Movies don’t always get things right. In fact, there are some things that movies almost never do. And due to how influential movies are, this in turn means that everyone will see the wrong thing, thinking it’s right. It may be a bit too much to ask that all movies are entirely truthful all the time, a tad more accuracy really wouldn’t hurt anyone.
Let’s take a look at some things that movies almost always get wrong.
Gunshots
A few big things movies get wrong here. First of all, bullets travel faster than sound. This means that you’ll get hit before you hear the gunshot, not after. It’ll also almost never happen that soldiers group up in a small spot and just fire entire magazines in a random direction. Most soldiers don’t fire their weapons at all, and they usually spread out to avoid a lucky mortar shot blowing up an entire company.
Dinosaurs
Since Jurassic Park released, we’ve learnt a lot more things about dinosaurs that warrant a more accurate remake of the series. The T-Rex was a fairly slow runner, meaning you would definitely be able to get away from them in a car. And the ever popular Velociraptor? Well, those were about the size of a turkey. Seems a lot less menacing now, does it?
Biometrics
There’s a simple rule here that all of Hollywood has forgotten: biometrics scanners only detect living tissue. You cannot cut off someone’s hand or gouge out his eye and get past biometric security. It just can’t be done. End of story.
