Do you hold your breath during underwater scenes in movies?

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Do you hold your breath during underwater scenes in movies? - Lemmy.ca

If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?

“Aquaman”? No.

“Mission Impossible”? Yeah.

Depends entirely on how likely I think it is to be in any way realistic. Often I might check the time they’re underwater. 1-2min is still realistic, although very challenging for an average non-trained person. You can quite quickly train yourself up to a few minutes, some dude on YT tried went from 30s to about 4min.

However it’s usually reliant on conserving oxygen, having a low pulse and no adrenaline etc. Quite the opposite of what is usually going on in movies like MI.

I too sometimes check the time to see if it is realistic, since the only character with a real chance of surviving underwater is Guybrush Threepwood. It kind of looks implausible in every action movie, though

FYI: new World Record for holding breath under water is 29+ minutes.

I’m sure he had zero activity during that effort.

I don’t believe it? 29 minutes??? Although Guybrush can do whatever during those 10 minutes, so Guybrush still wins 😜