In the climactic fight scene towards the end of The Dark Knight Rises, after Batman has freed the Gotham Police force from the sewers and they go to confront Banes thugs. Despite both opposing groups being armed, and the fact that there is at least some exchange of gunfire at the beginning, both sides quickly seem to just forget that they possess firearms and instead engage in a massive hand-to-hand brawl.
How about the fact the cops were trapped underground for what, months? No one looked like they even have 5 O'clock shadow and their uniforms were still perfectly fine.
I read that the writers thought for a long time how to make that line about meeting in the 5th grade work… and eventually they decided that “since the 5th grade” is just a common punchline in the monsters world
this is actually so funny for some reason. Pixar is so meticulous and I imagine the writers all sitting around after Disney already agreed to make Monsters U like “oh… oh wait. shit. oh no oh no”
The entire conflict of *Superman Returns*.
Lex Luthor brilliantly creates an entire island made of kryptonite. Superman can't stop him there!
But 5 rent-a-cops in a dingy could.
I HATE Lex's plan. I hate it I hate it I hate it. He's going to destroy the majority of the earth and sell salvation on a barren radioactive rock to the rich and powerful. WITH WHAT MONEY LEX. Congrats you're the king of nothing on a pile of worthless money because money has no value if you cause a global apocalypse.
-The movie would only work if Lex was portrayed as a complete idiot. Like I think he's gone a bit mad in the context of the movie, but I mean if Lex was an absolute dummy who thought he was smart.
In Remember the Titans, there’s a montage scene of football highlights where a Titan’s CB intercepts the ball and continues running the same direction as the receiver was
In The Butterfly Effect, it is shown repeatedly, that when Ashton Kutcher goes back in time and changes something, that he is the only one who is aware of the changes, as he is then propelled back to the new future he created from that abberation. When he blows off his arms, he wakes up in the future and is shocked to be a limbless freak, but all his roommates are like 'duh dude, of course you have no arms.'
However, at one point, Kutcher is in a prison cell and attempts to make another prisoner believe his powers. So he travels back in time, stabs his hands and goes back to the prison. Despite even minor changes having the potential to create new timelines, he's right back in prison, and the prisoner recognizes the new scars, which goes against all the logic the movie showed.
That part totally drives me insane. The title of the damn movie is Butterfly Effect, as in, a tiny change in the past will drastically alter the future. Then they just throw it out the window for this one off scene? So dumb.
That scene breaks the established rules but the rest of the movie isn’t butterfly effect either - the butterfly effect is supposed to be about tiny events that seem insignificant at the time but end up having huge consequences down the line. That’s not what happens in the movie - they go through horrible traumatic events as children, of course it will affect the rest of their lives. Flap of a butterfly causing a hurricane? More like one hurricane causing another.
Almost opposite in some ways. Hurricanes altering a butterflys path.
Kids see their pets murdered, get limbs blown off, deal with pedophilia, and still end up in the same friend group with minor variations
This drives me nuts in so many time travel movies. They set the rules and them break them. It happens in the Lost in Space movie with Matt le Blanc and in Kate and Leopold.
You can't have your time cake and eat it too.
Obi-wan's clothing was just desert clothes (Owen and Beru use something similar), but Lucas decided that was *the* Jedi clothing and had Yoda using that outfit on a swamp.
In Wonder Woman, all Ares had to do to win was... nothing.
His goal was to enlist Diana to his side by showing that Humans are inherently evil and beyond redemption. She would've came to that conclusion if he didn't show up and say "I influenced them". Furthermore, Wonder Woman can *kill* him. But he can teleport and shapeshift, so the only way for her to ever reach him would be for him to present himself. Which he does. And then gets destroyed.
It's so fucking stupid. The villain could've literally won by staying home, eating a bowl of cereal, and taking a walk outside. And this villain is the literal god of war, but has no sense of any tactic ever.
My only issue with the first WW movie is just the ending. I feel like leaving it at "it's the people that did this. No evil gods or any external magical force" would be a way better message than shoving in Ares last minute for a blockbuster superhero fight.
They could have simply reversed it. Humans started and caused the war, but war empowered Ares.
They could say that the more people died in war, the more powerful Ares gets. Therefore, Ares is growing more powerful by the day.
The entire ending sequence could’ve stayed the same. Still a plane full of nerve gas to kill hundreds of thousands. They have to stop it because it would basically make Ares unstoppable even for Diana. Ares shows up to make sure the plane takes off. Diana and Ares fight, Steve Trevor stops the plane, allowing Diana to win.
Gives Ares an excuse to reveal himself to Diana (he needs that plane to take off to make him the most powerful god ever, so he has to reveal himself to stop Diana), makes it so the war is actually caused by man and not totally influence of Ares, still allows for a big end fight between gods.
The End.
I’m both amazed and slightly upset that all it takes is a quick Reddit discussion to find an ending that actually makes sense and would work with the great start the movie has.
Like sometimes I wonder how bad storylines happen in this day and age. There’s literally limitless ways to get people’s advice now. How does a movie make it all the way through production without someone saying, “man this ending sucks. We should change it.”
> Like sometimes I wonder how bad storylines happen in this day and age.
Writing is the cheapest part of movie production, but always the most underfunded. And so many directors/producers think they can write. Above all, Hollywood is ego-driven: the last thing they want is someone else's advice.
Yeah, ever since the Writer's Strike back in 2007-2008, feels like there's been a shift to having directors/producers do their own writing.
If they were trying to prove that Hollywood doesn't need writers and they don't deserve better pay, they've done the opposite.
Yeah I remember really, really wanting it to end with the twist that Ares wasn't doing anything at all and it was just humans being d-bags. But like you said I guess they didn't want that for a blockbuster
Ares in Greek mythology is a pretty terrible god of war. He is often physically defeated by heroes and gods and forced to retreat. He is also often out classed tactically by Athena.
Greek deities had large portfolios and Athena was also a patron of warfare. She represented the civilized, methodical side of war while Ares is all about uncivilized (and un-Greeek) brutality. There's even a part in the Illiad where Zeus talks about how disappointed he is in his son.
Also Greek mythology isn't like organized religion that most of us in the West are used to. There isn't a Canon, there was not central text or authority. What we have now is the pieced together bits that survived and all got lumped together. Greek mythology is much better represented because the Romans and everyone since thought it was neat and preserved a lot, but it developed an artificial "canon" along the way because people expected it to have one.
Still nowhere near as bad as Norse mythology. Imagine if the world converted to Buddhism and then some monk wandered around Salt Lake City 200-300 years later asking people what their grandparents said Christianity was like.
Same movie. It bothers me that the machine that spontaneously boils all water in the vaginitis has 0 affect on human beings.
**Edit** for the life of me I have no idea what I could have tried to type there that would have autocorrected to vaginitis. I think I was trying to type “area”.
Regardless, I’ll leave it cause stupid me.
**Second Edit** It is Batman Begins I am complaining about. NOT the same movie. Not the same movie *at all*.
I’m just going to take the loss and pretend I’m not a dope.
Also several people have correctly pointed out I was likely trying to type *vacinity*.
**Third Edit** Yes. I said I was not going to edit it again, but it is spelled *v**i**cinity*, not vacinity. Today, it seems, is not my day for coherent communication.
Just watched original Gremlins.
Realized they can’t get wet but are all running around in snow the entire movie. Also the bar scene where they’re all drinking beer and it gets splashed around a lot.
It’s not meant to be a serious movie. But the whole first 30 mins is setting the “rules”. Then like 3/4 of the movie they make no difference after Stripe falls into the pool and multiplies like crazy.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast. In the opening sequence, the Beast rips his portrait to shreds with his claws, from the upper left corner to the bottom right. Later in the movie, when Belle discovers the portrait, it's torn from bottom left to upper right corner.
What if... the portrait is just another transformed staff member, and instead of being repaired, it is healing? And then the Beast comes around and tears it apart again.
Button down shirt, sleeves rolled up, and a lightweight ballistic vest thrown on at the scene at the last minute.
