popping brand's tires - The Goonies (1985) Discussion

[–] mikeyg24 9 years ago

He didn't pop them he let the air out by pressing down on the valve.

There's a moral to this story Del Boy but for the life of me I can't find it!

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[–] taz420nj 9 years ago

He didn't pop them he let the air out by pressing down on the valve.

No you idiot, he took the caps off. They deflated because they didn't have any valve stems in them.

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[–] mikeyg24 9 years ago

Whatever happens in your fantasy world retard.

I've had a lot of sobering thoughts in my time Del Boy, it's them that started me drinking!

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[–] taz420nj 9 years ago

Whatever happens in your fantasy world retard.

LOL! "In my fantasy world"? Try "IN THE ACTUAL MOVIE". At 23:38, in case anyone wants to play along at home and see what a moron you are. At NO TIME did he press down on ANYTHING. In fact, when they show him taking the caps off, you can CLEARLY SEE that there are no valves in the stems, just the hole where they were supposed to be.

Retard.

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[–] McShave07 9 years ago

This always bugged me when I was kid. At the time I just assumed us Europeans had valves and Americans didn't. Seems stupid now, how would bike pumps work?

Just a silly error by the makers.

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[–] ebright99 9 years ago

The filmmakers really took a liberty with this. The manner by which they deflate the tires is completely unrealistic.

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[–] Durham_christine 8 years ago

Taking off the valves would not beg late them. They would start deflating once Brand started riding, but not immediantly

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[–] ebright99 8 years ago

Sorry, that's not correct. Valve stems like that have a little pin inside that has to be depressed to let the air out. You literally have to stand there and hold the pin down with your fingernail the whole time. And it takes at least 30 seconds to a minute to deflate one tire.

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[–] pras_iam 8 years ago

@ebright99

Yes. That is very true. Here makers have taken liberty.

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[–] stevenackerman69 8 years ago

There is a valve on the bike tires that you open to let air in or out. He opened it so the air was let out and it was flat.

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[–] ebright99 8 years ago

What you've said is not correct. To deflate a tire with the kind of valves shown in the movie you must stand there and hold a small pin down the entire time. You can't just touch it and run away while the tire slowly deflates by itself.

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[–] taz420nj 7 years ago

What you've said is not correct. To deflate a tire with the kind of valves shown in the movie you must stand there and hold a small pin down the entire time. You can't just touch it and run away while the tire slowly deflates by itself.

Uhhhhh hey moron.. Open your eyes and LOOK. THERE ARE NO VALVES. For the purposes of the scene, the valves were removed, the tires were inflated then capped quickly to hold the air in. So when the caps were removed, they deflated.

"Now you start using your head. That's that lump that's three feet above your ass!"

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[–] MaximRecoil (4087) 4 years ago

"Uhhhhh hey moron.."

Irony.

"For the purposes of the scene, the valves were removed, the tires were inflated then capped quickly to hold the air in. So when the caps were removed, they deflated."

Yeah, except, valve stem caps aren't air-tight, not even close. Their only purpose is to keep crud out of there. For the scene he didn't remove any valve stem caps because neither valve stem had a valve stem cap in the first place; he just mimed the motion of unscrewing a valve cap, which you can easily see if you watch it in slow motion. Most likely they just inflated the tire without valves and had him hold his finger over it, then when he removed his finger to mime the motion of unscrewing a valve stem cap, the air escaped. Then they repeated that for the back tire.

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[–] ebright99 8 years ago

Go on, enlighten me about this trick.

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[–] Vega_Lyra 8 years ago

This scene completely ruined the movie for me and broke my suspension of disbelief.

Nevermind a pirate ship hidden in a cave, an organ constructed out of bones, etc...

:)

Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.

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[–] choch_masta_yay 8 years ago

forget the tires, at the beginning there is a man pooping with his pants down but his undies still on.

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[–] MaximRecoil (4087) 4 years ago

He did it by invoking movie magic. The scene isn't realistic. To do that in reality he would have had to press the valve down and hold it down until the tire was flat, which would have taken too long for a scene in which they're all in a hurry, so they just pretended that you can mime the motion of removing valve stem caps and the air will magically escape from the tires.

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