Often, the Consigliere is considered an untouchable person by rival families. They also rarely perform hits themselves.
Or, she forgot to add coolant to the ship’s reactor, and rather than own up to her mistake, she jumped in an escape pod and left everyone else to deal with the inevitable core meltdown.
This reminds me of a Washington Post story about the people who lost the Toronto mayoral election to Rob Ford.
In Jurassic Park III, the Kirbys pose as adventure tourists to lure Dr. Grant to Jurassic Park Site B in a desperate attempt to save their son. Amanda went so far in her assumed role as adventure tourist that she repeatedly calls out over a megaphone after they first land there, drawing the attention of dinosaurs.
In the Curious George movie, there is no way that any nation would have allowed Ted to remove “The Lost Shrine of Zagawa” from its borders. It’s a sacred relic, and very valuable.
In the same movie, I loved the question about the Shrine from the reporter at the press conference: “Is it made of solid gold?” She hasn’t seen it yet, but she’s seen posters, and the thing is about twenty feet high! It weighs tons! Which brings up the fact that it’s made of solid granite, but it’s ruby red.
In Disney’s Cinderella, she finds a new mouse in a trap on a remote staircase. Why does she even have a mousetrap, especially since she’s horrified to hear that a mouse is inside? The mice are her friends. There’s no way the rest of the family checks for mousetrap placement.
The ruse was already up at that point.
Considering that Naboo also selected Jar-Jar Binks as its delegate to the Galactic Senate, one must assume that the electorate was not among the most sophisticated in the galaxy.
But it wasn’t a rival family holding Frank Pentangeli. It was the feds.
Wouldn’t Frank be legally entitled to consult with a lawyer of his own choice? :dubious:
Exactly. The review board’s position seemed to be that Ripley caused the destruction of the ship though negligence and made up a wacky excuse.
For a hole in a classic, how about one in Citizen Kane? I first encountered this one by way of an anecdote told by Spider Robinson, not having ever given the film much thought myself. (Classic though it may be, it’s not a movie that has ever held my attention.) In the movie, much is made of Kane’s last word.
He died alone. Who heard him say it?
Of course there’s the much-talked about ones in Radiers of the Lost Ark. I can hand-wave away the “Indy should have stayed home, then Hitler would’ve had his face melted” one, and begrudgingly ignore the one about how when Indy climbed aboard the submarine it decided to stay on the surface, even though they showed scenes of the crew preparing to dive, which would have drowned him.
But the one that can’t be explained is the fact that the Germans had a platoon inside Egypt, in 1936, digging for the Staff of Ra. Somehow I think the British would have had a problem with that.
This has been addressed in previous threads. His butler was there (although not onscreen) to hear his final words. The butler’s presence is referred to twice in the movie.
I’ll take your word for it–as I said, it’s not a movie that interests me much.
No specific film for this, but I notice it from time to time:
They’ll show a car being driven in a crazy chase sequence, the guy blasts through the intersection and crashes horribly into the cross traffic…except…he had the green light.
Which you see on fire during the “burning of Atlanta” sequence in GWTW.
You forgot another option: The purpose of the board meeting was to discredit Ripley, not to investigate the truth or conduct a criminal investigation.
The board doesn’t disbelieve Ripley. They know she’s telling the truth - after all, the company was the one issuing the secret order in the first film, the one that ended with “Crew expendable.” Their job is to make sure that everybody sees her as that slightly crazy, possibly dangerous crackpot.
One has to fanwank the “why didn’t the company just kill Ripley” question - I assume that anybody found in space after 50+ years in hibernation would achieve some level of fame, therefore killing her wasn’t an option.
My favorite scene: a couple of doctors puffing on cigarettes as they discuss Klaatu’s miraculous healing abilities.
What is the deal with low security in SF movies? In The Satan Bug, a biological warfare lab has a toxin capable of wiping out all life on Earth. It’s stored in a GLASS flask and kept inside an ordinary refrigerator. The lab is surrounded by a chain-link fence, and there’s a guy at the gate with an embroidered patch on his uniform that says “SECURITY GUARD.”
In another thread I mentioned Lifeforce, in which the body of an extraterrestrial (aka naked Mathilda May) is kept in an unlocked room in the basement of a London office building, guarded by pudgy guys who are slurping coffee and stuffing their faces with sandwiches.
I would think that guarding a naked Mathilda May would be the sort of task one would fight for, regardless of rank.
“Why is the captain, chief of police, and the commissioner guarding that one prisoner? Ohhh…”
Remmington Steele. Nobody will use a female private investigator, so she invents a male name to use and then subs for him. A guy walks in claiming to be Remmington Steele, and she works with him, despite knowing nothing about who he really is.
You’re a private eye, lady. Can’t you find out who this joker is??? I wouldn’t hire you either if you couldn’t.
This. It’s even possible the orginators of the Nostromo’s secret orders dumped the secret file from the computers to cover their tracks, and have long since retired/passed away, leaving no one in the “present” to have any idea about any secret orders from decades ago.
So from the POV of Weyland-Yutani, Ripley’s story smack of paranoid delusion, yet (and they even say it), there’s some evidence to corroborate her story, like perhaps some unexplained pitting/scarring on the outside of the shuttle, or on the engine nacelle, from after Ripley harpooned the beastie.
I partially agree, but it doesn’t even need ot be that elaborate; she was found, awakened, and treated by people not employed by Weyland-Yutani.