Kookaburra? You mean the "HooHooHooHooHoo HaaHaaHaaHaaHaa bird? (That’s what they called it on MST3K!)
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Oh dear gawd, I have a headache from laughing so hard. I must have missed that episode (which one was it?) but that is an excellent description of its vocalization.
Almost as fun as the “Humuhumunukunukupua’a” (drives my spellchecker insane!). I’m going to have to add the Hoo5Haa5 Bird to my dictionary somehow!
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[sub][That last line would be funnier if I could get that hang of doing exponents. I go the hang of ‘sub’, but ‘super’ doesn’t seem to be working. Dang.][/sub]
That’s because, according to Jabootu, killers in movies are often equipped with a Voorhees Unreality Engine™. Named after the killer in Friday the 13th, the VUE allows the killer, no matter how slowly he’s walking, to teleport instantly to any location he desires…once the camera’s off him.
Another thing that bugs me about movies: everyone, every single time they buy groceries, buys French bread and fresh carrots. The bread and carrot greens poke out of the top of EVERY movie grocery bag.
Or, even better, the always-present “Override” feature built into most movie computer systems.
“Damn! Access denied! Wait, I’ll override it…I’m in!”
Humorously spoofed in the South Park movie.
First, I know I made a lot of typos in my other post. I was in a hurry. So sue me.
Second, I have to thank Max Torque on a few accounts:
~I’m excited beyond words to have finally been quoted. Since I’m new to the SDMB, it’s somewhat of a milestone…or something. 
~Very clever explaination
~The french bread and fresh carrots…THANK YOU!! I thought I was the only one who noticed that!!
And finally…one more movie pet peave:
No matter what country you’re in, most people seem to know english, and speak it fluently with a forced accent of the given country.
Or how the battle at Stirling Bridge featured no bridge. Or that Edward Longshanks survived William Wallace by a good number of years. Or how William Wallace actually backed Robert the Bruce’s rival for the Scottish throne…
I am also not at all sure that Wallace’s defeat at Falkirk was due to desertion by the nobles, or that Robert the Bruce fought on the English side…
"IT IS MUTINY! DELIBERATE, VINDICATIVE, INSANE AT IT’S BASE! BUT MUTINY IS CHARGED, AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO MUTINY!"
Things in movies that I hate:
How having sex in a horror flick automatically condemns you to death.
The law that says that if a fruit cart appears in a movie, a car chase will take it out. Bet on it.
Didn’t the zoom-in show a REFLECTION in something, not an unseen area? Of course, any excuse to watch Blade Runner again is a good one . . .
They DID do that Enemy of the State, though. Computer took an image from a videotape, TURNED IT AROUND, like it was a 3d model, to see a bulge on the OTHER side of a shopping bag. I laughed my ass off.
I hate it when some blisteringly obvious science or plot problem is introduced that could have been easily fixable had anyone bothered to put a minutes thought into it (ie Matrix) It’s just insulting and lazy.
And I hate when a real issue is turned into a parody to make it “more dramatic.” In the aformentioned Enemy of the State, computer information tracking was turned into a comic-book supercomputer that could do anything. That wasn’t necisary for the plot, just plain (actually happening) user profiling would have worked as well.
And I hate John Agar. But then, who dosn’t?
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“I solved Myst in ten minutes, why can’t I solve this?”
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*Originally posted by screech-owl *
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Oh dear gawd, I have a headache from laughing so hard. I must have missed that episode (which one was it?) but that is an excellent description of its vocalization.
Almost as fun as the “Humuhumunukunukupua’a” (drives my spellchecker insane!). I’m going to have to add the Hoo5Haa5 Bird to my dictionary somehow!
I believe it was from the second “Black Lagoon” movie, a Sci-Fi broadcast. The camera pans down a jungle river, a kookaburra sounds off, and Mike and the 'Bots go, “There’s the (you know what) bird!” I nearly busted a gut laughing!
I miss that show.
If you count TV movies, Babylon 5 did this perfectly and made it look cool, to boot.
