Bits of films that make no sense

[bigandclever]

Halmyre said:

He then made 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' instead. Go figure...

I like the (no doubt totally unfounded) rumour that, as Exec Producer, Connery had the script re-worked so his character died and he wouldn't have to do any sequels

[craigjm]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Kingsman:

When the room is flooded they stick pipes down the toilet for air, if the room was flooded the water would rush down the toilets stopping the recruits from breathing.

Not necessarily. It depends on how fast the water is moving and the quantity. If you try and flush your toilet with a big bucket of water it is entirely possible to find a flow rate that is actually quite fast where the water does not beat the vacuum and the toilet overflows. The idea behind the pipe was actually patented years back as the toilet snorkel but only recommended for fires

[Foliage]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Tie fighters, why the hell would you have a fighter then stick massive fins on the side that the pilot can't see past?



How the hell can you dog fight in that?

Tie interceptor has the slits just for that reason, also In rebels some of the tie fighters have C shaped 'wings'

Not all weapons are perfectly designed, stuff designed by an engineer to a brief, the designer probably never considered it as it wasn't in the top brass brief, for the interceptor it clearly was.

[Foliage]

Jefferson Steelflex said:

I'm probably being stupid, but i can never understand the scene in Die Hard when John McClane meets Hans Gruber and Gruber pretends to be someone called Bill Clay (as he saw that name on the employee board).

How does McClane know he's not Bill Clay? Never understood it.

His watch

[Foliage]

FourWheelDrift said:

Or what is an employee directory board doing up at the top of the building?

Its an office building with lots of business's, the business he is visiting only has that floor, or its just useful for visitors to know they are on the right/wrong floor.

[Foliage]

funkyrobot said:

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (yes, the book also).

If Gandalf can summon enormous eagles, why not get one of them to pop the ring into the volcano? Would have saved a lot of fuss.

They didn't want to get involved,

[Moonhawk]

Foliage said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Tie fighters, why the hell would you have a fighter then stick massive fins on the side that the pilot can't see past?



How the hell can you dog fight in that?

Tie interceptor has the slits just for that reason, also In rebels some of the tie fighters have C shaped 'wings'

Not all weapons are perfectly designed, stuff designed by an engineer to a brief, the designer probably never considered it as it wasn't in the top brass brief, for the interceptor it clearly was.

The tie project was probably run along these lines

[Antony Moxey]

Foliage said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Or what is an employee directory board doing up at the top of the building?

Its an office building with lots of business's, the business he is visiting only has that floor, or its just useful for visitors to know they are on the right/wrong floor.

The building is named after their company - perhaps it doesn't have lots of businesses.

[poing]

Since it's a bit of a topic in this thread thought I'd let you all know, Die Hard is on tonight 9pm Film 4 and obviously 10pm on plus 1.

[Antony Moxey]

Sunshine. Especially the bit where Chris Evans has to get the computer bits back into thee coolant. Earlier in the film he drops a screwdriver into the coolant and manages to snatch it out in a second yet his reaction is one of intense pain in his hand at the cold. So how then does he completely immerse himself in coolant for half a minute or more and still manage to operate tools under within the coolant. Not just once but multiple times? I know the cold eventually kills him but I'm not sure humans are able to voluntarily put themselves through that much pain or be able to stay conscious throughout either.

[james_tigerwoods]

Antony Moxey said:

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?

In "The Wolverine" - I think that's the one where he's in Japan - His claws are broken off and they come back as bone. That's something I really didn't get...

[boyse7en]

chris watton said:

Very fat people in post-apocalyptic/dystopian films/series, where it states that food has been a scarce commodity for years, even decades. How do these people keep their enormous girth?

They're not fat, they're just big-boned.

Or they've got glandular problems

Or genetics or something...


Look at Facebook, no one is ever fat because they eat too much!

[generationx]

In Sunshine from about half way through the film they're short of oxygen. And yet they keep the ENTIRE spaceship full of air when they could have just used basic quarters and the area where the bomb is. Idiots.

[Mr Snrub]

Antony Moxey said:

Sunshine. Especially the bit where Chris Evans has to get the computer bits back into thee coolant. Earlier in the film he drops a screwdriver into the coolant and manages to snatch it out in a second yet his reaction is one of intense pain in his hand at the cold. So how then does he completely immerse himself in coolant for half a minute or more and still manage to operate tools under within the coolant. Not just once but multiple times? I know the cold eventually kills him but I'm not sure humans are able to voluntarily put themselves through that much pain or be able to stay conscious throughout either.

Adrenaline presumably, and he gave literally everything he had to complete the task. I do absolutely love that film, but will admit the premise and Pinbaker make no real sense

[menousername]

Heat

One of my favourite films but the whole plot is based on a mistake.

Niel (De Niro) runs a tight crew, is OCD about small details, walks away from a job because he hears a noise in the distance (cop in van) and has a good fencer / informant who is able to get the full details of Al Pacinos crew, the fact they are bugged and under surveillance rtc

Yet his ultimate undoing is due to using a random guy he didnt know to carry out the first job - the Security van hold up - and it didnt even need the extra help. It has 2/3 of them just pointing guns at the security guys.

[Vocal Minority]

Antony Moxey said:

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?

My thing is that blades that size shouldn't be able to fit so invisibly in his hands....

[ClockworkCupcake]

Antony Moxey said:

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.

It wasn't needle marks on his skin that were being discussed, it was the little barbs of adamantium on his bones that they would have left.

If you ever made Airfix models as a kid, then it's the little bits of plastic that attached the part to the frame, which after you had snapped the part off the frame you had to smooth off before using.

[Halb]

Vocal Minority said:

My thing is that blades that size shouldn't be able to fit so invisibly in his hands....

They should be shooting out of his wrist.

[98elise]

Antony Moxey said:

Foliage said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Or what is an employee directory board doing up at the top of the building?

Its an office building with lots of business's, the business he is visiting only has that floor, or its just useful for visitors to know they are on the right/wrong floor.

The building is named after their company - perhaps it doesn't have lots of businesses.

I've worked for a company that owned the building we were in (and a whole load of other buildings). We only occupied 3 floors out of 15. There was a main entrance reception, then we had our own reception on our management floor. Its not uncommon at all.

[alock]

boyse7en said:

chris watton said:

Very fat people in post-apocalyptic/dystopian films/series, where it states that food has been a scarce commodity for years, even decades. How do these people keep their enormous girth?

They're not fat, they're just big-boned.

Or they've got glandular problems

Or genetics or something...


Look at Facebook, no one is ever fat because they eat too much!

A similar point in Logan. Kids raised in a lab their entire life and yet one of them is very overweight.