Cats, too. Every time a cat appears onscreen, they have to overdub a “meow” just so you know that you are, in fact, looking at a cat.
Well, Israel believed the first reports, and was building it when the outbreak was just a few scattered Zacks. Although someone pointed out in the original World War Z thread that the current Israeli border fortifications are better than the wall.
Don’t forget the “sports bar” earlier in the movie that Anakin and Obiwan chase the shape shifting assassin into, with what looks like football being played by droids on big screens.
I’m sure I’ve posted this before, but these were big thing that made me hate the prequels, total lack of imagination.
Compare to one of the great scenes of all cinema, the cantina scene in the first Star Wars movie. It was so alien and intriguing and imaginative, like another reality where a bar exists that dozens of species frequent.
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When the first (now #4) SW soundtrack album came out, the liner notes for the Cantina Band track had John Williams saying he and Lucas had the idea that these aliens found some Benny Goodman sheet music under a rock somewhere and this is how they interpreted it. And I thought that was super clever.
Or the ambush which succeeds by lurking offscreen; we can’t see it, so the hero can’t either. That one particularly annoyed me in Phantom Menace, where Darth Maul bushwhacks our heroes as they traipse across the desert by riding up behind them on a noisy hoverbike.
The Mythbusters tried to replicate that stunt in one of their “movie myths” episodes. Needless to say, it didn’t work.
So did they go out to sea from the town of Brighton? Because that’s heading south, and the question is not about penguins and is more about whether Santa is in the South Pole…
Yeah, I thought about that. They do go south from Brighton, but the thing is that they only pass over winter landscapes. So, as far as I can make out, they turn around at some point and swing back in over land heading north (possibly around Norway, judging by the terrain). It seems to make the most sense (for certain unusual values of “sense”) that way. A long-haul flight across the Atlantic all the way south is, I suppose, not something we can rule out, but it doesn’t seem to work from what we see. IMO, at least. Watch the clip, I think you’ll get what I mean.
I suspect that’s an allusion, if that’s the word, to the original 1933 version of King Kong, which is equally glossed over. The '33 film does contain the line “We’ll build a raft and float him to the ship,” but that really doesn’t cover the logistics of it.
There is a fascinating interview with Merian C. Cooper, the producer-director of the original Kong. It’s found in Tom Weaver’s book Earth Vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers, even though Weaver did not conduct the interview. Cooper was asked about that, and about how they were able to sneak Kong into New York and onto the stage of a Broadway theater without anyone finding out about it. Charmingly enough, his response was basically, “Look, it’s a movie about a giant ape! You gotta give me a few unrealistic things.”
That’s not true.
Giant prehistoric Rhedosaurs can do it, too. And earlier:
So, for that matter, can unrealistic-looking T. Rexs (earlier still):
I’'m sure it’s been mentioned in other threads, but the ending of the Bond film Goldeneye has the most egregious example of that I’ve ever seen, where a company of US Marines, including a squadron of Huey helicopters, are magically both invisible and completely silent until they actually appear on-camera.
I must see these movies.
This sums up the whole thread for me (from “Gilligan’s Island”):
Skipper - “That’s Hollywood for you. Any fool knows that wolfsbane is only used against werewolves.”
Mary Ann - “But it was a very good picture.”
Skipper - “Well, maybe so, but a glaring mistake like that makes the whole picture unbelievable.”
I don’t know if you watch Grimm, but they had a particularly absurd example of that kind of thing in the season finale last week. Nick did his “spidey-sense” thing and heard a helicopter coming, and then not 2 seconds later, it appeared over the treetops.
I looked at my wife and said “They’d all have been able to hear that thing coming for miles.” If Nick really did have spidey-senses, he’d have heard the helicopter coming for minutes before it showed up, changing (I suspect) the entire resolution of the episode.
Apologies if I’ve mentioned this but…
In high school we watched Saving Private Ryan and there was some character building scene where Matt Damon is talking (maybe the scene with his farting brother or soemthing) and they were grisled WW2 vets, in the field, covered in mud, with BRIGHT ASS WHITE TEETH! Took me right out of the scene
Again, like I said, perfectly plausible that Israel could build a 100 foot high concrete wall around the country in a few days, just in case, on the say-so of one guy. No problem for me there. They built a wall, it’s easy to believe because there’s the wall.
I can believe the wall. The wall is not the issue here.
I can’t believe that they build the wall and don’t put any soldiers on the wall. The wall they build is supposed to be entirely passive. It keeps out zombies because it’s a 100 foot high concrete wall, not because it’s a safe place from which to blast zaks to smithereens from 100 feet up.
It’s as bad as in Pacific Rim, where to “explain” why conventional weapons like fighter jets are useless against kaiju, the jets fly within a few feet of the kaiju and get swatted. Maybe the pilot could have stayed back a few hundred meters? I mean, if I’m flying an F-15 firing missiles at a gigantic city-destroying monster, maybe I don’t try to fly between his legs?
Again, it’s not that I don’t believe that the best way to fight giant monsters is to build giant robots to punch them. It is perfectly obvious that is the best way to fight giant monsters. Any other method clearly won’t work. Giant monsters need to be punched by giant robots, end of conversation.
But you don’t establish this obvious truth–that we need giant robots controlled by the power of friendship to punch the monsters–by showing an infomercial-level incompetence by the conventional forces. Wow, It’s so hard dumping pasta into a bowl, it goes all over and half ends up in the sink! Blankets are so confusing! I’m so tired of accidentally dropping my phone in the toilet! I keep flying my F-15 within arm’s distance of the kaiju, and he keeps swatting me! There’s got to be a better way!
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In The Avengers, Age of Ultron, I’m OK with all the super powers.
What bothered me is Quicksilver (the really fast guy) moving people out of the way at super fast speed would be just as injurious to them as getting hit by the train they’re about to get hit by. Grabbing someone with your arms at that speed should basically rip them in half.
In Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, my son was most bothered by the notion you could walk from Washington, DC to Gettysburg in one night.
This may not be as prominent any more, but used to be no matter what a car skidded on, it sounded like rubber on asphalt. Tires on ice? Tires on sand (in the desert)? Tires on gravel? Hydroplane? All the same sound.
Same for “tearing out.”