Three Men and a Baby: You mean some woman isn’t sure which of these three men are the father of this baby? Yuck. Did they pass her around at a party or something?
The Birdcage: It has a premise that would make any sitcom proud.
Mrs. Doubtfire: So this guy loves his children and very much wants to be a part of their lives. His wife won’t allow him to see them. Is he going to harm them? No, he’s just immature. I found the premise to this to be very sad.
Marc
I thought she did know that Ted Danson was the father, and she left him with Selleck and Guttenberg because Danson was on location. I saw the French version of this film, and boy did those two rip “Jacques” a new one when he finally showed up.
If my memory serves me correctly…and I’ve tried hard to purge this memory…
Wasn’t the hijacking of the plane/theft plot in Cliffhanger the most foolish imaginable. I mean you’ve got one of the pilots on your side, a gun on the plane, and you need a second plane travelling behind the first to slide down a cord to with the money?
Can’t you just see the criminal mastermind explaining that to the gang prior to the crime.
“Why not just parachute out of the plane, and then have the guys in the second plane pick you up?” a subordinate might ask. BANG BANG!.. “Any more questions?”
I even seem to recall later in the film, as things of course go awry, one of the characters wondering how such a fool-proof plan could have failed. Yeah, how?
The Austin Powers movies are my favorite! I can’t wait until the new one comes out!
I also liked Milk Money. And I hope I never have to watch Theodore Rex.
The villian’s plan in Timecop was really stupid. He’s a senator running for president in 2004 with access to time travel (but he can’t travel to the future, because it hasn’t happened yet). So what does the senator do? Does he use this to warn himself of things that make his poll numbers drop so he won’t do them? I bet Al Gore would have loved to have that chance after the first debate. No, that’s not what he does. Does he wait until after the election to see if he wins, and, if not, what were considered to be his mistakes? No, that’s not it either. Does he use it to take care of his opponent like Skynet tried to do until he went up against someone he could beat? No. How about using it to get evidence of events that would cause scandal for his opponent? No. So what does he do? Use time travel to steal money from the past, since he only needs a little more money to guarantee his victory, and he apparantly can’t find anyone to donate it to him. Because everyone knows that spending a large amount of money will guarantee election. Just ask Ross Perot and Steve Forbes.
Another part of his plan is to eliminate the time patrolman who is getting in the way of his attempts to get money. Since he’s too high-profile to kill in the present, the senator decides to go back and kill him in the past. Does he try Skynet’s plan now, and kill him when he’s a child or kill his parent before he’s born? Nope, he goes back to 1994, when the agent is a police officer.
In another stupidity, a throwaway line reveals that in the Timecop universe, the White Supremacist Party must have received 5% of the vote in the 2000 election, because it’s receiving matching funds this time. I wonder how Ralph Nader would react.
Ya, forgot other glitches in the plot Protesilaus. The whole “the same matter can’t occupy the same space.” Uh, I got news for ya, folks every eight years, you stop being the same matter! (Well, except for your brain, but that’s well inside yer noggin’.) So the whole bit where the villian from the future touches himself in the past and the two get vaporized just wouldn’t work. (Not to mention all the annoying temporal paradoxes it causes.)
Then there’s the whole bit about how they suddenly know about Confederate gold coming up missing. (Uh, hello! It happened a hundred plus years ago! So far as the future’s concerned, its always been like that! Duh!) Or that no one notices the huge amounts of juice the prototype time machine’s been sucking out of the power grid.