Bits of films that make no sense
Discussion
everyeggabird said:
Collateral.
Vincent (Cruise) has to make a number of hits in one night and get out of town. He has been at it for years, nobody knows who he is or what he looks like and he goes about his business incognito at night, one guy alone in his apartment, another on his doorstep, lawyer woman working late in empty building etc.
So it makes no sense at all to go into a nightclub in front of hundreds of people and start blasting away.
Been a while since I've Seen it but are not his plans ruined by the taxi driver who just won't do as he's told?Vincent (Cruise) has to make a number of hits in one night and get out of town. He has been at it for years, nobody knows who he is or what he looks like and he goes about his business incognito at night, one guy alone in his apartment, another on his doorstep, lawyer woman working late in empty building etc.
So it makes no sense at all to go into a nightclub in front of hundreds of people and start blasting away.
The bits of that film that are silly is the one taxi driver he picks knows the Mark. In a city of millions of people
The 1976 King Kong was on yesterday. There are several 'continuity issues' through the film, but this is about the ending. KK and Jessica Lange are on the roof of the WTC, the helicopters come, shoot KK, he falls down and then rolls off the roof. KK lands, and Jessica Lange is suddenly on the ground, with the WTC behind her, looking over at KK. Then Jeff Bridges comes out, who was a few floors below the roof level when it was all going off.
Skip to 8 minutes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AltLpd20LM
Skip to 8 minutes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AltLpd20LM
Pesty said:
everyeggabird said:
Collateral.
Vincent (Cruise) has to make a number of hits in one night and get out of town. He has been at it for years, nobody knows who he is or what he looks like and he goes about his business incognito at night, one guy alone in his apartment, another on his doorstep, lawyer woman working late in empty building etc.
So it makes no sense at all to go into a nightclub in front of hundreds of people and start blasting away.
Been a while since I've Seen it but are not his plans ruined by the taxi driver who just won't do as he's told?Vincent (Cruise) has to make a number of hits in one night and get out of town. He has been at it for years, nobody knows who he is or what he looks like and he goes about his business incognito at night, one guy alone in his apartment, another on his doorstep, lawyer woman working late in empty building etc.
So it makes no sense at all to go into a nightclub in front of hundreds of people and start blasting away.
The bits of that film that are silly is the one taxi driver he picks knows the Mark. In a city of millions of people
I appreciate it's usually just a plot point to progress the story, but I am amused by amazing coincidences in movies and tend to notice them above mistake/issues...
Rogue One
Rogue peeps crash land on planet and hike to the platform. Just as they arrive (to the second), Krennic calls a meeting out on the exposed platform in the pouring rain (as you do), conveniently exposing himself and her Dad to Andor with his sniper rifle.
Rogue One
Rogue peeps crash land on planet and hike to the platform. Just as they arrive (to the second), Krennic calls a meeting out on the exposed platform in the pouring rain (as you do), conveniently exposing himself and her Dad to Andor with his sniper rifle.
Commando, why doesn't the flight deck crew get a cargo area pressurisation failure warning as they are climbing out after Matrix had earlier broken through through a wall (just after the dog in the cage) and into the nose gear area to escape? Which would mean an immediate return to the airport and the early discovery of the body.
Halb said:
Had high expectations for the films, but it took me a few minutes to realise they were a pile of dogs
t, so much stuff was changed so the story didn't even make sense anymore, it was Lord of the Rings for the MTV generation, people with an attention span of less than 10 seconds. 
.
I'm still annoyed about those films; they bastardised it so much they had to invent scenes to try and get the plot/motivations back on track, rather than just stick with the original scenes which they removed for no good reason.t, so much stuff was changed so the story didn't even make sense anymore, it was Lord of the Rings for the MTV generation, people with an attention span of less than 10 seconds. .
Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5zm-9NCh4
Aragorn's entire character is different - in the book he receives the remade sword before they set off, knowing that it is a symbol that the thing he has been striving for his entire life is coming to pass - a proper Man of the West, last of the Numenoreans, off to get his Kingdom back and his uber sword is a symbol of it.
Not this wishy-washy emo gimpboy they feature here, who requires Elrond to travel f
king hundreds of miles of wilderness as an errand boy to tell him to man up.Argh it annoys me so much, it's like not only did they s
t on my childhood they then set fire to it, buried the corpse, then redug it up a few months later just to take another dump on it.t
ts.ICallCustard said:
Logan
If he has unbreakable metal bones how can he get impaled on stuff. Surely things wouldn't be able to pass through him
Biology 101 - there are lots of holes/gaps in a Skeleton - and also lots of fleshy bits that sit over the skeleton. Anywhere on this pic where you can see blue is a potential "impaling" site, even if you have an indestructible skeleton. If he has unbreakable metal bones how can he get impaled on stuff. Surely things wouldn't be able to pass through him
Edited by Moonhawk on Monday 13th March 23:38
The whole metal coating bones with unbreakable metal has so many holes where to start
Let's look at his blades. Before round bones after metal in perfectly sharpened and contoured blades appear.
Why would the metal cover the bones not just ball up in a big gloopy metal mess in the sub cutaneous tissue?
Where the needles were he'd have hundreds of little not sure what they are called sprues? All over his body
Let's look at his blades. Before round bones after metal in perfectly sharpened and contoured blades appear.
Why would the metal cover the bones not just ball up in a big gloopy metal mess in the sub cutaneous tissue?
Where the needles were he'd have hundreds of little not sure what they are called sprues? All over his body
Pesty said:
The whole metal coating bones with unbreakable metal has so many holes where to start
Let's look at his blades. Before round bones after metal in perfectly sharpened and contoured blades appear.
