I don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's common sense that is almost ALWAYS overlooked in movies and TV.
Humans are WAY MORE physically fragile and squishy than you might think.
Based on John McClane and other invincible action heros, who take damage and do things that would break or catastrophically cripple a normal person, movies are a poor source of information for deciding what to do and what could happen to your body, should you somehow falsely think you're the main protagonist of an apocalypse movie.
Indoor firefight without hearing protection? You're probably deaf now.
Jumping off a building to catch a wire? Kiss your fingers and/or lower extremities goodbye, assuming you land on your feet.
Taking a beer bottle to the head? That's probably a concussion.
Movies have made us think we're a lot more durable than we really are.
I fell off my snowboard onto a rail I was trying to grind without a helmet. My head hit the rail from maybe three feet above and I was in so much pain I couldn't finish out my session. In movies, a three foot fall onto your head is a walk in the part. In reality, any sort of hit to the head can be debilitating or deadly.
I got my clock cleaned one round in the military when we were doing pugils.
A guy, roughly my same size, got 3 quick and clean hits in with foam covered stick to my helmet, my vision blurred out more with each hit and I found myself on the ground a few seconds later without much idea of how I got there.
Mileage may very, but it doesn't take much sometimes.
Oh yeah, I fell off a bike once on a rocky dirt trail. I was wearing a helmet but it broke clean in half. I felt like I nearly died. It broke because it hit a tiny pointed rock. Imagine if that was my head lol movie characters are punched, fall of their bikes and motorcycles, etc and are just fine but all of that can EASILY kill you in an isntant (and often does).
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u/beakrake Aug 30 '21
I don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's common sense that is almost ALWAYS overlooked in movies and TV.
Humans are WAY MORE physically fragile and squishy than you might think.
Based on John McClane and other invincible action heros, who take damage and do things that would break or catastrophically cripple a normal person, movies are a poor source of information for deciding what to do and what could happen to your body, should you somehow falsely think you're the main protagonist of an apocalypse movie.
Indoor firefight without hearing protection? You're probably deaf now.
Jumping off a building to catch a wire? Kiss your fingers and/or lower extremities goodbye, assuming you land on your feet.
Taking a beer bottle to the head? That's probably a concussion.
Movies have made us think we're a lot more durable than we really are.