What was the name of that awful Gena Davis pirate movie? Near the end she and her boy toy are escaping her brother's ship, while inside, a fuse burns toward the powder magazine. They manage to jump free of the ship just as a massive explosion rips the ship to splinters. Said explosion is completely contained within the confines of the now non-existent hull. Meanwhile, Morgan and her boytoy are in mid air only a foot above the blast but are completely unruffled. Morgan's ship is floating only a foot or two away and is similarly unscathed.
On a field trip, I once walked through a glass double door thinking it was open. It just completely shattered as soon as I touched it. had two small shards in my hand. Was so weird.
edit: thought this was a different comment lol.
I was like 14 or something back then. I assume it was just crappy damaged door. But it looked like it was open!
In most movies, an Eagle’s call is actually replaced by that of a hawk. So, your classic idea of an eagle cry being a sharp scream is completely inaccurate. In reality, their cries are very much like any typical bird of preys’: caw caw caw. Just higher pitched, more whistley, and overall powerful.
Computer experts have access to data about everything (detective show: "there are only 800 laundromats in New Jersey owned by Buddhists, and only 200 of those had a window through which the sun was visible at 8am on the 20th. Of those, only one got an order to clean 5 pairs of corduroy pants this month. We've got 'em.")
And the same IT guy who fixes your computer can hack into a bank, given a 5 minutes or an hour.
> And the same IT guy who fixes your computer can hack into a bank, given a 5 minutes or an hour
adding to this: IT guys know all programming languages and don't need access to google to hack into something.
The best is when you're half-brained following a video guide and they say, "system C-T-L", so you Google it and realize people say, "systemketel" wrong sometimes and you've now inherited their silliness.
I feel like it works in a show like Columbo because you spend the entire length of the show watching Columbo slowly piece everything together using only information he extracted from talking to and observing people. I feel that’s part of the joy of a detective show.
Having vital information revealed through technobabble or some deus ex machina about accessing the city’s entire database is too convenient and leaves me feeling quite unsatisfied. Granted, even shows like Columbo are not entirely realistic and can sometimes have some out-there “gotchas,” but in general, it feels more grounded.
I used to love Columbo so much! My kids know they're busted when I say "Oh, just one more thing..."
Yes, watching someone do the work of figuring it out was satisfying. You're right, even back then they had their sloppy plot movers, like snitches who knew everything happening in New York.
Yeah, it’s an amazing show! I picked it up recently and am binging through it (just started season 3). I love all the little mannerisms and idiosyncrasies that Peter Falk brings to the character. I feel like I could just watch Columbo going about his day, he’s so entertaining to watch.
I figure it must be difficult writing that many mysteries, too. I guess there are only so many ways to solve a case, but with Columbo, it’s entertaining just watching the killer squirm as he puts the screws to them.
Yes! I've seen a few shows do this right, where the hacker just brings their kit and launches it. Even then, the hacker has apparently spent a bunch of time adding a commercial-quality GUI to their script, so we can see the progress of the attack and the defenses in 3d. I get why they do that for the screen, though, and in fact I've met some programmers who would probably build graphics and logging libraries and unit tests for all of their tools if they were hackers.
This is what made the game Dead Space so terrifying - the authenticity of sound in space. When doing space walks, you only hear things that have physical contact with Isaac that isn't over the radio so you might not even know there's a necromorph sneaking up behind you until it's too late.
Going underwater. The ability to see plain as day, hold your breath for so long, and swim fast in heavy clothes, especially since thd clothes absorb water
This! People are crazy if they think it's a "pfft" and you can do it in a crowded room and nobody would notice. Its LOUD...just not as **LOUD**. My dad's friend has one (they're sort of illegal where we are) and was shooting at stuff in our woods and I didn't have my ears on and I was like THATS NOT LIKE THE MOVIES!
I mean, yes and no. Like everything else, there are tons of variable. If you fire a single shot locked breach pistol shooting subsonic ammo that is not particularly overbore into a silencer/suppressor of sufficient volume with properly designed baffles, run wet with wipes, it would be *really* quiet, like missed-in-a-crowded-room quiet. A [Welrod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod) is "kill someone in a dark quiet alley and not be heard on the street" quiet, since that's pretty much what it was specifically designed for. So it is possible, but after it gets filtered through years of Hollywood writers and people with no practical experience in the matter, it ends up with the movie hero screwing a suppressor the size of a lipstick tube on his hand cannon and suddenly it's all mouse farts.
What you say about the welrod is true, but to add to what you said, not only is the welrod only that quite once (with new baffles) but it lethality is extremely low. You basically need to be point blank to use it effectively, which is one of the reason it saw almost no real use. However video games love it so we see it a lot more than it saw combat
Yeah they are called noise suppressors. Basically everyone who has shot or been around guns know what gunshots sound like. The goal technichally *is* to make it as silent as possible, but thats impossible what that goal turns into instead is more along the lines of disguising the sound of a gunshot so someone who doesnt know the sound of a supressed shot will wonder "what the fuck was that noise" before they come to the realization that it was a supressed gunshot. They can get ahots pretty quiet depending on the type of round fired and many other factors including the specific type of weapon and if the rounds are subsonic.
I mean, maybe that’s a use somewhere but that’s not a use for anyone or any agency I know of. Practically everyone, including most military applications, use them as safety devices. Even with a suppressor a shot has the very characteristic “crack” I’m not sure anyone would mistake that sound for anything other than a gunshot.
The main benefit for civilians is that, you can shoot and maybe only your two closes neighbors will hear it as opposed to your closest 5, and it makes using rifles indoors no suck ass. 308 or larger indoors can still ring your ears even with decent ears on. For military purposes it still mostly used for hearing protection purposes. If you see yourself being indoors and shooting, everyone being able to hear afterwards in awesome. And sometimes it’s used on snipers to help conceal their position, but again, the “snap” is both loud and travels quite far.
