I hate when a house or car is blown up and the bomber walks away without looking back. I've seen that a thousand times.
Also, they somehow remarkable cut that wire to a bomb with ONE SECOND left on the clock. Seen that a million times. Last time Tom Cruise MIP the latest one. It never gets old in Hollywood.
Exactly. The non flinching walking away explosion.
shareYEAH,BUT....IT LOOKS SO COOL!
shareI wonder who was the first to do that.
shareTHATS A GOOD QUESTION....WHEN THE TROPE IS MENTIONED THE ONE THAT IMMEDIATELY POPS INTO MY HEAD IS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN...BUT THEYVE BEEN COOLY WALKING AWAY FROM BOOM BOOM FOR DECADES.
sharewhat part?
Can't argue with that
shareLuckily there’s no such thing as shrapnel in Hollywood.
shareAt least the Mythbusters busted a few movie myths as well. For example, they proved:
- not all cars that plummet to the bottom of a cliff explode
- Hellboy would not be able to get a car to do a perfect flip over his head from punching it, nor would it land perfectly on its wheels behind him from the punch
- real car explosions are actually bigger and more spectacular than the movie versions
- you can blow up a car more than once
- freezing a bomb with liquid nitrogen will give you plenty of time (10-20 minutes) to get off a rigged toilet and get out of danger
- it's dangerous to sit on a toilet longer than even an hour, never mind 12
- setting C-4 on fire or stomping on it will not make it blow up
- the only reason the motorcycle in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" flipped was not due to a flagpole being jammed into the spokes, it was due to a mortar being set off underneath the stunt guy's bike
I have more, but I just wanted to cover the explosions stuff :D.
Keep em coming.
shareI loved some of the other stuff the Mythbusters tested from the "Indiana Jones" franchise. "Temple of Doom" got some extra-special attention. They proved that:
- you can't shove a life raft out of an airplane and expect it to remain facing upwards, allowing you to stay inside while it "gently plummets" to the ground
- you can fall through at least 2 or 3 cloth awnings on the side of a building and survive
Other film cliches were also taken a look at. They proved also that:
- you will not get "blown backwards" when shot at
- you will not be protected from bullets if you hide inside an ordinary, everyday car
- smashing a REAL bottle of beer over someone's head is an extremely bad idea (it's actually not easy to christen ships with bottles of champagne either, but it is doable)
- punching in real glass windows is also a bad idea
- the only way to properly fire a handgun and actually hit the target, involves the posture they train you to use at gun ranges, whereas the various "cool poses" they use in movies do not actually work
- you can't "Robin Hood" an arrow like they do in the movies; best you can do is bury your fired arrow into the rear end of another that has already been fired (and I've actually done this in archery, but not on purpose, hehe)
- when improvising ammo for pirate cannons (like when you run out of cannon balls?), the only improvised ammo that really seems effective is chain and hard cheese; it's pointless to use anything else, including silverware or a pirate's wooden peg leg
- you can't talk to [or rather, yell at] someone in mid-air during a skydive--the air rushing past both your ears and theirs just is too loud
- you can build a crossbow out of newspaper and other improvised materials in prison, but it's only effective on the first fire, and chances are, you're not gonna kill your target, and you'll get into serious trouble immediately
- poking a hole in the wall of the pressurized cabin of a plane will not suck everyone out in mid-flight
I hate when low income people have expensive houses/apartments.
shareWe call them Section 8's where I live.
shareSeeing a Glock pistol in someone's hand and hearing it cock.
Hollywood's obsession with the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Sheet-heads, neo-Nazis, etc.
And constantly chambering a round lol!
shareSuppressors on revolvers and no recoil even on the heaviest weapons.
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