6sally6 wrote:

I'm kinda that way about watching submarine flicks.
Whether I say it out loud or just think it...."That ain't how its done...that is sooo phoney...eye-roll...eye-roll....what made-up cra-/poop...man! that's just stupid."
So I don't watch them (usually)
Yeah....'made-up-drama'...and most folks seem to buy-it (or else nobody would watch them)
I DID like the car series Cut-Chop-and Rebuild though
6sal6

I get that watching any aviation related movies - it is as if the writers know absolutely nothing about aircraft or how they work - which is very true.
 

Ron68 wrote:

6sally6 wrote:

I'm kinda that way about watching submarine flicks.
Whether I say it out loud or just think it...."That ain't how its done...that is sooo phoney...eye-roll...eye-roll....what made-up cra-/poop...man! that's just stupid."
So I don't watch them (usually)
Yeah....'made-up-drama'...and most folks seem to buy-it (or else nobody would watch them)
I DID like the car series Cut-Chop-and Rebuild though
6sal6

I get that watching any aviation related movies - it is as if the writers know absolutely nothing about aircraft or how they work - which is very true.
 

I do this almost any time they do anything with cars, firearms, or martial arts too.  If you shoot someone and they fly back 15 feet you would fly back 15 feet too due to basic physics.  There is also a very specific place where you are guaranteed an instant kill, even with a head shot.  Anyone who's ever hunted would tell you a deer shot through the heart still can run for 100 yards or more.  They don't drop dead instantly.  You could live days after being gut shot, and according to two ER doctors I know they almost never stitch a gunshot wound closed (its a puncture wound and could trap an infection inside leading to sepsis). 

People aren't bags of blood either.  Ever cut yourself and have blood fly everywhere?  Yeah, me neither.  I've even seen guys get cut with saw blades and do serious damage and it still doesn't happen like that. 

If it were as easy as its made out to be in the movies to break someone's neck none of us would have survived childhood. 

And don't get me started on the cars.  The lingo that goes along with it most of the time is flawed somewhere, and the stunts and now the CGI they use is absurd. 

There's actually a whole series of YouTube videos with actual snipers, fighters, etc. who rate how accurate movies are.  The truly realistic ones are few and far between. 
 

I'm a sucker for most car show and enjoyed watching Fast and Loud with Aaron.... I could live without the drama though. That Boss 9 was a great looking car in really good shape. Richard would be money ahead to flip it vs restoration to as new or as raced condition. It did give me some incentive to get mine going as well. 

There's a guy restoring Dodges up north and I watched some of his stuff. Didn't take long for the way his attitude came across for me to stop. He wasn't worth it to see the beautiful cars in a finished state. 

Are classic car prices inflated, probable so. I can't blame it all on Rawlins. Does anyone remember the Autotrader days? There would be advertisers that had Shelby's listed with a sold tag across them and a sale price that seemed high for the time. That was "good" advertising. Let it run for a few months and everyone starts to believe it's real prices. 

I started watching Dennis Collins Coffee Walk. He's buying and selling, but rarely talks dollars on the camera. It's amazing how many of those cars are being liquidated by surviving spouse or kids.