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Things that I noticed that couldn't have happened....

posted 14 years ago by obelix99
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For example, Troy is locked up in a room with hundreds of old cell phones. He picks one up and dials his girlfriend in Detroit, which is a world away and deep from a bunker underground. This was suppose to take place in 1991. Also this was not a Sat phone(which wouldn't have worked anyways).

I don't know how many of you had cell phones back in 91 but I can tell you they were pretty *beep* All of them were analog. All of them dropped calls like crazy. To have a phone call placed way underground in a bunker, to the opposite side of the Earth.....is what I call....Hollywood film making at its best.

[–] xshaggz420 14 years ago

ever heard of "suspension of disbelief"?

[–] tbeller80 14 years ago

I suppose this could have happened, but what I found funniest was that of all the things destroyed when the humvee hit the land mine, the duffel bag full of C4-strapped footballs wasn't one of them.

[–] UberNoodle 14 years ago

That is assuming that C4 can be blown up by an external explosion or impact. I'm not sure C4 is like dynamite.

[–] tbeller80 14 years ago

C4 will burn when subjected to fire or extreme heat. Dropping it won't set it off, but a big enough shockwave can.

[–] UberNoodle 14 years ago

If it burns, will it explode?

[–] tbeller80 14 years ago

I don't believe so. I think it requires an actual blasting cap or something similar to go boom.

[–] UberNoodle 14 years ago

So does that somewhat .. ahem .. DEFUSE this thread? I think so.

[–] tbeller80 14 years ago

Yeah mostly. I know that C4 wouldn't necessarily explode in those circumstances, but the bag escaped without ANY damage and it was the only thing to survive the land mine explosion. I've seen a few vehicles go up in IED and land mine explosions and that duffel bag should have either been blown apart or burned quite a bit.

[–] UberNoodle 14 years ago

The way I look at movie plots is with the "multiverse" theory. There is a universe in which the bag was damaged so much that the C4 exploded and killed a lot of people and stopped the movie as we know it. But there is a universe in which the bag wasn't. This is what we saw in the movie.

As an example, in accordance with multiverse physics concepts, we are only aware of the universe we are currently in, and with the choices we make, we constantly branch into different "tracks" through different dimensions. But it is always YOU. Therefore, if you tossed a coin a hundred times and we followed the "heads" version of you everytime, it would seem impossible to get tails.

With this concept in mind, I enjoy almost every plot I read or watch.

[–] Balcones 14 years ago

Lol!

Nice post.
:)

[–] Hancock_the_Superb 14 years ago

The only answer I have is that plenty of illogical things happen in real life, especially during war time. That's something I have no problems believing.

"I may not punish you for treason, but I could slap you for stupidity."

[–] KTope 14 years ago

He wasn't in an underground bunker, do you not remember the wall exploding?

I am Jack's IMDb post.

[–] fdriver 14 years ago

Actually, it's plausible. If there was a cell tower within operating range of the phone, which was indeed a powerful analog unit with a better chance at long-range transmission than a new digital phone, he could easily make an international call to Detroit.

[–] dariusTheGreat 13 years ago

As all telephone traffic between Iraq/Kuwait & the US was blocked during the war for obvious reasons it was quite implausible. Also even IF the phones were in range of a tower (this was 1991 when cellphone coverage was pretty much limited to large urban areas), the telecommunications infrastructure by that time was bombed to bits.

Don't mean to nitpick, but this is a major plothole.

[–] Balcones 14 years ago

Analog phones actually had better range than digital phones. Too bad all analog networks are now gone (at least I think they are).
:(

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