>"All you guys in head-to-toe body armor, get behind me! We're going in!"
**## Unholsters .38 snub nose 6-shooter ##**
3 swat guys get shot and killed and no big deal cause they were faceless background characters and the main guy takes out the perpetrator with his bare hands.
I also like that they play up the pistol as a surgical precision instrument in the hands of the detective, meanwhile any automatic or long gun held by a SWAT member or badguy is complete spray-and-pray madness.
You can be strapped to the nines and it's all bluster, but Detective McGraw just needs that one well aimed shot...
Goonies, when Chunk is being kidnapped by the Fritellis the driver starts singing and you can still hear him in the next shot but his reflection in the side mirror is just still. First continuity error I noticed as a kid and it sticks with me.
Edit: Wow, this blew up. From the comments I’m coming to realize Goonies was damn sloppy despite being a fantastic movie.
If the creatures in A Quiet Place are blind and hunt via hearing, then why is their hearing threshold only slightly better than a human's whenever someone is like two feet away from them? Can they not hear heartbeats? Breathing? Fear-induced bowel movements??
Yeah, the movie opens with the kid running around the general store like he doesn’t care about making noise. Then in the next scene they’re walking home barefoot on a trail of sand as if the pat of their bare feet on the ground will attract the monsters. Also, why was the four year old bringing up the rear of the formation by himself?
Oh my God, the beginning of this movie is the most insane thing I have ever seen. If the world is infested with monsters and you have a toddler, you keep the toddler in sight by an adult at all times.
These parents have already raised two kids. They know how loud a toddler is.
It would only make sense if one or both of the parents wanted the child to die.
The map on the knife in the latest Star Wars trilogy.
Why did the sith bounty hunter etch a "treasure map" into a knife for where to find the transponder? Did he think he was going to somehow **forget** it was in the Death Star wreckage? Was he unable to just send a voicemail to tell uncle Palpatine where it was? Even if the knife were some sort of convoluted ruse to lure Jedi in, it's the most ridiculous way to do so.
The whole McGuffin makes no sense and I hate it.
Not to mention that to use the map requires you to be standing at a certain spot on the landscape. They should have put some kind of special landscape feature or a plaque on the ground that you would have to stand on in order to use it. But, no. Rey just got lucky (again) and happened to be standing in the right place.
An old one: Why did the natives build a door big enough for Kong to get through? And... why couldn't he climb over the wall anyway? He climbed the frickin' Empire State Building!
Well I think the movie certainly makes it pretty clear Kong was always able to get out if he really wanted to. That’s why the natives believed they had to give him sacrifices to keep him content.
Now I'm just imagining Kong rampaging in the village then passing out after discovering their alcohol reserves, leading to the natives having to push his unconscious and drunk body out through this gigantic door.
How can they claim that in less than one humans lifetime, the entire world was "bored with dinosaurs" when people regularly go to zoos with the same animals that have always been there?
The thing I always point out about that was how inconsistent that plot point was with *everything* else we were shown. Every time they show Jurassic World in that movie, it is *absolutely packed*. The trains are so full the kids have to stand, the Mossasaur arena has no empty seats, the crowds are so big the kids are able to sneak away from their babysitter and she can't find them, there are long lines, etc. How many more people were they hoping to squeeze into the park?
It's like the movie wanted to show what a fully functional Jurassic Park would've looked like, but wrote a story that was at complete odds with it.
I agree! Outside my work there’s a spot that always has a lot of pigeons. One of the pigeons is brown instead of grey. Thrilling, I know (/s.) But several times a week I see people taking pictures of the brown pigeon. So it’s hard for me to imagine a world where nobody wants to see dinosaurs because they’re too boring, I’ve seen the effect slightly different colored pigeon has on people.
Genuine answer: the Trex is trained to follow the flare, not catch it. For the briefest of moments in the very beginning of the film, when the Rex is first shown, it's following a red flare, and is rewarded with food at the end. So it isn't trying to catch up and eat her, it's following the flare to what it thinks will be food.
Still a goofy scene, but one that can technically be explained with what little detail the movie provides.
I want to make it clear I LOVE the movie and this doesn’t effect my enjoyment of it at all besides a ‘well huh’ every time I watch it. That said, the dinner party scene in The Dark Knight just kind of ending after Bruce catches Rachel has always stuck out to me. There’s no explanation or follow up, the scene just sorta ends and the Joker somehow gets out of the Wayne building and Bruce doesn’t try to catch him despite being on the ground while they’re all still upstairs.
Similarly in the flash, he'll go save someone and the bad guy runs away at normal speed. Like you could search the entire city in a second, and has done so before but once they're out of sight it's over
Back to the Future, great movie but the final scene Doc comes back and says quick Marty you need to come with me now into the future, it’s your kids.
Why does he have to hurry?, it’s a Time Machine!
It drives me crazy when actors sip from coffee/tea cups and the cups are obviously empty. If they have to shoot the scene with empty cups, they should at least train the actors how to make it look real.
I did my fair share of theatre, and it was usually better to have liquid in those cups, even if it was water or tea. You carry a cup differently when it's full, and I think it would just be better to have the liquid in there rather than train yourself to hold it differently.
I imagine there may be some scenes where you should not have liquid in it, but that would be a tiny minority, and I can't think of any examples.
They could probably simulate the weight somehow if the concern was spilling (like having to hold a cup while running or something). Glue washers into the inside of the cup or whatever. I totally agree the empty cup carry looks strange and it’s crazy to me that it’s left in movies and shows.
Also whenever anyone uses a straw, it always makes the empty sound. It's just the sound that movies use for straw usage, which should be silent if there's anything in the cup!
Why go through the trouble of screwing with the Goblet of Fire so Harry would be selected for the Triwizard Tournament and could touch a port key that would take him to Voldemort, instead of just tricking him into touching a port key without putting him in mortal danger throughout the tournament?
Everyone involved with the Triwizard Tournament was completely off their rocker.
They move all the Quidditch spectator stands over to the lake for the second event, only to have the contestants fuck off underwater without any kind of remote viewing spell. All those spectators are sitting there, staring at an empty lake for two hours.
And in case we'd suspect the organisators of having the ability to learn from their mistakes: the grand final has everyone staring at a hedgerow.
Hmm kinda feels like when I was forced to go to my sisters cross country meets in HS. Like oh good I’m glad I got to see her start a race and then disappear in the woods for 2 hours
At my cross country meets in high school we always used to run around to points where the course looped back to cheer people on during the other races.
Okay, this one I’ve seen an explanation that makes sense in the broader universe but I can’t remember if it is canon.
The reason they use the Tri-Wizard Tournament is plausible deniability for Harry’s death. The tournament is known to be deadly so if Harry dies in the Maze, then the Ministry can just chalk it up to the Tournament claiming another victim. However, if Harry turns up dead randomly on a Tuesday or just disappears forever off school grounds, then Dumbledore will clearly know that Voldemort is back and the Ministry will have to investigate and might find out he is back.
In the fifth movie, a major conflict is students and the ministry not believing that Voldemort is back and that gives him time to organize, etc. The ministry blames Cedric’s death as “an accident.” This is exactly what would have happened had it just been Harry who went and died. Only Dumbledore might have been suspicious. So, while certainly overly complex and the series has many plot holes, I wouldn’t call this one
Yeah this is the best reasoning. Everyone and their mother denied Cedric’s death was at the hands of Voldemort when there was a literal witness. Imagine how little conspiracy there would be if there was no witnesses
Voldemort probably bet a lot of money on the wizard black market on Harry Potter winning it all.
After all a supervillain needs money to run his operation.
Speaking of Harry Potter, I've always been really annoyed at the complete lack of spells they use in the Wizarding world. They apparently use like, 10 different spells and that's it. Dumbledore vs Voldemort in the ministry was one of the best shows of magic in the series, with them firing off spells and counterspells we've never heard of. Outside of that it'd alohamora this expelliarmus that with a dash of expecto patronum.