– Bob
Screeching tires on dirt roads. Every time I see a '70s action movie I want to throw something at the screen.
Has anyone seen The Sixth Day? I want to know if there’s an explanation for how Ah-nold’s clone got to be the same age as him. A clone will be born as a baby, not at the same age as the person/animal it was cloned from!
CalMeacham wrote:
OK, I’m going to assume that you have no personal experience with the latter-described circumstance.
Or do things get that dull at the lab?
My peeves, from the movies and TV …
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Middle income Gen-Xers who can somehow afford huge apartments and lofts in Manhattan.
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Computers 1 - hitting lots of keys just to scroll a page in a computer program.
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Computers 2 - Intel-based PCs with Mac GUIs.
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Computers 3 - E-mail programs that display the text in 64 point type, scrolling the text at about five characters a second, blipping while each character appears on the screen.
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Everyone from the deep South is a prejuediced redneck.
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There are few Italian-Americans outside of Brooklyn – and those that aren’t in Brooklyn still have extremely thick accents.
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The interior of a cheap compact car is somehow extremely quiet when the car is at highway speeds.
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People have conversations at top volume, without anyone nearby turning around when the talk turns to subjects like sex or crime.
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There’s always an audible breeze in the New Mexico desert.
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Rain comes in only one form – heavy, in large drops, straight down.
And don’t forget – every building in Paris has a view of the Eiffel Tower.
I especially can’t stand the historical inaccuracies in Disney movies. I understand that it’s for kids but Pocahontas was not a pretty little story like that, it should not have been a disney movie. Pocahontas was like 10 years old or so and John was like 30-40, she didn’t marry him either she married another John in England and then she DIES! Why doesn’t Disney understand this?
Kitty
I really didnt get that one. 'Cause, wouldn’t the ten year olds the movie was aimed at be thrilled to see another kid telling the adults what to do, being the hero,saving the day? Particularly when it was true? Is the idea that you can’t make a movie without a love interest so deeply ingrained NOTHING will keep them from including it- not history, not a more interesting story, nothing?
Poor working single mothers who somehow find the time to acquire abs of steel and arms like Linda Hamilton in T2.
People who can type 300 wpm and, amazingly, never make typos.
Movies that want us to believe that the FBI, CIA, and NASA are run by a bunch of bumbling idiots. For instance, the NASA execs in “Armageddon”: “Well, our best shot at blowing this thing up is hiring a bunch of oil drillers who know more about PhysEd than physics. We’ll give 'em a crash course on how to operate the space shuttle (hint: push the clutch in BEFORE you press the “Start” button.) and how to operate a jackhammer at zero gravity…in one week! Call the President!”
Movies like “Enemy of the State” that want us to believe that the CIA can perform techno-miracles, like moving a satellite with two keystrokes, or finding a 15-page profile of someone…complete with a full-color picture…in 30 seconds, by scanning a fuzzy picture into a database and pressing the “Find” key.
I despise movies that continually violate the laws of physics, and ignore obvious problems in the name of action, or simply portray scientists or scientific facts incorrectly. The most appalling example is Armageggon, and to a lesser extext, Mission to Mars. Why can’t they get physics and astronomy correct?? Do they not listen to their science advisors?
Why can’t movies educate as well as entertain? Science is so interesting, and exciting! Why do they distort and bastardize it, and make it laughable in these films?
Anyways, that’s what I hate…
I saw that one. They had a bunch of “prefab” albino people with mild features in stasis, and then simply “programmed” them to be the clone in a matter of a few hours, an impossible feat. But hey, it’s the future, right?
That movie was pretty bad in how much they try to cram the whole higher technology era down your throat. The first 10-20 minutes is like a rediculous technology “commercial” and presented some pretty weird stuff… Made me kind of annoyed, since we need nothing more than one or two examples to know it’s the future…
Also i am pretty sure that the tribe/clan that pocahontas was a member of shaved their heads, so she should’ve been bald too. And FPK, i think you’re right it was a different john, i’ve seen paintings of Pocahontas in textbooks and she looks nothing like the Disney interpratation (sp?)