Knife mistakes in tv and movies

[James Y]

At around 2:00 to 2:05, the knife in this fight scene shapeshifts from a SS Spyderco Police SE into a thicker-tipped plain edge knife as it goes through Statham's hand. Even though the serrated Police's very tip is plain, it looks nothing like this. Then it miraculously shapeshifts back.

[video=youtube;3gGYHLS_FVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gGYHLS_FVA&sns=em[/video]

Jim

 

[KennyB]

I remember a scene in Inglorious Basterds where a character is stropping a knife horribly wrong. Completely rounding the edge!

Lol yeah I remember that

I think "The Hunted" was pretty funny at times. Not necessarily mistakes just total implausible stuff, like the knife being thrown so hard at the tree that it's too came out the other side... On like a 3 inch diameter tree.

 

[Nap]

I must agree, Chucks are by far one of the best values in footwear, they even have two holes for ventilation like a jungle boot if I'm not mistaken. When hunting season starts again I'm buying myself a pair to stalk. Kung fu shoes are also great for stalking, but have become a fashion item and too expensive.

Check out Palladium Hi boots; they even make them in camo if you want. They're basically Chucks with grippier soles, and my Summer boot choice.

 

[Gaston444]

At around 2:00 to 2:05, the knife in this fight scene shapeshifts from a SS Spyderco Police SE into a thicker-tipped plain edge knife as it goes through Statham's hand. Even though the serrated Police's very tip is plain, it looks nothing like this. Then it miraculously shapeshifts back.

[video=youtube;3gGYHLS_FVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gGYHLS_FVA&sns=em[/video]

Jim

It's the perspective that makes the knife going through the hand seem thicker: As it goes through, you can still see the false edge clip typical of the Police model (even if it is a CGI).

Previous shots also show the same Police Model look thicker at the same head-on angle: It does seem a bit more "bellied" than most Police models, but that is accentuated by the extreme perspective, so that is not an error.

Not a bad fight scene, but the attacker would not have stalemated that long on a simple raised arm block...: Maybe sometimes an attacker does get "over-focussed" on doing one thing: Getting the motion through, which can "lock" someone who has options. But, in real life, the terrifying mobility of a knife arm gives innumerable options around a non-grabbing block... Or allows simply stabbing the blocking arm...

Also the idea of "grabbing" the knife by piercing it through your own hand is rather against what all of our evolution has wired into us...

Actually, this made me realize that pinching the Spyderco hole with the thumb and forefinger would give a fairly hard to defeat hold of the blade, much better than with any other style of blade... hmmm...

Gaston

 

[blade dude]

Criminal minds episode. Showed a 9 inch filet knife with a fish scaler on the back and they called it a serrated saw back survival knife


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[Hickory n steel]

Criminal minds episode. Showed a 9 inch filet knife with a fish scaler on the back and they called it a serrated saw back survival knife


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I remember that one ( actually almost all of them )

That reminds me of a bones episode where the talk about a high end tactical knife exclusive to special forces that was made of 440D Steel.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

was watching breaking bad. there's a scene where the cartel goon is about to kill hank with an axe, hank shoots the goon, he falls, and drops the axe. Then the axe cleanly falls and the blade sticks securely into..... the concrete.

I thought it was asphalt, in the hot sun.

 

[Hickory n steel]

I was just watching the new episode of Hawaii 5o and these escaped prisoners found an estwing sportsman hatchet stuck in a tree in the jungle and it happened to look brand new off the rack squeaky clean ,which is bad enough in itself , but then they proceeded to heat up their chains in a fire and use it to effortlessly chop right through them .

 

[Atakdog]

I was watching some recent cop show where a cult finds out one of there guys is undercover and puts him an a fight with another guy who is way better than him. When the undercover guy is on the ground beat up they throw him a ~10" bowie knife for the next "round" of the fight. Using it to help him get up he shoves the tip into the concrete floor and then proceeds to scrape the edge along it. The whole time I'm thinking "you have to use that knife to fight a guy, don't completely flatten thedge and dull the point just to get up!"