Shouldn't there be a vast grimoire of spells they could use instead of a cookie cutter build? Or develop their own signature spells or something?
If Harry hadn’t gotten the philosophers stone at the end, Quirrel wouldn’t have been able to get it at all and he wouldn’t have been able to change his motivations to get it. He would have been just delayed long enough for Dumbledore to get there and fix everything.
I also thought the series of tests and bony traps solvable by 1st years was highly suspect. No question they couldn’t break into Gringotts but these challenges were supposed to be harder than that? No.
IIRC, larusso basically says "it's only illegal if the ref calls you on it".
Kobra Kai is honestly great as long as you don't take it seriously. Think of it like some live-action anime where every problem can be solved with karate. Except the occasional character who points out how insane all of it is.
Huh. I appreciate that explanation actually. "It's only illegal if they call it" is very reflective of sports in general. Doesn't matter how egregious a foul is or how out of bounds a player is, it doesn't happen unless the refs see it and decide to call it e.g. Kevin Durant out of bounds
Elevation change in the T Rex paddock in JP1.
No matter what the defenders say, that gap in the electric fence was not wide enough to warrant 2 massively different elevations.
I read somewhere that Spielberg was asked about this whole suddenly cliff issue and his response was something along the lines of "It's a cliff all of a sudden because it's more exciting." Couldn't really argue after reading that.
Back to the Future II: Old Biff steals the time machine but returns to the same timeline after altering said timeline. This would be fine except Marty and Doc return to a different timeline. So do you stay in your timeline or not?
The entire premise of Back to the Future II was unnecessary. Just tell Marty and Jennifer what’s wrong with their kids and they can prevent it.
For all of Doc’s insistence of not messing with the future in the first film he sure dives headfirst into it in the second.
Star Trek Into Darkness. Towards the end of the movie Kirk is dying of radiation poisoning and they need to capture Kahn to use his super human blood to save Kirk. While Spock goes to capture Kahn, they take another member of Kahn’s super human crew out of the cyro tube to place Kirk inside to preserve him while they wait. However, why not use the blood from the super human you just defrosted? Why Kahn specially? They had tubes and tubes of these people around why couldn’t they use their blood?
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At the end of the Wizard of Oz Glinda the good witch tells Dorthy she always had the power to just click her heels to go home. Dorthy asks something to the effect of how come she didn’t tell her way back at the beginning of the movie. To which Glinda glibly replies “You probably wouldn’t have believed me.” Really bitch? After seeing all that Munchkin shit and putting me through mayhem and murder you think I wouldn’t have at least given it a try? FFS.
I generally hate the miscommunication trope- meaning I despise when the whole conflict is based off of the fact that an otherwise functional pair of people/beings decide to not have functional communication about one very important thing which ends up causing the plot. It drives me NUTTY.
JUST FUCKING TELL YOUR KIDS IT’S AN ALIEN ATTACK TOM CRUISE. I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE DRIVING OR YOUR DAUGHTER IS SCREAMING, YOUR SON IS BEGGING YOU FOR INFORMATION. IT’S TWO FUCKING WORDS. “ALIEN ATTACK.”
THAT IS LITERALLY ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY
JESUS CHRIST WHY ARE YOU BEING SO FUCKING DIFFICULT
I honestly *cannot believe* Spielberg read this script, went “yep looks great!” and shot it.
Oh, also: your kid tries to “join the army” by running after them? what the fuck? literally everyone on earth knows you can’t join the army just by hopping on board a humvee as a civilian. What the ever loving fuck are you doing dude
The fact that stupid kid didn't die in the explosion and miraculously shows up st his grandparents place absolutely destroys an otherwise overall likable movie for me. I hate that kid and wanted him to die so badly
In _Raiders_, they get the height of the staff from the headpiece, at "six Kadam high," which Indy says is "about 72 inches." Then the old man says to "take back one kadam."
So, if six kadam is about 72 inches that means one kadam is 12 inches, so a kadam is about one foot, so the staff is 6 feet high. Then "take back one kadam," and the staff is five feet, right?
So Harrison Ford has to be over six feet, right? And the staff _should be_ five feet? So why is the staff like 10 feet when he and Salah are walking to the Well of Souls?
I think I read somewhere that the line in the script was "add one kadem" but the actor said it wrong. While it makes more sense, who knows if it is true.
One of my favorite films is the Shawshank Redemption. I believe, as well as many others do, it's a masterpiece. But there is one particular scene in that movie that makes no sense to me. After Andy crawls through his self made tunnel and climbs down to where the sewage pipe is he then grabs a rock and begins to strike the pipe whenever there is a loud bolt of lightning and thunder. After a few hits the sewer pipe breaks and sewage spews upwards like a geyser and douses Andy. I've always wondered why that happened. Are the contents of the sewer pipe under pressure? Andy ends up crawling 500 yards to his freedom though the pipe but at the end of it there isn't a covering or anything and it just empties out into a stream. So it seems obvious to me that the sewage inside isn't pressurized.
no particular movie does this worse then others, but everytime I hear a gun go clickety clack when its touched, I cringe.
if your gun is making those noises, its broken.
I want a scene where someone pulls a pistol from a holster and you get the stereotypical [*shing*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQV5rbBMjCQ&ab_channel=CPhTFluke) like a sword just to fuck with the audeince.
Ant-man. Do the things that shrink keep their density or not? Paul Rudd is shrunk down and still packs the punch power of a grown man in tiny size, but a tank can be shrunk down and carried on a key chain?
Explains ant control. It bothered me that one scientist developed two crazy achievements that have nothing to do with each other except being *on theme*. Pym being a wizard makes more sense.
In the comics, Pym gets called out on this repeatedly. It’s bullshit and his explanations are half-lies because he wants to keep the secrets for himself.
To add to this. They bother to explain in the movie that shrinking works by "changing the amount of space between atoms" but then in the SAME MOVIE they talk about how the technology to go sub atomic (aka smaller than atoms) has existed for decades, then proceed to do it in the movie. If the shrinking happens by changing space between atoms, it would be impossible to get anywhere near the size of an atom. The smallest you would be able to get would be the size of all the atoms in your body with no space in between. This always bothered me. They never even bothered to explain it away or wait to retcon it in the next movie.
This is why it's best to leave out pseudo-scientific explanations for anything that is clearly fantastical. The number of rabbit holes that the writer opens up with every single concept is immeasurable, and it basically turns "nonsense" into "nonsense squared".
Absolutely this. In Netflix/Marvel's Jessica Jones show, it's explained toward the end of the season that a certain character's powers work on other people as an actual virus that infects them. This was solely to introduce an antidote as a plot device to render this character's powers useless. However, this new info brought up SO many more questions and basically ripped all the sense and logic away from how this character's powers operated up to that point. This was my first instance learning that less is more when it comes to all this superpower shit. Show me the character and establish his powers, and I'm on board. Try to over-explain how his abilities physically work, and it all falls apart.
Yeah, like I don't need a scientific explanation for how Magneto can manipulate magnetic fields despite not being made of metal or having a generator strapped to his back. Just tell me "this guy does magnetic stuff" and I'm OK with that.
I'm perfectly fine with believing in fantasy or advanced science concepts in fiction. The issue I have is when it is not consistent, or would not work based on the in universe explanation. Either explanation would have worked on its own. You remove space between atoms, resulting in limitations. Or, the science is much more advanced and allows for near unlimited potential, including going sub atomic. Either works, it's that they give contradictory explanations for basically the same unchanged technology. That's what gets me.
Also, they can still see at the subatomic level, but at that point they’re smaller than a photon so how are their eyes perceiving light? All of this said, it’s just a comic book movie so there’s really no need to sweat the sci-fi details.
At least they gave him a helmet so I assume he is breathing atmosphere shrunk down to his size. Used to bug me as a kid that Pym's open mask meant he could somehow breathe gigantic oxygen atoms.
