10 Giant Lies Told By Movies That Will Definitely Kill You

5. Dodging Machine Guns Is Easy As Pie

The Main Offender: Every Movie With A Machine Gun Ever

If you're a hero in a cornball action film, facing off against a horde of M16-wielding henchmen, there's very little reason to panic: the henchmen, who were probably just drafted in from a local street gang and given no training in combat whatsoever, probably couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo, let alone you with a hail of bullets. They will shoot the wall behind you, the floor, the ceiling, and each other before they get a sweet shot, so you can probably just run away from the bullets or towards them to disarm them, if you're even braver.

Whatever your intent, you'll probably stay pleasantly free from multiple bullet holes, because dodging automatic weapon fire is a cinch, especially since the rapid fire will stutter helpfully just as the gun-wielder swings his weapon across your body, keeping you safe between bullets. So even when the wall behind you is peppered with bullet holes, you'll probably be fine.

The Reality If you face off against an AK-47 or something similar, and you try to run away from it, or face it off, you're going to get shot. An automatic weapon spews bullets at a frighten rate, and hiding in the gaps between bullets is pretty much impossible, if the firer is going full-on trigger-happy.

In all honesty, Hollywood lies about pretty much everything to do with guns, from the effect of the bullets (see previously) to the way bullets react with human bodies, and how the guns themselves respond on firing (especially Magnums, which are clearly the most misunderstood weapon in movie history.)