Annoys me when in films, vehicles seem to get launched up into the air for no reason as if they have spring loaded wheels... The bus should have just plowed straight into the other part of the unfinished bridge. I wish they would just put a broken sign/ramp or literally anything to give it even the slightest bit of air to make it more believable
shareIt's the silliest part of the movie and the only scene that sort of bothers me. I agree, they should've used a ramp. Not that that would work in real life, but, like you said, it's more believable.
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It's the silliest part of the movie and the only scene that sort of bothers me. I agree, they should've used a ramp. Not that that would work in real life, but, like you said, it's more believable.
Actually, that's exactly what they did. They jumped the bus off a ramp over a distance of 30ft. It was on the special features on the DVD. How did you think it was done?
I believe the Jack Traven character stated in the film that it was actually more like 50 feet but, yes, I find it highly unbelievable, especially since they had to make a jump from (what I like to call) a dead man's curve.
They actually covered this on MythBusters (2003) with an episode titled Unarmed and Unharmed (2009):
"The Build Team acquired a bus with the same dimensions as that used in the film, then built a small-scale model of it as well as the stretch of road in question. Running at a calculated speed of 20 miles per hour, the bus plunged off the end of the road and crashed into the support posts at ground level on the other side.
When the gap was halved, the bus still dropped far enough to hit the far end of the roadbed head-on. The team theorized that hidden ramps placed on either end of the gap may have helped the bus to make its jump safely. After outfitting their full-size bus for remote-control steering on an airfield, they did a speed test and found that it could go up to 58 miles per hour, rather than the 70 miles per hour depicted in the film.
With the 50-foot target distance scaled down to allow for the lower top speed, they jumped the bus off a ramp; it fell far short of the target, but remained relatively intact until it hit a concrete safety barricade. Since the bus could not make the jump, the team declared the myth busted."
It's just a movie.
shareNo, not believable. But it's a great movie moment.
You want something corny? You got it!
Yeah that was easily the dumbest part of the film.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.
Agreed.
I know it's a Hollywood action movie and belief needs to be suspended an' all, but that thing took off like ET.
In reality it would've nose-dived into the ground like a fu**ing dart.