# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/81 "2006-03-21T22:53:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > **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. That scene was my WTF moment in that movie too, but only because it had Spidey stopping a speeding train with his body. Ummm…Spiderman is \* strong \* but he’s not invulnerable, nor is he Superman/Hulk strong. I would think that canon would be OK with Spidey lifting a car or a small truck, but a train would pulp him. ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/82 "2006-03-21T22:56:46Z")
It actually occurred to me that I didn’t show an example of a GOOD WTF moment. Blazing Saddles: Lily Von Schtupp whispers in the Sheriff’s ear, Sheriff replies: “Baby PLEASE, I am NOT from Havana!” ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/83 "2006-03-21T22:59:51Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > 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. Well, yes. That’s what I meant. ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/84 "2006-03-21T23:02:18Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > It actually occurred to me that I didn’t show an example of a GOOD WTF moment. > > Blazing Saddles: > Lily Von Schtupp whispers in the Sheriff’s ear, Sheriff replies: > “Baby PLEASE, I am NOT from Havana!” That’s not WTF. That’s comedy! ---
**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, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/85 "2006-03-21T23:07:06Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > 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. I guess it’s not much further out of the range of possibility as Nicolas Cage playing a ‘smart man’. That sure was painful to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/86 "2006-03-21T23:09:11Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > IIRC (which I might not), he could be an Episcopalian/Anglican priest. I believe the Anglican church allows priests to marry (tho’ I could be mistaken). Certianly they can get married, but they don’t as a rule take confessions. (I guess they are allowed to hear confessions, but there is no set religious significance to such an event any more than any other talking to a priest in confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/87 "2006-03-21T23:21:11Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. Still my WTF moment from that film was “Why is John Cleese playing aSheriff in the wild west of America?” and even more so “'And how come he is doing a good job at playing the part?” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/88 "2006-03-21T23:37:48Z")
My favorite WTF moment from Gattaca… When you go into space… you wear a business suit. WTF, indeed. ---
**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 22, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/89 "2006-03-22T01:22:19Z")
My take on the final scene in Gattaca was that things were so refined, corporate, and professional, you even wore suits to space. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/90 "2006-03-22T01:55:52Z")
The first _Mission Impossible_ movie. Let’s break into the CIA! Let’s set off a phony fire alarm! Let’s show up riding a fire engine and dressed as firemen (where the characters get this equipment is a WTF in itself) so we’ll be escorted into the building! Let’s run down a hallway behind an Uzi-toting security guard past dozens of started intelligence analysts! _And despite this unusual spectacle, not one person will notice Emmanuelle Beart ducking into a conveniently unlocked closet!_ I’d suspended my disbelief a _lot_ up to that point. That was the moment the movie completely lost me with no hope of recovery. Elizabeth Rohm’s final _Law & Order_ line stands out as the best TV example in recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/91 "2006-03-22T02:34:21Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > **Spider Man 2** > > … > 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." Well, it depends. Is the train on a treadmill? ---
**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 22, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/92 "2006-03-22T02:34:43Z")
I liked the L&O moment because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a TV character get off the final word (literally), a zinger that makes you wonder if you’ve overlooked something about the character all these years. Having caught the reruns since, I can say… nah. It was nothing but a true WTF moment that the writers brilliantly threw in there. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/93 "2006-03-22T02:59:32Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > The first _Mission Impossible_ movie. Let’s break into the CIA! Let’s set off a phony fire alarm! Let’s show up riding a fire engine and dressed as firemen (where the characters get this equipment is a WTF in itself) so we’ll be escorted into the building! Let’s run down a hallway behind an Uzi-toting security guard past dozens of started intelligence analysts! _And despite this unusual spectacle, not one person will notice Emmanuelle Beart ducking into a conveniently unlocked closet!_ > > I’d suspended my disbelief a _lot_ up to that point. That was the moment the movie completely lost me with no hope of recovery. Not to mention that nobody noticed three of their party went missing between the door and the “fire”. The only reason I’d tolerate it is because the vault scene is the best scene in the movie…which leaves the rest of it being crap(paticulary flying the helicopter inside the chunnel…sure). ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/94 "2006-03-22T03:25:43Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > It actually occurred to me that I didn’t show an example of a GOOD WTF moment. > > Blazing Saddles: > Lily Von Schtupp whispers in the Sheriff’s ear, Sheriff replies: > “Baby PLEASE, I am NOT from Havana!” there’s a cuban man way back in the day. they used to have sex shows. his name was “superman”. you can google it yourself, cause them mods wouldn’t dig that. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/95 "2006-03-22T03:27:47Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > Okay, I’m confused-- I thought the fifth element was supposed to be the Supreme Being, incarnated as Leelieu. ha…bwhahahahahahaha… he SO got you… definitely one of those elaine benes type 'war, what is it good for?" moments. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/96 "2006-03-22T03:48:18Z")
Remake of Planet of the Apes, the end scene was the greates WTF moment I´ve experienced in my life, I could have slapped the screen writer upside the head if he would have been nearby. As for the 5th Element Debate, I assumed that Evil™ was filling the guys` head with it´s bad, Evil™ mojo and they were just exuding it. ---
**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 22, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/97 "2006-03-22T03:48:56Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > there’s a cuban man way back in the day. they used to have sex shows. his name was “superman”. you can google it yourself, cause them mods wouldn’t dig that. Ya, I’d posted about that in the past…but you’ve gotta REMEMBER the line, then think about asking it later. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/98 "2006-03-22T04:03:56Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > _That_ is the worst WTF moment you got from that movie? (That was in response to post #26 on the movie _Signs_) I have to agree with **Priceguy** on this one. I enjoyed the movie right till the end when the “WTF?” moment was so huge it blew the movie right back down the hole for me. [spoiler]Actually there was an earlier WTF moment for me when the aliens were apparently foiled by not knowing how to work a doorknob. They are able to traverse the stars but a doorknob stops them? Talk about WTF! In the end we find the aliens are badly injured by water. WATER! An alien race comes to earth to grab people for who knows what…food I guess…but that race is seriously injured by water. Not that 70% (or more) of the earth is water or that it rains many places (not to mention snow) or that humans are something like 85% water. Even if we buy them coming here anyway despite all of that what about freking spacesuits (or something) to protect them from all the nasty water? Jeez…who needs ray guns when all you have to do is spit on them? [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/99 "2006-03-22T12:13:06Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Still my WTF moment from that film was “Why is John Cleese playing aSheriff in the wild west of America?” and even more so “'And how come he is doing a good job at playing the part?” Sheriff Langston (Cleese): “As you may have guessed, I am not from these parts.” Paden: “You’re kidding.” Langston: “Still, the good people of Turley have taken me in, and for one reason. I maintain the peace.” And I don’t know if you’d call this a WTF? moment, or just an “Oh, _please_!” moment, but I can’t help rolling my eyes at the part where Emmett (Scott Glenn) is in such bad shape after getting stomped by a horse–he can hardly stand–then Mal (Glover) comes and tells him how the bad guys kidnapped his young nephew. Dramatically, Emmett straightens up and yanks off the head bandage and begins arming himself to ride out and rescue the boy. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954/100 "2006-03-22T12:42:47Z")
There’s a classic WTF moment in the Wesley Snipes vampire flick _Blade_. When he first sees the big bad vapmpire (Mothra? Magrathea?) at the end of the film you can see him silently mouth the phrase WTF 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-wtf-moments/348954.md?page=6)