

I always think those lab people on those shows must have had their sense of smell killed before taking the job for it not to bug them.

You'd be surprised.
During post mortems we tend to just get on with it. I've never seen or known anyone use any kind of smell protection ie perfume in a dust mask etc. Its different at scene as you have to have a mask on for contamination issues, I imagine by the time we've got them on the slab we're probably somewhat used to it anyway.

Once you got it in your nose you get used to it pretty quick, worst thing to do though is leave the room for fresh air, you have to get used it all over again when you come back in.

 

[glunark]

People in movies and tv really get over being kicked in the balls really quickly too.

 

[Laspector]

That's one thing I always thought was wrong with Stand By Me. They find this dead kid who has been laying in this gully for a couple of days and yet he is not COVERED in maggots, no flys buzzing around, no seemingly acrid smell.

EDIT: Or am I wrong there? How long does it take a dead body out in the wild to start decomposing and get maggot infested?

Not to mention each and every one of those kids would be puking their guts up probably just from seeing the dead body. The gag reflex is pretty much removed from people in movies.

 

[p51]

You'd be surprised.
During post mortems we tend to just get on with it. I've never seen or known anyone use any kind of smell protection ie perfume in a dust mask etc. Its different at scene as you have to have a mask on for contamination issues, I imagine by the time we've got them on the slab we're probably somewhat used to it anyway.

Once you got it in your nose you get used to it pretty quick, worst thing to do though is leave the room for fresh air, you have to get used it all over again when you come back in.

Yeah, but what about someone who's not used to that? Come on, a normal person who's never dealt with dead people would heave ho at the first whiff of someone who's been dead for a long time, especially when they saw them as well!
Like Laspector just wrote, the gag reflex must be missing from TV characters...

 

[mattycsi]

EDIT: Or am I wrong there? How long does it take a dead body out in the wild to start decomposing and get maggot infested?

Not long, the flies would get to it pretty quick. Plus local wildlife would have a good nibble on it in that time. It would be pretty gruesome. Even Ace would have been grossed out by it.
Being outdoors, the smell might not be too bad unless you were right up close and the wind was right.

 

[mattycsi]

Yeah, but what about someone who's not used to that? Come on, a normal person who's never dealt with dead people would heave ho at the first whiff of someone who's been dead for a long time, especially when they saw them as well!
Like Laspector just wrote, the gag reflex must be missing from TV characters...

I agree. But in a movie/show they are portraying people who are desensitized to it with police and coroners etc.

But where regular people are concerned, yes, they would be a lot more bothered by it than is usually portrayed.

 

[Krull]

EDIT: Or am I wrong there? How long does it take a dead body out in the wild to start decomposing and get maggot infested?

Depends on weather,out here in WV on a hot,humid July day you can have an animal go to squirming mass of maggots in twenty four hours,so I guess no different with a human body.

 

[NormanF]

Monster X is killing people and animals quickly when it finds them. Near the end of the movie it finds one of the top billed stars that you know will survive and it takes its time sniffing and or licking that person.

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[astroboy]

Here's something I'm sick of.

The ability people in movies have to fix/upgrade/modify vehicles on like, minutes.

Even worse is when they have the music montage showing their progress.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

That's one thing I always thought was wrong with Stand By Me. They find this dead kid who has been laying in this gully for a couple of days and yet he is not COVERED in maggots, no flys buzzing around, no seemingly acrid smell.

EDIT: Or am I wrong there? How long does it take a dead body out in the wild to start decomposing and get maggot infested?

Not to mention each and every one of those kids would be puking their guts up probably just from seeing the dead body. The gag reflex is pretty much removed from people in movies.

I think because if they did show maggots and the like all over the body, the movie would have gotten an R rating! Gotta love Hollywood!

 

[Treadwell]

The fiddler crabs on the body at the beginning of Jaws was a nice and realistic touch, and tastefully shot, as these things go.

 

[jarroth]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y231/gunnerk19/4gHNnxC4PLTIUJhgWz0Oz72qQRY_zpsdii2t8mk.jpg

Impaled thru the shoulder blade and upper chest by something four inches in diameter, just missing the spine, and walks off with her buddies at the end of the movie like there's nothing to it. :facepalm

well, thats just a fleshwound

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Wasn't Jaws originally rated R back in 75 and then changed to PG-13 after the PG-13 rating was established?

 

[binkleywalker]

My Jaws Blu-Ray is rated PG. I think it always has been.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

My Jaws Blu-Ray is rated PG. I think it always has been.

They didn't introduce the PG-13 rating til 84, but there were a lot of movies that were re-rated afterward. Jaws I believe was one of them. When it initially came out in 75 it was rated R for the violence and the langauge. It gave a lot of people nightmares at the time. Nowadays its nothing, but back then it really broke a lot of barriers in movies.