Really?
Not one post about looking in the rear-view mirror and immediately concluding (with incidental music) that the car behind is following you?
In “The Last Seduction”, in the most implausible of actually a number of implausible moments in it - Bill Pullman looks at a hallway poster of an NYC map and has an epiphany as to what his ex changed her name to.
I used to make fun of Veronica Mars in that her dad’s office looked like they couldn’t pay their electric bills.
Speaking of hospitals…House had full fledge doctors digging through litter boxes and apprently their hospital had a staff of six.
I believe that to be an example of the author or director not wanting to use time up that could be used for extra scenes. I recall a 1-Adam 12 episode in which the driver kept glancing at the rear view mirror during a conversation, and eventually declaring they were being followed.
When a guy and a girl are running from the bad guys and they are holding hands. If one falls they drag the other one down.
Sneaking up on someone with a flashlight or leaving the lights on in a car. The same with hiding in the woods with a fire going and everything else mentioned here.
In fairness, I don’t think Signs was invasion. It was a raid. They came down, swooped a lot of folks (for snacks, maybe?) then left. They knew not be near water. The family just had to deal with one that got left behind.
Not implausible. He remembered her ability to write backwards. If memory serves, he saw the poster in the mirror and made a connection.
My bad, the prison is in Michigan City, but the trials and appeals and other procedures are usually held in Indianapolis. I remember the fuss the last time there was an appeals hearing. Anyway, Michigan City is still like a 2 1/2 hr. round trip. And the rest of my criticisms still stand. The last execution in Indiana was in 2009, and before that in 2007. The Good Wife premiered in 2009, and didn’t do its first death penalty episode for a couple of years.
I live in Indiana, and even though its a DP state, it’s not Texas. It has had 20 executions since 1977. That’s on average, one every other year. I’m very much against the DP, but if every state used it as sparsely as Indiana, I might be willing to come to the table and talk.
Whenever there is a group of people ( good guys or bad guys ) there has to be one white guy, one black guy, one older guy and a woman who can kick all their asses and dresses in black leather and high heels, oh yeah, and a bunch of guys to kill off.
We won’t even mention how great a driver the hero is.
One more, the car that won’t start when it’s needed the most.
Yeah I know he remembered her backwards writing abilities, but there’s still a gazillion words that can be written backwards, yet he just so happened to land on the correct one? What if it had been a poster map of LA instead?
The most utterly ridiculous crap-shoot of a guess on his part, without question.
Nothing like a little bit of poetic license to make crap-shoot guesses pay off, I guess.
The maximum overdrive or the secret gear.
Protagonist driving a car is being chased. The bad guy’s car/motorcycle/helicopter is gaining…gaining… Hero is sweating bullets. Bad guy closes the gap…
NOW shift into another gear and off you go! (Or, push the accelerator further down to the floor–same difference). Amazing how that secret gear appears just in the nick of time. Else, why would you have not used that gear (or floored it) for the first 5 minutes of the chase and lost the baddie once and for all?
In fairness to The Road Warrior…he has to conserve fuel.