# Movie WTF moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954 "2006-03-19T02:04:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/61 "2006-03-21T06:27:43Z")
I realize that there were non medical considertions. But in **The Fifth Element** , I have to ask, Thermal bandages? What? Nice outfit, though. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/62 "2006-03-21T06:49:40Z")
Okay, I heard about this before seeing the movie, yeah, **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire**. Still, fascinating to see (but ‘fascinating’ is not the right word): Wormtail has just cut off… his own freaking hand! Never mind his motivations for doing so - no, not all that well portrayed - but that’s got to hurt! Don’t you think? But apparently, in the world of magic, major bodily trauma is just part of the gig, nothing to get fussed about. A little later, the missing hand is replaced with a magical stainless steel hand, latest model, and Wormtail is notably happy about that. Well, good, at least that turned out well. Still, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/63 "2006-03-21T08:58:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The problem with that is: > > [spoiler]What sort of incinerator has a delayed timer on it, one that is set so that the door isn’t automatically locked from the outside as to prevent somebody from accidentally open it? I can hear the design techs at ACME Incinerator right now: > > “Ya think we oughtta put a lock on the door so that it can’t be open when the timer is set?” > “Of course not. Can you conceivably come up with a scenario where somebody would open up an incinerator door after setting a timer?” > “Suicide?” > “Not bloody likely - they’d be totally daft! They’d kill themselves!” > > Sorry, but when I see that the incinerator scene it just screams UNSAFE DESIGN - DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE KIDS OR SUICIDAL HANDICAPPED GUYS. [/spoiler] Well, the guy was supposed to be some sort of genius, I’m sure he could have figured out how to override the fail-safes on the incinerator (Hell, he could just come up with some kind of device that hits the incinerator button after he’s shut himself inside if all else fails). ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/64 "2006-03-21T12:37:36Z")
> [@Civil Guy](#): > > Okay, I heard about this before seeing the movie, yeah, **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire**. Still, fascinating to see (but ‘fascinating’ is not the right word): Wormtail has just cut off… his own freaking hand! Never mind his motivations for doing so - no, not all that well portrayed - but that’s got to hurt! Don’t you think? But apparently, in the world of magic, major bodily trauma is just part of the gig, nothing to get fussed about. > > A little later, the missing hand is replaced with a magical stainless steel hand, latest model, and Wormtail is notably happy about that. Well, good, at least that turned out well. > > Still, WTF? Well, it’s blood willingly given…but I’d prefer the Pirates of the Carribean need for blood. Waste not… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/65 "2006-03-21T12:58:11Z")
As for gattaca… Been a while since I saw it, but didn’t he just reach out and flip it on? ---
**Author:** ![Stentor\_2.5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stentor\_2.5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor_2.5)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/66 "2006-03-21T13:51:53Z")
XXX He picks up a gun like he’s been handling it for years and everyone is amazed. He explains that he once spent six weeks doing nothing but playing first-person shooters. Apparently the light-gun for his playstation has actual kick, runs out of ammunition and needs to be reloaded like a normal gun, if the video game characters shoot him he actually bleeds and is appropriately afraid while playing his videogame . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/67 "2006-03-21T14:31:30Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > (Incidentally, one of my favorite movie quotes is also from _Silverado_: Danny Glover stops some men from killing Scott Glenn–he gets their attention by firing his rifle into the air and then saying, “Now I don’t wanna kill you, and you don’t wanna be dead!”) One of mine, too… Carter: Why we runnin’? He ain’t hit nothing. Sheriff: Carter, don’t be more of an idiot than you have to. He’s hit everything he’s aimed at. Today, my jurisdiction ends here. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/68 "2006-03-21T16:00:24Z")
> [@Stentor 2.5](#): > > XXX > > He picks up a gun like he’s been handling it for years and everyone is amazed. He explains that he once spent six weeks doing nothing but playing first-person shooters. Apparently the light-gun for his playstation has actual kick, runs out of ammunition and needs to be reloaded like a normal gun, if the video game characters shoot him he actually bleeds and is appropriately afraid while playing his videogame . . . This reminds me of _The Daily Show_ Matt (?) Corddry went on one fo the hunting tours that Cheney went on. He asks his guide, “so if I want unlimited ammo, I just press up, down, up, down, right, right, C, right, left, A?” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/69 "2006-03-21T16:15:20Z")
Gattaca - years since I saw it, and I didn’t particularly like it, but I got the impression that Jude Law sat under the rocket when it blasted off. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/70 "2006-03-21T17:27:23Z")
> [@Triskadecamus](#): > > I realize that there were non medical considertions. > > But in **The Fifth Element** , I have to ask, > > Thermal bandages? > > What? > > Nice outfit, though. > > Tris A lot of **The Fifth Element** is wtf, but so gorgeous and fun that I don’t care. Totally green. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/71 "2006-03-21T17:33:58Z")