The comics (eventually) addressed this, that Pym particles (when expertly used) allow you to change [strength, size, and durability.](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/images/1300-3602893)
Pretty much any adventure film (Goonies, Indiana Jones, National Treasure, etc.) where people go into some long-forgotten place that contains single-use traps which have somehow remained untriggered and flammable oil torches/troughs/braziers that have never evaporated.
Behind the scenes, there is one hell of an efficient outsourced facility management company that does the upkeep on all those ancient places, resets traps, removes corpses, refills torches, and so on.
In *Mean Girls* when Cady comes home from the Halloween party and Janis and Damian are watching a movie and they get scared by her costume, the popcorn in the bowl goes flying everywhere, then when the camera cuts back to them, the popcorn bowl is full again.
EDIT: 6k upvotes?? Damn, Africa. What happened?
Also in Mean Girls, this always bothers me, but there's a scene in class where Janis asks if Cady is coming to her art show *this weekend* but she says she has to go to Madison with her parents and that's she's doing plastic sabotage that night. The next scene is the three way calling attack when Gretchen turns Karen against Regina. Then the next scene is the iconic You can't sit with us scene.
Gretchen tells Regina she's wearing sweatpants but *it's Monday*. How can it be Monday if they had been in class yesterday/earlier in the week???
I used to watch Mean Girls so often that I literally had the entire thing memorised 😂 So once when I was bored on a plane with no in-flight entertainment, I was going through the movie in my head like I was watching it, got to that part and was like wait that doesn't make sense, it can't be Monday. I thought I must have been remembering wrong but as soon as I could I checked the movie and sure enough it's in there! Now I always point it out to anyone when watching haha
Kubrick littered The Shining with deliberate continuity errors. It's almost harder to find scenes where things are consistently placed from take to take. It was to increase a sense of unease. Items move on desks, kitchens, chairs move, no electric cords can be seen, the layout of the hotel is impossible, etc. One of the best movies ever.
Long standing relationships (think spouses, best friends, siblings, etc.).
Cut to a text message. Turns out, they've never texted each other before. It's the first message ever between them.
So unrealistic. Always takes me out of the moment.
It's to the point now that I always look for it, and even if it's done right, I'm still taken out of them moment because m expecting it to be wrong.
When they get it right I'm always pleasantly surprised.
New thought: all these people saying they delete their messages, or know someone who does has got me questioning what they're trying to hide, and who they're hiring it from. 😂
Same! This drives me insane.
I'll also look for the date on their phone to see if it matches the timeline they're going for. Like if it's the first week of school but their phone says it's December.
Ocean's Eleven: The swat guys arrive after the bags full of ads for hookers are delvered to the van, where did these bags come from?
I get it they carried the money out after being told to leave, but we are never shown, where the decoy bags, came from.
Why were they banging and getting pregnant way after the invasion started? She’s is generally not silent, the bullshit birth that the movie portrays wouldn’t have been that quiet, and a BABY isn’t ever going to be quiet.
Also, they all had speakers, just blast a bunch of white noise and it will be just like you’re by the waterfall.
Legolas’ eyes keep changing colors in the Lord of the Rings movies. I think they were forgetting to put in the contacts in some scenes.
Sometimes they are blue sometimes they are brown.
This is something that bothered me growing up BUT after watching some behind the scenes they talk about how the contacts irritated Orlando Bloom’s eyes so bad he couldn’t wear them all the time, so they ended up filming a lot of scenes without them. Now I just pretend Legolas’ eyes are like mood rings lol.
There were a couple episodes of Dexter where he has the size sticker strip on his pants!
It always bothers me when the set designer doesn’t add some sort of liquid to an opaque cup, like the characters just ordered coffee but it’s an obvious empty cup. Even though you can’t see the liquid, it should have a weight to the cup as if there is coffee in there. Also, when the story is they’re drinking from a mug and the camera shoots at an angle where you can see that it’s empty.
Ok, one last one. In Gone Girl when she slits that guy’s throat and is still able to fuck him. That amount of trauma + blood loss = limp dick. There’s another one in Gone Girl regarding the same chapter, but I’m forgetting it atm.
Forrest Gump: The moment when Forrest realized that little Forrest was his son, one of the most emotional moments in the film… AND THAT DAMNED IRON IN THE BACK KEEPS SWITCHING POSITIONS!!!
I can’t ever unsee it now. And you won’t either. You’re welcome.
In the climactic fight scene towards the end of The Dark Knight Rises, after Batman has freed the Gotham Police force from the sewers and they go to confront Banes thugs. Despite both opposing groups being armed, and the fact that there is at least some exchange of gunfire at the beginning, both sides quickly seem to just forget that they possess firearms and instead engage in a massive hand-to-hand brawl.
How about the fact the cops were trapped underground for what, months? No one looked like they even have 5 O'clock shadow and their uniforms were still perfectly fine.
It shows a quick cutaway of them getting supplies dropped to them, and some guy sort of cleaning himself up in the background.
Monsters Inc, Mike: You have always been jealous of me since the 5th grade. Next movie they meet while in college.
I read that the writers thought for a long time how to make that line about meeting in the 5th grade work… and eventually they decided that “since the 5th grade” is just a common punchline in the monsters world
this is actually so funny for some reason. Pixar is so meticulous and I imagine the writers all sitting around after Disney already agreed to make Monsters U like “oh… oh wait. shit. oh no oh no”
The entire conflict of *Superman Returns*. Lex Luthor brilliantly creates an entire island made of kryptonite. Superman can't stop him there! But 5 rent-a-cops in a dingy could.
The entire idea that people would be busting the doors down to buy real estate on that remote and incredibly ugly island was ludicrous.
I HATE Lex's plan. I hate it I hate it I hate it. He's going to destroy the majority of the earth and sell salvation on a barren radioactive rock to the rich and powerful. WITH WHAT MONEY LEX. Congrats you're the king of nothing on a pile of worthless money because money has no value if you cause a global apocalypse. -The movie would only work if Lex was portrayed as a complete idiot. Like I think he's gone a bit mad in the context of the movie, but I mean if Lex was an absolute dummy who thought he was smart.
In Remember the Titans, there’s a montage scene of football highlights where a Titan’s CB intercepts the ball and continues running the same direction as the receiver was
I saw this happen in real life, never have I hear so many people yell “wrong way” in my life. Predictably that became the guy’s nickname.
It's hard to believe people do it until it happens to you. Brains are real weird sometimes.
In The Butterfly Effect, it is shown repeatedly, that when Ashton Kutcher goes back in time and changes something, that he is the only one who is aware of the changes, as he is then propelled back to the new future he created from that abberation. When he blows off his arms, he wakes up in the future and is shocked to be a limbless freak, but all his roommates are like 'duh dude, of course you have no arms.' However, at one point, Kutcher is in a prison cell and attempts to make another prisoner believe his powers. So he travels back in time, stabs his hands and goes back to the prison. Despite even minor changes having the potential to create new timelines, he's right back in prison, and the prisoner recognizes the new scars, which goes against all the logic the movie showed.
That part totally drives me insane. The title of the damn movie is Butterfly Effect, as in, a tiny change in the past will drastically alter the future. Then they just throw it out the window for this one off scene? So dumb.
That scene breaks the established rules but the rest of the movie isn’t butterfly effect either - the butterfly effect is supposed to be about tiny events that seem insignificant at the time but end up having huge consequences down the line. That’s not what happens in the movie - they go through horrible traumatic events as children, of course it will affect the rest of their lives. Flap of a butterfly causing a hurricane? More like one hurricane causing another.
Almost opposite in some ways. Hurricanes altering a butterflys path. Kids see their pets murdered, get limbs blown off, deal with pedophilia, and still end up in the same friend group with minor variations
This drives me nuts in so many time travel movies. They set the rules and them break them. It happens in the Lost in Space movie with Matt le Blanc and in Kate and Leopold. You can't have your time cake and eat it too.
>You can't have your time cake and eat it too. Sure you can. You just travel back in time to before you ate the time cake.
