Tom Rogers (1) (1950–)

Apparently this guy Tom Rogers has got a very popular website where he deconstructs Hollywood physics illogic. But I found this book on a browsing expedition and snapped it up. It was a quick read and very informative. I now know much more about what you can and can not do with firing guns and machine guns. For instance if you have a guy firing two Mac 10 machine guns for three minutes. First of all, machine guns are only able to fire continuously for a few seconds at a time, otherwise, like any other gun, it'll get too hot and seize up. Second of all, two Mac 10's firing for three minutes would fire about 3000 rounds which would weight somewhere around 100 pounds. So if the guy doesn't have a sidekick toting a wheelbarrow full of ammo, that scene is highly unlikely. That's just one example from this book. (It also mentions some few movies that do get the details mostly right. In the case of gunfire, Blackhawk Down does it right.) Rogers also rips to shreds the entire conspiracy theory featured in Oliver Stone's movie JFK. Basically the whole movie is based on a laughable pack of lies. Interesting stuff. But the movie the author deems most implausible is The Core, which was a lame-o movie about a ship drilling to the earth's core which has stopped spinning and the crew want to restart it with a nuclear explosion. If you think about that for more than two seconds you can see how this flick could be deemed the crème of the crap.… (more)