Dumb moments in good movies

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I was watching Terminator 2 about 10 minutes ago and just realized how dumb a scene towards the end of the movie was. The T-1000 stabs Sarah Conner in the arm and demands she calls out for John. Yet earlyer in the movie it is established both he and the other Terminator can mimic other voices perfectly. Then 5 minutes later, he just morphs into her and does exactly that, calls out for John.

Can you think of any dumb logic in what is generally considered "good movies"?

[Franklin Richards]

Batman and Rachel fall off a 20 story building but Harvey dies falling off a second story building.

[Happy Jack]

Originally Posted by Franklin Richards

Batman and Rachel fall off a 20 story building but Harvey dies falling off a second story building.

Batman had half of his cape deployed (using the arm he wasn't carrying Rachel with), hence why they were spinning as they fell.

[scatterax]

Originally Posted by Franklin Richards

Batman and Rachel fall off a 20 story building but Harvey dies falling off a second story building.

this. and batman survives the same fall that kills two face, and is only slightly disorientated.

[Drizzle]

The cape helped break the fall.

[RedSkull]

Originally Posted by Why Are You Crouching Spock?

I was watching Terminator 2 about 10 minutes ago and just realized how dumb a scene towards the end of the movie was. The T-1000 stabs Sarah Conner in the arm and demands she calls out for John. Yet earlyer in the movie it is established both he and the other Terminator can mimic other voices perfectly. Then 5 minutes later, he just morphs into her and does exactly that, calls out for John.

Can you think of any dumb logic in what is generally considered "good movies"?

Oh my god I was watching T2 last night and that same exact thought occurred to me. Seriously weird that I just had that identical revelation now after all the times I've watched it.

So by dumb I guess you mean fallacies/plot holes rather than poorly written moments (like the ending speech of the Dark Knight).

[kedrell]

(Credit for this goes to HISHE)

In Jaws, Hooper states that he can't get the little needle through the shark's skin to inject poison and kill it. Why didn't they just get some fish and pump them full of poison and then feed it to the shark and poison it that way instead of the risky cage-in-the-water thing?

oh well, it's still my all time favorite movie.

[SuperFerret]

Originally Posted by kedrell

(Credit for this goes to HISHE)

In Jaws, Hooper states that he can't get the little needle through the shark's skin to inject poison and kill it. Why didn't they just get some fish and pump them full of poison and then feed it to the shark and poison it that way instead of the risky cage-in-the-water thing?

oh well, it's still my all time favorite movie.

Orally dosing an animal with anything causes the drug (or poison in this case) to take longer for the animal to metabolize, and thus it won't take effect as quickly. The movie already establishes that sharks digest things slowly, and thus this would take even longer, during which many people will still die.

Injecting the poison subcutaneously (which I'm not sure is possible in a shark) or intramuscularly allows the drug to take effect faster. Also, certain poisons will only work given certain routes (you can drink rattlesnake venom and be fine, given no open ulcers or wounds in your GI tract).

[gwynplaine]

The "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" musical sequence from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

[Thundarr]

Originally Posted by kedrell

(Credit for this goes to HISHE)

In Jaws, Hooper states that he can't get the little needle through the shark's skin to inject poison and kill it. Why didn't they just get some fish and pump them full of poison and then feed it to the shark and poison it that way instead of the risky cage-in-the-water thing?

oh well, it's still my all time favorite movie.

Two reasons. One, not all injected toxins are poisonous if swallowed. I can drink a litre of cobra venom and not die or get sick, unless I have a bleeding ulcer in my stomach. Two, sharks have a very slow digestive system. It takes days, if not weeks, to fully digest whatever they eat. This slows down the rate at which poison can enter their bloodstream through ingestion, and could therefor limit the effect of the poison. Small doses of arsenic aren't immediately toxic, and were once used to remedy certain ailments. In some circles, it was also used as a recreational drug, much like cocaine is today.

[Knight Rise]

The laughing loop bag from Batman 89 when the Joker is found dead. that was the dumbest thing ive ever seen, not to mention annoying

[RedSkull]

I never knew what that was. I thought it was chattering teeth in a bag?

[gwynplaine]

Eric Bana makes loves to his wife, intercut with the terrorist assault in the otherwise great (and underrated) "Munich."

[bullets]

I thought in Xmen First Class it seemed ridiculous that Moira would keep firing at Magneto . I guess you could argue it worked as a diversion but it got to the point where I was ready to yell stop at the screen.

[jacobed]

Superman turning back time by flying really fast around the Earth. Stupid

[rnewbz]

In The Dark Knight when the Joker creates the trap for helicopters to crash and the cop says "this is not good, ok this is not good!" no ***** lol.

[RedSkull]

How about in the Dark Knight when Grumpy turns the gun on Bozo (The Joker) and then gets hit by the bus? Did the Joker plan for him to turn on him and then get run over in that exact second? Also did the other school buses not notice when the school bus pulls into the line from out the side of a half destroyed building?

[Snare]

Originally Posted by RedSkull

How about in the Dark Knight when Grumpy turns the gun on Bozo (The Joker) and then gets hit by the bus? Did the Joker plan for him to turn on him and then get run over in that exact second? Also did the other school buses not notice when the school bus pulls into the line from out the side of a half destroyed building?

Also think of this when I see TDK

[jacobed]

Doc Ock throwing a car through the restaurant at Peter and Mj. He didn't know Peter was Spider-Man and he needed Peter so why try and kill him

[bullets]

Originally Posted by jacobed

Doc Ock throwing a car through the restaurant at Peter and Mj. He didn't know Peter was Spider-Man and he needed Peter so why try and kill him

That's a good one


Fast Five involves suspending a lot of disbelief but the most absurd thing has to be when they flip the prisoner bus to rescue Dom . Bus flips a hundred times and Dom is uninjured.

[jacobed]

Not only is he uninjured but if I remember right like nothing happens to Brian's car.

[Knight Rise]

The fact that the Statue of Liberty wasn't actually used for fighting in Ghostbusters 2. I love both films, but I always found that a little stupid

[Spicy]

Transformers 2 when they use the piece of the all spark to bring that old transformer guy to life instead of using it to bring back Optimus Prime

[Knight Rise]

When Leonidas fools the Persians on the final battle unprotected in 300. They didn't stay in the turtle to survive and it coated them big time

[El Payaso]

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(I wasn't actually talking about a good movie)