Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    People drinking in situations where nobody would be drinking.

    And, obviously, running faster than explosions.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      A lot of explosions in movies are, as I understand it, gasoline explosions (which produce a deflagration). Those are impressive and very visible and orangy and don’t actually create all that much pressure, so damage from the pressure wave or shrapnel isn’t so much a thing. You can do the stoic walk out of an explosion thing.

      I think that the video of the Beirut explosion, which is large and filmed from a distance, so you can see the shockwave traveling over time, drives home how there is a lot of force going on in the air.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNDhIGR-83w