What's the most absurd thing a movie has ever made you accept?

[pr0xyt0xin]

I want to know some of the most absurd things a movie has ever made you accept?

This can be either "successfully" made you accept (because it was a good, well written/made movie). Say, in Guardians of the Galaxy or Planet of the Apes.

Or it can be "unsuccessfully" tried to make you accept (because it was a poor execution of a plot or concept). Say, in Spy Kids or GI Joe.

I imagine most of this will need to be live action. But I suppose you could also talk about books or television.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

My first SUCCESSFUL entry is gonna be: Whatever that metallic goo in The Matrix was.

Seen that movie 100 times, I still don't know what that stuff does, and it still doesn't phase me.

My first UNSUCCESSFUL entry is gonna be: Barakapool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Not even a $150 million budget can make me believe Wade Wilson with sword arms would leave his mouth sewn shut for more than a second.

 

[Alien Anal]

I always assumed the metallic goo was neo experiencing and accepting the matrix as a false reality.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I always assumed the metallic goo was neo experiencing and accepting the matrix as a false reality.

Yep. It was a visual way of showing him battle with that idea, and how it could kill him.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

That Kristen Stewart was more beautiful than Charlize Theron.

 

[Marvolo]

That Padme would fall in love with or stay with creepy mccreeper Anakin. Especially after he admitted to slaughtering an entire tribe of Tuskens.

 

[Web-Head]

Pretty much everything in the first Now You See Me (in a good way)

 

[Steamteck]

That Kristen Stewart was more beautiful than Charlize Theron.

I never accepted that either.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Successfully: Hit-Girl is capable of insane amounts of ass kicking in a world where Kick Ass is not. (Kick Ass)

The movie shows me I am stupid for thinking a kid could do these things by showing Dave get stabbed and hit by a car. Then immediately makes me forget all that when Hit Girl shows up for the first time.

Unsuccessfully: Neytiri is still interested in Jake Sully after finding out he's a crippled human half her size. (Avatar)

Mostly I think that'd just creep a creature from a more primitive culture out to the point of no return.

 

[Marvolo]

Neytiri already knew about humans. And I'm pretty sure she realized Jake wasn't a Navi the minute she met him. His name is Jake, he wears human style clothes, uses human weapons, behaves like a human, he is ignorant of Pandora and it's culture and it's wildlife, and he speaks fluent perfect English with no Pandoran accent.

By the time she actually saw his crippled human body I don't think it would have mattered because she had already fallen in love with him. Jake is Jake whether he is in a Pandoran body or in his human body. Plus, it's revealed at the very end that the Navi have a way of putting Jake's mind back into his Navi avatar so she would consider his crippled human body a non issue.

 

[wampa1]

it's revealed at the very end that the Navi have a way of putting Jake's mind back into his Navi avatar so she would consider his crippled human body a non issue.

I like how you're using an even more absurd thing to defend an absurd thing.

 

[DrCosmic]

That Padme would fall in love with or stay with creepy mccreeper Anakin. Especially after he admitted to slaughtering an entire tribe of Tuskens.

This, compounded by asking me to accept that this is a relationship that was formed when he was 9 and she was 14. Also, that 18 year old Natalie Portman is 14.

SUCCESSFUL version... they made me believe that the robots in Wall-E were communicating in some meaningful way, when it was essentially pantomiming.

 

[Schlosser85]

That Kristen Stewart was more beautiful than Charlize Theron.

Yea Charlize Theron feeling threatened by Kristen Stewart supplanting her as "the fairest in the land" is a pretty wobbly premise to hinge a whole movie on.

 

[Schlosser85]

And yea Neytiri knows Jake is a human all along. The Na'vi know what avatars are, hence Tsu'tey calling him "a demon in a false body"

 

[Sundancer]

I just saw Swiss Army Man. My mind is still trying to unravel it

Most unsuccessful is Beauty and Beast where people think it's a great love story. So many problems with its plausibility with modern society.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

That Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars and put every other restaurant out of business. It worked because it was funny.

 

[Neno_Kos]

vampires sparkle

 

[Spider-Aziz]

A large queen needs to lay eggs of face hugging egg laying killers to die after that menial task, with acid blood eating through 5 stories of hard steel.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

martha moment

 

[lime]

I don't get this thread.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

A large queen needs to lay eggs of face hugging egg laying killers to die after that menial task, with acid blood eating through 5 stories of hard steel.

This is a good one. lol.

Planet of the Apes is my favorite one to say out loud.

Man develops potential cure for Alzheimer's. [BLACKOUT]Research funding is cut when pregnant ape attacks board room. Pregnant ape is shot, baby ape is raised by same man who developed the cure. That ape grows to learn speech, settles in the redwood forests, and leads a rebellion of enhanced apes against various colonies of human soldiers. [/BLACKOUT]Three thousand years later, the planet has been completely overrun by intelligent apes and human beings are their pets.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

These movies are more hilarious the more you think of it.

martha moment

Did you accept it?

I don't get this thread.

$#%^ nonsense made convincing in movie worlds.

 

[scarlet-witch]

It's Kind of a Funny Story - I could never accept that these patients could continuously sneak out of the ward they were in and wander about the hospital without other people noticing. If it were that easy to sneak out of a mental institution, no one would stay there.

 

[redhawk23]

That Joseph Gordon Levvit grows up to be Bruce Willis.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

That Joseph Gordon Levvit grows up to be Bruce Willis.

That Zac Efron grows up to be fat dumpy Matthew Perry, that Christina Ricci grows up to be Rosie O Donnel.