Stupid things in films

[dave_s13]

GTIR said:

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In a car crash, you can still see the hole in the floor where the wooden pole has shot out to flip it over. They still do this, even with there massive budgets! Come on.....

The last offering from Pacino, I forget the name as was so poor, has the most spectacularly bad scene in which his 911 gets blown up and flipped over to reveal 1. No engine and 2.An exhaust made from box section welded at right angles.

A $hit film but worth watching for that bit it's so rubbish.

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Found it

88 Minutes

Edited by dave_s13 on Friday 27th March 15:29

[Silent1]

Negative Creep said:

Even then, they will never wear thick clothing, helmets or any other protective body armour

Edited by Negative Creep on Thursday 26th March 23:47

Not true,

In the frankly fking brilliant 28 days later, when they find the bloke in the block of flats he beats the st out of some zombies whilst dressed up as a riot police officer, it's epic.

[sadako]

Mr E said:

sadako said:

Unless the US govt ripped off TCP/IP, ethernet/wifi and USB from the roswell ship in the first place

....but are you paranoid *enough*?

A paranoid is simply someone in posession of all the facts.

[ben_reza]

samdale said:

oh and the london eye is visible in "a knight's tale"

and yes i know i out geek you all

We could spend all day talking about the accuracy fails in that one! But then i think that was the idea?

[Traveller]

youngsyr said:

There's a difference between not reacting in time (which I'm still not convinced on, but am will to concede that I could be wrong) and continuing on a straight and level course straight past the plane in question though.

One of the last dog fights in Vietnam between an F4 and a Mig 17, was actually won with a manoeuvre not dissimilar to this. The Mig 17s were at a disadvantage in the vertical plane against an F4, so would not fight the F4 in a vertical scissors, so the F4 pilot high speed stalled with a violent pitch up, Mig did not want a vertical fight so continued in the turn, F4 stalls and violent nose down, recovers, infra red lock on the Mig and shots him down with a sidewinder. I think it was the final air to air battle of the Vietnam war. So this is possible..... although the rest of Top gun was utter drivel, besides the video of the tomcats of course.

[JonRB]

[SlipStream77]

I get irritated by films that include dogfights that involve 'Migs' when in the vast majority of cases they are blatently not Migs at all, just a different model of allied aircraft.

I also dislike it when the laws of physics are simply ignored. Which Bond film was it where he was in a narrow alley and being attacked by a helicopter using its rotor blades, despite only doing about 10knots and with a forward pitch of about 50 degrees?

[Jasandjules]

SlipStream77 said:

I also dislike it when the laws of physics are simply ignored. Which Bond film was it where he was in a narrow alley and being attacked by a helicopter using its rotor blades, despite only doing about 10knots and with a forward pitch of about 50 degrees?

Tomorrow Never Dies?

Plus in films people rarely need the loo. They get shot and never go into shock. They fire hundreds of bullets inside closed cabins (cars etc) yet never seem to get burst eardrums.... They fire 250 rounds from a 30 round mag.

[interloper]

Interlopers fact for the day...

Hands up, how many of us actually believed that by screwing a so called "silencer" on the end of a gun, it would become damn near in audible? I hope it wasn't just me?


The magical "silencer" is used so often in films, that you would be forgiven for assuming that, that is what they are called and silence is what they do. Wrong!

The item is actually called a suppressor and cuts the firing noise down from around 150 db to a slightly less ear shattering 110-120 (about as quiet as Concorde then!). The idea is to reduce the noise to less ear damaging levels especially when engaging targets in echoey environments like buildings. Not for covert oppps.

Oh yeah and using a pillow to silence a gun, give me strength!

The only reason this came to light is because I had a very enlightening conversation with an ex marine. I had to look all this stuff up just to make sure.

So yet another area in which films and film makers take the Michael!

[HD Adam]

Famous Graham said:

Matt_N said:

Dover Nige said:

That bit in the fking fast and furious where the black Charger smokes it's tyres and pops a fking stupid fking wheelie at the same time. How fking ridiculous. tts.

?

Have you not seen drag cars on launch?

Ill admit it was quite exagerated in the film, but its a commom thing in drag racing isnt? Hence why they have wheelie bars on the back.