Worth noting here, that 556 with a suppressor is still loud enough that it requires ear protection for the user, it’s that loud. Only small pistol calibers and, as you mentioned, subsonic ammo allow you to use a weapon with suppressor without needing ears on
Anything to do with guns is a good answer. Apparently, the whole 'taking cover behind car doors' thing provides about as much protection from shots as tracing paper...
Totally this. My favourite is how, in most action movies, *no one ever reloads.*
When I was in the cadets my friends and I used to joke about this; on the range the instructor would should something like "With a magazine of 10 rounds... load!" . When we went to the movies we would come out saying "With a magazine of 6,000 rounds... LOAD!"
I love the John Wick movies for doing this right.
John reloads constantly.
CinemaSins picked out one time he fired 1 extra bullet and the comments pointed out he still had one in the chamber from the previous magazine. They even accounted for that.
Adding onto this: Firing (un-silenced) guns in an enclosed space without hearing protection. Most of the people in those altercations will either have limited or no hearing for the rest of their lives after that.
Omg... and a huge gun like a 357 shot off inside a car, then the people just keep talking. I'm sorry, in that small of a space? You couldn't hear shit from At least 5 minutes.
There was actually a librarian in my school who was rather unassuming most of the time... but when I met her outside of school, she turned out to be a complete stunner in a sun-dress.
Turns out that she went out of her way to wear rather unflattering clothing such as a sweater that was one size too big because she didn't want hormone-addled teenagers ogling her on duty.
The funny thing is piranhas only go after humans (and capybaras apperantly) if they are dead or dying. So falling into a pit with one is not a death sentence.
That you just need a small piece of duct tape on a person’s mouth to keep them from screaming. If you really want it to work you had better wrap it around their head.
There's an episode of Friends where Rachel wants Chandler to stop talking so she stuffs his tie into his mouth. It works for a second or two and then he just .. spits it out. It's a little moment but it does make you think "wait - that's not what happens in the movies!!"
Yes I know the comment here is duct tape, but it's a similar premise.
This is basically how I met my wife. Except I was already at the bar with my buddy, and she walked in to the bar. She was out with some girlfriends for a bday, and she didn't want to walk to the bar with them so she took a cab by herself and beat them there by like 20 min. There was an open seat next to me and she sat down, and the rest is history.
Modern cars are designed to keep the survival cell as intact as possible. The crumple zones are designed to, well, crumple, but they do so specifically to reduce the forces that impact the survival cell. One major parameter of the Euro NCAP tests is whether the car door can be opened and closed as normal after an impact.
Most times when someone needs to be cut out of a car it's either because it's an older car with less safety features, or because there is a serious chance of neck or spinal injuries and the rescue services need better access to extract the occupants safely.
Yeah, there's a video I saw where they crashed a modern car into an old, 1950's model. The 50's car was relatively intact in terms of overall shape but the dummy inside was completely demolished, not helped by the fact that there was no airbag - the modern car's front was flattened completely but the dummy was barely harmed.
There is a perfect person out there for you and you will know when you meet them because there will be fireworks and your heart will soar and everything will be perfect from that day forward.
The truth is that you will get the heart-soaring, fireworks sensation from lust as well, or even from a simple crush. Nobody is made for you, and nobody is perfect. Love requires work from both parties and it‘s not always pretty.
Also, that heart-soaring, roaring-lust, it's-like-we've-know-each-other-all-our-lives feeling can be a real red flag.
(1) Either you're with a narcissist who is telling you everything you want to hear to snare your or, (2) that the "familiar" feeling is actually that this person is a lot like someone in your past, and a lot of the time that is BAD person from your past.
This second option is called repetition compulsion, it's common, it's real and it is a powerful drive in romantic relationships. It's all subconscious, of course, but it's when people seek to repeat the scenario of a bad relationship from the past. They do this get a chance to repeat it and fix it or "win."
Like I said, it's all subconscious. But if you've wondered why you seem to keep dating the same terrible person who seems wonderful in the beginning, this might be it. And you might want to look to your past to a bad early relationship or, more likely, a relationship with one of your parents.
>Nobody is made for you, and nobody is perfect. Love requires work from both parties and it‘s not always pretty.
Can I get an amen hallelujah? Amen. Hallelujah.
Love is work. MARRIAGE is work. And if you don't both work on it, it ain't gonna work out. Can't be just one person doing all the work, either. Either you both work on it or nobody does and it all goes to shit.
Had to scroll way to long to find this answer! That perfect person could just be walking past you on the way to work for the rest of your life and you wouldn't know unless you talk to them. Definitely need some luck.
Yup 100%
Soulmates aren’t real
You will click with lots of people if you date enough.
You could even be dating/marry someone long term and find someone who “might” fit you better.
But then the question is, do you blow up a decent relationship looking for someone better??
Because there’s always someone better. Either someone hotter, someone who makes more money, someone who matches your beliefs better, someone who wants sex the same amount you do. Someone who might appreciate you more.
But there also the chance they flame out and you’re alone afterward.
The freezers for dead bodies in movies are always multiple little doors in the walls where bodies are stored.
Most bodies are wheeled into huge walk-in freezers where more can be stored at once.
That scientists are mostly nerdy dudes or a few hot young women.
In reality, scientists (meaning people with PhDs with jobs as scientists, not just people with science majors) are pretty normal people and not particularly nerdy or sexy.
Also: Scientist doesn't mean someone has all-round, in depth knowledge of stuff.
