10 Things That Action Movies Get Wrong
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Forty-Seven seems like a very specific number of channels to be running, and I'm pretty sure it's wrong, Simon.
So the question then becomes, what did the number 47 do to you, to traumatize you so much?
:D
I always love it when someone gets side kicked and go flying into walls, or furniture, shelves any odd sorta thing that makes it more exciting as it breaks apart.
I don't care how "trained" they are, there's no training that is going to make your bones more durable, or stop the wind being knocked out of them. Those ribs are gonna crack ... end up with a flail chest, which is extremely difficult to breath with a flail chest
@@nomdeplume7537 True . Professional ' wrasslers ' use prop furniture pieces weakened at stress points , and still suffer injury if the stunt goes wrong . Many people are killed by pieces of furniture used as improvised weapons .
@@victorwaddell6530
It's physiologically impossible to have that much kinetic energy going through a body, and not be injured severely, and able to pop right back up for more
The deadliness of a movie gunshot is entirely dependent on a condition known as plot convenience.
Sometimes too much “plot armor” removes any concern/consequence that our protagonist is actually in any danger, thus makes every engagement completely predictable. (Cough Marvel)
If they’re getting resurrected or deus ex machina’d 2-3 times per story, it’s not much of a hero’s sacrifice.
Yes, partially because if the plot doesn't want the character to get shot then they won't
Is it too soon for a baldwin joke? 🤣
You mean like everything else in a movie?
BAWHAHA!!! 😂
In action movies, cars will explode when they hit a larger than usual pothole. And yet, the doors are strong enough to shield you from machine gun fire.
Most of those are sub machine guns
I expexted for Simon to say "unless you driving a pinto"
@@jakealter5504 Doesn't matter, a regular car door won't stop any kind of bullet.
And they always open. I know from experience that it’s insanely easy to jam up a car door. Almost any fender bender and that door won’t open ever again.
If cars exploded in potholes, the whole UK would look like downtown Baghdad
My personal fav is when the gunshot victim is lifted off his feet and goes flying through the air. Can't believe they still do that one.
... in a 'No Reflex Shot' ... they drop like a 'Sack of Sh!t' ... 'End of Story' ... just saying ...
Yes, ever tried shooting a sandbag? Does it go flying into the air and backwards? No not really. Anyway a person is pretty much the same deal as a sandbag, but squishier ;-)
Yeah unless it's a campy over the top movie they really shouldn't be doing that anymore
It's baddass for film though.
Yes, if a firearm hit hard enough to knock a person flying thru the air it would do the same to the person firing it.
There are two kinds of movie bullet wounds. The one you mentioned and the leg wound that the hero, or villain, can quite literally walk off. I know someone who got shot in the thigh. She didn't walk anywhere, much less run carrying another person.
Cars don't blow up easily. The Ford Pinto: "Hold my beer."
Having thrown hand grenades in the marines, you'd have to really hate your teeth to try pulling the pin with them. Also movies add a lot of flame to the blasts, in sunlight all you see is dirt and smoke, and they aren't very impressive visually or audibly, it's the small pieces of metal shrapnel that are the core of a grenade's purpose.
I had a hard enough time pulling the pin with my hands.
I had a hard enough time pulling the pin with my hands
I was in the US Navy . In the fleet we weren't issued frag grenades . We had M79 40mm tube launched grenades and flashbangs . You wouldn't want your head to be under the surface of the water when a flashbang detonated within a few meters of you .
I had a mate who pulled the pin from a grenade only to find that the need to throw it was over. Unfortunately he had thrown the pin away and couldn't find it. With no safe place to throw it he spent the next 20 minutes walking around holding the handle down while someone found something to safely put in it. Only took a day for a cartoon to appear of him throwing the pin with the grenade in his mouth.
How about BODY ARMOR. Movies act like it reflects bullets regardless of caliber, rather than potentially having all your ribs broken and internal bleeding. And if you're wearing it, bullets ONLY hit the body armor on chest (minus a superficial graze of the shoulder so we know our hero bleeds!)
Stargate SG-1 has a nice aversion to this in one episode. (Colonel O'Neill gets shot twice, one of which is in the shoulder - and suggests them adding sleeves to the bullet proof vests.)
I always love the way supposedly experienced snipers stick the muzzle of a rifle out a door or window thus exposing their position.
The popular movie myth/misconception regarding landmines is that you can prevent them from detonating by standing on them indefinitely. In reality, stepping on landmines will trigger a short fuse so maintaining pressure on the unit wont save you.
Indeed, the best thing to do if you know you stepped on a landmine is just fall down in place ... if you fall quick enough you might save your buddies. (Chance of your survival is very low.)
depending on which type of landmine it is... you know there is more than 1 type of bomb right? some explode when pressure is lifted off of them.
People dont also know the many types there are. Most associate them as pressure, and dont know that others can be air dropped.
I unknowingly walked through an active minefield with the company I was supporting in Afghanistan because our guide didnt tell us about it. But the Russians had air dropped mines and bombs to that spot decades before we set up camp...
The most hilarious scene with a mine I’ve seen is one where the hero’s friend stepped on a mine, but he backed off fast enough for the bomb to pop upwards, and the hero HITS IT WITH A BAT like a baseball, and the bomb flew in the direction of the enemies and kill them….
