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One thing was unrealistic in this movie. Just one.

posted 3 years ago by Moonglum9 (10852)
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When Fletcher was chasing the plane on the air stairs, he came up from directly behind the engines on the wings and was able to move forward and past them. Now on Mythbusters, they've shown that the force from one of those engines was enough to roll over a full sized car multiple times from something like 100 feet away.

How are we supposed to buy that?

And let me preemptively answer some of you argumentative souls who don't recognize satire when it slaps them in the face, and who are going to point out the premise of the movie is based on a magic wish: Derp.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

im not even sure that stair thing could have driven that fast.

and yet, this is the FUN in movies!

Fun film. Wish there was more like this.

[–] Moonglum9 (10852) 3 years ago

This movie was great. One of Carrey's best.

[–] Sparky123 (1666) 3 years ago

Yep this or dumb and dumber

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

"I've had better"

"some people making a really good living do that"

[–] Moonglum9 (10852) 3 years ago

"That's because you have big jugs"

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7511) 3 years ago

I mean if you want to get technical but if what happened to him when he fell off the stairs vehicle happened in real life he'd be dead.

[–] Moonglum9 (10852) 3 years ago

But he's Jose Canseco. HE'S JOSE CANSECOOOOOOOOOO!

[–] Jamfo (408) 3 years ago

If I were to try and make sense out of what is meant to be silly and fun, I would surmise that the jet was only in very low power mode as it was only on the taxi way, and not full thrust for take off.

When Mythbusters did their test, they cranked those engines up full throttle, which, as anyone who’s been on a plane will tell you, is much more powerful than a jet at idle, or under really low power to slowly taxi over to the runway.

I just assumed that the thrust exhaust under this really low power mode wasn’t so strong and the cart was able to push through.

Real or not, it was a great visual gag in a really funny flick!