Why would the metal cover the bones not just ball up in a big gloopy metal mess in the sub cutaneous tissue?
Where the needles were he'd have hundreds of little not sure what they are called sprues? All over his body
Re the neeedles bit, it's well known he heals almost instantly - see when he gets shot you can see the wound healing leaving no scar tissue - so presumably it would be the same with needle marks. Agree about his blades though - how are they blade shaped and not just shiny bone shape? Also, regarding the whole bone coating thing - how does that work when in order to move as a human the bones need to be attached to muscles, sinews, tendons etc so are those bits of bone uncoated or did everything disconnect then reattach after the adamantium injections?Let's look at his blades. Before round bones after metal in perfectly sharpened and contoured blades appear.
Why would the metal cover the bones not just ball up in a big gloopy metal mess in the sub cutaneous tissue?
Where the needles were he'd have hundreds of little not sure what they are called sprues? All over his body
LOgan, the metal in his body is an alien entity, and so his body is constantly fighting, so his healing factor is always supercharged tacking it, tackling the spures maybe? When in one story the metal was ripped out of his body his body had nothing to keep it in check and he turned into a crazy feral, wolfman.
His bones are coated, but they're coated more like steel in concrete, than teflon on a pan.
Plus he's a petulant tt, not the constantly giving and sacrificing stoic of the books, living like a bum, not knowing if he'll ever make headway against the enemy.
His bones are coated, but they're coated more like steel in concrete, than teflon on a pan.
vonuber said:
I'm still annoyed about those films; they bastardised it so much they had to invent scenes to try and get the plot/motivations back on track, rather than just stick with the original scenes which they removed for no good reason.
Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5zm-9NCh4
Aragorn's entire character is different - in the book he receives the remade sword before they set off, knowing that it is a symbol that the thing he has been striving for his entire life is coming to pass - a proper Man of the West, last of the Numenoreans, off to get his Kingdom back and his uber sword is a symbol of it.
Not this wishy-washy emo gimpboy they feature here, who requires Elrond to travel fking hundreds of miles of wilderness as an errand boy to tell him to man up.
Argh it annoys me so much, it's like not only did they st on my childhood they then set fire to it, buried the corpse, then redug it up a few months later just to take another dump on it.
tts.
Indeed. People seem to know who Aragorn is....so erm...he would have been assassinated years ago by Sauron...end of story. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5zm-9NCh4
Aragorn's entire character is different - in the book he receives the remade sword before they set off, knowing that it is a symbol that the thing he has been striving for his entire life is coming to pass - a proper Man of the West, last of the Numenoreans, off to get his Kingdom back and his uber sword is a symbol of it.
Not this wishy-washy emo gimpboy they feature here, who requires Elrond to travel f
king hundreds of miles of wilderness as an errand boy to tell him to man up.Argh it annoys me so much, it's like not only did they s
t on my childhood they then set fire to it, buried the corpse, then redug it up a few months later just to take another dump on it.t
ts.Plus he's a petulant t
t, not the constantly giving and sacrificing stoic of the books, living like a bum, not knowing if he'll ever make headway against the enemy.Halb said:
LOgan, the metal in his body is an alien entity, and so his body is constantly fighting, so his healing factor is always supercharged tacking it, tackling the spures maybe? When in one story the metal was ripped out of his body his body had nothing to keep it in check and he turned into a crazy feral, wolfman.
His bones are coated, but they're coated more like steel in concrete, than teflon on a pan.
Plus he's a petulant tt, not the constantly giving and sacrificing stoic of the books, living like a bum, not knowing if he'll ever make headway against the enemy.
My pet hate was Denethor. I know Connery turned down Gandalf*, but if he'd then been offered Denethor, and played him from the book, it would have been miles better than the 'fiddling while Rome burns' dilettante we saw in the film.His bones are coated, but they're coated more like steel in concrete, than teflon on a pan.
vonuber said:
I'm still annoyed about those films; they bastardised it so much they had to invent scenes to try and get the plot/motivations back on track, rather than just stick with the original scenes which they removed for no good reason.
Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5zm-9NCh4
Aragorn's entire character is different - in the book he receives the remade sword before they set off, knowing that it is a symbol that the thing he has been striving for his entire life is coming to pass - a proper Man of the West, last of the Numenoreans, off to get his Kingdom back and his uber sword is a symbol of it.
Not this wishy-washy emo gimpboy they feature here, who requires Elrond to travel fking hundreds of miles of wilderness as an errand boy to tell him to man up.
Argh it annoys me so much, it's like not only did they st on my childhood they then set fire to it, buried the corpse, then redug it up a few months later just to take another dump on it.
tts.
Indeed. People seem to know who Aragorn is....so erm...he would have been assassinated years ago by Sauron...end of story. Case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5zm-9NCh4
Aragorn's entire character is different - in the book he receives the remade sword before they set off, knowing that it is a symbol that the thing he has been striving for his entire life is coming to pass - a proper Man of the West, last of the Numenoreans, off to get his Kingdom back and his uber sword is a symbol of it.
Not this wishy-washy emo gimpboy they feature here, who requires Elrond to travel f
king hundreds of miles of wilderness as an errand boy to tell him to man up.Argh it annoys me so much, it's like not only did they s
t on my childhood they then set fire to it, buried the corpse, then redug it up a few months later just to take another dump on it.t
ts.Plus he's a petulant t
t, not the constantly giving and sacrificing stoic of the books, living like a bum, not knowing if he'll ever make headway against the enemy.* saying he "didn't understand the script". He then made 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' instead. Go figure...
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