any scene where Batman is falling an incredible distance, but is saved by the bat-rope at the last second and his spine doesn’t snap like a twig.
About twenty years ago, I watched my sister run at full speed through the french doors without opening them first. Came out of it with nothing more than a stunned expression.
More terrifyingly, a certain nameless, clumsy fellow I know once fell through a glass shower-door nekkid – also without any injury.
Okay, it was me.
There are a few theories on this.
Theory #1:
Joe shoots Orange, White shoots Joe and then pivots to shoot Eddie, who shoots White.
Theory #2:
Orange shoots Nice Guy Eddie. Yes, he emptied his clip on Blonde earlier - but he still has the smaller gun in his shoe, remember? Not sure how Orange could have shot Eddie after being shot once by Joe himself though.
Or you could go with…
Pink shot Eddie. Doubtful, as he was (a) struggling to retain “professionalism” throughout the whole ordeal and (b) cowering under the ramp at an awkward angle from Eddie.
But the most common theory is:
Eddie’s squib wasn’t supposed to go off then, but it did, and QT liked the shot enough to keep it in the final cut and retain an air of mystery about the whole situation.
QT has actually confirmed the above, I believe, but don’t have a cite handy.
Double Jeopardy (not the legal term… we wont get into that for the 6 millionth time) but the fact that whilst inclose in a coffin Ashley Judd fires a gun (without a hollywood silence mind you) right next to her head… but i suppose she does turn her head and squint…
I’m embarassed to admit how much I am enjoying this website 
I remember watching a TV movie starting John Ritter. When one guy realized who the killer was, he goes on a hunting trip with the guy, and tells him that he knows said guy is the kill WHILE HE IS ALONE IN THE FOREST WITH HIM AND THE GUY IS HOLDING A RIFLE!
Not the brightest coin in the pile, right?
Every movie has, to someone, a bit of dramatic license that that someone knows from personal experience to be untrue/impossible. I came upon this, as yet unrefined, axiom watching a Friends episode a couple of days ago where a character is trying but comically failing to move a Ms PAC aracade game. I know from personal experience that with two fingers pressed at the top of the game that that machine will fly across a room because of the two wheels in the bottom back.
And Cliffhanger, I also know what happens when you are suddenly engulfed in frezzing water. You gasp with all your might!
SadTomato writes:
> . . . went through an airlock without a space helmet . . .
This is possible. It would take about a minute of exposure to vacuum to kill someone. Clarke and Kubrick researched this and made sure that a person could endure a few seconds of exposure to vacuum before shooting that scene. The only unrealistic thing is that the astronaut holds his breath, which would not be a good idea.
Don’t confuse logic with sheer stupidity.
I thought this was proof of the advanced technology of the aliens: a computer that was able to interpret any program fed to it. Take that for intercompatibility! Unfortunately, the designer forgot to check for malignant programs (actually a bit like MS when adding VB-features to Office and Outlook), giving further proof of the advancedness of their civilization, where no evil-intending (to their own society, that is) individuals existed.
Just kidding, of course.
…speaking of going through space without a helmet.
In 2001, astronaut Dave Bowman is exposed to outer space for at least ten seconds with no ill effects.
But in De Palma’s Mission to Mars, exposure to outer space proves to be immediately lethal, with one of the characters “crystallizing” before our eyes.
Both scenes can’t be right. Right?
Pretty much the entire recent motion picture National Security, starring Martin Lawrence, defies logic and the laws of physics.
The movie starts with a beat cop who’s partner gets killed during a hold-up at a warehouse. After the funeral, the police then immediately put the cop back on the street without a partner. The film goes straight down from there, however, it does feature a scene with alovely actress named Mari Morrow wearing not much clothing, so the film’s not all bad.
It’s annoying in Minority Report how Tom Cruise can still scan his cut out eyes to get back into the SUPER RESTRICTED core of the futury Fed building. They SO would have annulled his eyescan by then or SOMETHING.
I hate it in movies where someone underwater can either find their way or see details of objects ‘without a diving mask or goggles’. Have you ever opened your eyes underwater? Just a big blur, kinda hard to read numbers on a safe.
Mission to Mars is wrong. See the goofs section in the IMDb:
Clarke actually researched the subject and wrote a story on it long before he met Kubrick. The science is right, at least.
While I have my problems with 2001, I would not say it defies logic (other then the end, where logic isn’t the point).
SadTomato, you should also check out the Bad Astronomer’s webpage with his reviews of movies and whether or not they get the science right. He rips Mission to Mars as well as several other movies.
Roger Ebert just addressed this in his Movie Answer Man column. Kubrick was away that day (didn’t say way) and that slipped by him.
OTOH, wouldn’t you want to let a fugitive into a secure building so you’d know where he was and could lock him in?
In the animated movie Titan AE, one character warns another to open your mouth when they’re about to have a brief exposure to vacuum. Actually, except for the ending, that movie was better science fiction than a lot of mega-budget pictures are.
In the movie Copycat, the two cops played by Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney have a discussion about whether, if you have to shoot a perp, to try and wound him or go for the kill. Holly Hunter favors trying for a survivable shot, and sure enough, exactly that situation comes up. (I really get tired of clumsy foreshadowing.)
Anyway, the situation is that, right in the middle of the squad room, a crazy perp has a neck-lock on Mulroney, and has gotten Mulroney’s gun and is holding it on him. Hunter has her gun on the perp, and has the option of a) not shooting, b) shooting to kill or c) shooting to disable. She goes for c), and successfully puts the perp down on the ground with a bullet to the shoulder.
Then… with the perp on the ground, but still conscious and in possession of a gun, Hunter and Mulroney stand there and share an emotional eye-lock. (It was evident earlier that they had feelings for each other.) They don’t immediately get the weapon away from the guy and make sure he’s under control. The perp takes advantage of this to shoot Mulroney dead.