Oh For Technical Experts!
This is Steven Petrick Posting.
There are trailers and commercials running for the new "Death Race" movie. Anyone near me will notice as the trailers/commercials run that I will "wince" while they are running.
Why?
Because I just cannot understand why even simple errors are allowed into films. If they are pretending it is real for the purpose of the film, please do not refer to .30 CALIBER weapons as "30 millimeter" weapons. No one could look at the bore of the purported weapon and make the mistake that is being made in this scene, endlessly repeated. How difficult is it to find out that the weapons are .30 caliber mini-guns (if you want to use the word "millimeter", then say "7.62 millimeter"). As you can see from that last parenthetical, a 30 millimeter weapon would have a bore nearly four times the size of a ".30 caliber" weapon, and the bores of those weapons are quite plainly a lot less than an inch and a quarter in size.
Of course, then there is "Monster Ark", which asks us to accept that a creature that is able to shrug off a direct hit from a light anti-tank weapon would possibly NOT hang around and kill everyone in the group that woke him up if they are firing M16s at him. But down the road he very nearly wipes out a larger group of people armed with AK-47s. It was the singular thing that I found annoying about the plot. If the monster is invincible to merely human (rather than divine) weapons, there is no logical reason for it not to have hung around the camp where it was first awakened until it had killed everyone. But it is central to the plot that it does not. Worse, since it did not seem to like being hit by bullets or small anti-armor rounds, I wound up not convinced that a 120mm hyper-velocity depleted uranium round from an M1 main gun would not have put paid the creature without divine intervention. It spent way to much time acting like bullets at least stung it, and ran off after being hit by a LAW round, for me to believe modern weapons would not have put it down. Its actions were inconsistent.
Lack of consistency is, however, often a problem I have with Hollywood plot lines.
There are trailers and commercials running for the new "Death Race" movie. Anyone near me will notice as the trailers/commercials run that I will "wince" while they are running.
Why?
Because I just cannot understand why even simple errors are allowed into films. If they are pretending it is real for the purpose of the film, please do not refer to .30 CALIBER weapons as "30 millimeter" weapons. No one could look at the bore of the purported weapon and make the mistake that is being made in this scene, endlessly repeated. How difficult is it to find out that the weapons are .30 caliber mini-guns (if you want to use the word "millimeter", then say "7.62 millimeter"). As you can see from that last parenthetical, a 30 millimeter weapon would have a bore nearly four times the size of a ".30 caliber" weapon, and the bores of those weapons are quite plainly a lot less than an inch and a quarter in size.
Of course, then there is "Monster Ark", which asks us to accept that a creature that is able to shrug off a direct hit from a light anti-tank weapon would possibly NOT hang around and kill everyone in the group that woke him up if they are firing M16s at him. But down the road he very nearly wipes out a larger group of people armed with AK-47s. It was the singular thing that I found annoying about the plot. If the monster is invincible to merely human (rather than divine) weapons, there is no logical reason for it not to have hung around the camp where it was first awakened until it had killed everyone. But it is central to the plot that it does not. Worse, since it did not seem to like being hit by bullets or small anti-armor rounds, I wound up not convinced that a 120mm hyper-velocity depleted uranium round from an M1 main gun would not have put paid the creature without divine intervention. It spent way to much time acting like bullets at least stung it, and ran off after being hit by a LAW round, for me to believe modern weapons would not have put it down. Its actions were inconsistent.
Lack of consistency is, however, often a problem I have with Hollywood plot lines.
posted by Federation Commander at 4:41 PM
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