@@Tripskiii A person can step on an anti vehicle mine and never know it . AV mine fuzes can be set to explode under the weight of a truck or set for the weight of a tank . I'm a US Navy veteran . Anti ship mines are a real thing , and can be set to detonate for different types of ships . There are contact mines , acoustic mines , and magnetic mines . PS . My 89 year old grandpa was sitting in the den watching reruns of Nash Bridges when I commented . He drove supply trucks for the US Army during the Korean War . I asked him about mines , and he said that on one convoy his truck barely.missed a mine and he witnessed the truck behind him explode .
When I was in basic training there was a guy who thought it would be fun to try the pulling the pin with your teeth thing. He lost 2 teeth & then got thrown to the ground for improper range behavior. (the only time a DS can actually touch you). Also this was on the practice range so there was no explosive filler just the primer.
@@jfoster1...Are you a Dummie?
When did you go to basic? I went in 2011 and the DS hit trainees lol. I joined as infantry, so maybe that makes a difference...
Do the drill sergeants yell and swear like R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket?
@@dannydaw59 when I was in? Yes. Do they now? I have no idea. They still yell but I've heard that cant swear or call you names anymore. But thats for the army. I dont know about other branches
Simon's plan is to have enough channels to BE the 900 channel cable package on his own.
Meanwhile, several years ago when I was in grad school, some of my Korean friends genuinely were TERRIFIED of going to Detroit (we were in Michigan) due to fears of instant death from gun shot wounds. Took me a long time to allay their fears that 1.) the whole city wasn't 8-Mile and 2.) Gun Shots aren't instant death. EVEN HEAD SHOTS aren't always instant death. Often, people who get shot don't even notice it till someone points it out to them. And that's usually because there's a lot of adrenaline pumping when there're guns firing some some reactions are delayed... but people don't fall over dead the second someone points it out. But their only experience with guns in any capacity was from movies. So they thought Americans were always carrying guns and having gun fights and that 1 shot was instant death no matter where it hit and you had to have super-human fortitude to survive one.
Also, on fist fights, to Further what Simon is saying... Also a lot of broken bones in the hands. Even professional fighters break bones in their hands A LOT. Hands were not made to be weapons, and whole things can be done to minimize damage in the way you perform attacks with Martial Arts... Doesn't stop damage entirely. That's why pro-fighters tape their hands. The pressure from the tape helps keep the bones in place for when a bone is broken. The bones are just very thing and fragile, and a direct collision puts too much force on them. Fist fights are very risky even if you win.
Get them on the rust set
For the being shot, it's sometimes justified. e.g. major battle and due to the fighting he's not going to make it to the medics in time. Even more so if set in the US Civil War or earlier when there really wasn't decent medical care.
@@jonnunn4196 In the civil war, the muskets were firing lead balls equivalent or larger than 50 caliber bullets. Those would cause substantial injury easily if not an outright death sentence.
@@David-nh7px
It seems it matters where, with what and also when you get shot.
I'm fairly certain getting shot by an arquebus or a .30-06 also hurts.
@@technovelo Yup. As always, never point a gun at anything you don't want to kill. That's the #1 rule. And know what's behind your target too, because that bullet is likely to penetrate and go through your first target. This video kinda makes it seem guns aren't that dangerous... They are.
I learned a lot about gunshot wounds from a former security guard at a school district, who had been shot in the shoulder by a fired, disgruntled employee. He was in the hospital for months, was permanently disabled and suffered constant pain, plus ptsd. And this guy was no wimp! He was about 6 4 and had been in a very tough Mexican gang as a teenager, so he was no stranger to threats and violence...but actually having all your nerves and tendons blown to bits is going to leave you feeling like crap, permanently, no matter how tough you are.
@Simon Obst
You have my deepest respect and sympathy. Sometimes it is hard to fathom how much people suffer! I used to dislike video games that were violent, because my mom worked in a big hospital and didn't like anything that glamorizes violence, she always saw the aftermath...her stories always seemed like something out of a war film, but they were the average person usually, going about their business, who suddenly get caught up in an accident or by some psychopath or drunk driver, who paid the price for life...I learned to always be prepared for anything unbelievable to take place without warning. It's not something I'm proud of, because I'm never, "off the clock", but constantly testing the air for danger. It's so second nature now that I'm older, so that I don't even notice it anymore...
Shoulder wounds from bullets are weird. I know someone who has had two from the Vietnam war. The first went through his shoulder and he does not remember it at all. All he remembers is moving quietly then being on his back unable to move but no pain. Apparently he had some kind of temporary nerve trauma as well as the wound itself. He recovered 100% from this. The second one he said was the most pain he has ever experienced in his life. It was low enough to clip the top of his lung. Took 2 years to recover from that and he was still not 100% 10 years later.
That's the problem with Holly Wood, kids actually believe that stuff!
@@runewolf77 Yeah, not just kids! Adults also believe some that silly stuff.
yes because being tall makes you not a wimp. and wow a tought gang that he left? doesnt sound so tough to me.. who the hell are you christine.
