• ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    So dumb.

    Hour argument, that the final cliff fall scene in Predator 1 was two different jumps in the 2 cuts.

    Can see in the first one he is rotating. Second cut is a straight plumb drop into the water.

    How were the rotational moments counteracted?

    They weren’t, it’s two different jumps/takes.

    2 friends came up with some hair-brained arguments that you could stop rotating on the way down. (눈_눈)

    The only way would be air resistance, and hands/arms is not going to be enough to create drag to counter the rotation.

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      1 day ago

      I hate when people get into minute arguments about what is visually happening on screen versus the story that’s being told. It can be a single jump narratively but two jumps in production. (I’ve never seen the movie.)

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        16 hours ago

        I was not invested in the outcome of the argument, just seeing how far they were willing to take being wrong about aerodynamics/physics. Quite far it turns out.