Yea, I liked that while he was fucking around getting his friend killed for basically no purpose, someone useful was actually organizing a helicopter rescue.
Not just once, but twice! In the same frickin’ film. I guess, though, it is hard to expect better from a sequel of a film based on an amusement park ride.
At the end of Goldeneye, James and his bedwarmer du jour have foiled the villian’s plot and escaped to a nearby field. Confident that they are alone, JB starts putting the moves on her. Then the CIA dude shows up with his promised reinforcements; marines pop up from foxholes and descend in helicopters. Yes, that’s right, the helicopters were cleverly hiding by being off the edge of the movie screen!
In Total Recall Arnie is outside the facility and exposed to the “elements” on Mars. His face distorts, expands his eyes start to pop out of their sockets due to the laco of atmosphere (or something). Then for some reason I can’t remember they are saved,but instead of suffering immense trauma from this event, they are perfectly fine.
Two colossally stupid movie moments:
Terminator 2: The chase scene in which a kid peddling a dirt bike manages to stay ahead of an 18 wheeler truck with the pedal to the metal.
the Mummy 2: Another kid has some kind of amulet on that will make him explode (or something like that) as soon as sunlight hits him. As the dawn sun rises, Brendan Fraser picks up the kid and OUTRUNS the sunlight!
Well, they decide Judgment Day is unavoidable, not necessarily that nothing in history can’t be changed. I think we’re told the woman Terminator in T3 actually succeeds in killing some of Conner’s future generals before going after Claire Danes, so presumably at least their future was altered.
Granted time travel movies in general probably fall apart if you think about them too hard.
I think I just sat there with my lips moving “bluh…bluh…bluh…” like in a old cartoon when I saw that.
In their super-quiet stealthy hush mode, no less.
How about the fairly recent Clive Owen vehicle, Shoot 'Em Up?
In the climactic scene, Clive kills Paul Giamatti’s character by putting four bullets between his (own) fingers, then sticking his hand in a fire. The bullets somehow go off simultaneously, all four slugs striking Giamatti in the chest from across the room. Hello…recoil? Not to mention severe burns! The bullets went off in less than two seconds.
I laughed out loud in the theater, exclaiming “Are you kidding me?!?” as did about half the people in there.
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Indeed. Silicon-based life forms!
Is that like the guy yelling “My lungs are freezing!” in Batman and Robin?
(Of course, that’s another movie where “the stupid scene” is “the one between the opening credits and the closing credits”.)
Actually, I have no problem with that. It’s just more evidence that it’s not “real.”
The moment in the first Bourne film where the protagonist sort of sails one of his attackers bodies down a several flight stairwell while shooting other badguys coming up the stairs was like 10 seconds of cartoon physics in a movie that was supposedly going for a gritty, realistic feel.
Except for the moments they showed Jodie Foster naked. Those were very wise.
This scene seems pretty reasonable to me. He had a head start. He was on a motorized dirt bike, not one with pedals. And he didn’t stay ahead for long. The truck was almost on top of him when Arnie showed up on a Harley to save the day.
I also don’t have too much of a problem with the Terminator 3 chick controlling the cars remotely. She put little nanobots into them, which presumably went and replicated themselves a new control system for the car, complete with remote receiver. Many modern cars have a lot of the actual control of the car with electronic/computer controls between driver controls and mechanical systems. If you put a different computer in between the sensors and the actuators, you get a remote control car.
I was curious why the movie was getting knocked so I read a recap of the story (and now I understand). What did they come up with to get her naked?
The truck would have been on top of him in about .00000002 seconds, motor or pedal bike, yet the kid outraces him for a solid five minute ‘mounting tension’ scene.
That still doesn’t explain Brosnan controlling a car after Hayek scanned the vin. 
And what can you see, and for how long?
As for the Bourne scene, did they really show him to not fall at the normal rate? I thought the guy was used to just absorb the blow of the landing so Bourne wouldn’t be hurt, not that the guy made him stay aloft longer.
Well, that’s why they couldn’t contact Concordia. Freddie Prinze, Jr. was tying up all the bandwidth downloading ringtones.
I haven’t seen the movie, but as you describe it, it’s actually worse - bullets require the barrel of a gun to get up to a nice mankilling speed. If you just toss a cartridge in a fire until it cooks off, you get a disappointingly slow bullet.
What’s wrong with that? It was a large tow truck, which is designed for pulling heavy loads, not high acceleration. And it kept bouncing off other cars & the walls of the spillway, which would tend to slow it down.