But they're not using them to access a deeper layer of the dream.
I get there's an explanation. I just didn't like that explanation.
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Times you got hung up on throwaway details in movies
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I get there's an explanation. I just didn't like that explanation.
Fast and Furious franchise
Physics.
But I learned to shut my brain off when watching certain movies.
Physics.
But I learned to shut my brain off when watching certain movies.
The worst thing is that most of the time they don't touch the food at all. Most scenes in diners start with them ordering a meal for a king, then after the talk is over they drop some cash without having touched the food. I should become used to this because it happens so much, but it drives me crazy every time
they have their own separate laws of physics.
also those laws can change if needed.
also laws of physics stop applying when you hit speeds of fast and furious and thats science baby.
So in The Lost World, when they find the ship that housed the T-Rex
who the fuck closed the cargo hold again after it escaped? How did the T-Rex get his big ass into the tiny bridge? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN
who the fuck closed the cargo hold again after it escaped? How did the T-Rex get his big ass into the tiny bridge? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN
There is a cut scene that had raptors killing the crew after the T Rex was captured or something along those lines.
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This is actually an urban legend/popular theory, although it makes perfect sense this isn't actually what happened. There are storyboards of a cut scene showing how the T.rex was supposed to escape from the cargo hold (it gets hit with a forklift or something) but that obviously doesn't explain how it managed to kill the crew in enclosed areas or how it got back in the hold.
Nearly every plot hole/inconsistency in the movies is explained in the books (or comes out of something that was changed from the books), so I guess this never bothered me.
That being said I always do wonder how people who only ever saw the movies and never read any of it get along, but plenty of people did, so whatever.
Jurassic Park
The ending scene where the t-Rex snatched the raptor in the air. How did no one hear the t-rex coming. We had seen evidence thateach footstep rattled the floor, but somehow stealth kills a raptor.
The ending scene where the t-Rex snatched the raptor in the air. How did no one hear the t-rex coming. We had seen evidence thateach footstep rattled the floor, but somehow stealth kills a raptor.
My guess is that the pouring rain the night before made the ground squishy and muddy, softening its footsteps, but it's also possible they did hear it and just paid it no mind. "Great, another dinosaur is wandering around outside, whatever."
Ha, same deal with anytime Superman lifts a plane. Doesn't matter how strong he is; his tiny hands are gonna punch through the skin of a massive airplane like a nail no matter where he tries to pick it up.
Aliens "is this another bug hunt sir?" "We believe a xenomorph may have been involved" does this imply that the colonial marines have fought xeno's before the events of aliens? In which case youd think they would be better prepared. What about arturian poon tang. Other alien species are almost never mentioned in this series besides predators (non-canon) and engineers. am i supposed to believe that humanity and the weyland yutani corporation have met other friendly alien species and the colonial marines have had sex with them!?
She could still be communicating with her. Doesn't Luke call out to Leia in the trilogy, using the force?
In War of the Worlds a big electric storm fries every single piece of electronics in the city. Then they go up to one of the alien spacecraft, and someone is filming with a camcorder but is blown up, and the camera shot shows the alien through the LCD screen/viewfinder of the camera, and I"m like they just established no electronics survived, but wanted a cool camera shot so they deliberately forgot that for a second. It was so obvious.
They all evacuate on the big boat that Dennis Nedry fails to get to.
Ha, same deal with anytime Superman lifts a plane. Doesn't matter how strong he is; his tiny hands are gonna punch through the skin of a massive airplane like a nail no matter where he tries to pick it up.
The Worm web serial had a character that could do stuff like this but the way it worked is that their invulnerability and invincibility could be extended the objects they were physically interacting with as long as they remained in contact with the character, and of course the character was willing to extend their power and considering they were a super villain they usually just punched through whatever they touched. The author actually explains the way the character uses the power as for example it should have them creating craters with every footstep but they just turn the ground invulnerable where ever they step just for the time they're touching it. I think DC actually came up with this reason as to how Super Man doesn't just destroy stuff like planes when catching them. The Boys goes the opposite route...
It's even a massive plot point, in that the last boat to leave the island is waiting for Nedry to drop off the embryos, which is why he's rushing so hard and ends up dead and unable to get back to his desk to turn the systems back on.
Also when he tossed that asshole kid into the air and casually catches him when he comes back down at the speed of a missile..that kid should have died.
T. rex just picked up slasher movie skills for the final scene.
(With all the acrobatics and raptors, I get why Grant and co wouldn't notice it getting closer, bigger question to me was how it fit in the visitors center in the first place. On the exterior there didn't seem to be a space it could skip in.
In the original cut of Halloween, Dr. Loomis shoots Michael 7 times using a 6-shot revolver.
And then goes around exclaiming to the sheriff, "I SHOT HIM SIX TIMES!"
And then goes around exclaiming to the sheriff, "I SHOT HIM SIX TIMES!"
Pretty much every movie has this ...
First shot (character walks into bar, windy outside) Actors hair is very rustled and unkempt.
Cut.
Second shot (same character in bar) Actor now has perfectly combed hair for some reason.
WHY DON'T DIRECTORS NOTICE THIS??? Consistency with props, makeup, hair, etc is very important. You can't have an actor with fake blood on their left-cheek in shot 1, and then have the fake blood on their right-cheek in shot 2 LOL.
First shot (character walks into bar, windy outside) Actors hair is very rustled and unkempt.
