The 'but why would they do that, it makes no sense' thread

The 'but why would they do that, it makes no sense' thread

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entropy

5,443 posts

203 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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As Tuco said in The Good The Bad & The Ugly: "Don't talk just shoot". Shame more bad guys don't heed this advice.

pinchmeimdreamin

9,965 posts

218 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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entropy said:
As Tuco said in The Good The Bad & The Ugly: "Don't talk just shoot". Shame more bad guys don't heed this advice.
That would be the end of all Bond films then.

Bullett

10,887 posts

184 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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I thought of this thread when watching Odd Thomas tonight.
The hero is looking for a weird creepy guy, he goes into a dark room and turns the light on! first time for everything...

singlecoil

33,649 posts

246 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Why do so many women in films and TV programmes have sex while wearing clothing that covers their chests? Don't they get hot?

If the lady in question doesn't want to show her stuff it would be better if they didn't show the sex scene at all, it would be more realistic to just imply that it has happened.

kowalski655

14,647 posts

143 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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singlecoil said:
Why do so many women in films and TV programmes have sex while wearing clothing that covers their chests? Don't they get hot?

If the lady in question doesn't want to show her stuff it would be better if they didn't show the sex scene at all, it would be more realistic to just imply that it has happened.
Coupled with the L shaped sheets that leave a mans manly chest exposed,post coitus,but cover the lady's lady bumps

JonRB

74,584 posts

272 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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You know, maybe I'm leaping to conclusions here, but I wonder if it could be something to do with Film Classification ratings / TV watershed things?

smile

Johnspex

4,342 posts

184 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Why, when the ransom or bribe is delivered is it always in a nice new briefcase?
Why would you do that? Just to make a nice gift for the kidnapper?

Halmyre

11,204 posts

139 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Johnspex said:
Why, when the ransom or bribe is delivered is it always in a nice new briefcase?
Why would you do that? Just to make a nice gift for the kidnapper?
Maybe the ransomee(?) doesn't own a briefcase and has to go out and buy one.

If there were a sudden spate of kidnappings I'd be looking suspiciously at that nice unassuming man who runs the thriving briefcase shop down the street...

Johnspex

4,342 posts

184 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Halmyre said:
Maybe the ransomee(?) doesn't own a briefcase and has to go out and buy one.

If there were a sudden spate of kidnappings I'd be looking suspiciously at that nice unassuming man who runs the thriving briefcase shop down the street...
Good point, but what's wrong with an old Tesco carrier bag?

Megaflow

9,425 posts

225 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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callyman said:
Megaflow said:
Back to the Future.

Why 88mph?
Top speed of a DeLorean with half a ton of crap glued to it?
Fair comment...

hehe

BlackST

9,080 posts

165 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Bullett said:
SilverSixer said:
Game of Thrones. "The Wall". Can't the nasties on the north just paddle canoes round the side?
As I understand it they are hunter gatherer type tribes not seafarers and as it's a long way north and the seas are nasty the don't have the skills to do it in sufficient numbers.
Stannis went North by ship with his army after Jon Snow went to kill Mance Rayder.
The castle to the far east of the wall is manned. Admittedly not the best.
They aren't known to be seafarers as said above so probably wouldn't produce the best ships to brave the narrow sea.
The wall is 300 miles long so the tribes would have to walk the length of it to get around it rather than chance climbing it.
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Eastwatch-by-...

It certainly mustn't be an attractive option if they do climb it. Nutters.

The Don of Croy

6,000 posts

159 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Johnspex said:
Halmyre said:
Maybe the ransomee(?) doesn't own a briefcase and has to go out and buy one.

If there were a sudden spate of kidnappings I'd be looking suspiciously at that nice unassuming man who runs the thriving briefcase shop down the street...
Good point, but what's wrong with an old Tesco carrier bag?
In American films (so about 85%+) it's always a 'ZERO Halliburton' aluminium case too...so should you ever use one everyone will know you're paying off the mob/holding someone to ransom/carrying nice camera equipment.

On the bedding question (see above ref coitus) why does no-one 'clean up' afterwards? Don't film stars need the cock-washing beaker? Quick trip to the loo? No reference to 'yeuck! Damp patch!!'

Am I over-thinking this?

And the number of times otherwise boringly reliable cars suddenly choose to get damp plugs because someone needs to getaway fast, but magically the engine fires just as the baddies get the door handle within reach...

marshalla

15,902 posts

201 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Halmyre said:
Johnspex said:
Why, when the ransom or bribe is delivered is it always in a nice new briefcase?
Why would you do that? Just to make a nice gift for the kidnapper?
Maybe the ransomee(?) doesn't own a briefcase and has to go out and buy one.

If there were a sudden spate of kidnappings I'd be looking suspiciously at that nice unassuming man who runs the thriving briefcase shop down the street...
And why are the briefcases always exactly the right size to take several bundles of notes across and down without any gaps around the edges or space above them ? And why is there never a half-bundle, always just full bundles ?

JonRB

74,584 posts

272 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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marshalla said:
And why are the briefcases always exactly the right size to take several bundles of notes across and down without any gaps around the edges ?
Ah, that'll be because the little man with the thriving briefcase shop down the road makes them to the exactly correct size for doing that. smile

BigBen

11,645 posts

230 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Halmyre said:
Johnspex said:
Why, when the ransom or bribe is delivered is it always in a nice new briefcase?
Why would you do that? Just to make a nice gift for the kidnapper?
Maybe the ransomee(?) doesn't own a briefcase and has to go out and buy one.

If there were a sudden spate of kidnappings I'd be looking suspiciously at that nice unassuming man who runs the thriving briefcase shop down the street...
I think there is a scene along those lines in one of the Austin Powers films where the ransom is paid less the purchase cost of the new briefcase. Hilarity ensues. Come to think of it, it didn't and it was on the deleted scenes bit of the dvd.


Mr_Yogi

3,278 posts

255 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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I finally caught up with Skyfall last night. Why would you (as a supposedly intelligent cyber terrorism/ hacking expert) plug the laptop of somebody who has already been able to hack Mi5's entire systems, into your new super dooper locked down secret network? DOH!

HereBeMonsters

14,180 posts

182 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Mr_Yogi said:
I finally caught up with Skyfall last night. Why would you (as a supposedly intelligent cyber terrorism/ hacking expert) plug the laptop of somebody who has already been able to hack Mi5's entire systems, into your new super dooper locked down secret network? DOH!
I actually had that question in a job interview. It was for an IT job, so relevant, we were just chatting about it as it had just come out, interviewer asked "were you screaming at the IT guys not to plug that laptop in as much as I was?"

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Mr_Yogi said:
I finally caught up with Skyfall last night. Why would you (as a supposedly intelligent cyber terrorism/ hacking expert) plug the laptop of somebody who has already been able to hack Mi5's entire systems, into your new super dooper locked down secret network? DOH!
And also the bad guy's incredibly convoluted plan basically boiled down to walking into a crowded room with a gun and trying to shoot 'M'.

SilverSixer

8,202 posts

151 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Whilst transporting Sean Bean from Southwark Prison (South London) to Parkhurst Prison (Isle of Wight) in Patriot Games, the convoy is ambushed at the moving bridge in Middlesbrough.

Strange route.

Bullett

10,887 posts

184 months

Friday 3rd October 2014
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Robin Hood PoT.

They got to Nottingham from Dover via Hadrians Wall.