I realize that there were non medical considertions.
But in The Fifth Element, I have to ask,
Thermal bandages?
What?
Nice outfit, though.
Tris
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, 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, it’s blood willingly given…but I’d prefer the Pirates of the Carribean need for blood.
Waste not…
As for gattaca…
Been a while since I saw it, but didn’t he just reach out and flip it on?
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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 . . .
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.
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?”
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.
A lot of The Fifth Element is wtf, but so gorgeous and fun that I don’t care. Totally green.
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.
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.
Well that settles it. Now I’m going to have to go watch it.
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. Not out of the realm of possibilites at least.
That’s my recollection as well.
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?
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 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
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."
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.