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Medical Mess-Ups: What The Movies Get Wrong

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No matter how minor your medical issues, you want them treated responsibly. But in the world of the movies, what passes for medicine is far from accurate and can even be dangerous. A shot to the heart or defibrillation on a wet patient straight from a swimming pool? Not in real life. Here are some major medical mess-ups made famous by films.

“The Abyss” Of Medical Errors

While medicine has come a long way since 1989, the medical shortfalls in James Cameron’s “The Abyss” were egregious even then – they got the practice of CPR completely wrong! Performing weak chest compressions with bent arms for a very brief period, unsurprisingly fails to restart the patient’s heart, and somehow the water surrounding the patient doesn’t cause electrocution when they administer shocks. [Read more…]

Notable Themes of Addiction in Movies

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Addiction comes in many forms. There are behavioral addictions, genetic predispositions toward addictions, substance addictions, chemical addictions; and famous people and/or characters in movies are driven by those concepts the same as everyone else. On the big screen, they get a little extra theatrical rubdown, but that’s not to say those stories are larger than the ones that go on in everyday life.

Five movies that have addiction themes of note include “Thirteen,” “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas,” “Blow,” “Easy Rider,” and “Trainspotting.” Each deals with primary characters with addictive tendencies, and each is a window from one set of creators to different sets of observers. [Read more…]

Seven Hottest Movie Stars With Beards

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It’s that time of the year again when you see more men with bearded faces roaming around. It’s the perfect time to grow some facial hair to help them keep their chins warmer, right? Nonetheless, you will probably see both famous men and normal men with freshly grown beards.

Movie star men often grow beards for their roles, rather than for the warmth of their faces. You may see your favorite star in a film with a beard and then see him the next weekly in an issue of some celebrity rag mag with a clean shaven face. Clean shaven or bearded, bearded simply for a film or not, here are some of the best looking movie men that have sported a beard at some point. [Read more…]

How Drag Racing Is Glorified In The Movies

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The Fast And The Furious film franchise is an extremely popular one, and it’s pretty likely it sparked many a bad boy to purchase fast cars and get them fixed up to go even faster and look even badder. However, where the movies make drag racing look glamorous (they get the hot women and they seem to avoid jail for the most part), it’s really simply just an illegal practice, more commonly known as street racing.

About Street Racing

Street racing happens around the world, from Portugal to the United States. In most places is it illegal, and in all cases it is extremely dangerous, not just to the racers, but to other vehicles that may be on the road and even voyeurs and pedestrians. Music and movies glamorize this dangerous sport, making it look much safer (and less illegal) than it really is. [Read more…]

Crime Scenes: Where Film and Reality Coincide

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It is a strange world we live in, where crime and entertainment and technology all combine so regularly. In any story that has any action, there’s always going to be blood and destruction, and then there is the matter of moving the plot through that madness, and sometimes with the help of the experts who move through the mess and analyze it accordingly.

So, the next time you’re watching your favorite thriller, TV series, or exposition about modern crime weaponry, consider these mental resources – the importance of crime scene cleanup, the ever-popular zombie situation, the plot lines in all of you favorite crime scene investigations on TV, and all of the fodder available for horror films, in all of their B-style glory. [Read more…]