All those action movies where they just run through walls like they're paper

Watched a show last night where the guy punched through a cinderblock wall like it was drywall. I've spent 12 years swinging a sledgehammer on demo jobs and I can tell you, that's a solid 45 minutes of real work even with the right tool. Has anyone else ever tried to bust through a real wall and realized TV is full of it?

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uma_reed2612d ago

...and they don't even flinch, just walk away like they didn't just shatter every bone in their hand. I've hit a stud with a bad swing and thought I broke my wrist, and that's with a sledgehammer, not my bare fist. Those TV walls are probably made of foam and hope, or maybe they're just really good at faking the sound of concrete cracking. Either way, my knuckles hurt just watching it. Guess Hollywood figured out we'd rather watch a guy punch through brick than watch him get the crowbar like a normal person.

mason28312d ago

You ever notice how in those scenes the guy punches right through the wall but the camera never shows his follow through? Like his fist just stops at the drywall and the bricks fly off. I bet a real punch to a solid wall would snap your wrist at the carpals, not just the metatarsals. So is the point of this whole trope that our hero is just tough, or that physics has a contract with the director?