# Movie WTF?! Moment. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459 "2008-02-21T00:01:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/81 "2008-02-22T17:05:47Z")
Watching Sweet Home Alabama for the umpteenth time (I know, that was my first mistake): She was supposed to have blown up the cat when she was ten. She married Jake at 18 and has maybe made her career by the time she’s 27 or 28. What kind of cat (that had cancer to start with) lives to be 18? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/82 "2008-02-22T20:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] “Chain Reaction” with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz. And they were transported from the Field Museum to the Museum of Science and Industry, which is even farther than from the Art Institute to the Field. I think that in the film, both museums were used as stand-ins for a single fictional museum in the DC area, but it’s still pretty funny when you know what’s “really” happening. [/QUOTE] Jeez, no wonder I had blocked out the movie… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/83 "2008-02-22T20:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=RogueRacer] You do realize that Nick Cage and Kevin Costner aren’t the same person, right? [/QUOTE] Yes, but not enough to get it right the first time. By the way, the best one works [now.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo) ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/84 "2008-02-23T23:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=Darwin’s Finch] _T. rex_ cannot fly [/QUOTE] Wait, where did **this** criticism come from? I don’t recall a flying Tyrannosaur in Jurassic Park. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/85 "2008-02-24T02:58:51Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I can suspend disbelief far enough to accept invisible men and vampires, just .. **not**.. far enough to accept a world where Carnival (Mardi Gras) is celebrated in July and the canals of Venice are broad and deep enough for a submarine the size of an aircraft carrier to cruise submerged and invisible. [/QUOTE] Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/86 "2008-02-24T03:30:02Z")
Might I suggest **Murder at 1600?** W. Snipes and D. Lane were pretty good - I mean that, it wasn’t meant to be anything but a popcorn movie & I think it should be judged on that standard – but the key to the plot resolution is based on the secret knowledge of an unguarded/easy to open access tunnel across the street that leads into the heart of the White House “_Gramps will create a diversion while we jump over the White House fence & we’ll fight our way in_” would be a more believable plot device - WTF? I would expect professional writers to come up with something better than that. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/87 "2008-02-24T03:36:50Z")
Spoilers for Bee Movie [spoiler]It’s kind of funny, too…I can accept that bees have this whole society not too far unlike ours, complete with bee versions of everything… …but not that the worker bees are male.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/88 "2008-02-24T04:15:22Z")
I’m still not sure whether this is a continuity error or part of the story, but in [Lucia, Lucia](http://www.amazon.com/Lucia-Cecilia-Roth/dp/B0000TPAH4), Lucia’s hair changes color (dull reddish to a really nice red) and grows about six inches from one scene to another. Lucia **did** change from almost-dowdy to sexpot during the movie, so maybe it was intentional with the hair. Great movie, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/89 "2008-02-24T08:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] What kind of cat (that had cancer to start with) lives to be 18? [/QUOTE] Lots of cats live to be that old. Dunno about if they’ve had cancer though. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/90 "2008-02-24T10:46:55Z")
Well, I’m not sure why I did it, but I watched Prince of Thieves again. I won’t have to do it again for the rest of my life now. I took my new knowledge of the history of manholes and spyglasses into this second viewing, and even though I’ve been corrected, I still have to point out that that manhole is ridiculous. It’s a modern lid and ring that opens up into…SAND. It’s just bizarre. What’s even worse is that as they’re emerging from it, RH’s hip bumps it and it moves like it’s made of…I dunno. Papier mache? I have to say, though, that the scene where RH first looks through the spyglass, he clearly doesn’t understand what’s going on and freaks out. He draws his sword as if what he is seeing in the distance is right in front of him. It’s _hilarious_ to me. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/91 "2008-02-24T14:50:36Z")
The same thing happened in\* Dances with Wolves\*…when Dunbar lets the Indians look at the buffalo through the binoculars. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/92 "2008-02-24T14:55:10Z")
I could buy the intergalactic space travel of _Event Horizon_, but I could not buy that 1) someone in the future would deliver a crucial warning in Latin for no apparent reason 2) someone else would comprehend it ---
**Author:** ![JohnnieEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@JohnnieEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnieEnigma)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/93 "2008-02-24T15:46:06Z")
I saw Chinatown recently… like 10 times. It’s one of those movies that I watch whenever it’s on tv and I happen to be watching. “She’s my daughter. She’s my sister. She’s my daughter. She’s my sister and my daughter”. wtf. That was good! ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/94 "2008-02-24T18:44:01Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] Wait, where did **this** criticism come from? I don’t recall a flying Tyrannosaur in Jurassic Park. [/QUOTE] This was a joking reference to the aforementioned magically-appearing cliff. If the cliff were there all along, then the tyrannosaur must have flown up there in order to break through the fence at that point. Either way, one is left with either magic cliffs or magic dinosaurs, neither of which are very satisfying explanations for such a huge continuity gaff. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/95 "2008-02-24T20:49:26Z")
One of the **Lord of the Rings** movies. Legolas \*surfs \* over the attacking army of Orcs and other baddies on his shield. It was the Jar-Jar Binks moment for that franchise. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/96 "2008-02-25T02:38:44Z")
**Ivylass** writes: > [@](#): > > The same thing happened in Dances with Wolves…when Dunbar lets the Indians look at the buffalo through the binoculars. I already mentioned this in post #28. And it was a telescope. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/97 "2008-02-25T02:43:24Z")
_West Side Story_. The hero is running through the streets of east side New York, yelling “Maria! Maria!”… … and only one woman sticks her head out of her window. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/98 "2008-02-25T04:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha] Not only movie WTF moments, not only WTF moments with Kevin Costner, but also one of the funniest clips on all the YouTube: [The Wicker Man.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_w83-HyTz8&feature=related) (Actually, the one called “The Best Scenes from the Wicker Man” is the best video, but it won’t load) [/QUOTE] So, were there naked people dancing in this version of Wicker Man? 'Cause I can’t picture it making any sense without a lot of dancing naked people. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/99 "2008-02-25T15:40:56Z")
[QUOTE=Genghis Bob] One of the **Lord of the Rings** movies. Legolas \*surfs \* over the attacking army of Orcs and other baddies on his shield. It was the Jar-Jar Binks moment for that franchise. [/QUOTE] For a Tolkien lore-geek, I’m pretty forgiving of most of the LOTR movie stuff, but that particular stunt made me sad. First I did this: :rolleyes: . Then I did this: ☹ I eventually got over it, but it wasn’t easy. RR ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459/100 "2008-02-28T10:41:38Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Well I recently watched Cloverfield, and well, not too much of a spoiler but just in case… the people who made the film didn’t seem to be familar with the geography of NYC. I honestly thought there were at least 3 giant monsters due to the fact that it seemed to to be hitting downtown westside, Columbus Circle and the LES at the same time. [/QUOTE] This is probably a case of the director letting the international audience know that they really,really are in N.Y.C. In any internationally released film where a car chase takes place in London it seems always to go past Tower Bridge,St Pauls Cathedral,Nelsons Square,Big Ben and Buckingham Palace though there seems to be no logical explanation as to why the participants take such a roaming roundabout route. I expect any day now to see Stonghenge included in such a chase as it is only a hundred or so miles from central London.l [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moment/438459.md?page=6)