Guy I know tried the whole grenade pin teeth pull. He's been missing a tooth since that day 😂😂
My 2 biggest Hollywood "myths" are infinite mags and uber silent suppressors.
As a Cop in Arizona I always find it hilarious when 'legal expert' criminals say I can't arrest them for shooting or stabbing someone because I didn't read them miranda 😂
Those are the same morons that think the last four words of the second amendment are more important than the first four.
@@almitrahopkins1873 what is it?
@@thegmanviews11 "A well-regulated militia" is the first four words of the second amendment.
Haha yeah.. but not making it stick with that. And besides.. who ya pulling over? Obviously unarmed people huh.. old people, kids etc. Cuz with that attitude and the carry laws.. ya woulda been shot.. oooor.. you're absolutely lying about all of this. And yer just a tacticool Chad schmuck... 🤷
@@almitrahopkins1873 Nope, it’s “You have the right to remain silent, if you want an attorney, you have access to one, if you can’t afford one, court will grant you one.
The one thing about guns in movies that annoys me is that you see people shoot all these uzis, 9MM PISTOLS, and every other gun in these big huge shootouts. And once the fight is over…everyone still has perfect hearing.
#4... It also hurts like hell to punch someone, especially in the face. That's bones meeting bones.
I've treated a few dozen gsws during my years as a paramedic. The ones that lived either were completely silent (state of shock) until you start bandaging or they are very very loudly having a bad day. Even the folks who have been shot before don't just shrug it off and keep going.
Also, film loves to make dead people bleed. Shot in the heart?? Better dump 5 pints of blood out their back so the audience knows their dead. Yea... no. Blood doesn't pump when the heart stops. They leak what gravity can pull out and that's it. I've seen a self inflicted 357 through the chest that caused some chunks to leak through the bed (he was lying down) but no more than maybe a pint of blood had gone into the mattress and floor.
Yeah unless a major artery or vein gone so the body basically "drains the lines" and out the hole you can get some serious pooling but gravity sets and blood just collects to the low end.
As Dorothy L. Sayers wrote, corpses do not bleed.
The knife myth unfortunately has permeated the cops and has led them to consider anyone holding a knife, even if they were standing over a cutting board in their kitchen, as an excuse to shoot them. A particularly tragic incident last year in Canada had a plainclothes officer go to a rural house as a “wellness check” where a woman was living alone. It was dark out and she saw a man prowling around her yard; naturally, she grabbed a kitchen knife. He shot her dead. He was cleared of any wrongdoing despite the fact that he could have easily left the perceived dangerous situation and that she was doing nothing wrong. She wasn’t wanted for any crime. He was in no danger from the knife, but he thought she might throw it at him because he had seen it in movies.
funny, I had the opposite experience. a cop demonstrated for people how he could have THEIR sideclip pocketknife out of THEIR pocket, opened, and in position to cut their throat before they could react. I was tempted to ask if he could do it to me, just to see his reaction when he drew out my sideclip LEATHERMAN TOOL.
Meanwhile an actual victim will usually be arrested and charged if they commit the "crime" of self defense in canadaland.
@@marcosolo6491 Movie myths don't help, though!
@@ManDuderGuy Of course they are arrested and charged. Self-defense is just that - a defence. It is something that you use in court. You don't get to claim that you were defending yourself and then the police say "alrighty then" and go home. That is another myth. At the very least, you remain a person of interest until the investigation is complete. You actually have to prove that you were defending yourself (or rather, the prosecution has to prove that you weren't). Otherwise everyone would just claim to be defending themselves.
@@katherinegilks3880 Hey I hope I'm wrong, I hope I'm just misinformed; but what I've heard is that legit acts of self-defense usually end with the actual victim doing time/probation/catching legal convictions. UK, Canada, etc.
You missed the big one. That cigarette isn't going to ignite gasoline, no matter how hard you flick it. The gasoline will just extinguish the cigarette.
yes and no. it is the FUMES that are flammable and a cigarette WILL ignite them. but you are right that if it reaches the liquid gas it's self, it will put it out (provided it was not ignited before the cigarette reached the liquid gas).
this was demonstrated to me when i did an auto co-op in school. they had a pail of gas that had been sitting in the cool for hours. they literally took wooden matches, lighted them, and tossed then into the bucket. every time the match hit the gas and was put out. then one of them went up, and gave the bucket a bit of a kick, to disturb the gas. the next match ignited it as soon as the flame of the match hit the vaporized gas in the air over the pail, lighting it on fire with a big "whoosh", and fireball. leaving the surface of the gas on fire after the fireball.
@@drogoKoJ A match is an open flame. A cigarette is not. You cannot ignite gasoline with a cigarette at all.
Gasoline is flammable, not combustible. It requires an open flame or spark to ignite.
My father used to flick cigarettes into a coffee can full of gasoline to scare the piss out of people.
@@almitrahopkins1873 tell that to the idiots that have been badly injured due to smoking around gas fumes.
@@drogoKoJ That's because they lit the cigarette there. It's the lighter that does it, not the cigarette.
Look up the flash point for gasoline and the temperature of a smoldering cigarette.
Ha, you are expecting the average U-Tube knucklehead to understand the fundamentals of thermodynamics? You're lucky if they know the difference between there, their, and they're!
