Bits of films that make no sense
Discussion
Interstellar - they have to build an enormous rocket to send our heroes up into space from earth, but then can use the little shuttle craft thing to go to and from a planet with immense gravity that creates a well in the space-time continuum so strong that it actually slows time. Oh, and whilst they are on the planet they can walk/splash about with very few ill effects other than their arms and legs being a bit heavy.
Don't get me wrong I love the film, but it's not as based in real physics as it would like you to think.
And don't get me started on 'I'm putting a worm in the back door' in any movie where they want to hack into a computer system.
Don't get me wrong I love the film, but it's not as based in real physics as it would like you to think.
And don't get me started on 'I'm putting a worm in the back door' in any movie where they want to hack into a computer system.
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.
Because he's Bruce Willis in a vest, that's why.How does McClane know he's not Bill Clay? Never understood it.
In Die Hard, they were reliant on the police to turn the power off to disable a lock to the vault. They are a couple of dozen terrorists who have RPGs and Semtex, couldn't they have turned it off themselves?!
(I remember watching Die Hard and being amazed at the touch screen terminal in the lobby at the beginning!)
(I remember watching Die Hard and being amazed at the touch screen terminal in the lobby at the beginning!)
'Shallow Grave'. Why did they have to bury Keith Allen? He died of a heart attack so they could have hidden the money and then called the police. I realise that there would be no film without this happening.
In 'Witness' why did the bad cops park a mile from the Amish farmhouse and then walk, fully armed, the rest of the way so Harrison Ford could see them arriving and prepare the ambush.
In 'Witness' why did the bad cops park a mile from the Amish farmhouse and then walk, fully armed, the rest of the way so Harrison Ford could see them arriving and prepare the ambush.
nonsequitur said:
'Shallow Grave'. Why did they have to bury Keith Allen? He died of a heart attack so they could have hidden the money and then called the police. I realise that there would be no film without this happening.
Because, presumably, it would be very easy for anybody looking for a suitcase full of cash to find them and question them.... either legally or illegallyrobsa said:
nonsequitur said:
'Shallow Grave'. Why did they have to bury Keith Allen? He died of a heart attack so they could have hidden the money and then called the police. I realise that there would be no film without this happening.
Because, presumably, it would be very easy for anybody looking for a suitcase full of cash to find them and question them.... either legally or illegallynonsequitur said:
'Shallow Grave'. Why did they have to bury Keith Allen? He died of a heart attack so they could have hidden the money and then called the police. I realise that there would be no film without this happening..
Dunno. But I do like that it's the same drug dealer as in Trainspotting.ReallyReallyGood said:
In Die Hard, they were reliant on the police to turn the power off to disable a lock to the vault. They are a couple of dozen terrorists who have RPGs and Semtex, couldn't they have turned it off themselves?!
That plot-hole occurred as a result of a deleted scene. Special features on the DVD/BluRay release restore the scene (unfortunately only a black-and-white rush of it still existed). I can't remember the exact details right now, but with the missing scene back in the reason for the power shutdown makes more sense.
r11co said:
That plot-hole occurred as a result of a deleted scene. Special features on the DVD/BluRay release restore the scene (unfortunately only a black-and-white rush of it still existed).
I can't remember the exact details right now, but with the missing scene back in the reason for the power shutdown makes more sense.
Wasn't it something to do with the fact that a building of that size\importance would have multiple backup feeds so the only way to guarantee the power going off was to get someone to shut down the grid for that whole city block, hence the surrounding streets going dark too. Not something easily done by the terrorists no matter how many guns they had whereas they knew FBI standard procedure in a hostage situation was to do exactly that.I can't remember the exact details right now, but with the missing scene back in the reason for the power shutdown makes more sense.
skoff said:
Interstellar - they have to build an enormous rocket to send our heroes up into space from earth, but then can use the little shuttle craft thing to go to and from a planet with immense gravity that creates a well in the space-time continuum so strong that it actually slows time. Oh, and whilst they are on the planet they can walk/splash about with very few ill effects other than their arms and legs being a bit heavy.
It is not the ocean planet they visit which has the immense, time slowing, gravity - it is the proximity of the ocean planet to the black hole which causes that effect in the movie.I would like to know how they get the fake money into the vault at the end of Ocean's 11 though.
Edited by gregs656 on Tuesday 21st February 16:55
Lucas CAV said:
nonsequitur said:
In 'The Shawshank Redemption', How did Andy replace the poster of Raquel Welch after he was in the tunnel leading to his escape.
Err.. Lifts it up, climbs in, lets it fall behind him?Err...yes. But the poster was secured at all corners as can be seen when the warden throws a carving through the middle and then his fist and then his arm, before he rips it away and calls for the dogs.
Quantum of Solace... not a great Bond film (but in retrospect, not as bad as Skyfall & Spectre) but anyway, ive never understood the death of the main baddie, "Greene". Bond questions him, then abandons him in the desert, after tossing a can of engine oil and saying "I bet you make it 20 miles before you consider drinking that".
Later Bond is told that Greene was found, dead, shot twice, and with engine oil in his stomach.
Ok, so he was clearly shot by Quantum/SPECTRE, for giving up secrets. But surely no one would drink oil thinking it would substitute water (especially not someone as bright as Greene) so why would you have even carried it with you once Bond drove off? Makes absolutely no sense... clearly the script writers wanted to shoehorn an "oil-death-payback" in somehow due to how Gemma Arterton dies...
Later Bond is told that Greene was found, dead, shot twice, and with engine oil in his stomach.
Ok, so he was clearly shot by Quantum/SPECTRE, for giving up secrets. But surely no one would drink oil thinking it would substitute water (especially not someone as bright as Greene) so why would you have even carried it with you once Bond drove off? Makes absolutely no sense... clearly the script writers wanted to shoehorn an "oil-death-payback" in somehow due to how Gemma Arterton dies...
Newc said:
Yes, as above, Bruce is just generally suspicious; why is this guy on the roof? How did he get there? Why is he in fancy European tailoring? So he uses the empty pistol as a test.
While we're on the theme: die hard 2. Much of the dramatic tension comes from the planes running out of fuel. But no plane would ever arrive at an airport without sufficient fuel to reach an alternate. If Holly's plane was likely to be running on fumes by the time they were on the approach, they would already have diverted.
They say at the beginning all other airports are shut because of snow While we're on the theme: die hard 2. Much of the dramatic tension comes from the planes running out of fuel. But no plane would ever arrive at an airport without sufficient fuel to reach an alternate. If Holly's plane was likely to be running on fumes by the time they were on the approach, they would already have diverted.
Batman vs Superman. The whole film made little sense, but the worst was Superman - he can hear Lois Lane's heartbeat underground in Africa and rescue her in seconds, in fact does exactly that at the start, but he cannot find his own mum a few miles away...
That's not the kind of willing suspension of disbelief that we wanted.
That's not the kind of willing suspension of disbelief that we wanted.
nonsequitur said:
Lucas CAV said:
nonsequitur said:
In 'The Shawshank Redemption', How did Andy replace the poster of Raquel Welch after he was in the tunnel leading to his escape.
Err.. Lifts it up, climbs in, lets it fall behind him?Err...yes. But the poster was secured at all corners as can be seen when the warden throws a carving through the middle and then his fist and then his arm, before he rips it away and calls for the dogs.
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