Or computers that tell you the letters that you got right while guessing the password. And yet it still takes several minutes for the hacker to get the password. With those clues I could get it in about 2 minutes (without any “auto-password guessing” program’s help).
Easy. When people can SEE underwater. Yep, I don’t know if you ever looked at something under water but its really fuzzy…
That & character foils…ick
Any movie where the pivotal scene consists of people ticky-ticky-ticking away at the computer, usually with some sort of countdown underway that they need to beat. Why go to a movie for that; I get that at work every day.
In Nutty Professor II, the way Janet Jackson’s character makes sure Sherman Klumpp is back to normal is by giving him an ass-high number and asking him for the square root. the number ends in 2 and the answer he gives ends in 5.
WITBBFB? Give me ONE number that ends in 5 whose square ends in 2!
I hate the instant explosions in James Bond movies. The worst example: the chase scene on the mountain with the para-copters. One of the parachutes snags a tree, the copter swings around into some snow-covered shrubs, and explodes instantly. There is no time for the fuel tank to rupture, it doesn’t hit anything hard, it just turns into a fireball the instant it touches the bushes.
Also, I hate the scenes where the hero/heroine swims underwater for up to four minutes, exhaling the whole time.
Any plot that revolves around biological warfare. I’m thinking MI:2. What in the world is an “antivirus”?
There was another movie who’s name I have blocked out where the lovely blond heroine is dying of Ebola, and is CURED in a matter of seconds. Once she get the antidote, that is.
THERE IS NO ANTIDOTE FOR A VIRAL INFECTON!!
There, I feel better now.
I don’t have a problem with banking spaceships - I can offer two reasonable expectations: 1) the pilots are trained inside the atmosphere, so it’s just habit, or, 2) the pilots don’t wanna be smacked against the side of the cockpit while they’re trying to dogfight, so they bank to keep the g-forces pinning them to their seats instead.
Now on to what bugs me:
Movies with no sense of continuity from one sequel to the next. See the Highlander sequels for an excellent example of this. “Hmm, this seems to make sense. Let’s change it and see if anyone notices…”
Not everyone is a snob.
Not everyone has incredibly rich parents.
Not everyone is seeking a 6-figure corporate job upon graduation.
Not everyone wants to join the secret societies. They’re largely considered jokes.
Not everyone is a 3rd generation Ivy Legacy. In my class, about 7% are Legacy.
The population is at least 20-30% non-white. Also, over half of the students usually come from public schools.
Dorm rooms in any school are not big. It doesn’t matter if you’re a senior and your daddy’s rich.
Not everyone drinks themselves into a stupor regularly or has a cocaine problem.
As a side note, I suggest that you review what real financial aid is like.
I just saw a commercial for what looks like a fantastically bad movie (Vertical Limit, I think) and they use my least favorite cliche about 19 times just in the commercial. Character falls off {building, cliff, bridge, scary high place} and, about 10 or 15 feet down, reaches out, usually with one hand, and grabs a hand hold, magically defying the law of physics. Half of the time, the the hero is holding some babe with his other hand.
OK, let’s review. In the movie, the character clings to sheer surfaces like a gecko, and momentum does not exist.
In real life, the character continues to plunge to his death, but now with a shattered hand.
I have to agree with my fellow Scottsman in regards to the utter lack of continuity in the “Highlander” Films.
When I saw the last one, I had to be physicaly restrained by my wife and our friend to keep from going up to the projectionist’s booth and ripping the film to shreds right there.
(So-called spoiler ahead, as if the film weren’t spoilt enough on its own)
I mean didn’t Connor get the PRIZE at the end of the first one? They said he did! I mean they even used other characters from the first one! Didn’t they watch it to the end???
Sorry. I am ok now.
Oh and to prevent this from becoming a complete hijack, I hate it when the film employs some complicated solution to the hero’s problem when a much easier, quicker solution is available. I realise that “If he did it that way, the film would be 45 seconds long”, but if that’s the case than the film shouldn’t have been made!
I was thinking that very thing when I watched that preview. My thought was ‘He’s gonna hit that rock-face at 60 mph’.