Almost always, when movie characters travel by air, they are WAY better dressed than anyone really does anymore for getting on a plane, or for most anything else from what I’ve seen. This really jumped out at me while watching _Red Eye_ the other day. The protagonist is wearing a dressy skirt, heels, and sweater, and the villian, seated next to her is (IIRC) stylishly attired in expensive looking slacks and a blazer, although, at least, no tie. What brought it to my attention was the chase scene through the airport, where she’s running down the concourse in her high heels, trying to get away. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/72 "2006-03-21T17:57:25Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Here’s a WTF movie moment for you - Julia Roberts pretending to be Julia Roberts in Oceans Twelve. Talk about breaking the fourth wall. That’s a big one. I don’t know if the writers thought that was so dumb it was clever (and were wrong) or if they completely ran out of ideas or what. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/73 "2006-03-21T18:16:02Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Well, the guy was supposed to be some sort of genius, I’m sure he could have figured out how to override the fail-safes on the incinerator (Hell, he could just come up with some kind of device that hits the incinerator button after he’s shut himself inside if all else fails). Well that settles it. Now I’m going to have to go watch it. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/74 "2006-03-21T18:22:19Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Meet the Parents > > There is this big scene where the guy’s efforts to board the plane are repeatedly blocked by an airline employee, despite the fact that no one is in line. > > Then, once he is finally on the plane and finds his spot, he finds it difficult to place his baggage due to the fact that there are plenty of passengers blocking the aisle! 😕 Or am I misremembering this? It’s such a huge plot hole I’m sure people must have thought of it beforehand. It’s also central to the humor in the first part of the situation. It’s indeed funny if your efforts to board a plane are thwarted due to overly-enforced airline policy: however, not so funny if the plane was actually congested to begin with! Maybe it was a stop over and he was the only one (if I recall correclty it was kind of late at night) who was boarding at LaGuardia for a flgiht to O-Hare. [I think Delta runs from Logan to JFK to Cincinatti to O’Hare.](http://www.delta.com/booking/retrieveFlights.do?dispatchMethod=retrieveFlights&hiddenFieldsId=YT-HbUSyuuYIUfm&checksum=483922740&tSession=YT-HbUSyuuYIUfm&UIStatus=P) Not out of the realm of possibilites at least. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/75 "2006-03-21T18:37:53Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > As for gattaca… > > Been a while since I saw it, but didn’t he just reach out and flip it on? That’s my recollection as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/76 "2006-03-21T21:35:53Z")
Re: Gattaca I was under the impression that the incinerator automatically fires up after the door is closed after each use. So he somehow overrode whatever safety device that prevented it from doing so with a person in there, pulled the door shut, and the thing started itself up. In National Treasure (yes the entire movie is a big WTF, but anyway) they are trying to see the message written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence. The first thing they try is lemon juice! How the hell is that supposed to work? Then, when they decide to use heat to see the writing (which should have been the obvious first choice), they are scared to put it up to a flame…the whole time I was like “use the damn lightbulb right next to your head!” so instead they breathe on it…breathe on it? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/77 "2006-03-21T21:44:33Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > In National Treasure (yes the entire movie is a big WTF, but anyway) they are trying to see the message written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence. The first thing they try is lemon juice! How the hell is that supposed to work? It’s worse than that. Lemon juice IS invisible ink. So they were trying to view invisible ink by _pouring more ink over it_, essentially. Derf. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/78 "2006-03-21T21:50:40Z")
I believe the OP is looking for more than continuity errors, even glaring ones. Things that don’t make sense, even in context and don’t seem to bear on anything else, like the entirety of _I (heart) Huckabees_ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/79 "2006-03-21T21:55:08Z")
**Spider Man 2** The train fight. Doc Ock(?) takes Spidey, throws him _forward_ (so that Doc Ock is rapidly receding behind Spidey)… Spidey twists his body through the bridge, his momentum propelling him to… tackle Doc Ock, who is now in front of him. My wife and I gave a party a couple of weeks ago - “Favorite movie scenes”. Somebody chose that scene (yeah, it was definitely one of the weaker selections) and that was the first time I noticed it. I had a great big WTF moment, one so compelling I actually rewound the scene so I could make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Sounds like a physics quiz by a really dumb teacher: "You’re on a speeding train. You throw Spider Man forward with such force that he leaves you at the rate of 25/mph, relative to you, _in the same direction_ as the trains momentum. Mathematically, explain the physics that has Spider Man _catching up_ with you fifty feet later." ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/80 "2006-03-21T22:34:15Z")
Dunno if this is a WTF ot a plot hole (or maybe that is a difference without a distinction). In **Batman Begins** There is a microwave-y device that is supposed to evaporate all the water. Yet miraculously it leaves people unscathed, despite the fact that people are 70% or so made up of water. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954.md?page=5)