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But then it’s less of an erotic “thriller” and more, “so, I hired a prostitute.” Maybe they could just join a big swingers’ club, and the thriller part could be guessing which members got which STD from whom. “Col. Mustard gave Mrs. Peacock chlamydia in the parlor without a condom!”
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I’m not saying you can’t use the old “white slavery” plot, you just have to give it some minimally reasonable handwaving to make it seem credible. For example in “Where Evil Lies” and “Jake Speed” they’re kidnapping women to export them to rich guys in other countries, where who knows what kind of stuff goes as far as the law goes. That I can handle. But then in “Vicious Circles” you have millionaires in Paris, France, who are, to their credit, paying young women $2000 a day to be their sex slaves, but then one of their sex slaves quits so she can write a tell-all about them, and they MURDER her.
They MURDER her because they’re afraid of what people will THINK about men who pay women money to have sex with them? In Paris, FRANCE?
:dubious: :dubious: :dubious:
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I’ll be 40 in a little over a month and hardly anyone I know my age or younger has the smallpox vaccination scar on their arm.
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That vaccine stopped being “required” with the kids born in our year of birth (1967). My cousins born in 1966 have it, but very rarely do you see it in people born after that. (Maybe it’s just a Baton Rouge thing - that’s where I am also).
[QUOTE=JKellyMap]
For some reason, the only time this bothered me was in Brad Pitt’s portrayal of Odysseus in The Trojan War…
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What really bothered me about Troy were the Greek soldiers’ uniforms. Specifically the fact that every soldier had a uniform. That movie would have been greatly improved if Pitt had spent it completely nude. And there was the fact that they tranformed his lover into a cousin :mad: .
How about this one - the entire plot of “The Blues Brothers” hinges on a church-owned orphanage needing their property taxes paid to avoid getting kicked out. Per IMDB, churches don’t pay property taxes.
Great movie, though.
Most skydiving scenes in movies are howlingly bad. “Point Break” with its 4+ minute freefall, people talking to each other and a first-time jumper participating in relative work is a good example.
Everything computer related in the first Mission Impossible movie ("…the Pentium II Artificial Intelligence chip!" brought shrieks of laughter in the theatre, admittedly we were right across the street from SGI).
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What really bothered me about Troy were the Greek soldiers’ uniforms. Specifically the fact that every soldier had a uniform. That movie would have been greatly improved if Pitt had spent it completely nude. And there was the fact that they tranformed his lover into a cousin :mad: .
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I, too, hate inappropriate clothedness. That’s why I’m almost glad they never made that John Carter of Mars movie. You just know everyone would have been WAAAAY overdressed.
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Sorry, I couldn’t let this thread go any further without mentioning a glitch in the film U-571 that bugged me when I saw it - a real immersion-killer, at least to someone like me, someone who is interested in WWII history, and in particular in the technology and operations of submarines. Maybe others would miss the glitch.
The problem I have is simple: none of the film makes any historic sense at all, from the first scene to the last. It would be easier to list the things they accidentally got right, such as the fact that water is wet or that submarines sometimes go underwater for a while.
Maybe it would be the subject for another thread: the quasi-serious movies with the most gaffes. I’d start one up, but I’m still a little new here, and somewhat nervous about making my own gaffes in posting.
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Oh tell me about it - this movie still makes me cringe. Single engined German fighters appearing in the middle of the atlantic, presumably launched by a lone German Destroyer who is also in the middle of an Allied Pond (By mid 1942 at least).
And of course - the fact that they give the impression that U-boats executed survivors of sunken merchantmen routinely…
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The entire plot of Mission Impossible 2 revolved around someone getting infected with a virus, and the rest of the cast getting the anti-virus. And in a Six-Degrees-of-Tom-Cruise game; Dustin Hoffman also had the same problem in the movie *Outbreak * when Rene Russo got a viral disease.
Hey Hollywood! There NO SUCH THING as a medical anti-virus! There are vaccines, and treatments, but no miracle cures called “anti-virus”.