I used to hate, but now am amused by, the way people in movies run behind metal railings to protect themselves from an onslaught of bullets whistling their way. Oh, it’s not that they expect the railing to protect them… but it invariably does. Just once I’d like someone running up/down a metal staircase to get filled with lead, and not one bullet to go ‘PANG’ and richocet away… just once 
How Bond is asked if he wants another card. There is no player decision in baccarat except if you want to play banker or player at the first of the hand. But I guess it adds to the suspense.
He could always play blackjack like Austin Powers. 
“Cigarette burns”! Actually I’ve develop kind of a fondness for them since Fight Club. Imagining Tyler back there…
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I don’t have a problem with banking spaceships - I can offer two reasonable expectations: 1) the pilots are trained inside the atmosphere, so it’s just habit, or, 2) the pilots don’t wanna be smacked against the side of the cockpit while they’re trying to dogfight, so they bank to keep the g-forces pinning them to their seats instead.
Uh, that’s not the problem. Unless you are constantly ejecting matter in just the right way, you won’t bank when you try to turn your spaceship. To say it’s because the pilots trained in atmosphere is on a par with Bugs Bunny’s plane suddenly stopping five feet from the ground because he “ran out of gas”. Funny, but things don’t work like that. If you want to see how spaceships REALLY move in vacuum, look at the old Apollo mission films. The LEM rotated around its center of gravity, moved in severely straight lines, and seemed to stop on a dime. It doesn’t look natural (to our intuition, which was nurtured in an atmosphere), which is why the movies generally don’t show ships maneuvering correctly.
About the only movie to get it right was 2001: A Space Odyssey (although I think 2010 did as well, and Apollo 13)
did alien resurrection get it right with the beasty being sucked out of the pinpoint hole near the dreadful ending?
Ever seen Copycat? The uses of computers are just ridiculous. For example, Sigourney Weaer’s character wakes up from a nightmare, and goes down stairs to chat. The computer is already logged into a chatroom, of course. She asks if anyone is there. One person responds. She types two sentences, and walks away. Hello? How rude is that?
Later, after the bad guy sends a self-destructing(!?) email, she sends him an invitation to meet. How, exactly? They don’t know who he is, or where he is, and supposedly all traces of his email were wiped out. Yet he “gets her message.” WTF?
Actually, it’s always bothered me when people treat a hole into vacuum as damned near fatal (a la “Alien Resurrection”, or the book version of “Goldfinger”). Having worked with vacuum for years, I can assure you that you don’t get sucked like spaghetti through a hole. Nor does the portion of your skin near the hole turn black and necrotic. It’s not much worse than sticking your palm over the end of the vacuum cleaner hose. You’d need really high pressure on one side and zero on the other side to really do any damage (aside from cases where a particularly vulnerable body part – an eye or a sphincter – is placed over the vacuum hole).
Ok, first - I gotta offer up another example of lack of sequel discontinuity. Did anyone see Blair Witch 2. What the HELL was that? Can we say RANDOM?? I’m not gonna rant anymore but oh my god…it’s worth the money to make fun of that. Another example - Halloween 3. It’s supposedly part of the “Halloween” series, but it’s “plot” didn’t even include Michael Meyers or Jamie Lee Curtis…at all…no joke. Seriously, someone tell me what the hell was going on with that? 
Ok, things that piss me off. I can’t believe no one’s specified cliches in horror movies!
- The chicks who get killed are always big breasted and good-looking…and mildly retarded. I swear, if something was chasing me around the house, I wouldn’t run into the farthest, most unescapable room in the house. Maybe that’s just me… :rolleyes:
- The killer always walks at an even pace, somehow gaining on the sprinting victim.
- The victim will fall and/or stumble a minimum of 3 times during his/her chase. If it’s a girl being chase, this number is increased, and directly proportional to the size of her chest.
- As mentioned in “Scream,” no sex, drugs, or alcohol. A brutal mass killing in will inevitably ensue.
Come up with something new!!
Me too! I was thinking: That guy is gonna be squashed like a bug on a windshield.