Things I Learned at the Movies

Being knocked though glass is not also very easy, it won't leave you looking like you were attacked by an anthromorphic cheesegrater.

Depends on how you go through it. There is a technique. You just probably won't have the presence of mind to call on your stuntman training when you're being shot/punched/shoved.

And you probably won't be being knocked through safety glass/sugar glass at the time either.

Ooh, back to the topic of kids dying in movies, does Watchmen count? We don't actually see the little girl die, but we see dogs gnawing on her leg bone. Freddy's Dead had a little girl cowering in terror from a pre-dead Freddy, but we don't actually see what he does to her. (And fangirls think he'd be a good boyfriend why?)

If we're going on about what we learnt at the movies, I learnt that any food you buy in the cinema costs about five times as much as it would to buy it outside.

Montana is the deep south, just with snow instead of swamps. If you've got an anarchist nutjob on your hands, odds are he has a cabin out by Libby.

Cars always explode in accidents.

Sasuke's Wife wrote:

Cars always explode in accidents.

Or whenever the building they are parked in front of, catches fire.

Sheba wrote:

Sasuke's Wife wrote:

Cars always explode in accidents.

Or whenever the building they are parked in front of, catches fire.

Or in a collision.

You've got about thirty seconds to get out though.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Sheba wrote:

Sasuke's Wife wrote:

Cars always explode in accidents.

Or whenever the building they are parked in front of, catches fire.

Or in a collision.

You've got about thirty seconds to get out though.

Unless you're a villain or a loved one of the hero. Then you're fucked.

Groups of people from countries where English is not the first language will always speak English when they're alone. They'll usually slip in a accent, though.

SokMunkie wrote:

Groups of people from countries where English is not the first language will always speak English when they're alone. They'll usually slip in a accent, though.

Actually, all people who come from anywhere but the US, Certain parts of Canada, and the UK know how to speak English perfectly. They just pretending they don't to piss you off.

Anyone who's been left on the side of the road will be splashed with water and/or mud from a passing vehicle.

(Necroposts thread)
OK, last night I saw a movie that actually had a background character (no name, not a central character) catch on fire and used "stop, drop and roll" to put it out. The irony of it is the movie was Idiocracy, a movie about a future where everyone is painfully stupid. These are people who can't add one plus one but can "stop, drop and roll".

Given that most people are taught that in pre-school...

While we're necroposting:

Dick Powers wrote:

Cars always explode in accidents.

In fact, cars falling off cliffs can explode in mid-air, presumably to save time over waiting for the actual impact.

People are never hurt by untrained rescuers dragging them and their broken neck/back out of a wrecked car. Those short boards paramedics use for extrications? Just for lulz. (if you're male and you've ever been shortboarded, you'll wince right about now)

CPR always works.

Wandering Critic wrote:

While we're necroposting:

Dick Powers wrote:

Cars always explode in accidents.

In fact, cars falling off cliffs can explode in mid-air, presumably to save time over waiting for the actual impact.

People are never hurt by untrained rescuers dragging them and their broken neck/back out of a wrecked car. Those short boards paramedics use for extrications? Just for lulz. (if you're male and you've ever been shortboarded, you'll wince right about now)

You're going to have to explain short boarding to me. I have been strapped to a gurney by paramedics once (fainted in a grocery store) but I don't know what the short board is.
Oh, and Penguin, didn't you know? CPR stands for "Clean, pretty reliable". [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

In any given Samuri movie, or any film involving martial arts, the villains will always politely attack the hero one at a time so he can dazzle the audience with his Ninja skill. They never just mob him and beat the shit out of him like they'd do in real life.

If you're running away from something, your car or bike will never manage to start up until you can see them. You never get a head start.

Also, guns jam right on the last and most crucial shot.

And on a related notion: There is only one kind of notable insanity, namely the kind where you scream out random nonsense sentences and/or are convinced you're being attacked by small, vut vicious animals.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Also, guns jam right on the last and most crucial shot.

But anyone who's every played a tabletop RPG knows this is true. Critical failure dice rolls suck.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Also, guns jam right on the last and most crucial shot.

Nobody knows how to clear a jam either.

So the villain finally has the hero cornered, and there's nothing to prevent him from shooting him on the spot. Except for his need to spend at least 15 minutes gloating over how he's finally triumphed, during which time the hero will figure out a way to escape. Originally a staple of James Bond films, this has now spread to any action movie involving a stalwart hero and an evil, egotistical villain.

Well-known enough that Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times actually coined a term for it: The Fallacy of the Talking Killer. In real life, if someone's going to kill you, he or she is unlikely to waste time bothering to explain to you WHY they're doing so. They'll just shoot you and be done with it.