Better than a lot of New Yorkers I’ve met who annoyingly refer to it as “The City”, even when hundreds of miles away! I’ll take Manhattan-centrism in New York over New York-centrism in the universe any day 
It’s not just NYers - Londoners, pretty much anywhere in the UK, refer to London as “town”. I have had some genuinely confusing conversations a long way outside London, thinking that when people said “going into town” they were talking about walking to the shops or something. Me, I call it “the smoke”.
In the movie After the Sunset, Pierce Brosnan plays a master thief. He needs to gain control of a particular car, which he is watching from a rooftop. His assistant, posing as a windshield-washing vagrant, uses an electronic gizmo to scan the VIN on the car, which is relayed to another gizmo held by Brosnan’s character, who is then able to control the car like an RC toy, using a little joystick.
So, does this mean that he had previously installed servomechanisms and an RC transceiver in the car? No; it’s just an ordinary car, but by knowing its VIN, the thief’s gizmo is able to cause the car’s onboard computers – which normally just deal with things like electronic ignition, ABS, and the like – to produce a magical force that physically controls the steering, accelerator and brakes, controlled by his hand-held device. (He then remotely drives the car to a destination he couldn’t see from the rooftop; the guy’s good.)
The Terminator chick in Terminator 3 does the same thing; apparently computers are truly magical.
Indeed. Silicon-based life forms!
Though I haven’t seen it, Red Mike’s review of Speed 2: Cruise Control indicates that it also had stupid in spades (extra bonus: Red Mike was in the Navy, so he knows how ocean going ships are run).
Let us consider the very premise of Double Jeopardy. If you are convicted and sentenced for murder, but it turns out that the victim never actually died, you get a free pass and may kill the “victim” at your leisure. Hey, you can’t be tried for the same crime twice, after all.
Unless I missed something- The Thomas Crown Affair remake- brilliant detectives rewind the tape to find out that a briefcase was the source of the gas (?) in the art museum, but no one thought to rewind it back far enought to see who put it there? You could have easily gone around that by not having Pierce put it there himself, which was doubly stupid on the writers part.
Also in T3, was there ever a valid reason given for the absurd coincidence of John Connor just happening to stumble into the place of business of one of the eight people the T3 is searching for, in order to find him, out of a city of 10 million?
I just cringe when he grabs the $100 million painting and folds it to get it into his briefcase!
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Though I haven’t seen it, Red Mike’s review of [Speed 2: Cruise Control]
(http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/r_speed2.htm) indicates that it also had stupid in spades
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Spades? It had the whole deck, including the jokers.
But let’s not forget the original Speed and the bus jump.
(Not to mention that in the course of thwarting the bomber’s evil plans, instead of paying the relatively modest ransom, they blew up a cargo jet, destroyed a subway car (and subway line), and lost several personnel. Sort of a Pyrrhic victory, if at all.)
I think your confusing cause and effect. If he hadn’t stumbled in there, then they wouldn’t have married, and the T3 wouldn’t have been looking for her.
The mention of “Starship Troopers” reminded me of not only an incredibly stupid scene, but an all-time low for Jurgen Prochnow (sp ?) of “Das Boot” fame in “Wing Commander”:
In order to ellude the enemy fleet searching for them, the good guys settle down on an asteroid. They shut everything down to eliminate emissions (so far so good). But then Jurgen, the captain no less, instructs everyone to “be quiet” - JUST LIKE YOU’D DO IN A SUBMARINE !!! They all sit there, speaking only in whispers, as if any SOUND might be detected by the enemy. Aaaarrrggghhh !!!
(I could overlook the loss of gravity in the ship when they shut down, but the needing to be quiet just drives me crazy).
D’oh- thanks :smack:
I kinda liked Wing Commander, actually, and am willing to overlook its many glaring flaws. What you describe is nearly identical to “sssshhhhhhh” part of the original Trek episode The Savage Curtain, which also had a stupid-Spock moment. Sure, starship combat won’t be anything like submarine warfare, but it looks cool.
Look at my location and guess where I live. 
Well, in his defense, when you’re looking at weather phenomenon that blatantly defies the laws of physics, what the hell can you do?
Wait, it’s not? Crap.
:: throws away almost-completed movie script ::
The whole premise of T3 seemed to be flawed.
It was concluded that Judgement Day was inevitable since history had already occured that way resulting in a future of Skynet, Terminators that were sent back in time, and a rebellion led by John Connor. History had already been written and there was absoultely no way to alter it.
If that was the case then why bother running from the terminators that were trying to kill you? John could have sat on his couch eating cheetos while terminators attempted to kill him with no avail since history had already been written that he would survive.
Take THAT causality!!!
Umm…this is the same movie where they say, “We need to tell Concordia they’re going to be ambushed but we can’t reach them!” while at the same time you can see on his cockpit screen something like “Downloading information from Concordia”.
Stupid is as Wing Commander does.
-Joe
I knew there was some reason I seldom watch movies of the Action/Adventure genre. Thanks, all, for reminding me why! 
Sidestepping Starship Troopers, the very premise of The Day After Tomorrow was stupid. So the Sad Muppet is stuck in the Manhattan library and Harrison-Ford-on-a-bender, his dad, will brave the storm and come find his son.
And do what exactly?
“Hey dad, thanks for coming! Give us some food! Oh. Well, how about a heater? Ah. Did you bring a Snickers at least? No? Well, great. When the time comes, you’re the first person we’re cooking and eating.”
The giant hamster wheel in POTC: Dead Man’s Chest.
I can buy cursed pirates. I can buy undead monkeys. But a hamster wheel? Give me a break.