Larry Young
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That's the inciting incident in Kurt Vonnegut's 1982 book DEADEYE DICK, too.
Things in movies and TV that really make you wonder
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That's the inciting incident in Kurt Vonnegut's 1982 book DEADEYE DICK, too.
Contec
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The things that gets me wondering is Why can't people that are hunted by the huge masked killer (Jason,Myers ) See that the killer is hiding in the back seat of their car.. It's not like its a limo they drive. I can understand that they might not see Chucky for his small size but come on... JASON is HUGE. An normal person would have a hard time to hide on the floor in the backseat. (they always hide on the floor because then they can do that rising movement, when they revels that they are back there.)
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Why do robots talk to each other via sounds? They should have some phone link/walkie talkie type thing.
Why do nerds who get superpowers suddenly become great fighters? Fighting is a skill that takes practice. They've never done any sports. Suddenly, they're an expert. [and why do they all want to fight crime? They never did before.]
Part B of that is 'the two month ninja'. Average kid or guy is trained a month or two in martial arts and is now an Ninja badass. Real ninjas trained since birth in communities where everyone did it, like circus acrobats.
Two months of training doesn't even get you the first colored belt in the real world.
Talking about Mythbusters, this season is silly. Can you run on water? NO, YOU CAN'T! Can you dodge a bullet? NO, YOU CAN'T! Do you even need to try it?
10 years olds are coming up with these things. Dood, I bet I can dodge bullets running on water blowing stuff up and then fly.
Why do nerds who get superpowers suddenly become great fighters? Fighting is a skill that takes practice. They've never done any sports. Suddenly, they're an expert. [and why do they all want to fight crime? They never did before.]
Part B of that is 'the two month ninja'. Average kid or guy is trained a month or two in martial arts and is now an Ninja badass. Real ninjas trained since birth in communities where everyone did it, like circus acrobats.
Two months of training doesn't even get you the first colored belt in the real world.
Talking about Mythbusters, this season is silly. Can you run on water? NO, YOU CAN'T! Can you dodge a bullet? NO, YOU CAN'T! Do you even need to try it?
10 years olds are coming up with these things. Dood, I bet I can dodge bullets running on water blowing stuff up and then fly.
Solo4114
Master Member
Why do horror movie cars have such godawful ignition systems? I mean, we have fuel injection technology now. Even when my car's taking a bit to kick into gear, it's still a matter of a fraction of a second. Yet every so often you'll still see the old cliche of the terrified girl running to her car, getting into it, and yet the engine won't turn over.
Why do robots want to be human so damn badly? I mean, it was a neat concept when Aasimov explored it in The Bicentennial Man, and then again via Data (same story there, basically), but writers sure go back to that well a ton.
Why do lead actors or special guest stars take longer to die than "redshirts"?
For that matter, why would ANYONE EVER put on a red shirt on Star Trek? Seriously, you might as well just vent yourself out an airlock.
Why do robots want to be human so damn badly? I mean, it was a neat concept when Aasimov explored it in The Bicentennial Man, and then again via Data (same story there, basically), but writers sure go back to that well a ton.
Why do lead actors or special guest stars take longer to die than "redshirts"?
For that matter, why would ANYONE EVER put on a red shirt on Star Trek? Seriously, you might as well just vent yourself out an airlock.
Solo4114
Master Member
cinematical
New Member
If you start questioning ANYTHING in the Transformers films, you're letting yourself fall into a black hole of inanity.
For example, why do the Autobots adopt the form of useless vehicles like trucks and Chevy cars when the Decepticons adopt far more useful forms like fighter jets and tanks?
Oh no....I've done it to myself!
For example, why do the Autobots adopt the form of useless vehicles like trucks and Chevy cars when the Decepticons adopt far more useful forms like fighter jets and tanks?
Oh no....I've done it to myself!
Jason in Ohio
New Member
I've got one. In a horror movie, when a woman is trying to run away from the killer, why does she never take her high heels off so she can run faster?!?!?
