Every single action taken by Marky Mark in Planet of the Apes.
Every single directorial decision made by Tim Burton in Planet of the Apes.
Every single step on the road that led to the decision to remake the movie Planet of the Apes.
[sub](Sorry, I just rented it last night, and it was way, way, way worse than I had ever imagined)[/sub]
I wasn’t sure whether “Planet of the Apes” could be considered “serious”, but if SEGAL is, it is too.
The big battle sequence… the rocket engine blows, we see a view (apparently from hundreds of yards away) of apes being flung through the air… the human stand there watching until the apes get up and SHAKE IT OFF, THEN the humans attack. And, WTF about the talking humans? How did the apes figure the humans were just animals? AND when they were “sneaking” out of the ape city, and running through bedrooms?
I KNEW it was going to be a bad movie, I just couldn’t imagine how bad.
Goldeneye isn’t a serious film, but the use of the Aerocibo radio telescope as a transmitter (it is a receiver) has been driving me nuts for years.
This probably isn’t the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in a supposedly serious movie. But it really rubbed me the wrong way.
In <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> an abbreviated squad of infantry under the command of a Captain (no less) goes into enemy held ground walking down a road in plain sight, bunched up, and arguing among themselves over the wisdom of their assignment.
Obviously, the sattelite was in a neighboring galaxy, so they had to use the Arecibo telescope.
And it was dirty, which is why they filled it with water.
And cryogenic fluids have no mass, so you can be hit by a wave of it and still hold your posture.
And a beam of presumably laser light can be seen through plain air.
And a watch can hold a power source for a high wattage laser.
I think I’m going to have to agree that it wasn’t a serious film…
And cramming a solid object in a gear in any movie will always result in a fireball, because engineers never design things with failsafes. Just like there must have been a special group of people on the Enterprise who did nothing but refill magnesium charges in the consoles.
Ok, this thread could go for ever…
Hey, here’s one, in an actual serious movie. When the guy breaks open the sewage pipe in The Shawshank Redemption, the sewage makes like a geyser, but then he climbs in the pipe and it’s only a couple inches deep. Plus, sewage isn’t nearly that bad, unless the prison was sending grey water somewhere else for some reason.
Ben