Yeah, but there was a whole bunch of other non-ferrous stuff zipping toward the crystal skull - I guess we were meant to accept it as some kind of other-dimensional spooky magnetism that made metal things of any description zip around when the script required it, otherwise, not so much.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … Andie McDowell’s super-clunky delivery of the only somewhat-clunky line in Four Weddings and a Funeral: “Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed” just about kills the movie for me.
I don’t remember the scene in the book because it was so long ago since I read it. In the context of the films, it didn’t make sense to me. Did Arwen have magical powers over the river or something? And why, other than the bit with Galadriel, do we never see the Elves do anything else really magical? Like I would think being able to call up the horse tide at will would be a powerful weapon in some of the later battles.
That’s because Claire Danes can’t act crying. Every movie she’s ever been asked to cry in has at least one bad scene in it. Her weird facial gymnastics and groaning ruins one of the best moments of Little Women, too.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that was fuckin’ weird. I skipped backwards and re-played it several times in an attempt to understand it - no dice.
You are correct.
I’ve heard Whedon’s explanation before, but it’s total crap. I loves me some Whedon, but there’s no way that line can be read without sounding completely idiotic. Definitely the worst part of X-Men.
Except Jerry Lundegard was a bumbling fool in the Three’s Company mold. Only the most dense person in the world would take his stammerings at face value and not follow up on them. Like the X-Men example, it’s a poorly done scene that needs outside explanation and can’t stand on it’s own.
See also: the entire plot to Donnie Darko.
You do see her saying something in Elvish before the wave shows up, which I’m pretty sure is meant to be read as her “casting a spell” of some sort.
As for it being useful in later battles, what other battle was fought at a river?
(IIRC the book correctly, the horse wave was a property of the river, which was magical itself. Certain people of great wisdom knew how to call up the river, causing it to flash flood, but it could only be done at this specific river. But I don’t think you need to know that backstory for the scene to make sense.)
I dunno. I think Sarah Michelle Geller at her perkiest might have been able to pull it off.
The Lord of the Rings scene that upset me was the scene where Arwen says goodbye to Aragorn. They are standing on a bridge and it is a very tender scene. But the editing in the scene makes absolutely no sense what so ever. It actually jumps back to an establishing shot about 2/3s of the way through and it just keeps jumping around for no reason at all.
There’s an even worse one (IMO) where she says “I think we both know that’s a big lie!”.
Makes me cringe when I hear it.
But then Storm’s not Buffy. She usually strikes me as more serious, and her humour is not of the “perky” variety. So generally, a strange line for that character.
I (semi-guiltily) love me some Tombstone, but “…so run, you cur!” makes me cringe every time.
The Return of the Jedi has something that really bothers me.
When The Emperor is sitting in his techno-throne, holding forth and gloating to Luke, there’s this weird dark spot on the right (his left) side of his hood. It looks artificial, as if there was some weird reflection coming from there, and they fixed it by going over every 70 mm frame by hand with a Magic Marker to cover it up. That dark spot just didn’t look natural, and I’ve been debating with myself over the past quarter of a century whether it’s a real shadow or a poorly-executed cover-up.
In any event, when Lucas re-released the trilogy in the 90s with his new CGI additions, I eagerly went to see it, figuring that, whether it was for real or a ham-handed cover-up, they’d fix it. After all, they changed it so that Greedo fired first, right? They made Han Solo walk around Jabba. They can do damned near anything.
But they didn’t fix this That damned spot was still there. So, whatever, it was, it apparently didn’t bother Lucas or his minions. But it continues to bother me.
Does it bother anyone else? Does anyone even know what I’m talking about?
No, I don’t remember that at all. Youtube link?
Another LOTR gripe: when Aragorn first sees Arwen behind the banner at his coronation, he lunges for her as if he’s going to bite her. I understand yearning, passion, etc., but in that scene it just looks abrupt and silly, IMHO.
Can’t find a YouTube video of thsat scene, or even a still. Don’t have time right now to look for it.
The entire serial-killer storyline with the prostitutes could have been completely omitted from Heat and the movie would have been better off for it. We already know that Waingro is a bad guy - you don’t need to rub it in our faces by making him a serial killer on top of everything else.
Related to this…
In Pretty Woman, at the end, the last line…and it’s a clunker! “She rescued him right back.”
Poor writing, made worse by a stilted delivery. Bah…it almost ruins the movie for me.
ETA: And, as an aside, I find Andie McDowell one of the worst actresses, and am constantly amazed she still gets work.
You’re right, it was. But wasn’t it Glorfindel who carried Frodo on the flight to the ford? In Bakshi’s movie it was changed to Legolas, and in Jackson’s it was Arwen.
In the book, nobody rode with Frodo. Glorfindel put him on his horse and said “Giddap*”, then chased the Nazgul from the rear.
*“Noro lim”, in Elvish