Um, yeah, I guess you’re right. But you said she didn’t react at ALL, soooo…
Yeah, that was pretty annoying, although not as bad as Jack NOT being able to fit on the raft. I’m SURE if they balanced at each end, it would work. Or the whistle-why wasn’t it covered with blood and skin when she ripped it away?
Re: Relic - I actually got annoyed when they were analysing the DNA of the sample of “Relic stuff” from South America and one of the matches on the computer screens was “Tiger”. I’m willing to give quite a bit of leeway in terms of scientific accuracy for a good SF film, but that’s just sloppy. If they had used “Jaguar” instead, or even just added a 20 second throwaway explanation on how whatever computer prgfram they were using was designed to find the “closest match” from their database, I would have been fine ( and who knows, maybe something like that ended up on the cutting room floor - I did get the feeling in a few places that the either the script of the film itself had been heavily edited ). But that one little omission/oversight annoyed the crap out of me. 'course what annoyed me more, was the same thing that bugged Ben .
Yesterday I was watching Smilla’s Sense of Snow on HBO or Cinemax or something. I really wanted to like it - It starts out okay and Julia Ormond’s acting is good throughout. The character she plays is actually rather interesting and she almost redeems the whole awful mess. But it’s a “stealth bad film”. For the first third or so, it’s sort of decent, despite some problems - Ormond holds your interest enough to overlook some stuff. But then as more and more of the mystery is revealed ( it’s basically a mystery ) you start noticing that the central plot is getting sillier. The final third just becomes increasingly ludicrous, culminating in a jaw-droppingly awful and cliched denouement that seemed lifted from some unholy mating of bad 50’s SF and Noir film. And all the time Ormond is perfectly in character and playing it straight. Perplexing and frustrating.
Two particular bugbears:
Silence of the Lambs: Lecter kills two policemen (dealt with above) and cuts the face off one of them, thereby taking his identity by using it as a mask. If you placed someone else’s facial skin over your own face you would look like a berk with a pound of tripe on your face.
And anyone of a billion (and a British billion at that) movies in which America won the war all on it’s own sigh
pldennison, I’m going to have to disagree with you here on the toilet issue. You can dump a 5gal bucket full of water down the toilet and it will go straight down, no flushing needed. That water will go down much more quickly than you can fill up a bucket with a hose. As fast as you can dump the water in, it will go down. Try it with a bucket at home. If you direct a garden hose directly into the bowl, I doubt very much that it will fill up even the smallest bit.
Remember, the toilet has a HUGE drainpipe, 4 inches I think? That drain is open to the room, and goes straight to the sewer, no valves in the way. The only thing that keeps any water in the bowl is the trap, which won’t stop it from draining in the least.
Actually, I have no problem whatsoever believing that a monkey is more intelligent and talented than Mark Wahlberg… 
“Few men have eveah lived, as he has lived…he is the last…din-oo-saur.” Sung by a female vocalist trying to do a modification of “Live and let die”.
Cheesy as hell, but it was only a made for TV movie. Remember that in 1977 they really had no clue as to what extinguished the dinosaurs (the theory started in the 80’s.) reference ‘Fantasia’ for an example of this lack of knowledge.
I’m going to have to back up Cheesteak on the toilet here.
A toilet’s just a siphon. There is no valve closing the drain - when you push the handle, the water in the cistern is dumped into the bowl, causing the water to overflow the bend in the drain tube and siphon out. You can cause a toilet with a broken handle to flush simply by dumping a few gallons of water into the bowl.
So, unless the toilet was blocked up, it would be physically impossible for the water level in the room to rise more than a few inches at most above the level of the toilet seat. The water would just drain out through the toilet into the sewers.
I didn’t see the movie in question. But if it had a room with a working toilet being gradually filled up with water, it qualifies as a movie which fails the BS test.
On the topic of the OP: Am I the only one here who thought Armageddon was a comedy? I laughed throughout the whole second half.
I think Smilla’s Sense of Snow, should just be avoided at all costs. I’m still waiting for Julia Ormond to show some sort of emotion.
As for BS, why do we blindly accept how the otherwise brilliant bad guys in James Bond films turn into idiots when they want to kill him?
I was laughing so hard at the part where they turn over all the huge TVs at mission control to Bruce Willis saying goodbye to Liv Tyler that I nearly got beat up by someone else in the theatre for ruining the tender moment.
Almost the same thing happened to me and my roommate when we saw The Patriot.
Well, you see, it was all the exhaustion from running through ice cold water with no visible effect finally catching up with them. Yeah, that’s the ticket. As for the whistle, well, it was a wooden whistle, it just happened to look metallic due to the lighting 
(Although I honestly love Titanic, and I don’t think it’s anywhere near the level of most of the movies that have been mentioned…)