This trope is more common in the super hero genre than magic metal is. I bet you can name a dozen examples without even trying where the plot involves the wife/girlfriend being mad because the hero won't take the office job/work on a farm instead of saving the world.
2 days ago at work I was carrying a big folder with a few hundred pages. Safety stuff. At least half the pages fell out as everyone watched and launghed. I yelled out, "I feel like the nerd at school again."
Ok I have a few new ones, and this comment feeds into it. Just once I would like to see a movie were the actually real world effect is shown on screen. For example, someone gets their throat cut and the blood pumps with the correct force. The amount of times you see someone cut the throat of someone while standing in front of them and they stay there when in the real world they would be covered in blood.
I'm sure that pretty much every movie director knows that slicing another person's throat is not a nice and neat, clean process. But I'm pretty sure the choice to not go realistic is from a rating point of view, I'm pretty sure that the ratings review board would give any movie that showed a realistic throat cutting would get an instant R (at least) slapped on it. Depending on the kind of movie being and how broad an audience you want to reach, an R rating can be a bad thing.
Have you seen the movie? Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking
Yeah I get that however just want someone to do real world once. R ratings are now a thing just look at Deadpool.
I cannot remember what I have seen it used in however they have done it right and had the partner blocking the shot and that is how it gets turned around. It has even been mentioned as a plot point along the lines of get closer and it like no because then he will be able to attack me before I can shot him.
I think that film is the closest anyone has got to what it would have been like. Jocko does military biography reviews on his podcast and the WW1 are horrific sounding. It actually a toss up between them, the WW2 highlander story or the North Korea story for story that makes you want despair.
It was literally the first “modern war”. Soldiers weren’t and could never be prepared for the new depths of depravity that technological advances in weaponry could bring.
Hardcore Histories have just done WW1 and this is a big point Dan makes all the way through. We always get the modern Black Adder view of that war however it really interesting to have this no one had used those weapons against someone else using those weapons. It was the first modern war. There was a warning of it in the American Civil war however like a lot of these things no one learnt those lessons.
Yeah if someone defines range they are solving the triangle for you in a big way. I am always a little surprised that no one drops a little and steps back and then breaks the arm holding the gun.
Forgot about that one and yes it very annoying.
That actually getting to be a bigger and bigger problem with John Wick etc leading the way of people who really know what they are doing so making the people who do it wrong stand out more. I find myself watching the third and fourth men in SEAL Team CBQ as they always have their guns pointed in the wrong direction.
Yes, I saw the movie. The question still stands.
I think it must be a testament to how good a film it is however never noticed the time condensing because you are right it must be about a day in 2 hours.
Okay, because if you hadn’t I’d have pointed out the only time lapse in the film, but you are right that there is still some compression of time. It doesn’t bother me because of how good the film is, though.
