My thought is that Palpatine was bringing the Wayfinder around with him, as an artifact too precious to ever leave his side. When the Death Star fell and he managed to raise his consciousness back on Exogol he then instructed one of the acolytes in the making of the dagger, which he gave to Ochee, presumably should Ochee ever need to go see him in person on Exogol (probably after retrieving Rey or some other target?)
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Times you got hung up on throwaway details in movies
- Thread starter SwampBastard
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My thought is that Palpatine was bringing the Wayfinder around with him, as an artifact too precious to ever leave his side. When the Death Star fell and he managed to raise his consciousness back on Exogol he then instructed one of the acolytes in the making of the dagger, which he gave to Ochee, presumably should Ochee ever need to go see him in person on Exogol (probably after retrieving Rey or some other target?)
not so much "details" that throw me off but little tropey nuances.... like, characters meeting at a diner (they really couldn't handle matters over the phone?) and then storming off without paying or eating/drinking anything. also the whole somebody tells somebody off then the offending character drops "but hey ....wait" dialogue as the other walks off
it's like every screenplay no matter how good or bad is obligated to this and i feel like throwing beer bottles at my tv
it's like every screenplay no matter how good or bad is obligated to this and i feel like throwing beer bottles at my tv
Arcturian could just be referring to human colonists in the Arcturus system.
My interest in "The Conjuring" died completely when I realised the 'based on a true story' movie wanted me to believe that the Salem Witch trials involved actual witches. You don't get to 'based on a true story' against historic facts/the deaths of innocent people.
At the end of The Greatest Showman PT Barnum turns up at his daughters ballet show riding and elephant, he's then inside watching, what did he do with the elephant?
Do they have elephant valet parking?
Do they have elephant valet parking?
I remember watching that awful Max Payne movie with friends and we were riffing on it in an empty theater.
There was one particular scene where two goons get shot from off-screen with what's obviously some kind of semi-automatic weapon, then Mark Wahlberg comes storming around a corner holding a damn shotgun and I just lost my shit.
There was one particular scene where two goons get shot from off-screen with what's obviously some kind of semi-automatic weapon, then Mark Wahlberg comes storming around a corner holding a damn shotgun and I just lost my shit.
The logic of the entire space fleet chase in TLJ, it completely made no sense in so many ways, the whole idea of it is stupid and even with folks trying to explain why, it doesn't fix that it was incredibly stupid and illogical to have even happened. The entire chase is one "why" after another.
I always took that to mean Two-face killed more people then what we were shown.
Speaking of, it always bugged me how Two-face flips the coin and spares the mob boss because of it but kills the driver to kill the mob boss. Way to weasel out of following your own rules, dood.
While we're on that subject, the First Order in the entire ST. Just, ALL OF IT. Not one lick of that organization, how it was formed, and how it got so powerful makes any fucking sense at all. And yes, I know there's like 20 books in the new EU that tries to explain it. I don't care. As presented in the films alone, it makes no goddamn sense.
They probably shouldn't try to explain it. The whole concept completely falls apart if you think about it too much.
If I remember correctly, in the fourth movie, The First Purge, which depicts the original test purge on Staten Island:
the woman who came up with the idea realizes she was wrong as it wasn't working as she had planned, so she is murdered and foreign mercenaries are sent in the get the result the government wants.
one major storyline involves a professor who had completed a study on violence and the effects of the purge, proving it was all nonsense and so she was murdered by the government. Another storyline featured a college kid who didn't want to be out during the purge but was forced to kill someone to defend himself, then he became obsessed with killing and couldn't wait till the next purge.
What gets me is when two characters meet up and one asks what's going on and the other explains nothing. "Just trust me."
Uh, it specifically said they put a filter on it so it doesn't burn them, which they can take off when they encounter the Reapers.
That has two major explanations and both, to my recollection, were explained in the movie
- Leo and Ellen are magic or some shit and can control other people's dreams. They can go deeper because they are controlling the dreams. In theory they could do a DX crotch chop to go deeper but they themselves need to believe what they are doing so they follow patterns and systems they themselves have internalized.
- Everything is Leo's dream and he can do whatever bullshit his subconscious wants.
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As for myself: The Matrix Revolutions. They have made mechs to fight squid robots with knives. Squid robots attack by getting all up in there and cutting you up.
Why the fuck don't they have bullet/stab proof glass on the canopies? And why do they all have arms that can't even be moved to attack something close in? Those mechs are specifically designed to get people killed.
And yes, I realize that might be the point because The Machines. But how the fuck did nobody ever think about that?
I can't remember which movie it was, but I vaguely remember the bad guy was introduced in a scene where he's eating a carrot and kind of using it to exaggerate his villainous mannerisms. I just thought it was such a stupid, distracting, corny thing to do.
I may be wrong but isn't that the point of Two-Face's character in general as he gets crazier and crazier? He'll start to do whatever he can to find a loophole to his own rule.
Like in Batman Forever when he just kept flipping the coin until it landed correctly.
I'm right there with you about the Village.
I saw it with my ex-wife who is an actress/dialect coach. She was super pissed off at the beginning and kept saying, "Why the fuck do the older actors have such shitty accents? Their dialect coaches must have been fucking horrible. Their accents sound so manufactured. But the young actors sound amazing. Then the twist happened and she was all, "Oooohhh...that's awesome."
In Aquaman, they find a clue that will reveal their destination when in the hands of a true king at a certain location. They interpret this to mean a statue of Romulus, founder of Rome. The clue was left behind by an aquatic civilization that died off when the Sahara dried up. The Sahara became a desert at least 8000 years ago (to say nothing of when it would have been too dry to have an inland sea). Romulus, if he was real, lived less than 3000 years ago. So we're supposed to believe that an ancient civilization predicted where a statue of a man who wouldn't be born for 5000+ years would eventually be built and based their clue on that.