Yeah but they can't happen simultaneously. If the tyres are smoking, the wheels are spinning, so you're not going to wheelie. I think?

Think again

[Mutley]

HD Adam said:

Famous Graham said:

Matt_N said:

Dover Nige said:

That bit in the fking fast and furious where the black Charger smokes it's tyres and pops a fking stupid fking wheelie at the same time. How fking ridiculous. tts.

?

Have you not seen drag cars on launch?

Ill admit it was quite exagerated in the film, but its a commom thing in drag racing isnt? Hence why they have wheelie bars on the back.

Yeah but they can't happen simultaneously. If the tyres are smoking, the wheels are spinning, so you're not going to wheelie. I think?

Think again

Pistonheads : Torque Matters

[Lunja]

Careless torque costs tyres.

[EngJock]

I can't stand it when a mobile phone rings but the ringtone is for a different manufacturers phone!

[handpaper]

interloper said:

Interlopers fact for the day...

Hands up, how many of us actually believed that by screwing a so called "silencer" on the end of a gun, it would become damn near in audible? I hope it wasn't just me?


The magical "silencer" is used so often in films, that you would be forgiven for assuming that, that is what they are called and silence is what they do. Wrong!

The item is actually called a suppressor and cuts the firing noise down from around 150 db to a slightly less ear shattering 110-120 (about as quiet as Concorde then!). The idea is to reduce the noise to less ear damaging levels especially when engaging targets in echoey environments like buildings. Not for covert oppps.

Oh yeah and using a pillow to silence a gun, give me strength!

The only reason this came to light is because I had a very enlightening conversation with an ex marine. I had to look all this stuff up just to make sure.

So yet another area in which films and film makers take the Michael!

Depends on the silencer, gun and cartridge.
To fire a truly quiet bullet, you need a closed breech, a small calibre and a subsonic round. A .22 single-shot target pistol can be made quiet enough that you won't hear it through a closed door.

[Dogwatch]

Films where someone drives up to the empty forecourt of a large country house, parks a hundred feet away from the front door and walks the rest.
OK, parking across the front door is bad form but near it is allowed surely and nearer to real life?

[Traveller]

handpaper said:

Depends on the silencer, gun and cartridge.
To fire a truly quiet bullet, you need a closed breech, a small calibre and a subsonic round. A .22 single-shot target pistol can be made quiet enough that you won't hear it through a closed door.

Spot on, a .22lr subsonic on a bolt action with a decent silencer, you can barely hear it 10 metres away on open ground. A 9mm Luger on a semi auto with a subsonic load with suppressor, the biggest noise is the clunking cycling of the action. The Chinese made a locked breech pistol,
7.65mm Type 67,suppressor, was suppose to be pretty quiet, designed for assassination.

[TheEnd]

Terminator Time machine -

Dr. Silberman: Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle Reese: You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman: Why?
Kyle Reese: I didn't build the fking thing!
Dr. Silberman: Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Reese: Surrounded by living tissue!


hmmmmmmm

[JonRB]

TheEnd said:

Terminator Time machine -

Dr. Silberman: Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle Reese: You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman: Why?
Kyle Reese: I didn't build the fking thing!
Dr. Silberman: Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Reese: Surrounded by living tissue!

Ok. So here is my gatling laser gun stuffed inside a cow. Send it.

[mically]

Tony*T3 said:

Top Gun:

ANYTHING in '24'

Lets just revive a dead Jack Bower.

Lets just move a spy satalite

Lets just get cellphone signal in the middle of fekin nowhere

Hold your tongue sir! ........... erm, or lose it?

Never under-estimate the awesomeness of Bauer Power.
Let us not forget; he bit a mans neck off to escape torture!

Although it is annoying the way they type over a filled screen with windows, and always get the command they wanted......

or... how they can be on the phone to someone using their mobile; take a picture - and it sends straight away? ... where was the flash.... waiting for the pic to load/ send it as an MMS / locating the contact / waiting for it to send ..... waiting for it to be delivered !

But yes, leave Bauer out of this. He's currently gone dark to escape the people he's trying to save!! (same as s1-s6, perhaps?)

[Rollin]

Superman flying....as if.