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Ayyy Vee's avatar

Someday I’ll see this and you all will be thankful.

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Norton C Scrod's avatar

Wait. A. Minute. You’re telling me this movie had a SCIENCE ADVISOR? It was SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE? That blows my mind more than any critical acclaim it may have gotten. And of COURSE the advisor was Degrasse Tyson, it had to be.

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ETL's avatar

No, but this was the last movie that did almost all it's stunts practically. They really dropped cars out of planes. 70% landed in the right drop zone so they used those takes. They had cars up on cranes and dropped them from as high as possible with stuntmen in them and edited the two things together so it looked seamless. CGI was used to erase safety equipment and to blend the two stunts.

After this they slowly started to use more and more CGI but they have been very dedicated to blowing s**t up real good.

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Johnny Socko's avatar

No, that was more of Nathan's patented irony. However, it is possible to parachute a car from a plane. You just need a way to cushion the landing...either through literal cushions, or by transferring the motion from vertical to lateral.

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Norton C Scrod's avatar

Crap, I don’t know what’s satire with these movies.

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