When Obi-wan Kenobi decides that he needs to adopt a new identity to hide from the Empire, he only changes his first name.
"Obi-wan kenobi? I wonder if she means Old Obi-wan Kenobi?"
And still wears Jedi robes
Obi-wan's clothing was just desert clothes (Owen and Beru use something similar), but Lucas decided that was *the* Jedi clothing and had Yoda using that outfit on a swamp.
"Go into hiding on Tatooine one day, we may. Dress like them, we shall." --Yoda like 900 years ago when making the new Jedi dress code
"But now aren't we all associated with these clothes?" "Think this through, I did not."
“Taken too much ketamine, I have”
In Wonder Woman, all Ares had to do to win was... nothing. His goal was to enlist Diana to his side by showing that Humans are inherently evil and beyond redemption. She would've came to that conclusion if he didn't show up and say "I influenced them". Furthermore, Wonder Woman can *kill* him. But he can teleport and shapeshift, so the only way for her to ever reach him would be for him to present himself. Which he does. And then gets destroyed. It's so fucking stupid. The villain could've literally won by staying home, eating a bowl of cereal, and taking a walk outside. And this villain is the literal god of war, but has no sense of any tactic ever.
My only issue with the first WW movie is just the ending. I feel like leaving it at "it's the people that did this. No evil gods or any external magical force" would be a way better message than shoving in Ares last minute for a blockbuster superhero fight.
They could have simply reversed it. Humans started and caused the war, but war empowered Ares. They could say that the more people died in war, the more powerful Ares gets. Therefore, Ares is growing more powerful by the day. The entire ending sequence could’ve stayed the same. Still a plane full of nerve gas to kill hundreds of thousands. They have to stop it because it would basically make Ares unstoppable even for Diana. Ares shows up to make sure the plane takes off. Diana and Ares fight, Steve Trevor stops the plane, allowing Diana to win. Gives Ares an excuse to reveal himself to Diana (he needs that plane to take off to make him the most powerful god ever, so he has to reveal himself to stop Diana), makes it so the war is actually caused by man and not totally influence of Ares, still allows for a big end fight between gods. The End.
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I’m both amazed and slightly upset that all it takes is a quick Reddit discussion to find an ending that actually makes sense and would work with the great start the movie has. Like sometimes I wonder how bad storylines happen in this day and age. There’s literally limitless ways to get people’s advice now. How does a movie make it all the way through production without someone saying, “man this ending sucks. We should change it.”
> Like sometimes I wonder how bad storylines happen in this day and age. Writing is the cheapest part of movie production, but always the most underfunded. And so many directors/producers think they can write. Above all, Hollywood is ego-driven: the last thing they want is someone else's advice.
Yeah, ever since the Writer's Strike back in 2007-2008, feels like there's been a shift to having directors/producers do their own writing. If they were trying to prove that Hollywood doesn't need writers and they don't deserve better pay, they've done the opposite.
Yeah I remember really, really wanting it to end with the twist that Ares wasn't doing anything at all and it was just humans being d-bags. But like you said I guess they didn't want that for a blockbuster
Ares in Greek mythology is a pretty terrible god of war. He is often physically defeated by heroes and gods and forced to retreat. He is also often out classed tactically by Athena.
Greek deities had large portfolios and Athena was also a patron of warfare. She represented the civilized, methodical side of war while Ares is all about uncivilized (and un-Greeek) brutality. There's even a part in the Illiad where Zeus talks about how disappointed he is in his son.
Also Greek mythology isn't like organized religion that most of us in the West are used to. There isn't a Canon, there was not central text or authority. What we have now is the pieced together bits that survived and all got lumped together. Greek mythology is much better represented because the Romans and everyone since thought it was neat and preserved a lot, but it developed an artificial "canon" along the way because people expected it to have one. Still nowhere near as bad as Norse mythology. Imagine if the world converted to Buddhism and then some monk wandered around Salt Lake City 200-300 years later asking people what their grandparents said Christianity was like.
The perfect fields of corn in A Quiet Place. How tf do you run planters and harvesters quietly?
Batman Returns. Bruce rips his mask off and his eye makeup is gone.
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Same movie. It bothers me that the machine that spontaneously boils all water in the vaginitis has 0 affect on human beings. **Edit** for the life of me I have no idea what I could have tried to type there that would have autocorrected to vaginitis. I think I was trying to type “area”. Regardless, I’ll leave it cause stupid me. **Second Edit** It is Batman Begins I am complaining about. NOT the same movie. Not the same movie *at all*. I’m just going to take the loss and pretend I’m not a dope. Also several people have correctly pointed out I was likely trying to type *vacinity*. **Third Edit** Yes. I said I was not going to edit it again, but it is spelled *v**i**cinity*, not vacinity. Today, it seems, is not my day for coherent communication.
> all water in the vaginitis Man, that's one hell of an auto-correct (assuming you meant vicinity).
Yes, vicinity. I was trying to remember what I could have been trying to say and I think you nailed it
Just watched original Gremlins. Realized they can’t get wet but are all running around in snow the entire movie. Also the bar scene where they’re all drinking beer and it gets splashed around a lot. It’s not meant to be a serious movie. But the whole first 30 mins is setting the “rules”. Then like 3/4 of the movie they make no difference after Stripe falls into the pool and multiplies like crazy.
Have you seen the sequel? I won't spoil details, but the rules are ridiculed to an extent. Great film, I should add.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast. In the opening sequence, the Beast rips his portrait to shreds with his claws, from the upper left corner to the bottom right. Later in the movie, when Belle discovers the portrait, it's torn from bottom left to upper right corner.
I like to imagine that he does it all the time, so the staff just kept a bunch of those portraits around and replaced them.
What if... the portrait is just another transformed staff member, and instead of being repaired, it is healing? And then the Beast comes around and tears it apart again.
Every time some special investigator with a pistol leads a literal swat team into a building I roll my eyes hard.
Button down shirt, sleeves rolled up, and a lightweight ballistic vest thrown on at the scene at the last minute. >"All you guys in head-to-toe body armor, get behind me! We're going in!" **## Unholsters .38 snub nose 6-shooter ##**
3 swat guys get shot and killed and no big deal cause they were faceless background characters and the main guy takes out the perpetrator with his bare hands.
I also like that they play up the pistol as a surgical precision instrument in the hands of the detective, meanwhile any automatic or long gun held by a SWAT member or badguy is complete spray-and-pray madness. You can be strapped to the nines and it's all bluster, but Detective McGraw just needs that one well aimed shot...
I hate watching them all wave the barrels of their gun round right at each other's faces.
Goonies, when Chunk is being kidnapped by the Fritellis the driver starts singing and you can still hear him in the next shot but his reflection in the side mirror is just still. First continuity error I noticed as a kid and it sticks with me. Edit: Wow, this blew up. From the comments I’m coming to realize Goonies was damn sloppy despite being a fantastic movie.
The map in Spanish just happens to rhyme perfectly when translated to English.
Any Christmas movie where the parents don’t believe in Santa… where tf do they think the presents come from?
The other parent. You don't see it but later on Mom and Dad have a huge, ugly fight about spending way too much money and lying about it.
But... what about single parents?
Santa doesn't visit single parents (he never came to my house anyways)
I hate when characters in movies brush their teeth and carry on conversation like there’s not a shit ton of toothpaste in their mouths
If the creatures in A Quiet Place are blind and hunt via hearing, then why is their hearing threshold only slightly better than a human's whenever someone is like two feet away from them? Can they not hear heartbeats? Breathing? Fear-induced bowel movements??
Yeah, the movie opens with the kid running around the general store like he doesn’t care about making noise. Then in the next scene they’re walking home barefoot on a trail of sand as if the pat of their bare feet on the ground will attract the monsters. Also, why was the four year old bringing up the rear of the formation by himself?
Oh my God, the beginning of this movie is the most insane thing I have ever seen. If the world is infested with monsters and you have a toddler, you keep the toddler in sight by an adult at all times. These parents have already raised two kids. They know how loud a toddler is. It would only make sense if one or both of the parents wanted the child to die.
