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6 Flaws In Action Movies You May Have Missed

6 Flaws In Action Movies You Might Have Missed
    Action scenes in action movies hold the entire film together. If there weren't insane car chases and explosions all over the place, it wouldn't be an action movie now would it? If there weren't extreme things going on all the time, Michael Bay would be out of a job instantly. 
 
    The things that you don't notice in action movies are the biggest things that make the movie wildly impossible. All action scenes are made up of insane events that will never be possible. Like a fight between Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal. That shit would make the world explode. Hey Michael Bay! There's a new movie idea for yah! Anyway let's get to it:


    1)    Cars are easily destroyed or indestructible
    It makes sense that this would be true in action movies. Think about it. How action packed would an action movie be if all the vehicles in it took damage like cars in real life? It wouldn't be action packed at all. Cars run straight through walls, survive insane jumps and are still perfectly driveable, and other situations that would give physicists the worst headaches they would ever experience in their life. 
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"If I think about these clearly impossible scenes anymore my brain will explode and Michael Bay will try to direct it."


    Here's one comparison. In these movies, all cars, of all sizes, always seem to be prone to roll overs and fucking flying (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0C_nqPdGEM). Look at that shit. I swear I saw two cars get into a fender bender at low speed then fly off into the sunset. Also, cars are apparently undamaged when crashing through buildings and fruit stands.......There's always a godamn fruit stand. Here are the MythBusters to explain (https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cars crashing into fruit stands).
 
    Bullets also seem to be uneffective to vehicles. A Ford Pinto is as indestructible as a tank. In this clip of The Purge: Anarchy, we see the main characters car. A Dodge Charger. Not just any Dodge Charger. This one has diamond plate sheet metal on it. Naturally it can withstand any kind of attack. And it actually does. Watch the movie and you'll see it take fire from a fucking minigun like a champ.  
 

2)    People survive insane gunshots

    Action movies do a great job at making people look like super heroes. They can survive all kinds of extreme situations including gunshot wounds that would kill a normal person instantly. Here's a clip from the Evil Dead remake where a guy not only survives a shotgun blast from close range, but it also appears that his shoulder barely got shot at all (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mUacSucpw). 
 
    Now in this next clip the guy dies. But, the insanity is that it he survives so many shotgun blasts where one is more than enough to kill someone, yet he dies with a single bullet from a pistol to the head. If you don't know by now, I'm talking about Robocop. Here's Red Foreman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtwood_Smith) shooting the shit out of him. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VKrxp50mI)


3)    Silencers make all guns virtually silent
    In theory this makes sense. For one it's called a silencer. And two they're widely mass produced so surely they must work right? Wrong. Let's look at what they actually do compared to what movies say they do. So in this clip, we see guns being used silenced and not silenced. Also, they use different types of bullets to produce quieter sounds. Now the bullets used to be very quiet are very weak and not going to be used for any killing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPdjGa0VB8).
    Now let's look at how the movie industry sees the use of silencers. Here's a clip from "No Country For Old Men" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJiwcGvaqI). 
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    "If you so much as fart louder than this silenced shotgun I will kill you."


4)    Henchman are absolutely awful
    In most action movies, the main villian can't possibly carry out his entire plan all on their own. Whether it be drug smuggling, robbery, or trying to end the world, the villian is going to need some help. Professional help? One would think so. Clearly they must have not had to go through an interview process of any kind. 
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    "So you tell me you have no criminal background, and you never fired a gun in your life? Works for me. You got the job buddy!"


    They so inept at killing people it's absolutely insane. It takes an entire army of henchman to stall the main hero for all of a few minutes before they are all shot dead one after another. But, you have to give them credit for trying. As they watch all their fellow henchman around get killed every few seconds, none of them ever run and say "fuck this". They fight to the end. You have to repspect that.
    Here's a clip from "Beverly Hills Cop" that illustrates this point nicely. The henchmen are awful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad5ZJcmYc_k ).
 
5)    Bullets are limitless
    It seems that in every movie with a shootout, especially action movies, it looks like a video game. There's a one man army killing entire platoons of enemies and he never seems to run out of ammo no matter how long the shootout goes on. Here's a clip of the shootout of Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop".( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad5ZJcmYc_k ). So there are a few things going on here. Eddie Murphy is the only one to been reloading. And he only reloads once in this entire scene. Does Eddie Murphy have ammo belts under his sweater? I like to think so. 

Here's Herschel from "The Walking Dead" using the unlimited ammo hack to take down mass amounts of zombies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P224BTri7RQ).

6)    Nobody is aware of what the villian is up to until it's too late
    At this day in age, you would think that the second someone comes up with some kind of evil plot the government would find out about it and crush that shit. But, most of the time they find out when the plan is already in motion and after countless numbers of people have died. It's like the government sees villians as Dr. Evil from Austin Powers. They ignore him even when he makes direct contact with them to let them know what he's up to. 
 
    It's even more pathetic when the villian in the movie is part of a known terrorist group. Take the "Die Hard" series for an example. In two of the movies Bruce Willis is dealing with a German terrorist group. In the first movie in the series with them, he kills Alan Rickman by having him fall to his death. So you'd think that the country would be aware of this terror group and keep tabs on them from now on. But oh no. His brother, who is also in the terror group, comes to NYC and starts blowing shit up. Here's a clip of Alan Rickman dying. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnQEo4bazIo). And here's Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson playing around in a park fountain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVtQNK_ZUJg). 
 
    Suddenly all those 9-11 conspiracy theories don't seem so far off after all........

 

 

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