You can tell your intelligence has been insulted when you reflexively say “Yeah, right!” in a sarcastic tone out loud in the theater.
This happened to me during Mission: Impossible when the spy guys fake a fire alarm at CIA headquarters, then show up dressed as firemen in order to gain access to the building. Now, you’d think a group of firemen running down a crowded office hallway led by a uniformed guard toting an UZI would get everyone’s attention, wouldn’t you? I mean, that’s not the kind of thing you see every day, unless you work at a really flammable security-concious abortion clinic or something. Anyhoo, Emmanuelle Béart casually slips away from the group of pseudo-firemen and ducks into a conveniently unlocked utility room and no-one notices! The bullshit factor on this movie is high to begin with; this particular moment was a eye-roller all by itself.
) The lack of any indication (other than Jack lamely saying “Shit, that’s cold” once,) of how cold the water would be bugging me for a long time- They’d been exposed to (and submerged in) freezing water repeatedly, for at least an hour-- when they weren’t actually in the water, they were mostly in the night air off the coast of Newfoundland, in April, in wet clothes. If you’ve ever been in glacial water, you know how painful it is-- yet Jack doesn’t seem to suffer from the icepick-in-the-forehead effect while trying to retrieve the key and unlock the gate-- most of which takes place in total submersion. But in the two or three minutes between the sinking of the ship and the discovery of the bit of flotsam to cling to, out comes the blue makeup to indicate hypothermia. No sign of exposure, exhaustion, or shock before then- Jack was strong as an ox,l the ship went down, dodging bullets, strong enough to lift Rose straight up onto the guardrail after pulling himself up there. They both would have gone into hypothermic shock and have curled up and died long before. They certainly wouldn’t have had anything resembling the manual dexterity required to perform any of the heroic acts of the last half hour – vasospasms, intended to preserve body-core temperature, would have made their extremities quite remote to them by then.