We may love it, but we are not naïve enough to believe it.
Charlie’s Angels: Full
Throttle- Helicopter Scene
In this awesome action flick, the three ladies do some
unreal stuff. But it was almost too unreal when these girls drove a huge
flatbed off a bridge and while falling, jumped into a helicopter, started it up
and flew away. This was somehow all done mid-air. I don’t believe physics would
agree with the director.
Indiana Jones And
The Kingdom of Crystal Skull: The Fridge Scene
Indiana Jones can get out of any pickle. Thought when he
finds himself in a nuclear bomb testing zone, Jones jumps into an old refrigerator
and manages to survive the blast as the nuke thankfully just throws the fridge
beyond the blast radius, leaving Indy without a scratch.
Live Free Or Die
Hard: The Fighter Jet Scene
While John McClane is the man, it was pretty ridiculous that
he was able to defeat a high-tech fighter jet with nothing but a truck. Also,
did they find the most horrible shot ever to fly this plane? He has target
guided missiles yet can’t hit an 18 wheeler.
The A-Team- The
Tank Scene
Though this entire film is unrealistic, it is quite
enjoyable. They took many liberties with this film. But when they have the team
plummet from a plane inside a military tank, they go too far. The Tank is held
up only by a parachute. The A-Team then decides to fire the main cannon in
order to adjust its descent.
Speed- Bus Jump
Scene
In this gravity defying scene, a bus driving only 60 MPH
makes a jump over a huge gap in the interstate. With no incline or ramp
whatsoever, the bus seemingly is pulled up into mid-air as it miraculously
makes the jump. Mythbusters disproved this as being physically possible; though
I am pretty sure I could have told you that.
2 Fast 2 Furious-
Boat Landing
This won’t be the first scene from this franchise. At the
end of the film, the two stars are in pursuit of the villain who has run off in
his yacht. To catch him, the two heroes jump their car into the boat. The jump
is timed perfectly and instead of crashing into the boat, it simply crunches on
top of the boat as the two emerge
without a scratch.
Die Another Day-
Tidal Wave Surfing Scene
Even if you ignore the rocket car, gigantic ice hotel, and deadly space laser, this
'Die Another Day' scene is still ridiculous. James Bond finds himself dangling
from the edge of a cliff and devises a unique means of escape. Using the rocket
car's parachute and engine cover, he surfs away to safety on a gigantic
tidal wave. If that wasn't bad enough, the entire scene is done with
terrible CGI.
Mr. And Mrs. Smith-
Tool Shed Scene
With an army of assassins around them, the two lover assassins
hide in a tool shed. For some reason, the assassins didn’t shoot the crap out
of a wood shed. Then as the couple emerges shooting, these trained assassins
all miss horribly at a couple coming out of a 3 foot doorway. Wow!
Fast Five- The Safe
Runaway
And we are back. In this awesome yet ridiculous scene.
The two heroes hook up a seemingly huge
and heavy vault to the back of two reinforced Ford Mustangs and then proceed to
drive the safe through the streets of Rio. This is not possible for anyone
planning a heist. And the fact that these cars didn’t rip apart is laughable.
Cliffhanger- Plane
Transfer
There's a major scene in 'Cliffhanger' where people transfer
from one plane to another mid-flight. This scene was done by a real-life
stuntman, so it's surprisingly realistic. However, things go wrong when a man fires a single machine gun and
absolutely tears apart the second plane despite being hundreds of
feet away in the air.
Shoot Em Up- Sex
Scene (WARNING EXPLICIT-YOUTUBE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION)
'Shoot 'Em Up' was
solely created for the purpose of being over the top, but that doesn't excuse
it from this list. There are a number of scenes that defy reality, but the sex
scene is especially ridiculous. The main character is getting it on
when the bad guys show up and start shooting at
them. Rather than allowing their
love-making session to get interrupted, he grabs his gun and starts firing back
as they roll around the room.
Commando- Entire
Film
Pity the fool-hardy
faceless drones of Val Verde. They definitely didn't sign up for this, being
butchered indiscriminately by John Matrix, who's turned up looking for his
kidnapped daughter, "Chenny". After making a splash playing an
indestructible robot who can single-handedly massacre a police force, Arnie
opted for the crowd-pleasing option, playing an indestructible elite Special
Forces type who can massacre an entire army. Still, given that he does a lot of
this standing perfectly upright, without cover, just pumping out bullets,
suggests that maybe the aim-retarded morons of Val Verde had it coming to them.
True Lies- Missile
Shot
The film did
overreach itself somewhat, though, in its final ten minutes, as Arnold
Schwarzenegger took to the skies in a Harrier Jump Jet. Having snagged
wild-eyed terrorist Aziz (Art Malik) on the pointier section of a Sidewinder
missile, Arnie issues forth one of his stirring one-liners (“You’re fired!”)
and launches both bad guy and missile through the side of a building and
straight into a waiting helicopter.
Transporter 2- Bomb Scene
There are some movie
sequences that steam straight through implausibility and straight into the
realms of chuckle-inducing madness. Jason Statham’s Transporter and Crank movies
are jam packed full of them, but if we had to choose just one, it has to be the
moment in Transporter 2, where Statham manages to do a spot of
bomb disposal while driving at what appears to be 600 miles per hour.
Hurtling along in a glistening Audi A8, Statham has mere seconds before
the evil Lola (Kate Nauta) detonates a bomb strapped to the car’s undercarriage.
Statham, extraordinarily skilled as he is, drives up a conveniently placed
ramp, flicking the car upside-down, and manages to snag the bomb on a waiting
crane hook. The Audi then continues on its 360-degree barrel roll, before
landing neatly back on its wheels like a gymnast dismounting a pommel horse.
Nice read. Maybe a little more detail on why or how the scenes were unrealistic would of made it better
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