8 Common Movie Myths Debunked!

8 Common Movie Myths Debunked! Hollywood is known for often bending the truth when it comes to science, and we are here to set them straight.

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[Nerdwriter]

Great job on this! I WAS ANIMATED. I love it so much. 

[porterdeacon]

Movie cliche= jumping through a window and miraculously coming out on the other side unharmed.

[DexFire]

You missed the fire in space myth. There is no flames without oxygen

[EJBen]

You missed one crucial thing: Only cool guys don't look at explosions...

[ErnestJay]

Typical movie cliche :

1. Main character have UNLIMITED AMMO (bad guys always reload every 10 seconds, main character can shoot thousand of rounds without reloading)
2. Female character who NEVER shoot gun before instantly become a "sniper" and shoot bad guy either right in the hearth or right in the head when the main character in a tight situation.
3. Bad guy always TALKING before shooting, usually bad guy fails because he/she talks too much and the good guy either escape, or win the battle.
4. Bad guys "SHARP SHOOTER" can't even hit a main character even after they wasted hundreds of rounds, meanwhile "newbie shooter" from good guys can shoot and kill every bad guys on the screen, 1 shoot = 1 kill.

[nelinno]

Didn't mention that supressors don't make guns sound like kittens jumping on a pillow. Cartridges that aren't sub-sonic still create a sonic boom regardless of supressors.

[Athrun]

Star wars is from a Galaxy far far away...
So maybe in that region, their asteroid belt is extremely dense

[MichaelChin]

Light sabers and blasters in Star Wars don't use light. They use plasma.

[hannahkan]

1:53 I do this all the time in Minecraft, now I know it is not true to do so irl, Im sad :(

[CODEFORTYTWO]

When someone turns on the lights in a warehouse, each row of lights makes a "ker-chunk" sound as they turn on

[thepond]

If I ever make a movie, I'm doing it with actual physics.

[Skellingtor]

Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) actually broke his arm in the yacht crash, so they didn't come out completely unscathed.

[annacollins]

indiana jones surviving a nuke with a fridge

[marioruiz]

3:55 roman walked away with a broken arm

[ehsanhafizi]

Someone else said it, and I am gonna say it again, this is gonna be the next big channel on YouTube.

[Boxsteam]

Captain America is a super soldier, he could probably survive that fall.

[spongesword]

Another movie myth is that you can pull a grenade pin out with your teeth

[MeepChangeling]

Hi! Nerd here! You would still see star war's "lasers" they are not actual lasers, they are particle beams. There is actual matter contained within the energy "capsule" which light would reflect off of and thus each bolt is visible. Additionally they travel slower then the speed of light so aside from having sound Star War battles are accurate to their on screen representations.

So you shouldn't have used star wars ships as your visual example. That's just bad science.

[eggo]

In Star Wars they use plasma bolts, not lasers :3

[chillycarlson]

You forgot one thing.
About the fact that the main character can find whatever he or she needs in a tight situation. Like for example, when in a car chase, "Look! A conveniently placed thing that would kill the bad guy instantly!" or, "Hey look! A cool idea that seems to have a low chance of success but works anyway!"