The one that gets me is people flying backwards when hit by a bullet / shotgun blast.
I can accept it in movies that aren’t going for realism, even though it annoys me. But, I’ve seen it in movies that are trying for a gritty realism aesthetic, and after that I just can’t enjoy the movie. Add to that movies where silencers go “pfft”, or someone uses a pillow as a silencer, or people shoot guns without ear protection or hearing damage.
Physics wasn’t my best science, but wouldn’t the recoil have to be equivalent? So if the bad guy gets thrown back 3 feet, the protagonist would also get thrown back about that amount?
Yeah, exactly. Newton’s third law. If the person who was hit goes flying, an equivalent force had to be acting on the shooter. If that shooter is shooting a handgun, imagine just how much force is acting on their wrist.
The one that gets me is people flying backwards when hit by a bullet / shotgun blast.
I can accept it in movies that aren’t going for realism, even though it annoys me. But, I’ve seen it in movies that are trying for a gritty realism aesthetic, and after that I just can’t enjoy the movie. Add to that movies where silencers go “pfft”, or someone uses a pillow as a silencer, or people shoot guns without ear protection or hearing damage.
Physics wasn’t my best science, but wouldn’t the recoil have to be equivalent? So if the bad guy gets thrown back 3 feet, the protagonist would also get thrown back about that amount?
Yeah, exactly. Newton’s third law. If the person who was hit goes flying, an equivalent force had to be acting on the shooter. If that shooter is shooting a handgun, imagine just how much force is acting on their wrist.
If you’re wearing plate armor, you sure do. Especially if it’s got cheaper plates.
You sure do what?