Things that don't make sense in movies

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Ramathorn

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Or where they just got lazy and did things for special effects and didn't think the audience would notice.

Ok, Lethal Weapon 4 is on. When Mel and Glover confront Jet Li and his crew in his house, Glover says to his wife and daughter "girls, get out of here," why the hell did they not walk out the front door and call for help? Instead they stayed in the house? Another thing, they were dropped off by two uniformed cops. Why not ask them to stay?


End of the movie, Chinese gangster drives the Yukon through the table with the cash on it. What the hell happened to the police cars? And he drove it like 100 yards. That was placed there just to get the big bang explosion most action movies have.





Sorry, when I watch movies several times, I start to notice things like these as well as plot discrepancies. Will be back later after watching Phenomenon for the 19th time.
 
3:10 to Yuma

These guys are transporting Russell Crowe's character across the badlands; his character is supposed to be a murdering thief, one of the vilest, meanest bad-asses around. The first day they have him riding a horse, with his hands tied in front of him. That night he stabs one of the guys in the throat with a fork. The next day they transport him again in the same way, with his hands simply tied in front of him.

Don't you think, if you were transporting public enemy No. 1 and that guy killed one of your fellow deputies with an eating utensil to the neck, that you would tie the bastard up from head to toe?
 
Fast Times: Why does Mr. Hand have to be such a dick about the pizza? I mean c'mon, sure, a cuban sandwich would have been more apropos, but there's no need for Crowe to use a blunt force deus ex machina on Spicoli like that. Cuban history just doesn't make much sense without some food if you ask me.
 
Another from Lethal Weapon 4: At the fight in the warehouse by the dock Murtaugh was knocked out then Riggs got trapped underwater. Murtaugh wakes up and miraculously determines that Riggs is under water and needs his help.

Also, in Rambo 2. When the Soviet helecopter is hovering above the river, Rambo jumps a good 6 feet out of the water like a dolphin to grab the gunner in the door of the chopper. WTF?
 
Jurassic Park...
The power goes out, the fence isn't electrified, T-Rex breaks through the wires and attacks the trucks throwing one back over the wall the Dino just came through... but now there is a 200 foot cliff. What's up with that.
 
GREEDO SHOT FIRST!!!!!!

wtf?

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wolfman, the implication there was that Roger and Riggs were so close that they had developed telepathy with one another.
 
Putting aside the whole "Do ghosts exist? thing...

Poltergeist.

As revealed late in the movie (and the apparent catalyst for the haunting) was the fact the neighborhood was built on an old graveyard: developers moved the headstones, but not the actual graves. Craig T. Nelson figured this out when bodies and caskets started popping out of his pool excavation.

He also had a clue when his boss revealed that the next big project was to be built on yet another gravesite, and that it had "been done before", as the camera panned Craig T's 'hood below.

The neighborhood (Cuesta Verde, or whatever hell it was), was a fairly mature California subdivision, at least a couple years old.

A large percentage of the houses in Cali neighborhoods such as this one have pools, so it would have been revealed long before that there were bodies buried 6 feet deep, as they dug all those 10 foot pools. And "Steve Freeling" would have heard about such complaints since he worked for the freakin' developer.

There may not have been ghosts and homes collapsing disappearing into nothingness, but there would have been bitching.
 
I want to know how everyone in movies knows exactly how to knock someone out cold with a blow to the back of the head. It works EVERY SINGLE TIME. Amazing.
 
Cars blow up in every accident. Sometimes immediately, sometimes with enough time for the hero to just escape.
 
In a BUNCH of movies, especially westerns, these two:

Someone breaks a solid-looking wooden chair across someone's back. Yet the the guy who got hit (almost always athe hero) is able to get back up in minutes, if not seconds.

Someone gets shot with a pistol (usually a .45) square in the shoulder. I'm sorry, but where they usually show someone getting hit, that's gonna **** up the joint, pr tear open a major blood vessel, or at least break the arm.
 
What about all those high speed chase scenes in which cars hit other cars as if they are ramps and fly into the air.

The ALL TIME worst was in one of the Jason Statham movies. If you haven't seen it, get a load of this.

So, he meets up with the bad guys for some reason (can't remember why). They are going to let him go. What he doesn't know is that they're putting a remoted-controlled bomb under his car. He sees this in his mirror as he's driving away. As he leaves the compound, he floors it. Instead of getting out of the car, he speeds up enough so that he hits a construction site prop which propels his car into the air. As it flies about 50 feet above the ground, it begins to rotate. As it rotates, the bottom of the car side-swipes a construction crane at just the right angle to knock the bomb off. The car continues its spiral as it lands - upright - and he drives off. In the background, the bomb goes off.

I know these types of action movies aren't based on reality but, give me a break.
 
LW4 is on again. Alright so, they're chasing the Chinese guy in LA and they drive right into the middle of a skyscraper (Mel and Glover). Civilians scattering everywhere and Mel is telling Roger to hti the gas to drive out of the other side of the skyscraper and onto the freeway ramp. Come on. Any cop who does that is going to be fired, lol. They didn't stop to check on the civilians, actually they're accelarating with the civilians in the building to catch one bad guy.
 
Also it never fails some dude gets kicked in the groin, bends over for a second then starts fighting again. Sorry that just AINT happening.
 
I hope this makes sense.

OK, in Minority Report, Cruise sees his premeditated murder come across the psychics or whatever they are.

Wouldn't it not be premeditated? I mean, he didn't even know what the situation was until he investigated the vision more. It would have been a crime of passion. He would never have even known about the situation unless it came across from the psychics. The murder never would have happened.

Did that make sense?
 
in most movies that involve car chases, why are all the other cars on the street driving in a staggered position with enough space for the hero's car to slalom through them all. have you ever seen a traffic pattern like that in real life?
 
-In Next, they tell Jessica Biel she needs to wait 5 minutes or whatever before she can drop the pill in Nicholas Cage's drink. But she doesn't need to wait at all, she just needs to wait until he's out of the room, since as long as he isn't present at the moment when the pill is dropped, he wouldn't be in any possible theoretical reality where he actually sees the pill being dropped. And, of course, the pill has to require at least 5 minutes to take effect, or else he'll see into the future and see himself feeling the effects of the drug. It's like the writers of the film just suddenly got confused about what the main character's special ability was, and thought he had clairvoyance instead of the ability to see into the future into all the possible realities.

-In the movie Criminal, the document verification expert tries to make a side deal with the main character, but based on what is revealed at the end of the movie it makes no sense whatsoever that he would try to make that deal. The only possible outcome of doing so would be to undermine the entire plan, with no possible upside.

-In the Illusionist, there's a lot of things that don't make sense but here's one that I haven't heard mentioned. When the prince is secretly attending the performance where Jessica Beal's "ghost" appears, she says her killer is in the audience. But how did they know he was there? And even though he's there, since the audience members don't know he's there (and one of the audience members actually blurts out that he's NOT there), the line actually serves to vindicate him--so what's the point in saying it, even if you assume they had some way of knowing he was in the audience?
 
I think it is really cool that there is always an open parking space anytime any lead character wants to go someplace, even in NYor LA.
 
Speaking of parking, Shallow Hal, when Hal is following Rosie, he parks his car right on the street. Just leaves it there in the middle of the road.
 
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