Only, as evidenced by Da Vinci Code mania, a surprising number of people don’t find a premise like this all that preposterous. In fact, many find it quite plausible. :eek:
I’m surprised I’m the first to mention this. The Core ftw.
Time travel is always a dilly of a pickle, but Time Cop not only strained but burst through any semblance of logic or continuity.
[As did The Lake House, but that one was just lame and forgettable.]
They were actually nukes, called prosaically enough “planet busters.” The story was that ionizing radiation made “breathe-gas” (the atmosphere of Psychlo) explode. Hence, big nukes made big explosions, which caused the planet (which had been extensively mined for millennia) crack apart. Not plausible, but at least ol’ L. Ron made an attempt to explain it.
Spoilers for the Da Vinci Code:
There was only a single fanatic Catholic who was willing to kill a bunch of people for the secret. Even the Bishop (or whatever he was) was adamant that they operate nonviolently. The actual killings were orchestrated by the guy who wanted to see the Church fall apart.
Psh. Most preposterous movie evar?
Steven Seagal’s **On Deadly Ground ** (a Steven Seagal Production) FTW!
It’s got all the hallmarks of a great SS flick*, with the bonus of ole Steve having his hand on the director’s button, so nobody else was able to temper the raging ego…
- Multiple references to Steve’s “mysterious” past that nobody can unravel. Is he CIA? FBI? DOD? SAS? Nobody knows. But he’s a badass.
- The barfight scene, which can be summed up in two lines:
Steven: “What does it take to change the essence of a man?”
**“Bad” Guy, who Steven’s just kicked seven kinds of shit out of, after destroying most of the bar while taking out his crew: ** “Time. I need time to change” - The dialogue in almost every scene, where the only point of the characters speaking is to point out how Awesome Steve is, How Mysterious Steve is, How Dangerous Steve is or How Much of All Three Steve is
- The few other scenes that existed solely to display How Evil The Oil Industry Is, right down to Michael Caine’s puppy-eating character, and his bumbling mercenaries who shoot innocent old Eskimoes
- Mystical Martial Arts, and Inexplicable Boobies - The crux of his visit to the native settlement
- And finally, the five minute “Teh oil companies and teh governments is keeping us in the dark about free fuel non polluting it’s all a conspiracy!” rant at the end of the film. Rumor has it the speech actually went for somewhere between 10-15 minutes, and Steve only “allowed” the movie company to shave it down when test audiences started leaving the cinemas less than halfway through.
Sure, **Battlefield Earth ** was cheesy sci-fi with plot-holes you could drive a Death Star through, and terrible acting from La Travolta. It was campy good fun. But I watched the two in quick succession, and I can tell you it was ODG that had my eyes rolling like little marbles all the way across the floor (when hubby and I weren’t going “Did he just say ‘Ah my balls?’”).