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Sun Nov 4th, 2007 02:48 am |
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I hate "Movie Knock-outs". You guys know what I'm talking about - right? A good guy, in a movie, needs to incapacitate someone like a guard. So the good guy sneaks up and hits the guard (or who ever) with an object of some kind (lamp, pipe, vase, branch, etc...) and the guard is "knocked out", but is otherwise fine. Oh my God that is SO ANNOYING!!!!!! Why do they keep using this unnecessary and STUPID cliche in movies!?! I'm not a doctor - but I'm willing to bet that if you hit someone hard enough to incapacitate them - then this is how it would happen:
22% - instant death
32% - unconsciousness, vomiting, bleeding, death occurs in less then an hour unless hospitalized.
27% - severe brain damage requiring hospitalization.
18% - spinal injury requiring hospitalization.
1% - unconsciousness with no permanent consequences.
And what gets me the most is how UNNESSESARY it is as a plot device! If a writer does not want to show the hero killing the guard - then have him use chloroform or a taser! Or have him over power the guard with a struggle. CHRIST! WHY why why do they keep using this stupid cliche!?!?!?!?
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Posted: Sun Nov 4th, 2007 10:12 pm |
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| lol, sometimes it is a bit anoying to see it used over and over in the movies. I have been knocked out quit a few times in my life. The 1st time i slept for about 3 hrs and threw up lots afterwards. The 2nd time knocked out only for few minutes, nothing hapened afterwards.
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Wildmage
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Thu Jan 31st, 2008 04:10 pm |
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My parents raise horses. And my older brother got kicked in the head by this one mean horse. He had a concussion and was unconsiouss for almost fifteen hours in the hospital. Quite a bit different from someone crashing a vase over your head, but, hey.
So yeah, I agree. Most annoying.
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Saint
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Posted: Tue Feb 26th, 2008 01:37 am |
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LOL! Yeah, I agree...it's almost as annoying as the line, "Let's get out of here!"
Real life isn't Metal Gear Solid.
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