People walking into a bar and ordering “a beer.”
Of all the unrealistic shit in movies, nothing pisses me off more than that one.
OK, this doesn’t flout the laws of physics or anything, but it screams “MOVIE” so badly that it always shakes me out of my disbelief:
The time-elapse montage. It happens in EVERY Rocky or Karate Kid movie, and about 95% of other action movies, as well as most romantic films.
You know, the two-minute montage of the main characters learning karate, or refurbishing the new headquarters, or gradually falling in love while washing cars and drinking milkshakes - usually set to theme music. Typically four to six months passes during this two minutes of screen time. It just feels fake, lazy and forced to me, and it jars me every time.
The Pixar movie Cars.
They’re anthropomorphic cars!
The anthropomorphic bugs in A Bug’s Life didn’t bother me.
Anthropomorphic toys in Toy Story and Toy Story 2? Fine.
Anthropomorphic fish in Finding Nemo? Still no problem.
But anthropomorphic cars? With seats and windshield wipers? In a world with no drivers? You lost me, folks.
Besides which, 2006, the same year An Inconvenient Truth came out, was exactly the wrong time to come out with a movie glorifying America’s car culture.
On that note, the whole notion in 24 that:
- The quickest way to get info from anyone is to torture them
- That information will be reliable
seems a bit suspect to me.
Batman Begins is a fine move, except for the small point that the master plan of the Scarecrow involves vaporizing all the water , yet somehow manages not to vaporize the water in the people, just the water in the pipes.
Why do you hate America?
I am notorious for being willing to suspend disbelief on just about anything, only to get hung up on a very small detail that no one else notices or cares about.
In My Big, Fat Greek Wedding, it drives me crazy how they make a big comic production about how the non-Greek fiance is a vegetarian, and the Greek relatives are completely flummoxed about what this means and what he can/will eat. This could all be resolved in about 10 seconds if the bride said “he’ll eat anything we eat when we fast for Lent” - the Greek Orthodox fast is strictly meatless, and Greeks still entertain with elaborate meals during Lent so they’d have plenty of options.
General Lee 01, the car seen in the intro and extro to the show, survived.
That should really help him focus on the task at hand. :rolleyes:
I assume by “the show”, you are speaking of the Dukes of Hazard. (I mentioned no show.) TV series, or movie?
Wiki on the TV show: The Dukes of Hazzard - Wikipedia
If the car you speak of indeed survived the TV show, it was because it was either never used for stunts, or one of the few that has been rebuilt after said stunt(s). Heh.
The end of Total Recall where Arnold & the girl almost burst from the low pressure ( yes, I know that doesn’t actually happen ), but are just fine a few minutes later. As opposed to nasty, complexion marring burst blood vessels and bleeding under the skin, which is the least of what they should’ve gotten from such dramatic distortions.
That would actually have been a good explanation. What kind of conception would telepaths have of information security, after all ?
Same with me.
Belligerent and numerous.
You are of course missing the simplest explanation. Macs are alien computers. Therefore it is simple to write an get a virus for the bad alien computer.
::: Ducks and runs:::
Not to mention that a mothership has dialup access. I’ll have to doublecheck the specs, but I’m pretty sure V.Everything didn’t have a provision for alien motherships.
And then there’s Harrison Ford in Firewall. Tape a chunk of a fax machine to a monitor and scan the scrolling text into an iPod.
Is there any tech movie that a geek can’t find something to :smack: ?
I can suspend disbelief to an extraordinary extent (hell, I’m a Doctor Who fan) but that pulls me out of the moment every single time.
OK, let me be the requisite Buffy freak who points out that in “Once More, With Feeling” this actually had a rational (in the Buffyverse) reason for happening, and it was key to the whole plot. 
Especially when a female character gives a phone number to a male character. I’ll be sitting there trying to figure out if she’s being insultingly dishonest or if that’s supposed to be her number.
Worse is when they try to play it off by saying KL5-…, in a modern show.
That excuse is to lame, you’d think they’ve suffered brain damage[/homer]
I know. I could be disarming a bomb or 15 seconds from figuring out cancer and if a hot blonde were blowing me, I’d hafta look down and at least say “Oh? What do we have here?”