SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE FOLLOWING MOVIES.
This weekend my girlfriend and I watched “The Life of Pi”. It’s one of those movies that’s supposed to get you thinking. Well, it got me thinking, all right.
It got me thinking of all the movies that leave you wondering WTF you just saw.
I admit this is one of two or three favorite movies of mine. The “WTF?” moment comes down in the mine when Christian Slater pulls the Sig pistol out of his flight suit. Where did he get that pistol? Why hadn’t he pulled it out before? I’m assuming that was just a continuity error and a scene explaining it got edited out, but WTF?
The entire Star Wars series
Okay, so we are to believe that once the Emperor and Darth Vader were defeated that all those legions of storm troopers immediately shifted their loyalty to the Alliance? WTF?
Okay, so Schwarzenegger Terminator explains that the new terminator can’t form complex weapons with his liquid metal. He has to form knives, clubs, etc., because he can’t form complex mechanisms. So…a cyborg is a complex mechanism. How in the heck does he form all the servomotors, joints, circuits, optics, and other complex mechanisms that make him one badass mechanical man if he’s made of liquid metal that can’t form complex mechanisms? (I’m typing in circles). WTF?
The hyperdrive on the Millenium Falcon is broken, yet they manage to make it to another planetary system. I guess the filmakers edited out the 390,000 years it took to travel to that system.
We are led to believe not only that the main character held onto an expensive, rare diamond all those years, but also was willing to ultimately toss it into the ocean. Yeah, riiiiiiiight…
I have to concede that this may get addressed in the new trilogy of Star Wars movies.
Yes, the series was over after the Emperor and Vader were dead, but the way every planet was celebrating you’d think the entire Imperial military machine either just disappeared or started thinking happy thoughts, too.
Yes, supposedly J.J. Abrams will be doing it. Most of us nerds are hoping it will be the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zhan
The Emperor was using the Dark Side of the force to influence all the troops and control the people of the galaxy, when he died his control was lifted and more people started rebelling but the Empire wasn’t fully defeated at the end of RTOJ. There are a lot of books that expand on all of it.
That’s cool. I’m a closet Star Wars fan. Another member here contacted me offline & filled me in on some details. I didn’t know that Disney bought the rights to Star Wars. I hope it works out and doesn’t suck.
I’m assuming the Terminator was not programed yet to be able to have onboard weaponry, but on T3 the new chick Terminator had it because it was more advanced.
Yeah, that WHOLE movie was one big WTF? moment. And I’ve watched it like five times trying to figure it out… :suicide:
Although the anti-idea fly swatters were brilliant.
Movies that have annoyed me recently-
Mission Impossible 3- totally ****ing stupid. The plot, the actions of the characters… just plain dumb. I seriously doubt they actually thought that storyline through before filming.
Expendables 2- A) your stupid tactical vest is NOT bulletproof, B) you don’ty just walk off multiple hits of 7.62x39, and C) if you actually use all the damn MOLLE on your stupid tactical vest, you wouldn’t be “out” of ammo after two seconds of shooting…
In Star Wars, according to the virgins who expanded the universe, the war didn’t abruptly end with Vader and Palpatine’s deaths. With their deaths, the rebels quickly gained the upper hand though, even though there were a lot of pockets of resistance. Plus, there were breakaway systems that didn’t want to be part of the new Galactic Republic, so further factions and revolutions formed, the Jedi had obviously returned with Luke in the lead, but the Sith were still around needing to be eradicated…you know, the usual stuff.
Also, in Empire Strikes Back, I always just assumed that the system they were in had a few planets that were really close together; maybe only a couple million miles. They were able to go from planet to planet because, even if the hyper drive was disabled, the Millennium Falcon probably had the ability to travel hundreds of thousands or even a million miles an hour without activating the hyper drive. The ride from the asteroid field to Bespin took only about two minutes in the movie, but I guess we could assume that it took a few days or more. But then again, who am I to argue with the trademark George Lucas plot hole?
In Terminator 2, I just assume that the technology that allows the T-1000 to work is beyond our comprehension for the time being.
One of the plot holes in that movie that does bother me is this: They could have made things a LOT easier by letting some more people know of the situation. When they got to the front desk of Cyberdyne, instead of taking the guards hostage and getting the place surrounded by LAPD, why didn’t they have the Terminator pull off his glove, show his robot hand and explain the situation? They might have gotten him and the rest of security on their side, destroyed Cyberdyne, and gotten out before anyone knew who was behind it. Then, they could scoot back to Mexico, have Sarah call Dr. Silberman and say, “I TOLD you I wasn’t crazy! Now, could you make a few phone calls and get me off the hook? Oh, and tell LAPD to watch out for any of their cops who seem to have the ability to morph their arms into swords.” Then, they could hide out with Enrique for awhile while they devised a plan to take out the T-1000. Instead, they had to charge in guns blazing and not set up an exit plan of what they were going to do when it was all over.
PREDATOR- Not only could you not carry a Minigun with power source and ammo, but you also cannot shoot a Minigun unless it is mounted. In addition it needs a power supply to drive the gun 24-28V DC and has a cyclic rate of around 3000 RPM. If you were to continuously hold the trigger the standard ammo hopper in a helicopter would be empty in about 1 minute. The pack that Jesse Ventura had couldn’t even hold that much ammo.
Is it just me or did there seem to be a size difference between the “Engineer” in Alien and the “Engineers” in Prometheus? Seemed like the scale was off.
ETA: There are rumblings of a follow-up to Prometheus on the drawing boards. A sequel for the prequel…