Classic film moments ruined by logic

[PirateKing]

Not a movie, but something I was wondering about. In Death Note, after the investigators learned that Kira used the Death Note to kill his victims, no one ever suggested a handwriting analysis. Not even L!
I assume Light destroyed all the pages he had written on to avoid this. I just think it's weird no one ever brought this up.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I just want to say that anyone who went into Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull expecting logic was in the wrong theater. That said... Two-Face being able to speak clearly after being burned was a bit WTF.

His throat and cvocal chords were untouched by the fire. Maybe you could make a case for his left eye, but thats it.

True, but his words would have been quite slurred, because of the fact that his muscles in his left cheek were messed up, and the left side of his mouth wasn't moving at all.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

I can't think of anything too exciting, but I remember watching Titanic when I was younger, and the part right after Jack "saves" Rose from suicide and is invited to dinner, he meets her at the stairs and kisses her hand, proclaiming "I saw that on a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it".

It's 1912. There's no Nickelodeon. There's not even TV. Not to mention, Jack was supposedly "living under a bridge" a week before he won his ticket for this trip in a poker match.

And I still want to know how after spending 84 years underwater, you can just rinse a sketchbook off and see the drawings the artist made in it.

Huh. I never thought about that.

 

[Ionami]

or watching the Bourne Identity and thinking 'the assassin in Paris killed the landlady in the lobby so he obviously came in that way, so why did he go to the trouble of swinging through a window with a machine gun?'

That is awesome! I never thought about that. That made my day.

I can't think of anything too exciting, but I remember watching Titanic when I was younger, and the part right after Jack "saves" Rose from suicide and is invited to dinner, he meets her at the stairs and kisses her hand, proclaiming "I saw that on a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it".

It's 1912. There's no Nickelodeon. There's not even TV. Not to mention, Jack was supposedly "living under a bridge" a week before he won his ticket for this trip in a poker match.

Ehm... Nickelodeon was a form of old timey theatre. Not just a kids channel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(movie_theater)

 

[sorry user name taken.]

blade movies...stupid..just stupid

 

[bjj hero]

I find the arguments over scifi non existant technology tre boring. Who gives a fuck about light sabres? They dont exist and probably (id bet my car on it) never will as a mass produced weapon of war. Its just Lucas nut hugging.

Ditto for the fantasy stuff ie: LOTR/wanted. The very fact they are based on imaginary fantasy imaginings means only really continuity errors count for rationality (I do like the "Why is Sam so fat?" post though) Its like saying "As if the trees would walk" Of couse they dont.

 

[KeyMaster45]

I was watching the Mummy Returns and at one point the Desert Warrior Emperor Protector guy mentions something along the lines of how the main character, his wife, and the bad guy make the three sides of a pyramid.

...Pyramids have 4 sides.

he may have been referring to a 2D picture of a pyramid, which would then have only 3 sides.

In star wars, the one thing I never got was how you can have a Totalitarian Galactic Empire, yet still have a functioning senate...

 

[Kelmi]

I've learned to ignore my thoughts. For the sake of myself and everyone near me. I almost cry when James Bond drives a car and backslides on a ice or a rubble and there it is; "SCREEECH!" like driving on asphalt. Or when he drives on a motorcycle which has at least 15 gears. Yeah, in one movie a guy drove a bike and shifted 16 times in total. On a straight road. i counted.

And why the hero doesnt get shot by 20 professional military men shooting him from 10 meters away? Or why doesn't the evil guy kill the hero immediately rather than telling his evil plot in front of him so good guys gets to rescue the hero?

These and many many more situation like these. Well, if I couldn't ignore these thought it would be very hard to watch any classic films.

 

[new_age_reject]

No one was standing near Charles Foster Kane when he died. No one could have heard him say "Rosebud" either time.

The nurse may have over heard him however: "When asked by friends how Kane's last words would be known when he died alone, Orson Welles reportedly stared for a long time before saying, "Don't you ever tell anyone of this."

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Not a film moment as such but... Father Christmas.
http://www.foxtwo.org/blog/2007/12/scientific-proof-on-santa-claus.html
Makes you weep at just how cynical the world is.

 

[Dramatic Flare]

OK I got one.
In Die Hard where John first gets into the air vents and he uses the light from his lighter to see whats going on.

THERES NO WAY A TINY FLAME COULD CREATE SO MUCH LIGHT!

The light from a cigarette can be seen at over a mile in open sea.

 

[Spacelord]

The scene in The Dark Knight where two ships are given a detonator to blow the other one up by the Joker. In a sudden, inexplicable bout of altruism, neither presses the button.

PRISONERS' DILEMMA SAYS: THEY ALWAYS PRESS THE BUTTON. ALWAYS.

 

[KenzS]

The entire evil plot in Batman: The Beginning

The machine that magically evaporates water. I'm pretty sure that would KILL every human being seeing as were composed of mostly water.

 

[Sewer Rat]

All the indiana jones movies: I did not realize that these ancient civilizations mastered traps that would still work in the 2000 years or more that they have been gone.

 

[chimmers]

And the bus jump in Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock is just.. Yeah, not plausible.

My Mechanics lecuturer wanted to prove it was impossible, but turns out it is only slightly improbable.
Serves him right for trying to diss Speed.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

No one was standing near Charles Foster Kane when he died. No one could have heard him say "Rosebud" either time.

The nurse may have over heard him however: "When asked by friends how Kane's last words would be known when he died alone, Orson Welles reportedly stared for a long time before saying, "Don't you ever tell anyone of this."

Anything that provokes that response from Orson Wells is brilliant in my book.

 

[roei115]

Matrix: the whole damn movie

 

[wewontdie11]

The entire Wanted movie

...Yup me too. The ridiculousness of that movie took so much away from the experience for me, just because they explained their completely supernatural and physics bending powers in such a shitty way. I wouldn't have minded the cool looking stunts if it was due to them being like psychic or aliens or something, but just "I has some extra adrenalines lol" does not let you bend bullets.

Also the end of LOTR, WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST FLY THERE ON THE SHIT TONNE OF EAGLES IN THE FIRST PLACE! In the straight fight between the two, the eagles destroyed the only real opposition to this plan in the Fellbeast, at the end anyway so they might as well have commenced an aerial assault earlier. They could have saved countless lives if they just flew over Mt. Doom and dropped the ring in instead of fannying about through Rohan and Mordor.

 

[Blind0bserver]

Not a movie, but something I was wondering about. In Death Note, after the investigators learned that Kira used the Death Note to kill his victims, no one ever suggested a handwriting analysis. Not even L!
I assume Light destroyed all the pages he had written on to avoid this. I just think it's weird no one ever brought this up.

Wow, that's a pretty good point. In hindsight now that you've said that it seems painfully obvious. How did no one in the entire series think of that, L included? He's suppose to be the genius and that didn't seem to occur to him.

God, nothing makes sense anymore...