where's the problem...just excellent stuntmans lol

Essentially, they can fall from anywhere and just pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and start all over again.

Remember the Indiana Jones movie where they rode a life raft out of a crashing plane?

Hazel

My personal favorite is when the hero runs along the top of a boxcar without falling off or getting creamed by a tunnel.

That's a good one!

If there is no actual wind, and the train's traveling at fifty miles an hour, whoever's running on top of it is either running against a fifty mile per hour head wind, or has a fifty mile per hour wind at his back. And if there's an actual wind, you can add its velocity to -- or subtract it from -- the wind caused by the speed of the train.

If the wind is coming from either side, then the component cross wind -- combined with the buffeting turbulence of it hitting the side of the train -- would make it almost impossible to even stand upright, much less run.

And if you're running with the wind at your back -- even without any natural wind -- you'd be bounding along like a Gazelle.

Then, when they jump off a train doing 50 mph, they just roll over a few times and get up. In real life I think you'd be looking at major trauma.

Of course, that depends on what you land on, but I imagine that jumping from a moving vehicle at a height of twelve feet or more -- even if you land on soft ground -- you'd at the very least get some serious sprains. And if you hit, or rolled onto a rock, bush, gravel or cactus . . .

YIKES!

Ken V.

Or how about everyone lacking the grime of having been outside for any extended period of time.

Another good one Scott.

The only movies I recall that got that one right are The Lord Of The Rings series.

Ken V.

It seems to me that gravity is essentially meaningless to movie makers.

You're right, but that could be extended to reality -- and physics -- in general.

People spring from one rooftop to another with aplomb regardless of the space between the buildings.

Ridiculous isn't it? But if movie makers were to be true to the real world, thrillers wouldn't be very thrilling.

They can fall from high cliffs into water and not feel the impact

And when they crawl out, onto the side of the river, they're still wearing their clothes. The plunge into the water didn't rip their clothes off.

Imagine Hawkeye crawling out of the river without his breech cloth. (Then again . . . don't.)

(forget about underwater debris as someone mentioned previously).

Actually, most waterfalls are the result of a hard layer of rock over a softer layer. The softer under layer erodes fairly easily leaving a deep pool at the foot of the falls. (And quite often caves as well, as was shown in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.)

Essentially, they can fall from anywhere and just pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and start all over again.

Pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off,
And start all over again.

Sounds like a song lyric.

Ken V.

If there is no actual wind, and the train's traveling at fifty miles an hour, whoever's running on top of it is either running against a fifty mile per hour head wind, or has a fifty mile per hour wind at his back. And if there's an actual wind, you can add its velocity to -- or subtract it from -- the wind caused by the speed of the train.

If the wind is coming from either side, then the component cross wind -- combined with the buffeting turbulence of it hitting the side of the train -- would make it almost impossible to even stand upright, much less run.

And if you're running with the wind at your back -- even without any natural wind -- you'd be bounding along like a Gazelle.Ken V.

Maybe they're wearing special anti-gravity suits?

Hazel

Imagine Hawkeye crawling out of the river without his breech cloth. (Then again . . . don't.) Ken V.

Something tells me its already been imagined ad nauseum. :eek:

Something tells me its already been imagined ad nauseum. :eek:

That's another of my pet peeves: actors and actresses should be forced to keep their clothes on until they learn to act. Tom Cruise, Micheal Douglas should have their clothes stapled on.

Hazel

The best movie I've ever seen that completely pokes fun at most of these cliches is The Last Action Hero starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. You gotta see it if you haven't yet - or see it again if you have. It's a fun movie and I think it's really cool that Arnold made this movie, sort of a "kids-don't try this at home!" moral to it.

That's another of my pet peeves: actors and actresses should be forced to keep their clothes on until they learn to act. Tom Cruise, Micheal Douglas should have their clothes stapled on.

Hazel

Oh that too funny! ROTFLMAO!!!!