Wanted

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Yeah, I found it really contrived for the exact reason you mentioned. Or why didn't Cross explain what was going on to his fellow assassins, rather than killing them off? Completely unrealistic premise.
As far as mindless bloody violence, I actually found Shoot 'Em Up far more viciously wicked and entertaining. Using the one guy as a shield while he shoots through the back of his head was a nice touch, but one of few. Speaking of which, there were a lot of ideas borrowed from Shoot 'Em Up here (not to mention the Matrix similarities).
And Danny Elfman doing the score? I kept thinking of the Family Guy episode where he gets decapitated by Luke. Worst possible choice to score this film, it sounded like the theme from Harry Potter.
I found it entertaining enough that I'd give it maybe a five, six at the most, but really it was pretty far below my expectations.

Ha, ha. Your nerd is showing! I'd say referring to Star Wars characters by first name in conversations totally unrelated to Star Wars only confirms it.

Especially because I could recognize exactly what you were talking about regardless of the context.

Damn, now my nerd is showing.
I am such a dork.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by dubc80

Some definate Mythbusters content.
eg) Can you curve a bullet?

Had a thought about this last night. There was an english nobleman who did some tests on this several hundred years ago. Wish I could remember the name or some details to look it up. He hung up long sheets of fabric out in his ground, 50 yards apart, and then fired shots through them, and tracked where they passed through each layer of fabric. Two key differences: he was using musket balls, which operate very differently from bullets; and he was attempting to curve the balls by having his gunsmith curve the barrel of the gun.

The result that he expected was that if the barrel was curved to the left, the ball would continue to arc further to the left as it passed through each sheet. But the result was the opposite: the ball would start spinning clockwise as a result of the left-leaning curve, and thus cut through the air back toward the right. You could essentially curve a shot around an obstacle.

In theory, with a musket you should be able to replicate just about any effect that a baseball pitcher can achieve by modifying the barrel. Could you do this without a curved barrel? Possibly, if you spun the gun so fast that at the moment the gun was fired, there was enough speed to create friction between the side of the barrel and the ball. It would probably take superhuman speeds though. (I like the thought of a mythbusters experiment that involves a musket gun swinging at superhuman speeds on one of Grant's robots, firing mid-swing.)

The only way you could apply a similar effect to a modern bullet is by applying a non-symetrical spin to the bullet. And bullets (even ones with special grooves cut into them) simply don't work that way; they have to spin at a tangent to their path (there's probably a word for that spin, someone with more knowledge of physics, feel free to chime in).

It would have been cool if Wanted had picked up on those physics and had bullets that were essentially musketballs with grooves cut into them to act like little baseballs.

Edit: Reaper, no kidding about the nerdiness. Now that I think about it, I realize that was from the Blue Harvest episode where Chris was Luke, but at the time that I was thinking about it, I never thought of that detail, just of Luke decapitating Danny Elfman.

[Boblobla]

I saw this on Monday. Gets a solid Meh from me. I went in knowing what to expect and I wasn't disappointed with the action. Potential Spoiler: I saw the twist coming a mile away when the kid got shot in the shoulder. A little to Star Wars for me.

Other than that it was okay, but that kinda wrecked the movie for me.