Unbelieveable Movie Scenes : what were they thinking?

Superman reverses time just enough to get to Lois before the road splits in half. What? He doesn't stop the nuke? He doesn't prevent Hoover Dam from bursting? I suppose we can assume he did these things, but not only are they not shown, they're not even hinted at. And Jimmy was on the road where Supes had left him, which was AFTER the dam burst. So the disaster happened, and Superman didn't do anything to change anything, but, somehow, the road doesn't split open this time because...??

Also, I get the idea that Earth's rotation didn't literally reverse, except for this one fact: Superman flies around the Earth, it (seemingly) reverses, then he FLIES AROUND IT AGAIN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION until it's rotating properly again. If Earth wasn't literally reversing direction, why would he need to do this?
 
somerset fox said:
STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE: Big bad V’GER is approaching Earth at warp Speed. The Enterprise is approaching V’GER at warp speed. At no time does V’GER slow to sub warp speed to allow the loooooong, slow Enterprise pass over the model, I mean alien ship. The Enterprise would have passed V’GER in a second, leaving it miles behind in it’s wake, unless it was slowed down and placed in reverse, travelling at warp speed, a fraction slower than that of V’GER, to allow V’GER to pass under it, rather than the Enterprise pass over it.
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Thanks to the Director's Edition showcasing what the V'Ger craft actually looks like, it appears that the Enterprise approached the cloud from behind and flew over the craft till it reached the front (The point where Kirk says "Hold relative position here).
 
Treadwell said:
Superman reverses time just enough to get to Lois before the road splits in half. What? He doesn't stop the nuke? He doesn't prevent Hoover Dam from bursting? I suppose we can assume he did these things, but not only are they not shown, they're not even hinted at. And Jimmy was on the road where Supes had left him, which was AFTER the dam burst. So the disaster happened, and Superman didn't do anything to change anything, but, somehow, the road doesn't split open this time because...??

Also, I get the idea that Earth's rotation didn't literally reverse, except for this one fact: Superman flies around the Earth, it (seemingly) reverses, then he FLIES AROUND IT AGAIN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION until it's rotating properly again. If Earth wasn't literally reversing direction, why would he need to do this?
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Ugh. That trick kills me every time I think about it and it breaks my heart that it was used again in Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. The very thought of this moment is a classic case of short changing the audience. It takes away all those cool, awesome moments that we saw Superman accomplish and turns them into complete time wasters.

Even Doug Walker's Nostalgia Critic ranks it as the #1 Dumbest Superman moment ever.
 
The 'How it Should Have Ended' (HISHE) actually makes fun of that very thing! Lex goes '...even you, with your great speed--' and Superman interrupts him, 'Wait, what did you just say about me??' and flies away for just a second and returns with BOTH missiles in his hands! :D

I love how cocky Superman is- 'THESE missiles Lex? Because, you know, I flew around the world a few times and thee were the only two missiles I could find!'
 
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Master Dahark said:
The 'How it Should Have Ended' (HISHE) actually makes fun of that very thing! Lex goes '...even you, with your great speed--' and Superman interrupts him, 'Wait, what did you just say about me??' and flies away for just a second and returns with BOTH missiles in his hands! :D

I love how cocky Superman is- 'THESE missiles Lex? Because, you know, I flew around the world a few times and thee were the only two missiles I could find!'
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A video link helps from time to time...

How Superman Should Have Ended - YouTube
 
Star Trek Nemesis

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So, we have a shuttle that can move easily and swiftly over land, yet they decide to take a noisy, wheel based vehicle who's only feature is a phaser canon in the back on a populated planet with a pre-warp civilization.... during the day....
 
Kerr Avon said:
See, I hear that all the time and I don't think it was that Superman was spinning the Earth backwards. Only that he was flying so fast he was going back in time, and from the viewer's perspective time rolling backwards could only be perceived by seeing the Earth slowing, stopping and going in the opposite direction.
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Except for the part where he starts flying the other direction and the earth rights itself. Did he overshoot his intended spot and have to go back forward in time a teensy bit? I think it's pretty clear he spinning the planet, but that's just my take.
 
^ I think most people just try to pretend he's simply going back in time- since there's just no way around the fact that 'spinning earth backwards' is just plain old stupid

Myself included- I just can't wrap my head around what they must have been thinking while filming that!
 
Transformers II almost made me want to scream at the screen when they dropped JADMS right on top of the main characters and they just ran like firecrackers were going off. Those things aren't to be dropped less than several kilometers away. That close? You'd be lucky if there's enough of you left to identify as being maybe the remains of a human being if they dropped one of those suckers that close to you.
Has anyone else on this forum every been around large explosives going off? Even at a distance, you can wind up with a bad stomach ache or wind up looking for your hat after a large explosion going off in the area. Think of all the movies where a VERY large explosion goes off just feet away from someone and it doesn't faze them at all?
Also, explosions do NOT happen that slowly. People actually are able to dodge an explosion? In the Matrix, maybe, but NO FREAKING WAY in the real world!
Watch episode 5 of "Generation Kill" to see what a real explosion looks like they did a great job with that one.
Master Dahark said:
'THESE missiles Lex? Because, you know, I flew around the world a few times and thee were the only two missiles I could find!'
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I love it! :thumbsup
Better still, he comes back with more than two, and everyone has a WTF moment before Lex tries to run and they both forget the thermonuclear weapons lying there...
 
binkleywalker said:
You know it takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, right? Maybe things have changed since then...

Brian
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The same thing happened (will happen?) in this galaxy in a couple hundred years. Similar explosion in "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" when Praxis explodes at the beginning.

Sent from my other Etch-A-Sketch
 
TymerDC said:
I got about 1/3 thru this then quit...in my opinion someone who way over-thinks a movie and has too much time on their hands.
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I quit about the same point, but because the list was less of an analytical process and more of a butthurt fanboy's point of view.
 
Jedi2016 said:
I liked it, so any description of how it "sucked" isn't going to be taken seriously by me.
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That's about how I feel. If I overprocessed every element of every film like some of these "over the top fanboys" I'd never be able to enjoy any movie. Yes some films have unbelievable scenes and once in a while you wonder to yourself "what were they thinking" when they filmed that particular scene. Its like they didn't bother to think some things thru before the director yelled "action". Some unbelievable scenes I feel are even ...what I term as "acceptable unbelievability" , given that without it then the film would be less exciting or interesting.
But on a whole I enjoy almost all films. I can't think of maybe 2-3 movies, in my lifetime I actually didn't at least finish watching.
 
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