A guy gets shot directly in the frontal lobe and still lives enough to ask a dog for a paw? Come on!
Once I saw this, the whole movie lost it's flare. Even though it was pretty good overall.
If it wasn't for that one scene I would recommend this movie to my friends, but now it's just 'meh'.
Exactly what I was thinking during that scene. I noticed the bullet is shift to left a little bit. May be that's why..
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Absolutely right. You need to evaluate what is actually realistic and what is not. There are countless stories of people being shot in the brain and living, having their head impaled on a spiked fence and living, walking into A&E with an axe or knife sticking out of their heads and living...
Colin-broderick is right on the money.
Yea, AFAIK, the brain stem is the best place to shoot someone if you want to ensure that they die. Anywhere else, and they could still live. Lots of people suffer front-lobe damage and live without any kind of physical disability (though they end up having a personality change and become emotionally unstable).
shareYeah, I thought people on a board for movie buffs would be familiar with the story of the legendary "cult" director Donald Cammell's (Performance, Demon Seed, White of the Eye and the AMAZING "Directors Cut" version of Wild Side, which he took his name off 'cause the studio cut it to smithereens) suicide? He shot himself in the head and was able to have a coherent conversation with his girlfriend for about 5 minutes (maybe longer, I can't remember) after shooting himself with a Glock (17?), can't remember what caliber the bullet was but I suppose it coulda been 9mm or .45 ACP....not that I'm an expert on guns at all (Brit here!!!). There's a great Arena (I think) documentary about him in which his girlfriend at the time of his suicide claimed that he'd researched into brain function and, basically, what area to shoot so as to be able to be fully conscious and talk....tho' that always seemed to me kind of improbable but he also spoke with one of his friends who lived nearby so there are at least two witnesses we know of to corroborate this.
I'd be interested if any Cammell experts could dispute this account of his death, last time I checked Wikipedia doesn't mention the conversation at all.
Just checked and the name of the doc is Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance.
shareThis film is a dark comedy, you know.
I sure hope you never decide to watch CHOPPER and wonder how the guy described the stab scene after being stabbed with a shiv 20 times, bleeding everywhere and not even blinking...
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Shuji Terayama forever.
I sure hope you never decide to watch CHOPPER and wonder how the guy described the stab scene after being stabbed with a shiv 20 times, bleeding everywhere and not even blinking...
You do know that people dont die instantly after a shot in the head right? That scene was more realistic than most movies with instant headshot kills. You're gonna see more and more movies do that now, just like they did in this movie and in Premium Rush.
shareAye, same with Ralph Fiennes character Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, guy got one bullet to the side of his head and I think I remember a few to the chest and was still moving, got a another few or just one more bullet to the head and then he died.
shareErr, not sure about that... you take one to the right part of the brain and you're not going to be conscious instantaneously... maybe you don't actually die for another few seconds or whatever, but you'd likely not be conscious and talking. Not that I'm agreeing with the original poster. If that was the first scene that you thought was a little bizarre, off, or non-realistic, you weren't paying much attention. Great flick!
shareWell, it's very unlikely to survive, but it's definitely possible. I remember some story about some political prisoner in former communist country, he got few shots to the back when he was on the run through the field from prison... when they caught up to him after he fell he got one to the head basically point-blank, because they wanted to kill him at that point. He was saying this story 40 or so years later. Even though the medical situation in said country was actually pretty decent (not just for communist country, but worldwide) it's still no modern medicine or neuro-science if we are talking about deep cold war era.
shareAll these children watching movies thinking they know the real effects of guns and bullets. Just clueless to reality. Hey, you do know a shotgun won't blast you ten feet through the air, right? Many times, bullet wounds will hardly bleed because they cauterize as they go through... Oh and because we aren't made of squibs.
shareHemophiliacs are made of squibs, aren't they?
Seen a guy take a full mag into his back, no blood, walked to the hospital. 9mm rounds. People should realize the size of the bullet has a lot to do with how much damage will be dealt. One of my buddies got shot five times in the head. Took him a couple of hours to die. And this is with gray matter hanging out his head and all. It's not always an instakill with a commentator saying DOMINATING.
Remember in Colors when Don Cheadle and that other guy just stood there shooting uzis into each other from like five feet away. Good times. Heh, Cheadle's character was Rocket and then he is a rocket in Iron Man 2. Ok crappy connection.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Exsorbeo pubes.
You've watched one too many zombie movies my friend.
Bullets to the head are almost always instant death but just like bullets to the chest, there's always that slight possibility of survival.
Just ask around people who practice in the health departments, they obviously know more than you and I.
By the way, did you not notice the ludicriousness of the entire film up until this point? It didn't take itself too seriously in the beginning, hard to follow that train of thought until the climax. It was just a bloody good time leave it at that.
You should look up "Half Head Man" who lost a large portion of his brain and skull (from just above his brow to about halfway through his skull...nearly the entire frontal lobe) from a drunk driving collision. I understand the scene was kind of silly, but a "psychopathic" character who survives a gunshot to the head for even a moment is bound to do something strange. If you cant get past 5 seconds of film, and if that's the only part of the movie that left you scratching your head, you may want to check your own frontal lobe for damages ;)
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