That whole movie was a metaphor. It was not meant to be taken literally.
It was about a guy and his troubled relationship with god.
How about True Lies - when Arnie breaks in to the house to get access to the files on the computer - shows the Windows Logo and starts with the Mac sound - after all this time it still gets me :mad:
Well, one spy here, a lone assassin there; it starts to add up, right?
With Hollow Man, I pretty much knew what I was dealing with when Elizabeth Shue got woken up in the middle of the night, and her hair was perfect.
Flatliners: There was a scene when all the medical students were having a discussion, and one of them was videotaping the rest. When each one spoke, the camera went to that person’s face. But the camera went to their face before they began speaking. I guess that the camera operator had a copy of the script!
Apparently not. They also can’t open doors.
My usual pet peeve is in it too. When your kid has asthma that bad, you give him preventative medicine so that he doesn’t have attacks. And you could at least learn how to operate the damn inhaler. Big Bang Theory is the only thing ever to get this right. There’s even a movie (which name I’ve forgotten) where some guy uses it underwater as a respirator. They’re not waterproof.
HAH! Forget waterproof they aren’t filled with oxygen, they are filled with propellent and meds.
I believe that was a Simpsons episode, actually. Bart uses Milhouse’s inhaler to explore the sunken school bus.
If they were going to worry about that they might as well not make the movie. You just have to relax and go with it when you are watching a movie. Any correct science in a movie is an accident.
Was that the one that was in some kind of post-apocalyptic pseudo-early-medieval setting? If so, then some electricity is at least, well, remotely justifiable.
In Jaws 3 one scene involves our two heroes searching the lagoon for a body in an open submersible. They decide to leave the sub and look in a ship to see if the body wound up inside. To do this they use what appear to be two spare air cylinders combined into one unit. To those of you not familiar a spare air cylinder is a small approximately 3 cubic foot tank used for redundancy. The problem here is the amount of air, 6 cubic feet of air would last someone with a reasonably low breathing rate about 12 minutes on the surface. I don’t remember if they ever say the depth of the lagoon in the film but I wager it’s at least 60 feet deep.
Assuming 66 ft. for simplicity those canisters would be worth about 4.5 minutes of air, slightly longer for the girl. That is of course assuming that they remain calm, which would not be the case when a gigantic killer shark was trying to eat you, so you can bet they’re breathing a touch heavy. If they thought they might leave the sub why not just bring a couple of tanks with them? The spares would be for an emergency, and even then they would probably not be sufficient if such an emergency were to occur.
Then again SCUBA is rarely portrayed with any degree of accuracy in film.
Someone should make a movie about that.
Anyone with asthma should be pretty offended by The Goonies. During the whole movie, Mikey is using an inhaler. At the end, when he finally “mans up”, he decides he doesn’t need it anymore.
Asthma is for wussies, apparently.
There is a similar plot(overcoming asthma with badassery) in King’s IT, although I think there whether the kid actually had asthma or not was in doubt(there was a scene that suggested it was a placebo because of his overbearing hypochondriac mother).
It is still ridiculous though, I have asthma and I constantly get people thinking its because I am over emotional or something. :rolleyes: Like most asthma patients emotions have nothing to do with it, it is triggered by allergies.
Kickboxer which I happened to catch on Encore this weekend. I know, I know nitpicking a movie like Kickboxer is like shooting fish in a barrel. But one thing I found myself wondering about is why do the two brothers have completely different accents.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, the movie revolves around two brothers, one of which is paralyzed in a kickboxing match. Jean Claude Van Damme plays the other brother, who is seeking revenge on the fighter responsible for the paralyzing.
Anyway, the one brother has a straight-up American accent, while the brother played by JCVD has, of course, a Belgian accent. So was he adopted, or did he just grew up in a different part of the world from his brother?
Pssst Ahhhnold’s whole career has been one unlikely accent after another.
I have never seen this movie because I cannot stand Van Damme but the answer seems simple to me though admittedly it has two parts. The essential reason is that the director and or screenwriter wanted a way to distinguish between the brothers. The reason in terms of the story is that one of the brothers moved to America and decided that he wanted to lose his Belgian accent and so went to a vocal coach. This is not uncommon especially for people who take jobs in television and whatnot. The brother with the thicker accent didn’t want to change his voice for whatever reason which is reasonable because even identical twins develop different attitudes over time especially because they often want to differentiate themselves from one another.
