Spyke
lemmy.world

"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.

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lemmy.world

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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I don't believe it? 29 minutes??? Although Guybrush can do whatever during those 10 minutes, so Guybrush still wins 😜

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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

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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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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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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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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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