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Dumb things people do in movies

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ghostmind said:
ANYTHING involving computers and the CSI shows - especially Miami.


Enhance, enhance, enhance. Can you clean it up a bit? Enhance, enhance. Let's take those two pixels in the upper left, blow it up to 1650x1080 and have the computer interpolate the rest. That'll hold up in court!
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CSI is stupid up and down; 90% of the cases the criminal fesses up withou t o much a a trial, and CSIs are judge, jury, and executioner all in one.
 
Speaking of Jurassic Park, the dude tests to see if current is running through the electric fence by grabbing onto it with both hands.
 
Kool Aid said:
Speaking of Jurassic Park, the dude tests to see if current is running through the electric fence by grabbing onto it with both hands.
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He threw the branch at it first. Would the branch have worked anyway?
 
All these tropes make me remember, why i liked zombieland so much =).

it avoids most of these easily. maybe the rulebook is even a big nod to these tropes.
 
"I have this super duper mega important information that can reveal the real identity of the murderer that has killed a lot of people."

"Yeah, what's the information?"

"Can't tell you right now. Let's meet later."

Of course, the person having the information is killed before he/she can actually reveal the information.
 
Kiddo said:
All these tropes make me remember, why i liked zombieland so much =).

it avoids most of these easily. maybe the rulebook is even a big nod to these tropes.
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No, you're right. It definitely is. Was part of why I enjoyed the movie so much, to be honest.
 
Ballistictiger said:
This is really the things people do in movies but the movies itself. Black guy always dying in horror movies or dying first. I mean seriously let the guy live.
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House on Haunted Hill remake let's the black guy live.
 
Kiddo said:
All these tropes make me remember, why i liked zombieland so much =).

it avoids most of these easily. maybe the rulebook is even a big nod to these tropes.
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And yet the girls end up defenseless on a ride that only goes up and down.
 
Raiden said:
Thats pretty much the same as saying it is stupid that Superman flies, these movies are just entertainment, you cant take them serious.

Especialy not the Die hard movies ..
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It´s not the same thing. Superman flies because he has super powers. Bruce Willis is no super human in Die Hard 4. Imo they have to at least follow the rules of the script/universe the autors have created.
 
fistfulofmetal said:
Trying to save a loved one during a disaster is dumb, but it's not isolated to movies.
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It was dumb because there was such a small chance that he could actually find her and/ or she was still alive. Luckily
they all die
 
ghostmind said:
ANYTHING involving computers and the CSI shows - especially Miami.


Enhance, enhance, enhance. Can you clean it up a bit? Enhance, enhance. Let's take those two pixels in the upper left, blow it up to 1650x1080 and have the computer interpolate the rest. That'll hold up in court!
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Excusable in Blade Runner because it's the future.
 
xKilltheMx said:
Not giving you that one, I have personally woken up like that before straight out of a nightmare.
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I've also woken up from a Nightmare and jumped a foot in the air to get to a standing position because I dreamed about a floor demon thing trying to get to me.

I also shouted our "Help!"

Only happened to me once in my life.
 
jet1911 said:
-Nobody ever take a shit
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Yeah, just because taking a shit was cut out of the movie because it's completely irrelevant, it must be true that the people never use the toilets in their bathrooms. Fuck.
 
Osaka said:
Yeah, just because taking a shit was cut out of the movie because it's completely irrelevant, it must be true that the people never use the toilets in their bathrooms. Fuck.
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I think it´s more because every time you take a crap Butch kills you with your own gun D:
 
Kirk, McCoy, Spock and some random dude beam on an unknown planet. First and only of the whole group getting killed there: Random dude.

In the latest Star Trek movie it was so obvious who get's killed when Kirk, Sulu and some random red shirt dude left the ship..

Kipz said:
Wait, that's wrong? That means every single hospital show I've ever watched has been lying to me. My world is crumbling down.
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You use a defribilator just to "reset" it, when there's heart flutter. After you used the defribilator, you start with CPR.
 
Graf Nudu said:
Kirk, McCoy, Spock and some random dude beam on an unknown planet. First and only of the whole group getting killed there: Random dude.

In the latest Star Trek movie it was so obvious who get's killed when Kirk, Sulu and some random red shirt dude left the ship..
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Kool Aid said:
Speaking of Jurassic Park, the dude tests to see if current is running through the electric fence by grabbing onto it with both hands.
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Test? He knew the fence wasn't hot.


Edit: Not to point fingers but I will. Taken I love the movie. He goes through the whole movie killing left and right without injury to himself until the boat scene when he gets shot and cut up and hurt his ankle...
 
Zombieland, when those 2 girls go to the amusement park and activate the power to all the rides. WHAT DID THEY THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!?
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
i dont think wood is a very good conductor of electricity. but im no scientist.
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I thought he saw that the fence was off first. They had seen what indicates a fence was on with the T-Rex scene. I was thinking he was messing around with the kids and/or doing an extra double check before he fries one of them.

EDIT- Oops, beaten
 
Osaka said:
Yeah, just because taking a shit was cut out of the movie because it's completely irrelevant, it must be true that the people never use the toilets in their bathrooms. Fuck.
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Demolition man?
 
DeaconKnowledge said:
CSI is stupid up and down; 90% of the cases the criminal fesses up withou t o much a a trial, and CSIs are judge, jury, and executioner all in one.
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On a side note to that - one of the director's of my college was talking to my class and made a funny comment. he said that when the show CSI came out, two things happened. 1) The school's actual forensic science program had a nearly 200% enrollment increase, and then a 90% drop out because everyone was kind a schmuck who loved the show and wanted to do it but some how didn't account for the heavy biology and other science requirements lol. 2) and this is depressing, the same kind of increase was had in the CSI (computer science and information) program because new students thought THAT was the forensic science program and didn't bother to check. They changed the program name to just CS after that to prevent confusion.
 
