I just need to add EVERY movie where they chamber a round in the firearm for emphasis.
What - you walked in withOUT a weapon that you could immediately fire? You did not have a round in the chamber? You were just waiting for the right moment to finish prepping your firearm?
Pisses me off every single time.
In the legend when Arthur kills Mordred with a lance the sunlight shining through was visible on his shadow. Dante references it in Canto XXXII of The Inferno
“They came out of one body; and Caïna can hold
No shade worthier—no matter how far you go
To seek one—to be fixed in this frozen mold;
Not him whose breast and shadow at one blow
Were pierced by Arthur’s hand; nor the treacherous
Focaccia; nor this one in front of me whose head so”
It may be stupid, but it’s stupidity with a rich tradition. Plus, don’t you love it? “Not him whose breast and shadow at one blow were pierced by Arthur’s hand.” Sure, it could never happen, but so what?
Still, beats the movies where a gun chambers a round by itself because the guy holding it suddenly pointed it at someone.
Yes, that is true. It has always been my impression that the Jude Law character overrode any safety features so that he could be inside the incinerator when it lit.
BTW, a great moment in that scene, if you look carefully, the color of the flames turn his medal from silver to gold. sniffle
That’s actually fascinating. It’s not making me love the movie, but at least that scene had some basis to it. I’ve read the The Inferno, but I had no memory of this particualar reference. However, Treacherous Focaccia would be a great band name!
I think I can explain this one. IIRC, the nameplate was damaged, ‘oya’ was scorched out and pitted. (Extreme long range Klingon target practice?) That left V ger. Now, somewhere along the line, the space probe becomes sentient (met a race of sentient machines who ‘souped it up’ wasn’t it?) If the nameplate was damaged before It could read, or if it was given the name by it’s benefactors, it would make sense to be named V’ger.
I hated that, because I hate anything that reminds me of Zardoz.
On another forum, a picture of Sean Connery in his red diaper was my sig pic. I was offered a lot of money to remove it. I never did. I left it until I was weary of it.
I guess I can’t do that here.
Sad, really. 
I had to look up Zardoz, and I still don’t see the similarity.
But that image of Sean Connery in the red diaper, ponytail and Zapata mustache is now burned into my brain, thankyouverymuch.
But every one in the cinema groaned in disgust and a later review pinpointed that as the final straw in an already bad movie.
It may have been plausible with a bit of equipment they didn’t have, but the scene as shot, was obviously stupid.
Dan Brown used a similar raspberry in the face of physics when one of his characters survived a fall from a great height using some other equally inadequate means of deceleration. (I’m still blocking most of the details, thankfully.)
If it’s so plausible, I invite both writers to jump off a cliff with an umbrella. 
Sean connery realises the god is a fake when he discovers an old book called
The WiZARD of OZ
First thing that came to mind when I saw this thread was the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner Commando, specifically the sequence early in the film where a group of thugs escort him onto a commercial flight to South America for some nefarious purpose. More stupid on display than I’ve seen in any other five minutes of film, ever.
Things kick off with Arnie killing his escort by elbowing him to death (?!) without any of the other passengers noticing. He then gets up and walks back to the lavatory during the takeoff roll with only the mildest of protests from a flight attendant, somehow manages to get from there down into the cargo hold, then somehow manages to get from the cargo hold into the well containing the nose landing gear (this is a special plane with direct connecting access between all these points, of course), rides the gear until the plane takes off, then casually drops (from a couple of hundred feet and traveling at a forward speed of about 200 MPH) into a marsh conveniently located at the end of the runway (at LAX, in case you never noticed the big swamp there), then gets up without a scratch and walks away to look for a ride. Hey, well, he’s Arnold (actually in the movie, his name is John Matrix, which of course is just as realistic as the rest of the scene).
I’ve seen that sequence at least five times and I’m still amazed at the sheer audacity of the filmmakers in trying to sell that as even slightly plausible.
It’s about as plausible as the overweight Freddy Mercury impersonator (with the chainmail vest) who plays the bad guy.
No I got this but just how did Hawke’s character get one if they’re not common in other people’s houses? Did he have the personal incinerator man come around to build one for him?
Firefly did. Serenity didn’t. Check it out:
Starting from about 2:40, you can hear the sound of the explosion on the reaver ship, the ion cloud makes lightning noises, ships make swooping noises as they bank, weapon fire makes noise, ect. I believe it was in the commentary to the new print of the movie that Joss tried to rationalize it as being all inside the atmostphere of the planet, but that’s horseshit and he knows it. He certainly can’t explain away the sound of the explosion on the Reaver ship on the other side of the ion cloud.
But there is a reason for the convention. It does add excitement at the expense of all realism to add sound to space battles. I was disappointed that after Firefly gained so much praise for keeping space silent, Serenity went back to the conventional bells and whistles. But ultimately I’m more bothered by the sheer physical impossibility of the battle that took place.
If you’re going to bite the bullet and just run with the convention that space battles make exciting noises, then at least be consistent. One of the new Star Wars films started with a peaceful shot of a planet, then panned to show a space battle which we could now suddenly hear. Is Lucas being philosophical here? If ships battle in space, and nobody sees it, does it make noise?
“Let off some steam, Bennett.” 
(Which leads us to implausible scenario #533 in that film: why does steam come out of the pipe, rather than steam-and-guts?)
While the rest of your post is right on - and you didn’t even get into him throwing circular saw blades spinning fast enough to cleanly amputate arms - this bit was actually OK - he elbowed the guy first, then grabbed him around the neck and broke it. It’s a fairly brutal scene.
Have they considered grassroots political action?
My nomination is a scene in The Thin Red Line.
Sailboat
Nah, it was just covered with some black gunk that Kirk scratched off with his fingernail. Sure, superintelligent machine that knows all the secrets of the universe. Except the recipe for Formula 409, apparently.