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NFT: Most realistic scenes in a movie?

Route 9 : 2/27/2021 1:29 am
Let's keep the movie fun going. Not the best movie in the world that I was watching Disturbia just now, with whatever his face is Shia LaBeouf? and yeah there was a scene in the beginning of the movie where there was a car accident and I thought wow they pulled it off very well. the physics the sound and the out-of-nowhere impact that a car accident can leave on your life.


What are some scenes that you sat back with a significant other or yourself and went "well this scene smells like a sweet rose of reality"

Just got me thinking and maybe I should start a thread
Beginning of Saving Private Ryan  
moespree : 2/27/2021 1:48 am : link
I obviously wasn't there to judge it's accuracy, but I've read that people who were had to get up and leave the theater over how real it was.
RE: Beginning of Saving Private Ryan  
section125 : 2/27/2021 6:50 am : link
In comment 15162785 moespree said:
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I obviously wasn't there to judge it's accuracy, but I've read that people who were had to get up and leave the theater over how real it was.


FWIW my father (WWII) and a friend (Viet Nam) both said that was as real as real gets.
Agreed on Saving Private Ryan.  
Crispino : 2/27/2021 6:53 am : link
There were groups of veterans in the theater when I saw the movie it’s opering day and their reaction was astounding. Elderly gentlemen quietly crying in their seats, several having to walk out to compose themselves. It was clearly very affecting for all of them.
The boring talking parts in all movies  
Sneakers O'toole : 2/27/2021 7:29 am : link
Lots of talking in real life. Very realistic.
Several aspects of the beginning of Sargent Ryan  
Bill2 : 2/27/2021 7:46 am : link
Were not realistic.

The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.

But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.

They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.

And they did.

There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.

So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.

The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.

By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.

Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.
Sorry  
Bill2 : 2/27/2021 7:47 am : link
Private Ryan
End of Watch’s  
UConn4523 : 2/27/2021 7:52 am : link
first few chase and detain scenes.
Realism in movies is difficult because  
Marty in Albany : 2/27/2021 7:59 am : link
almost everyone in the movies is extremely good looking, is fit, and stands up straight.

In real life almost everyone you meet is less than attractive, is overweight, and slouches.
Sully -  
DC Gmen Fan : 2/27/2021 8:26 am : link
The flying scenes were (for the most part) technically accurate. The flight deck is much noisier on takeoff/climb than what was portrayed.

The NTSB angle and consternation was completely dramatized, as were the hearings.



Apollo 13  
DC Gmen Fan : 2/27/2021 8:28 am : link
was also very technically accurate.

Apollo 18, not so much.
Heat  
eric2425ny : 2/27/2021 10:00 am : link
bank robbery scene.
Blue Ruin  
j_rud : 2/27/2021 10:38 am : link
Hard to get into specifics without spoiling it. Ill just say its a realistic revenge story. No exciting Hollywood tropes. Just grim, brutal reality.
Watch  
thrunthrublue : 2/27/2021 11:55 am : link
Steve McQueen ride not only his motorcycle, but ride as one of the chasing Germans in the great escape.....also, the hottest chess scene ever with him and Faye Dunaway in the Thomas crown affair.....
When it comes to war...  
Milton : 2/27/2021 12:21 pm : link
It doesn't get any more realistic than the battlefield scene in...
Love and Death - ( New Window )
sex scene in along came polly  
GiantsFan84 : 2/27/2021 12:29 pm : link
.....
The ending of 'The Warriors'  
smshmth8690 : 2/27/2021 12:29 pm : link
When The Warriors are facing off against The Riffs on the beach, and all you hear is. "Riffs - Yeah Right", and they pan around, and there are over 100 gang members dressed all in black with hockey sticks. Yup, so real.
The end of 1978 Superman  
jnoble : 2/27/2021 12:37 pm : link
When he flew around the earth so fast it spun backwards thus (for some reason) reversing time....

Wait, I think I misread the thread title
And from Die Hard 2  
Milton : 2/27/2021 12:43 pm : link
The fight scene on wing of plane...
Yippy Kai Yay Motherfucker - ( New Window )
Jaws  
ghost718 : 2/27/2021 1:17 pm : link
Always thought the shark attack in the pond looked pretty real.The way they shot that,and the angle they used.

The action scenes in Jeremiah Johnson,in particular the revenge scene with the Crow Indians.
The shit burning scene in Platoon  
JerseyCityJoe : 2/27/2021 1:49 pm : link
That was on point.
Enemy at the Gates is one of the best  
glowrider : 2/27/2021 2:33 pm : link
Representations of sniper in the field according to combat vets, down to the fine details.
Not from a movie  
Milton : 2/27/2021 4:19 pm : link
But this was pretty realistic...
Randy takes a shit - ( New Window )
RE: When it comes to war...  
Grey Pilgrim : 2/27/2021 6:45 pm : link
In comment 15162959 Milton said:
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It doesn't get any more realistic than the battlefield scene in... Love and Death - ( New Window )


lmao
The scene in Baseketball where Yasmine Bleeth sees Trey Parker’s hog  
The_Boss : 2/27/2021 6:56 pm : link
In the locker room after a game...look pretty f’ing real to me...
RE: RE: Beginning of Saving Private Ryan  
81_Great_Dane : 2/27/2021 7:06 pm : link
In comment 15162799 section125 said:
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In comment 15162785 moespree said:


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I obviously wasn't there to judge it's accuracy, but I've read that people who were had to get up and leave the theater over how real it was.



