Some films don't even try to be convincing

[singlecoil]

I record films that look like they might be watchable, it's free and you never know, I might come across a gem.

So, on my DVR for tonight is Becoming Jane, a dramatisiation of Jane Austen's early life. One of the early scenes is a boxing match between the male lead and (I presume) a professional prize fighter. Male lead is knocked out, but when we close in on his smiling face, it's untouched! He's helped up, not a trace of dizziness etc. We stopped watching soon after for that and a number of other reasons.

So, what's next. A film called Timeline. Involves time travelling but I have no problem with that. What I did have a problem with is the female lead busy doing trowel type archaeology in a tunnel, her would-be boyfriend arrives, she turns to him and her long thick lustrous clean hair and her make up indicate that she has come straight from the caravan where a team of people have been working on her.

What I don't understand is why the film makers don't, in some cases, even try to bring an air of realism to what they are doing. They've obviously gone to a lot of trouble, and spent a lot of money, and then spoiled the effect because they can't bear their stars to be presented in an anything less than perfect light in every frame?

[Jasandjules]

Yep, plenty of films where people take guns into lakes/rivers etc.. and yet they still come out firing perfectly.

Or where someone is firing an assualt rifle or somesuch and has no problems doing so with one arm and without any recoil lifting the nose up.

Or perhaps a film where the character gets seven shades kicked out of him/falls down stairs/is involved in a major accident - but just gets up fine and carries on (having uttered a quip). No shakes, no qualms, no nerves.

[Racingdude009]

Driven on 5 US now very far fetched.

[Langweilig]

Have you ever seen The Philadelphia Experiment II? A nuclear armed stealth fighter is accidentally sent back to 1940's Nazi Germany and history is altered by the Nazis dropping a nuclear bomb on New York. The thing is. The bomb is dropped two days after the capture. So how do they manage to find a pilot to fly it all the way to New York and find the means to refuel in-flight when the maximum range of a stealth is 650 miles. If they had captured an advanced aircraft like that, wouldn't they have disassembled every transistor, nut, bolt and rivet first.

The best bit is they manage to retrieve the aircraft, but there's no more mention of the original pilot. Leaving the pilot behind would cause an even bigger paradox than a lost aircraft, wouldn't it?

[deevlash]

films with Kung fu in them are pretty ridiculous unless its the matrix which is awesome and the lead was meant to be superhuman, also films where women beat up men.