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The differrence between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
The differrence between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
Unbelieveable Movie Scenes : what were they thinking?
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The Rock-a-who
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Someone mentioned this a while back when the movie first came out - and at least it helped me get over the 'virus problem'.
But remember the aliens used our satellites to communicated around the globe since it couldn't with a direct line of sight - David reversed engineered their frequency/transmission and that was how he was able to upload it.
Yea, not a sound solution, but a little better than what we were giving in the movie straight up.
Yep... Man that sucked...
Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
That's what happens when a star (even one as generally good as Patrick Stewart) is allowed to say "Hey wouldn't it be cool if I drove a fast car and I got to shoot from the hip and wear shades, too!":unsure
Com4tbl
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Just watched it the other day and the entire movie is a compilation of "what were they thinking"...... Escape from L.A. But two of the glaring scenes were Snake surfing a tsunami wave with absolutely no experience and the scene with the hovering hang gliders in the last big battle.
mattycsi
Master Member
The scene in Dark Knight when Joker throws the cigar on the gasoline soaked money.
A lit cigar/cigarette when it comes into contact with petrol get wet and soggy and goes out. It really takes me out of films when they use this stock set piece. For the sake of them just throwing on the lit match or zippo, which is more believable (but still has its own issues of their proximity to it and whether the vapour/oxygen mix is right).
But a lot of scenes we find unbelievable boil down to our understanding of the science within the subject matter or life experience.
A lit cigar/cigarette when it comes into contact with petrol get wet and soggy and goes out. It really takes me out of films when they use this stock set piece. For the sake of them just throwing on the lit match or zippo, which is more believable (but still has its own issues of their proximity to it and whether the vapour/oxygen mix is right).
But a lot of scenes we find unbelievable boil down to our understanding of the science within the subject matter or life experience.
PHArchivist
Master Member
Just watched A View To A Kill...
In the pre-credits opening ski sequence Bond improvises making a snowboard out of a snowmobile ski.
And the film makers decide to play The Beach Boys California Girls...!?
What the hell!? Totally takes you right out of the movie. I mean - The Beach Boys!? In a Bond film!? If they HAD to use a "fun" song, at least they could have used Surfin' USA, Surfin' Safari, or even better, something from Dick Dale...
Bond cheese at its pinnacle...
-- Superman films have too many of these moments for me to even think much about it. Same with Iron Man.
-- "Armageddon" where the mission is pulled together in 18 days. That would have taken a good 18 years in the real world. Couldn't we have gotten 18 months in the movie?
-- The fridge scene in Indy#4 didn't bother me any more than the invisible stone bridge in #3. Or the plane/raft fall in #2. Or the submarine ride in #1. People judged #4 by standards they never held the others to.
-- BTTF#1. Marty hits the lighting bolt wire, jumps back to 1985 . . . and crashes straight into a building at 90+mph. Marty & the car don't get a scratch.
-- "Armageddon" where the mission is pulled together in 18 days. That would have taken a good 18 years in the real world. Couldn't we have gotten 18 months in the movie?
-- The fridge scene in Indy#4 didn't bother me any more than the invisible stone bridge in #3. Or the plane/raft fall in #2. Or the submarine ride in #1. People judged #4 by standards they never held the others to.
-- BTTF#1. Marty hits the lighting bolt wire, jumps back to 1985 . . . and crashes straight into a building at 90+mph. Marty & the car don't get a scratch.
Yet in BTTF2 Biff's car would rip through them like tin foil. :lol
Maybe the ice provided better external strength.
There ya go! The ice layer reinforced the car as it slammed into the building. :lol
greylocke
Sr Member
I agree with this one. I used to work for a gas station, and my manager thought it would be funny to drop a lit cigarette in the tank. I almost got hit by a car running away. I was only 16 at the time and after that I learned about proper air/fuel mixture, how temperature affects ignition and a whole bunch more. So when I see someone igniting any type of flammable fuel with a cigarette or a cigar, my mind immediately calls BS.
Waffen Bucks
New Member
In The Sound Of Music, when the Von Trapp family escape the Nazis and walk over the mountains.......into Germany.
I always annoy the wife with this one!
I always annoy the wife with this one!
Although I personally agree that it's one of the lowest points I think astronaut war in space with laser guns was the most ridiculous.
Vermithrax 4
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In Dark Knight: in the parking building Batman jumps several stories down and lands on top of the escaping van, crushing the van's roof and blowing out its windows in the process. 1. I don't care how good a shape a man is in, that impact is going to shatter his leg bones. 2. Why does the van stop dead after Batman lands on it? It was heading out of the garage at quite a clip, I think it would have kept going a ways even after Batman crushed it.
Oh, and did anyone else notice that Gotham is a city that is curiously devoid of nighttime traffic?
Oh, and did anyone else notice that Gotham is a city that is curiously devoid of nighttime traffic?
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DKR: Batman gets back into town after his prison chiropracty (another unbelievable scene), and executions are taking place, Gordon being in line. But before he makes the save, first he apparently scaled an abandoned building and drew a bat symbol with a flammable liquid on it (which surely would take hours), just to make a dramatic entrance.
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