Stupid movie cliches and impossibilities - Page 12

**Ghaleon** · March 10th, 2010, 07:35 PM

Why does every window in Paris have a view of the Eiffel Tower ?

Oh, here's one more for you nerf-herder from DH2.
You can't light jet fuel and expect it to follow a precise trail right up to the wing tank and have it explode into a huge fireball and then have other planes use it as a landing guide.

**DTravel** · March 10th, 2010, 10:58 PM

I've got a reverse impossibility for you guys. This is a case where the movies and TV actually underestimate real world capabilities. In all those police procedurals where they are trying to track where a cell phone call is or was made from they show scenes of "Oh, it bounced off this tower so it must be somewhere within X miles of this neighborhood" they are underplaying reality. In the US, under something called E911 Phase II, cell phone service providers are required to be able to pinpoint the location of a caller to within about 100 feet and pass that location on to 911 (like the unblockable caller ID info) when a 911 call is made.

FlyStrat · March 11th, 2010, 03:15 AM

Bad guys have beard and smoke nowadays.

**-Lucifer-** · March 11th, 2010, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

Silencers on revolvers,you can't silence a revolver because of the gap between the cylinder and the barrel.

It's actually posible.
Watch this video

Silenced 1895 Nagant revolver (NFA)

**henryf** · March 11th, 2010, 04:27 PM

Never saw the original, but my VHS of the movie has a whole chunk of the the arena scene back to front - i.e. all of a sudden everyone is left-handed. Not that that is abad thing in itself. After all, only left-handed people are in their right minds!

**Mal Hombre** · March 11th, 2010, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Lucifer-

It's actually posible.
Watch this video

Silenced 1895 Nagant revolver (NFA)

Only with the Nagant,because the bullet is fully encased in the cartridge and the cylinder moves forward to engage with the barrel on cocking a unique arrangement as far as I know.

**scoundrel** · March 11th, 2010, 07:01 PM

Someone mentioned the film Gladiator. I like this film actually. But it deserves to be mentioned here in recognition of the sequence where Russell Crowe rides home to find that Joaquim Phoenix has had his wife and children murdered. One minute Russell is in Central Europe fighting a war under menacing skies in brooding Teutonic forests, next minute he survives an attempt on his own life in which he is severely stabbed, claret all over the place, then we next see him somewhere in sun bleached Tuscany, riding to the ruins of his family's villa, still leaking claret like its going out of fashion. I pass out if I look while I'm giving blood, and one unit is as nothing compared with the blood flowing steadily out of Russell. Even if he is coming back from the Danube and not the Rhine, he couldn't reach Tuscany on horseback in less than a week, imitating a mobile fountain all the way.

It doesn't seem very likely...

**henryf** · March 11th, 2010, 07:12 PM

I seem to recall that when Robin landed at Dover, he said to his companoin (played by Morgan Freeman) that "this night" he will be at home in Nottingham. That must be one hell of a run. It's over two hundred and twenty miles.

**squigg58** · March 11th, 2010, 08:49 PM

The one that is guaranteed to irritate the hell out of my girlfriend is when the heroine is grappling with the bad guy but never thinks to knee him in the balls. It's even got to the point where I now find myself yelling "The bollocks, you idiot! Knee him in the bollocks!"

**Tmee2020** · March 11th, 2010, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by henryf

I seem to recall that when Robin landed at Dover, he said to his companoin (played by Morgan Freeman) that "this night" he will be at home in Nottingham. That must be one hell of a run. It's over two hundred and twenty miles.

Wouldn't it be something like: M20-M25-M1?

March 10th, 2010, 07:35 PM	#111
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March 10th, 2010, 10:58 PM	#112
DTravel Lean Mean Screencap Machine Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Better you don't know. Posts: 23,886 Thanks: 10,484 Thanked 207,720 Times in 23,791 Posts	I've got a reverse impossibility for you guys. This is a case where the movies and TV actually underestimate real world capabilities. In all those police procedurals where they are trying to track where a cell phone call is or was made from they show scenes of "Oh, it bounced off this tower so it must be somewhere within X miles of this neighborhood" they are underplaying reality. In the US, under something called E911 Phase II, cell phone service providers are required to be able to pinpoint the location of a caller to within about 100 feet and pass that location on to 911 (like the unblockable caller ID info) when a 911 call is made. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I rage and weep for my country. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I can reup screencaps, other material might have been lost.

March 11th, 2010, 04:27 PM	#115
henryf Vintage Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Great Britain Posts: 966 Thanks: 3,105 Thanked 20,144 Times in 941 Posts	Gladiator Never saw the original, but my VHS of the movie has a whole chunk of the the arena scene back to front - i.e. all of a sudden everyone is left-handed. Not that that is abad thing in itself. After all, only left-handed people are in their right minds!

March 11th, 2010, 07:01 PM	#117
scoundrel Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: England Posts: 26,265 Thanks: 162,477 Thanked 278,809 Times in 26,210 Posts	Someone mentioned the film Gladiator. I like this film actually. But it deserves to be mentioned here in recognition of the sequence where Russell Crowe rides home to find that Joaquim Phoenix has had his wife and children murdered. One minute Russell is in Central Europe fighting a war under menacing skies in brooding Teutonic forests, next minute he survives an attempt on his own life in which he is severely stabbed, claret all over the place, then we next see him somewhere in sun bleached Tuscany, riding to the ruins of his family's villa, still leaking claret like its going out of fashion. I pass out if I look while I'm giving blood, and one unit is as nothing compared with the blood flowing steadily out of Russell. Even if he is coming back from the Danube and not the Rhine, he couldn't reach Tuscany on horseback in less than a week, imitating a mobile fountain all the way. It doesn't seem very likely... __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

March 11th, 2010, 07:12 PM	#118
henryf Vintage Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Great Britain Posts: 966 Thanks: 3,105 Thanked 20,144 Times in 941 Posts	Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves I seem to recall that when Robin landed at Dover, he said to his companoin (played by Morgan Freeman) that "this night" he will be at home in Nottingham. That must be one hell of a run. It's over two hundred and twenty miles.

March 11th, 2010, 03:15 AM	#113
FlyStrat Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 219 Thanks: 500 Thanked 1,601 Times in 195 Posts	Bad guys have beard and smoke nowadays.

March 11th, 2010, 08:49 PM	#119
squigg58 Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: My own little world Posts: 2,476 Thanks: 14,113 Thanked 25,970 Times in 2,473 Posts	The one that is guaranteed to irritate the hell out of my girlfriend is when the heroine is grappling with the bad guy but never thinks to knee him in the balls. It's even got to the point where I now find myself yelling "The bollocks, you idiot! Knee him in the bollocks!"