Cut.
Second shot (same character in bar) Actor now has perfectly combed hair for some reason.
WHY DON'T DIRECTORS NOTICE THIS??? Consistency with props, makeup, hair, etc is very important. You can't have an actor with fake blood on their left-cheek in shot 1, and then have the fake blood on their right-cheek in shot 2 LOL.
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Are blimps in those movies? Aside from the festival In the first one.
I do, all the fucking time and it can ruin movies for me.
Stuff like the stupid
How can people who make a living doing this stuff make such silly mistakes or be so lazy?
Stuff like the stupid
Sith world compass in star wars, how kylo ren never noticed Rey was holding the fucking knife while they were fighting and she was in his chambers and stupid stuff like that
How can people who make a living doing this stuff make such silly mistakes or be so lazy?
That and the hunter thinking he could take a friggen T-Rex with a double barrel shogun lmao
There's an under-construction wall with tarp that you can see behind it. The wall isn't finished so it just walked right through.
The Cabin in the Woods and The Faculty (which is referenced in cabin in the woods xD)
I remember assuming the juvenile escaped the cargo hold from a different, human-sized entrance and then went back in to mama after he killed everyone and got bored.
I got hung up on the trailer for the Purge. It seemed to indicate that due to the purge, crime the rest of the year was more or less nonexistent, and I was just like ...but that wouldn't stop crimes of opportunity or crimes of passion. Like no one is waiting 10 months to fulfill their road rage.
I know it's just the premise to get to the fun parts of the movie, but I just couldn't take the idea seriously. (Though I do consider it more my failing than the movie's.)
I know it's just the premise to get to the fun parts of the movie, but I just couldn't take the idea seriously. (Though I do consider it more my failing than the movie's.)
In Star Trek Generations, Picard falls into the "Nexus" which is a place where time doesn't exist. He discovers that he can indeed exit the Nexus, so to he decides to get the help of Captain Kirk, and go back in time ~3 minutes before the bad guy shot a missile that destroyed a solar system.
Why not 10 minutes before he shot the missile? Why not an hour? Why not go back when the bad guy was on Picard's ship earlier in the movie? It's the dumbest shit.
EDIT - I guess that isn't a throw-away line.
A better, smaller detail is how Picard always orders his tea by saying "Earl grey tea, hot". Why does he need to specify? Why can't the replicator learn what type of tea he always asks for?
Why not 10 minutes before he shot the missile? Why not an hour? Why not go back when the bad guy was on Picard's ship earlier in the movie? It's the dumbest shit.
EDIT - I guess that isn't a throw-away line.
A better, smaller detail is how Picard always orders his tea by saying "Earl grey tea, hot". Why does he need to specify? Why can't the replicator learn what type of tea he always asks for?
I mean, I guess it's possible but every single other Jedi in that part was confirmed dead either in Rebels/Clone Wars or one of the movies. Ashoka hasnt died in any official media, we dont know how or where she apparently died.
So it can transport bodies during the day when a giant bat man flying through the air would raise concern
As my own example. In the Platinum Dunes Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the main cast picks up a survivor who is implied to be walking away from the house, but she's walking in the direction of the house.
Also in Texas Chainsaw 3D, Alexandria Daddario's character was a baby at the time of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 70s. The film takes place in 2013, meaning she should be bordering on 40
Does she look 40 to you?!
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There are 2 small details that bothers me to no end in that movie
1) HOW THE HELL does the first egg took so long to be discovered? Like they never played donkey kong in their lifes? The FIRST THING you do in a videogame is try the unintended path because most of the time there is a secret there =P
2) Zemeckis Cube. There isn't a single rubick's cube in back to the future.
My biggest nitpick with the movie is that even though it's explained the Jedi can't or won't free Anakin's mom from Watto, why doesn't Amidala send someone back to buy her freedom in exchange for, you know, Anakin helping to free her planet?
The Jedi would still not have wanted Anakin to have contact with her, but he could at least be content knowing she's free and living a good life on Naboo or wherever.
The answer is that someone who doesn't care all that much about "the canon" decided that her voice needed to be in there to make people mark out.
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The "oner" camera work felt like a schtick at parts. Some of the transitions were done to hide cuts but it stuck out to me and took me out of the film. I don't want to notice the camera... for instance, Dunkirk felt cleaner as I never felt the camera
As I recall, the juvenile was brought in by plane and wasn't even on the ship at the time, so that doesn't quite work.
Pretty much everything about the movie Yesterday.
I can suspend disbelief for almost anything, but this movie was asking a lot.
I can suspend disbelief for almost anything, but this movie was asking a lot.
The lyrics to Macavity the Mystery Cat say Macavity has broken every human law.
EVERY. HUMAN. LAW.
I know this comes from Cats the musical and it's not entirely fair to put the blame on Cats the movie (that poor movie has enough troubles), but still.... every human law.
From the laws of ettiquite to full on war crimes, this cat has broken them all. I don't even know how the rest of the song went because I was imagining Macavity committing insurance fraud.
EVERY. HUMAN. LAW.
I know this comes from Cats the musical and it's not entirely fair to put the blame on Cats the movie (that poor movie has enough troubles), but still.... every human law.
From the laws of ettiquite to full on war crimes, this cat has broken them all. I don't even know how the rest of the song went because I was imagining Macavity committing insurance fraud.