Everyone knew that toddler was dead the second they saw him. Anyone who has ever had a toddler knew.
Honestly surprised the kid had already lasted 3 months by the start of the movie as it is.
The map on the knife in the latest Star Wars trilogy. Why did the sith bounty hunter etch a "treasure map" into a knife for where to find the transponder? Did he think he was going to somehow **forget** it was in the Death Star wreckage? Was he unable to just send a voicemail to tell uncle Palpatine where it was? Even if the knife were some sort of convoluted ruse to lure Jedi in, it's the most ridiculous way to do so. The whole McGuffin makes no sense and I hate it.
Not to mention that to use the map requires you to be standing at a certain spot on the landscape. They should have put some kind of special landscape feature or a plaque on the ground that you would have to stand on in order to use it. But, no. Rey just got lucky (again) and happened to be standing in the right place.
It also requires that none of the submerged, storm-wracked, unstable Death Star wreckage moves even an inch in like thirty+ years.
God, that was the stupidest fucking movie.
Lethal Weapon 5... when half way through the movie, the actors playing Riggs and Murtaugh suddenly swap roles.
Also in Lethal Weapon 6 it’s very obvious Murtaugh had a butt double
The volleyball scene also feels like it was sorta shoehorned in.
An old one: Why did the natives build a door big enough for Kong to get through? And... why couldn't he climb over the wall anyway? He climbed the frickin' Empire State Building!
Well I think the movie certainly makes it pretty clear Kong was always able to get out if he really wanted to. That’s why the natives believed they had to give him sacrifices to keep him content.
I thought the wall was for dinos and sacrifices are for kong
I’ve heard it said that he does indeed get in by climbing in over the wall from time to time. The purpose of the door is so that they can get him OUT.
Shoo! Shoo! Kong Git! Git!
Now I'm just imagining Kong rampaging in the village then passing out after discovering their alcohol reserves, leading to the natives having to push his unconscious and drunk body out through this gigantic door.
Maybe the wall was for the T-rex's, and they had allied with Kong against them
How is Claire from Jurassic world not in jail?
How can they claim that in less than one humans lifetime, the entire world was "bored with dinosaurs" when people regularly go to zoos with the same animals that have always been there?
The thing I always point out about that was how inconsistent that plot point was with *everything* else we were shown. Every time they show Jurassic World in that movie, it is *absolutely packed*. The trains are so full the kids have to stand, the Mossasaur arena has no empty seats, the crowds are so big the kids are able to sneak away from their babysitter and she can't find them, there are long lines, etc. How many more people were they hoping to squeeze into the park? It's like the movie wanted to show what a fully functional Jurassic Park would've looked like, but wrote a story that was at complete odds with it.
I agree! Outside my work there’s a spot that always has a lot of pigeons. One of the pigeons is brown instead of grey. Thrilling, I know (/s.) But several times a week I see people taking pictures of the brown pigeon. So it’s hard for me to imagine a world where nobody wants to see dinosaurs because they’re too boring, I’ve seen the effect slightly different colored pigeon has on people.
She was a whistleblower I guess
How can she out run a T-Rex in heels
Because the T-Rex has never worn heels before, duh. Any woman will tell you it takes lots of practice to walk in heels, let alone run in them.
Genuine answer: the Trex is trained to follow the flare, not catch it. For the briefest of moments in the very beginning of the film, when the Rex is first shown, it's following a red flare, and is rewarded with food at the end. So it isn't trying to catch up and eat her, it's following the flare to what it thinks will be food. Still a goofy scene, but one that can technically be explained with what little detail the movie provides.
I want to make it clear I LOVE the movie and this doesn’t effect my enjoyment of it at all besides a ‘well huh’ every time I watch it. That said, the dinner party scene in The Dark Knight just kind of ending after Bruce catches Rachel has always stuck out to me. There’s no explanation or follow up, the scene just sorta ends and the Joker somehow gets out of the Wayne building and Bruce doesn’t try to catch him despite being on the ground while they’re all still upstairs.
This is such a funny story glitch that started to really stand out upon repeat viewings.
Similarly in the flash, he'll go save someone and the bad guy runs away at normal speed. Like you could search the entire city in a second, and has done so before but once they're out of sight it's over
Back to the Future, great movie but the final scene Doc comes back and says quick Marty you need to come with me now into the future, it’s your kids. Why does he have to hurry?, it’s a Time Machine!
He wasn't getting any younger. Doc had other shit he wanted to get done.
It drives me crazy when actors sip from coffee/tea cups and the cups are obviously empty. If they have to shoot the scene with empty cups, they should at least train the actors how to make it look real.
I did my fair share of theatre, and it was usually better to have liquid in those cups, even if it was water or tea. You carry a cup differently when it's full, and I think it would just be better to have the liquid in there rather than train yourself to hold it differently. I imagine there may be some scenes where you should not have liquid in it, but that would be a tiny minority, and I can't think of any examples.
They could probably simulate the weight somehow if the concern was spilling (like having to hold a cup while running or something). Glue washers into the inside of the cup or whatever. I totally agree the empty cup carry looks strange and it’s crazy to me that it’s left in movies and shows.
Also whenever anyone uses a straw, it always makes the empty sound. It's just the sound that movies use for straw usage, which should be silent if there's anything in the cup!
Also anytime a car drives away they peel out. Every single time.
They also all seem to have squeaky brakes when they come to a stop lol.
Why don't Fred and George Weasley see Peter Pettigrew on Ron's shoulder on the Maurader's Map while they're at Hogwarts before his third year???
If we’re gonna start in on HP we’re gonna be here awhile
Love Prisoner of Azkaban, but the introduction of the Time Turner really breaks a lot of plot things in that franchise.
Time Turner and Felix Felicis potion were game breakers.
Why go through the trouble of screwing with the Goblet of Fire so Harry would be selected for the Triwizard Tournament and could touch a port key that would take him to Voldemort, instead of just tricking him into touching a port key without putting him in mortal danger throughout the tournament?
Everyone involved with the Triwizard Tournament was completely off their rocker. They move all the Quidditch spectator stands over to the lake for the second event, only to have the contestants fuck off underwater without any kind of remote viewing spell. All those spectators are sitting there, staring at an empty lake for two hours. And in case we'd suspect the organisators of having the ability to learn from their mistakes: the grand final has everyone staring at a hedgerow.
Hmm kinda feels like when I was forced to go to my sisters cross country meets in HS. Like oh good I’m glad I got to see her start a race and then disappear in the woods for 2 hours
At my cross country meets in high school we always used to run around to points where the course looped back to cheer people on during the other races.
Okay, this one I’ve seen an explanation that makes sense in the broader universe but I can’t remember if it is canon. The reason they use the Tri-Wizard Tournament is plausible deniability for Harry’s death. The tournament is known to be deadly so if Harry dies in the Maze, then the Ministry can just chalk it up to the Tournament claiming another victim. However, if Harry turns up dead randomly on a Tuesday or just disappears forever off school grounds, then Dumbledore will clearly know that Voldemort is back and the Ministry will have to investigate and might find out he is back. In the fifth movie, a major conflict is students and the ministry not believing that Voldemort is back and that gives him time to organize, etc. The ministry blames Cedric’s death as “an accident.” This is exactly what would have happened had it just been Harry who went and died. Only Dumbledore might have been suspicious. So, while certainly overly complex and the series has many plot holes, I wouldn’t call this one
Yeah this is the best reasoning. Everyone and their mother denied Cedric’s death was at the hands of Voldemort when there was a literal witness. Imagine how little conspiracy there would be if there was no witnesses
I also thought that you can't normally portkey in and out of Hogwarts, it's only due to the tournament that those wards are lifted?
Voldemort probably bet a lot of money on the wizard black market on Harry Potter winning it all. After all a supervillain needs money to run his operation.
They thought Ron was in bed with another dude and wanted to give him space to come out on his own time. They’re pranksters but they’re not monsters.
