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

[JonRB]

singlecoil said:

Thanks, but it really didn't need corroborating

[londonbabe]

JonRB said:

a) Yes, you're correct. In the books it is indeed stirred, not shaken. Bond maintains that shaking it 'bruises' the vodka

No it isn't. Bond specifically tells the waiter that he wants it shaken until it's ice cold. Go and read Casino Royale again.

Martinis are fking disgusting anyway :-)

I'd like to know why no Americans in films close their curtains ever.

And why Lara Croft travels all around the world to collect all the bits to make the really bad thing happen, in order to prevent the baddies doing that really bad thing. Why doesn't she just destroy the first bit after finding that? Then the other components will be useless.

And why do people in films never finish their pints?

[JonRB]

londonbabe said:

No it isn't. Bond specifically tells the waiter that he wants it shaken until it's ice cold. Go and read Casino Royale again.

I feel suitably chastised. I shall do so immediately.

(I was sure of that fact too. I hate it when that happens. Especially since I once ran a website called 'Hoaxbusters' many years ago)

[singlecoil]

londonbabe said:

JonRB said:

a) Yes, you're correct. In the books it is indeed stirred, not shaken. Bond maintains that shaking it 'bruises' the vodka

No it isn't. Bond specifically tells the waiter that he wants it shaken until it's ice cold. Go and read Casino Royale again.

That's an appeal to authority and is only allowable if it is agreed that the Bond books are an authority, whereas, of course, they are not. Most of the films were based on some elements of the books but nothing more was ever intended.

The 'shaken, not stirred' fails on internal logic as I pointed out earlier, and if the film Bond had wanted his Martini shaken until it was ice cold he could very easily have said so. Of course in the two films I mentioned he didn't ask for it at all.

[SpudLink]

jdw100 said:

Its just a lazy scriptwriters cliché, have they ever tried to jump through a window? No, if they had they would be dead or just bruised because they smacked in to it bounced off and lay dazed on the floor. Idiots!

On two occasions I've witnessed someone mistakenly walk into a glass door, and in both cases they were indeed left bruised and dazed. And only one of them even managed to leave a crack in the glass.

Edited by SpudLink on Saturday 4th October 20:27

[Negative Creep]

honest_delboy said:

To add to the Skyfall point, all films portray IT people as swivel-eyed loons/social misfits/nerds. Nothing like the supercool studs we actually are in real life.

Also from that film - doesn't the baddies meticulously complex escape plan rely on Bond just so happening to be standing in one very particular spot when a train just so happens to be passing overhead?

[Halmyre]

Negative Creep said:

honest_delboy said:

To add to the Skyfall point, all films portray IT people as swivel-eyed loons/social misfits/nerds. Nothing like the supercool studs we actually are in real life.

Also from that film - doesn't the baddies meticulously complex escape plan rely on Bond just so happening to be standing in one very particular spot when a train just so happens to be passing overhead?

Heh, yes, I just watched it last night and thought that very same thing.

[singlecoil]

Sticking with the Bond films for the moment - Man With the Golden Gun, why didn't the baddies kill Bond when he had been knocked unconscious, why 'send him to school'?


At least in OHMSS Blofeld had a reason for keeping the unconscious Bond alive for the time being.

[Ari]

singlecoil said:

Sticking with the Bond films for the moment - Man With the Golden Gun, why didn't the baddies kill Bond when he had been knocked unconscious, why 'send him to school'?

Hai Fat did not want Bond killed at his home. So he asked the goons to take him to the training camp where they decided to have some fun with him.

[droopsnoot]

SpudLink said:

On two occasions I've witnessed someone mistakenly walk into a glass door, and in both cases they were indeed left bruised and dazed. And only one of them even managed to leave a crack in the glass.

Indeed, one of the funniest bits of "You've been framed" is where randoms run into closed patio doors. Many of these look quite flimsy, shake in their frames when hit, but never shatter into a million pieces. Unless they're saving those for the late-night YBF uncut series.

[JonRB]

droopsnoot said:

Unless they're saving those for the late-night YBF uncut cut to ribbons series.

EFA

[kowalski655]

If it isn't safety glass then you can get cut to shreds...alas my daughter is proof of that

[g3org3y]

Prometheus.

Whole film tbh.

[Jader1973]

Why when the goodie shoots a baddie, or vice versa, do they then wander off only to be surprised when the baddie or goodie reappears and tries to kill them again?

Shoot them in the head you tt!