What is the most unrealistic project that has ever been proposed?

 Here are some proposed monuments that have never been built throughout history.

The first one is this:

This elephant statue was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte as a victory monument. It was to be made of bronze, and the bronze was to come from the melted-down cannons of his defeated enemies.

However, it was never built because Napoleon was defeated and removed from power. Consequently, the monument did not attract much interest afterward.

A life-size plaster version was made, and naturally began to deteriorate...

It was built years after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

As it deteriorated...

It has become a symbol of failure. Yes, those are rats running on the plaster statue.

It became such a symbol of failure that Victor Hugo used it in his novel "Les Misérables" where it served as a shelter for the homeless living on the street.

Next comes "The Palace of the Soviets":

It was intended to be the "Palace of the Soviets," which was to serve as a monument to Russia. It was to reach a height of approximately 450 meters.

To make way for it, this cathedral was demolished... The Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

And the site has been cleared to begin construction.

But this tower was so massive that it required tons and tons of materials to build. And just as a foundation was being laid, the Second World War brought its construction to a halt.

For years after World War II, no work was done on the foundations and no attempt was made to resume construction of the palace.

However, in 1958, the rubble was removed from the empty foundation and it was transformed into an open-air swimming pool.

The swimming pool remained open until 1991.

In the 1990s, the swimming pool was closed and there was a competition to decide what to do with it...

It was finally decided to…

Rebuild the cathedral on the site.

What is the most unrealistic thing about movies?

 Apartments.

Your main character is a staff accountant at a Big 5 accounting firm.

He has a beautiful stay-at-home wife, and 2 kids, and is getting through his week.

After a long day, working through excel and filing reports, he comes home to this apartment, with this view on one side:

And this view on the other:

All on his $80,000 salary.

It’s fun to watch and I think we could all wish for such options on that paygrade.

But I am also sympathetic to the filmmakers task. If they had to film scenes in the actual apartment that family would be living in, they’d probably be unable to fit the camera and crew into the studio apartment to begin with.

What is something unrealistic you see in Bollywood movies that annoys you the most?

 This scene is from the Movie “Main Hoon Na.”

the scene goes like this :-

Sunil Shetty is going to kill Shah Rukh Khan . Sunil Shetty asks Shah Rukh Khan to face towards him so that he can see him Dying .

But Shah Rukh Khan keeps on walking for the next 10 minutes .

In the Mean time Zayed Khan comes to the rescue.

Now shah Rukh turns towards sunil shetty and shows him that he took off grenade’s pin .

The Bomb Blasts and sunil shetty dies in the blast.

Shah Rukh Khan takes off the pin from Grenade and walks for the next 10 minutes but it doesn’t blast .

But when Shah Rukh shows sunil that he took off the pin, it blasts. I think Grenade obeys Shah Rukh Khan ( xD )

Whereas in real life it usually takes anywhere between two to six seconds before detonation occurs.

This scene is completely illogical and does not make sense at all .

What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?

 Holding bows drawn:

We see it every time: a threat looms, the character readys the bow, draws it… and just stays like that, waiting for the proper opportunity to release the arrow. It is used like that in sieges (with the defenders all with their bows drawn), or as a threat (the villain has a bow drawn, aiming at the hero).

Are you frigging kidding me???

We see this all the time, although most often in medieval or fantasy films.

Katniss and Legolas, guilty!

The humans holding their bows.

The Elves holding their bows, calmly, while Legolas gives instructions very slowly.

I’m using pictures from The Lord of the Rings, a movie I simply love, because I know it is in there. But it is also in so many places:

Now, here’s the thing: do you know how hard is to draw a bow???

Let’s talk about draw weight.

Draw weight is basically how strong is the bow, how much force it takes to draw it and, in turn, with how much force it pushes the arrow. A regular target practice bow today has a draw weight of about 30 to 35 pounds. A youngling’s bow is about 26 pounds. What does this mean? That in order to draw the bow, you have to exert 30, 35 or 26 pounds of force… with just your upper body. My first bow was 26 pounds, and it was a great effort to draw it. Normal hunting bows start on 50 pounds and more. 70 pounds is more or less the average. Mind you, this means lifting 70 pounds with just your arms. And these bows, as heavy as they seem, can barely dent a properly armored enemy. You need a lot more energy for that.

Do you know what’s the draw weight of war bow? Over 100 pounds. Yeah, you read it right, lifting over 100 pounds with just your arms… EVERY… TIME… YOU… SHOOT.

Richard Stuckey said it succintly and very clearly in the comment section: Imagine a 100-lb lead weight on the floor, with a loop of string through it, and imagine sticking three fingers into that loop and lifting the weight with just those fingers!

Do you know how a body exerting this type of force looks? Like this:

Does he looks like he could hold that for very long? Nah, I don’t think so either. In order to shoot those massive bows, archers used their whole body. And the stress was so much, that their skeletons were deformed. Look at this skeleton of an archer:

Notice how much his left arm was developed. And this was a British Longbowman, with a bow of probably 130 pounds. Some composite bows used by the steppe tribes (like the Mongols) had a draw weight of 160 pounds… One hundred and sixty pounds… just with your arms… from horseback… every time you want to shoot an arrow…

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So, anytime you see an archer in a film holding his bow drawn, that’s utter bullshit. Those prop bows are normally very light, with less than 20 pounds of draw weight. It is impossible to hold a (traditional) bow steady for too long. It is just too heavy. When you are shooting an actual effective bow, you draw, aim, and release, everything in a couple of seconds at the most, normally less than that.

(I emphasize “traditional” bow, because modern bows with pulleys can indeed be held on for quite a long time… thanks for the pulley system they have… which did not exist in medieval period).

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P.S.: Ironically enough, Robin Hood (2018), a movie so bad that I wasn’t even able to finish it, despite all its badness, actually portrayed archers properly in this sense (at least in some scenes…). And we see the soldiers advancing with their bows loaded with arrows, but not drawn.