Very minor but …
Flatliners: Julia Roberts wearing a bra while getting shocked. Not because I want to see her boobs (in fact they wouldn’t have to show them) but after The Abyss and AED training where this exact issue came up, it takes me right out of the movie.
Final Destination: So apparently John Denver is the only singer to die in a plane crash? What about Jim Croche’s “Time in a Bottle” or Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day”
You could also have Patsy Cline, JP Richardson, Ritchie Valens, Otis Redding, Ricky Nelson, Ronnie van Zant and Stevie Ray Vaughn songs in the movie.
Much like the made-for-TV Jesus. Jesus was American, Mary was British, and Joseph was Greek. And I’m sorry, I just don’t see Jacqueline Bisset as a virgin.
Skeleton key?
A “Best Picture” Oscar winner falls into this mistake. Our habit of using electricity, apparently, is hard break for film makers.
In Gone With The Wind, Melanie picks up a lamp with an apparent electric cord attached when the carry Ashley into a room. Probably just easier to find that prop by stealing it from someone’s desk on the set.
More HM. I like Elizabeth Shue, in fact I find her rather attractive. However, whoever came up with that hair cut/dress combo for their night of celebration should be shot and dragged out of Hollywood. If you ever see it again, it is in the beginning of the movie, and she is leaving the eating area of the restaurant to get some air with Bacon. Her butt looks massive in the vertically-lined dress. Beyond massive. And that short hair cut didn’t work on her head at all.
My first “accent film” was “The Parent Trap”, with Haley Mills. One girl is supposed to live in California, the other in Boston, and they both speak with an Australian accent.
Apocalypto - I like this movie somewhat, and yet there are so many things wrong with it.
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the most glaring issue is the day/night/day non-stop chase scene which covers most of the second half of the movie. Jaguar Paw literally runs full speed the entire time… with an arrow wound in his side, no less.
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He is initially chased by 7 warriors into the jungle.. and his only rest is when he climbs into a tree with a black jaguar and her cub. He happens to land in between them, but you see the men chasing him pass under him. They realize he’s in the trees and head back to look for him when he is seen sprinting through the jungle with the jaguar hot on his tail. Right when the jaguar leaps to kill him, one of the warriors gets in the way and Jaguar Paw escapes. Still running full bore. And apparently, he decides that hiding in a tree, or making a sharp right or left and running in that direction for a while is just stupid. He apparently makes a straight line sprint through the jungle, presumably to get back to his part of the jungle.
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the chasing and hunting of Jaguar Paw continues through the night, as the warriors carry torches. JP apparently doesn’t need one, as he’s out in front, running blind in the jungle.
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when he finally goes over the waterfall and comes up on the bank, he dares the others to follow him. This is because he is in his forest now, and he knows it like the back of his hand. He’s surprised that they indeed follow him. He then inexplicably runs straight into an open oil pool. The others that follow him somehow don’t fall into the oil pool, but are still on the path of JP when JP comes out of nowhere holding a large hornets nest in a big leaf, covered with oil. Do they through any weapons at him? Of course not. They let JP throw the hive, which explodes and causes the warriors to flee in all directions to escape the stinging insects.
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I thought that this would have given JP the time he needed to get away, but it doesn’t. He decides instead to kill as many as he can, and shoots a slow runner in the neck with poison darts. He was able to run in a large circle and conceal himself to get into the perfect position to shoot the darts. The warriors never picked up his trail that he had turned and ended up behind them.
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JP goes on the offensive, killing the two largest antagonists in the movie, but not before taking another hit with a spear, this time in the shoulder. He also gets hit in the skull with a club, causing skull bleeding and head trauma.
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Finally, the last two warriors chase him to the ocean, where they fail to kill him because the Spanish happen to be landing at that exact moment.
If I were one of those last two warriors, I’d have bopped him upside the head with a club. I chased him for 2 days without sleep, food or water. And now, as the spanish approach, they walk right past JP.
AUGH!