[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Whoops! How embarassing.
Anyway, in Balance of Terror, it really looked like Spock did it kinda on purpose, or at least Nimoy didn’t act it out very well.
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It’s meant to be ambiguous - the Romulans have surprisingly turned out to look like Vulcans (hell, one of them could pass for Spock’s father!) and it’s supposed to look like Spock could be a traitor, at least in the eyes of the more gullible crew members if not the viewer.
[QUOTE=Staggerlee]
The stupidity of having a super-microwave which boiled water in the sewers without cooking Gotham’s population was a stupid moment in an otherwise great film (Batman Begins).
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I dunno that the movie was that great, actually. I admit Bale did a far better job than Keaton, Kilmer or Clooney, but I guess I never cared for the “secret evil cabal” premise.
And it occurred to me that if all it took for the drug to be released was boiling the water, and the baddies had been dumping it in the water supply for days, the effects would’ve already been detected when people boiled water for coffee or cooking, plus at businesses where large amounts of water are constantly evaporating, such as laundromats and car-washes.
Superman III has many, but the real prize has to be Richard Pryor skiing off the roof, falling about 70 stories and landing safely on a glass roof below, unhurt because he’s wearing skis.
[QUOTE=yams!!]
Little Dead Girl’s mom shows Main Character a photo album of Then-Not-Dead-Little Girl, and reminisces about her daughter. “Yes - this is a picture of my daughter Sheila [or whatever]. She was a hemophiliac. [Flips page.] And this is a picture of the abandoned steel yard where she used to love to play.”
My first thought was “what the hell! I’m not a hemophiliac and my mom never let me play in an abandoned steel yard!”
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That could be a stupid movie moment in several ways. Hemophilia generally doesn’t manifest in girls, although they carry the gene on one X chromosome.
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
I dunno that the movie was that great, actually. I admit Bale did a far better job than Keaton, Kilmer or Clooney, but I guess I never cared for the “secret evil cabal” premise.
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Yes. All that “Razz al-Ghoul” (sp?) shit was utterly ridiculous. Liam Neeson as a ninja?
At least they made an effort to explain the Caped Crusader’s semi-ridiculous ability to always appear in front of the bad guy who was running away from him - he’s a freakin’ ninja!
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Yes. All that “Razz al-Ghoul” (sp?) shit was utterly ridiculous. Liam Neeson as a ninja?
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I made the point to a friend of mine that the whole “society of shadows” or whatever it’s called is pretty weak, but he said it was directly lifted from the Batman comics canon which was why it was included. Doesn’t make it any less stupid, in my opinion.
[QUOTE=JohnT]
OK, assume that Spidey lost speed 'cause of wind resistance and the train was accelerating, causing Spidey to somehow come to a point behind Doc Ock (which isn’t so because it’s well-established that DO threw him forward). Now that SM is behind the doctor how does he catch up to Doc Ock? Are we going to also assume a gust of wind that blew SM forward? 
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I just rewatched the scene - you are correct - it was impossible unless Spidey was able to slow down (which is possible, even probable in that situation) and then propel himself forward again. They should have had him use his web ropes for this.
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
I made the point to a friend of mine that the whole “society of shadows” or whatever it’s called is pretty weak, but he said it was directly lifted from the Batman comics canon which was why it was included. Doesn’t make it any less stupid, in my opinion.
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Actually, it’s a pretty good idea. They’re villains in terms of their actions, but it’s their motives that are interesting; the society is dedicated to social justice, which involves doing terrible things for the greater good.
Anyway, if it’s stupid, it’s a stupid premise, not a stupid moment.
I’ll have to check my DVD of Spiderman 2 for that train sequence to see just how it goes down.
In The Hulk, the brilliant Dr. Banner’s friend is caught in a chamber where a giant burst of gamma rays will soon irradiate him. Dr. Banner, being brilliant, is aware of the harm that will come to his friend, for he knows about gamma rays. Unable to free his compatriot, he sacrifices himself by throwing his body over his friend to shield him. Yet Banner has a PhD, is brilliant, and is working with high levels of gamma radiation yet is ignorant of the fact that nearly all the gammas will pass through his body. Instead of just his friend getting irratiated and cooked, they both will. Luckily Dr. Banner somehow briefly gains a density superior to that of dupleted uranium and his friend is saved while Dr. Banner’s DNA is supercharged by the radiation, allowing him to become the hulk. And no one notices that his friend should be dead.