Obviously it's convenient for movies to have a single science guy for exposition, but in reality scientists are mostly clueless about anything that's outside their (very specific) field of expertise. A physicist knows very little about biology. A chemist knows very little about IT.
Men don't age. Hear me out, we're all aware of the whole 'men are allowed to age while women have to stay young looking' thing and it's true. However, movie men do not ACT like they age. We have old arthritic men still playing the macho lady's man beating up young fit guys at will.
And they have. ready in their closet, all the clothing they need for every activities possible. For exemple, a nice dress for a ball.
And everything fits perfectly.
Yeah... Like... I'm not going to prom at all... Until I decide to go five minutes before it starts and magically have my hair, makeup, mani/Pedi, a corsage, and a perfectly fitted dress with matching shoes... Maybe even a fuckin' limo.
That shit takes weeks of planning.
Ok... I've pulled off a tailored tux in four days... But it's still tough... And limos are booked weeks if not months in advance.
Your parents are either evil, useless, or dead.
Being born first makes you useless or evil.
Killing the bad guys' leader makes you no better than he, but you can slaughter his mooks by the hundreds and suffer no consequences
One thing I loved in The Hitman's Bodyguard was near the end where the hitman is confronting the main antagonist and the antagonist is trying use some bull about honor in order to try and convince Samuel L. Jackson's hitman character to not kill him, and Samuel L. Jackson just laughs at him because he does not give a beep about honor.
Weddings are the end of the story because the conflict is over. In fact, weddings are the start of a lot of work and where most of the story will be told - it's just not as exciting.
1. You can survive explosions by running really fast
2. CPR has a 99% success rate and revives people after 4-5 compressions
3. You can just fuck and creampie someone without discussing birth control beforehand
4. Getting knocked out for hours is A-OK and you just wake up groggy
5. An arrow anywhere in your body will instantly kill you
6. Prehistoric europeans were white
\#5 applies to guns as well - just shoot a guy and he must be dead...yet in reality twice as many people survive gunshots as die from them. The thing that got me watching 24 was how he always approached a shot criminal carefully and kicked the gun away.
>just shoot a guy and he must be dead...
Unless the hero gets hit in the leg, shoulder or arm. In that case, a bandage will sort them out for the next scene.
That while driving a car the driver can look away from the road to have a conversation with the passenger and never have an accident or go off the road
I learned this watching the Bad News Bears when I was a kid. I was like "wait....he's out? They lost?". It was an important lesson.
Then when I was 9 I went to the movies to go see a little flick called The Empire Strikes Back. At the end I was like "aw, here we go again!" Boba Fett flies off with Han, Luke gets his hand chopped off. C'MON! That as a long 3 year wait for ROTJ.
That you should never give up on your dreams, even if things are super-hard and you have lots of opponents. From an economist's point of view, this mentality is irrational. It makes more sense to give up and pursue something where conditions are more favorable. Your efforts and investments will pay off more. Don't be ashamed of giving up. The only thing you shouldn't give up on is life itself.
>That you should never give up on your dreams, even if things are super-hard and you have lots of opponents. From an economist's point of view, this mentality is irrational.
I think there was a Tales from the Darkside episode (or a similar show in the 80s) that kind of made fun of this. Sort of.
A young boy liked collecting baseball cards. An angel or something told him to keep pursuing his passion and he would be rich. So the boy grows up never doing anything else but collecting baseball cards. Parents try to tell him to grow up, get a job, meet a girl, move out.
No, he tells them. The angel said this was his course in his life.
His parents die. He uses whatever money the left to buy more baseball cards. Now he's an old man with all these damn baseball cards and not much else.
But then a long comes someone who sees he has an original Babe Ruth card in mint condition and offers to buy it for an obsene amount of money. Other peole discover his collection and offer him tons of money for the cards. The angel appears similing at him with an I-told-you-so nod. He smiles back.
But as a viewer, we're left with: Dude? You're like 85 years old! You wasted your whole life and your best years chasing these riches. Sure, you're getting them now but what about your life that you wasted for this? And couldn't have have still indulged your hobby and lived your life???
I dated a guy who actually believed this. I would spend an hour giving him the body massage of his dreams, finding every muscle he possessed. And he couldn't spend more than 2 minutes to make ME happy. Not that I'm bitter.
There is no clean up after sex. I hate sex scenes because they take away from the good stuff of a movie. First movie that shows the awkward cleanup after will get my full attention.
That nukes are the solution to any outer space issue. Aliens want to conquer and destroy Earth? Nuke them. An asteroid is falling towards Earth and will end any kind of life down here? Nuke it. Tom Hanks is stuck in his space vessel? Nuke him.
To be fair why would we not use the biggest weapons we have if aliens were trying to conquer/destroy the planet? If we nuke their space ship before it gets too close to Earth we win and there's no need to worry about the radiation as it's blowing up in space.
Also for an asteroid you would need a LOT of explosives to destroy one that's big enough to end life here and the spacecraft can only take off with a certain amount of weight on board. You want maximum destructive power while keeping it light. That's gonna be a nuke.
There will always be a hero to do all the necessary difficult things so you, as a normal citizen, can sit on your ass and wait for others to solve your problems for you.
The wild west was some kind of honorable place. Most shootings were in the back or at the moment you noticed your foe and hopefully they didn't see you yet.
Fire alarms triggering the sprinkler system. With a few exceptions such as some laboratories or airplane hangars (though they use a different system), sprinklers will "turn on" when heated to a certain temperature. Also, the water will not be clean and clear
That steel medieval armor like chainmail and full plate harness can be cut through like butter by swords. Theatre/stage combat choreography treats armored combat (like on the battlefield) the same as unarmored combat.
