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.