If Buzz really believed that he was a space ranger, then why did he freeze when Andy walked into the room?
Okay, both of these are actually pretty cool if they are intentional.
I hated that 3D and hey you killed all my friends but I'm going to save you because we're cousins.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?!
Yeah that's something that bothered me when I rewatched Toy Story again for the first time in ages.
I guess you could argue there's some sort of instinctual, Weeping Angels thing going on with toys in the universe but the more you think about the actual sentience of toys stuff, especially with Toy Story 4, the more horrifying things get.
The Amazing Spider-man 2, when "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" is played on the power plant towers. That's all I remember from the scene and I cringe when I do.
That's not a thing that happens. Mr. Arnold says that the tour vehicles' headlights shouldn't be running on the car batteries, and later Muldoon, the game warden, remarks that he's said numerous times that the tour vehicles need locking mechanisms. Those are the closest to what you're describing. The tour vehicles never leave the tracks during the movie, lol (with the exception of the rex destroying one, obviously).
Edit: already covered, lol
Yeah, I always assumed with Buzz there's just an unwritten toy rule that they freeze up no matter what, even if they aren't aware that they're toys.
I mean, we see a whole aisle of Buzz toys at Al's Toy Barn in the second movie who all (seemingly) also think they're the real Buzz, and it's not like they're all attacking the human customers during the day.
In The Dark Knight, Bruce tells Lucius "I'm playing this one pretty close to the chest." Then later in the movie when Dent is rescued he tells Gordon "You DO play things close to the chest." With the inflection, it feels like a callback even though nobody was in both scenes. I don't think the phrase is THAT common; using it twice in the same script is already kind of distracting, but the inflection makes it that much weirder.
In Suicide Squad, they were introducing the members and I forget the character's name, but all she says is something like, "He can climb anything"
Like okay? How is this to anyone's benefit? goddamn i hate that movie so much it's so awful
Like okay? How is this to anyone's benefit? goddamn i hate that movie so much it's so awful
In Legendary's Godzilla the main dude destroys all the monster eggs by breaking open a container of some sort of flammable liquid, designated by the hazard sign. Only the hazard sign is labeled with a "2," which would be flammable gas. Flammable liquid would be a "3."
I love the Lion King (1994) - but the stampede sequence where Scar throws Mufasa off the cliff was always confusing to me as a kid, because it always seemed like Simba should have also caught Scar in the act. Then there's the zoom-out on Simba's 'NOOOOO', but I don't understand the point of reference for where he is, because he was climbing up the cliffside in one of the previous shots. It's a weirdly directed sequence.
Basically, I never bought how Simba accepted the blame for Mufasa's death.
Basically, I never bought how Simba accepted the blame for Mufasa's death.
Similarly, when they shout fire to signify shooting a bow.
You might enjoy this:
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I'm not 100% sure this was the original video I watched on the subject, but it gets the point across.
Basically everything about the final battle in Endgame.
- Why was Captain Marvel the only one late?
- How did Thanos throw his weapon into the time portal faster than the rate Captain Marvel was flying?
- When Thor had Thanos distracted toward the end, why didn't Captain America take the Gauntlet and run away? Instead he made a vain effort to restrain Thanos despite the obvious risks of such a maneuver.
- How do Cap and Thor organically manage their weapons during the final battle? Does Mjolnir pick one if both are calling out to it? How would Cap and Thor know the weapon is free for summoning given all the chaos going on?
- How in the world did an unshielded Spider-Man survive the ship's lasers?
- How did they all communicate with each other despite all the chaos going on?
The entire ST is a real good example of this, that exponentially gets worse with films.
TFA - So we have empire 2.0 who build a planet size death star somehow and the good guys... no army, no government, and an even smaller Resistance.
TLJ - The Resistance from TFA, is even smaller. The FO is endless again. We end where The Resistance can fit entirely into the Falcon. Yet the FO for this entire movie kept talking shit and getting smacked.
TROS - A secret hidden fleet of thousands of ships, all on a planet where only a single satellite tower can lead them through... might as well make a giant fucking target
TFA - So we have empire 2.0 who build a planet size death star somehow and the good guys... no army, no government, and an even smaller Resistance.
TLJ - The Resistance from TFA, is even smaller. The FO is endless again. We end where The Resistance can fit entirely into the Falcon. Yet the FO for this entire movie kept talking shit and getting smacked.
TROS - A secret hidden fleet of thousands of ships, all on a planet where only a single satellite tower can lead them through... might as well make a giant fucking target
holy shit
was exact what I was going to type
Amen, bro! Me too. It's like that in so many end of the world movies. Hell even the book version of The Stand, if I am remembering right after all these years, was guilty of it. There was some throwaway line like, "Jim used to work at the power plant, he's got it up and running now."
By HIMSELF?! 😂😂😂
Have not seen the movie but in the previews for Shazam it shows a city bus plunge off a bridge and Shazam saves everyone by stopping it with his hands at the bottom of the bridge. His hands are on the windshield. First, wouldn't the windshield have shattered and the bus basically swallowed him up while it crashed? Secondly, wouldn't the shock from the sudden stop of the bus cause massive trauma to everyone on board?
The end of the Dawn of the Dead remake where the guy is standing at the edge of the dock and infected, as they are leaving. He has no gun in his hand or at all, it pans to the boat, then it pans back to him in the same pose but he now magically has a gun. Snyder omg buddy.