Really dumb things you see in the movies

Fizzoid said:
For me, Goose getting killed in Top Gun, The ejector seats are set so the top is always higher than the person sitting in it, so if the canopy doesn't release properly, the seat back hits it out the way. Geeky I know, but something close to my heart :p
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I caught that one too, and they didn't need to be so silly with it! Ejecting out of a jet fighter is a dangerous thing to do, even in ideal conditions, which a flat spin is not!
 
I can't be bothered to analyze the plausibility factor when watching films because it takes the enjoyment right out of it.

Do I think Will Smith can spin his Ferrari perfectly on a city street while shooting a fully automatic weapon out from the driver's side window with one arm and hit his targets perfectly? Hell no, but I still loves me some Bad Boys II.
 
Well, as technophiles, I think most of us don't bother with outing "wrong" tech in movies. I mean, who wants to use a computer that makes noises with every task one does?
 
In some pussycat dolls movie (hey, it was on TV.) they find out that a cd has an evil message in it and have to get rid of that one part of the CD. So they take the CD into a recording studio, put it in the CD player, and all of the tracks (guitar, vocals, drums, bass ... ect.) appear fully spread out across the console... from a CD.
 
unfortunately I watched "land of the lost" last night.
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so dumb, I didn't expect much but this movie was really bad.

The female scientist knew how to speak Chaka's language because she used to work at a Ape research facility or something........
 
The one thing that really gets me is when explosions happen and those stupid sparks shoot up around the explosion. Another example is when an aircraft blows up and everything except the fuel tanks explode i.e. the end of the movie Speed when the bus crashes into the parked airplane.
 
Gonzo3333 said:
The one thing that really gets me is when explosions happen and those stupid sparks shoot up around the explosion. Another example is when an aircraft blows up and everything except the fuel tanks explode i.e. the end of the movie Speed when the bus crashes into the parked airplane.
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Speaking of dumbass explosions - what's with cars going off cliffs and inexplicably exploding in mid-air?
 
iBlue said:
Speaking of dumbass explosions - what's with cars going off cliffs and inexplicably exploding in mid-air?
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SAC - Spontaneous Automotive Combustion. You haven't heard of it! As you pointed out it happens in the movies all the time. :D
 
Like iBlue said - too much analysis takes the enjoyment out of the movie. So I might notice something, but it doesn't really bother me. Reality is commonly boring, so I understand why they do some of the things they do.

That said, people getting hit with bullets and being thrown through the air always makes me chuckle.
 
Blue is right, when people analyze too much the movie is worthless. It would seem that whenever I watch a movie about music with a musician they bitch about how unauthentic the movie is. For example, August Rush. I love the movie and I forced this musician to watch it. He said how unrealistic it is to return to music after 10 years of nothing and land a huge gig in a large venue. Totally killed the mood for me.


But it is highly unrealistic that Pete's Dragon could actually fly. He was too big for those small wings.
 
jessica. said:
For example, August Rush. I love the movie and I forced this musician to watch it. He said how unrealistic it is to return to music after 10 years of nothing and land a huge gig in a large venue. Totally killed the mood for me.
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Or that he could pick up a guitar, brush 10 years worth of dust off the case, open it up and find it perfectly in tune.

Actually, pretty much everything about that movie was pretty implausible. But it was still fun and entertaining. :)
 
mscriv said:
SAC - Spontaneous Automotive Combustion. You haven't heard of it! As you pointed out it happens in the movies all the time. :D
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Yep, happens all the time real life! Oh, wait.

I found hacking an alien mothership with a Mac a bit over the top. I mean, my Macs can do a lot, but I think hacking alien spaceships might be a bit much. I don't think there is an app for that. :)
 
notjustjay said:
Or that he could pick up a guitar, brush 10 years worth of dust off the case, open it up and find it perfectly in tune.
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You'd be surprised. My wife's piano was in storage in a boat room for five years and then shipped across the country. We got it in place and decided to see how bad it was before getting a tuning estimate. It was still in tune enough to not need a tuning. Not exactly a guitar after 10 years, but still surprising.
 
I generally check my logic/reason/cognative ability at the door when ever I go to a movie.

Seriously, why do people complain about something in transformers when its a movie about alien robots. We're not talking about documentaries but movies to enjoy. I don't find picking apart a movie too enjoyable. Its like independence day, Jeff Goldblum wrote a virus to infect an alien computer system w/o ever even seeing the computer and he did that in a few hours. So what, it was enjoyable anyways.
 
iBlue said:
I can't be bothered to analyze the plausibility factor when watching films because it takes the enjoyment right out of it.
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Suspending belief is what makes a movie enjoyable, but sometimes it's impossible because of the shear stupidity of the writing. ie. Superman Returns. Superman flying, inhuman strength, X-ray vision...easy enough to suspend belief there. He's an alien who derives his super powers from our yellow sun.
But Superman holding a passenger jet by the nose and it not breaking apart?:confused: Unless he somehow managed to create a Star Trek style structural integrity field around the plane, it's would have been ripped apart. Jimmy Olsen ripping off 8 frames a second for 2 minutes with a Nikon DSLR?:confused::confused: Must have a 1000 frame buffer in that puppy.:rolleyes: No way to suspend belief there.
 
nbs2 said:
You'd be surprised. My wife's piano was in storage in a boat room for five years and then shipped across the country. We got it in place and decided to see how bad it was before getting a tuning estimate. It was still in tune enough to not need a tuning. Not exactly a guitar after 10 years, but still surprising.
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I guess it could depend on the weather too. My guitar was put away in the summer and not touched again until the following spring, during which it probably sat in ambient temperatures ranging from 80-90 degrees F in the summer to 50-60 degrees in winter and then back up again.

When I picked it up again it was so badly out of tune that I snapped one of the strings trying to tune it back up too quickly.

I guess when it comes to "stupid things in movies" the difficulty comes with technology we've seen before. Superheroes, aliens, robots, fine, those are fantastical things and they're allowed to take certain liberties. But an ordinary Dell computer, or an ordinary surveillance camera, or guitar, or whatever, we have certain expectations about their abilities. It's OK to stretch the truth a little bit for drama (ok, maybe I can accept that the FBI director uses the name of his dog as his password), but too far and that's where it gets silly.
 
I just watched The Net a few hours ago. Details aren't needed :D.

I always hate that in post-apocalyptic films (Terminator Salvation comes to mind) that they have next to no resources left yet they still manage to look pretty, have good hair and the purest of white teeth.

Or when super historical figures have American accents (or any accent that didn't exist yet) just totally destroys films for me. Or having a foreigner put on a (usually very poor) fake accent Brad Pitt in Snatch, for example. They usually end up cycling through various regions.
 
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