drusselmeyer
Master Member
The catch phrases like "Game Changer".
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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drusselmeyer
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If we had a real game changer gameshow it would have to have a crazy theme. Something like: "Ol' MacDonald had a farm and Bingo was his name oh." Or "...but do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all...Frosty the snowman had a very shiny nose, with a corncob pipe..."
Like that.
As for the show: the game would change from one thing to another with change ups like football to badminton or pingpong to soccer.
Like that.
As for the show: the game would change from one thing to another with change ups like football to badminton or pingpong to soccer.
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TheMechanic
Sr Member
Just watched 'Die Hard' again on Christmas and the unlimited ammo really bothers me. They sure get a lot of mileage out of a 30 round mag.
joberg
Legendary Member
I hear brother, I hear you...it's a habit of mine (that really irks my wife) to count shots once they start. 90% of the time, the character doing the shooting is out of ammo real fast...I've seen real cops shootings at suspects and the mix of adrenaline/situation makes it very easy to either lost count or not count at all
drusselmeyer
Master Member
It's not unlimited ammo in films. They have 30 round mags taped together. You shoot until you run out then you flip to the other mag. Then when you run out you flip again. And when you run out again you flip the mags again.
It's not unlimited, it's perpetual.
It's not unlimited, it's perpetual.
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Someone has probably mentioned this already... Helicopter crashes or explosions, where the director couldn't resist but to have a fragment of rotor come flying into (or right past) the camera frame. I feel like this happens like 30% of the time (the cheesier/lower the budget, the higher the percentage), and as a cliche, it is only a hair above the 'walking away with no reaction as a huge explosion engulfs the background' scene
My dad was a Vietnam Marine and he would also try to count shots. That's why I like the John Wick movies because they actually show him picking up ammo or picking up new guns.
Solos blaster
Sr Member
Right! I'm 7 months post shoulder surgery and while not shot, I still have some weakness and soreness leaning on or using my right shoulder getting up.
Yea, she should have bled out real quick after the leg is removed. Let alone walking with her arm around another character's body.
Right. At least with McClane you could say he's using the MP5 mags to reload/top off his Beretta mag as well as picking up/consolidating ammo from the dead terrorists to the few MP5 mags he has.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
Caves with perfectly flat and level floors.
100 years of guano accumulation smooths it out!
From what I have seen, the truly flat floors are a sign of very heavy human traffic to the point of habitation. The lava tubes in Bend, Oregon are practically polished and level until you get a couple miles in and it drops into the netherworld. It is a very clear separation between previously inhabited and not. The line screams, "do not cross". The undisturbed area is spooky spooky spooky. If they are flat in a movie and they don't mention it specifically, it would definitely ruin it for me. Animals follow small paths leaving the rest undisturbed but people level it flat over time.
Wow, instant adrenaline. This is what tells you to GET OUT. If you ever come across smoothly laid silt or sand inside a cave .... get out. But in that same vein, there shouldn't be anything else in the cave either due to the force or presence of flooding.
But I was accepting that drusselmeyer meant hard packed perfect floors like a stage barely treated to hide that it is manmade and absolutely flat.
I am a careful hiker and I still vividly remember looking down and realizing that the cave floor was suddenly perfectly smooth sand. In the 2 seconds it took to start running, the water was to my calves and was hip high as I came out the other end. Still gives me chills. I was not paying attention because I already knew what smooth sand meant and kept going further in.
Bloop
Sr Member
Talking about unrealistic injuries, anytime someone goes through a pane of glass and gets up with only a few scratches. Mythbusters busted this years ago (using a pig as their human analog), showing that a person would have extensive lacerations. No one's getting up and walking away after going through a glass window.
Another thing (not sure if it's been mentioned already) but people getting shot in supposedly non-lethal parts of their anatomy, especially when the hero decides to aim for a shoulder or leg because they don't want to kill the person, only injure them. Shooting someone in the arm or leg isn't really better than shooting them in the chest due to arteries running through your body. It's very likely to kill someone by hitting an artery and even the best marksman can't control that. Also, my dad was a police reserve and said you're taught to shoot center mass because it's the greatest chance of hitting someone. A person is very hard to intentionally hit in the leg or arm because not only is the person moving, but their arms and legs are moving even more than their abdomen, especially if they're running. Same thing for shooting a gun out of someone's hand. Center mass is the best chance of stopping another person with a gun.
Another thing (not sure if it's been mentioned already) but people getting shot in supposedly non-lethal parts of their anatomy, especially when the hero decides to aim for a shoulder or leg because they don't want to kill the person, only injure them. Shooting someone in the arm or leg isn't really better than shooting them in the chest due to arteries running through your body. It's very likely to kill someone by hitting an artery and even the best marksman can't control that. Also, my dad was a police reserve and said you're taught to shoot center mass because it's the greatest chance of hitting someone. A person is very hard to intentionally hit in the leg or arm because not only is the person moving, but their arms and legs are moving even more than their abdomen, especially if they're running. Same thing for shooting a gun out of someone's hand. Center mass is the best chance of stopping another person with a gun.
joberg
Legendary Member
I hear you and my many Emerg. doc friends always said the same thing: shot in the arm/leg...if it goes through the bone, you're in big trouble
somerset fox
Sr Member
Not to worry though. The hero with the arm or leg injury will simply wrap a clean bandage OVER their grubby street clothing and bingo, instant healing. Sepsis and other blood poisoning won’t kick in until after the end credits have finished and ‘no animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture’!
Riceball
Master Member
I'd argue that leg and arm shots can be non-lethal depending on where on the arm or leg they've been shot. Generally speaking, all of the major arteries and veins that run through the arms and legs are on the inside, so the side of your arms and legs facing your body. A shot to the outer arms or legs is much less likely to hit a major vein or artery than a shot to the inner part of the limbs would.
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