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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 hours ago

The Dark Knight trilogy really wanted to be a realistic, grounded take on the Batman mythos, so they dropped the more fantastical elements of some characters' backstories. Ra's Al Ghul was no longer immortal, Bane didn't have super steroids, the Joker wasn't permanently bleached by chemicals...then there's Two-Face.

I guess they thought acid burns were too unrealistic, so they gave him regular burns...apparently without knowing that burns that severe would be so painful that he wouldn't even be able to remain conscious, much less run around the city on a killing spree. I mean, you can see exposed muscle in some places. There's a line where Gordon says he's rejecting skin grafts, and I remember thinking, "WTF are you talking about? He should be in a medically induced coma, not making healthcare decisions." Half of his body was an open wound; I'm amazed he didn't die of infection 15 minutes after he left the hospital.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

They also bankrupted Bruce through theft.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

That was one of the biggest things that took me out of that movie. They stage this huge operation at the Gotham Stock Exchange or wherever, everybody knows this giant crime is happening there, but woops, looks like Bruce Wayne has been magically bankrupted, there's nothing we can do about it. It just took me out of it thinking, "I don't think you can just bankrupt a billionaire like that."

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

He could also talk normally despite half of his lips being gone.

The Nolan movies always cared more about giving the appearance of realism by making everything dull and monotone than actually being realistic.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago

First time I saw the Jurassic park I thought no way would intelligent people just run around a huge and therefore dangerous Brachiosaurus or jump out of the car and run right to the ill Triceratops. That would be Darwin's award kind of madness.

Then I studied biology, got to know some zoologists and paleontologists, and yeah, this is exactly what would happen.

[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Space Flight.

I walked in on my roommate watching "Don't Look Up" right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.

We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It's not some crazy mystery. This isn't Gravity where they add a window that doesn't exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It's not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.

A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That's the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn't necessary for good story telling.

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

Where in countless mystery/thriller stories bad guys arrange meets in huge open deserted buildings, to be uninterrupted. In the real world, the place will securely locked and gated, or multiple houseless people will have already moved in there.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

We just watched "The Trap" last night. There was a major pop concert that ended in time for family dinner time during daylight. In the concert, they were depicted having time to make multiple trips to the merch tables and concessions, and in one of those trips, they talked like it was an intermission to change the stage set between songs.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 48 points 4 hours ago

When someone’s falling hundreds of feet and when they’re inches from the ground a super hero swoops in from the side to grab them.

Sure, they didn’t hit the ground but not only did you catching them slow down their vertical velocity just as fast as the ground would have, now you’ve accelerated them horizontally so fast that they’re now twice as dead as they would’ve been otherwise

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

My head canon, at least with Superman, is his powers. He doesn't have multiple unrelated powers, but only 1 main one. Instinctive momentum control.

  • Flying - Momentum control

  • Bullet proof - Momentum stopped at the point of contact.

  • Heat beams - Changing the momentum of particles he's focused on.

  • Holding a plane by a thin aluminium sheet - Adjusting the momentum of the plane directly.

  • No sonic booms, or massive wind - momentum nulling on the nearby air.

In this case, catching a falling person safely makes complete sense. He just nullifies their momentum before they hit.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

I guess you could explain it like that, but I'd really prefer it if they just started writing Superman stories with a more realistic depiction of the world around Superman in mind. It would add more drama since, while Superman himself is invulnerable, the rest of the world isn't, so Supes should have to be extremely careful with how he uses his powers if he's actually going to save anyone.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Similarly- when a person is hanging off a building or cliff by one arm, and holding something heavy or another person with the other. It requires an INSANE amount of strength to hold that position, let alone actually haul them back up.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 2 hours ago

Every once in a while, it's subverted. IIRC, that's how Gwen dies in Spiderman comics.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 49 minutes ago

I appreciated The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for that reason. Gwen was falling so fast that when she was caught I honestly thought her neck snapped and I didn’t notice her skull hitting the floor

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

Kingsman

Training scene where they shove a shower hose down a toilet and use it to breathe...

There would be no air (or even sewer gas) to breath in that case. Toilets work by raising the water level in the bowl above the water level in the S-bend/siphon. Since the room was full of water, those toilets would have been flushing constantly, and the whole pipe would be full of water.

Better(ish) solution. Use the body bags that they each had to fill out and place in their trunk/locker to capture an air bubble. That would at least give you some time to attack the door, or figure out how to drain the room.

[-] kholby@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes ago

Maybe the constantly flushing toilet would drain the room.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 22 points 3 hours ago

There’s a scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home where Tom Holland is fighting the Green Goblin. Goblin grabs Spidey, jumps with him, and then they both smash through the 23rd or so floor of the apartment building they’re in and they land on the floor below.

Sure, they’re both super strong but neither of them used their strength to push through the floor. They just jumped and reached no more than like a foot off the floor, implying that gravity pulled them both through the floor. Okay, so the floor was built poorly, but then why did falling 10+ feet from the 23rd floor to the 22nd floor not make them smash through the 22nd floor?

That movie’s a lot of a fun but that scene makes me upset lol

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 15 points 3 hours ago

I think a good common one is explosions that throw people at least 10 feet without killing them. If the shockwave is strong enough to do that, isn’t it strong enough to tenderize and completely disable all of your internal organs as well?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 2 hours ago

Myth Busters did that one. Even attaching big sail to a dummy, the shockwave is so thin that you can't catch much momentum at all.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Plus if it’s military, it’s usually the shrapnel that kills you, not the shockwave. Fuel-air devices are a different story

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