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?
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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).
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).
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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: .