greylocke
Sr Member
Actually I've done that back when I was in the VFD. We did a hose run with 185lbs of hose and we were timed. I ran 100 yards in about 110 seconds. Almost had a heart attack after but I did it.
Unbelieveable Movie Scenes : what were they thinking?
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Actually I've done that back when I was in the VFD. We did a hose run with 185lbs of hose and we were timed. I ran 100 yards in about 110 seconds. Almost had a heart attack after but I did it.
Contec
Master Member
Having a homemade reactor inside your chest is very believable.....
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
Terminator Salvation... heart surgery in the desert.
Don't get me started on the suspension of disbelief in order to accept a war against machines/cyborgs etc...
"We" as human beings still have limitations to our medical capabilities- they haven't changed according to the film/series (in fact in a post apocalyptic World, I would think they've gone backwards "just a bit"). I wouldn't want to have a major life threatening surgery in the parking lot of a hospital let alone the middle of a desert. :rolleyes
Kevin
Don't get me started on the suspension of disbelief in order to accept a war against machines/cyborgs etc...
"We" as human beings still have limitations to our medical capabilities- they haven't changed according to the film/series (in fact in a post apocalyptic World, I would think they've gone backwards "just a bit"). I wouldn't want to have a major life threatening surgery in the parking lot of a hospital let alone the middle of a desert. :rolleyes
Kevin
iMan
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Even though this is like my favorite movie of all time, the scene in The Dark Knight where Batman and Rachel fall like 50 stories onto the hood of a cab and they are both fine.
I love the Nolan trilogy and even though there is some flaws with it, this scene was the WTF? scene for me.
I love the Nolan trilogy and even though there is some flaws with it, this scene was the WTF? scene for me.
The big WT* moment for me was how Batman and Rachel don't seem to care that the Joker and his goons are still up at the party armed to the teeth. Doesn't Batman want to apprehend those goons?
iMan
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I always thought of it as since the Joker didn't find Harvey there he would just leave. He was on a mission to find him, he didn't and moved on. Even though the audience never sees what happens afterwards, Batman probably did return to the party since he had to get Harvey out of the closet he put him in.
Zuiun
Sr Member
If you're going to be that nitpicky about what does and doesn't qualify (to me, people flying backwards from a gunshot *is* blatantly unbelievable and insults my intelligence), then you could chalk up your Star Trek V example as dramatic license within the limitations of special effects technology (i.e., how they wanted it to work versus how they were able to make it work). So, too, with a woman's hair "blowing" in space -- could be a low tech effect to make her hair look like it might behave in zero gravity (i.e., it won't lay flat). :behave :lol
Ice made from heavy water sinks if that helps.
One of the reasons I had a hard time buying, still don't... that Two Face died from his relatively short fall in comparison. Hey Nolan is laying out his laws of physics so I am just applying them equally. LOL
Kerr Avon
Master Member
Well sure, so does ICE-9, but this was regular old sea water! :lol
crabra comander
Master Member
Didn't the deleted scenes show the ice had been created with "heavy water" to hide the base?:behave
Quick, someone with the Blu-Ray check! Surely someone bought it on BR?
TymerDC
Sr Member
The scene for dramatic effect is just my opinion...if you don't agree with it then thats fine too. My STV example was just that...an example. If they were anti-gravity boots I could see Spock being in an almost upside down position to hover but even in most sci-fi films most things have some believability to them to work regardless if they exist in the real world. A pair of "jet boots' have to be pointing the right direction for thrust to lift an object...these weren't ...and his body has to be in a position to support the added weight of Kirk... which is why I used that scene as an example.
Sure a guy doesn't propel backwards when shot but then again cars don't just explode when being flipped or run off a cliff......it just looks less boring in an action film.....hense dramtic effect.
iMan
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I never realized that lol. That's funny. :facepalm
Jannix Quinn
Sr Member
When the guy in that movie..... was it Red? ...shoots the RPG shell with a bullet while it's being shot at him.
http://youtu.be/QYDedFwBHzs
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http://youtu.be/QYDedFwBHzs
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patolcott
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I can say from personal experience (2 tours AFGH 2nd Recon BN) that no round knocks you back 15 feet. not even a .50, that being said the temporary wound cavity of a .50 is larger than the average person is wide >19 in. if shot dead center it can tear you in half. this completely makes the scene in rambo completely unbeleivable. the fact that it went through the sheild is even worse because the round going throught that medium would make it mushroom tumble and slow down before it even hit him which in turn would cause even more damage than if it had hit him without going through the sheild.
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
*pushes nerd glasses up*
In the comics, one of the means they showed for how Superman's super strength, invulnerability, and flight work is that he actually has a tactile-based telekinetic shield that encompasses his body at skin level. Therefor when Superman is flying with Lois (or anyone else for that matter), it extends to her and supports her as well.
*end nerd info-dump*
Impressive use of nerd knowledge... But still dumb and took me out of the film. :lol
Any stupid physics in this film are completely negated by it's sheer awesomeness of concept.
Besides, it's clear they have some sort of artificial gravity in the base.
bleyd
Sr Member
One scene comes to mind and it's been done more than once. HUGE explosion. The hero jumps a few feet to safety whereas everything around has been utterly destroyed. First movie comes to mind is ID4. In the tunnel during the initial invasion when Will Smiths GF is hiding in, what is that a mainenance room? The tunnel is filled with fire. The dog jumps through the door. Door still open no fire enters the door. What is this some kind of force field?
Offhand I can't think of other examples but it has been done more than once.
Offhand I can't think of other examples but it has been done more than once.
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