The Sixth Sense. Once you know the twist the entire movie falls apart upon scrutiny and becomes dumber upon rewatch. The entire plot of that movie is in service of the twist reveal. Unlike Fight Club where you only get to experience that first viewing once and then the movie becomes very different (and arguably better) once you watch it again.
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Minority Report. Spoilers for a 24 year old movie...
Tom Cruise plays the head of a super secret security division. Things go sideways and he ends up being a wanted man in this ultra futuristic society that has eyeball scanners everywhere.
One of the first things he does is get an eyeball replacement so they can't find him immediately. He gets caught ANYWAY and thrown in prison.
Then he gets broken out because someone kept his original eyeballs which still had the security credentials to allow them to open the prison. 🤔
Sorry, if I get fired from a gig, my security credentials are null and void. Doubly so if I get arrested and thrown in prison.
Are you kidding? This is the most realistic part, you think anyone who does IT gets informed when someone leaves? Getting fired in person, maybe. Getting fired in absentia, no chance anyone gets informed.
When the person fired is subject to a global manhunt? 🤔
Lol I once fot paid for 4 more weeks after my contract ended at a job.
My head canon for this is that someone inside kept him in the system because they trusted him, such as the Precog technician or the warden.
The realistic answer is that incompetence and red tape delayed removing his credentials when they should have been.
That was also my first thought when I watched it. I don't remember if they acknowledged it in any way though. In any case neither scenario is that unrealistic.
[...] but how in the hell or why do you make a robot have a german accent?
Note: Arnold Schwarzenegger has an Austrian accent, not German. He's from Austria originally.
The accent was addressed in a deleted scene in Terminator 3. Chief Master Sergeant Candy (Schwarzenegger) was selected to be the body image of the T-800 model. But he had a ridiculously over-the-top Southern country accent. The military officials said they didn't know about that accent, and one of the guys in the room, with Arnold's thick Austrian voice, said, "We can fix it."
Oh man, thank you - I KNEW that was in Terminator 3, but having seen it recently and it wasn't there I figured it must have been a phantom memory. Now I know it was the deleted scenes!
Best explanation I've come up with (or maybe I've heard somewhere?) for Arnie's accent is that it's a cover for unusual behavior if he needs to blend in (vs blasting everyone in sight). If he sounded like a local, he would be expected to act like a local, even down to 'modern' lingo and pop culture references of the time/place he's been sent to.
With his Austrian accent, it's immediately obvious that he's "not from around here" which would disarm a lot of suspicion around any odd behavior.
This comes back around in T2 when he's introduced as "Uncle Bob". It's obviously a cover for the relationship but the accent somewhat masks most unusual behavior. Doesn't talk much? Perhaps he isn't strong on English. Doesn't pick up on social ques? He's just not from here. Drinks motor oil instead of tequila? Wait, what!?
- Austrian accent, ftfy.
The Dark Knight, the bank heist at the beginning. The last thug conveniently stands exactly where the school bus crashes in. THEN the bus conveniently exits perfectly into a line of other school buses that are already running. And nobody outside walking or driving in traffic seems to notice the huge hole in the building.
The entire movie's plot actually hinges on multiple events happening in perfect timing despite an almost infinite amount of external factors that could've drastically changed the outcome, but the school bus thing is the one that stands out to me the most.
Same movie: how does two face not have a speech impediment with only half a pair of lips? Go ahead, try to pronounce "Bob" while holding half of your mouth open.
In 007: GoldenEye (1995), although Bond movies are regularly filled with outrageous fiction and overt misogyny. The fact that electro magnetic pulses created by a nuclear detonation somehow make electronic chips explode is very ridiculous. Surely played up for spectacle for the camera, but completely unrealistic.
Kingdom of Heaven, how a nobody blacksmith is an expert swordsman/architect/siege warfare person. Walked out of the movie the first time, forced myself to watch the whole thing years later. Nope never explained, still dumb.
I 100% agree but you do have to admit that thing he did with rocks or whatever toward the end was pretty nifty.
In the movie Gravity, George Clooney gets sucked into space by nothing. No force or physical phenomenon attempts to explain why he just suddenly is hurled into space. Drove me nuts.
I've only seen it the once, but I could swear he was tethered and that's what yeets him?
The tether is what's keeping the magic space force from pulling him away from the ship until it fails or he disconnects it or something. (It's been a while since I saw it too, but it bothered me as much as thread-OP)
Yeah, exactly. It wasn't even that some small force went unchecked leading to him moving away slowly or something. The magical space force as you say, pulled strongly against the tether. Such an odd choice.
Die hard 2. When John takes the janitors jacket and the janitor says that's my jacket in a very sad depressed voice. Always felt so bad for him I don't know why. I don't like rewatching it because of that part
For me, it's the knob that turns down the ILS.
In Top Gun Maverick, when Maverick rules out using F-35s for the mission because the pseudo-Iranians are using radar jamming. Because they made this piece of dialogue hard to hear (because it’s the opposite of a good reason), I had to ask on the internet what he said. I then learned that radar jamming would make the F-35 the ideal plane for this mission, but it didn’t suit the rest of the plot, so they mumbled it away.
The Matrix Resurrections.
I'm a fan of the Matrix movies, I like the first three even reloaded and revolutions. when those films came out I was all about them. I was insanely into the lore, bought all the extra media be it the games, the animatrx, the encyclopedia, everything. I even drank the damn powerade and had the phone.
