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After reading reddit.com/r/movies/comme, which has a lot of comments about unrealistic portrayals in movies, I'm wondering what movies have unusually realistic portrayals of things?

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DarkNinjaPenguin
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4 days ago
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Speed 2 is a great film to watch in an extremely non-serious way if you know anything at all about boats ... or physics. It's so, so laughably bad. Highlights are:

A cruise ship which works off remote control makes absolutely no sense. Even if you could work the controls, these things need a decent sized engine room crew to keep them going (less so nowadays but certainly in 1997).

There are floodable ballast tanks (not too unreasonable) that are fully furnished with cabins inside them (wait, what?)

The oil tanker they nearly collided with was very obviously empty. It's sitting very high in the water.

The ship's propeller is spinning at about 3000RPM. Ships that size will have a prop RPM of maybe 500 absolute max, though 150 or less is more common.

Said propeller is completely stopped by a wee bit of rope. That's a nope.

They use the bow thrusters to turn the ship at speed. These things are for manoeuvring in port an...

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Dan Luu

@danluu

Sep 16

Off the top of my head, the one I can think of is Wind. The rate of dramatic accidents/blunders seems too high, but there's a serious attempt at realism in the sailing shots/tactics/etc., which is v. different from any other racing movie I've seen (auto, rollerblade, ski, etc.)

Peter Geoghegan

@petervgeoghegan

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@danluu

"My Cousin Vinny" is centered on a criminal trial that is depicted very realistically. Many individual wonky elements are there, at least - even though the movie is a comedy. Many lawyers are fans.

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