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Completely unrealistic! (SPOILER ALERT)

posted 15 years ago by albertflasher
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I saw this movie on FearNet and while it wasn't bad, one part was really unrealistic. Shannyn Sossaman ("Victoria") looks like she weighs 80 pounds soaking wet. She seems like she eats two cornflakes a day! And then she's walking around with that heavy-azz pickaxe. My dad worked construction and he was very strong. He had a pickaxe, and he had to lift it with two hands. Those things are heavy as h_ll! So there's no way she could lift that thing two inches off the ground.

Also, it looked like it was fall in the movie, and Victoria's sister and her friends are swimming in an underground pool naked. You know it must have been cold down there. And where did that pool come from? Just wondering.

[–] woohoocations 14 years ago

Okay, I don't know about the pickaxe, but there are parts of the catacombs that are flooded, and there are parts where there are holes that drop through several stories, so the water definitely intrudes into the tunnels, and the pool was just one of those places. I don't know if it was fall though, because they were wearing pretty light dresses to go out at night, but still, being that far underground the water would have to be pretty cold.

[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 11 years ago

the woman looks like she weighs about 120 pounds. you have no idea what she
is capable of. she was able to run all through the catacombs for hours, so she
probably goes to the gym, or at least is fit.
ans about the pickax, ive used my granddads pickax many times, and it was old
with a wooden handle just like the one in the movie. the end weighs maybe 20 pounds.
I was able to swing it as a kid, so a grown woman, pumping with adrenalin would
have no problem swinging that pickax.
sounds like you are pretty weak...

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[–] Blonde2291 9 years ago

Looks can be deceiving. A lean looking person can have strong muscles.

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