10 Giant Lies Told By Movies That Will Definitely Kill You

10. Cars Can Jump Giant Heights

The Main Offender: Fast & Furious 6

In amongst the massive, lunatic holes in the Fast & Furious franchise, which seems committed more to sticking two fingers up at scientific reality than to ever listening to even the simplest rules of physics, this is the biggest lie. Apparently, in this world, cars are pretty much indestructible, as long as a main character is driving them, including when a tank tries to roll over them.

A tank which has just crushed and killed about thirty innocent road-users, incidentally. So, there's clearly nothing stopping those cars being fired through the air, landing impossibly, and continuing to drive at huge speeds. No matter how far they fall, or how visibly damaged they are.

The Reality If you so much as bump your car, it will fall to pieces, crumbling like a poorly-made tincan with you inside it. This goes doubly-so for a high-performance sports or muscle car, because they aren't made to be thrown around like Matchbox cars. They aren't even really made to be driven on real roads. And even in more robust cars, even a dainty nudge would set off every airbag, breaking the driver's nose.