Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Zombie_61
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I obviously can't speak for anyone else, but for me The Force was a mystical, enigmatic quality; either someone had the ability to channel it or they didn't, and nobody could really explain it. Suddenly Lucas introduces midi-chlorians, and you can diagnose Force Sensitivity like diabetes? :facepalm
I don't disagree, but let me share a story. The photography teacher where I went to high school was missing most of his index finger beyond the first knuckle (i.e. the finger knuckle closest to the palm of the hand, not the finger knuckle closest to the fingertip), his middle finger at the first knuckle, and was completely missing his ring and little fingers on one of his hands. On the first day of class with a group of new students, he would explain how it happened so that he wouldn't have to explain it 20-30 times during the course of the class. On the day it happened, his supervisor and a co-worker drove him to the hospital. Along the way he was examining his hand to see what damage had been done, and saw that the accident had removed all of the skin and muscle from the missing portions of his fingers as I described above, but that the bones were completely intact on all four fingers. Shortly thereafter he realized that he could still move the bones of his fingers even though the muscle was gone. :eek So I suppose it would be possible--painful, but possible--to move your fingers even though you had a big hole in the palm of your hand for whatever reason.
By the way, not being one to miss an opportunity such as this, once the teacher realized he could still move his fingers he tapped his supervisor (who was driving) on the shoulder and called him by name to get his attention. The supervisor looked in the mirror to see what the teacher wanted, at which point the teacher raised his now-partially-skeletal hand and waved hello; his supervisor had to pull over for a few moments to collect himself. :lol
glunark
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http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/8372/Your-thumb-and-fingers-don-t-have-ANY-muscles
This is why your guy could move his fingers, but someone with a big hole through their palm couldn't.
Its all about the tendons.
This is why your guy could move his fingers, but someone with a big hole through their palm couldn't.
Its all about the tendons.
astroboy
Master Member
I would say that the thing I'm most tired of in movies is an action sequence staged in an overly elaborate location. The way they justify that location is always way too thin.
Like that crazy car port in ghost protocol. Or that ridiculous mining ship in JJTrek. The interior to that ship made no sense except that it would be cool for fight scenes.
But the WORST example of a thinly veiled staging ground is the city in the first Bayformers.
The autobots had the allspark in a military base in the desert. But for some reason, they had to drive it to the centre of a densely populated city where only sam could run it (because of course he never made the football team in highschool) to some condemned building where he would climb to the top of the building so that the allspark can be extracted by helicopters. (Aren't the bad guys also fighter jets?)
The only reason for all that nonsense is that a city is more interesting than the desert.
Like that crazy car port in ghost protocol. Or that ridiculous mining ship in JJTrek. The interior to that ship made no sense except that it would be cool for fight scenes.
But the WORST example of a thinly veiled staging ground is the city in the first Bayformers.
The autobots had the allspark in a military base in the desert. But for some reason, they had to drive it to the centre of a densely populated city where only sam could run it (because of course he never made the football team in highschool) to some condemned building where he would climb to the top of the building so that the allspark can be extracted by helicopters. (Aren't the bad guys also fighter jets?)
The only reason for all that nonsense is that a city is more interesting than the desert.
Zombie_61
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Thanks! :thumbsup
VilleLeskinen
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How about the new TMNT? The huge, snowy mountain near New York? Oh man...:facepalm
Laspector
Master Member
Like those idiotic opening and closing force fields during the light saber fight in Episode 1. What in the world could possibly be an explanation for those other than just to separate Obi Wan from the fight?
astroboy
Master Member
I agree. Star wars has always been pretty good about those staging grounds bur that one was straight out of a video game.
I would also say that the fight on Mustofar also had a few ridiculous elements. Even though the actual fight was incredible
I'm so tired of seeing that... just once I'd like to see the guy across the street fail at trying that manuver!
Even worse, I recall at least one film where a movie used that device more than once.
p51
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At least "Galaxy Quest" mocked that with the crushers. I love how it's mentioned that it makes no sense for a future space ship to have anything like that.
i always wanted to know this too!! if my memory serves me correct, i remember reading somewhere that its a dampering system. like what HVAC guys use to control heat and air conditioning, here is a example of a damper used today
It's called, a plot device.
As Collin Mockery would say in one of his comedy skits "ITS CRAP!" LOL Anyway, here's one we've seen in every action movie. Good guy is in a chase, bad guy closing in, bad guy fires an explosive that cause a car to flip end over end in the air and the good guy ducks just as it flips over his head. I don't know how many times I've seen that happen in the movies... Bruce Willis movies are rife with it... was even in the Aliens movie when the carrier exploded just missing the heros. I think it's wayyyyyyyyyyy over used anymore and you can always spot it coming.
Axlotl
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I think that was probably the first time I saw anything like that, though.
Scared the crap out of me as a kid - that was an intense scene. Heck, that was an intense movie.
But, yah, car flipping over hero's head...
I think that has happened in every Marvel movie made so far. It's getting old.
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