I admit i saw this in one movie, Assasin Next Door, but never anywhere else.
I admit i saw this in one movie, Assasin Next Door, but never anywhere else.
The Rock-a-who
Well-Known Member
Starship battles
I'm looking specifically at you, Mr Star Trek
Why when they need to engage in ship-to-ship combat they need to be 6 feet from each other? I mean, really? Fire a salvo of missles/torpedos/whaever you want to call them from miles away when you first lock-in on them on your scanners and be done with it.
But noooOOOOooooo...enemy sighted so LET'S MOVE CLOSER TO IT. You know, JUST to make sure we can see the crew through their windows...
...which leads me to another space gripe:
Windows on space battleships?
Really? Why? You want to look outside? Mount some cameras and put them on screen.
I'm looking specifically at you, Mr Star Trek
Why when they need to engage in ship-to-ship combat they need to be 6 feet from each other? I mean, really? Fire a salvo of missles/torpedos/whaever you want to call them from miles away when you first lock-in on them on your scanners and be done with it.
But noooOOOOooooo...enemy sighted so LET'S MOVE CLOSER TO IT. You know, JUST to make sure we can see the crew through their windows...
...which leads me to another space gripe:
Windows on space battleships?
Really? Why? You want to look outside? Mount some cameras and put them on screen.
MFP 2020
Sr Member
Re: space battles
That's my biggest gripe about ESB: that not only are they chasing a little ship with huge battleships instead of their fleets of fighters, said huge battleships can evidently turn on a dime...and yet Solo is able to get three of them to nearly collide. Was no one looking out the window?
I love UFO (the series) but it bugged me that they were so locked in to the idea of computer-controlled flight. Interceptor One blows up because they wouldn't let him override the autopilot and change course for a couple of seconds???
Why do robots need to see text (and DOS) in their visual receptors?
Why, when someone is copying files from a computer to a thumb drive, does every single file have to open up on the display?
Finally, here is perhaps my biggest headscratcher of all time: How is it that a man who has spent his entire engineering career interfacing with a talking computer can type at super speed, creating and displaying, in rapid succession, dozens of detailed schematics for transparent aluminum?
BTW, a lot of this (and similar) stuff is listed at The Movie Cliches List.
There's also the "It Just Bugs Me" section of Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms. Hours and hours of fun.
That's my biggest gripe about ESB: that not only are they chasing a little ship with huge battleships instead of their fleets of fighters, said huge battleships can evidently turn on a dime...and yet Solo is able to get three of them to nearly collide. Was no one looking out the window?
I love UFO (the series) but it bugged me that they were so locked in to the idea of computer-controlled flight. Interceptor One blows up because they wouldn't let him override the autopilot and change course for a couple of seconds???
Why do robots need to see text (and DOS) in their visual receptors?
Why, when someone is copying files from a computer to a thumb drive, does every single file have to open up on the display?
Finally, here is perhaps my biggest headscratcher of all time: How is it that a man who has spent his entire engineering career interfacing with a talking computer can type at super speed, creating and displaying, in rapid succession, dozens of detailed schematics for transparent aluminum?
BTW, a lot of this (and similar) stuff is listed at The Movie Cliches List.
There's also the "It Just Bugs Me" section of Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms. Hours and hours of fun.
3jack
Well-Known Member
I'd like to know why LF looked so well fed and groomed in predators, he'd been alone on that planet for how ever long but managed to not loose any weight (taking in he was meant to be an elite soldier), shave perfectly and have a immaculate haircut.
Also why didn't the predators find him? He was holed up in the biggest thing on the planet and they never thought to look inside it, Super Predators, I don't think so!!!
Also why didn't the predators find him? He was holed up in the biggest thing on the planet and they never thought to look inside it, Super Predators, I don't think so!!!
dualedge
Sr Member
This is awesome.
It does seem that vampires either fall into the homeless children of the night who aren't much more than scavengers OR they have apparently unlimited bank accounts.
