As a Notre Dame alum what gets me about Rudy was the liberty that they took with the facts. The game Rudy got into was portrayed as the season’s biggest game, but in reality it wasn’t exactly a clash of the titans. The Irish and Georgia Tech were both 6-2 heading into the game, which is nice but isn’t earth shattering. After the Rudy game the Irish played two more games that season. The Rudy game was the last HOME game of the year and was naturally a big deal to the seniors playing their final home game, but it wasn’t any big deal to anyone else. Calling Georgia Tech one of the best offensive teams in the country that year exaggerates the point too. GT averaged 24.5 points per game, which was good, but Oklahoma averaged 28.6 points a game and Ohio State averaged 32. It wasn’t even a close game, as Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 24-3. Source College Football Data Warehouse
This is the first halfway reasonable explaination I’ve heard, but I still don’t buy it. Was it actually impossible to book passage from New York City to (say) Liverpool in mid-to-late 1941?
I’ve done these rants before, as they represent half of my Movie Shit List-
Jurassic Park III- Ok, ok, we’ll bring you back out to the dinosaur-infested death-trap of an island. Wait, what do you mean you can’t pay us? Darn, maybe we should have checked on that beforehand.
The Day After Tomorrow- So Dennis Quaid (or Harrison Ford on a bender, it’s hard to tell) risks his life, dragging himself through miles and miles of horrendous snow and unprecedented temperatures to reach his stranded son in the NYC library… to do WHAT?! What the hell was getting to his son going to accomplish, unless he had a blizzard-ready school bus hidden under his jacket?
Return of the Jedi: C3PO becomes the translator bot for Jabba the Hut. The bounty hunter shows up with Chewbacca in chains. The bounty hunter speaks his native buzzing language to C3PO. C3PO tells Jabba what the bounty hunter said in English. Jabba responds in his native slug language. C3PO tells the bounty hunter what Jabba said in English. And so on.
If both parties can understand English, why do they need a translator bot? Just speak English to each other. You can still make your snide remarks in your native language.
Yes, I understand the possibility that Lucas had C3PO there for audience members who couldn’t read the subtitles, but I’m talking real-world context here. No blackmarket negotiator worth his weight in slug drippings is going to let it be known that he understands the bridge language.
I have a bigger problem with Affleck’s character. Ok there were some Americans who went to the RAF or the RCAF. Some returned after America entered the war to join the American army. Some stayed with the RAF for the duration. However the character in the movie is so improbable that it’s silly. Some how we are to believe that some American joined the RAF and became a hero in the Battle of Britain, then returned to the US Army Aircorps before we entered the war, gets stationed in Pearl Harbor, manages to get a P40 in the air during the raid, shoots down Zeros left and right, immediately gets picked to go on the Doolittle raid, somehow is rated to fly both P40s and B-25s and again is the hero of the day. And somehow this guy is not a household name. Someone who did that would have been the most famous hero of the war.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Yeah, I know. Fertile ground for plotholes and ridiculous scenes. But there is one exchange that was really bad.
Peyton Wells: We find the building with the thickest walls and strongest doors and we barricade ourselfs in, sit tight, wait for help.
Alice: There won’t be any help. According to Ashford, Umbrella know they can’t contain the infection. So at sunrise this morning, Raccoon City will be completely sanitized.
Terri Morales: What do you mean by “sanitized”?
Alice: A precision tactical nuclear device.
Jill Valentine: What yield?
Alice: Five kilotons.
Jill Valentine: [scoffs] Fuck me.
When you or I are about to get hit with a nuclear weapon, we don’t really worry about yield, but not Jill Valentine!
Makes you wonder what she would have said if it was only say… 2 kilotons?
I’ve actually dissected this little error before and the problem is one of exposition and counts, not as a plothole per se, but as a gaffe.
Had Affleck said “I gotta get on the train that’s taking me to the airport” or had he gotten on a plane/ship itself, the scene wouldn’t beg the question. Perhaps the more persnickety among us would wonder about taking a flight to London during the Blitz, but the question of how he took the train to London would have never come up.
Me, I just assumed he was going to London, Ontario. Though I was surprised at the amount of German war activity when he got there - it’s amazing what the history books leave out! :eek:
Makes you wonder what they’re are going to do with the story of the autistic player scoring 20pts. I’m thinking Matt Damon as the autistic kid. Jessica Alba as the love interest (or terminally ill sister), to whom he makes a promise he’ll score 20pts in the game. And digital copies of Manute Bol as undefeated (and possibly EVIL) opposing team.
Umbrella Nukes Racoon City. Their cover story is: A nuclear plant melted down.
Yeah, I’m sure that’ll fool anyone who has the slightest idea what the functional difference is between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor, like say the NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commission).
And I don’t care how powerful Umbrella is. A lot of people are going to be asking questions about a city that has just become a big radioactive hole in the ground.
Such as:
-Why was this “Nuclear Power Plant” right in the center of town? Normally those things are out in the boonies(because Nuclear plants tend to cause nearby Real Estate values to drop tremendously).
-Why does this “Nuclear Power Plant” have a meltdown similar to a nuclear explosion?
-Why didn’t anyone know there was a “Nuclear Power Plant” in the middle of Raccoon city just before it melted down? Doesn’t the NRC keep an eye on these things? How about the Department of Energy?
I’ve always said that Rueteger’s biggest victory wasn’t getting into the tail end of one meaningless game, but was getting Hollywood to make a movie out of of it which enabled him to become famous.
