# Movie Moments That Made You Roll Your Eyes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523 "2004-05-17T02:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/21 "2004-05-17T20:56:42Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Yes and no. In the book, there’s not a whole lot of warning about what’s happening, but the big-ole army of the dead don’t show up for the final battle. Aragorn takes them, off-page, to attack Sauron’s second army n the south, freeing up lots of Gondorian soldiers to attack the force arrayed about Minas Tirith from behind. This pins the orcs between two armies and the city. You never see the dead in action; its only implied that their rampage was horrifically destructive. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/22 "2004-05-17T21:10:26Z")
> [@Wasabee](#): > > Yeah you’d have something like telekinesis to do that… Oh wait… If he was using telekinesis to fly, _that_ I’d think was okay, but the whole dropping a bazillion stories, landing on a speeding vehicle and then struggling to hang on, was ridiculous. I don’t care if fantasy films break with reality as long as they do so consistently so you can say “Er… yeah, okay, in _that_ universe you can hear explosions in outer space.” Fine. But Brat Boy was never established as “Superman”. No flying, no superhuman strength, no invulnerability. Hanging on to a speeding vehicle with just your fingertips as it careens around the sky? It was stupid. Dropping what must of been at _least_ 40 storeys (if not 80) and belly-flopping onto the hood of a speeding vehicle? Utterly ridiculous. I loved Luke Skywalker as a kid because he seemed to be human, but with extraordinary abilities and a lightsabre (think Aragorn with telekinesis). Anakin was feakin’ Wile E. Coyote with a stupid ponytail-thing! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/23 "2004-05-17T21:13:11Z")
> [@One And Only Wanderers](#): > > 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. This movie marks the only time I’ve ever said anything aloud MSTie-style in a theater. When the Air Force fighters are shooting missiles at the city-ships and they get absorbed by the ship’s deflectors, I said, “Well, _somebody’s_ been watching Star Trek.” It got a big laugh. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/24 "2004-05-17T21:14:49Z")
In _Horsefeathers,_ when the bad guys Mullen and McHardie trap Harpo and Chico in a building so they can’t get to the football game, they take Harpo and Chico’s clothes but conveniently leave two saws the Marxes can use to saw a hole into the floor in order to make their escape. And, amazingly, neither Harpo nor Chico–in their skivvies–is injured from falling eight feet or so to the next floor down. What’s worse still is that they do this _twice._ That’s some apartment building with hand saws on every floor! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/25 "2004-05-17T21:44:42Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > 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. I remember the exact second that I denounced “Hollywood”. It was on a Christmas vacation, when my brother and I went to see “Temple of Doom” during the mine car sequence. Even as a kid, I knew that “they” had no respect for the audience and were going out of “thier” way to insult our intelligence and rob us of our money, laughing all the way to the bank. I didn’t go back to the theater for years. I reluctantly started going to very few movies in the last couple of years, and typically only if I “had to” (wife or mother didn’t want to go alone, they paid, someone else paid). The wife dragged me to “Blair Witch Project” and I swear I will never go to the theater again. I’m still pissed about that. Goddammit! I want my money back! :mad: * * * Overheard in the public restroom: “That’ll leave a skidmark all the way to the treatment plant!” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/26 "2004-05-17T21:59:55Z")
I had the (regretable) remake of “Helter Skelter” on in the background as I was cleaning the house and cooking dinner. I looked up at the screen just as the 3 killers were walking out the gate after the Tate/LaBianca killing. They had blood spots on thier clothes that looked like someone took a sponge and put symetric blotchs on thier thighs, knees and shins. The worst attempt at costuming/makeup whatever I have ever seen! It was laughably bad! I’ve seen higher production values at 4th grade Columbus Day pagents. I turned it off immediatly. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/27 "2004-05-17T22:04:40Z")
Mel Gibson’s movie The Patriot where we’re expected to believe that all the blacks working on the plantation are in fact free men and not slaves. Marc ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/28 "2004-05-18T00:20:59Z")
Highlander 2 Nuff said. :rolleyes: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/29 "2004-05-18T00:26:53Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > 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. HERETIC!!! They were running MAC OS8! Give some goddamn credit where credit is due! Sheesh! (And that goes DOUBLE for the poster who thought the Powerbook was a THINKPAD! My freakin’ God, has Microsoft brainwashing gotten so endemic that it CHANGES MEMORIES TOO?) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/30 "2004-05-18T00:28:42Z")
(Oh, and in case the satirical bent of the previous post wasn’t clear, I’m making it clear now. Though I am a tad annoyed by this **obvious** marginalization of Apple products, my bombast was deliberately exploded, much like the alien mother ship. :D) ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/31 "2004-05-18T00:47:59Z")
Ah, come one people, the **Indiana Jones** series is designed to be about ridiculous, unbelievable Saturday-afternoon-matinee adventure movie stunts. That’s the point! ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/32 "2004-05-18T00:58:47Z")
