# Silly, weird, perhaps unanswerable questions about movies and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401 "2013-03-31T03:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/321 "2022-07-23T21:50:38Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > (or really, **any** super unbeatable badass) One thing thing bugged me in Watchmen (book, not the film). So Laurie and Dan decide that shooting Adrian is the right course of action. And then he miraculously catches the bullet. So shoot him again! Two in rapid succession. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/322 "2022-07-25T14:02:30Z")
They don’t address it in these types of cartoons, but I did think it was neat that in Star Wars the force users are able to deflect blaster beams with their light sabers. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/323 "2022-07-25T14:05:48Z")
In _The Strain_ the villain power flexs by dodging a gun aimed at his head. How about aiming at his feet? How about a machine gun? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/324 "2022-07-25T14:35:51Z")
So, I’m guessing that Gibbs and company (NCIS) have some stable wormhole that allows them to go from Quantico to Norfolk – and back, several times in a day – in about 20 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/325 "2022-07-25T15:54:33Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > So, I’m guessing that Gibbs and company (NCIS) have some stable wormhole that allows them to go from Quantico to Norfolk and back, several times in a day in about 20 minutes? Heh! I’ve been watching past episodes of _The Blacklist_ on Netflix, and it seems like the team members based in D.C. can get to NYC in about twenty minutes and fly across the Atlantic in two or three hours. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/326 "2022-07-25T18:00:27Z")
The amount of heroes who can survive a SWAT sniper are actually very very low. Also… Also 1:27 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yp6ugLTzRLE/hqdefault.jpg "The Fantastic Shield | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6ugLTzRLE) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/327 "2024-03-20T20:41:46Z")
To expand beyond movies and TV into literature/mythology: Sisyphus, the person condemned to have to roll a boulder uphill in Hades forever, only to always lose his grip on it just before reaching the top and have it roll all the way back downhill. But why “have to”? What’s making him try? What if he just went on strike and said “F-No, I’m not gonnna’ do it!” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/328 "2024-03-20T20:49:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So shoot him again! Two in rapid succession. This is Coyote logic. The Coyote, once a trick fails, never tries it again (with one exception). ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/329 "2024-03-20T21:04:34Z")
He’s there for all eternity. Eventually, he’d get bored and start pushing the rock again, just to have something to do. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/330 "2024-03-20T21:08:15Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > just to have something to do. Flattening the hill by hand isn’t an option? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/331 "2024-03-20T21:20:59Z")
I still think there must be either an unspoken punishment for refusing to try (worse than the task??) or else an unspoken promise of something if he ever could (but never will) succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/332 "2024-03-20T21:24:04Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > The amount of heroes who can survive a SWAT sniper are actually very very low. Simo Häyhä did. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/333 "2024-03-20T21:26:10Z")
Will Charlie and Rose from The African Queen really have a happy marriage? She’s a missionary and he’s a drunk mechanic. Once they get back to civilization, their options are pretty limited. He gave up drinking for her, but only because there was no gin left. I predict that as soon as they get to a town, he’s off to the gin mill. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/334 "2024-03-20T21:39:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This is Coyote logic. The Coyote, once a trick fails, never tries it again (with one exception). I can think of a couple. He tried an entire episode to use the giant mechanical coyote without success; and the catapult with a large boulder somehow found a new and different failure mode over five attempts to make it work. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/335 "2024-03-21T18:45:58Z")
I’m generally not a fan of _Batman_ but there was a recent comic where a (supposedly) totally average guy plans to kill Batman by shooting him while he’s busy or distracted or not paying attention… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/336 "2024-03-21T19:14:10Z")
With today’s material technology, I’d be surprised if Batman doesn’t incorporate the best non-Newtonian liquid armor available into his cowl. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/337 "2024-03-22T18:03:23Z")
A recent comic had Bruce Wayne claim he was a trillionaire. He’d have to be to afford all those lost batarangs shown in the video game. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/338 "2024-03-22T18:15:58Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I’m generally not a fan of _Batman_ but there was a recent comic where a (supposedly) totally average guy plans to kill Batman by shooting him while he’s busy or distracted or not paying attention… [Batman voice] > I’m never not paying attention. > Commissioner Gordon, you’re wearing the same cologne your mother-in-law gave you for Christmas, 2019. I assume she’s in town and staying with you… [/Batman voice] ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/339 "2024-03-22T20:11:27Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > A recent comic had Bruce Wayne claim he was a trillionaire. He’d have to be to afford all those lost batarangs shown in the video game. Doubtless Bruce Wayne has insider knowledge of when to sell short on Gotham real estate. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/340 "2024-04-25T02:47:56Z")
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