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# I can just picture Palin with the comment 'Ho Ho Ho, Now I have a Machine Gun'
Hollywood rant after thinking back to Die Hard: Hollywood. When depicting people crawling through ventilation systems, do a bit of a background check by looking at the state of existing ventilation systems. They are filled to the brim with crap, dust, bugs, cobwebs, etc etc, and are not shiny clean implements to transport air only.
Also, Lifts do not freefall as often depicted. They are fitted with brakes to ensure this doesn't happen in the event of ALL connecting suspension being severed. Hollywood rant over
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:37, archived)
# What if it was a brand new building?
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:39, archived)
# Like the Nakatomi building, for instance
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Thy Maker Has it really been that long?, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:41, archived)
# If it was a brand spanking new building, you'd still get a reasonably dirt vent. system.
The vent system will of course be installed before the building is signed off and cleaned up ready for use. You'll get building dust etc in the air, and transferred when the system is tested.
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:41, archived)
# What if it was a brand new building with the original vent system ripped out
and a new vent system put in, and not used yet?
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:44, archived)
# keep plugging away.
Yes, in that case, it would be spanking new and clean - but you mentioned an entire new building. once installed however, a system does not remain as shiny as Hollywood would have us believe.
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# :)
Thought so!
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:48, archived)
# *Grrrrr shakes fist*
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# You'd like this site
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

if you haven't seen it already...
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:51, archived)
# Tis a great site
I'm still a sucker for the movies at any rate :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:58, archived)
# It's only a film,you know for entertainment.
If it were real, he'd have been shot or captured in the first 20 mins!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:41, archived)
# No way man! That's John McLean (sp?)
he kicks ass and takes names for a living!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:43, archived)
# what if it's just pretend
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# When I did the whole 'educational' bit for getting where I am now.
We had an entire 3 hour lecture on discussing various building/construction plotholes in the movies, and how they should work in the real world.
It spoils the magic knowing the truth.
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# bless ya heart
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# *OCD's*
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:47, archived)
# I always wondered about the point of freefalling lifts in movies.
Someone invented emergency liftbrakes in the late 19th century for christ's sake.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:49, archived)
# You'd think hollywood would have caught up by now.
the whole freefalling lift thing has been done to death - so to speak
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:51, archived)
# Maybe they should do the same thing, but with escalators.
"Shit the motors have been cut. This escalator, IS GOING NOWHERE!"
*dramatic closeup on actors' faces*
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 16:54, archived)