Stupid things in films
Discussion
aclivity said:
not trying to defend it too much, but they had the little ship on earth since the 50's, and it had powered up a few days beforehand. They MIGHT have had time to put a USB socket in?
My thoughts exactly. They did not connect to the mothership directly (they did not get out of their ship), they docked with the mother ship and downloaded the virus. Herbie, constantly gets me that does. The premise, it's a car thats 'alive' and can drive itself about. It still has a standard slow engine yet it's attitude problem allows it to pull wheelies and outrun cars with much bigger more powerful engines. I just don't see how a car with a petulent attitude can overcome its basic limitations of having a weak engine. If it was in formula style races fair enough but its winning against cars blatently outside its ability and it won't matter how much irish coffee it drinks it's never going to pop a wheelie.
Cotty said:
My thoughts exactly. They did not connect to the mothership directly (they did not get out of their ship), they docked with the mother ship and downloaded the virus.
Ok, I might be prepared to concede that. But that doesn't make the film any less of a pile of foetid donkey poop. 
Top Gun:
"The deck's set on this one at 10'000ft....." (minimum operating height for the exercise......)
Straight to lots of shots of planes flying up valleys at 500ft
ANYTHING in '24'
Lets just revive a dead Jack Bower.
Lets just move a spy satalite
Lets just get cellphone signal in the middle of fekin nowhere
"The deck's set on this one at 10'000ft....." (minimum operating height for the exercise......)
Straight to lots of shots of planes flying up valleys at 500ft
ANYTHING in '24'
Lets just revive a dead Jack Bower.
Lets just move a spy satalite
Lets just get cellphone signal in the middle of fekin nowhere
Buzz word said:
Herbie, constantly gets me that does. The premise, it's a car thats 'alive' and can drive itself about. It still has a standard slow engine yet it's attitude problem allows it to pull wheelies and outrun cars with much bigger more powerful engines. I just don't see how a car with a petulent attitude can overcome its basic limitations of having a weak engine. If it was in formula style races fair enough but its winning against cars blatently outside its ability and it won't matter how much irish coffee it drinks it's never going to pop a wheelie.
I hate Herbie films with a vengence for precicely this point. Buzz word said:
Herbie, constantly gets me that does. The premise, it's a car thats 'alive' and can drive itself about. It still has a standard slow engine yet it's attitude problem allows it to pull wheelies and outrun cars with much bigger more powerful engines. I just don't see how a car with a petulent attitude can overcome its basic limitations of having a weak engine. If it was in formula style races fair enough but its winning against cars blatently outside its ability and it won't matter how much irish coffee it drinks it's never going to pop a wheelie.
Have one of these: 
Absolutely true. What I can't understand is how Herbie's 'antics' are considered endearing. I think it makes him a
.The reason I drive a car instead of say, a horse is that it does what I f
king tell it to. If it started pleasing itself, I may as well just buy a fking horse. Therefore, Herbie is exactly the same as a horse. I'd have scrapped the petulant years ago.Buzz word said:
Herbie, constantly gets me that does. The premise, it's a car thats 'alive' and can drive itself about. It still has a standard slow engine yet it's attitude problem allows it to pull wheelies and outrun cars with much bigger more powerful engines. I just don't see how a car with a petulent attitude can overcome its basic limitations of having a weak engine. If it was in formula style races fair enough but its winning against cars blatently outside its ability and it won't matter how much irish coffee it drinks it's never going to pop a wheelie.
Do you not think you're taking the Herbie films just a tiny bit too seriously?JRM said:
JonRB said:
ben_reza said:
Independance Day. So guy has a mac, and a virus on a floppy disk. And he just strolls into the mother ship, has no connectivity issues at all and brings them down with his virus.
Bet those aliens wished they were not running DHCP.
Did he connect over a cable? what are the chances of an alien race also having cat 5? or maybe it was wireless. I cant beleive the mother ship didnt have a WEP key...
Oh it's just one of a catalogue of plot holes large enough to drive the mothership itself through. Bet those aliens wished they were not running DHCP.
Did he connect over a cable? what are the chances of an alien race also having cat 5? or maybe it was wireless. I cant beleive the mother ship didnt have a WEP key...
Lunja said:
Independence Day 
How the fappin' heck does Jeff Goldblum write a computer virus that can miraculously infect a "computer system" made by ALIENS?!?!?!?!!!11! Isn't it fortunate that the aliens use binary-based Windows systems...
they had the small ship to try it on..... tho the speed he did it when drunk was quite amazingHow the fappin' heck does Jeff Goldblum write a computer virus that can miraculously infect a "computer system" made by ALIENS?!?!?!?!!!11! Isn't it fortunate that the aliens use binary-based Windows systems...
