Completely Irrelevant Nonsense

[BarstoolProphet]

So, I\'m watching television. Well, mostly listening to it while I paint, and there\'s a death on a show. A man standing in the middle of the street, talking, and suddenly....

WHAM!

A bus hits him.

Now, I\'ll grant, the middle of the street isn\'t the best place to carry on a conversation, but it occurred to me that this method of death is actually quite common on tv shows and in movies.

And it further came to my mind that in every one of these scenes involving bus-impact deaths, the bus driver never slams on the breaks until after he\'s got a person splattered on his front bumper.

Has anyone else noticed something as ludicrous as this, for no particular reason?

 

[Sand Rat]

As one who used to drive a bus, slamming on the brakes is not much fun on one. Nor is it recommended. We had a driver who locked em up for a squirell - she did not ever lock the brakes up again.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Reminds me of the thousands of times someone runs from a car..................down the middle of the street - hmmmm...wonder who\'s gonna win that race....again....

 

[DaN]

Or runs from thousands of pursuers, firing accurately enough to hit ear their feet or whizzing past them by inches, but never QUITE hitting them - never getting hit once by ricochets or stone chips or ANYthing.

A particularly funny example of this is the scene in Schwarzenegger\'s \"Commando\" when he runs away from about a hundred bad guys, all armed with automatic weapons, taking cover behind an ankle height hedge lol

 

[airhead]

Hollywood conventions:

Metal railings make great cover. Bullets will bounce off a tiny piece of metal rather than go through the large hole and hit you.

Cars make great cover. Trunks are good to hide behind becase they offer paper thin sheet metal for cover.

If all four wheels of a car leave the ground, the car will explode.

 

[Zora]

Don\'t diss \"Commando\" there...

That was an awesome movie when I was young.

Be nice and I promise to kill you last...

 

[ScottRadom]

Yeah, leave \"Commando\" alone!

\"This is my weeeek Ahhhm Sully!\"

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Originally posted by airhead
Hollywood conventions:

Metal railings make great cover. Bullets will bounce off a tiny piece of metal rather than go through the large hole and hit you.

Cars make great cover. Trunks are good to hide behind becase they offer paper thin sheet metal for cover.

If all four wheels of a car leave the ground, the car will explode.

In some movies EVERYTHING explodes. lol

Interesting little observation. One of my \'things\' to do while watching movies is to see if I can see the camera, crew, boom mike\'s, or shadows of these. In most movies I\'ve seen, no matter what the outside condition, rain shine, night or day, cold or hot, the window of the car that the actor will be getting in will be rolled down.

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by Shawn R. L....In most movies I\'ve seen, no matter what the outside condition, rain shine, night or day, cold or hot, the window of the car that the actor will be getting in will be rolled down.

And they can converse in normal voice. I get above 30 and cannot even hear myself think let alone carry on a conversation with the wind noise....