plus, lets not forget - they must drop the flashlight in the chase …
'notherone …
Rambo is digging into the wall of dirt to wait - in a vast, endless jungle, nevertheless - for the bad guy to walk by right there!!
I always ask myself how long would he stay in there - had the bad guys taken the alternative route 2 miles upstream …
If a boobytrap is suspected, then you do not turn on the lights. However, police shows way over use the dark building with flashlights trope.
This could be just my small sample size but on TV, when people talk in their sleep, you can understand every word. iME, it’s just mumbled and unintelligible.
Hehehe, my family seems to have clear diction when talking in our sleep. I’ve heard my brother clearly spouting complete nonsense in his sleep from the next room, my sister can have a conversation with you without ever actually waking up, and I have had some of the more outlandish things I say in my sleep reported back to me.
I love this one. I remember watching a western and a character was in the middle of the shave and then got called away to the plot… I always loved the idea of the adventure going so long that his beard grew in half way and he had to constantly explain his face.
I’ve always wanted to make a parody Western with this as one of the gags. Throughout the rest of the movie, people would be doing double takes followed by
‘Scuse me, Sheriff, but … did you shave this mornin’?
[Voice of Gary Cooper]: Why d’you ask?
Oh … no reason. Hey, look at the time…!
This new post:
Fixing a Bullet Damage on a Car (purely hypothetical)
…reminded me of how car doors in TV and movies are always bulletproof-- cops and bad guys alike will hide behind their open car doors during shootouts, and never seem to get hit by a shot through the door, even by high-caliber automatic weapons.
(I’m guessing that was already mentioned in this thread, but I don’t have half a day to look it up through 2800+ posts 
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Yes, it was mentioned. Start with post 1600. A good reminder though.(I searched for “car door”).
Ha, yeah, so it was, less than two years ago, and the car door post was actually in response to a post of mine where I mentioned how waist-high plaster walls in the Guggenehim art gallery were used as bullet shields in an action movie. I applauded Frank Lloyd Wright’s foresight in specifying they be made from bulletproof material.
I may be witnessing my own mental decay 
I think it was in Alien Nation (don’t recall if it was the movie or the TV series) where they played with this: the cops were hiding behind their standard issue bulletproof sedan, then the bad guy pulled out a weapon firing fist sized projectiles (IIRC the human cop pulled the alien one out of the way at the last second).
One of the gags could be where the doctor couldn’t begin the bullet extraction until someone fetched a pan he could “ding” the bullet into.
I was watching “Murder Mystery 2” last night for the 2nd time. The climax involved being high up on the outer structure of the Eiffel Tower, and a winch raising and lowering a nylon rope was involved in the action. Mind you, modern synthetic rope is incredibly durable and can hold the weight of a small automobile, and it is almost impossible to abrade unless you intentionally do it with a knife.
Nevertheless, Jennifer Aniston, who weighs far less than a small automobile, was swinging wildly from said rope as it began to abrade and unravel. She was literally hanging by a thread but, of course, barely survived. Has Hollywood ever met a rope that doesn’t shred/unravel as our movie heroes flirt with death? LOL
On Burn Notice, the protagonist stuffed phone books in the car doors to prevent bullets from going through. (Today the novelty would be finding phone books.)
“Modern synthetic rope” is so broad a definition it doesn’t mean almost anything. Many synthetic rope / string materials aren’t actually all that abrasion-resistant, like Dacron (polyester), which frays with gusto. Moving loaded over an edge, even a not-too-sharp one, often creates some cutting action in addition to abrasion. The smallest nicks start to spread into the material under these conditions.
Almost all synthetic rope / string materials have poor heat resistance. Friction creates lots of heat. I learned as a small kid you can break synthetic rope in two in under 10 seconds by simply pulling it rapidly to and fro against a plank / post / whathaveyou: it was heat created by friction that did the job on a rope that would support several hundred pounds otherwise.
Jennifer Aniston swinging wildly could create all of the above to a synthetic rope at some critical points. We are not dealing with properly affixed climbing gear here, after all.
A perfectly good rope in a span of thirty seconds? LOL
Yep. it can take just a bunch of seconds if there’s friction-induced heat there. See for yourself.
You don’t have a clue about the condition of the rope, either. For instance, UV kills synthetics, and even an unused outdoors rope could have seriously compromised strength. On of the reason public swing sets and such use steel chains for the ropey parts.
Oh, m’God, I used to hang from those things all the time! I guess ignorance was bliss though, had I plunged to my death because of rope failure, I would have died with a shocked look on my face. 
I would opine that the number of people that hang from a rope to prevent falling to a fiery death is far less than is suggested on TV and in the movies.
I would opine that a fraying synthetic rope was hardly the most unbelievable thing in Murder Mystery 2 
There was an “investigative documentary” on the History Channel about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in which everybody was speculating about what happened to the bullet as if it was never recovered.
I don’t know where it is today, but the doctors doing the autopsy in 1865 dug it out of Lincoln’s brain and deposited it into a pan exactly as you describe. (I got a book about the assassination for Christmas one year when I was in high school.)