I think it'd be hilarious to see a vampire that has to get his pale a$$ out of his coffin at 9 pm and cut his lawn (before his HoA sends him another nasty-gram), gets complaints from the neighbors about cutting his lawn while everyone else is going to bed and then has to go to work as a night manager at a QuickTrip in order to pay the bills.
Star Wars,
Why manuever down a long trench full of guns when it would be far
easier to just fly down towards the end and drop your torpedo into the
hole. Just a straight shot in..........
Also, why does the Death Star orbit the planet Yavin to get to the rebel
base? Just blow it out of the stars and the rebel planet would be wide
open, if it even survives the Yavin planet blast?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm............. Guess that would make the movie to short.
Why manuever down a long trench full of guns when it would be far
easier to just fly down towards the end and drop your torpedo into the
hole. Just a straight shot in..........
Also, why does the Death Star orbit the planet Yavin to get to the rebel
base? Just blow it out of the stars and the rebel planet would be wide
open, if it even survives the Yavin planet blast?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm............. Guess that would make the movie to short.
cboath
Master Member
Yavin was a gas giant wasn't it? I'm guessing it's not as easy to blow up a gas giant.
What always gets me is in 70's movies, the footsteps. Man it gets pad. Guy sneaking down a hallway after a villain, and the villain sneaking away from him 'CLOP CLOP CLOP'. You'd hear the other guys footsteps a mile away. You hear the footsteps over traffic less than 20' away. I saw some show where they had the footsteps when the character was walking on carpet!
In the vane of things about using computers, how come EVERYONE always types everything? No one uses a mouse?!? "Let me adjust the color levels/contrast" type type type. Or better yet when they have the security camera footage and it's blurry or far away and they can zoom in so you can count the freckles on the guys face and get it totally clear at the same time.
DNA tests only take 15 minutes?? Really?
Another 60's/70's thing, every bullet fired seemed to require the exact same richochet sound.
What always gets me is in 70's movies, the footsteps. Man it gets pad. Guy sneaking down a hallway after a villain, and the villain sneaking away from him 'CLOP CLOP CLOP'. You'd hear the other guys footsteps a mile away. You hear the footsteps over traffic less than 20' away. I saw some show where they had the footsteps when the character was walking on carpet!
In the vane of things about using computers, how come EVERYONE always types everything? No one uses a mouse?!? "Let me adjust the color levels/contrast" type type type. Or better yet when they have the security camera footage and it's blurry or far away and they can zoom in so you can count the freckles on the guys face and get it totally clear at the same time.
DNA tests only take 15 minutes?? Really?
Another 60's/70's thing, every bullet fired seemed to require the exact same richochet sound.
What happens at the local police department level after James Bond has swept through town, leaving dead bodies and burning buildings in his wake? How much work does the department go through investigating the cause until a government spook sweeps in and tells them to just clean up and shut up?
Riceball
Master Member
My beef is how everything that's metal in TV & movie land is automatically bullet proof no matter how thin the metal is. TV shows are particularly guilty of this, I don't know how many times I've seen shows where bullets (apparently) ricochet off of every day regular cars when in reality they would be turning the car into Swiss cheese. Even funnier is when they do the same against a car's windshield, instead of turning the glass into a whole bunch of spider webs they just bounce off of the glass harmlessly in a bunch of sparks.
My other pet peeve is how in a lot of space based sci-fi shows the writers seem to fail to grasp the concept of there being three dimensions in space. Star Trek is particularly guilty of this, I don't know how many times in all of the various Trek series where they come up against some sort of obstacle that they can't go around because it's basically too wide to go around all the while forgetting that they can go above or below it or even at an angle.
My other pet peeve is how in a lot of space based sci-fi shows the writers seem to fail to grasp the concept of there being three dimensions in space. Star Trek is particularly guilty of this, I don't know how many times in all of the various Trek series where they come up against some sort of obstacle that they can't go around because it's basically too wide to go around all the while forgetting that they can go above or below it or even at an angle.
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