I've had a few concussions you don't get up and walk away what usually happens is blitzing headaches and imminent barfing
Per the norm: this was a great video, but you should do a follow up as there are MANY more things that movies exaggerate. One that always sticks out is the sound associated with pulling a sword from its scabbard. They make it metal on metal, and that's how you dull a blade and not why scabbards were created in the first place.
Similar to how raising a rifle to aim at someone causes a clicking sound... at least in movies.
@@RictusHolloweye Everyone knows all guns click and clack like an old door knob whenever you move it for dramatic effect.
One thing that bugs me about action movies, is how they can engage in prolonged firefights, often indoors, without ear protection, and then have a normal conversation afterwards.
Having had ammo and mine disposal training back in the ‘80s, there was one particular Warsaw pack anti-personnel mine that would make a click from way it was constructed. Not very loud and certainly not what you would register in the field, but one might get lucky and feel the wedge going down; then don’t lift the foot which would set off the detonator. Not a design flaw at all, after all the anti-personnel mines are designed to maim but first and foremost delay the enemy, and tying up a large deployment for wanting to save their comrade is a very effective solution.
Very interesting observation! Apparently, that particular design was a unique exception to the general rule but your noting of the delay aspect is interesting; "The guy who steps on it may likely end up maimed anyway but his fellows are bogged down hoping to prevent that."
Also, a lot of mines with pressure switches also just have secondary timers that activate and blow the thing anyway. Not saying what anyone should do in that situation, but I think it'd almost be better to squat down and try to leap yourself into a ditch or flat on the ground rather than have all your friends get injured too.
Yeah, my dad was Air Force and he always told me that land mines (at least at the time- he was Gulf War era, so I don’t claim to know how they work now) would arm when pressure went on and detonate when the pressure went off. I’m sure they’re not as audible or noticeable as we’d like to think, but pressure-triggered bombs are definitely a thing
Pact, not pack, as in treaty or agreement between 2 or more countries
One of my favorite movies get wrong is you get knocked out for 10 minutes or more, then you get up and are just fine.
As someone who owns a silencer, I can attest that they are only hearing-safe when using subsonic bullets (most bullets travel above the speed of sound), and you only get that movie-type "pew" sound when using .22 cal guns.
For anyone interested, the most commonly available subsonic rounds (in the US) are 9mm with a 147 grain bullet, .45 ACP with a 230 grain bullet, .300 Blackout (rifle round) with 200+ grain bullets, and .22 LR with 40+ gr bullets (those may go supersonic from a rifle but are always subsonic from a pistol). There are other calibers that suppress well, but those are the easiest to find.
@@12799MaDeuce yeah its getting difficult to find the .22 short subs. You can get the .22 Short high velocity and LRs but the subs are getting to be a pain
@@joeyr7294 I haven't seen .22 shorts of any kind in years. Used to shoot them from a pump-action Remington. It was ridiculously fun having like 18 of them in the tube, and it was hearing-safe even without a suppressor.
@@12799MaDeuce I love the fact I can hear the bolt slam on my bolt action
@@12799MaDeuce I keep trying to tell you where I bought them but yt keeps deleting the comment
One of my favorite “misconceptions” about gunshots came from a 19 yr old friend of a relative. His only experience with guns was from playing violent video games where there were extra lives and/or reset buttons & movies with a similar theme. He was in need of extra money one day and decided he would commit an armed robbery like he had seen done in movies & video games. His attempt did not go as he had planned. He was shot and wounded by police. What surprised him the most…how much it hurt to get shot! Seems he thought a gunshot wound would only be a minor irritation, not a wound that could cause extensive pain. He learned first hand a gunshot wound can HURT, big time! DUH!
(This happened in the Deep South region of the United States where stereotypically we all know about guns by age 5 or 6 yrs. Think the teenager described above proves that ain’t true!)
So he didn't just take like 25% damage?
You could make a top 10 just on the things Hollywood gets wrong with guns alone.
Another funny thing about getting shot (in movies!) is how the guy getting shot mimics the sound of the gun. If it's loud, he cries "Aaahhh!" If it's got a silencer, he just drops to the ground without a sound.
Car crash on screen :
If people buckled up, the seatbelts get stuck while the car is burning or sinking in water.
If people didn't buckle up, they walk away without a scratch.
Exploding cars is a total movie special effects. Mythbusters tried and tried, and no matter what they did, a car tank would not explode.
01:41 - *THAT* Matrix scene - shooting MP5K's and dropping AR-15 casings 😂
Yeah the thing about most landmines is that they don't blow up when your foot comes off, they explode as soon as you step on them
I think movie people always base that on the German Anti-personnel mines from WW2. They were designed so when you trod on them, they wouldn't go off until the pressure was taken off them, whereupon they would be fired up to waist height before the internal charge detonated, firing a shed load of BB's in a 5 metre circumference. Although if you didn't take your foot off it, the charge that fired it up to waist hight would probably blow your foot off!
I’ve even hit a car with a 40mm grenade, and while it blew the quarter panel off, the car didn’t catch fire.
