I believe in suspending disbelief, but some movies have moments that you have to :rolleyes: . This doesn’t always mean that a movie is bad, but if you have too many of these I have trouble suspending my disbelief. The one I can think of right off is in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones hitches the ride on the submarine. Of course, the whole movie is an exercise in suspending disbelief, but that one scene made me laugh. What are some of your :rolleyes: moments?
Independence Day: pretty much the whole movie (I liked it anyway)
To tell the truth, I can believe Jones being able to ride the sub without its submerging (running on batteries is slower and more of a pain in the neck than running on the surface on diesel), although I think he’s a dope for chancin t.
I roll my eyes when he jumps out of the plane at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, armed only with a liferaft. This broke his fall - hw, exactly? Then they cruised down a snow-covered slope and off the edge of a cliff, landing in a river and through some rapids. At the end of all this, they’re miraculously unharmed.
I’m sorry, but there should be multiple broken limbs and maybe a few spines. I know that Lucas and Spielberg want to get you into the spirit o the thing (they reportedly wanted to open Raiders with this stunt), but it seems to me that when you jettison reality so completely at the start, it’s awfully hard for the audience to revive their willing suspension of disbelief before the picture ends.
In the Thomas Crowne Affair, about halfway through the movie, the detective inexplicably starts drinking a pepsi on screen and then proceeds to hold the can up to the camera in an amazingly obvious gesture. The entire scene just shocked me out of the movie watching mood for the sheer crassness of it.
The Sixth Sense. Pretty much all of it.
When Lara Croft punched the shark in Tomb Raider 2. I mean come on.
Most of the Jedi “stunts” in that stupid Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones. Mostly the early bit in which they are zooming around in flying cars and Anakin jumps out, drops about 40 stories to grab onto the badguy’s car, which is moving at a gazllion miles an hour.
Okay, Jedi’s can do cool things, sure. I remember Luke doing fancy leaps and flips in the earlier (better) movies. But IIRC, Jedis are not indestructable. Anakin dropping multiples stories onto the hood of a fast moving vehicle should’ve just splattered the brat!
lowblow, I haven’t seen Tomb Radier 2 but on several nature shows I’ve seen, they recommend bopping a shark on the nose if they get a bit aggressive. One show (where the shark took a chomp at the diver’s chain mail) they explained that if you display aggression toards them, they tend to get a little freaked out and the back right off. The footage of the diver punching the shark (though the water esistance made it a wussy punch) was considered a Big Deal. If they charged the shaks the sharks would retreat.
I see what you are saying but that what was fake she was there wasn’t any water resistence I mean she whopped this shark hard. But yea if a shark was going after me I would try to poke its eyes out or something.
Oh, so she belted it with a would-be knockout punch. Yeah, okay that would be sorta dumb.
The one that got me was in the second Indiana Jones movie. OK, I swallowed the poison/antidote bit and the liferaft jump, but when the traincar flow off the one track and landed on the other track precisely enough to continue rolling, my willing suspension of disbelief died a horrible death.
Seconded. Whilst I did enjoy the movie, when they interfaced with the alien mothership via a standard Thinkpad, my eyes were rolling so hard I thought I’d lose them.
Anakin Skywalker, the luckiest star pilot in history, blowing up the Trade Federation ship, pretty much on accident. Yippeee!!! :rolleyes:
Oddly enough, while others have rolled their eyes at much of Independence Day, I did not: it was a lot more believable than most save-the-world-with-a-deus-ex-machina plots. However, I do remember one scene where someone finishes a Coke and dumps it into a recycling bin…containing ONLY COKES.
(There are two things wrong with that, the second is that being a scientific lab, shouldnt it be full of Mountain Dew? :))
Yeah you’d have something like telekinesis to do that… Oh wait…
But then again, wouldn’t it also be a bit strange for mine cart tracks to be built like a roller coaster?
Near the end of LotR: The Return of the King when Barad Dur falls and the Eye of Sauron darts frantically about like Wile E. Coyote tipping off the side of a cliff…
Wrecked the whole dramatic mood, that did. My daughter and I (and half the audience in the theatre) were laughing like hell.
The whole Army of the Dead thing in the Return of the King made me roll my eyes. Our band of heroes is up against, it looks like they are outnumbered, outgunned (so to speak) and have no chance. But wait! didn’t you know about the handy supernatural Army of the Dead. If we can just convince them to join us we will easily defeat the evil hordes.
How convenient!
The book may have set it up better, but the movie produced the Army out of thin air, practically.
In Duck Soup, Harpo is dressed like Groucho and runs into a mirror, smashing it to bits. That this mirror is a partition between two rooms is strange enough, but what gets me is that Harpo doesn’t take the time to pick up shards of glass on the floor (and remember, he and Groucho are barefoot) nor does he remove the shards still sticking into the mirror frame. Within the story line I can understand 1) The point where Groucho and Harpo walk around each other and 2) That Harpo drops his Panama hat and Groucho hands it to him. Of course, the point at the end where the disguised Chico stumbles into the picture is too much even for Firefly and Harpo.
In The Caine Mutiny, at the end, Barney’s speech leaves us confused: Was Maryk justified in relieving Queeg from duty, or wasn’t he?
As for Independence Day, all I can say is, good thing the aliens happened to be running Windows 95 so we could just link right up to their computer.:rolleyes: It would have been slightly more believable if the mother ship just had a big red button on the outside with a sign saying, “Press button to disable forcefield”.
Batteries! :smack: