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Post by ironhold on Aug 5, 2022 22:38:56 GMT
Bullet Train (2022), spoilers -
When the trail derails, Brad Pitt's character is saved from serious injury because he's thrown into and cushioned by a large padded mascot costume. The train line was doing a special promotion with a popular kids' television series in order to encourage more families to ride, and as part of it they hired a costume actor. Hence why the padded mascot costume was lying around.
Would such a costume actually offer any degree of padding during a crash or disaster?
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 5, 2022 22:53:51 GMT
Couldn’t hurt.
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Post by the light works on Aug 6, 2022 6:00:19 GMT
most modern mascot costumes use plastic shapers for support rather than padding, so it would be a small degree.
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Post by ironhold on Aug 12, 2022 23:58:26 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_(2022_film)Fall (2022)In the film, two "action girl" types try to climb what they're told is a decommissioned 2,000 - foot tall TV antenna, only to be trapped at the top when the ladder gives way. rather brutal spoilers:1. One of the girls demonstrates how you can use a light bulb socket to recharge electronic devices, claiming that if you can get the prongs on the plug to connect the metal parts that power the light bulb it's the same thing. This is *without* any sort of adapter, such as what you might find in a hardware store. 2. Later in the movie, they use that technique to recharge a drone, removing one of the aircraft warning lights and using a gold necklace & wedding ring to fit the gap between the metal parts and the plug. 3. When the girls are trapped up top, they decide to do an "egg drop" event with their cell phones, noting that while they have no signal at the top of the tower, they had signal at the bottom of the tower. Thus, they take a cell phone (a generic smart phone), program an SOS to go out once the phone gets a connection, wrap it in one girl's push-up bra, stick it in a shoe, and drop it. In the movie, the phone is implied to have *not* survived the fall, but was it ever a possibility? 4. Later in the movie, one of the two girls dies. In an act of desperation, the other girl rigs a similar SOS, stuffs it in a shoe, and stuffs the shoe in a cavity in the first girl's body that was opened up by some vultures. She then drops the body, and it's implied that this time the phone is protected. (Never mind the fact that this is two nights in a row the aircraft warning light is non-functional, and so someone could have been sent to investigate anyway.)
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 13, 2022 0:31:40 GMT
It’s a movie. If the screen writer says it survives, it survives.
But in real life, it very well could. If it lands in weeds or tall grass, yeah, I could see it surviving. Landing on concrete or asphalt, not likely.
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Post by ironhold on Aug 13, 2022 0:44:26 GMT
It’s a movie. If the screen writer says it survives, it survives. But in real life, it very well could. If it lands in weeds or tall grass, yeah, I could see it surviving. Landing on concrete or asphalt, not likely. This was the open desert, filmed near Mojave. But yeah, the film kept trying to drop so many twists on top of twists that past a certain point the twists were ret-conning other twists so that the plot could keep working. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 13, 2022 0:59:15 GMT
1: mechanically speaking, fat chance. electrically speaking, it's possible.
2: if they have a charger with them, and they can get a sustained contact, they will probably still be charging slower than molasses, because the light is blinking on and off.
3: first, if they have signal at the bottom, they will have signal at the top, since cellular signals are line of sight. second, with most phones, they just type the text message, press send, and let go. the big question is if the phone will have time to ping and send before impact. they'd probably get better results using things as a drogue than they would get using them for padding. or they could strip all the wire out of the drone (including motor windings), and use it to lower the phone.
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Post by wvengineer on Aug 15, 2022 1:05:36 GMT
1. They would have to have a charger. An old light bulb is likely 120VAC. Maybe 240 or even 266 VAC. Feeding any of those to the socket of a phone that takes 5VDC would fry the phone.
2. See #1. Likely a slightly different DC voltage, but mains power would still fry the drone.
3. As TLW said, that's not how cell phones work. If they had signal at the bottom, they would have an even better signal at the top since they would have better line of sight and less stuff in the way to block signal.
