# Another "pick apart a movie" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352 "2012-03-31T03:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/41 "2012-04-10T20:51:19Z")
Clearly I watch too many movies. Biloxi Blues - remember the big weekend, when the one soldier got 62 dollars stolen from his open footlocker? Well, the sgt. Took it, because the guy left his foot locker unlocked. When they came back from the big weekend, Jerome finds his notebook missing. Turns out, the guy that left his footlocker unlocked (and who’s bed and foot locker are right next to Jeromes) notices that Jerome left HIS foot lover unlocked. Same weekend, same everything. I guess the sarge didn.t notice the guy 's foot locker next to the one he found unlocked was unlocked too. And apparently had been for some time, as jerome admitted to leaving it unlocked because he lost the key down the shower drain :dubious:. This stuff drives me batty. For anyone still reading this thread, I usually don’t notice most of these things in the first viewing. So if I like a movie and watch it again, that’s when I start noticing things and picking it apart. And once that starts, there seems to be no end to the mistakes made. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/42 "2012-04-10T21:19:02Z")
Just saw **Hitman** last night, and oh dear is it full of stupidity. First of all, they all belong to a secret organization that exists outside any country that trains secret assassins. All of these secret assassins have shaved heads, and have identical UPC tattoos on the backs of their heads. But the most ridiculous scene in the movie involves the hero getting attacked by three assassins. One guy shows up, so he points his guns at him. Another guy shows up, so he points a gun at each of them. A third guy shows up… …and all four of them form a circle and point their guns at each other, Mexican Standoff style. **Why are the three assassins now pointing their guns at one another, rather than all pointing their guns at the man they were sent to kill?** Then they all put their guns down and pull out swords and…you know what? Just don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/43 "2012-04-10T22:31:40Z")
Once again, Rise of the Planet of the Apes > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by spooje View Post > Since it is out on Pay-Per View and DVD, I will forgo the spoilers. > > Ahem… > > Have the producers, director, writers ever heard of science??? It goes into sci-fi stereotype BS right away. > > Science guy’s father has terrible disease. Science guy works tirelessly to cure that disease. > > Science guy gets remarkable results with ONE test subject and declares victory and wants to start with human trials. > > That ONE test subject freaks out and based on that ONE example, the higher ups shelve the project. > > Nobody watched that ONE test subject closely enough to notice that is was pregnant, and had in fact just given birth to live young. I guess checking the subject’s vital signs regulary during a drug trial was too much trouble. > > Science guy gives experimental drug to father, who has remarkable results. He tells no one for 5 years, untl after ‘cure’ has started to fail. This causes him panic, as if alzheimer’s sufferers and their families wouldn’t give every dime they could beg, borrow or inheret for 5 more good years. > > Later, they have another remarkable advance with ONE subject and want to make this the focus of all their efforts. ONE GODDAAMNED SUBJECT. > > Ceasar is wearing pants throughout most of the film. Even after he in custody and placed in an animal shelter with other chimps. He is still wearing pants. > OK, I can go along with him being ‘house-broken’, but he is an animal in a single pair of pants for months on end in a room with no ‘toilet’ long after an intelligent creature would have realized that wearing pants was not nessasary. > > Why did science guy not get concerned that chimp handler is sneezing blood after being exposed to experimental drug??? ---
**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/44 "2012-04-10T23:09:37Z")
I freely admit I may be missing something about **John Carter** , and please understand that I have never read the books, but here’s one thing that made no sense to me. Warning: spoilers aplenty. 1. John Carter accidentally projects a copy of himself to Mars, leaving his originally body prone and helpless back on Earth. 2. John Carter starts to disrupt the well-laid plans of the Bald Teleporting Guys, who eventually try to kill him when his meddling gets too serious. 3. The Bald Teleporting Guys can seemingly teleport from Earth to Mars and back again at will; they have extremely advanced tech courtesy of the Mysterious Blue Energy. So why on Earth (or Mars), during all the time John Carter was gallivanting around fighting arena battles and starting uprisings and impressing the ladies, did the Bald Teleporting Guys not simply teleport to the cave where John Carter’s helpless body lay, and drop a heavy rock on his head? ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/45 "2012-04-11T00:29:47Z")
My favorite continuity error is from “Pretty Woman”. Julia Roberts has just woken up from spending the night in Richard Gere’s penthouse hotel room. She’s wandering around a table eating breakfast, which in one moment is a croissont and the next minute is a pancake. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/46 "2012-04-11T00:54:30Z")
Mine is the Darkest Hour, which I recently watched. [spoiler]1.) The five main characters are locked in storage room for 5 days. This room has no bathroom in it. At the end of the 5 days, the 3 guys are still clean shaven, the womens hair is still perfectly styled, and none of the clothes aired stained, wrinkled, dusty, or any other such thing. 1. Same room. There’s a dead body wrapped up in plain sight. No one comments on it at all. Sure, you just saw a bunch of people vaporized, but I would think people would still be a bit creeped out over a dead body. 2. The aliens vaporize people. Think vampire deaths in Buffy. All the clothes are destroyed in the process, except for 1 shoe. Always one shoe goes flying away, while everything else is vaporized. 3. Electrical devices become active and overpowered by the mere presence of these aliens. So much so that an electric bus can reach full speed just by one being on it. Yet at a critical moment, the batteries in the only weapon that can hurt the aliens goes dead, and won’t power up. 4. The aliens traveled from god knows where to steal copper and other conductive metals. Of all the planets, asteroids, moons, and stars out there without life, Earth is the only planet they can choose this for? 5. The main characters are from America, stuck in Russia, yet every survivor they run into can speak fluent english, with only a slight accent. [/spoiler] I’m sure there’s more, but I eventually stopped paying the movie any attention. ---
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352/47 "2012-04-11T12:06:03Z")
> [@Parthol](#): > > I freely admit I may be missing something about **John Carter** , and please understand that I have never read the books, but here’s one thing that made no sense to me. Warning: spoilers aplenty. > > 1. John Carter accidentally projects a copy of himself to Mars, leaving his originally body prone and helpless back on Earth. > > 2. John Carter starts to disrupt the well-laid plans of the Bald Teleporting Guys, who eventually try to kill him when his meddling gets too serious. > > 3. The Bald Teleporting Guys can seemingly teleport from Earth to Mars and back again at will; they have extremely advanced tech courtesy of the Mysterious Blue Energy. > > So why on Earth (or Mars), during all the time John Carter was gallivanting around fighting arena battles and starting uprisings and impressing the ladies, did the Bald Teleporting Guys not simply teleport to the cave where John Carter’s helpless body lay, and drop a heavy rock on his head? I haven’t seen the movie so this probably isn’t the case, but in the books John only “teleports” when he dies. He dies in the cave at the beginning and winds up on mars, then dies on mars trying to save it and goes back to earth. There he wonders what came of mars and interacts with the narrator. Finally after dying of natural causes on earth he ends up back on mars for the sequels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-pick-apart-a-movie-thread/617352.md?page=2)