Hell, I’m not loaded now and I’m in Iraq. I do have ammo.
Good call on this one. One of the biggest WTF moments in movies, and how can ya concentrate after that? A real fridge-nuker 
When a character does something solely to advance the plot but otherwise makes no sense. For example in Friday the 13th (the original from 1980), in the very end after seeing everyone has died the last surviving girl pushes a canoe on the lake and gets in it where she falls asleep. I know they did this to show Jason come out of the lake, but it makes no sense that she would have done that.
I’m not desensitized to any of those events because they’ve never happened, and if they did happen I’d be shocked. Because I’ve only seen them in movies.
This is going to sound weird, but I just watched Changeling. And
the choice to show the murderer as simply rounding up boys for the exclusive purpose of murder was jarring and made no sense. Why would he do that? He didn’t of course, he rounded them up to rape them first. But the complete removal of all suggestions that that was the case took up too much space in my head.
In Dog Soldiers, a horror/thriller about a military unit who gets ambushed by werewolves while on a training mission, one of the characters
with the nickname “Spoon” gets ripped to hamburger by a werewolf. Two soldiers find the remains, one asks, “Where’s Spoon?” The groan-inducing reply? “There is no Spoon.”
This. By Yumblie’s logic, no woman who has ever watched Lifetime movies should be traumatized by being raped or beated by her husband.
It’s been a while, and I have no desire to be witnessed defending a Seagal movie…but wasn’t she given some drug on the flight over? I can’t remember if it was intentional, or if it was just something for sea/air sickness…
She just woke up at an inconvenient time and immediately went into dancer-mode.
-Joe
I guess after she landed someone could have changed her out of her airplane clothes, dressed her in her stripper bikini, carried her from her flight to the aircraft carrier and into the room below, and stuffed her sleeping body into a giant cake.
OBVIOUSLY. It could have been the best scene in the movie, but from what I read Ms. Elaniak was against having two nude scenes in one feature.
-Joe
Sounds like Bob Newhart from the standup days
Pofessor X says in the movie that Magneto can control metal and create magnetic fields, so doing that bullet stopping trick isn’t that big of a stretch, in movieland anyway.
I have this on DVD, watched it last week, Magneto fires the bullet at the cop, stops it, then Xavier tries to reason with him using his mind powers, Magneto cocks all the other guns, and says something like ‘I can’t stop them all Charles’. Then Xavier lets magneto escape in his helicopter.
“You may kiss the bride” is part of my standard script, but then most brides here are more interested in Hollywood than Christianity. I also got a request for the “speak now, or…” line for one ceremony.
OK, here’s one that actually meets the spirit of the OP, I think, that just popped into my head. In Scent of a Woman, there’s a scene where Al Pacino strips and re-assembles a gun, then just afterward is threatening suicide. The Chris O’Donnell is trying to talk him out of it, then grabs the gun and pops out the clip. And all I could think about through the rest of their dialogue in the scene was, “Guys, that gun’s still loaded!” At the end of the assembly scene, Pacino had worked the slide to chamber a round, you see … It seemed like a stupid filmmaker mistake, but it was an intentional character mistake. At the end of the scene, after O’Donnell has talked him down, Pacino glares at him, then spits out, “You forgot the one in the chamber,” and works the slide again to eject the last round from the gun.
I had to watch that movie again just to actually listen to the dialogue in that scene.
In the Usual Suspects, just as they’re done discussing and working out the plan for the heist, one of the characters (I think McManus) says “News says it’s raining in New York.”
The line is apropos of nothing and seems really random and distracting. The job they’re planning isn’t in NY and neither are they.
I suppose, in retrospect, it’s to add a degree of realism to the film… because they’re all a little stunned at this point about how hard this assignment is gonna be to carry off, and he sorta throws it out there just to break the silence. And people would actually do that, just say something to say something. Plus it could be, I guess, a bit of gallows humor — “we all might die. Oh and not only that, but it’s raining back home.”
But it’s a bit tangential in an otherwise notoriously smooth film.
Spoiler for God Emperor of Dune
A book rather than a film, but in God Emperor of Dune Leto falls in love with an ambassador named Hwi.
In the final chapter, Siona and Idaho attack Leto’s procession sending Leto and the ambassador plummeting to their death. As he falls, Leto shouts his love’s name.
And all I can picture is a giant worm flying through the air, shouting “Wheeeeee!”