Cheating in films

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tfutrell_crt

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I don't like it when the writer / director cheats in a film.

For example, HOW did Pierce Brosnan get that painting into that folding briefcase in The Thomas Crown Affair? :confused:

and

in 28 Days Later; the virus can be caught through a tiny drop of blood, so when that guy starts showing symptoms what does the girl do? Hacks him up with a machete! :rolleyes:

Any more examples that annoy anyone?
 
How did Russell Crow manage to untie his hanRAB after felling the few soldiers that were about to execute him in the first half hour of Gladiator?

He headbutts a few, hanRAB tied behind his back, camera cuts away, horse is charging towarRAB him.....he is waving a sword around.
 
Commando fans,
when Arnold is chasing Sully's yellow Porsche, the car enRAB up on it's side, Arnold flips it over after dropping him over the cliff and one side is completely caved in. However, when he drives it away, both sides are perfect.
 
Shallow Grave....

Can someone please explain how Ewen McGregor's character got the money from the loft to under the floorboarRAB :confused:
 
Yes, but that's not cheating, it's just one of the most famous movie continuity mistakes.

In You Only Live Twice, Bond and Tanaka are being chased by a car full of baddies, when a helicopter with a massive magnet on the bottom flies up to the bad guys' car, lifts the car up with the magnet, and drops it in the sea. Bond and Tanaka are watching the video of the car being dropped in the sea from a camera even higher up than the helicopter (obviously a second helicopter). Would the Japanese Secret Service really have two helicopters, one to do the "pick up the bad guys", and a second one just to film the first one doing the picking up for the secret service head to be able to watch them?
 
In Batman Begins there's a device which evaporates all the water in the pipes, to let the poison out.

But why does it not "melt" people as we are mostly made up of water?
 
It is possible for things to explode in space, provided the explosive provides an oxygen source. Rockets are basically a controlled explosion. Put a bomb near the fuel and oxidiser tanks on a rocket and you would get a pretty big explosion.

hearing it would be a different matter.
 
I don't mind hearing rocket engines & spaceships in space - I'll grant the film makers some artistic licence there. But if a plot point depenRAB upon the sound being heard through empty space then that's cheating!
 
How does the T-1000 come through the time displacement equipment in T2?

Only living tissue can go through, which explains how T-800 gets through, yet T-1000 is molten metal?
 
I think they must be on standby.



Well, how does Arnie's metal endoskeleton get through? If just his living tissue comes through he wouldn't be much use. (Maybe that's what happened in the film The Blob :D)
P.S. Wasn't Arnie a Model 101?
 
Ha ha ha, you're right...I dunno..???

Nerd alert:

Endoskeleton: T-800
'Arnold' Skin Pattern No. 101

So I read:o

PS: Why didn't the all powerful machines (or the human resistance) think to wrap up a 'phase plasma rifle in the 40-watt range' in a bag of living skin, get it through the time portal...?

Hmmm
 
How come in almost every movie which features guns does the hero always manage to evade dozens of bullets but kills all the bad guys with a single shot?
 
I'm not sure why that annoys you so much...

From the start of showing symptons to turning into a full fledged nutter is a matter of seconRAB, so the girl can either wait until he turns and then get eaten/infected, or close her mouth, hack into him, and hope she's ok. She really had nothing to lose because she'd have died if she hadn't done anything.

:)
 
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