I thought about this while watching Last Man Standing, where a pair of .45's send a fella tumbling backwards and blows a man across the street through a glass window. I think the kickback offered by handheld firearms is probably the most common error in movies. Even in very serious thrillers. Most realistic gun shot I ever saw was from an unlikely source: U571. Dude gets hit and just stands there looking at the hole in his chest. Regarding Henry was a lot more realistic, but its also a plot point and I think the original story came from a book.
Along those lines the idea that lead can spark and ignite things. Granted this can actually happen with muzzle blast but you never see that in movies, just the bullet bouncing off the concrete floor and lighting of a pool of gasoline.
2nd most common is blood that stays neon red for hours, days, and weeks after the murder/assault happens. Just noticed it in Presumed Innocent on netflix.
Of course sometimes theres reasons for that. For those of us who've watched Saw we probably noticed the blood in the middle of the room stayed red and liquid the whole movie. What amazed me is the surgeon sitting a couple feet away never noticed it in the entire 6 hours he was stuck there.
And in the end of Dexter season 1 they make a point to talk about it, how the blood had been treated with a chemical which is why the killer was able to keep it and store it and splatter it about the room and have it stay pretty until the cops found it.
3rd most common is car stuff like exploding gas tanks or people hurling away from a wreck/explosion and getting up just fine.
4th is probably being knocked unconscious and waking up hours later with a headache. In reality if you dont get up right away that means you got some serious brain damage and it wont be simple aches and pains and running around slashing bad guys with the sweet katana you found upstairs in the pawn shop.
Along those lines is the convenient amnesia and amnesia cure with a rubber mallet to the skull, but I havent seen that since 80's sitcoms so maybe it doesnt apply any more.
Oh, forgot about the defibrillator starting a flatline. I still see that in movies about doctors and cop & fire dramas. That might actually be the 1st or 2nd most common.
Along those lines the idea that lead can spark and ignite things. Granted this can actually happen with muzzle blast but you never see that in movies, just the bullet bouncing off the concrete floor and lighting of a pool of gasoline.
2nd most common is blood that stays neon red for hours, days, and weeks after the murder/assault happens. Just noticed it in Presumed Innocent on netflix.
Of course sometimes theres reasons for that. For those of us who've watched Saw we probably noticed the blood in the middle of the room stayed red and liquid the whole movie. What amazed me is the surgeon sitting a couple feet away never noticed it in the entire 6 hours he was stuck there.
And in the end of Dexter season 1 they make a point to talk about it, how the blood had been treated with a chemical which is why the killer was able to keep it and store it and splatter it about the room and have it stay pretty until the cops found it.
3rd most common is car stuff like exploding gas tanks or people hurling away from a wreck/explosion and getting up just fine.
4th is probably being knocked unconscious and waking up hours later with a headache. In reality if you dont get up right away that means you got some serious brain damage and it wont be simple aches and pains and running around slashing bad guys with the sweet katana you found upstairs in the pawn shop.
Along those lines is the convenient amnesia and amnesia cure with a rubber mallet to the skull, but I havent seen that since 80's sitcoms so maybe it doesnt apply any more.
Oh, forgot about the defibrillator starting a flatline. I still see that in movies about doctors and cop & fire dramas. That might actually be the 1st or 2nd most common.