Live Free or Die Hard
Jul. 4th, 2007 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalOverall, enjoyable. Except for the part where the laws of physics and biology are completely thrown out the window..But now I remember why I never watched diehard movies before. Even at the age of 8, the stunts were too unbelievable to me. Just saying.
1) ROADBURN -- jumping out of a speeding car will result in the removal of vast amounts of skin -- even if jeans or other clothing are on top of them. maybe goretex would prevent, but I'm not willing to try it. Also, I doubt a toll booth would allow a car to become airborne 20+ feet in the air. Most likely the two would become one.
2) Getting hit by a moving vehicle, generally results in many many many broken bones. The sort of which would prevent hamster man from jumping around a frozen room later in the movie.
3) Just because a woman knows kung fu does not mean she can throw a larger man through a window with just his thumb. I'm pretty sure said thumb would dislocate.
4) I'm pretty sure the entire crew of bad guys + john mclane were all xmen. That's the only way to explain regenerative abilities. That or everyone had massive amounts of pcp and heroin.
5) when a car falls down an elevator shaft and explodes -- said fire ball generally goes all the way up elevator shaft. it doesn't stop at some pretty point about 20 feet below heroes feet. And if it did, I'm pretty sure a concussive blast would still make the battered man lose his grip.
6) Gas does not travel through pipelines as huge balls of fire. Yes, there is a combustion pressure for most gases....however, those also don't produce fireballs traveling through pipe -- they just immediately burst the pipe. And once those burst, they will result in some surface explosions, but those surface explosion won't continue on in a chain reaction demolishing everything in front of them. Just saying.
7) jet fighters can't hover in the air.
8) at some point when a jet fighter fires bullets at a semi, I'm fairly sure that the gas tank would rupture at some point. This would result in fire here. And roast the hero.
9) I can't say this enough - jet fighters can't hover.
10) guy falls onto spinning jet plane (which again, spinning jet planes descend to ground rapidly, they don't hover), hangs on for period of time before sliding off and onto a concrete ramp and sliding down that many feet. ROADBURN. If not broken bones, ROADBURN. Seriously, McClane should have NO SKIN LEFT on vast portions of his body. And his clothes should most definitely no longer be attached to his body. And if they are, that needs to be taken to Iraq for use as body armor.
11) Hollywood, despite your popular belief, the lungs actually occupy most of the chest cavity. There's very few places to puncture and MISS the lungs. To shoot yourself through the chest to shoot the person behind you, you'd need to shoot through your collarbone ...which would actually cause the bullet to ricochet possibly, so better if you do it right over the collarbone. And someone who does shoot through one of their lungs would then be unable to have hearfelt joking conversation with daughter. Seriously.
1) ROADBURN -- jumping out of a speeding car will result in the removal of vast amounts of skin -- even if jeans or other clothing are on top of them. maybe goretex would prevent, but I'm not willing to try it. Also, I doubt a toll booth would allow a car to become airborne 20+ feet in the air. Most likely the two would become one.
2) Getting hit by a moving vehicle, generally results in many many many broken bones. The sort of which would prevent hamster man from jumping around a frozen room later in the movie.
3) Just because a woman knows kung fu does not mean she can throw a larger man through a window with just his thumb. I'm pretty sure said thumb would dislocate.
4) I'm pretty sure the entire crew of bad guys + john mclane were all xmen. That's the only way to explain regenerative abilities. That or everyone had massive amounts of pcp and heroin.
5) when a car falls down an elevator shaft and explodes -- said fire ball generally goes all the way up elevator shaft. it doesn't stop at some pretty point about 20 feet below heroes feet. And if it did, I'm pretty sure a concussive blast would still make the battered man lose his grip.
6) Gas does not travel through pipelines as huge balls of fire. Yes, there is a combustion pressure for most gases....however, those also don't produce fireballs traveling through pipe -- they just immediately burst the pipe. And once those burst, they will result in some surface explosions, but those surface explosion won't continue on in a chain reaction demolishing everything in front of them. Just saying.
7) jet fighters can't hover in the air.
8) at some point when a jet fighter fires bullets at a semi, I'm fairly sure that the gas tank would rupture at some point. This would result in fire here. And roast the hero.
9) I can't say this enough - jet fighters can't hover.
10) guy falls onto spinning jet plane (which again, spinning jet planes descend to ground rapidly, they don't hover), hangs on for period of time before sliding off and onto a concrete ramp and sliding down that many feet. ROADBURN. If not broken bones, ROADBURN. Seriously, McClane should have NO SKIN LEFT on vast portions of his body. And his clothes should most definitely no longer be attached to his body. And if they are, that needs to be taken to Iraq for use as body armor.
11) Hollywood, despite your popular belief, the lungs actually occupy most of the chest cavity. There's very few places to puncture and MISS the lungs. To shoot yourself through the chest to shoot the person behind you, you'd need to shoot through your collarbone ...which would actually cause the bullet to ricochet possibly, so better if you do it right over the collarbone. And someone who does shoot through one of their lungs would then be unable to have hearfelt joking conversation with daughter. Seriously.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-04 04:12 pm (UTC)John MacLane is a BAD ASS!!!
9) I can't say this enough - jet fighters can't hover.
Actually they can... Any fighter jet that can do a Vertical take off and landing, such as THIS ONE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-8_Harrier_II) can be made to hover as long as it is not carrying a full payload.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-04 04:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-04 05:26 pm (UTC)But #11 is soooooo right. You'd have to aim low. And then worry about liver, kidneys, and intestines. : )
I feel like I should go see this movie at matinee now just to mock it. *grin*
(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-04 05:53 pm (UTC)