Oh man, the amnesia thing... So, I have epilepsy, and for a few years it got bad. I had a seizure one day, woke up from it, looked around, and had no idea where I was (my bedroom). I had no clue who the man next to me was (my husband). Then I utterly panicked as I realized that I HAD NO IDEA WHO I WAS!!! The sheer mental shock instantly snapped me out of it. It lasted no more than a minute, but that was truly terrifying. Now, that is NOT how a bonk on the head works, that was more like my brain rebooted and simply hadn't loaded the bios yet. Still, the calm, "Huh, I don't know who I am, weird" is utter bull. That was one of the scariest experiences of my life...... and I've nearly fallen off a cliff!
Explosions in real life rarely look anything like in the movies, either. Myhtbusters showed how they add flammable liquids to create fireballs for better visual effect.
Another thing often shown is people knocked down by huge explosions who get right back up and carry on with their business. In truth a lot of them would have been incapacitated or killed by the shock wave causing internal damage, even if they hadn't been hit by flying shrapnel.
Yet another fallacy is the prevalence of fully automatic weapons. Several years ago a rrecently retired LAPD property clerk testified that in twenty years on the job he had recorded about 40,000 seized weapons (which IS a lot), but only two were actually fully automatic. In other words, there are more fully auto weapons portrayed in a single 1 hour episode of almost any TV crime drama than he saw in his entire real-life career.
Another common bit of misinformation is that bullets bounce off cars. In fact, if someone is shooting at you, don't duck behind a car door or stay in the vehicle, for that matter. Bullets will pass right through thin metal doors and certainly through the windows. The safest place would be ducked down with the engine block between you and the shooter... So long as the bullet doesn't find it's way under the vehicle.
The Fast and Furious film franchise has some of the most ridiculous exaggerations of all.... They somehow manahed a five or ten minute fight inside a cargo jet as it rolled down the runway for takeoff. Seeing how minimum takeoff speed is probably at least 170 mph, the airplane would have covered aroumd 14 miles minimum and possibly as much as 28 miles while protagonist and bad guy were beating each other up... No runway in the world is longer than 3.5 miles and most are less than 1 mile. So that airplane would have crashed off the end of the runway, probably killing everyone, shortly after the actors had exchanged their first few kicks and punches. There are dozens more totally impossible stunts throughout the F&F movies... I recently watched Vin Diesel win a race driving a car in reverse (which is the lowest gear... and hence the slowest... in every car made).
The scary thing is, some people might actually try emulating things they've seen done in the movies! 😳
I have a hobby of going to regional demolitions. Real explosions are flash and dust. "Saving Private Ryan" got things right. My dad worked on the pneumatic actuators that threw the stuntmen on catapults that got blown up in that movie. They claimed to have the fastest actuators and Hollywood agreed.
In other news, the majority of the public believes vote counting machines provided by a European firm run by a sprinkling of convicts never steal an election. Apparently.
Not only does fighting do a lot of damage but they're very exhausting. These 5+ minute fight scenes would have both people winded and unable to go on in most situations
My personal favorite is the handgun that somehow fires 47 rounds without reloading, but the last bullet is the one that never misses. I want to know where to find this gun.
Hollywood?! 🤔
It sounds like the Cowboy Six-Shooter that fires ten shots and kills twenty indians.🤣
"You're probably asking yourself, 'did he fire 46 shots or 47?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But seeing that this is a .44 Magnum, the Most Powerful Gun in the World..."
Ask Yosemite Sam where he bought his guns at.
One of the reasons the John Wick movies are so popular is the effort they make in making the gun handling realistic. Keanu Reeves spends months before filming undergoing tactical firearms training using rifles, shotguns and handguns. Even Halle Berry underwent the training for John Wick 3. She had never touched a gun (and is an avid anti-gun personality) prior to the training. But even John Wick blows it on the suppressed weapon portrayal. It is strictly Hollywood with no basis in reality.
Revolvers never having to be reloaded is one of the most consistent mistakes Hollywood makes. Remember watching some John Wayne film and he fired like 12 or 14 shots and never reloaded. Ridiculous
You're wrong. In Hollywood they always have to reload the revolvers, and it's always at the worst possible moment for the hero.
The all time champion of never reloading is legendary Mexican actor Mario Almada. He would fire hundreds of rounds and never run out of bullets, and his enemies would shoot thousands of rounds at him but he'd never get hit. Truly amazing
Also, car doors aren't bullet proof. A rifle bullet will go through both car doors and still come out with enough energy to seriously hurt a human.
I think that some Crown Vics have panels in the front doors to resist gunshots
@@matthewmillburg3933 true but those are police vehicles not standard consumer cars~
To be fair, I imagine people hide behind car doors and office furniture during gunfights more for visual concealment than physical protection.
@@dinogoldie9716 Yes, concealment, vs cover, the latter adds protection to the benefit of concealment.
As a Combat Engineer, we were trained to not think of mines as weapons per se. Like barbed wire and other obstacles they are used to direct the flow of the enemy movement away from one area to another one better suited for defense. Like in the movies it is possible to casually walk into and even across a mine field. But since it only takes one mine to have a mine field, and possible delay or redirect the path the enemy takes, The side toward the enemy is often set tighter and with more use of trip wire triggers to get the enemies attention and cause them to change course.
