Granted, they’re hardly worth the digital bits they’re stored on, but I thought the same thing about the ‘tripleguns’ in Pirates of the Carribean: Way to ruin a ride.
It’s always a little jarring in a movie when some supernatural disaster befalls modern civilization, and so the dramatic tension isn’t undercut, the characters can’t ironically recognize that they are part of a movie plot that’s become real to them. Like, in the modern world, if zombies attacked, people would be frightened, but it wouldn’t be that much of a shock because of the familiarity our culture has with them from zombie movies.
I’d like to see more movies with typical disasters like zombies, alien invasion, monsters trashing cities, and so on, but take place in a past time when people weren’t desensitized to such events. A War of the Worlds movie taking place in 19th century London…or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
It’s not very clear in that scene if Jean or Magneto is stopping the bullet, but Magneto can stop bullets if he wants to. He’s a master of magnetism and metal. A metal doesn’t have to be ferrous for him to control it. He can make aluminum do loop-de-loops in the air if he wants to.
Which reminds me - I hate, hate, HATE plot-induced romances. Prince Caspian suffered from this, but the one I’m thinking of is MacGyver, mostly because the episodes take place over such a short time (usually a few hours) and he still manages to rig up crazy devices, foil the bad guys, AND seduce the woman-of-the-week. Pretty much every time, I’m just thinking ‘You met like half an hour ago, the only thing you’ve said to her is list of ingredients in a thermite cutting torch, and you’re gonna KISS her? And she’s gonna kiss back?’ Really throws me. I mean, yeah, people do hook up on short notice, but usually they get more than two sentences in first.
I’m sorry, but you can NOT make romance out of gum wrappers, a clothespin, potassium nitrate and an aluminum bike frame. Well, not on primetime TV, anyways.
In last night’s episode of Chuck, there’s a scene in which Chuck and the rock-star character played by Dominc Monahan go crowd-surfing during a rock concert – and hold a conversation while doing so! Made me think of this thread.
Because it’s an intentional mistake to poke fun at all the movies (and there are many) that use the wrong engine sound effect unintentionally.
Anyway, my own non-mistake came from Titus Andronicus when two Germanic princes are presented with the incontrovertible evidence that their mother was knocked up by her Moorish servant.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
Which was so jarringly un-Shakespearean (when the rest of the film seemed to be following the original lines) that I actually stopped the video to go look up the actual words.
Turns out, that’s exactly the way old Will wrote it.
I must admit, I loved that scene. The cold repression he displays afterwards (“you will be delighted to know I have a hated rival …”), and the look on the face when the housemaid thinks she recognizes him afterwards as himself, were masterful.
Most jacketed bullets are typically jacketed in copper (some are steel jacketed), and most industrial processed ferromagnetic materials are either iron, nickel, or cobalt (or some alloy of same). To the best of my knowledge, there are no iron-, nickel-, or cobalt-jacketed pistol rounds.
I’ll accept bouv’s explanation and retract my complaint.
Now that I’ve had a couple of days to digest it, I love it too. I thought of another twist on it to explain the Holmes/plumber dismay in this scene: he’s taken on this case to protect women from a man (the blackmailer) who’s out to exploit them, yet he realizes that here he is in the guise of a workman, deceiving a girl so he can pump her for information.
Very good point - and there is a class angle of course as well: the girl he was deceiving was servant class, and he was doing it to protect the romantic reputations of upper-class ladies.
It has been a while since I’ve seen it, but I believe he himself understands he’s gone too far (I seem to remember Watson saying as much).
