50 Things That Only Happen in the Movies

[Baron Scarpia]

I'm starting not to regret that I have never met any GMG members face-to-face, given the intimate knowledge of strangling or stabbing people to death that is displayed on this thread.   

[Sammy]

I'm starting not to regret that I have never met any GMG members face-to-face, given the intimate knowledge of strangling or stabbing people to death that is displayed on this thread.   

You would regret not meeting me; I have the magic pipe.

[knight66]

I'm starting not to regret that I have never met any GMG members face-to-face, given the intimate knowledge of strangling or stabbing people to death that is displayed on this thread.   

Oh, to live is to live dangerously.

Mike

[bwv 1080]

It only takes about 20 seconds to strangle a victim. I gather it takes a long time, some minutes.

Mike

Man, I sure learned that the hard way

[Florestan]

Bruce Willis reads and annotates a book (The Sixth Sense). 

[Karl Henning]

It only takes about 20 seconds to strangle a victim. I gather it takes a long time, some minutes.

Mike

That is just what Hitchcock was thinking, for that scene in Torn Curtain!

[knight66]

That is just what Hitchcock was thinking, for that scene in Torn Curtain!

Yes, he extended the scene to make it more realistic. Esp on TV these things are done with in a trice.

[Omicron9]

- In real life, no two cars would ever be traveling the same direction on the same road; ergo, if you see headlights in your rear view mirror, you are being followed.

- Anything that goes over a cliff will blow up.  (This has been proven in the Simpsons.)

- If a crew of fighting villains is attacking a lone hero, they will only come at him one at a time, never as a group.

- Cell phone batteries never need charging.

- Stunningly beautiful women DO fall in love with fat or unattractive or age-inappropriate or poor men.

[bwv 1080]

Silencers on guns make them sound like video game beeps

In fact a Silencer will reduce the noise about as much as earplugs - around 30db

So a gunshot would go from 160db to 130db, still a loud noise, just not damaging to ones hearing

[Karl Henning]

Although a misnomer, silencer was found preferable to shusher.

[Omicron9]

Although a misnomer, silencer was found preferable to shusher.

Of course this was after the tragic and unexpected box office failure of "The Enshushenator." 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

It only takes about 20 seconds to strangle a victim. I gather it takes a long time, some minutes.

One film that gets this right is Kieslowski's Decalogue: 5 (and its extended version, A Short Film about Killing). Really excruciating to watch. The strangulation from beginning to end takes about 7 minutes.

According to Kieslowski, an expert on horror films told him that he had set a new record for the longest murder scene in the history of cinema.

[Karl Henning]

Of course this was after the tragic and unexpected box office failure of "The Enshushenator."

I only saw the sequel, The Enshushenator Redemption.

[Florestan]

- If a crew of fighting villains is attacking a lone hero, they will only come at him one at a time, never as a group.

And never attack him from behind. This is most conspicuously in Japanese samurai movies --- might actually have something to do with their chivalric code?