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How cheesy and un-realistic (This is for you, flightless bird girl) can you get?

Asked by Trillian (21148points) April 12th, 2012

So I’m watching Bravo Two Zero, in between sips of coffee and cleaning my house. This is my weekend, until the end of the month. Also, dipping in and out of Fluther. @janbb is bored and wants some questions. My thought when I saw that was; “But I can’t think of any!”
Then I went back to my Sean Bean, ... I mean movie. Just in time to see him point his rifle at two men running across a bridge. He shoots, he SCORES! and then there’s a long shot of them pitching side by side off the bridge… “Ahhhhhhh!”
Really? ‘Cause they were both running side by side just a second ago. One can’t tell his perspective of them from the movie, but it seems to be ahead and to the left. For them to be falling off the bridge like that they would have had to have been hit from behind and had an enormous wind sweep the one on the right around the front of the other one, then another wind toss them (headfirst, mind you) over the bridge, side by side.
This is a relatively recent movie. I can understand in the 50’s, audiences were more easily bamboozled. (I love that word) But really? Today?
I’m sure there are lots more continuity mistakes out there. Or just plain celluloid silliness. (Say celluloid silliness three times in your best Sid the Sloth lisp)
Care to share?

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janbb's avatar

(Thank you, dear.)

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I love “bamboozled,” too.

wundayatta's avatar

I was terribly annoyed by the mythic predator creatures created by magic in “The Hunger Games.” Hunger Games acts as if it is science fiction, but it turns out to be much more fantasy. I felt cheated. If you are going to have magic, you need some kind of explanation, I think. Otherwise I don’t know the presumptions of the world and then the action seems quite arbitrary.

Trillian's avatar

Yes, and if you are going to be a wizard, FREAKING MAGIC those hordes of orcs the hell out of existence!

fundevogel's avatar

I revisited Bloodfeast this weekend. It’s hard to pick just one moment, but if I had to it would be when a victim who has (presumably) had her face cut off has a fakes an orgasm as she describes her attacker to the cops before dying. It’s pretty spectacular to watch this girl, her whole face wrapped in bandages, writhing and gasping out a description as a cop listens dutifully as if this were typical of his interviews with victims of violent crime.

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