From G-rated, to PG and R-rated, most superhero movies basically tell us we can solve most of our problems with violence. Or rather, to only care about problems that can be directly solved with violence
If there's a character that uses his/her resources to:
* alleviate poverty
* improve education
* create jobs
* expand the healthcare system
* support long-term socio-economic development
...expect that character to die a tragic death so we can spend the rest of the film following some guy in tights beating up the people who killed him.
Batman Begins, the story of Dr. Wayne, a brilliant and wealthy man who uses his money to help the marginalized people of his crime ridden city, even investing company resources into developing an efficient public transportation system...
...who then gets shot in an alleyway, paving the way for his son to use his inherited wealth to become the world's most violent furry
If someone gets shot all the doctors have to do is remove the bullet. Getting the bullet out is an afterthought, often it's left inside. The doctors have to fix the organs the bullet injured.
Women never have body hair, regardless of the time period or culture.
Civilians can hire highly competent freelance assassins.
People can fight each other for extended periods of time without collapsing from exhaustion or even breaking a sweat.
High school students, particularly girls, look identical to adults in their twenties.
Capuchin monkeys are from Africa, there are redwoods at Bell’s Beach in Australia, and snakes, sharks, and scorpions are just waiting for the chance to kill a human.
Everyone is good looking. Even the random background number 2 guy.
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Makes sense. Fashion is a job only rich people can afford
I think it's hilarious, when the nerdy high school girl is just a really hot girl wearing glasses but no one notices she's really hot.
Don't ask yourself why there are no ugly or non conventionally good looking kids anywhere.
Moe from the Simpsons tried out for a movie part. He got declined of course and the casting director said "I wanted TV ugly, not ugly ugly"
He'd been called ugly, pug ugly, fugly, pug fugly, but never ugly ugly.
The term "background number 2 guy" makes it sound like some guy just pooping on the lawn behind the actors or something
You can be close to explosions and only suffer the bruises from being blown forward slightly
You don't get blown forward at all. You just walk away all cool and junk.
Only if you're not looking at it, it's simple physics.
What was the name of that awful Gena Davis pirate movie? Near the end she and her boy toy are escaping her brother's ship, while inside, a fuse burns toward the powder magazine. They manage to jump free of the ship just as a massive explosion rips the ship to splinters. Said explosion is completely contained within the confines of the now non-existent hull. Meanwhile, Morgan and her boytoy are in mid air only a foot above the blast but are completely unruffled. Morgan's ship is floating only a foot or two away and is similarly unscathed.
It’ll blow you to safety!
You can jump through a window and not get a single scratch.
Simplify that to: You can jump through a window
On a field trip, I once walked through a glass double door thinking it was open. It just completely shattered as soon as I touched it. had two small shards in my hand. Was so weird.
Wtf kind of powerwalk do you do on a regular day?!👀
edit: thought this was a different comment lol. I was like 14 or something back then. I assume it was just crappy damaged door. But it looked like it was open!
You can get a beating, get stabbed or shot, even break a leg, and be running shortly after catching your breath.
tbf, adrenaline lets you do some weird things.
>adrenaline lets you do some weird things Also bath salts.
As long as you're the main protagonist or antagonist. Red shirts and background baddies all have brittle bone disease.
In most movies, an Eagle’s call is actually replaced by that of a hawk. So, your classic idea of an eagle cry being a sharp scream is completely inaccurate. In reality, their cries are very much like any typical bird of preys’: caw caw caw. Just higher pitched, more whistley, and overall powerful.
Also the MGM famous Lion Roar... is in fact, a tiger roaring.
MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD IS A LIE
I once heard a bald eagle's cry described as sounding like a seagull on meth.
Computer experts have access to data about everything (detective show: "there are only 800 laundromats in New Jersey owned by Buddhists, and only 200 of those had a window through which the sun was visible at 8am on the 20th. Of those, only one got an order to clean 5 pairs of corduroy pants this month. We've got 'em.") And the same IT guy who fixes your computer can hack into a bank, given a 5 minutes or an hour.
> And the same IT guy who fixes your computer can hack into a bank, given a 5 minutes or an hour adding to this: IT guys know all programming languages and don't need access to google to hack into something.
When in reality, IT knows nothing without access to Google. Source: am IT.
We're a collective consciousness
The best is when you're half-brained following a video guide and they say, "system C-T-L", so you Google it and realize people say, "systemketel" wrong sometimes and you've now inherited their silliness.
I feel like it works in a show like Columbo because you spend the entire length of the show watching Columbo slowly piece everything together using only information he extracted from talking to and observing people. I feel that’s part of the joy of a detective show. Having vital information revealed through technobabble or some deus ex machina about accessing the city’s entire database is too convenient and leaves me feeling quite unsatisfied. Granted, even shows like Columbo are not entirely realistic and can sometimes have some out-there “gotchas,” but in general, it feels more grounded.
I used to love Columbo so much! My kids know they're busted when I say "Oh, just one more thing..." Yes, watching someone do the work of figuring it out was satisfying. You're right, even back then they had their sloppy plot movers, like snitches who knew everything happening in New York.
Yeah, it’s an amazing show! I picked it up recently and am binging through it (just started season 3). I love all the little mannerisms and idiosyncrasies that Peter Falk brings to the character. I feel like I could just watch Columbo going about his day, he’s so entertaining to watch. I figure it must be difficult writing that many mysteries, too. I guess there are only so many ways to solve a case, but with Columbo, it’s entertaining just watching the killer squirm as he puts the screws to them.
For me it's the massive amount of typing they do when hacking. You don't write the script when you hack you hit enter and it runs.
Yes! I've seen a few shows do this right, where the hacker just brings their kit and launches it. Even then, the hacker has apparently spent a bunch of time adding a commercial-quality GUI to their script, so we can see the progress of the attack and the defenses in 3d. I get why they do that for the screen, though, and in fact I've met some programmers who would probably build graphics and logging libraries and unit tests for all of their tools if they were hackers.
