Unbelieveable Movie Scenes : what were they thinking?
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Shows what I know. I always thought they were aliens as well. :lol
Darth Lars
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Saw The A-team (2010) the other day. The boat explosion with people climbing and running while containers are falling around them. Ridiculous.
Bigdaddy
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I just re-watched AI a few weeks ago, I thought the robots actually offered the explanation of who they were to the kid (robot)? If not I "got" it I guess, because after watching it I knew the advanced "beings" were robots of the future studying their creators. Actually a pretty good flick, worth a rewatch every decade or so :lol
Bigdaddy
Master Member
Jake Sully from Avatar.
The film may be an unoriginal tour de force, but I still could have enjoyed it a heck of a lot more if our hero had some consistency in his motives. One moment he's loving the Navi life with his sexy blue girl friend, next he's talking with Mr. Evil in the weakness of the Navi's home. How does this guy not understand that if they blow up the tree, the Navi that he likes so much will probably be very angry over that? And his effort to negotiate a re-location? You'd have better luck leaving that in the hands of a middle schooler who's known for procrastinating on their homework. And to top it all off, he's the one who rallies the Navi in declaring "This is OUR LAND!". Their land Sully, not yours.
The film may be an unoriginal tour de force, but I still could have enjoyed it a heck of a lot more if our hero had some consistency in his motives. One moment he's loving the Navi life with his sexy blue girl friend, next he's talking with Mr. Evil in the weakness of the Navi's home. How does this guy not understand that if they blow up the tree, the Navi that he likes so much will probably be very angry over that? And his effort to negotiate a re-location? You'd have better luck leaving that in the hands of a middle schooler who's known for procrastinating on their homework. And to top it all off, he's the one who rallies the Navi in declaring "This is OUR LAND!". Their land Sully, not yours.
You could have just said "Avatar" and I would have agreed with you. :lol
Bigdaddy
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If I had to choose Avatars I'd rather watch the bald kid again
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Well, he had to be accepted as part of the tribe before he could address the leadership. It's a plot machination, I admit.
p51
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Having been in the Army, I can't begin to list all the things wrong with that movie. There are so many issues with the laws of physics, how machines work and how the military works (the biggest is that people who are court martialled are not brought back to service and officers are never demoted, they just get booted out). That whole tank from a parachute thing almost made me leave the theater because even the TV show wouldn't have done something that idiotic...
EKF5
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I just saw the start of Fantastic Voyage (1966) and was reminded of a huge problem with the ending. Spoiler if you've never seen the film or read the book. In the book the characters make a successful effort to bring the broken submarine out of Benes. In the movie they leave it behind where it would return to normal size and kill Benes right after they spent an hour inside of him to perform emergency surgery saving him.
In the book Asimov was trying to solve the problems of the script. (Most people assume his book inspired the movie, he just wrote the novelization). They also leave behind a laser inside Benes in the movie, nor can they possibly breath the oversized air molecules.
The movie takes a fair amount of suspension of disbelief, but I always enjoyed it even with its flaws.
The movie takes a fair amount of suspension of disbelief, but I always enjoyed it even with its flaws.
MFP 2020
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Pretty much all of Torque, but if I have to narrow it down: Riding a motorcycle up a ramp of some kind, jumping onto the top of a moving train, and then riding around on top of the train. He might even have dropped down and ridden the bike through the train, but I've tried to block all this from memory, unsuccessfully.
"Flying Dom" in the latest Fast/Furious movie.
"Flying Dom" in the latest Fast/Furious movie.
laserpistol76
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Anything in the Fast and Furious movies, mostily the car stunts. They're funt to watch, but they really mess with the laws of physics.
There is plenty of unrealistic stuff in the F&F movies. But people aren't always correct about which things they are.
Plenty of times I hear people scoff at a stunt being "so totally fake" when it was actually done for real. Or "Yeah right, like anyone in the car could survive that!" when in fact somebody did.
And stunt crews sometimes have to jump through hoops to make something work that the average person assumes would just work naturally. It's easy to just get a car hurling into the air. But getting it into the air with the launching method the story calls for, doing it in a predictable/repeatable pattern, and doing it safely . . . much more difficult.
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Bigdaddy
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I had that thought while watching Casino Royale, when Bond swerved to miss Vesper, I thought "yeah right, that's digital". Then I saw the making of it, WHOA! pretty darn impressive stunt driving.
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Bronson BB
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Kirk orders Enterprise to pull a Warp powered U turn, sorta'. They come at V'Ger from the side, then once safely in V'Gers warp bubble, jog in from behind;
Navigator Lt. Ilia: 5 minutes to cloud boundary.
Capt. Kirk: Navigator lay in a conic section flight path to the cloud center, bring us parallel to whatever we find in there. Mr. Sulu, tactical plot on viewer.
This swings Enterprise around the back of V'Gers cloud, all power-slidey like and prevented Big E from overshooting their mark.
Back to the original spirit of this thread;
On a recent episode of Justified, a guy got shot in the chest by a shotgun at close range and got knocked back by it like he'd been mule-kicked.
Sure. That happens.
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