How To Make Malstrom Feel Bad

[Abric]

Link.

Archery in YO FACE!

[Thalevia]

Heee, I love it especially the updated shot with the 11 year old girl.

I would have though if he was smacking himself so much he needs two guards, he would have adjusted his position so as not to smack himself. Good ol trial and error.

[Mohan]

That entire article says to me that the guy who wrote it has no concept of "suspension of disbelief" and is a giant douchebag.

It's a fuckin' movie. Get over it already.

[Greebo]

suspension of disbelief is accepting that his arrows can do that, not that the world's greatest archer us a noob.

[Mohan]

And how many of the people watching that movie are going to know the intricacies of proper archery enough to recognize all the stuff he points out? At some point, people have to turn off that part of their brain and just take a movie/tv show/whatever for what it is so they can fucking enjoy it.

I repeat: giant douchebag; fuckin' movie; get over it.

[Abric]

Malstrom would.

[Duskheron]

thanks, you've totally ruined that movie for me!

bah, it's got yummy men, I'll go see it anyway.

/slave to big biceps

[Anaie]

Nevermind the fact that one of them was born in the 20's and another is a GOD!!!!

[Malstrom]

First of all, recurves are for wimps.

And yes, his form is terrible. But still better than most movie archers. At the very least he's pulling his hand to his face.

Hunger Games has even worse form. Her draw hand stopping in front of her face, and the arrow resting god knows where.

You get used to this crap. Same as being a computer expert and having to put up with endless "I am the greatest hacker in the world and can crack the DoD password in 5 minutes using a manual brute force attack". Ya. Right.

If you want to see the greatest movie archer that likely ever lived it was Errol Flynn. And that was because his mentor was Howard Hill, possibly the greatest archer that has ever walked the planet. Why do I say that? Read this wikipedia page.

Some highlights:

- hunted elephants with a bow (and yes, the footage in this video is likely a dramatization, but he actually did it irl)

- hit rocks he threw himself (this is nearly impossible to do)

- some other footage

When they used to spend time on Flynn's yacht, they would drop a corked barrel over the side and let it bob behind them, being dragged by a rope. They would then shoot the cork out of the bobbing barrel.

Apparently Hill's work out was to stretch out 2 80lb bows that had their strings twined together. Some of my friends have tried to pull back my 40lb bow and have failed. This guy was the best of the best.

So if I can put up with Obadiah Stane instantly knowing how to use the armor in Iron Man, then I can put up with weak form in the Avengers...

Mal




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[Kharzak]

Being a very adept archer myself (old-style bows and arrows), it just looks like he's a beginner. You only have to tear the skin off the botom of your elbow once due to bad form before you fix it, or stop shooting.

/marksman

[Thalevia]

Being a very adept archer myself (old-style bows and arrows), it just looks like he's a beginner. You only have to tear the skin off the botom of your elbow once due to bad form before you fix it, or stop shooting.

/marksman

That's my only real nitpick, you only have to smack yourself once when learning to figure out how to adjust position so you don't hit yourself. I'm not a great archer(or good but I can hit the target fairly consistently without smacking myself in the arm) but that's pretty much the first lesson we got when I was at camp, if you hit yourself adjust so you won't. Same when we did it in gym in high school where there were no arm guards.

The hunger games arrow almost looks like it was added in post, as if its not resting on anything at all. Which makes the entire picture look really silly if you notice it.

The guy above also did a post about Jennifer Lawrence's form:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/th ... s-trailer/

Movies are movies and suspension of disbelief is heavily required (its how I can still watch something like Bones or CSI without laughing, and even then I still do) but it is funny when the inconsistencies are pointed out.

[Krinathalasa]

Orlando Bloom said that all of his arrows in LoTR were digitally added so it is possible that this is the same for Hawkeye and Jennifer Lawrence.

[Anaie]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... -nugent-/1

The Nuge thinks Jennifer had wonderful form... And she trained with an Olympian.

[Kailei]

I get the same way with rifles in movies. *shakes head* when I see an M16 fire off more than 30 rounds without jamming or without an extended clip I go "NO!" and then have to remember it's just a movie and stupid Hollywood doesn't know everything...

*sigh* And military rank is done soooo badly in some movies it makes me want to scream.

Grenades? Don't even get me started on the idiotic thing Hollywood does with grenades...

Okay I'm going to stop now.

[Krinathalasa]

Military rank has to be wrong as it is a crime to reproduce a military uniform completely. That is why you see something wrong on every uniform.