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How about all those “romantic comedies” where the protagonist spends the first 95% of the movie lying their ass off to their supposed true love about some crucial fact. At the climax of the movie the asshole reveals the truth, the supposed true love forgives them, and they Live Happily Ever After.
In real life, if you find out the guy you were dating was really a girl pretending to be a guy, or was just conducting a science experiment that got too personal, or was really a dyslexic albino big-game hunter pretending to be a amidexterous mulatto touch-typist, you’d probably take out a restraining rather than forgive them.
The variation on this is the Terrible Misunderstanding, which could be resolved in 4 seconds if the moronic lovers would only talk to each other like adult humans. “Oh, the corvette? It belongs to my SISTER!” “I had a flat tire, and my cell phone battery died!” “I’m part of a Shakespeare in the Park theater group, we were performing ‘Julius Caesar’. That’s why I was waving a bloody knife and wearing a bedsheet!”
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I think this is the one reason I liked Alfie (haven’t seen the Michael Caine one).
Rosemary’s Baby. And the idea that the coven (and her OB/GYN, who was a member) would let her be walking around NYC four days before her due date was just ridiculous. What if she had gone into labor and delivered in the street or a hospital?
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Rosemary’s Baby. And the idea that the coven (and her OB/GYN, who was a member) would let her be walking around NYC four days before her due date was just ridiculous. What if she had gone into labor and delivered in the street or a hospital?
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In the street? Babies don’t drop out in a couple minutes.
No, I’m sure that Annie is referring to the possibility that, if Rosemary is out and about, had she gone into labor the pressure to get her to a hospital would be pretty overwhelming. Satan’s baby deserves better than that: like every Dark Host he needed to be born in a fancy NY highrise with fawning, high-dollar admirers surrounding him.
Yes, and I did know a woman who woke up in labor, started down the stairs, and dropped the child right there. Even if there is a one in a million chance of that happening, when someone is carrying Satan’s child they would not risk it. IRL, the doctor would have put Rosemary on bed rest for the last month, don’t you think?
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The second was The Shape of Things starring Rachel Weisz, who also starred in the London stage version. Perhaps as a play, it may have worked. But I can’t believe Ms Weisz’ acting was any better on stage. And again, part of the premise depends on the main characters behaving the way they did, i.e., stupid and unrealistic.
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I agree with you on Event Horizon, but I thought (and still think) that The Shape of Things has a cool premise and believable characters.
Paul Rudd’s character was never assertive. He had always been pushed around by his Dick of a friend, and now it was just someone else taking that place. He gets all kinds of positive reinforcement for the changes he makes, both from Rachel Weisz and from his friend’s fiancee. And, until way too late, he sees the conflict between Rachel and Dick as one of two strongly willed people, rather than as a direct power struggle over him.
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“Well, if we’re being attacked by a tree reanimated by someone out for revenge, why don’t we just douse it with alcohol and set fire to it?”
“Because it’s fireproof wood”
“Well, how about a bunch of us hold it down and we chop it into little bits?”
“You fool! Didn’t you see Mickey Mouse in The Sorceror’s Apprentice?”
“Do we know every splinter would regenerate?”
“No, but why take the chance?”
“Well, how about if we weight it down and throw it in the ocean?”
“It’s get free.”
“We can tie up its arm and legs and hoist it up. Or seal it up in concrete. Or put termites on it. Or…”
“You fool! The director wouldn’t allow it!”
No, I don’t think a brief conversation is gonna make up for the fundamental stupidity of this one.
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The Tabunga Tree Demon from the movie “From Hell it Came” use to scare us kids. Our older siblings would chase us around the house, threatening to either pinch or tickle us to death.