This might be bad memory at work here, but when the injured guy in Gattaca
torches himself to death in the incinerator
Doesn’t he activate the thing after he closes the door?
If so, what sort of incinerator has an on/off switch on the inside?
[QUOTE=yams!!]
My first thought was “what the hell! I’m not a hemophiliac and my mom never let me play in an abandoned steel yard!”
And I became very bitter about my childhood, which was wasted in playgrounds and front yards, with nary a visit to a steel yard, rendering plant, or abandoned nuclear waste processing facility.
And then I recovered my senses, and realized that, actually, what I was feeling was not bitterness towards my childhood, but a growing sense that I had just paid $9 to watch the Absolute Worst Movie Ever. I had suspected as much since the dawn of the opening credits, but it was that scene which confirmed my suspicions.
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I just wanted to chime in and mention how much this made me smile, even when I’m having a truly horendous sinus day.
[QUOTE=JohnT]
This might be bad memory at work here, but when the injured guy in Gattaca
torches himself to death in the incinerator
Doesn’t he activate the thing after he closes the door?
If so, what sort of incinerator has an on/off switch on the inside?
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See Suicide Booth. Though I can see the purpose for having only an off switch on the inside.
Hm. I thought it was explained in the movie that the contraption was the normal, every-day house incinerator. My bad.
I only saw the movie once, and that was some time ago, but I was left with the impression that he was sitting under the rocket as it blasted off. His death and the blast off were simultaneous, weren’t they?
[QUOTE=maggenpye]
Almost 100 posts and I’m the first to mention the Indiana Jones ‘inflatable raft as parachute’?
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Mythbusters tested that, and while a life raft didn’t work, an inflatable evacuation slide DID work. So it’s only one link away from something plausible.
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
That could be a stupid movie moment in several ways. Hemophilia generally doesn’t manifest in girls, although they carry the gene on one X chromosome.
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Yeah. That was only the first Stupid Movie Moment. (Well, the first Stupid Movie Moment in that particular scene.) Most hemophiliacs are boys. There are girl hemophiliacs, or girls with bleeding/clotting disorders, but they are rare.
Fine.
This Little Dead Girl has already proved herself to be unusual, seeing as how she came back from the dead. I can suspend my disbelief a little but further and allow that, ok, maybe she was a rare female hemophiliac.
This rarity is besides the point, however, as it basks in the blazingly, blindingly, amazingly Light of Stupid that radiates from the next sentence, about letting her hemophiliac daughter play in an abandoned steel yard.
Unless your kid is born with a genetic disorder where their body replaces keratin with titanium alloy, rendering them immune to cuts, scrapes, and falling, rusted circular saws, you generally dont let your kid off to play in an abandoned steel yard.
I am not a parent myself, but I would imagine most parents dont let their kids play around industrial areas of any sort, and I would imagine (or hope, rather) that parents of hemophiliacs would be even more alert to potential hazards lurking in their children’s favorite play locations.
An abandoned cotton ball and gauze factory? Maybe. An abandoned steel yard? I think not.
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yams!!
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
I only saw the movie once, and that was some time ago, but I was left with the impression that he was sitting under the rocket as it blasted off. His death and the blast off were simultaneous, weren’t they?
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He wasn’t sitting under the blast, they just had the two visuals spliced together for dramatic effect - it was two separate events that were “linked”. I’m sure it was an “very day household” incinerator, as Ethan Hawke uses it earlier on in film after cleaning himself. Whether it’s only him who has one or if everyone does isn’t made clear (or indeed why they’re using a scrub and burn system rather than just showering).
Oh, and I just caught The Legend of Zorro on TV. Wow. A lot of absurd stuff, like all the civil war talk in 1850 but the topper was when the Confederate General stepped forward at the party. C’mon!
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
(or indeed why they’re using a scrub and burn system rather than just showering).
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I thought the scrub and burn system was intended to destroy any loose skin cells and hair which might have been found and would have indicated that the main character was posing as someone else. Remember, in the end of the movie the whole place went into red alert because he dropped an eyelash.
In The Quick and the Dead, Sharon Stone shoots Gene Hackman in a gunfight, and he realizes he’s been shot by noticing the ray of light shining through the hole in his chest making a spot on the ground. I decided at that point that I should look on the movie as a farce, but I still didn’t like it any better.