The Cars in movies , they always get behind the car door while the bad guy shoots a full magazine into it and the hero jumps up from behind with the "no problem not even a minor inconvenience look on there face! when in reality a bullet will go straight through both doors probably splitting on the way and making an even more nasty exit hitting the hero on the other side.
And the landmines are normally made not to kill instantly in the first place, just blow ya legs off, so then it takes 2 men to carry you, making 3 men incapacitated.
LOL 😁
The gunshot thing is odd the villain dies but the hero especially in 80s and 90s movies could get shot but it wasn’t a big deal and they carried on another 30 mins to a hour (real time so movie time even longer) and just got patched up at the end off screen.
Last Action Hero made fun of it when Arnie was shot in the real world was confused to why it was actually serious and he couldn’t just shrug it off as usual and once back in the movie world it was once again no big deal
Such a great film!
I have actually heard that, depending on where you were shot and how high your adrenaline is, a GSW isn't necessarily going to have an immediate dramatic effect on you. So yeah, sometimes people can Action Hero through getting shot. People can and do survive getting shot multiple times as well. A bullet wound, like any other wound, depends on location for severity. It's just that bullets can penetrate pretty far, and the damage from the cavitation can be as big (or worse of) a problem as the actual bullet.
I can't remember the source, but it seemed legit enough, I thought at the time. It referred to actual gunshot victims reporting that they didn't even feel it all that much, and only later they realized they'd been shot.
As an aside, another thing movies and shows get wrong is that recovery from a GSW can in many cases take a long time and lead to a lifetime crippling injury. Like, if a bullet goes through the muscle of your bicep, that muscle is gone forever, it doesn't just grow back after a while. You have to hope that the remaining muscle, with physical therapy, will be enough to allow your arm to regain much of its former use.
Also, I loved when he shot at the car, and instead of the explosion he was expecting, there were just a few “plinks” as the bullets hit the trunk. 🙂
Yea in basic training, when we handle grenades, first thing they say is "don't pull the pin out with your teeth, you'll just break your teeth" lol
Miranda rights most people do not know but the Miranda rights to be legal must be read directly by each officer off a Miranda rights card issued to then, not by memory however it is still presented by memory by the officers now of days but another person must be taking a video to prove this violation is overlooked by the officers. Miranda rights as you mentioned does not need to be present at all prior to any arrest as long as the three out of the four law enforcement protocols are present at the time of the arrest. Furthermore Miranda rights are only utilized if a officer wishes to question a person of their involvement if any within a crime that has taken place and if the three of the four protocols are not established after reading the Miranda rights again off the card then the officer in question or officers must release the person from custody or detainment. Big difference between the two.
You are not even close to correct, where did you hear those falsehoods? Can you give a citation about the requirements you allege?
Can’t wait for part 2 since there are so many things that movies get wrong. One of my favorites is the depiction of helicopters. The pilots seem to think that they must follow vehicles at almost ground level, even following them under bridges, when it would be much easier to gain altitude and follow from above. I’ve even seen them forget that they can hover and choose instead to do strafing runs on a target like an airplane.
What about
Snipers using lasers from hundreds of yards away that only make a little red dot on the target
Pointing a gun at someone to get them to do something THEN racking the slide to chamber a round when they take too long
Cops or soldiers dropping their weapons because the bad guy has his gun to a hostage and demands it
Shooting open a padlock on a gate or door
Cops/detectives engaging in fatal shootouts then going back on the streets next day as normal
The biggie: crime scene investigators who walk around armed, interrogate suspects, kick in doors on raids, engage in shootouts or arrest the bad guys whilst seeming to specialize in many multiple areas of forensics and never appearing in court to give "expert" testimony
I’ve always wanted a Hollywood magazine for my A-R . Never run out of ammunition
i remem6er when i was a kid, and how when, while watching a movie where some one used a gun that had a silencer, how i thought how cool the muted sound was that it made. never realized it wasn't accurately portrayed.
I can say from having been arrested here in the US. They definitely don't read you your Miranda rights as they arrest you like on TV. That's is only for serious offenses and you are about to be questioned, for lawyer purposes they have to make sure that they aren't forced or coerced into talking
They do read you your rights in the UK though when arrested
@@robinburt5735 yeah its definitely not like that here lol maybe if they already know you are guilty, but I'm not sure.
@@robinburt5735 they read Miranda rights in the U.K.?
@@mbryson2899 Well our version of them, they don't add on the "..you have a right to an attorney bit" but pretty much everything else
@@robinburt5735 here it varies from department to department, but often it's just snickety-snick on with the cuffs and a simple "you're under arrest." People are often cuffed "for your safety and ours" before arrest as part of being detained for investigation.
The decibel level of gunshots are mostly ignored in movies.
I can't imagine firing a gun inside a house without hearing protection. Your ears would be ringing for days... and permanent hearing damage as well.
Action movie hero: "It's just a flesh wound."
As opposed to what, a hair wound?
Just a caviat, amnesia where you forget who you are is possible if there has been trauma to the brain.
