X-Men 2: The Mastermind stand-in tries to influence Magneto but Mags just gives him a withering look and taps his helmet.
But I’m pretty sure we never had it explained to us that Magneto’s helmet protects him from psionic attack. Maybe in the first movie?
Star Trek (2009): Vast portions of the plot just get explained in some 25 seconds by Spock and really require knowledge of outside source material. Also its more or less up to the audience to decide that either Nero spent most of 20 years in a Klingon prison camp or he just hung out is space waiting on Old Spock.
Also either the Narada is so advanced because of co-opted Borg tech (I hated that idea) or thats just how much better TNG tech is*
*Though TOS shield tech sure seemed to have it over TNG
Pretty much, yeah. Xavier explains that he uses Cerebro to amplify his telepathy to locate mutants, and of course gets asked: “Why don’t you just use it to find Magneto?” He replies: “l’ve been trying, but he’s found some way to shield himself from it.” Later, after Magneto disarms a bunch of cops and gets away with a bunch of crimes, Xavier realizes: “His helmet was somehow designed to block my telepathy.”
So in X2, Magneto just quickly notes before the helmet tap: “This dorky-looking helmet is the only thing that’s gonna protect me from the real bad guys.”
I love that at the end of Avengers:Endust, they send Cap back to “return the stones to the moment they were taken”.
Ye gods, that’d be another three hours of screen time, multiple dramatic “heist” moments, and a lot of fanwanking (how do you put one back in Loki’s sceptre, or the destroyed tessaract, and into Jane Foster)?
And they just do it all off-camera, no explanations, and it only takes the viewer thirty seconds to learn “Yep, all done, along with forty years of other stuff.” “Ok, cool.”
Alot of stupid people had a problem in Wonder Womanwhere you find out the the big bad was actually the British politician who most wanted peace negotiations with the Germans earlier in the film, reviewers I saw actually called the film out for literally “demonizing” the guy who wanted peace. But the thing thats fairly obvious considering the climax is that when peace DOES happen his plan is to surprise attack the peace ceremony thus causing such an uproar to continue the war so he could profit from it. He simply wanted peace because ironically at that point it would be the only real way to continue the war.
There was a segment of Fargo that always puzzled me. What was up with the old high school boyfriend calling up Marge and asking her out, and then she finds out he was lying about his life and job?
Then I read the reason for that scene: it was so that Marge could come to the conclusion that some people can lie really, really well. After she realized that, it was “maybe I should go back and ask that car salesman some more questions.”
This wasn’t spelled out, but it makes perfect sense after it was explained.
Cap had to return the stones to the exact moment they were taken… but they never said exact place, did they? I mean, couldn’t he just have time traveled to Hoboken or someplace and FedExed the stones to S.H.I.E.L.D?
Now, what I would REALLY want to see is how Dr. Strange managed to wrangle all those heroes, wizards, troops and spaceships in the half hour or so between the moment he was snapped back into existence until they appeared on the battlefield. It was a truly mind-boggling feat of logistics - like organizing D-Day on your lunch break.
In Deluge (1933) the world undergoes a series of disasters, with no overt explanation given. Mentioned in passing is an unexpected eclipse of the moon, and it’s up to you to figure out that the disaster is being caused by an asteroid passing way too close to the earth.
Dune the movie never explained that the reason you can ride a worm is that you open up its scales so therefore it won’t burrow down because the sand would irritate the exposed tissue. Not explained but maybe you could guess it from context.
Similarly to putting the stones back, in Captain America: Winter Soldier, where Sam is telling Steve and Natasha how the Falcon suit is kept in a Class 5 secure military facility, or whatever it was, and Steve and Natasha just look at each other and say “Yeah, no problem”, and then they don’t even bother showing how they carried out such a routine and boring operation.
One that I’m fond of is the Battle of Wits in The Princess Bride. Vizzini’s “logic” was never the point. The point was just watching the Man in Black’s reactions when he got to each conclusion. And if you watch closely, the Man in Black does in fact react more anxiously whenever he says that the poison is his cup, and calmly when he says that it’s in Vizzini’s. So from there, Vizzini just had to figure out if he was bluffing (or rather, whether he was even-order bluffing or odd-order bluffing), and Vizzini is really good at that.
In What Dreams May Come, there is a flashback to a scene where Robin Williams’ character visited his wife in a mental hospital. They have a long, heart-to-heart conversation, but they never discuss what brought her to the hospital. However, if you are paying attention, you will notice that there is a scar on her wrist. And it runs lengthwise.
Also, most of the folks that Strange mobilized were the Wakandans, who were already mobilized for war at the time they got Snapped. Assuming that the Unsnap brought them back in the same condition as when they were vanished, all they needed was a quick re-cap of the changes in the tactical situation.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
Shaun of the Dead never explains the zombie plague, because the main characters are completely disinterested in learning about it.
Falcon being Captain America with the same skillset makes not much sense, considering he’s just a normal but fit dude with a wingsuit. Ultimately I don’t think it really matters to the plot or your enjoyment, so like Black Widow and Hawkeye he’s able to fight with the rest of them.
Wait a minute. Xena can’t fly.
I told you. I’m not Xena. I’m Lucy Lawless.
What about Valkyrie and the Asgardians? The Ravagers (I assume the spaceships were Ravagers)? The Wasp? Pepper? And Strange organized the whole thing while still on Titan - he had to contact all the wizards, explain the situation to them, assign their tasks, have them contact the people they were mobilizing, explain the situation to them, wait for them to line up before the portal… Organizing that many people that fast may sound easy, but it really isn’t. There’s a reason professionals study logistics.
I’m not saying it counln’t be done, I’m just saying it was perhaps the most impressive feat performed that day.
Ah, but it was multiple portals. All he’d have to do is send a message: “Hi, Dr. Strange here. I’m opening a portal next to you, prepare to fight the hordes of Thanos.”
Multiple portals, each opened by a different wizard, each of whom had to receive orders from Strange or some *other *wizard, who in turn had to receive orders from Strange…
“Who the fuck are you and why should I believe you?”
