What Hollywood Teaches Us

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bexVN

14,682 posts

212 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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Max_Torque said:
you CANNOT hurt any animals whatsoever !


(it is competely fine to show in graphic detail, say, a large number of competely innocent people dying in grusome and excruciating pain (like being slowly sliced to pieces by the villan using a fishslice), BUT if there is any slightest possibility that an animal could have been hurt the editor must immediately put in a little clip of said animal making a marvelous and timely escape from said danger without a scratch..............)
Plenty get hurt or die. K9, Turner and Hooch. Old Yellow, Marley and me to name a few.

True that many films you'll hear a barking dog, then a yelp, squeal and a min later the 'body' of the dead animal it's not often you'll see the animal being killed....which is fine by me!

Cotty

39,687 posts

285 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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bexVN said:
True that many films you'll hear a barking dog, then a yelp, squeal and a min later the 'body' of the dead animal it's not often you'll see the animal being killed....which is fine by me!
Its probably quite difficult to get a dog to act being shot. Playing dead easy, reacting to a "shot" less so.

cazzer

8,883 posts

249 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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Never ending story...

Ortex the horse in the swamp.

frown

Cotty

39,687 posts

285 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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davepoth said:
Cars magically heal themselves after enormously hard landings, even if their frame has been bent like a banana (Starsky and Hutch for a good example of this)
and so is Dukes of Hazzard.

Castrol Craig

18,073 posts

207 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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No matter what film, Tom Cruise will rise up the ladder in his chosen field of expertise/sport, lose his way/get injured, find the love of a good woman then make an amzing recovery.

Jasandjules

70,012 posts

230 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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davepoth said:
Don't forget that the people on the dancefloor will be oddly well spaced, and not pissed off their faces and trying to fight each other.
And of course if you start dancing, everyone in the area will know the routine and execute it flawlessly....


thinfourth2

32,414 posts

205 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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All bullets can be stopped by 1mm of steel

papercup

2,490 posts

220 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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thinfourth2 said:
All bullets can be stopped by 1mm of steel
and rickety log cabins!

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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bexVN said:
Max_Torque said:
you CANNOT hurt any animals whatsoever !


(it is competely fine to show in graphic detail, say, a large number of competely innocent people dying in grusome and excruciating pain (like being slowly sliced to pieces by the villan using a fishslice), BUT if there is any slightest possibility that an animal could have been hurt the editor must immediately put in a little clip of said animal making a marvelous and timely escape from said danger without a scratch..............)
Plenty get hurt or die. K9, Turner and Hooch. Old Yellow, Marley and me to name a few.

True that many films you'll hear a barking dog, then a yelp, squeal and a min later the 'body' of the dead animal it's not often you'll see the animal being killed....which is fine by me!
no,no, you misunderstand me. It is perfectly acceptable to have any "leading aninmal" in some sort of unecessary jeopardy in order to leverage the "oh no, a cute animal needs to be saved by the films hero" line, but, any animal that is an "extra" or "inconsequential" must survive unharmed whatever happens. (like say a plane crashes into a mall, hundreds of innocent people burn to death horribly, but the editor will make sure to include a short clip of some extra's dog or cat running away afterwards unharmed........ (it's to appease the "you must not hurt animals" brigade, who will write in and complain at the drop of a hat should any animal suffer a slight scratch or mild anquish ;-)

Conian

8,030 posts

202 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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Castrol Craig said:
No matter what film, Tom Cruise will rise up the ladder in his chosen field of expertise/sport, lose his way/get injured, find the love of a good woman then make an amzing recovery.
also in hollywood, he's 6 foot tall, is a well rounded human being and is hetrosexual

Negative Creep

25,016 posts

228 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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Foreigners will converse with eachother initially in their native tongue, then switch to English halfway through

voiceofreason

21 posts

154 months

Sunday 31st July 2011
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It is possible to bring a helicopter down with a tiny handgun.

But it doesn't matter, as everyone has at least one helicopter.

The Hypno-Toad

12,349 posts

206 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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Nobody ever gets killed or wounded by a ricochet. Its always a direct hit. The only exception to this would be if the shooter was a super-asassin and he meant to do it.

MrCheese

335 posts

184 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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You can drive as fast as you like along a sidewalk, through a shopping mall or even a shop and you will never lose control of the car and hit anyone.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

187 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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ClintonB said:
Absolutely anyone can handle a Magnum (or even some form of automatic weapon) like it's a water pistol. No matter how young, old, tiny or skinny, they can be fired one handed without any form of kickback whatsoever.
No one ever needs to disengage the safety catch on a gun, or cock it for that matter.

On the getting people's drinks thing, you can just ask for a beer in bars/clubs. The barstaff automatically know the brand and size you require.

DeadMeat_UK

3,058 posts

283 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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All alien races speak American

Every life experience teaches you a moral tale.

You have to slay some demon to get on in life.

People in red jumpers on spaceships are expendable.

If a soldier has a girl or a "dream cottage with a white picket fence" back home he is about to die.

You can stop any terrorist threat to the USA in exactly 24 hours, without using the toilet, and your country will still abandon you.

European and Japanese cars are st.

No-one runs Windows.

Cool people use Apple Macs.

Edited by DeadMeat_UK on Monday 1st August 17:04

Cotty

39,687 posts

285 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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No American knows how to drive a "stick shift"

Negative Creep

25,016 posts

228 months

Monday 1st August 2011
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Johnnytheboy said:
ClintonB said:
Absolutely anyone can handle a Magnum (or even some form of automatic weapon) like it's a water pistol. No matter how young, old, tiny or skinny, they can be fired one handed without any form of kickback whatsoever.
No one ever needs to disengage the safety catch on a gun, or cock it for that matter.
Unless you are threatening someone with a gun, in which case you must only cock it half way through the conversation.

Also, if you're a lowly goon then make sure to stand about a metre away from the hero, making sure he can easily reach out and grab it

MrReg

1,931 posts

223 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2011
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Jets have brakes which work in mid air so the enemy "will fly right by"
Bullets/Guns/Ammo don't cost anything and can easily be thrown away
When someone falls off a tall building their body lays intact on the floor with just a little bit of blood coming out.
If you're a baddie you can be knocked out by one punch. If you're the hero you can take a real beating but not have any bruises
A family Peugeot is as fast as an Audi S8
You can build a secret lair which would rival the size of Canary Wharf, but nobody knows how it got built or saw it happen. They're quick these hollywood builders!



Antony Moxey

8,173 posts

220 months

Tuesday 2nd August 2011
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If you get into a fist fight with someone, he punches you then waits for you to compose yourself so you can punch him back. You then wait for him and he lamps you. This continues until the bird you want to shag, who's never held a gun in her life and hates the things, shoots him in the back and stays motionless in that same shooting position until you prise the gun from her fingers. She then collapses, weeping, into your arms.