Carry on, there was even a special sword holder by the seat. I’d have to check again, but I thought there were sword holders by every seat that you got to see in the airplane. I thought it was quite a good joke that the Japanese airline would provide special places so that the Yakuza and Samurai could keep their swords with them at all times.
I think it was a charter flight, so there would be no problem with the sword.
I saw NightWatch recently – the entirety of that film’s “resolution” was a WTF moment for me.
THat’s an homage to the end of the book.
Except in the book, there was context in which it made sense, unlike the movie.
My WTF moment comes from Pirates of the Caribbean. I loved the movie. It didn’t detract from my enjoyment but, then again, I didn’t realize it until long after I had seen the movie.
[spoiler]In the scene towards the end of the movie where the pirates have walked under water to try and take over the British Man-o-War. There’s a huge swordfight all over the ship. The pirates, as skeletons, are fighting the British troops. At this point, the pirates are still ‘undead’ and might be hurt but can’t be killed.
When people swordfight, the clang and clash of blades is to prevent your opponents blade from striking you. Why didn’t any of the pirates just let themselves be ‘stabbed’? It might hurt but it won’t kill. While your opponents blade is in you, kill him and go on to the next.
When the curse is lifted and the pirates realize then can be hurt or killed, they stop fighting and surrender. The penalty for piracy is hanging. Now that the curse is lifted, surrendering is certain death. If they keep fighting they just might have a slim chance.[/spoiler]
Can anyone offer an explanation for that?
Am I being seriously wooshed here? Did we watch the same movie? The fifth element was love. Leeluu or whatever the hell her name was, was on the pedestal. The stones had been activated. But, nothing happened until what’s his same told her he loved her and needed her.
Or am I just being particularly dense?
As for the chocolate, I have always assumed that it was either blood or sweat. I was under the impression that he wasn’t human. Why should his blood/sweat look like ours?
Well…
[SPOILER]It’s possible that much of it was just reflex; they had always had to defend themselves in a sword fight, so they probably just continued to do so becaues it was easier than it would be to retrain themselves not to defend themselves. Plus, if it hurts to get a sword stuck in them, they probably try to avoid it when they can. That’s the only thing I can think of.
Dunno about the surrendering thing, they were probably just thinking in terms of short-term “Let’s do what I have to do to not die in the next 30 seconds”[/SPOILER]
I always thought they surrendered because they wanted to die.
Not only that, but other passengers were also traveling with swords. I like the idea of it - a mirror-universe samurai-oriented airline, where passengers have the right to behead surly flight attendants, and ailrine reps commit sepukko over delays.
Certainly, but I’m not going to bother putting it in spoilers. Wait, this is the first chance I’ve had to use the spoiler tag!
Even though the pirates were undead many of them probably retain the habits they had while they were living. They had not been dead for very long so the reflex to dodge or deflect a blow that would be fatal is still ingrained. Also, pirates weren’t really all that brave and would surrender even knowing that the penalty for piracy was death. If they were facing certain death by continuing to fight they might get luck and receive a pardon or a suspended sentence of something. Israel Hands, Blackbeard’s quartermaster, was tried along with the rest of the crew after Teach’s death and the crew’s surrender. Most of the rest of the crew were hanged but Israel and one another was pardoned.
Marc
The fifth element is, quite literally, the Quintessence: if you posit, as the Ionian Greeks did, that everything is composed of four elements - Earth, Air, Fire and Water - then the mystical fifth element - the quintessential one - must be what animates the more prosaic quartet. Well, it was a start.
Ah, Blade! I had a WTF moment while watching this movie. However, it is not in the spirit of the OP, as this was obviously not intended to be left on the film. So this is more of a blooper:
It’s been many years since I saw it last, but I remember a scene in Blade where it shows a shot of the buildings of the city, as time passes quickly from day to night (what’s that called? Stop motion?) Anyway, something appears on one of the buildings for a second, causing me to pause and rewind, muttering “WTF?”
It’s a fly! GODZILLA FLY! :eek:
There was a couple of WTFs moment that have been burnt into my brain cells. The most memorable got to be Obi-wan shouting “Don’t do this Anakin. I have the higher ground” (or something along that line), incidentally getting a +2 bonus to his To-Hit roll and…well, you know the rest.
Then there’s Doom. It was okay for most of the show, a rather chessy and choppy monster flick, until…
Reaper woke up and everything became a pesudo-first-person-shooter. The show’s entire horror and suspense motiff broke and became nothing but pure cheese.
At the end of Space Odyssey: 2010, the obelisks planted in the Solar System by ETs cause the gas-giant planet Jupiter to ignite a fusion reaction and become a second sun. On Earth, there is no more night – one sun or the other is always in the sky. This is supposed to be a good thing, a gift to humanity. WTF?! It’s just going to screw up our ecosystem! What about all the organisms adapted for nocturnal living?! And if the second sun is bright enough to increase Earth’s average temperature – I mean, we don’t have enough warming problems just from CO2?!
A slight WTF, Lowell Freeman in Silent Running…
Realises only after quite some time that the plants and trees he is tending are dying from a lack of sunlight. I mean, isn’t knowledge of photosynthesis a bit of a no brainer for a gardner? Especially one looking after the last trees ever?
Still, easily forgiven as its a rather touching film.
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BrainGlutton IIRC That was not done for Terran benefit. The monolith building aliens had detected the beginnings of life on Europa. They crunched some numbers and did an environmental impact study. They decided to make Jupiter into a sun so that the organisms on Europa would survive and eventually evolve into a sentient species. They explicitly tell humans not to disturb the Europan lifeforms “All these worlds are yours, except Europa.”
But, wouldn’t such an abrupt change be even worse for the existing lifeforms on Europa, adapted for a cold environment? The moon might be completely lifeless within a week!
Considering that these are the same monolith builders who guided ramapithecus (or was it an austalopithecus? maybe a hominid?) to become homo sapien, I think they knew what they were doing.
I’m sure that some explanation was given. I just can’t remember it as I haven’t seen the movie in many years.
Well, you knew this would happen…
My wife drinks iced tea. A LOT of iced tea. We have an iced tea brewer. And so we always have at least 3 lemons on hand at my house.