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EFH
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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 Posted - 12/11/2007 : 7:19:44 PM
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Silenced Revolvers
I remember seeing that more in the 80s, but it always cracked me up when they try to do it.
Atomic Bomb Gas Tank
Bullets are very unlikely to cause the gas in a tank to catch on fire short of a incendiary round. Even that will just lite it on fire. |
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
322 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2007 : 8:30:38 PM
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When people strike it rich by finding gold, only to be told it is iron pyrite later on.
Therefore, the Brady Bunch or whoever has to give up their dreams of being rich and realize that life is pretty good as it is without all that unseemly greed.
Sticks of dynamite. Still a staple in movies from time to time, even though I believe no explosives manufacturer has made dynamite in the classic compressed cardboard tube shape beloved by Hollywood for quite some time. Even by WWII, combat engineers were using TNT that looked like common 24 volt batteries in shape.
It is because of this image of dynamite in it's classic Hollywood form that kooks like that guy in New Hampshire can tie on a bunch of road flares, walk into a campaign office, and convince everyone he has dynamite. It would take a cool, knowledgeable hand to look up from your desk at the "bomber" and comment, "Hey, nice collection of road flares you got there. Now how 'bout you take your silly a$$ out of here?" |
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 12:38:57 AM
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My favorite prop cliche will always be the giant plane of glass that two guys just happen to be carrying across the street right as a speeding car is heading their way.
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 01:48:57 AM
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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier
Ah, but you may be overlooking the "John Wayne Special Dispensation Clause". There is a "rule" in the Cowboy Action Shooting world that any movie starring Wayne is automatically forgiven if the guns he uses do not match the period in which the movie is set. Therefore, if Wayne is in a Civil War era movie and he brandishes an 1873 Colt, the anachronism is null and void due to the presence of Wayne.
I swear I'm not making that up.
Firearms are something Hollywood routinely gets wrong or takes liberties with.
I watched an episode of Supernatural a few weeks ago where a villain was shooting a revolver at the two heroes of the series. With each shot from the revolver the director added in the tinkling noise of ejected brass cases striking the pavement. Only problem is that revolvers don't automatically eject spent cases after each shot. I guess he just liked the way empty cases sound when they hit the ground.
Nobody ever seems to go into a potentially dangerous situation with their firearms chambered. This calls for much ratcheting of slides and charging handles in a most macho fashion when it would've been far more prudent to anticipate trouble long before that point. This blunder is without fail committed by professional contract killers, government agents, and allegedly trained military personnel. Indeed, the sound effects of charging handles and slides being racked is often added in even when nobody in the shot actually IS performing that function with their firearm.
I'll add to your firearms cliches with the "Tracking Pistol-Rifle". This is the standard-issue movie pistol that allows movie heroes and villians to shoot their quarry, while both are moving and at great distances from each other, with amazing accuracy. These pistols are normally short-barrelled revolvers or auto's, and can be used effectively without even aligning the sights.
For those that aren't that familiar with pistols:
I have a hunting pistol - a Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum with a 7 1/4" barrel - and I'm quite proficient with it. Without a scope and firing from a seated & supported position, I can put all six rounds within 2" of each other at 75 ft. With a snub-nosed .38, you're lucky to put all six rounds in a 6" circle at 30 ft. Yet put that same pistol in a movie, and it suddenly has sniper-like accuracy.
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throughthelookingglass
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
47 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 02:17:01 AM
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| Whenever the hero is knocked down by the Bad Guy, who then leaves, and the heroine is on the set, she is mandated under California law to rush over and hug him. |
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throughthelookingglass
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
47 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 04:16:15 AM
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| Another one. In any "good kid vs. evil adult" movie (Home Alone types), the evil adult will always be either kicked, hit with a blunt object, or be hit by a projectile in the nuts. |
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AnnGora
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
252 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 07:52:56 AM
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A cardinal rule for all film detectives is that they can stake out a criminal's hideout by parking their land barge directly across the street from it and never be noticed. The said criminal can come out of the house and never see the two cops wearing dark glasses just sitting on the side of the road watching the hideout intently.
Rule within the rule: the cop riding shotgun on the stake out is always eating a hot dog.
She was bred in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb up here. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 3:20:05 PM
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
322 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 3:53:58 PM
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Whenever Vice squad or undercover agents encounter a bag of white powder, they take a small portion of it and place it on the tip of their tongue.
Real cops will tell you they NEVER do that. Not even undercover ones. For the simple fact that you have no way of knowing what it really is. Could be powderized LSD. Or cyanide. Or rat poison. Alum.