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What are you talking about? There are lots of antivirals. Here’s about 20 of them. They don’t work on every virus, and they are not without side effects, but there are certainly anti-virus drugs.
When Clarice opens the music box, it plays and winds down. As it winds down, the musical pitch lowers. Actually, the pitch should stay the same - the music should just slow down.
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This is almost certainly not a mistake. The distorted music sets the mood of this scene and I’m sure the director wanted it that way regardless of technical accuracy.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
A really idiotic plot point I see in a lot of erotic thrillers involves a group of rich people who develop secret organizations where they have people (generally, women, but in Passion Network, both sexes) to have sex with them, then have to use things like kidnapping and murder to conceal what they’re doing.
HELLLLLOOOO! YOU’RE FUCKING RICH!!! Just give attractive people who are so inclined lots of MONEY to have sex with you – there’s a whole industry out there for that very thing, I understand. There are LOTS of women out there who’ll have sex for what a very rich person would consider POCKET CHANGE! Happily. There’s almost no risk of discovery and even then, the penalties are negligible compared with the penalties for kidnapping and murder, which carry some HEAVY time.
If you’re going to use this old white chestnut of a white slavery plot, at the VERY least set it in some place where prostitution is REALLY fucking illegal, like Saudi Arabia. Do SOME kinda hand-waving. Because in most Western nations, nobody’s gonna buy that line …
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I always figured the point of this was that the rich people are spoiled. They don’t want to have sex with just any girl - they want and must have that exact particular girl right there. I don’t care if she says no, just make it happen. Kind of a mixture between ego and spoiledness.
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What are you talking about? There are lots of antivirals. Here’s about 20 of them. They don’t work on every virus, and they are not without side effects, but there are certainly anti-virus drugs.
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Yes, but that’s not how they’re used in movies. Each virus has a corresponding “anti-virus” that makes you all better, like poisons with a specific antidote.
Come to think of it, are there really poisons that have a simple antidote like in the movies?
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If I just saw “Press ‘S’ for your schedule,” it wouldn’t be immediately obvious to me that the capitalization of that ‘S’ is supposed to be salient.
I mean, after five seconds of thinking, it would be obvious, but why waste that five seconds?
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What I’m saying is (and correct me if I’m mistaken) that I’ve never come across a computer app where pressing the shift key plus “s” did anything other than type a capital S. I’ve never known it to access a menu, function, etc. It would seem counterintuitive anyway – anytime you tried to type a cap S, you’d invoke some function.
Shift plus a function key (F1, F2, etc.), or Ctrl or Alt plus a letter, sure. (If I’m recalling correctly, we had those in 1986, the year the movie came out.) But Shift + letter would not seem to fly.
I wrote a review about the movie “Barbarian Queen” in which I pointed out that the Barbarian Queen’s little sister, who had maybe five minutes of screen time and a dozen or so lines, was the only really interesting character in the movie. Here’s a link, which is definitely NSFW as it contains nudity, bondage, nude language and adult facial expressions:
I’m sorry, I posted this to the wrong forum. It was supposed to go in the thread about secondary characters who are more interesting than the main characters. I’ll just go post it there. Mods, if you wanna delete this post, feel free.
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Can someone explain to me why Superman is crippled from being on the Kryptoburg to the point that thugs can beat him up, but he is later able to touch the Kryptoburg with his bare skin and fly the thing into orbit?
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I think he was supposed to have tunneled far enough underground that he could lift the kryptoberg out with a huge buffer of crust protecting him. As he flew higher, however, the kryptoberg grew big enough to punch through the rock separating it from Supes, poisoning him enough that he falls lifeless back to earth just after using the last of his strength to fling the stuff into space.
The opening of Born on the Fourth of July stays in my head as particularly galling. They tell you it’s 1956, but there are people watching President Kennedy on TV. Kennedy wasn’t elected until 1960! This error remains to me unpardonable.
- that’s where I am also).
And there was the fact that they tranformed his lover into a cousin :mad: .