Lunja said:
Independence Day
How the fappin' heck does Jeff Goldblum write a computer virus that can miraculously infect a "computer system" made by ALIENS?!?!?!?!!!11! Isn't it fortunate that the aliens use binary-based Windows systems...
PistonHeads How the fappin' heck does Jeff Goldblum write a computer virus that can miraculously infect a "computer system" made by ALIENS?!?!?!?!!!11! Isn't it fortunate that the aliens use binary-based Windows systems...
How the fappin' heck does Lunja miss that we've just spent the past page or two talking about this?!?
Lunja said:
tho the speed he did it when drunk was quite amazing
Yes, that and the fact that he was hammered to oblivion on Scotch one minute and totally sober the next. Please can I know the secret for that, I'd make a fe-hortune Also when the drunkard pilot has 3 cups of coffee and sobers up enough to fly a plane he's never flown before. Awesome.
Edited by Diseisel on Friday 27th March 14:39
Edited by Diseisel on Friday 27th March 14:39
Tony*T3 said:
Top Gun:
"The deck's set on this one at 10'000ft....." (minimum operating height for the exercise......)
Straight to lots of shots of planes flying up valleys at 500ft
ANYTHING in '24'
Lets just revive a dead Jack Bower.
Lets just move a spy satalite
Lets just get cellphone signal in the middle of fekin nowhere
I quite like 24 but...."The deck's set on this one at 10'000ft....." (minimum operating height for the exercise......)
Straight to lots of shots of planes flying up valleys at 500ft
ANYTHING in '24'
Lets just revive a dead Jack Bower.
Lets just move a spy satalite
Lets just get cellphone signal in the middle of fekin nowhere
"Chloe - open me a spare socket..."
Also ,funny how they have the schematics to every building in existence and how they just look at them and instantly work out where the baddies are
Jack Bauer STILL never eats,drinks or goes to the loo....
Jasandjules said:
All computers can talk to each other, and all computers have a security code which can be beaten with 2 attempts. On top of which, all computers, even laptops, have the power of a bank of Cray supercomputers, and internet access of 128mpbp/ns (nano second...)
In the older days we had full speed video on monochrome monitors. "Who is this"? when picking up the phone panicking with a stutter in their voice. How do they know its the killer before they pick it up?
Car being chased has 100 bullet holes and yet the hero needs to only fire one back to cause a massive explosion.
Another problem with Terminator films - They are a robot! Why not just directly interface with the mainframe?
And this leads me the the most annoying and irritating thing in all films - Children that have a vast computer knowledge and can crack all security even when the experts have been working on it for weeks.
I would just like to add:
Not films but TV - Why can you hear the crash of a car into a post/another car on 'Police Camera Action' type programme when the footage is from a helicopter?
How it Works style programmes on Discovery - Why do all the machinery seem to make exactly the same wizzy noise?
Edited by Morningside on Friday 27th March 15:05
Buzz word said:
Herbie, constantly gets me that does. The premise, it's a car thats 'alive' and can drive itself about. It still has a standard slow engine yet it's attitude problem allows it to pull wheelies and outrun cars with much bigger more powerful engines. I just don't see how a car with a petulent attitude can overcome its basic limitations of having a weak engine. If it was in formula style races fair enough but its winning against cars blatently outside its ability and it won't matter how much irish coffee it drinks it's never going to pop a wheelie.
All i can remember from Herbie was Lohans (sadly no longer) impressive norks.in A level physics a few years ago we studied "the physics of independence day"
a few faults we picked up
1. as the 1st ship flies in over washington it goes over a lake. comparing the effect the moon has on 1kg of water and how far it is away to the effect the ship should have. the lake (and for that matter, most of DC) would be sucked up and stuck to the under side of the ship
2. even this ship (not the big fker in space) travelling through our solar system would create enough gravity to pull a few small moons and asteroids out of their orbit and towards earth = game over.
3. the alien civilization must have come from quite far away, therefore we can assume they must have been travelling at a fair lick to get here. just the act of them slowing down in our solar system would make enough friction/heat to destroy earth
oh and the london eye is visible in "a knight's tale"
and yes i know i out geek you all
a few faults we picked up
1. as the 1st ship flies in over washington it goes over a lake. comparing the effect the moon has on 1kg of water and how far it is away to the effect the ship should have. the lake (and for that matter, most of DC) would be sucked up and stuck to the under side of the ship
2. even this ship (not the big f
ker in space) travelling through our solar system would create enough gravity to pull a few small moons and asteroids out of their orbit and towards earth = game over.3. the alien civilization must have come from quite far away, therefore we can assume they must have been travelling at a fair lick to get here. just the act of them slowing down in our solar system would make enough friction/heat to destroy earth
oh and the london eye is visible in "a knight's tale"
and yes i know i out geek you all
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