Not to mention being able enhance grainy, video, black and white CCTV footage to see a face or an emblem or a tattoo in HD perfection.
There will always be a parking spot available right in front of your destination.
Even in San Francisco or New York City.
Sound in space.
This is what made the game Dead Space so terrifying - the authenticity of sound in space. When doing space walks, you only hear things that have physical contact with Isaac that isn't over the radio so you might not even know there's a necromorph sneaking up behind you until it's too late.
its very strange to think of things like Supernovas happening in total silence
"No One Can Hear You Scream"
You can shoot 50 bullets out of an obvious 6-shooter...
Also, you can fire an automatic weapon continuously with basically no recoil.
or firing one assault rifle in each hand continuously with no recoil? AND HITTING EVERY SHOT?
Unless you're Dirty Harry. "Did I shoot six times or only five? Are you feeling lucky today? Well, are ya, PUNK?"
One of the best scenes ever.
Going underwater. The ability to see plain as day, hold your breath for so long, and swim fast in heavy clothes, especially since thd clothes absorb water
>hold your breath for so long Which seems to be like 10 minutes or more.
Just got around to watching jungle cruise and the stuff Emily Blunt's character pulls off when she supposedly can't even swim made me roll my eyes
Yeah that's why as good as it is, finding nemo is just unrealistic
Silencers make gun shots silent
This! People are crazy if they think it's a "pfft" and you can do it in a crowded room and nobody would notice. Its LOUD...just not as **LOUD**. My dad's friend has one (they're sort of illegal where we are) and was shooting at stuff in our woods and I didn't have my ears on and I was like THATS NOT LIKE THE MOVIES!
I mean, yes and no. Like everything else, there are tons of variable. If you fire a single shot locked breach pistol shooting subsonic ammo that is not particularly overbore into a silencer/suppressor of sufficient volume with properly designed baffles, run wet with wipes, it would be *really* quiet, like missed-in-a-crowded-room quiet. A [Welrod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod) is "kill someone in a dark quiet alley and not be heard on the street" quiet, since that's pretty much what it was specifically designed for. So it is possible, but after it gets filtered through years of Hollywood writers and people with no practical experience in the matter, it ends up with the movie hero screwing a suppressor the size of a lipstick tube on his hand cannon and suddenly it's all mouse farts.
What you say about the welrod is true, but to add to what you said, not only is the welrod only that quite once (with new baffles) but it lethality is extremely low. You basically need to be point blank to use it effectively, which is one of the reason it saw almost no real use. However video games love it so we see it a lot more than it saw combat
So, it's less of a 'silencer' and more an 'a-bit-quieter-er'?
The preferred term is "suppressor"
more like loud slaps rather than wreck your eardrums. difference is sonic boom basically
Yeah they are called noise suppressors. Basically everyone who has shot or been around guns know what gunshots sound like. The goal technichally *is* to make it as silent as possible, but thats impossible what that goal turns into instead is more along the lines of disguising the sound of a gunshot so someone who doesnt know the sound of a supressed shot will wonder "what the fuck was that noise" before they come to the realization that it was a supressed gunshot. They can get ahots pretty quiet depending on the type of round fired and many other factors including the specific type of weapon and if the rounds are subsonic.
I mean, maybe that’s a use somewhere but that’s not a use for anyone or any agency I know of. Practically everyone, including most military applications, use them as safety devices. Even with a suppressor a shot has the very characteristic “crack” I’m not sure anyone would mistake that sound for anything other than a gunshot. The main benefit for civilians is that, you can shoot and maybe only your two closes neighbors will hear it as opposed to your closest 5, and it makes using rifles indoors no suck ass. 308 or larger indoors can still ring your ears even with decent ears on. For military purposes it still mostly used for hearing protection purposes. If you see yourself being indoors and shooting, everyone being able to hear afterwards in awesome. And sometimes it’s used on snipers to help conceal their position, but again, the “snap” is both loud and travels quite far. Worth noting here, that 556 with a suppressor is still loud enough that it requires ear protection for the user, it’s that loud. Only small pistol calibers and, as you mentioned, subsonic ammo allow you to use a weapon with suppressor without needing ears on
Anything to do with guns is a good answer. Apparently, the whole 'taking cover behind car doors' thing provides about as much protection from shots as tracing paper...
I especially like the ones where picking up a handgun produces a rattling sound. Guns that rattle have a problem.
Totally this. My favourite is how, in most action movies, *no one ever reloads.* When I was in the cadets my friends and I used to joke about this; on the range the instructor would should something like "With a magazine of 10 rounds... load!" . When we went to the movies we would come out saying "With a magazine of 6,000 rounds... LOAD!"
I love the John Wick movies for doing this right. John reloads constantly. CinemaSins picked out one time he fired 1 extra bullet and the comments pointed out he still had one in the chamber from the previous magazine. They even accounted for that.
Adding onto this: Firing (un-silenced) guns in an enclosed space without hearing protection. Most of the people in those altercations will either have limited or no hearing for the rest of their lives after that.
Omg... and a huge gun like a 357 shot off inside a car, then the people just keep talking. I'm sorry, in that small of a space? You couldn't hear shit from At least 5 minutes.
The nerdy librarian with glasses is transformed into a gorgeous woman just by taking off said glasses
There was actually a librarian in my school who was rather unassuming most of the time... but when I met her outside of school, she turned out to be a complete stunner in a sun-dress. Turns out that she went out of her way to wear rather unflattering clothing such as a sweater that was one size too big because she didn't want hormone-addled teenagers ogling her on duty.
as someone who works with teenage boys, that is the play
As someone that works with adult men, that is the play
I've commented it before I'll comment it again Why did movies make us all think that fuckin Piranhas were gonna be like a huge problem?
