No, that’s a movie about ordinary people who are put into a coma in order to harvest their organs, not clones. I specifically remember the movie I saw was abut clones. I think it was “The Clonus Horror”, and the part I remember was probably the growing to the prime of life stage before the they were killed and their spare parts frozen.
Well, this has been a plot point in a few movies and books. How long ago are you talking about?
More in TV or films than in books, but the amount of injuries that our heroes can take and still fight / run / reason / have sex / etc. is amazing.
As a military guy I’ll admit that in the heat of an exchange while in the moment and filled with adrenaline, one can keep at it for a very short time, but pain and damage that our hero take and keep going is beyond all reason.
And the patients in Coma were not floating in liquid; they were suspended from wires attached at their wrists, ankles, etc., supposedly to prevent bedsores. I was reading the IMDb trivia a while ago and it said that the performers playing the coma patients had to hold themselves stiff as a board while being filmed, and it was very difficult.
I also recently discovered that the building used for the Jefferson Institute is not far from me. I’ll have to check it out.
There’s another CS thread right now about spotting familiar actors in roles from before they became famous. In Coma, look for Tom Selleck.
Books in which the main character (always a girl) is thrilled to start the new school year with her BFF, only to find out that BFF is now interested only in makeup, fashion, and (most of all) boys, and has all-new friends, leaving the MC behind. (Often she becomes a mean girl.)
However, the MC winds up having a great year because she makes one or more awesome new friends and has incredible experiences and blah, blah, blah. She’s sorry for her former BFF.
Never have I ever seen a book about the former BFF’s character.
It might be a different movie, but in P:TCH the closing shot is a roomful of frozen clones in plastic bags. They do look a little bit like theyr’e floating in liquid.
(If anyone is interested the Roku channel has a 24/7 MST3K channel. There are a lot of repeats but I’ve been able to catch some episodes I missed and see some old favorites.)
Don’t watch Oblivion with Tom Cruise, just sayin’…
One of my peeves is characters hiding behind car doors and not getting shot as the bullets don’t penetrate. Umm, a 7.62 round will blow through a cinder block or a small tree, you think a 2 mm thick piece of steel is going to stop it?
Yeah, I was a pretty young kid, so it was awhile ago. I’d be willing to bet it was that same movie. Prime has a lot of MST3K episodes. Maybe I’ll seek this one out.
No one ever says, ‘Goodbye’ or something similar when hanging up the phone.
Getting ‘knocked out’ for a measurable length of time is a far more serious injury than film would have you believe.
The amount of bullets fired from people with no clear access to a handy ammo dump.
Any number of handy places to take cover are movie-bulletproof, like an overturned couch or kitchen table, or an ordinary home wall made of plaster & lathe or drywall.
One particularly egregious example was a movie called ‘The International’, which featured a machine gun shootout in the Guggenheim Museum. It’s the museum that has a series of floors around an open circular atrium area in the middle, with solid white, maybe waist-high railings. I’ll post an article with an interior pic below.
Anyway, the bad guys were shooting innumerable rounds of machine gun fire at the good guys across the atrium, while the good guys hunkered down below the fortunately bulletproof.railing walls. I remember thinking at the time how forward-thinking Frank Lloyd Wright was to armor-harden those railing walls against machine gun fire. He thought of everything!
Well, this probably isn’t what you are looking for, but 16 years ago there was a pretty entertaining movie about clones made specifically so rich people could clone themselves and have plenty of “backup” parts available should the need arise. These clones are kept in a blissful state of unawareness, and when one is called up, the myth is that they’re going to visit The Island.
Things in fiction that annoy me? I don’t like protagonists with overly superior powers, like child geniuses or superheroes (Dirk Pitt anyone) who are capable of continuous herculean feats, but who work as “scientists.”
And it’s called Never Let Me Go.
What gets me is that every time the one with the rife will place the crosshairs on the target ~1/2 mile distant and will still manage to take it down with one shot. Or the shooter does not lead a moving target at all yet still hits it every time.
From films ad nauseam.
In a protracted fight involving 5 villains versus 1 hero I am constantly impressed by the politeness in evidence from the villains, whereby they confront the hero one by one instead of leaping upon him en masse and curtailing the fight scene to about 5 seconds.
I have a friend who loves kung fu movies, sometimes the older and the stupider the better.
So while he’s watching them, the rest of us are screwing around and adding our own dialog: “Excuse me, Sensei Boss Ninja? So, we, well me and most of the guys, were wondering if we could maybe just this once all gang up on the good guy at once. We think it’d be good for morale if we, y’know, actually beat him once. Wha… no, we all know how ninjas fight… it’s NOT that we don’t appreciate the job and the pension and the vacation policy, we just think… sigh, okay…”
[and, commence traditional one-at-a-time fight]
Yeah, most fitting example is James Bond. He’s beaten up 7.8 times on average per film, but as soon as all has been cleared, he’s always instantly ready for sexy times (mostly on a boat in the middle of an ocean).
Time travel always annoys me. The character travels forward or backward in time yet stays in the exact same place.
Except that the Earth is whizzing around the sun at a bit shy of 70,000 mph and the entire solar system is whipping around the center of the Milky Way at about half a million mph.
You might not have moved, but the Earth sure did.
[Space Core]Spaaaace!!! I’m in space.[/Space Core]
The good news is you’re only going to have about 10 seconds of useful consciousness, so you won’t suffer for long (unless you’re a space core, and then you’re happy).
I have faith that a society that advanced will have solved such a problem.
Not to mention that watching Marty McFly asphyxiate as his DeLorean began a long space journey at 88 MPH wouldn’t make a very entertaining movie. Maybe a short.
I’m always amazed that so many people think this is a gotcha.
Since no one knows how time travel works, why is everyone so sure the traveler doesn’t move in space as well as time? And if you’re not moving, what are you not moving relative to?