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[Freshmaker]

Like most Gods he didn't give a shit.

There are bigger fish to fry in the universe than waiting on humanity and its woes.

He did actually try quite a bit before he eventually went off to raise amoeba for fun. He gave the world a clean energy source, which did nothing to solve political tensions, he fought wars for the US which didn't accomplish much either...

 

[-viper-]

Why didn't they just fly the ring to Mount Doom on an eagle? - most asked

The Nazgul and the fellbeasts can also fly you know. They could have killed the eagles quite easily, for an easy return to the ring to the dark lord SAURON.

 

[Freshmaker]

The Nazgul and the fellbeasts can also fly you know. They could have killed the eagles quite easily, for an easy return to the ring to the dark lord SAURON.

The eagles also don't really give a crap about what people are doing.

 

[Zoe]

Why do they never use a mouse when on the computer?

Keyboard shortcuts are always faster.

 

[Haunted]

The Shoveller: Don't start that *again*. Lance Hunt wears glasses. Captain Amazing *doesn't* wear glasses.
Mr. Furious: He takes them off when he transforms.
The Shoveller: That doesn't make any sense, he wouldn't be able to see.

:lol best scene of the movie.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

I like this thread.

 

[Apoc29]

Cannonically there are two reasons: firstly that Superman has mild hypnotic powers and thus prevents people from noticing.

Do these hypnotic powers work through photographs?

 

[koam]

Inception

Spoiler

Why not just bring the kids to france?

 

[EmCeeGramr]

The eagles also don't really give a crap about what people are doing.

Also in the movie they leave out the mentions about trying to find Radagast (the wizard closest the animals and the Eagles) during the Council of Elrond, and how it was Radagast who sent the Eagle that freed Gandalf from Orthanc, because he wanted to ask Saruman about what Sauron was doing.

The movie made it look like Gandalf could just summon Eagles on a whim by talking to moths, when in the books they were much more difficult to contact and probably would have refused to help at first.

 

[BattleMonkey]

In the movie the Nazguls could have just flown over murdered the fellowship and got the ring back too, but that never happened.

 

[Zombie James]

I used to think the same thing about this guy:

 

[JGS]

In the movie the Nazguls could have just flown over murdered the fellowship and got the ring back too, but that never happened.

I thought part of the plot was they didn't exactly know where the fellowship were at any given time so they focused on the homeland where they still couldn't find the hobbits.

 

[Zombie James]

We need Robocop back D:

 

[EmCeeGramr]

In the movie the Nazguls could have just flown over murdered the fellowship and got the ring back too, but that never happened.

They didn't know about the Fellowship! The whole thing was a ruse, remember? For the entire time, up until the very end, Sauron thought that Men were trying to USE the ring against him. