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Fake CGI stunts: pallet of money (calling mythbusters)

posted 8 years ago by gdeangel
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Now I just watched this on video and was not a fan at all.

My next stop is to write up my thoughts in a scathing review. But in the meantime, I have to ask if anyone else was sitting there watching that second heist with the pallets of money, thinking, I don't thing the money would be blowing off just the top of the pallet like that... nope, something doesn't seem right... hey, is that just CGI money!

From that point on every one of the action sequences was lacking authenticity for me. Not that my opinion of the film was made or broken on the stunts.

Mythbusters did a segment on the original Point Break. Now wouldn't it be great if they went back and exposed all the BS in this remake. Just put a pallet of money in vertical a wind tunnel and turn it on... I'm pretty sure it would be MYTH BUSTED!

[–] matt21-690-602571 8 years ago

What do you contend the money would do?

Also, wouldn't it be in bundles? I've no experience in dealing with or shipping pallets of dollar bills, but it doesn't seem it would be loose like that, just individual like that.

Yeah...you should "BUST" that nonsense.

[–] Arseweb 8 years ago

Agree that one would expect it to be in bundles. But given that it wasn't, it's not all all clear to me that it wouldn't go exactly as shown in the film.

The air would flow up along the sides of the block of notes. The more well-aligned the notes were, the less likely it'd be for the air to catch a note strongly enough to pull it away from its neighbours. But when the flow got to the top notes it'd be a *lot* more likely to pull them away, because there's less weight holding them down. So you'd expect them to be pulled away from the top of the stack, and once one note had been pulled away, the movement would then make neighbouring notes more likely to catch too.

I'd also be interested the hear the OP's theory as to what would might looked more realistic.

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

I actually thought the money would flow upwards as it did in the film.

It's that man again!!

[–] Arseweb 8 years ago

*Appear* to flow upwards (relative to the falling pallet). I'm sure that's what you meant just thought I'd clarify.