Movies and maths

Another maths blog that I follow, Mathspig, has made a series of posts debunking ten popular movie clichés. I won't go into too much detail here, as I'll just be repeating the posts themselves, so here they are:

10 Movie Clichés Debunked with Maths (introductory post)

1. You can duck bullets
2. You can out run a fireball
3. You can out run machine gun fire
4. If you are involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion, you will not go into shock
5. You can jump out of an airplane [sic] that is about to crash and catch the baddie who took the last parachute
6. If the pilot dies the control tower can talk you down
7. You can safely jump from a burning skyscraper / bridge / aircraft into water
8. You can survive any amount of beating in a fight
9. A single match or candle will light a room the size of a football stadium
10. You can out run a lava flow

Number 5 reminded me of this (if you get bored you might want to skip to around 6 minutes to get what I'm talking about...):

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