I really hate how in nearly every movie, a car crash results in a massive explosion when that's almost never the case in real life. It's getting so old.
I rarely watch the show, but 'Mythbusters' did a segment on this very idea.
They basically proved it was impossible, If we all drove Corvairs or Ford F150's (from the early 90's) [because both had huge gas-tank placement/ignition issues] this might actually happen.
Even when shooting the gas tank, nothing happened. They had to unload a ton of 'Tracer' rounds into the gas-tank area to start just a small fire. I don't think it ever actually "exploded".
Registered: 2004-10-08 Location: O'Fallon Missouri USA Posts: 709
I am sick of the slow motion walking towards the camera hair blowing in the wind kinda scenes. They stuff the trailers full of that crap now. Watch Ghost Protocols trailer all it is, is people walking toward the camera and a couple of explosions.
Having modern cars screech tires in almost every scene. It`s really difficult to screech your tires unless your pretty much out of control of the vehicle.
Along similar lines, I hate how when a guy throws a simple fragmentation hand grenade the resulting explosion looks like someone detonated 100 lbs of napalm.
Registered: 2003-03-27 Location: San Antonio, TX. Posts: 469
I rarely watch the show, but 'Mythbusters' did a segment on this very idea.
They basically proved it was impossible, If we all drove Corvairs or Ford F150's (from the early 90's) [because both had huge gas-tank placement/ignition issues] this might actually happen.
Even when shooting the gas tank, nothing happened. They had to unload a ton of 'Tracer' rounds into the gas-tank area to start just a small fire. I don't think it ever actually "exploded".
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