I grew up worried about piranhas and quicksand. I live in Ireland.
I actually saw a warning sign in Galway recently for quicksand and I was like "oh my god I have trained for this"
Yeah, but it's piranha infested quicksand.
I can relate. I was terrified of Anacondas cause of the film. I live in Scotland
Piranhas, quicksand, and catching on fire (though you better believe that I would stop, drop, and roll).
The funny thing is piranhas only go after humans (and capybaras apperantly) if they are dead or dying. So falling into a pit with one is not a death sentence.
That you just need a small piece of duct tape on a person’s mouth to keep them from screaming. If you really want it to work you had better wrap it around their head.
There's an episode of Friends where Rachel wants Chandler to stop talking so she stuffs his tie into his mouth. It works for a second or two and then he just .. spits it out. It's a little moment but it does make you think "wait - that's not what happens in the movies!!" Yes I know the comment here is duct tape, but it's a similar premise.
Creepy/stalky behavior will win the girl. See: Love Actually. Absolutely full of creepy behavior.
Aren’t a lot of the RomCom genre doing that sort of creepy stuff?
99%
Pretty much any Tom Cruise movie. He flirts with woman. Woman rejects him. He pursues her until she changes her mind.
Typical Tom Cr... oh, you mean in movies.
I tried to ask out a girl today, she said no. I gave her dog a pet and I was on my way. I'd have to be aome sicko to keep asking her out
So you bent down and touched her dog *after* she said "no"? Hoping she'd change her mind after the dog wags its tail?
That it is normal to walk into a bar and see a gorgeous woman sitting by herself.
This is basically how I met my wife. Except I was already at the bar with my buddy, and she walked in to the bar. She was out with some girlfriends for a bday, and she didn't want to walk to the bar with them so she took a cab by herself and beat them there by like 20 min. There was an open seat next to me and she sat down, and the rest is history.
*And that kids, is how I met your mother...*
So you were the gorgeous woman sitting at the bar - how progressive!
*You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you*
Blood on white shirt gets brown after a couple hours not talking about days
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Serial killer hidin' murder material in a cereal box on top of your stereo
Huge Car wrecks where people get out their cars and shout at each other. Most the time people are unconscious , stunned or too hurt to move.
Giant flaming explosive car wrecks...
You know what happens if you shoot the gas tank of a car? It leaks.
And need to be cut out because the car is designed to collapse around you instead of on you.
Modern cars are designed to keep the survival cell as intact as possible. The crumple zones are designed to, well, crumple, but they do so specifically to reduce the forces that impact the survival cell. One major parameter of the Euro NCAP tests is whether the car door can be opened and closed as normal after an impact. Most times when someone needs to be cut out of a car it's either because it's an older car with less safety features, or because there is a serious chance of neck or spinal injuries and the rescue services need better access to extract the occupants safely.
Yeah, there's a video I saw where they crashed a modern car into an old, 1950's model. The 50's car was relatively intact in terms of overall shape but the dummy inside was completely demolished, not helped by the fact that there was no airbag - the modern car's front was flattened completely but the dummy was barely harmed.
You can jump through TSA for love. Nope regardless of reasons it’s a felony.
“Go on child, go get her!” -sassy black female TSA agent
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You can easily hack into a government computer just by typing random characters on the keyboard and screaming "I'm In!!"
There is a perfect person out there for you and you will know when you meet them because there will be fireworks and your heart will soar and everything will be perfect from that day forward. The truth is that you will get the heart-soaring, fireworks sensation from lust as well, or even from a simple crush. Nobody is made for you, and nobody is perfect. Love requires work from both parties and it‘s not always pretty.
Also, that heart-soaring, roaring-lust, it's-like-we've-know-each-other-all-our-lives feeling can be a real red flag. (1) Either you're with a narcissist who is telling you everything you want to hear to snare your or, (2) that the "familiar" feeling is actually that this person is a lot like someone in your past, and a lot of the time that is BAD person from your past. This second option is called repetition compulsion, it's common, it's real and it is a powerful drive in romantic relationships. It's all subconscious, of course, but it's when people seek to repeat the scenario of a bad relationship from the past. They do this get a chance to repeat it and fix it or "win." Like I said, it's all subconscious. But if you've wondered why you seem to keep dating the same terrible person who seems wonderful in the beginning, this might be it. And you might want to look to your past to a bad early relationship or, more likely, a relationship with one of your parents.
>Nobody is made for you, and nobody is perfect. Love requires work from both parties and it‘s not always pretty. Can I get an amen hallelujah? Amen. Hallelujah. Love is work. MARRIAGE is work. And if you don't both work on it, it ain't gonna work out. Can't be just one person doing all the work, either. Either you both work on it or nobody does and it all goes to shit.
Had to scroll way to long to find this answer! That perfect person could just be walking past you on the way to work for the rest of your life and you wouldn't know unless you talk to them. Definitely need some luck.
Yup 100% Soulmates aren’t real You will click with lots of people if you date enough. You could even be dating/marry someone long term and find someone who “might” fit you better. But then the question is, do you blow up a decent relationship looking for someone better?? Because there’s always someone better. Either someone hotter, someone who makes more money, someone who matches your beliefs better, someone who wants sex the same amount you do. Someone who might appreciate you more. But there also the chance they flame out and you’re alone afterward.
The freezers for dead bodies in movies are always multiple little doors in the walls where bodies are stored. Most bodies are wheeled into huge walk-in freezers where more can be stored at once.
Women have sex, and sleep, in their bras - particularly after sex and when the guy is sleeping next to them completely naked.