My step great grandfather had a piece of shrapnel go through his head during WWII, and it took a decent amount of time for him to remember who he was. It didn't help that he had been assumed dead, so someone had taken his tags and reported him as deceased (he was found and rescued by the French after a battle). By the time he was identified/knew who he was his first wife had remarried and he ended up marrying my great grandmother who was a widow.
"Do you know how hard it is to set a car on fire?!"
"Not as hard as it is to put one out...."
You forgot the fired bullets that don't hit anything. Or firing dozens of shots without reloading. Or that the bad guys are usually a terrible shot. Or that people can survive a bad car wreck and emerge fine from the wreckage.
Colin Firth in Tumbledown on pulling out a grenade pin. ,"You need a pair of f*@#£%?g pliers to pull it out."
Simon: you will probably be ok after being shot
.700 nitro express: am I a joke to you
Old friend of mine's dad suffered a stroke and got amnesia. My friend was 10. His dad went from the nicest guy in the world to an abusive asshole overnight from the brain damage. He also forgot a large number of years worth of memories. He got better in the sense that he stopped being abusive at some point, possibly because my friend snapped from the daily beatings and did something incredibly reckless. They did reconcile after that, but it was never what you would call a close bond the way he would have had if his dad had never suffered all of that amnesia and brain damage. Brain damage is bad and seriously alters people's personalities with their memories because it's all hooked together.
Thank you for covering suppressors. Idk why people still think they "silence" gun shots.
That said, you can make guns really quiet with subsonic rounds and a suppressor.
I remember seeing a Forgotten Weapons video of Ian shooting subsonic 9mm with a can and the loudest part was tbe action cycling. A suppressor isn't going to do much to dampen the sonic boom of a 3000fps round.
Hunting teaches you that you do not want to be shot...anywhere.
The quietest silenced gun I've ever heard of is the silenced MP5, and the silencer is a part of the barrel. When used with subsonic (aka no sonic boom) bullets, the claim is that the cycling action is louder than the shot. The issue is that cycling the actions is a loud metallic clapping, so it is still extremely audible
I think the only landmine that clicked was the bouncing Betty from WWII, but that was a very odd weapon
You're, right, and for that reason, a lot of silenced pistols have a provision to lock the slide closed during firing. This is often in the form of a modified slide stop mating with an extra notch in the slide.
This eliminates the sound of the action cycling, but it does temporarily turn the pistol into a single-shot weapon.
I have also read that it can dramatically shorten the working life of the pistol due to the extra stresses placed on it. I imagine that isn't really a consideration for the types of people who use them though.
Well if the aim is to hide the gun shots no one is going to think metal clanking is a gunshot
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 it might hide the gun shots, but it will still alert the targets. It just might buy an extra second of "what was that?"
And yeah, if you have an automatic and block the slide from cycling, the barrel pressures are going to be astronomical. I find it hard to believe that even a subsonic round in a locked pistol would come out of the barrel below the sonic boom level
Yup, Rented this exact model @ manchester firing line, llc. I was able to fire off the first mag w/o ear protection and all you could hear was the metallic click, a puff of air & the casing hitting the floor. Had to put my muffs back on quick though as 2 lanes over somebody was shooting an ak variant & that sucker was LOUD!
@@brrrayday Plenty of videos showing a subsonic round not hitting the sonic boom level on YT. Plenty that show a regular round vs a subsonic round and the difference is pretty easy to tell. Even some pro gun nutts that explain it also.
It's so crazy that he mentioned a "900 channel cable package..." lol... our cable has over a thousand channels....we watch like 3...lol
That was a quick shirt change from intro to content! Love your videos.
He dribbles a lot
I was surprised at the weight of a grenade and the resistance of the pin. (Basic training)
You missed my favourite bit (although you alluded to it at the end) without hear protection you’ll spend the moments after a gun shot yelling at each other because your deaf.
Having brain damage from a single sucker-punch, I can definitely back up the fist fight one
I remember the Steve Martin movie “The Jerk” where two cars touch their bumpers and both explode totally.
There is a mine called a "Bouncing "Betty". It does not go off when you step on it, but when you step off of it and pressure is released. It then pops out of the ground and explodes about waist high. The mine has 3 wires, usually just above the surface. In the three wires is a captive ball bearing, and the mine will not explode as long as the ball is in place. When it is stepped on, t he three wires separate, releasing the ball bearing. When pressure is removed, the firing pin will fire and thus the mine. When you step on the mine, you hear a slight click as the ball bearing falls out. But the mine will not explode as long as pressure is maintained. The mine can be dug out (around) and made safe. These mines were common in Vietnam. It was rare for the mine to not go off for if you are walking, and your foot moves off, then click bang. These mines were particularly nasty because they exploded with ball bearings as shrapnel just at the height of - and close to - the family jewels and associated equipment.
A anti-vehicular mine, especially anti-tank, will not go off if one walks on it. It is designed to explode only when something heavy (and expensive) like an APC or a tank. When we got grenades we would bend the wires making part of the pin to make them even more difficult to pull the pin. In any case, with the wires as originally issued or bent back around, using you teeth to pull the pin is riduculous. Infantry Sgt in Vietnam.
Hollywood should realize if you shoot a gun in a house it's going to hurt your ears really bad and also that room you're in is going to be smokie as hell from the gun powder.
