10 Movie Laws That Are Completely Wrong
Hollywood stretching the truth on how some things actually work.
Published 10 years ago in Facepalm
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Exploding cars - Gasoline doesn't explode unless mixed with about 93% air. This might shock you, but if two cars crash into each other, they won't explode instantly. If a car flips over, its driver doesn't have to rush out of it in seconds, because it won't likely explode. Shooting a gas tank won't make the car explode, either.
2
The speed of sound - Thunder follows lighting, usually after a few seconds, depending on how far you are from where it hit. They don't occur simultaneously. The same goes for volcano eruption which won't be heard immediately rather than five seconds later for each mile. Explosions on the battlefield? You would hear them with a delay, not instantly, like in the movies.
9
Kicks don't send targets flying - In reality momentum is conserved, such that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you see someone kick their opponent, or even shoot them from a shotgun, and make them fly a few feet, even if the kick/shot had enough power to do so, it would send the kicker/shooter flying in the opposite direction. Physics.
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Jumping the gaps - During the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, a driver saw a gap in the bridge, and probably inspired by the movies, accelerated to try to jump over it. He fell into the hole and crashed on the other side. A bus can't jump over gaps in bridges, even if they go heavy on the accelerator.
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