FWIW my father (WWII) and a friend (Viet Nam) both said that was as real as real gets.
The people who made it said at the time that while they went as far as they could, there were things they couldn't show in a movie, so it couldn't get totally real. They didn't get into what they couldn't show, but I think we can imagine pretty well. (I'd rather not.) I'm sure your father and friend could list horrors they saw that weren't in the scene,

True story: Many years ago I worked backstage at a small regional theater. We did a play that was about the Vietnam war. Stylized production, sort of inspired by Japanese theater, sound effects mostly produced by human voice. Trust me, it worked. There was exactly one pyrotechnic device in the show: A small flash pot in the stage floor that went off in the middle of a combat scene. Again, all other "effects" done by an actor's voice — which made it more intense, because it engaged your imagination.

So, opening night, we get to that scene, the flash pot goes off, and a Vietnam vet in the audience started screaming. He had to be helped from the room.

Like I said, it worked.

So they posted something that I guess we'd now call a "trigger warning" in the lobby saying that there were pyrotechnics and intense battle scenes in the show, No problem for a while.

Then about 3 weeks later, it happened again with a World War I veteran.

What these guys saw and lived through, holy shit.
RE: Several aspects of the beginning of Sargent Ryan  
Crispino : 2/27/2021 9:28 pm : link
In comment 15162809 Bill2 said:
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Were not realistic.

The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.

But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.

They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.

And they did.

There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.

So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.

The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.

By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.

Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.


Bill, I appreciate your take on the technical, historical inaccuracies. However, based on my experience in the theater described above, the visceral reaction that the film elicited in combat veterans was very real, regardless.

One gentleman I spoke to in the lobby after the movie said that the brief shot showing the water along the beach tinted red with blood was the most affecting for him. He just kept stressing that that was the detail that struck him so profoundly. “The water really was stained red with blood. I’d never really remembered that detail until I saw it again on the screen. There was so much blood.”
RE: Several aspects of the beginning of Sargent Ryan  
Crispino : 2/27/2021 9:28 pm : link
In comment 15162809 Bill2 said:
Quote:
Were not realistic.

The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.

But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.

They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.

And they did.

There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.

So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.

The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.

By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.

Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.


Bill, I appreciate your take on the technical, historical inaccuracies. However, based on my experience in the theater described above, the visceral reaction that the film elicited in combat veterans was very real, regardless.

One gentleman I spoke to in the lobby after the movie said that the brief shot showing the water along the beach tinted red with blood was the most affecting for him. He just kept stressing that that was the detail that struck him so profoundly. “The water really was stained red with blood. I’d never really remembered that detail until I saw it again on the screen. There was so much blood.”
Heat  
RobThailand : 2/28/2021 1:39 am : link
I will second Heat. If your going to rob a bank then thats how you would have to do it. The shoot out scene is one of the best.
Crispino  
Bill2 : 2/28/2021 5:37 am : link
We totally agree that the scene was powerful and triggered memories of it horrors for some veterans.

The random butchery they somehow overcame should never be forgotten and the movie helps Americans keep that part of our heritage moving forward.
The opening scene...  
bw in dc : 2/28/2021 6:51 am : link
in “Munich” where the terrorists enter the Olympic Village and take Israeli hostages seemed very well done.

The gun fight at the airport was pretty good, too.
1917  
Beezer : 2/28/2021 6:23 pm : link
Take your pick.

Some amazing filmmaking.
The fight scene in Eastern Promises  
montanagiant : 2/28/2021 9:13 pm : link
That takes place in the bathhouse is pretty good also
RE: Heat  
NINEster : 3/4/2021 5:05 pm : link
In comment 15163333 RobThailand said:
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I will second Heat. If your going to rob a bank then thats how you would have to do it. The shoot out scene is one of the best.


It inspired the North Hollywood bank robbery shooters a few years later. They found the VHS in one of their apartments.
Firefight in PLATOON...  
x meadowlander : 3/5/2021 12:01 pm : link
...sitting next to my ex-girlfriends Vietnam Vet uncle - he had already told me that movies never get battle scenes right really, but there were a couple of scenes in Platoon that triggered him. The interrogation where they smash the kids head in being one... During the firefight scene, I looked over, he was wide eyed and gripping the armrests and I shoved him, cracking him up. Later, he told me he had been involved in one similar to that, his unit wasn't dug in but an unexpected flare suddenly illuminated dozens of enemy soldiers and all hell broke loose. Platoon got that scene right.
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