Film Plots That Don't Make Sense.

[Stigmata]

Star trek: Nemesis was riddled with inconsistencies of course.

 

[kyser_soze]

Independence Day

An Apple computer manages to dock seamlessly with an alien one.

Anyone who's messed around with basic problems between Windows & Apples will find this perplexing.

Maybe the Aliens were using OS MCMXVIII?

 

[Flavour]

Saving Private Ryan. Why not just shoot Private Ryan, and give his mother 2 flags for the grief of 3? It's a super duper deal! (for the army)

 

[nightqueen]

No. I mean I very much doubt that there is an American farm without a fucking gun.

But he was a priest wasn't he? Why would he have a gun? And I didn't think they did much farming..

 

[trabuquera]

Crash : (this year's Racism Is Bad ensemble drama, not the David Cronenberg adaptation of JG Ballard's book.) full of ludicrously over-egged plotting in general, but in particular:

Matt Dillon (99% nasty, racist LAPD officer) sports Rich Black Couple (Thandie Newton & Terrence Howard) canoodling in their car, and decides to harass them. He humiliates both of them by pulling over the vehicle, hands on the trunk, etc, searches Terrence and basically gropes Thandie. He's your worst cop nightmare (it's ALL TOO REALISTIC and possible up to this point.) but then:

Rich Black Couple are back at home raging about the incident. Yet rather than picking up the phone to a decent lawyer, who could presumably win them $x squillion in a racial harassment / police abuse case, Thandie Newton prefers to rant at her husband about 'why didn't YOU protect me?', giving them both a chance to do some more Serious Weepy Acting.

It's the most paperthin device for keeping a drama going I've ever bloody seen! Especially for a movie that is supposed to BE ABOUT race and class! geesh!

 

[rennie]

Layer cake... i still don't get it.

Sw9: pile of crap despite having a mate/locals in it.

 

[kyser_soze]

Saving Private Ryan. Why not just shoot Private Ryan, and give his mother 2 flags for the grief of 3? It's a super duper deal! (for the army)

Shaving Ryan's Privates...I mean how likely is it he'd run into a WHOLE PLATOON of Aryan Perfect German soldiers who were all *that* horny for some good Amercan ass?

 

[kyser_soze]

Rich Black Couple are back at home raging about the incident. Yet rather than picking up the phone to a decent lawyer, who could presumably win them $x squillion in a racial harassment / police abuse case, Thandie Newton prefers to rant at her husband about 'why didn't YOU protect me?', giving them both a chance to do some more Serious Weepy Acting.

It's the most paperthin device for keeping a drama going I've ever bloody seen! Especially for a movie that is supposed to BE ABOUT race and class! geesh!

Or is it that you are so conditioned by media images and therefore a form of prejudicial judgement that everyone in the US instantly recourses to a lawyer and that there would be no interaction between a husband and wife regarding something like this? Dunno if yr male or female but how do you think you'd react if you/yr partner had just been abused by a police officer? Just go home and calmly call a lawyer? And do you seriously think that a black and middle class people their case would receive anything like the coverage of an equiv white couple? Jesus, it took 8 cops beating on Rodney King to turn that story into a media event and thus a big lega thing - what hope do a m/c black couple have? They were probably black republicans as well..

 

[MikeMcc]

As much as I like 28 Days Later, the science behind the plot line stinks. Contamination to onset of symptoms in 10 seconds! If it did strike that fast, how was it supposed to spread to other countries (as was briefly mentioned in it)?

War of the Worlds - If the aliens buried the tripods thousands of years ago, why didn't they take over then, if they tried and failed then too, why didn't they come prepared for the diseases?

 

[rennie]

oooh and Titanic... kate what's her face is telling the story as SHE remembers it... so how come there are loads of scenes when she's not there?

 

[Poi E]

As much as I like 28 Days Later, the science behind the plot line stinks. Contamination to onset of symptoms in 10 seconds! If it did strike that fast, how was it supposed to spread to other countries (as was briefly mentioned in it)?

Looking for good science in horror films is a bit pointless, really.

 

[Juice Terry]

oooh and Titanic... kate what's her face is telling the story as SHE remembers it... so how come there are loads of scenes when she's not there?

and there was loads of room on that raft for two people but Leo decides to freeze to death in the sea.

Can't remember it too clearly but theres a really stupid bit in the Rock where Sean Connery is breaking back into Alcatraz, swims through drains, dodges big swirling fans and fire spitting pipework, and then at the end of all that he just opens an ordinary door back to where he started to let Nick Cage in

Just kick the fucking door in and save all the hassle!

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

As much as I like 28 Days Later, the science behind the plot line stinks. Contamination to onset of symptoms in 10 seconds! If it did strike that fast, how was it supposed to spread to other countries (as was briefly mentioned in it)?

War of the Worlds - If the aliens buried the tripods thousands of years ago, why didn't they take over then, if they tried and failed then too, why didn't they come prepared for the diseases?

Oh yes, and opening scene in 28 Days Later implies that the monkeys were infected with "Rage" by ...

watching violence on TV

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Independence Day

An Apple computer manages to dock seamlessly with an alien one.

Anyone who's messed around with basic problems between Windows & Apples will find this perplexing.

for get that how the hell did he write a virus for the computer system in about 30 min?


and did the aliens watch the matrix before designing thier interface with cool falling symbols

 

[Termite Man]

and there was loads of room on that raft for two people but Leo decides to freeze to death in the sea.

Can't remember it too clearly but theres a really stupid bit in the Rock where Sean Connery is breaking back into Alcatraz, swims through drains, dodges big swirling fans and fire spitting pipework, and then at the end of all that he just opens an ordinary door back to where he started to let Nick Cage in

Just kick the fucking door in and save all the hassle!

More to the point isn't alcatraz abonadoned anyway so why would the air conditioning be on and exactly when does fire come out of pipes in any kind of building

 

[Bob_the_lost]

More to the point isn't alcatraz abonadoned anyway so why would the air conditioning be on and exactly when does fire come out of pipes in any kind of building

"It seemed like a good idea at the time?"

Thunderbirds was terrible in every way, an utter travesty of my childhood, the entire cast deserves death and the director should be hung drawn and quartered while someone pours TCP over him...

 

[Stigmata]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time?"

Thunderbirds was terrible in every way, an utter travesty of my childhood, the entire cast deserves death and the director should be hung drawn and quartered while someone pours TCP over him...

Not the Frakester!

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Not the Frakester!

*checks reward poster*

If he's also known as the stupid cunt that destroyed a cult children's TV serries and got Busted to do the theme tune for it, yes.

(Is TCP flamable, would be suitably painful i think to be burnt alive with it...)