Probe Droid
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Nonsense. Start another thread. We're terribly off topic here.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Nonsense. Start another thread. We're terribly off topic here.
Riceball
Master Member
To get back on topic, I'm tired of seeing the old cliche of cutting one's palm (then acting like everything is fine) to draw blood, who actually does that? If I ever needed to draw blood for anything, be it activating some sort of gizmo, swear a blood oath, or whatever the last thing I'm going to do is draw a knife across the palm of my hand and if I did I'm certainly not going to be able to carry on like it didn't hurt.
Laspector
Master Member
Yeah, back to topic. I know we are all tired of bullets blowing locks on doors off. Okay, I saw Mythbusters too, yes it's plausible, but that's not my point. What I am tired of seeing is SWORDS slicing through locks and chains like they were butter. Sorry, that ain't gonna happen. New Wolverine movie has a lot of this.
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How about if someone got into a fight and were actually bruised throughout the rest of the movie? Has this ever happened? Ever been in a knock down drag out fight? You will show signs of it for a week at least.
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How about if someone got into a fight and were actually bruised throughout the rest of the movie? Has this ever happened? Ever been in a knock down drag out fight? You will show signs of it for a week at least.
The Dark One
Active Member
Yep. Total nonsense. Even though it happened in the series and was brought to this topic as a reason by a misinformed person who's tired of it.
I'm tired of "rumor sequels". like Unbreakable's "Breakable" and "Broken"; and "Ghostbusters 3". Sequels that people talk about that will never happen.
For me Kung Fu movies are absolved because the genre is characteristically in the realm of fantasy. When a martial artist can yank his opponent's head off with one hand the premature bruising doesn't catch my attention. But you're right anyway.
Probe Droid
Master Member
Bud, you're just not grasping it.
But, yeah, GB3, people have been speculating on that one for 25 years now.
p51
Sr Member
Movies that'll never be made, huh? Funny, they said there'd never be an Indiana Jones 4. Turns out, there shouldn't have been, but it got made after all. Never say never.
Good point. The "Kill Bill" movies were more an homage to those insane kung fool movies, but that drove me nuts showing swords doing things that no blade ever forged could possibly do. Yeah, that Wolverine movie was just insane with the guy and the sword...
Yeah, I got shot once (by a Marine on a live-fire training exercise, he's probably still doing pushups for that). The bullet passed right to left, over the top of my boot, blowing the top of the boot off and creasing one of my favorite big toes. It didn't even need stitches and I was fine within a week, but at the time, it hurt like heck!
MFP 2020
Sr Member
Shooting out the lights? Sometimes the Dumb outweighs the Cool. :wacko
That said, after Desert Storm we were watching some war movie where there were a lot of rounds expended and no hits, and I said, "Yeah, I believe that now."
laserpistol76
Well-Known Member
I hate in movies where someone gets shot can completely ignore that they have been shot.
MFP 2020
Sr Member
Here's one that just came up during the TV preview for Non-Stop: FX aircraft that don't fly like real aircraft. The shot in Non-Stop of the airliner flanked by fighters is ridiculous (no sense of space or lift or any of those vital physical attributes) but, it's not just CG: the movement of the police helicopter in Explorers is completely wrong, too. Say what you will about 1941, but the model flying shots were great.
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p51
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That's what killed the starting of the Terminator Salvation for me. A-10s were going by WAY too fast. These CGI folks have no concept of what planes look like when they're flying. Sure, hogs are jet-powered but they're just not that damned fast!
I've only seen this twice but it's bad enough ruin any sci fi film.
It's when somebody exclaims that some alien object is comprised of elements that "aren't on the periodic table".
C'mon! If it's made of protons, electrons and neutrons then it's described in the periodic table. That's like saying you've discovered a new number.
It's when somebody exclaims that some alien object is comprised of elements that "aren't on the periodic table".
C'mon! If it's made of protons, electrons and neutrons then it's described in the periodic table. That's like saying you've discovered a new number.
Lt's see. There are 117ish elements on the periodic table, they haven't even named two of them yet. I say ish because you could argue those numbers. Two of them aren't even named yet.
There is a physicist whose name I have forgotten who claims that 137 is the uppermost number, after that adding that many protons would create energy quantified only by imaginary numbers.
So maybe both are possible.
There is a physicist whose name I have forgotten who claims that 137 is the uppermost number, after that adding that many protons would create energy quantified only by imaginary numbers.
So maybe both are possible.
They haven't been named because they haven't been discovered in nature nor created - yet they're still are described on the periodic table. If they were talking about those elements they'd be exclaiming they've discovered element number "x" and would have the honor of naming it.Lt's see. There are 117ish elements on the periodic table, they haven't even named two of them yet. I say ish because you could argue those numbers. Two of them aren't even named yet.
There is a physicist whose name I have forgotten who claims that 137 is the uppermost number, after that adding that many protons would create energy quantified only by imaginary numbers.
So maybe both are possible.
And that's completely different than saying you've found elements not even on the table itself which is like stating you've discovered a new integer between 0 and 10.
Bad science in general. Those aliens were probably coming here for our water. But you never see any space super tankers. And, if they have the engineering possible to get here they should be able to get the hydrogen and oxygen to make water from places where the natives don't shoot at them.
Speaking of bad science, aliens, and water, Alienation had something that really annoyed me. Here you had aliens who melt in salt water and ate raw bloody meat because cooking made it harder to absorb something. Small problem: blood is basically flavored salt water.
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