Why is it when a person is in a river/lake etc and being hunted down and shot at, when they put their head below the water and multiple bad guys fire into the water at them, the bullets always seem to zip around them, but never actually hit them?
^ Oh, come on. Hollywood films are chockful of highly-trained marksmen who suddenly become terrible shots whenever faced with a character central to the plot. Why should the introduction of a body of water make their aim any better?
Watched Where Eagles Dare a while back. Eastwood and Burton take on almost the entire German army and walk away with barely a scratch. The nazis must've been the worst shots of all.
Bit off original topic but similar to the unrealistic fight scenes/window jump thing...
In 3 or more films this past couple of months i've seen people get down off a tall building by jumping down one of those rubbish/debris chute things like on a building site, the kind that are usually over a skip or something. I'm pretty sure they were all vertical drops and the fact that they fell through a big tube wouldn't have slowed them down to make it safe!
(A Good Day To Die Hard was one, very long drop. Another was Trance, smaller drop but still... Can't remember the others but when i saw Trance on Tuesday i remember thinking "Oh come on, not another one!!")
Bit off original topic but similar to the unrealistic fight scenes/window jump thing...
In 3 or more films this past couple of months i've seen people get down off a tall building by jumping down one of those rubbish/debris chute things like on a building site, the kind that are usually over a skip or something. I'm pretty sure they were all vertical drops and the fact that they fell through a big tube wouldn't have slowed them down to make it safe!
(A Good Day To Die Hard was one, very long drop. Another was Trance, smaller drop but still... Can't remember the others but when i saw Trance on Tuesday i remember thinking "Oh come on, not another one!!")
The theory is that, assuming you land correctly, 7 storeys is what it would take to kill you...
Why is it when a person is in a river/lake etc and being hunted down and shot at, when they put their head below the water and multiple bad guys fire into the water at them, the bullets always seem to zip around them, but never actually hit them?
Oddly, that's not the least convincing thing about such scenes. You'd only need to be about a metre underwater to be pretty much bullet proof.
Bullets disintergrate really fast when fired into water.
Oddly, that's not the least convincing thing about such scenes. You'd only need to be about a metre underwater to be pretty much bullet proof.
Bullets disintergrate really fast when fired into water.
Mythbusters has ruined some Hollywood films.
Yep was going to mention the Mythbusters episode where they show how ineffective high velocity bullets are once they hit water, they just disintegrate within a few inches or so. Low velocity bullets, from muskets and black powder guns on the other hand do travel quite well under water.
Bit off original topic but similar to the unrealistic fight scenes/window jump thing...
In 3 or more films this past couple of months i've seen people get down off a tall building by jumping down one of those rubbish/debris chute things like on a building site, the kind that are usually over a skip or something. I'm pretty sure they were all vertical drops and the fact that they fell through a big tube wouldn't have slowed them down to make it safe!
(A Good Day To Die Hard was one, very long drop. Another was Trance, smaller drop but still... Can't remember the others but when i saw Trance on Tuesday i remember thinking "Oh come on, not another one!!")
^ Oh, come on. Hollywood films are chockful of highly-trained marksmen who suddenly become terrible shots whenever faced with a character central to the plot. Why should the introduction of a body of water make their aim any better?
Watched Where Eagles Dare a while back. Eastwood and Burton take on almost the entire German army and walk away with barely a scratch. The nazis must've been the worst shots of all.
Why do young U.S. girls speak so fast AND high-pitched?
How can action stars jump through plexi-glass windows WITHOUT knowing what's beneath them (cars, concrete, water, people) and survive?
How come even teenage boys can survive beatings or large falls that would CRIPPLE or KILL adult men?
Why don't popular Black actors like Will Smith and Denzel Washington have popular white actress like Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock or Reese Witherspoon as a love interest in a movie? This is 2013, so many people have interracial romances!
Why are U.S. cops in car chases so reckless and destructive?
Some of these do but only the Bodyguard is very well known.
Shouting the other person's name into a telephone receiver, when the line has obviously cleared as the dialling tone is audible.
You're involved in some way in a major news story, but when the TV/radio news broadcasts its report, you only listen to the first few sentences before switching off the TV/radio.
You're being pursued by someone but manage to find a good hiding place. Your pursuer rushes past. Why not stay where you are for longer than a few seconds?
another one that always bugs me is when the good guys manage to knock out the attacker and don't pick up his gun or tie him up! they just rush off , the attacker comes round picks up his gun and carries on after them .
And in crime films/TVs
How come the police cannot solve a murder but Miss Marple who is an old lady can?
In America, apart from Colombo, I don't think any murders are solved by actual police. You need a middle aged writer, a Vicar, a bored rich couple, a surgeon, a pathologist. Anything but a copper.
Agreed. It's a figure that widely reported, but I don't think they did any tests to support it, and if you landed on your head or broke your neck, it'd probably be a much smaller height required to kill you...
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I think that's because of a loophole in the American public drinking laws.
And it's always accompanied by thunder and lightning which happens to punctuate any conversation characters are having.
This clip from 'The Wire' might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2fV-_eiKxE
Watched Where Eagles Dare a while back. Eastwood and Burton take on almost the entire German army and walk away with barely a scratch. The nazis must've been the worst shots of all.
In 3 or more films this past couple of months i've seen people get down off a tall building by jumping down one of those rubbish/debris chute things like on a building site, the kind that are usually over a skip or something. I'm pretty sure they were all vertical drops and the fact that they fell through a big tube wouldn't have slowed them down to make it safe!
(A Good Day To Die Hard was one, very long drop. Another was Trance, smaller drop but still... Can't remember the others but when i saw Trance on Tuesday i remember thinking "Oh come on, not another one!!")
The theory is that, assuming you land correctly, 7 storeys is what it would take to kill you...
Oddly, that's not the least convincing thing about such scenes. You'd only need to be about a metre underwater to be pretty much bullet proof.
Bullets disintergrate really fast when fired into water.
Mythbusters has ruined some Hollywood films.
Yep was going to mention the Mythbusters episode where they show how ineffective high velocity bullets are once they hit water, they just disintegrate within a few inches or so. Low velocity bullets, from muskets and black powder guns on the other hand do travel quite well under water.
http://youtu.be/SxHolhr8jpo?t=1h49m15s
"only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise".
Worst. Shots. Ever.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PW-TuL82J1s/Tx7z6mWkl5I/AAAAAAAAAEM/RUf1rS8LHUA/s1600/mad-max-2-road-warrior.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/list/SUUCOArWNek/
Haha! at least there's a slope on that one to slow you down!
Not a theory i'd like to test!
You're involved in some way in a major news story, but when the TV/radio news broadcasts its report, you only listen to the first few sentences before switching off the TV/radio.
You're being pursued by someone but manage to find a good hiding place. Your pursuer rushes past. Why not stay where you are for longer than a few seconds?
Is it possible to break someone neck by twisting their head to the left or right?
And in crime films/TVs
How come the police cannot solve a murder but Miss Marple who is an old lady can?
It's less stressful than dealing with lawyers, estate agents, removal men and utility companies.:)
In America, apart from Colombo, I don't think any murders are solved by actual police. You need a middle aged writer, a Vicar, a bored rich couple, a surgeon, a pathologist. Anything but a copper.
Agreed. It's a figure that widely reported, but I don't think they did any tests to support it, and if you landed on your head or broke your neck, it'd probably be a much smaller height required to kill you...