BoxOfSnoo: Captain America: Civil War
The comic series was amazing. It was very clever in showing two sides to a very challenging story. The movie was uninspiring and small.

hedwards: No body armor is bullet proof when you take a direct hit. The necessary materials haven't been invented yet to make it happen. I have to laud the writers for the more accurate portrayal of body armor. If you take a direct hit in body armor, you might not have the bullet puncturing you, but there's a good chance that there'll be enough force left to scramble your internal organs enough to be fatal. However, body armor that can deflect a bullet is much more reasonable.

It also happens to make for a somewhat more interesting movie than if the main character spends his whole time being impervious to bullets, there's some actual risk if he gets hit.

hedwards: No body armor is bullet proof when you take a direct hit. The necessary materials haven't been invented yet to make it happen. I have to laud the writers for the more accurate portrayal of body armor. If you take a direct hit in body armor, you might not have the bullet puncturing you, but there's a good chance that there'll be enough force left to scramble your internal organs enough to be fatal. However, body armor that can deflect a bullet is much more reasonable.

It also happens to make for a somewhat more interesting movie than if the main character spends his whole time being impervious to bullets, there's some actual risk if he gets hit.
hedwards: That's the studio executives. They saw how many people were going back to watch the sixth sense multiple times to try and see what pipe was laid for the ending and the resulting box office numbers that they wanted to repeat it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work. Some movies lend themselves to that naturally and others don't. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls is a good example of that not working. They didn't lay enough pipe to make the ending work. It was a cheap shot that pretty much ruined a decent movie. And since it comes at the end, that's the part that most people forget.

The people whining about the refrigerator and the rest of the movie need to GTFO as they clearly didn't watch any of the other films. The refrigerator thing is hardly less realistic than Indie managing to ride a submarine for thousands of miles without any food or water, and that's assuming that the sub didn't go underwater at any point in the journey. Or perhaps people regulalry rip hearts out of people's chests with their bare hands.

RWarehall: We've all watched movies we've not liked, but every once in awhile, there is a movie that friends have recommended and/or you've read a few reviews which claim it's good combined with trailers which you thought looked interesting, but then you watch it and think it's particularly trash...

The one I just watched was Panic Room and they are apparently remaking it.
76% critics positive on Rotten Tomatoes although only 63% from the audi

Stevedog13: Body armor is bulletproof, that's the whole point. The materials have been around for quite a while, KEVLAR was first made over a half century ago. There is also Vectran, Titanium and Alumina Ceramics. They work by stopping the projectile and dissipating the force of impact over a wider area. You still feel the impact (it's bullet proof not physics proof) and there will be bruising but it'll be nowhere near a lethal blow. To test body armor it is placed on a dummy that's basically made of clay. They then fire rounds at the armor, both direct shots and at various angles, then measure how deep the dent in the clay is behind the point of impact. If that dent is too deep then the armor fails the test. Having armor that merely deflects incoming fire is not that practical. It works on vehicles because you can have large panels that all face the same direction, usually upwards, as most incoming fire is going to be more or less parallel with the ground. On armor that is to be worn this becomes much less effective. As a person is running, jumping, crouching or engaging in any other maneuvers the angles of the suit are changing. There is no way to realistically design the angles to protect equally in all positions, but even if you could what good would that really do? If a bullet hits armor and gets deflected where does it go? It's going to follow along the surface of the armor until it reaches an edge, and at the edge of chest plate armor you find arms, legs and a head. This is why real body armor focuses in absorption and dissipation rather than deflection.

Stevedog13: I had thought about that. The suit is bulletproof, but only if you get shot at just the right angle. However that still didn't satisfy my nerdy knowledge of ballistics.

Stevedog13: Body armor is bulletproof, that's the whole point. The materials have been around for quite a while, KEVLAR was first made over a half century ago. There is also Vectran, Titanium and Alumina Ceramics. They work by stopping the projectile and dissipating the force of impact over a wider area. You still feel the impact (it's bullet proof not physics proof) and there will be bruising but it'll be nowhere near a lethal blow. To test body armor it is placed on a dummy that's basically made of clay. They then fire rounds at the armor, both direct shots and at various angles, then measure how deep the dent in the clay is behind the point of impact. If that dent is too deep then the armor fails the test. Having armor that merely deflects incoming fire is not that practical. It works on vehicles because you can have large panels that all face the same direction, usually upwards, as most incoming fire is going to be more or less parallel with the ground. On armor that is to be worn this becomes much less effective. As a person is running, jumping, crouching or engaging in any other maneuvers the angles of the suit are changing. There is no way to realistically design the angles to protect equally in all positions, but even if you could what good would that really do? If a bullet hits armor and gets deflected where does it go? It's going to follow along the surface of the armor until it reaches an edge, and at the edge of chest plate armor you find arms, legs and a head. This is why real body armor focuses in absorption and dissipation rather than deflection.