Do you hold your breath during underwater scenes in movies?
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"Aquaman"? No.
"Mission Impossible"? Yeah.
Depends entirely on how likely I think it is to be in any way realistic. Often I might check the time they're underwater. 1-2min is still realistic, although very challenging for an average non-trained person. You can quite quickly train yourself up to a few minutes, some dude on YT tried went from 30s to about 4min.
However it's usually reliant on conserving oxygen, having a low pulse and no adrenaline etc. Quite the opposite of what is usually going on in movies like MI.
I too sometimes check the time to see if it is realistic, since the only character with a real chance of surviving underwater is Guybrush Threepwood. It kind of looks implausible in every action movie, though
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
I don't but it probably wouldn't ruin such scenes because I have always been a swimmer and can hold my breath for a fairly decent amount of time, almost 2 minutes.
The record without pre-gaming with oxygen seems to be about 4 and a half minutes.
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
I'm sure that I have before when a character is oxygen-deprived, but I can't remember exactly when.
I think I did when watching that scene in Event Horizon where a character is momentarily possessed and enters an airlock and initiates the decompression sequence to space, where he's briefly exposed to a hard vacuum before being knocked back into the airlock by a rescuing crew member.
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Depends on the scene. In the one aliens movie (resurrection?) where they had to swim underwater to the next hatch, yes
Ha! That was the exact scene I had in mind!
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
Yes, but just until I realize I'm doing it then I breathe.
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
Ya goddamn right I do.
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
I remember doing it a lot during a long kiss goodnight water torture scene.
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
I don't think I've ever done that but I do hate seeing deep cuts and bleeding in movies (and IRL as well) and the longer it goes the woozier I feel. I start getting pale and uncomfortable, lol.
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If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?
No. Do you have sex during sex scenes?
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No. Do you have sex during sex scenes?
Whenever possible.
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Whenever possible.
I like your style.
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No. Do you have sex during sex scenes?
You don't?
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I don't think I've ever done that but I do hate seeing deep cuts and bleeding in movies (and IRL as well) and the longer it goes the woozier I feel. I start getting pale and uncomfortable, lol.
I already get uncomfortable reading your description of it. But it wasn't always like that for me (it got worse with HRT somehow)
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It ruined Finding Nemo for me.
I actually passed out during the little mermaid opening scene
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I too sometimes check the time to see if it is realistic, since the only character with a real chance of surviving underwater is Guybrush Threepwood. It kind of looks implausible in every action movie, though
FYI: new World Record for holding breath under water is 29+ minutes.
I'm sure he had zero activity during that effort.
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FYI: new World Record for holding breath under water is 29+ minutes.
I'm sure he had zero activity during that effort.
I don't believe it? 29 minutes??? Although Guybrush can do whatever during those 10 minutes, so Guybrush still wins