BobTheFork said:
On a side note to that - one of the director's of my college was talking to my class and made a funny comment. he said that when the show CSI came out, two things happened. 1) The school's actual forensic science program had a nearly 200% enrollment increase, and then a 90% drop out because everyone was kind a schmuck who loved the show and wanted to do it but some how didn't account for the heavy biology and other science requirements lol. 2) and this is depressing, the same kind of increase was had in the CSI (computer science and information) program because new students thought THAT was the forensic science program and didn't bother to check. They changed the program name to just CS after that to prevent confusion.
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I love how Bones makes boring shit look amazing and cool by having hot people use holgraphic computers.
 
ghostmind said:
ANYTHING involving computers and the CSI shows - especially Miami.


Enhance, enhance, enhance. Can you clean it up a bit? Enhance, enhance. Let's take those two pixels in the upper left, blow it up to 1650x1080 and have the computer interpolate the rest. That'll hold up in court!
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I know, right?
 
I love the movie "Predator", but it doesn't have the brightest of characters.

- "drop your weapon ! it won't attack unarmed humans... (but I'll keep my machine gun with me, you never know...)"
- "So if I'm covered in mud, I become invisible... cool, I'll be able to escape unnoticed. OR I could go and try to kill it bare handed. Yeah, let's do that !"
 
BobTheFork said:
On a side note to that - one of the director's of my college was talking to my class and made a funny comment. he said that when the show CSI came out, two things happened. 1) The school's actual forensic science program had a nearly 200% enrollment increase, and then a 90% drop out because everyone was kind a schmuck who loved the show and wanted to do it but some how didn't account for the heavy biology and other science requirements lol. 2) and this is depressing, the same kind of increase was had in the CSI (computer science and information) program because new students thought THAT was the forensic science program and didn't bother to check. They changed the program name to just CS after that to prevent confusion.
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In a similar note, when xfiles became popular the FBI noticed a massive increase in enrollment as well.
 
DeaconKnowledge said:
CSI is stupid up and down; 90% of the cases the criminal fesses up withou t o much a a trial, and CSIs are judge, jury, and executioner all in one.
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When the killer gets knocked out by the hero girlfriend or boyfriend of the person he was trying to kill. They never take his gun or even kill him. They run away leaving the killer to wake up later and find them again.

W....T.....F
 
OK, I trudged through the latest Hulk movie which is indeed godawful (Ang Lee version for the win) despite it's cast and the last 60 seconds.

However, I'm not sure this is dumb or not as I'm not a science wizard, but it sure seems dumb.

In one of the battles, Hulk or the other guy use a car's remains to beat up the other guy, wearing them like gloves. I can't understand why this would be done. All indications are that the Hulk is stronger and more indestructible than the car. Wouldn't this just soften the blows- like boxing gloves?

It the same thing for using chains as weapons when Hulk or the other guy should be able to eat the chains, much less not be hurt/choked by them.
 
When people walk quickly and give terse responses to every single thing the other person is saying. Whenever somebody does that, they are instantly a douchebag. Branded for the whole film.
 
There's the obvious thing of main characters in extremely serious fields getting to do things that should either get them fired or arrested (cops,doctors,lawyers).
 
Alx said:
I love the movie "Predator", but it doesn't have the brightest of characters.

- "drop your weapon ! it won't attack unarmed humans... (but I'll keep my machine gun with me, you never know...)"
- "So if I'm covered in mud, I become invisible... cool, I'll be able to escape unnoticed. OR I could go and try to kill it bare handed. Yeah, let's do that !"
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How exactly do you imagine Dutch would have escaped? You don't think the Predator would notice the incoming chopper needed to extract him? Also, Arnold doesn't run.
 
Kipz said:
Wait, that's wrong? That means every single hospital show I've ever watched has been lying to me. My world is crumbling down.
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Defibrillators are used to treat cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Basically, these conditions cause the "rhythm" of your heart to become irregular, the defibrillator jolts your heart, causes it to stop, and allows your natural pacemaker, the Sinoatrial node, to bring your heart back to a proper rhythm. It's like restarting your computer to fix problems.
 
Beezy said:
So I just turned on the TV and Jurassic Park is on. All of the park's systems failed and the T-Rex just broke the fence. This guy LEAVES the car and runs to the bathroom. After the T-Rex walks on to the road, this lil dumb blond bitch shines a light at the T-Rex. Right in his eye. WHAT THE FUCK. Why would you do that? I haven't watched this movie in over a decade so I've completely forgotten everything. I hope she dies for her stupidity.

Btw, it really looks great for a movie made in '93.
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Holy shit I was going to make the same thread 3 days ago but didn't, and it was because I watched Jurassic Park in HD....
I also noticed a lot of mess up's, mostly done by the editing... also the CGI wasn't that great, the first TREX scene however still looked fucking insane to me still, I remember I watching something that said the TREX was only 25k polygons... I was still amazed though it still is probably my favorite movie ever... at least in my top 3!
 
Using every mobile phone in the city as sonar to construct a real-time 3-d map of every place you want to see. Basically, tech without considering feasibility. Yes, I know the irony here.
 
:lol :lol
One is when to people are about to kiss, they look at one another, and the boy or the girl says "Hi"... then kiss...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall made fun of it..
 
flipping_heck said:
All(?) of the James Bond films, James Bond gets captured and the villain finds an elaborate way to try to kill him but fails hard.. why not just shoot him?!
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It's no fun if he's just shot and killed. You don't get bond movies at all.
 
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