Sometimes you just want to

[RickN]

reach into the TV and slap them.

Watched an end of the world movie called Tooth and Nail. Fair flick but not great. Anyway the main character is finishing off a bunch of drugged cannibals using an assortment of weapons and uses each one or two times before dropping it and picking up something else.

When she gets to a revolver she empties it into the back of one cannibal then drops it. Not one shot to the back of the head and move on to the next. Not save the gun and ammo for threats that are able to attack her instead of laying they in a drugged stupor, but empty and drop it. STUPID!!!!! She ends up using a spiked club to kill the last one and when she leaves she has weapon that I could see. She had a bow and one point but left it laying too instead of retrieving arrows from bodies. Sometimes I wish I could tell the idiots in Hollyweird how to handle this type thing because I see it in a lot of movies.

Remember folks, be Green and recycle. After killing that last zombie or cannibal, clean your axe, sword, machete or whatever and reuse!!!!

 

[dutchwrangler]

Tv...

 

[Cinaet]

I think it's what they call dramatic license. Hollywood dimwits forsake reality in an attempt to provoke an emotional response from the audience. A good example is the love scene in Deliverance between Bobby and the hillbilly. In the movie all you hear is birds chirping and river sounds, when in reality the hillbillies would most likely have soft romantic music playing in the background.

 

[ignerntbend]

I think it's what they call dramatic license. Hollywood dimwits forsake reality in an attempt to provoke an emotional response from the audience. A good example is the love scene in Deliverance between Bobby and the hillbilly. In the movie all you hear is birds chirping and river sounds, when in reality the hillbillies would most likely have soft romantic music playing in the background.

+1
It's like in Independence Day when our heros destroyed the aliens with an Apple computer. Everything in that movie had been plausible till then.

 

[Bubbadreier]

I notice things like this all the time... If they really wanted people to feel like it is a real situation, why not make it as real as possible!

 

[ignerntbend]

Remember in "The Blob" when the Blob was crawling into the theatre via the air conditioning vents?
Everbody knows the Blob couldn't do that.

 

[Hobbes]

I just hate it when they have a scene where someone has a revolver opened up to make sure it is loaded and they just flip their wrist to close the cylinder without touching it.
It makes me just want to reach through the screen and grab it away from the jerk.

The other thing they do that irritates me is unnecessarily pumping a shotgun action.
If you notice in the beginning of the movie Cobra the perp just pumps that shotgun over and over.
And I notice that even tho he just pumped it a few seconds ago and he hasn't fired it yet he pumped it again and no shell was ejected.
Makes me want to yell "Hey Moron, your weapon is unloaded".

I know why they do it though.
It's like the way so many people smoke in the movies.
It looks Kool even if everyone knows it's not that bright.

 

[oklaccer]

+1
It's like in Independence Day when our heros destroyed the aliens with an Apple computer. Everything in that movie had been plausible till then.

Nah. They lost me when they said all the military pilots bailed and went home, leaving only the ragtag group of volunteers. I don't know of any military fighting person that would bail in this situation.

 

[Cinaet]

Okay, I just watched it Rick. That revolver she uses is definitely old school. It looks like a S&W model 13 M&P round butt. There's no way anyone in their right mind would just drop that sweetheart and walk away, especially not knowing if there might be more cannibals out there to deal with in the future.

 

[ignerntbend]

In the universe she comes from, there are guns lying around all over the street.
If not a gun, an Esqimo harpoon. There is, indeed, something deeply unrealistic
about this movie. I've been boycotting it since the day it came out, but I
never knew why until now.