Deadly damage to vehicles, When does a car just go "boom!" Options

[Arethusa]

Caine: sounds like a good ruling to me.

Frag: yes, it was a joke. I'm sure there are tons of unstupid people handling explosives for a living. It's usually not their fault so much as the fault of the director (or whatever sub director is handling pyrotechnics) for thinking that bigger explosions makes a better film. But don't blame the audience for everything, either. There've been realistic films that've done exceedinly well. They're just a minority. Ultimately, if there are any two groups mostly to blame for egregious stupidity, it's studios and directors, in that order.

[Frag-o Delux]

I agree many great films are made realistically and with out the over use of effects. I also agree studios and directors are at fualt, but you have to give the audience some credit also, they line up for hours to see perfectly good rolls of film ruined by the crap being spewed out of hollywood today.

It is a vicious cycle, one studio decides to punch up a film to compensate for bad acting, the audience loves it, the the studio following their new formula, big bombs make big movies start making directors add bigger explosion, wether they are needed or not, then the audience sees that and the cycle continues.

Sorry, just a little frustration in my own movie making endeavoures.

[Dax]

About the Cellphone myth. The Mythbusters proved that it was an urban myth on their show a while ago. They set up a chamber that had gasoline mist floating around inside it, set up a cell phone inside the chamber and kept calling the phone to see if it would set of an explosion.

The end result was no explosion. Though they did end up blowing the chamber up later for kicks. :D

[Arethusa]

Well, I rescind my comment on that, then. So much for the papers written on that possibility.

And that really is a great show.

Frag: yeah, that is fair. Hell, I do agree. I don't think I gave the general audiences the credit they deserve for sucking. Also, my sympathies. Making movies, by and large, is not something you get into successfully if you're interested in making art, and that's unfortunate.