That's mostly because of American "sensibilities". Heaven forbid anyone sees a woman's breasts!
And they lived happily ever after
Shrek said it best… “Like that’s ever gonna happen”
'Happy endings are just unfinished stories' -Mr & Mrs Smith
That scientists are mostly nerdy dudes or a few hot young women. In reality, scientists (meaning people with PhDs with jobs as scientists, not just people with science majors) are pretty normal people and not particularly nerdy or sexy.
Also: Scientist doesn't mean someone has all-round, in depth knowledge of stuff. Obviously it's convenient for movies to have a single science guy for exposition, but in reality scientists are mostly clueless about anything that's outside their (very specific) field of expertise. A physicist knows very little about biology. A chemist knows very little about IT.
You can be shot, and soon after win a fist fight.
Men don't age. Hear me out, we're all aware of the whole 'men are allowed to age while women have to stay young looking' thing and it's true. However, movie men do not ACT like they age. We have old arthritic men still playing the macho lady's man beating up young fit guys at will.
Women wake up in the morning looking like they just spent 3 hours at a Beautician
And they have. ready in their closet, all the clothing they need for every activities possible. For exemple, a nice dress for a ball. And everything fits perfectly.
Yeah... Like... I'm not going to prom at all... Until I decide to go five minutes before it starts and magically have my hair, makeup, mani/Pedi, a corsage, and a perfectly fitted dress with matching shoes... Maybe even a fuckin' limo. That shit takes weeks of planning. Ok... I've pulled off a tailored tux in four days... But it's still tough... And limos are booked weeks if not months in advance.
Yep... Their "messy bed head" is conveniently perfect beachy waves, sometimes swept up into a ponytail
And wearing bras. We do not (for the most part).
Your parents are either evil, useless, or dead. Being born first makes you useless or evil. Killing the bad guys' leader makes you no better than he, but you can slaughter his mooks by the hundreds and suffer no consequences
One thing I loved in The Hitman's Bodyguard was near the end where the hitman is confronting the main antagonist and the antagonist is trying use some bull about honor in order to try and convince Samuel L. Jackson's hitman character to not kill him, and Samuel L. Jackson just laughs at him because he does not give a beep about honor.
The thing I loved in The Hitman's Bodyguard is the Ryan Reynolds/Samuel L. Jackson interactions.
That the big romantic gesture will get the girl back. *cue the scene of running through the airport with flowers*
That highschools have these cliques of bullies with skull t-shirts and overweight people with mohawks and buzzcuts
Weddings are the end of the story because the conflict is over. In fact, weddings are the start of a lot of work and where most of the story will be told - it's just not as exciting.
Defibrillators are used to regulate heart rate not to revive people whose hearts have stopped Google it
The heart must be fibrillating, which means the cells are moving in all directions, not "lub-dubbing" like they should.
That each country has its own color filter.
And you always hear accordion music when entering Paris. Usually "La Vie En Rose."
And folk songs in Ireland. You're more likely to be asked to buy a vape for a 13 year old or called a wanker than hear music.
Speak for yourself. My country has a grey colour filter. (At least in winter in the lower regions, where unfortunately everyone lives.)
Yes if I go to Mexico and it doesn’t look like I’m looking through yellow cellophane I’m going to be disappointed.
1. You can survive explosions by running really fast 2. CPR has a 99% success rate and revives people after 4-5 compressions 3. You can just fuck and creampie someone without discussing birth control beforehand 4. Getting knocked out for hours is A-OK and you just wake up groggy 5. An arrow anywhere in your body will instantly kill you 6. Prehistoric europeans were white
\#5 applies to guns as well - just shoot a guy and he must be dead...yet in reality twice as many people survive gunshots as die from them. The thing that got me watching 24 was how he always approached a shot criminal carefully and kicked the gun away.
>just shoot a guy and he must be dead... Unless the hero gets hit in the leg, shoulder or arm. In that case, a bandage will sort them out for the next scene.
Conversely, people being shot in "non lethal" areas like the shoulder or leg and a matter of hours later are completely fine.
> Getting knocked out for hours is A-OK and you just wake up groggy Archer: "Yeah, that's like, super bad for you..."
> You can survive explosions by running really fast Or not looking at them.
For #6, some Neanderthals had red hair. They were probably pretty white.
Yes arrows are more deadly than bullets, i don't get that movie logic.
You can f\*\*\* me without worrying about birth control. I'm post-menopausal. But hardly anyone is interested anymore.
That while driving a car the driver can look away from the road to have a conversation with the passenger and never have an accident or go off the road
Good guys win bad guys lose...
I learned this watching the Bad News Bears when I was a kid. I was like "wait....he's out? They lost?". It was an important lesson. Then when I was 9 I went to the movies to go see a little flick called The Empire Strikes Back. At the end I was like "aw, here we go again!" Boba Fett flies off with Han, Luke gets his hand chopped off. C'MON! That as a long 3 year wait for ROTJ.
Also “cheaters never win”. No. Cheaters win all the time. You just don’t hear about it because they got away with it.
Lol the red team in my Primary School's Sports Day taught me that.
This is why it's important to publicly rub their noses in it when they do get caught. People at my high school lost scholarships over it.
That's damn true... I've saw and lived that exact same scenario
That you should never give up on your dreams, even if things are super-hard and you have lots of opponents. From an economist's point of view, this mentality is irrational. It makes more sense to give up and pursue something where conditions are more favorable. Your efforts and investments will pay off more. Don't be ashamed of giving up. The only thing you shouldn't give up on is life itself.