Resurrections is a movie that didn't need to happen and doesn't change anything in the overall universe of the matrix.
Spoilers ahead.
The Machines and humans are finally co-exisiting. great, fantastic. Now because the machines are allowing whomever wants to be unplugged from the matrix willy nilly they need a new backup power source. that being Neo and Trinity. Ends up that recloning them and keeping them in pods next to each other but actually preventing them from being together generates a metric shit ton of power for the machines. One human discovers this and is all "that ain't right, we need Neo" and decides to free him. Why do they need Neo now in this time of peace? because he's the One. that's it. One can argue that the machines pull some douche nozzle style moves like making the old construct of Morpheus into an Agent but whatever. The Machines aren't nuking the new human city, they're letting people be unplugged, it's all fine. Except ONE group says it's not fine and even the leader of the Humans is all just leave it but they're like no, can't leave it. They get Neo out and now Neo is like "I need Trinity" ok cool lets go get her. But won't that fuck up the machines power source I hear you ask? yes and....no apparently it won't.
They go get Trinity, she's now out, the machines try to stop them but other machines help them get both Neo and Trinity back to the real world annnnnnnd nothing changes. Everything was exactly how it was prior to the movie starting. That power source the machines needed? meh it's fine they'll do without. Will they attack the new humans home? nope. Will more people be freed? maybe but likely that will also stay the same. Neo and Trinity both say now THEY control the matrix buuuuuut the one machine AI that started this whole thing is left alone, nothing happens to them. not deleted, not repurposed, nothing. Absolutely nothing changes. not for the worse, not for the better, just TWO people are back together. that's it.
plot wise the movie didn't need to happen. It also throws out the entire purpose of the One that previous three films established out the window because I guess now the Machines no longer need to reboot the program every 100 years.
the movie didn't need to happen but because execs were going to force it to happen anyhow, the Wachowski sister gave us a barely veiled satire of the franchise and of sequels
If I remember right that's almost word for word from the script of the movie itself (but talking about the game Neo was coding)
I'm impressed. My understanding of the plot of that movie after watching it was dramatically poorer than your excellent summary here.
Lol, that's exactly the point of the movie. The wachowskis decided to make it about why franchises need to die. It's all a big parody of itself because they are attacking Hollywood's film industry.
This reminded me of the scene in the OG where Neo gets the phone delivered. It shows him start to open the package but then the next shot shows him start to open it again. Always annoyed me.
why do you make a robot have a german accent?
Why not?
The entire Saw series got ruined for me after the first movie when the guy in the center of the room got up, and it was heavily implied he was the killer the whole time. And I'm assuming he killed Cary Elwes.
Whatever.
That broke the entire storyline for me. It violated the fundamental rules set up in the system.
I have written off the entire series because of that one event.
I have told other people this grief, and they said that he's some sort of copycat killer that was messing up the whole thing, and so they tried to retroactively fix his appearance in the movie after the fact, but they've already screwed the pooch, they cannot unscrew the pooch for me.
"The Neverending Story". The movie ended right in the middle of the book.
It wasn't called the Neverending Movie
To be fair, the second half feels like an entirely different story for a very different audience. It is still the same story, the same characters, and similar themes about imagination, shame and responsibility. But the part where he's lost almost all of his memory, and only wishes for a place to belong, where he ends up with the monks and mines the paintings is probably the scene I've thought about the most in my life. And it's so focused on the inner state of Bastian, that I just don't think it could be translated to the screen satisfyingly. Maybe some director could make it happen. But it'd be a very different movie. Hell, it's almost an entirely different book at that point, but it somehow works.
Ratatouille. How does pulling on someone's hair control their limbs like a giant mech? I know it's a cartoon and there's gonna be some suspension of disbelief, but... there's literally no explanation or connection to reality. It's just a thing that happens and they expect us to accept it.
If the dude had a metal plate in his skull and tapping on certain places caused muscle spasms that could be controlled, that would make more logical sense than just pulling on hair. Still not realistic, but it would work better.
Even worse, the young chef Linguini never learns to be an expert chef (or even a good chef). He's a complete klutz. He's literally just the vehicle for the rat Remy to cook with. There's no growth for Linguini's character at all. You could swap him out for anyone and the plot would be almost identical. It would've been better if he actually learned from Remy and became a great chef himself.
It's just a thing that happens and they expect us to accept it.
I believe this is a description of "stories". And yes I know you have a point. After 5 minutes though, that one stopped bothering me.
Indiana Jones and the ark of the covenant. Does not need Indiana Jones
Explain?
that the Nazis would have found, opened, and been destroyed by the Ark regardless of his involvement.
Well, if he hadn't been there, then maybe other Germans would have survived the Ark being opened, and then they would have been able to deliver it to the Third Reich.
So like, he didn't need to be there for any of the movie except for the last couple of minutes.
There is better ones online where the German base would not be destroyed and on of the maib characters would have died.
In Terminator the Judgement Day is worldwide so infiltrator terminators are in every continent. Maybe Skynet made a shipping error, ala DooM with the chainsaws in Mars, and sent an Austrian model to the U.S. the T-800’s learning computer switched to English but couldn’t handle it without the accent.
There's a comment here already about this.
TLDR: they addressed it in a deleted scene from Terminator 3
The Maltese Falcon. Mary Astor’s skirt has a circular spot of grease on the back. Turned me off completely.
So you don't suspect a robot to have a German accent. Duh!!!