Movie WTF moments

I’m all for stories that are bigger than the narrative can convey, things that happen that aren’t described to you in nauseating detail…gives the story depth.

But sometimes, I just gotta wonder. Case in point:

Fifth Element: Why does talking to ultimate evil cause chocolate syrup to drip down your forehead?

What are your examples of Cinema oddities?

(p.s. The ‘medical’ explination of the Force being caused by midichlorians doesn’t count. That’s just stupid.)

I always assumed that was supposed to be blood; just really really thick, chocolaty blood.

Or did you think that too and I’m just missing the point of this thread?

From a noogie of ultimate eeeevil? I dunno. Perhaps they didn’t rinse out all of the ‘Just for Men’?

Midichlorians do not cause the Force, they affect your sensitivity to the Force. It explains why the Force is strong in the Skywalker family: i.e. it is genetic.

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You mis-spelled “moronic.”

It’s a “WTF” moment in a god way.

The opening of “Punch Drunk Love” when the SUV crashes.

And the fact that Adam Sandler’s character finds a harmonium.

I have often wondered if that was a sly reference to Music for a Found Harmonium. ?

My favorite fan band-aid over this gaping wound in storytelling is that midichlorians are a side-effect of force sensitivity, not the cause. That is, midichlorians are attracted to and flourish in a latent force adept, and such a person can be identified by their midichlorian count, but the person was attuned to the force first.

Yeah, that’s the interpretation I subscribe to. Since the relationship was described as symbiotic, I’m assuming the Force-sensitive guy gets some benefit out of it (Resistance to some diseases? Better able to hold his liquor? Maybe just getting recruited by the Jedi is considered to be the benefit, who knows.) Is there a name for when an organism lives in/on another organism and benefits, but the host suffers no benefit or harm from it?

On a side note, I nominate “Fand-aid” as the word for stuff fans make up to fix apparant flaws in movies/books/whatever :smiley:

As for 5th Element, I would like to suggest that chocolate syrup drips down his head because chocolate is sinfully delicious.

I had just assumed he wasn’t actually human, and it was sweat.

My WTF moment from LOTR: The Two Towers - how on earth did it take days or longer to walk to the Entmoot, but when Fangorn sees the destruction of the trees around Isengard, he just yells and all the Ents come out of nowhere? Why didn’t Peter Jackson just follow the books and make the Ents decide to go to war at the Entmoot so it would make sense?

My WTF? moment comes from the wretched The Exorcism of Emily Rose:

“She looks at exorcism from a scientific perspective and doesn’t try and debunk it.” Say what? :rolleyes: :dubious:

That’s not an exact quote, but close enough.

One of my all time favorites (not!) is in Magnum Force, where the bad-guy cop is shooting a .357 Magnum with a silencer.

A silencer? Om a revolver? On a piece that firest a faster-than-sound bullet?

And it just goes “phut?”

BTW, I’m not trying to start a debate, and I don’t have a cit, but I have heard about some military special-ops types using silencers on their high-powered rifles. Would the sonic “boom”/whipcrask be silenced? No. But the purpose for these was to disguise where the shot was coming from, not to hide its existence.

The Russian Nagant M1895 7.62x38R revolver can be silenced (and was!), because it uses a gas-seal system when firing- the cylinder moves forward into contact with the barrel, eliminating the gas escape that usually renders the silencing of revolvers a moot point at best.

The NKVD used Nagant M1895s equipped with Bramit Device Silencers during and after WWII, and the CIA Museum in Langley has one on display…

THANK YOU!!!

I read about there beine ONE revolver that, I think, forced the cylinder against the barrel or somethng and thus did achieve a tight cylinder-barrel seal, but I never found a reference to it.\This was back in 1967 or 1968 and I had pretty much given up on it as probably a legend.

Now lookee here, sports fans. I post something related here, and in less time than one would believe, I have an answer!

I actually thought of posting this question months ago, but figured it was too arcane.

So my thanks, Martini Enfield.

Oh, yeah, as long as I’m slobbering praise, let me add that I did not know that these revolvers had ever been used with silences, and did not know that the NKVD used them with such. My knowledge base has been expanded in this area, as well.

Good job!

There was also a specially built 44 caliber silenced revolver with the supressor built into it that was used in West Germany IIRC.

The entire movie Battlefield Earth is one WTF moment after another.

OK, this is a mild one, but I always think :confused: :confused: :confused: when I’m watching Silverado and the scene where Paden (Kevin Kline) shoots the horse thief dead occurs. They ask him to prove the horse was his (Paden’s) and he says that his name is scratched on the underside of the saddle. They ask him what his name is and Cobb (Brian Dennehy) appears and answers for him: “Paden. P-A-D-E-N.” Paden: “Hello, Cobb.” Cobb: “Hello, Paden.” Sergeant: “You know this man, Cobb?”

WTF? Did the old guy think it was all just lucky guessing? ESP at work? I love that movie, corny as it is, but that one bit of dialogue just boggles me with it’s stupidity.

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The one that suddenly popped into my head after I read this thread was something from *North and South * the mini-series adaption of the John Jakes books.

In one scene a woman looks longingly at a photo of her lover: an 8" X 10" black-and-white glossy headshot.