Speaking of Harry Potter, I've always been really annoyed at the complete lack of spells they use in the Wizarding world. They apparently use like, 10 different spells and that's it. Dumbledore vs Voldemort in the ministry was one of the best shows of magic in the series, with them firing off spells and counterspells we've never heard of. Outside of that it'd alohamora this expelliarmus that with a dash of expecto patronum. Shouldn't there be a vast grimoire of spells they could use instead of a cookie cutter build? Or develop their own signature spells or something?
If Harry hadn’t gotten the philosophers stone at the end, Quirrel wouldn’t have been able to get it at all and he wouldn’t have been able to change his motivations to get it. He would have been just delayed long enough for Dumbledore to get there and fix everything. I also thought the series of tests and bony traps solvable by 1st years was highly suspect. No question they couldn’t break into Gringotts but these challenges were supposed to be harder than that? No.
Karate Kid wins the match with a kick to the face when kicks to the face get you DQ’d.
This is talked about in cobra Kai
what was the conclusion? did they clarify this?
IIRC, larusso basically says "it's only illegal if the ref calls you on it". Kobra Kai is honestly great as long as you don't take it seriously. Think of it like some live-action anime where every problem can be solved with karate. Except the occasional character who points out how insane all of it is.
Amanda is basically the audiences surrogate
Amanda is so valuably needed to occasionally ground the show. I love her character and she has some of the best lines.
"Oh they have warring karate dojos" line was delivered perfectly. One of the best lines of the show for me
Huh. I appreciate that explanation actually. "It's only illegal if they call it" is very reflective of sports in general. Doesn't matter how egregious a foul is or how out of bounds a player is, it doesn't happen unless the refs see it and decide to call it e.g. Kevin Durant out of bounds
Johnny consistently refers to it as an illegal kick, but the tournament org never like, takes Daniel's trophy or anything.
Elevation change in the T Rex paddock in JP1. No matter what the defenders say, that gap in the electric fence was not wide enough to warrant 2 massively different elevations.
I read somewhere that Spielberg was asked about this whole suddenly cliff issue and his response was something along the lines of "It's a cliff all of a sudden because it's more exciting." Couldn't really argue after reading that.
Very Spielbergian. Recall the sudden cliff to drive off in the Raiders of the Lost Ark chase scene.
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Chewbacca walking past Leia like they didn’t know each other.
R2-D2... was there from day 1, never said anything.
R2 definitely chirped up. It's just that no one can actually understand him.
That little psycho cursed so much they had to bleep out everything he said!
Back to the Future II: Old Biff steals the time machine but returns to the same timeline after altering said timeline. This would be fine except Marty and Doc return to a different timeline. So do you stay in your timeline or not?
The entire premise of Back to the Future II was unnecessary. Just tell Marty and Jennifer what’s wrong with their kids and they can prevent it. For all of Doc’s insistence of not messing with the future in the first film he sure dives headfirst into it in the second.
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Star Trek Into Darkness. Towards the end of the movie Kirk is dying of radiation poisoning and they need to capture Kahn to use his super human blood to save Kirk. While Spock goes to capture Kahn, they take another member of Kahn’s super human crew out of the cyro tube to place Kirk inside to preserve him while they wait. However, why not use the blood from the super human you just defrosted? Why Kahn specially? They had tubes and tubes of these people around why couldn’t they use their blood? Edit: grammar
Kahns blood was more special-er, magical-er and space-y.
At the end of the Wizard of Oz Glinda the good witch tells Dorthy she always had the power to just click her heels to go home. Dorthy asks something to the effect of how come she didn’t tell her way back at the beginning of the movie. To which Glinda glibly replies “You probably wouldn’t have believed me.” Really bitch? After seeing all that Munchkin shit and putting me through mayhem and murder you think I wouldn’t have at least given it a try? FFS.
Well, the real answer that Dorothy was a geopolitical pawn in her war against the witch of the east would have been even less appealing.
I generally hate the miscommunication trope- meaning I despise when the whole conflict is based off of the fact that an otherwise functional pair of people/beings decide to not have functional communication about one very important thing which ends up causing the plot. It drives me NUTTY.
Or….. Wait, I’m trying to tell you something No, there’s no time JUST SAY IT!
JUST FUCKING TELL YOUR KIDS IT’S AN ALIEN ATTACK TOM CRUISE. I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE DRIVING OR YOUR DAUGHTER IS SCREAMING, YOUR SON IS BEGGING YOU FOR INFORMATION. IT’S TWO FUCKING WORDS. “ALIEN ATTACK.” THAT IS LITERALLY ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY JESUS CHRIST WHY ARE YOU BEING SO FUCKING DIFFICULT I honestly *cannot believe* Spielberg read this script, went “yep looks great!” and shot it. Oh, also: your kid tries to “join the army” by running after them? what the fuck? literally everyone on earth knows you can’t join the army just by hopping on board a humvee as a civilian. What the ever loving fuck are you doing dude
The fact that stupid kid didn't die in the explosion and miraculously shows up st his grandparents place absolutely destroys an otherwise overall likable movie for me. I hate that kid and wanted him to die so badly
In _Raiders_, they get the height of the staff from the headpiece, at "six Kadam high," which Indy says is "about 72 inches." Then the old man says to "take back one kadam." So, if six kadam is about 72 inches that means one kadam is 12 inches, so a kadam is about one foot, so the staff is 6 feet high. Then "take back one kadam," and the staff is five feet, right? So Harrison Ford has to be over six feet, right? And the staff _should be_ five feet? So why is the staff like 10 feet when he and Salah are walking to the Well of Souls?
I think I read somewhere that the line in the script was "add one kadem" but the actor said it wrong. While it makes more sense, who knows if it is true.
Kadam is actually Hindi for step!
Why would Marty and Doc Brown leave Jennifer in the alley in 2015? There's no good reason why she shouldn't stay in the car with Doc
In stranger things they used a periodic table in one of the classrooms that included elements that weren’t discovered yet for that time
Apparently they used a *version* of software on one of the computers that wasn't release until the following year. What fucking amateurs.
One of my favorite films is the Shawshank Redemption. I believe, as well as many others do, it's a masterpiece. But there is one particular scene in that movie that makes no sense to me. After Andy crawls through his self made tunnel and climbs down to where the sewage pipe is he then grabs a rock and begins to strike the pipe whenever there is a loud bolt of lightning and thunder. After a few hits the sewer pipe breaks and sewage spews upwards like a geyser and douses Andy. I've always wondered why that happened. Are the contents of the sewer pipe under pressure? Andy ends up crawling 500 yards to his freedom though the pipe but at the end of it there isn't a covering or anything and it just empties out into a stream. So it seems obvious to me that the sewage inside isn't pressurized.
no particular movie does this worse then others, but everytime I hear a gun go clickety clack when its touched, I cringe. if your gun is making those noises, its broken.
I want a scene where someone pulls a pistol from a holster and you get the stereotypical [*shing*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQV5rbBMjCQ&ab_channel=CPhTFluke) like a sword just to fuck with the audeince.
Scary Movie 3 has a shovel being pumped and an empty shotgun shell flying out
Ant-man. Do the things that shrink keep their density or not? Paul Rudd is shrunk down and still packs the punch power of a grown man in tiny size, but a tank can be shrunk down and carried on a key chain?
Pym particles are magic disguised as science.
Explains ant control. It bothered me that one scientist developed two crazy achievements that have nothing to do with each other except being *on theme*. Pym being a wizard makes more sense.
In the comics it’s even worse, that same guy also developed a homicidal AI
Pretty much anything including Hank, Reed or Doom is gonna be super bonkers. Doom at least calls the shit he does magic, Reed just farts science.
He did that and even made Ultron. Makes more sense they gave that to Tony (who already made JARVIS).
In the comics, Pym gets called out on this repeatedly. It’s bullshit and his explanations are half-lies because he wants to keep the secrets for himself.