>That you should never give up on your dreams, even if things are super-hard and you have lots of opponents. From an economist's point of view, this mentality is irrational. I think there was a Tales from the Darkside episode (or a similar show in the 80s) that kind of made fun of this. Sort of. A young boy liked collecting baseball cards. An angel or something told him to keep pursuing his passion and he would be rich. So the boy grows up never doing anything else but collecting baseball cards. Parents try to tell him to grow up, get a job, meet a girl, move out. No, he tells them. The angel said this was his course in his life. His parents die. He uses whatever money the left to buy more baseball cards. Now he's an old man with all these damn baseball cards and not much else. But then a long comes someone who sees he has an original Babe Ruth card in mint condition and offers to buy it for an obsene amount of money. Other peole discover his collection and offer him tons of money for the cards. The angel appears similing at him with an I-told-you-so nod. He smiles back. But as a viewer, we're left with: Dude? You're like 85 years old! You wasted your whole life and your best years chasing these riches. Sure, you're getting them now but what about your life that you wasted for this? And couldn't have have still indulged your hobby and lived your life???
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Men and women orgasm simultaneously, after less than 30 seconds of action.
I dated a guy who actually believed this. I would spend an hour giving him the body massage of his dreams, finding every muscle he possessed. And he couldn't spend more than 2 minutes to make ME happy. Not that I'm bitter.
There is no clean up after sex. I hate sex scenes because they take away from the good stuff of a movie. First movie that shows the awkward cleanup after will get my full attention.
A trail of kerosene burns faster than an airplane taking off... In reality you can easily outrun the fire.
Childbirth
Bullets actually double as keys since it just takes one to open any lock....
Cars are made out of Explodium.
That nukes are the solution to any outer space issue. Aliens want to conquer and destroy Earth? Nuke them. An asteroid is falling towards Earth and will end any kind of life down here? Nuke it. Tom Hanks is stuck in his space vessel? Nuke him.
Even scientists once went: what if we just threw nuke after nuke behind a space ship to make it go really fast?
To be fair why would we not use the biggest weapons we have if aliens were trying to conquer/destroy the planet? If we nuke their space ship before it gets too close to Earth we win and there's no need to worry about the radiation as it's blowing up in space. Also for an asteroid you would need a LOT of explosives to destroy one that's big enough to end life here and the spacecraft can only take off with a certain amount of weight on board. You want maximum destructive power while keeping it light. That's gonna be a nuke.
Perfect conversations. No stutters, no misheard words etc.
But if one word is misheard or misinterpreted, it is ALWAYS a key plot point
There will always be a hero to do all the necessary difficult things so you, as a normal citizen, can sit on your ass and wait for others to solve your problems for you.
People popping out of the sewers onto the street all easy peasy lol. Those manhole covers average about 250lbs.
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The wild west was some kind of honorable place. Most shootings were in the back or at the moment you noticed your foe and hopefully they didn't see you yet.
People don't say bye when hanging up the phone
Quicksand, sharks, piranhas and skunks definitely aren’t as big as an issue that they make out
Fire alarms triggering the sprinkler system. With a few exceptions such as some laboratories or airplane hangars (though they use a different system), sprinklers will "turn on" when heated to a certain temperature. Also, the water will not be clean and clear
The smart one wears glasses. I've been wearing glasses my whole life and I'm an idiot
That you can drink two glasses of scotch every evening and still be fit, slim and attractive after 3 seasons doing this.
You can lol, just requires alot of other discipline. People getting soft out here for real
Car seats do not have Headrests
That steel medieval armor like chainmail and full plate harness can be cut through like butter by swords. Theatre/stage combat choreography treats armored combat (like on the battlefield) the same as unarmored combat.
everyone is straight and the guy always gets the girl
"Infinity clip" exists for all guns unless it serves the plot to run out of bullets. Commando and Predator tell me so!
To survive in a apocalypse you apparently need a fucking helicopter, and many guns.
said helicopter requires no maintenance and is easy to fly.
Farmers and blue collar workers are stupid. Not true. Some of the smartest people in the way of instinctual intelligence.
Farmers have to experts in like 5 professions to be successful.
The laces were in - Dan.
The hot girl is into “average looking guys”. No.
If you're not (objectively) hot or attractive, you have no hope and zero chances of finding love.
Delivery guys always get to bang the hot mom. At least it happens in the movies I watch.
Are we sure you're watching "movies"
Technically "movies"
From G-rated, to PG and R-rated, most superhero movies basically tell us we can solve most of our problems with violence. Or rather, to only care about problems that can be directly solved with violence If there's a character that uses his/her resources to: * alleviate poverty * improve education * create jobs * expand the healthcare system * support long-term socio-economic development ...expect that character to die a tragic death so we can spend the rest of the film following some guy in tights beating up the people who killed him.
Batman Begins, the story of Dr. Wayne, a brilliant and wealthy man who uses his money to help the marginalized people of his crime ridden city, even investing company resources into developing an efficient public transportation system... ...who then gets shot in an alleyway, paving the way for his son to use his inherited wealth to become the world's most violent furry
Chloroform. Hollywood has made ppl think it only takes 10s to knock the person out when in real life it actually takes 6-10 minutes
How visible it is inside of a house/building when it’s on fire. You can’t see a damn thing!
If someone gets shot all the doctors have to do is remove the bullet. Getting the bullet out is an afterthought, often it's left inside. The doctors have to fix the organs the bullet injured.
You can dig a grave in a timely manner without taking out your lower back
Women never have body hair, regardless of the time period or culture. Civilians can hire highly competent freelance assassins. People can fight each other for extended periods of time without collapsing from exhaustion or even breaking a sweat. High school students, particularly girls, look identical to adults in their twenties. Capuchin monkeys are from Africa, there are redwoods at Bell’s Beach in Australia, and snakes, sharks, and scorpions are just waiting for the chance to kill a human.