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In action movies, when Russian mobsters in range rovers are chasing the hero, it is impossible to fire about 10 long bursts of oozi fire at a car over a prolonged chase and not hit the hero or rip the car to bits and stop it from working. According to films, machine gun fire, or even pistol bullets, always miss the driver and only shatter windows.
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When villains on a rooftop get shot or pushed off, they always land on a car roof, a car windscreen or, my favourite, impaled on a spiked fence.
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When villains on a rooftop get shot or pushed off, they always land on a car roof, a car windscreen or, my favourite, impaled on a spiked fence.
Captain America was roofdropped twice and manage to live. The moral of the story: be Steve Rogers.
I know, smashing your head on the ground like a watermelon isn't dramatic enough!
Denzel Washington kinda ruined that in Virtuosity.
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Hero tries to operate a flying vessel (plane, starship, pegasus, etc), but can't get control of it and plummets straight to the ground, the last stretch of the fall masked by some overgrowth or what not...
... go ahead, guess what happens next...
... g'head...
... yep, you're a psychic (or you've seen this billions of times), the hero pulls up just in time to fly right toward the camera, usually to the blaring triumph of a fanfare.
I dunno, I guess newborns, birthed right in a theater, need their own cinema too, so this keeps happening.
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Almost every sci fi film- "Shields at 75% Captain! Shields at 30%. Our shields can't take one more hit!"
All that technobabble does nothing to add to the drama.
Almost every sci fi film? Like BLADE RUNNER, THE THING, METROPOLIS, 2001, PLANET OF THE APES, ALIEN, SOYLENT GREEN, HER, E.T., ARRIVAL.. (I could go on, but I guess the point is clear.)
I think this is mostly a STAR TREK trope (not that it does not exist somewhere else).
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On TV nature shows - hyped descriptions like "The crocodile, killer whale, etc., with its Razor Sharp Teeth" - give me a break...
I can confirm that sharks have extremely sharp teeth. I touched some original shark teeth in a museum in South Africa, and I was surprised at how sharp they were. Have not tried to shave with them though. But you should easily be able to do a hair cut with shark teeth. :-)
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All that technobabble does nothing to add to the drama.
ST:TNG did this to point of making it near unwatchable.
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Almost every sci fi film- "Shields at 75% Captain! Shields at 30%. Our shields can't take one more hit!"
All that technobabble does nothing to add to the drama.
Almost every sci fi film? Like BLADE RUNNER, THE THING, METROPOLIS, 2001, PLANET OF THE APES, ALIEN, SOYLENT GREEN, HER, E.T., ARRIVAL.. (I could go on, but I guess the point is clear.)
I think this is mostly a STAR TREK trope (not that it does not exist somewhere else).
Okay, Star Trek and Star Trek like shows who have "capital ships" that are under attack. There's a lot of television series and movies like that. Off of the top of my head Stargate comes to mind, but there are many others.
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