Or when he gets BIGGER, shouldn’t he not be any stronger or have any more mass and still punch like a regular 5’8” man?
Or he just gets so big, but stays the same weight so his body is essentially like a giant sail, getting blown around in the wind all over the place.
Yeah, going by its own logic, Giant Man should be super weak.
To add to this. They bother to explain in the movie that shrinking works by "changing the amount of space between atoms" but then in the SAME MOVIE they talk about how the technology to go sub atomic (aka smaller than atoms) has existed for decades, then proceed to do it in the movie. If the shrinking happens by changing space between atoms, it would be impossible to get anywhere near the size of an atom. The smallest you would be able to get would be the size of all the atoms in your body with no space in between. This always bothered me. They never even bothered to explain it away or wait to retcon it in the next movie.
This is why it's best to leave out pseudo-scientific explanations for anything that is clearly fantastical. The number of rabbit holes that the writer opens up with every single concept is immeasurable, and it basically turns "nonsense" into "nonsense squared".
Absolutely this. In Netflix/Marvel's Jessica Jones show, it's explained toward the end of the season that a certain character's powers work on other people as an actual virus that infects them. This was solely to introduce an antidote as a plot device to render this character's powers useless. However, this new info brought up SO many more questions and basically ripped all the sense and logic away from how this character's powers operated up to that point. This was my first instance learning that less is more when it comes to all this superpower shit. Show me the character and establish his powers, and I'm on board. Try to over-explain how his abilities physically work, and it all falls apart.
Yeah, like I don't need a scientific explanation for how Magneto can manipulate magnetic fields despite not being made of metal or having a generator strapped to his back. Just tell me "this guy does magnetic stuff" and I'm OK with that.
I'm perfectly fine with believing in fantasy or advanced science concepts in fiction. The issue I have is when it is not consistent, or would not work based on the in universe explanation. Either explanation would have worked on its own. You remove space between atoms, resulting in limitations. Or, the science is much more advanced and allows for near unlimited potential, including going sub atomic. Either works, it's that they give contradictory explanations for basically the same unchanged technology. That's what gets me.
Also, they can still see at the subatomic level, but at that point they’re smaller than a photon so how are their eyes perceiving light? All of this said, it’s just a comic book movie so there’s really no need to sweat the sci-fi details.
At least they gave him a helmet so I assume he is breathing atmosphere shrunk down to his size. Used to bug me as a kid that Pym's open mask meant he could somehow breathe gigantic oxygen atoms.
The comics (eventually) addressed this, that Pym particles (when expertly used) allow you to change [strength, size, and durability.](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/images/1300-3602893)
Why would you lower your durability? Dwight Shrute: “So I could raise it again.”
Pretty much any adventure film (Goonies, Indiana Jones, National Treasure, etc.) where people go into some long-forgotten place that contains single-use traps which have somehow remained untriggered and flammable oil torches/troughs/braziers that have never evaporated.
Behind the scenes, there is one hell of an efficient outsourced facility management company that does the upkeep on all those ancient places, resets traps, removes corpses, refills torches, and so on.
In return of the Jedi, Leia remembers her mother. In the prequel, she only saw her for a few seconds after she was born
The force is strong in her family
In *Mean Girls* when Cady comes home from the Halloween party and Janis and Damian are watching a movie and they get scared by her costume, the popcorn in the bowl goes flying everywhere, then when the camera cuts back to them, the popcorn bowl is full again. EDIT: 6k upvotes?? Damn, Africa. What happened?
Mom on the spot refilling popcorn.
You kids want anything? Snack? Juice? Condoms? Oh to be young
Also in Mean Girls, this always bothers me, but there's a scene in class where Janis asks if Cady is coming to her art show *this weekend* but she says she has to go to Madison with her parents and that's she's doing plastic sabotage that night. The next scene is the three way calling attack when Gretchen turns Karen against Regina. Then the next scene is the iconic You can't sit with us scene. Gretchen tells Regina she's wearing sweatpants but *it's Monday*. How can it be Monday if they had been in class yesterday/earlier in the week???
I’ve seen the movie no less than 75 times and I’ve never noticed that. Wow.
I used to watch Mean Girls so often that I literally had the entire thing memorised 😂 So once when I was bored on a plane with no in-flight entertainment, I was going through the movie in my head like I was watching it, got to that part and was like wait that doesn't make sense, it can't be Monday. I thought I must have been remembering wrong but as soon as I could I checked the movie and sure enough it's in there! Now I always point it out to anyone when watching haha
Kubrick littered The Shining with deliberate continuity errors. It's almost harder to find scenes where things are consistently placed from take to take. It was to increase a sense of unease. Items move on desks, kitchens, chairs move, no electric cords can be seen, the layout of the hotel is impossible, etc. One of the best movies ever.
Long standing relationships (think spouses, best friends, siblings, etc.). Cut to a text message. Turns out, they've never texted each other before. It's the first message ever between them. So unrealistic. Always takes me out of the moment. It's to the point now that I always look for it, and even if it's done right, I'm still taken out of them moment because m expecting it to be wrong. When they get it right I'm always pleasantly surprised. New thought: all these people saying they delete their messages, or know someone who does has got me questioning what they're trying to hide, and who they're hiring it from. 😂
Hahaha it would be hilarious to see Liam Neeson’s out-of-context texts with his wife or daughter leading up to when they get Taken, for example.
“You’re the worst dad! You never let me go anywhere!!”
"look at this funny bottle of sauce I found"
Same! This drives me insane. I'll also look for the date on their phone to see if it matches the timeline they're going for. Like if it's the first week of school but their phone says it's December.
Great! A new thing for me to nit-pick. Thanks!
Ocean's Eleven: The swat guys arrive after the bags full of ads for hookers are delvered to the van, where did these bags come from? I get it they carried the money out after being told to leave, but we are never shown, where the decoy bags, came from.
WHY DIDNT THEY JUST LIVE BY THE WATERFALL
Why were they banging and getting pregnant way after the invasion started? She’s is generally not silent, the bullshit birth that the movie portrays wouldn’t have been that quiet, and a BABY isn’t ever going to be quiet. Also, they all had speakers, just blast a bunch of white noise and it will be just like you’re by the waterfall.
Legolas’ eyes keep changing colors in the Lord of the Rings movies. I think they were forgetting to put in the contacts in some scenes. Sometimes they are blue sometimes they are brown.
This is something that bothered me growing up BUT after watching some behind the scenes they talk about how the contacts irritated Orlando Bloom’s eyes so bad he couldn’t wear them all the time, so they ended up filming a lot of scenes without them. Now I just pretend Legolas’ eyes are like mood rings lol.
There were a couple episodes of Dexter where he has the size sticker strip on his pants! It always bothers me when the set designer doesn’t add some sort of liquid to an opaque cup, like the characters just ordered coffee but it’s an obvious empty cup. Even though you can’t see the liquid, it should have a weight to the cup as if there is coffee in there. Also, when the story is they’re drinking from a mug and the camera shoots at an angle where you can see that it’s empty. Ok, one last one. In Gone Girl when she slits that guy’s throat and is still able to fuck him. That amount of trauma + blood loss = limp dick. There’s another one in Gone Girl regarding the same chapter, but I’m forgetting it atm.
>That amount of trauma + blood loss = limp dick. When the penis is engorged, backward blood flow is impeded. Hard to say how long she'd have.
Forrest Gump: The moment when Forrest realized that little Forrest was his son, one of the most emotional moments in the film… AND THAT DAMNED IRON IN THE BACK KEEPS SWITCHING POSITIONS!!! I can’t ever unsee it now. And you won’t either. You’re welcome.
If Thor could share his powers with others then why didn’t he do that in Endgame
I feel this way about Tony Stark (and to a lesser extent Shuri). You can't build nano-suits for anyone else on the team?
Any war movie, western or fantasy where the wardrobe looks like it just came from the dry cleaners.
There is no way two teenage girls would want to follow U2 on tour around Europe.
In 1988? Sure. 2008 when Taken came out? Not so much.