Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Darth Lars
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You could swallow a pill without water if you build up the saliva in your mouth before putting it in. Some pills that are more sticky are harder to swallow that way though.
I used to do that all the time but I later realized that, even if you think you swallowed the pill, a good number of times it can stick to the lower part of your esophagus without you feeling it. With acidic substances like aspirin they can burn and erode tissue if they sit long enough. Now I always take pills with water.
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Rotwang
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Mini-guns in movies are major repeat offenders.
1) They almost never come with a suitable sized ammo/battery pack set to warrant the ROF you see on screen. (Think 300-pounds of ammo and batteries in a family fridge size backpack)
2) They compound this by hardly ever showing the actual incredible ROF. The very typical buzzsaw sound is often replaced by some kind of uprated rat-tat-tat-tat sound because it's what people expect. When they rig pyros it feels more like a 300 rpm Maxim than a 1500 rpm minigun. You can see the bullets strike in lovely sequence. Miniguns firing so fast it looks more like a "garden hose of buckshot"
3) The man-pack versions that have been tested often have a reduced firing rate because until even a few years ago you couldn't get a decent juice/weight ratio out of batteries. If you wanted full ROF you had to sequence several car batteries. These days they use electric car battery modules. As a result you never quite get the "full experience" of firing such a monster from the hip. And even those that do try usually end up firing short bursts because the recoil is scary. There is a reason why the guy in the video above shoots from point-blank range, if you increase the distance to the target, it's clear the spread makes that old Mosin Nagant that was found after seventy years in a river look like a Bisley rifle. In movies the guys who fire them don't even flinch, and they seem to have as much recoil as a mag-lite.
1) They almost never come with a suitable sized ammo/battery pack set to warrant the ROF you see on screen. (Think 300-pounds of ammo and batteries in a family fridge size backpack)
2) They compound this by hardly ever showing the actual incredible ROF. The very typical buzzsaw sound is often replaced by some kind of uprated rat-tat-tat-tat sound because it's what people expect. When they rig pyros it feels more like a 300 rpm Maxim than a 1500 rpm minigun. You can see the bullets strike in lovely sequence. Miniguns firing so fast it looks more like a "garden hose of buckshot"
3) The man-pack versions that have been tested often have a reduced firing rate because until even a few years ago you couldn't get a decent juice/weight ratio out of batteries. If you wanted full ROF you had to sequence several car batteries. These days they use electric car battery modules. As a result you never quite get the "full experience" of firing such a monster from the hip. And even those that do try usually end up firing short bursts because the recoil is scary. There is a reason why the guy in the video above shoots from point-blank range, if you increase the distance to the target, it's clear the spread makes that old Mosin Nagant that was found after seventy years in a river look like a Bisley rifle. In movies the guys who fire them don't even flinch, and they seem to have as much recoil as a mag-lite.
LOL! I love this one! Especially if the item is known only through folk lore, ancient scriptures or myth!
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And in slow motion!
Why is it that in "most" horror movies that revolve around the church / priest fighting off the forces of evil / the devil there is ALWAYS this one lone homeless person, and they just HAVE to be homeless, seen standing looking at our heroes? If there is actual religious significance behind it then that's ok... but if not.. that's been played out one too many times.
Malphas
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The MG42 is around 1300 RPM. Miniguns are closer to the 3000 RPM mark.
Riceball
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This more of an anime trope than a standard Hollywood trope but it's still a somewhat annoying trope, and that is the crazy gesturing that people make when issuing orders/commands. This typically happens in military/sci-themed animes where you have a commander who always issues out commands in a dramatic fashion by throwing out an arm with the finger splayed, this typically happens when they issue an order to fire guns/missiles, or launch fighters.
p51
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That's because there were way too many DoD people associated with the movie to allow otherwise.
mattycsi
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To be fair, that's a thing in real life though. Its a big funeral song, I read that it was used for Spock's funeral in Wrath of Khan because it was so widely associated with funerals and that must be 35 years ago. Other than Taps what music is more widely associated with that event?
Zombie_61
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Yep. At this point it's a real-life cliché as well as a movie cliché.
Zombie_61
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Comedic effect.
casperdj777
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80s remakes & any other remake
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