4. Maybe.
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Post by the light works on Aug 15, 2022 3:33:38 GMT
1. They would have to have a charger. An old light bulb is likely 120VAC. Maybe 240 or even 266 VAC. Feeding any of those to the socket of a phone that takes 5VDC would fry the phone. 2. See #1. Likely a slightly different DC voltage, but mains power would still fry the drone. 3. As TLW said, that's not how cell phones work. If they had signal at the bottom, they would have an even better signal at the top since they would have better line of sight and less stuff in the way to block signal. 4. Maybe. I think they had a charger, and were just trying to hold the prongs into the socket - and it was a clearance light on the antenna, not a marker light on an airplane, if I read the synopsis on the movie correctly. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 15, 2022 12:24:58 GMT
Federal regulations require that antenna marker lights be monitored every 24 hours to insure they are working correctly. If no one is present to provide the check, an automatic surveillance system must be employed. So just removing the marker bulb should have sent help.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 15, 2022 16:09:30 GMT
1. They would have to have a charger. An old light bulb is likely 120VAC. Maybe 240 or even 266 VAC. Feeding any of those to the socket of a phone that takes 5VDC would fry the phone. 2. See #1. Likely a slightly different DC voltage, but mains power would still fry the drone. 3. As TLW said, that's not how cell phones work. If they had signal at the bottom, they would have an even better signal at the top since they would have better line of sight and less stuff in the way to block signal. 4. Maybe. I think they had a charger, and were just trying to hold the prongs into the socket - and it was a clearance light on the antenna, not a marker light on an airplane, if I read the synopsis on the movie correctly. Just remember the rules of abandoned tower climbing. Always bring your phone charger and don't forget your E-26 to two prong screw-in adapter. |
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Post by ironhold on Aug 15, 2022 19:53:06 GMT
Federal regulations require that antenna marker lights be monitored every 24 hours to insure they are working correctly. If no one is present to provide the check, an automatic surveillance system must be employed. So just removing the marker bulb should have sent help. In the timeline of the movie, it's *at least* two evenings between them popping off the marker light and the authorities actually arriving for the rescue, if not three. In fact, the movie doesn't even *say* what finally triggers the rescue, if it's someone realizing the marker lights aren't working or a text message finally getting through. We literally go from "the surviving girl is atop a broadcast dish that is starting to come loose" to "that very evening, as the police, ambulances, and a helicopter are on the scene". We see the paramedics load a black body bag into an ambulance, then get the twist of the survivor in the back of another ambulance being treated. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 19, 2022 14:49:12 GMT
a ridiculous movie trope: in movies of all kinds, you see people wake up and not immediately have to go pee.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 19, 2022 21:55:39 GMT
Good point
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Post by ironhold on Aug 19, 2022 22:26:57 GMT
a ridiculous movie trope: in movies of all kinds, you see people wake up and not immediately have to go pee. Believe it or not, this is likely the result of overt censorship of some kind, as even *hinting* at someone going to the bathroom can affect the rating, let alone doing anything to depict them actually in it. It's the same kind of prudishness that meant married couples couldn't be shown sleeping in the same bed. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 20, 2022 14:47:13 GMT
a ridiculous movie trope: in movies of all kinds, you see people wake up and not immediately have to go pee. Believe it or not, this is likely the result of overt censorship of some kind, as even *hinting* at someone going to the bathroom can affect the rating, let alone doing anything to depict them actually in it. It's the same kind of prudishness that meant married couples couldn't be shown sleeping in the same bed. With what they get away with in even a PG movie, and you think they are worried about insinuating that someone went to the bathroom? |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 20, 2022 14:52:06 GMT
Believe it or not, this is likely the result of overt censorship of some kind, as even *hinting* at someone going to the bathroom can affect the rating, let alone doing anything to depict them actually in it. It's the same kind of prudishness that meant married couples couldn't be shown sleeping in the same bed. With what they get away with in even a PG movie, and you think they are worried about insinuating that someone went to the bathroom? And a married couple not being allowed to sleep in the same bed was strictly for TV and that went out the window 40 years ago. Have you watched any TV show lately? Showing a gay couple making out is almost a requirement. |
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Post by ironhold on Aug 20, 2022 16:00:50 GMT
Believe it or not, this is likely the result of overt censorship of some kind, as even *hinting* at someone going to the bathroom can affect the rating, let alone doing anything to depict them actually in it. It's the same kind of prudishness that meant married couples couldn't be shown sleeping in the same bed. With what they get away with in even a PG movie, and you think they are worried about insinuating that someone went to the bathroom? Whether or not someone is depicted *smoking* can affect a movie's rating. Back in the 1990s there was a push to have "smoking" be an instant and retroactive R rating. Disney crushed that movement hard because it would have affected some of their early family movies, but the MPAA can still now take smoking into consideration. It's... a flaming mess, really. The MPAA is one of the least transparent organizations you'll ever encounter. edit - Remember that the production team at Sunbow had to add cursing to 1986's "The Transformers: The Movie" to get a PG rating because the MPAA people at the time didn't take all of the character deaths seriously as it was robots all being killed. Even then, one of the two curse words was removed, giving the film a G again. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 20, 2022 17:31:32 GMT
it's more that such mundanities are seen as a waste of time in storytelling, so if the character going to the bathroom isn't important to the storyline, they skip it. just like they don't have a person leaving a pub finish their drink, they rarely have a person actually take a full bite of their food, and if you watch, the coffee that TV and movie characters swill actually puts enough liquid in their mouth to force them to take time to swallow. - and often they wave the "full" cup around in such a way that would have the walls and floor spattered with it.
in fact, the marvel universe is a bit of an oddity in that RDJ actually EATS on set.
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Post by ironhold on Dec 4, 2022 12:17:16 GMT
Violent Night -
1. In one scene, Santa takes a large candy cane (at least as thick around as a quarter), sharpens it, and uses it as a weapon. Could a candy cane of any size be that hard and solid?
2. A girl has booby-trapped the ladder leading up to the attic where she's hiding. She left an obvious drill bit embedded in one step about eye level, distracting the baddies from the fact that she cut a different step in half with a saw. When the bad guy puts his food on that step, it gives away, causing him to fall down and the bit to puncture his jaw.
3. The girl also rigs a bunch of bowling balls to roll onto the villains. They trip one, impacting her repeatedly without doing real harm, and yet one falls down and hits another villain, driving a nail he's holding into his head.
4. Santa delivers his coup de grace against the main villain by taking him up the chimney. But while Santa - being magic - survives, the villain is crushed into something that could fit the hole.
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