Never said I didn’t like them. Just rolled my eyes at that point. If I remember correctly Indy is shown clinging to the subs mast as it surfaces at one point. I guess he hung on to the periscope or something. The movie Ronin, while I really enjoyed it, was full of :rolleyes: moments. I somehow doubt that even the best driver can drive that long against traffic without crashing. Anyway the French police never noticed anything in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/33 "2004-05-18T01:04:10Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Mel Gibson’s movie The Patriot where we’re expected to believe that all the blacks working on the plantation are in fact free men and not slaves. I rolled my eyes more during this exchange from The Patriot: Mel: “Mind if I sit here?” Mel’s sister-in-law: “It’s a free country.” * * * I’ll never forget how they figure out where the killer will strike next in _January Man_. In the hopes that you won’t see it, I’ll spoil it for you. A serial killer has been killing people in their apartments in a seemingly random fashion. That is until Kevin Kline, (do I need to say that he is considered a suspect, is suspended from the force, and is trying to clear his name?), figures out that if the windows of the victims’ apartments are viewed from a specific side, they correspond to the notes on a musical scale playing the song “Calendar Girl.” Yep. I leaned my head back so far on that one that I was staring upside down at the guy in the row behind me. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/34 "2004-05-18T01:14:31Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > II’ll never forget how they figure out where the killer will strike next in _January Man_. In the hopes that you won’t see it, I’ll spoil it for you. A serial killer has been killing people in their apartments in a seemingly random fashion. That is until Kevin Kline, (do I need to say that he is considered a suspect, is suspended from the force, and is trying to clear his name?), figures out that if the windows of the victims’ apartments are viewed from a specific side, they correspond to the notes on a musical scale playing the song “Calendar Girl.” Yep. I leaned my head back so far on that one that I was staring upside down at the guy in the row behind me. I think that’s both incredibly unbelievable AND hugely cool at the same time. My synapses are exploding trying to reconcile them. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/35 "2004-05-18T01:26:56Z")
With all the mentions of Wile E Coyote here I’m beginning to wish I had used my usual alter ego name here, but as you can tell by my chosen user name I was hungry when I signed up and I thought it was more feminine. Anyway, as for the Temple of Doom I just refuse to deny it’s existence. For me I tend to have roll my eyes moments at anything veterinary related in the movies since they always seem to get it wrong, to the point of ridiculous. For examples, Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Dolittle, any veterinarian attempting to examine animals the way that vet did would have had his face scratched up and his fingers chewed off. Terminator 3 had flea control products locked up in the controlled drugs cabinet. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/36 "2004-05-18T01:29:14Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. I saw _Temple of Doom_ with some relatives. At the point where Jones is riding a mining car, which jumps a gap in the tracks and then lands precisely on the tracks on the other side, continuing on as if there had been no interruption: My aunt: “I don’t believe it!” My cousin: “That’s the first thing you don’t believe?” You had to be there. Some scenes make me roll my eyes, not because they’re particularly implausible but just because they’re so effing **dumb.** I remember near the end of _Attack of the Clones,_ I was thinking, “Oh, no, not an **arena!** ” ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/37 "2004-05-18T01:34:23Z")
Bad Boys 2. Particularly the high speed chase on the highway where the bad guys were releasing the cars on that roll back. None of the vehicles were in park or had parking brakes on. And one of them fell off the roll back and a little 3/8" proof coil chain was strong enough to hold it back. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/38 "2004-05-18T01:35:16Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I think that’s both incredibly unbelievable AND hugely cool at the same time. My synapses are exploding trying to reconcile them. It’s less cool in execution. No explanation for why they decided on treble clef, how they managed to guess the correct tempo, how they managed to correctly assume where the windows fell onto the scale, how they managed to correctly zero in on a Neil Sedaka song from 1961, etc. Another rolleyes moment was when they revealed the real killer. I was waiting for it to be one of a dozen or so minor characters in the movie, then they brought him out in handcuffs…and it was nobody. I said “who’s that?” Seconds later another character echoed my sentiments, and Kevin Kline answered “It’s nobody.” They may as well have had him say it straight to the camera, follow it with a Nelson “HA-ha!” laugh, then roll the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/39 "2004-05-18T01:36:57Z")
_The Goonies_ has a lot of those moments, but for me the one that takes the cake is when the kids find the bag of dynamite _with a stick clearly labeled “DYNAMITE”_ and think they’re candles. Rumor has it they’re making a sequel, with the _original cast members_. Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523/40 "2004-05-18T01:46:16Z")
I’m a big fan of the old “Hawaii Five-O” series. In the last season, two eps come to mind: In one, McGarrett (now 58-60 years old) and a crook are battling hand-to-hand on the arm of a construction crane several hundred feet in the air. In the series finale, McGarrett is given some fake whiskers to wear so that he can get close to Wo Fat and trap him. Wo Fat has known him for many, many years. Ya think he wouldn’t recognize him??? McGarrett was wearing the fake whiskers because he had an uncanny resemblance to a scientist that Wo Fat was interested in meeting, and the scientist had long whiskers. Also, in the series finale, it ends up with 60-year old Jack Lord and 70-year old Kenneth Dickerson (Wo Fat, who acted under the name Khigh Dhiegh) in hand-to-hand combat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-roll-your-eyes/245523.md?page=3)