Doctors diagnose Home Alone

[47of74]

My mom had Home Alone on last night so time again to share this...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Interesting.

When I watched that movie I knew there were many times when those two guys would have been completely incapacitated if not killed. But it happens all the time in movies. Also in action novels. And it makes me crazy. It also gives impressionable people the wrong idea about what is survivable.

And don't get me started on people who can outrun an explosion.

[kimbutgar]

4. The netflix has a documentary the movies that made us

They explain how they did those stunts.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Oh, I know they are all stunts.

But they're presented in the context of the movie as if they're real, as if real people survive such things.

Another example is fires in movies. They never spread at even a fraction of the rate real fires spread. Most of the time you'd have 90 seconds to get out once the fire takes hold, but in movies people basically explore burning buildings safely. Yes, I understand that in the filming the fire is well controlled, but that's fiction. Not what it's really like.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. When I was a kid my friend and I would watch cartoons and yell IMPOSSIBLE when impossible

stuff would happen, like falling off a cliff and walking away, etc.

[kimbutgar]

3. Netflix has a great documentary about the making of this movie

Saw it last tonight. We saw the one about the making of Dirty Dancing and the next two are Die Hard and Ghostbusters.

It’s called the Movies that made us.