Things that don't make sense in movies

[Ramathorn]

Funny thing about Iron Chef is even when they have a German chef, they'll have him speak English, but in a German accent.

 

[celis]

At the end of Waterworld, when they are going to run down the girl with jetskis.

Costner bungee jumps down and pulls her out of the water. The jet skis collide and blow up.

So, if the jet skis hit her there would not have been an explosion?

They would have just killed the girl and no suffer no injuries to themselves?

Stupid.

 

[JuniorHorn11]

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[Ramathorn]

You mean 6 foot from belly to top, right? Maybe it was the Asian guy swimming?

 

[softlynow]

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[Ramathorn]

Fantastic 4 part 2 is on. Dialog issue here. As the Torch was kicking Doom's butt, the Thing says "you ain't going down fighting kid, not without me." Didn't make any sense.

 

[Ramathorn]

Romeo Must Die is on. Please explain.

 

[Ramathorn]

Another one, Major League. Obviously Russo's friends have cash, but when Jake revealed he only made the league minimum, that's not something to be ashamed of. It's still alot of money, maybe not quite as much as some of those people, but still.

 

[AFhorn82]

Casino Royale - Bond is supposed to win the card game so Le Chiffre is broke. Felix Lighter's CIA team is then supposed to capture Le Chiffre. interrogate him, and try to get him to turn on his employers. Why not just send in a strike team to grab Le Chiffre, fly him to a third world country with no civil rights, and torture him for information? Don't get me wrong, the movie was awesome but the plan seems a little unnecessry if the main goal is to capture a guy and you know exactly where he is.

 

[Michael Knight]

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[Ramathorn]

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[TornACL]

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[Ramathorn]

I know what you're saying, he's indicating he's a crappy player (though he was clutch and he was a coach on the field), but I would've said "that's a lot of cash lady."

 

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[jcdenton]

Forbidden Kingdom: I understand that the whole movie is basically an homage to classic martials arts films, so I can understand why they would intentionally incorporate genre cliches just for the sake of incorporating those cliches, but two of those decisions made absolutely no sense.

1) The Reluctant Martial Arts Master: After Jackie Chan has already informed the kid that he must fulfill the prophecy and save China's ***, and after he's already helped him along for part of the journey in order to accomplish that goal, the kid asks Jackie Chan to teach him martial arts... and he ends up being a total *** about it and refuses to teach him, etc. etc.

In other martial arts movies where this cliche occurs, the student is seeking out the master but the master has no real incentive (and certainly not a *need*) to teach him, so the student must first prove his worthiness and desire in order to convince the master to share his knowledge. That makes sense. But in this case, where it's already fully established that the student MUST accomplish his goal for the sake of the entire country, and the martial arts master is fully aware of the importance of that goal, it made absolutely NO SENSE.

2) Killing the Messenger: One of the most cliche ways imaginable to show everyone that the bad guy (or, in the case of 300, the hero) is just really, truly ******* badass. But in this case, not only was the messenger delivering what could have been (and turned out to be) extremely important information, and not only did the bad guy act upon this information (thus showing that he did not believe it was *false* information), but the messenger he killed was HIS OWN MESSENGER.