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 4:10:56 PM
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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier
Whenever Vice squad or undercover agents encounter a bag of white powder, they take a small portion of it and place it on the tip of their tongue.
Real cops will tell you they NEVER do that. Not even undercover ones. For the simple fact that you have no way of knowing what it really is. Could be powderized LSD. Or cyanide. Or rat poison. Alum.
Don't forget how they always seem to have a knife handy to stab the bricks of cocaine, heroin, etc.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 5:11:20 PM
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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier
Sticks of dynamite. Still a staple in movies from time to time, even though I believe no explosives manufacturer has made dynamite in the classic compressed cardboard tube shape beloved by Hollywood for quite some time. Even by WWII, combat engineers were using TNT that looked like common 24 volt batteries in shape.
Dynamite really doews look like it does in movies and TV EXCEPT that the fuses are NEVER stick inside the sticks as if it were firecrackers. The fuses and the all-important 'blasting caps' (detonators) are stored and shipped seperatly for safty.
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Originally posted by Gristle McThornbody
I'll add to your firearms cliches with the "Tracking Pistol-Rifle". This is the standard-issue movie pistol that allows movie heroes and villians to shoot their quarry, while both are moving and at great distances from each other, with amazing accuracy. These pistols are normally short-barrelled revolvers or auto's, and can be used effectively without even aligning the sights.
I forget the movie, (It had James Conn in it) but in one scene, John Wayne is shot at from 75 yards or so and he fires off a shot in a hurry. when he gets to the cowboy who shot at him, The Duke finds that the bullet from his 4.5 inch .44 revolver had connected! He looks at the gun as if thinking "I hit him with this?".
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 5:33:20 PM
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 7:15:56 PM
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Originally posted by Gristle McThornbody
I'll add to your firearms cliches with the "Tracking Pistol-Rifle". This is the standard-issue movie pistol that allows movie heroes and villians to shoot their quarry, while both are moving and at great distances from each other, with amazing accuracy. These pistols are normally short-barrelled revolvers or auto's, and can be used effectively without even aligning the sights.
For those that aren't that familiar with pistols:
I have a hunting pistol - a Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum with a 7 1/4" barrel - and I'm quite proficient with it. Without a scope and firing from a seated & supported position, I can put all six rounds within 2" of each other at 75 ft. With a snub-nosed .38, you're lucky to put all six rounds in a 6" circle at 30 ft. Yet put that same pistol in a movie, and it suddenly has sniper-like accuracy.
Given your objections, you must have been as pleased as punch over the opening to Dances With Wolves: five hundred Confederate soldiers firing at a moving target on horseback and not one of them could hit the broad side of a barn. |
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2007 : 9:13:43 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
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Originally posted by Gristle McThornbody
I'll add to your firearms cliches with the "Tracking Pistol-Rifle". This is the standard-issue movie pistol that allows movie heroes and villians to shoot their quarry, while both are moving and at great distances from each other, with amazing accuracy. These pistols are normally short-barrelled revolvers or auto's, and can be used effectively without even aligning the sights.
For those that aren't that familiar with pistols:
I have a hunting pistol - a Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum with a 7 1/4" barrel - and I'm quite proficient with it. Without a scope and firing from a seated & supported position, I can put all six rounds within 2" of each other at 75 ft. With a snub-nosed .38, you're lucky to put all six rounds in a 6" circle at 30 ft. Yet put that same pistol in a movie, and it suddenly has sniper-like accuracy.
Given your objections, you must have been as pleased as punch over the opening to Dances With Wolves: five hundred Confederate soldiers firing at a moving target on horseback and not one of them could hit the broad side of a barn.
Okay, I'll come out and say it - I've never seen Dances With Wolves. I've always thought that unless he was in a sports movie, Kevin Constner couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, so I skipped it.
Back OT, and piling on Citizen Carrier's "vice cop" post, one of those vice cops will have an earring and an unkempt beard, and his partner will be wearing a bandana and a leather vest. Because, as everyone knows, that's what all pairs of criminals look like.
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2007 : 10:42:29 PM
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Another prop thing I just thought of are the scenes were characters are picking locks.
In the lock pick trade, you need two things. A rake and a tension wrench. One keeps pressure on the lock to jam the pins. The other manipulates the pins in to the place the key would hold them at.
In movies, the characters usually forgo the tension wrench. They just pull out a rake, shove it in to the lock and it opens in a few seconds. In reality, the rake or the pins would probably break. Jamming the lock permanently.
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Edited by - Capt. Nemo on 12/14/2007 9:32:50 PM |
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