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In thrillers when there's a heavily-pregnant girlfriend in a car chase or on the run, they always have an inopportune moment when their waters break...
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In thrillers when there's a heavily-pregnant girlfriend in a car chase or on the run, they always have an inopportune moment when their waters break...
I don't know, I'd probably shit myself as well! 
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Characters are given a time limit then achieve the impossible with actions that clearly exceed the time limit.
Army of the Dead: 19 minutes to a nuke goes off. an idiot character leaves a las vegas hotel crosses while hiding from zombies to another hotel, searches the hotel and finds what they're looking for then fights their way to the roof in what is about 10 minutes. Can you even get out of a Vegas Hotel in 10 minutes?
The Tomorrow War: 6 minutes to leave the area. That means descending 7 flights of stairs and running what appears to be about 10 blocks, all while frequently stopping to shoot stuff.
It's very stupid and just bad writing in every case.
Agreed. This one probably bothers me more than any other liberties action flicks take with reality. I can buy cars blowing up from one or two perfectly placed bullets and characters leaping from one speeding vehicle to the next and somehow managing to hang on through it all, but to get from point A to point B in a physically impossible amount of time? No way.
The ending of Goldfinger (as much as I love that film) kills me every time for that very reason. When you see 10 seconds left on the countdown and then we cut to Felix and the "bomb squad" entering the vault from the third level up? It's like, welp, shucks, they're all dead. Maybe if they'd gotten there a couple minutes sooner. But somehow they manage to fly down those stairs in about two seconds and magically appear beside James to flick the switch. I don't know if any of them could have gotten there in time if Oddjob had "Kisched" them over the railing.
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The massive punishment that the lead actors bodies can suffer & just brush off in action films. I saw the latest Mission Impossible film, & at the end of a (long!) car chase, Tom Cruise crashes into the side of a car, get thrown through the windshield, flies through the air for about 20 feet & crashes onto the ground. He can hardly get up (I should think so, massive internal injuries & most of his bones broken...but that's in the real world), he painfully gets to his feet & hobbles down the road & escapes to a boat...where he's perfectly okay.
Yeah, this is really tiring, and it's in SO many movies. It's applied cartoon physics to live action characters in action movies. Those things would be more gripping if the physical world the characters inhabit resembles reality a bit more.
I remember the shootout in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was so jolting precisely because it was done very realistically, none of the characters did anything that wasn't believable and that real people couldn't have done, so every bullet was scary.
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Jul 22, 2021 - 12:43 PM
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jackfu
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What Mr. Jack said, also the guy who takes the hero thru the temple, cave, etc., with all the treasures always seems to either:
#1. Take a bullet, arrow, poison dart, etc., for the hero, suffering a miserable death with no reward. Or...
#2. Betray and try to steal the treasure from the hero, which inevitably circles back to #!.
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