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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 78412" data-attributes="member: 203">My personal peeve is reserved for characters outrunning fireballs and explosions.It started (to my recollection) with Return of the Jedi when Lando outruns the Death Star's destruction in a faster than light starship.That was Ok.Then it started getting stupid.Keanu Reeves outrunning a cold fusion explosion on a dirt bike in Chain Reaction.Geena Davis and Samuel Jackson outrunning a bomb's explosion and jumping out a window in Long Kiss Goodnight.Just recently I saw World is Not Enough and Pierce Bronson outruns a really slow motion explosion that destroys an underground lab.  He has time to slide down a chain, climb onto a platform, activate an elevator and run away - this is all after the bomb has already exploded mind you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I just hate, hate, hate this nonsense - and I know that it will probably keep happening because audiences always seem to cheer and shout whenever it happens on the screen.  *blech*</blockquote>