Fist fights are more than likely a good way to break your knuckles. It’s not fun. I’ve had screws and pins in my bones.
Did he say he has 47 channels now? I'm thinking that might not even be an exaggeration.
The biggest problem when trying to reduce the sound of a fired cartridge is the bullet breaking the sound barrier. For that reason may rounds used with a sound suppressor are loaded to be sub-sonic.
You don't even have to be arrested to have your Miranda Rights read to you. Years ago when I was a teenager my parents truck was parked and was involved in a hit and run. There were pieces left behind from the car that hit it, as well as tire marks in the grass it crossed to hit the truck. We lived in a housing complex and I located a car with proper damage and matching the color of the one that hit the truck.
My dad called the investigating officer who came back out and before questioning the car owner, read her her Miranda Rights. She started freaking out, thinking she was under arrest, and he assured her he was just asking questions as per the investigation.
Ironically, it wasn't even the car that did it. She had proof of the damage being from a previous accident. I did end up locating another car that likely did it months later parked on the other end of our complex but I don't even remember if my dad even called the police, or if he did if they even did anything.
Always out there. Great video and kept me on the edge of my seat!
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I actually know a girl who woke up one morning with almost total memory loss.
She didn't even recognise her family. Memory never returned.
And, her personality changed completely.
What I hate most is the 50-100 round magazines in pistols,the endless magazine in machine guns,the 10+ round revolver andl the worst ever is the silencer on a revolvey
This video should be MANDATORY viewing for politicians who legislate on topics they know nothing about!
One thing about suppressors. While it is true they are not as quiet as in movies no matter what, what Simon said applies to suppressors with standard ammo. If you use sub sonic ammo, some suppressors are safe to use with no ear pro. However, unless an expert tells you otherwise always assume ear pro is needed when handling firearms.
Miranda rights are required before interrogation. The police/prosecution can still use voluntary statements, but any questioning prior to Miranda rights is not admissible in court.
Gotta agree on the mines. The Coyote never had time to get away.
subsonic ammo and a suppressor will make it extremely hard to hear or locate in any average location with background noise. on a city street you'll usually only hear the mechanical parts clicking
Silencers are only effective when you need to assassinate a mime artist.
I find it funny in movies and TV shows where it shows someone chambering a round in a shotgun more than once... as if that is going to make the shot even more powerful when they pull the trigger.
I love how he acknowledges his 47 CZcams channels in this video
Everybody thinks suppressors are great. Until you have to clean them
You talk about fist fights as you show the one movie that actually acknowledges damage from fists. Well done
A(n overzealous) rookie read me my rights once. His veteran partner started ragging on him! This was in a small town; the hazing would've been worse had it been in z city.
Movies also get explosions wrong as well, people get sent flying in one piece instead of confetti.
Great video like always, Simon!
Yes, it really bothers me how in a movie or novel someone gets cracked on the head, and then goes on with no more than a temporary headache, if that
gunshots especially pistol-caliber kind of feel like getting punched really hard and you don't actually feel The ripping through your torso sensation as you would think.
You know this from personal experience or someone else you know who got shot?
No personal experience but I’ve heard pistol rounds have the same level of force as getting hit with a baseball.
My coworker (army vet) says it's like getting hit with baseball bat except there's a burning feeling added to it
@@khoward9512 yes personal experience with a .380acp. I also have heard that before and I can confirm that. Not saying "it's not that bad", I'm saying it's different than expected
You can pull a grenade pin with your teeth IF you straighten the pin 1st. In fact there was a bad bit of advice circulating amoungst the infantry during my tenure with them that you should loosen/straighten your grenade pin prior to combat for easy pulls. Of course this is a VERY bad idea and led to some catastrophic results.
Also the volume of sound from a suppressed weapon varies depending on caliber and type of round. I have a suppressed 9MM that, with sub-sonic rounds, is literally whisper quiet.
Lastly one thing that I always laugh at in movies and you didn't mention (although it's indirectly addressed in the fist fight section) is the strike to the back of the head/neck knockout. If you strike someone hard enough on the back of the head/neck to knock them out you have likely killed them and if they regain conciousness they would have a pretty severe concussion which itself would be life threatening. In the movies they do this and then the person wakes up with little more that a slight headache.
Michael Mann portrays firearms realistically in his films. From looks to mechanics to sounds. He's great at it.
You didn't do the chloroform movie myth.
Thank you very much!! You had me with “the past is the worst”, now you follow up the forth on this list. I have been saying for years forget gun violence in tv and movies it is not as dangerous as the beatings. Beatings with hands, fists, feet, sticks, metal rods, etc. These are readily available and fiction has the person being beat getting up and walking. Or even fighting back and winning. People die with if those beatings are real.
Here in Aus a while back I saw this car drive up the side of a hill next to the road and then flip over, caught fire, 3 guys ran out and my family and I helped them, it was on fire for about 30 minutes. No explosion crazily enough but we did notice that they had a very large number of $50 and $100 dollar bills…
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER NEVERRRRRRRR UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A FIRE ARM!!!! THEY ARE DEADLY, VERY DEADLY!!!!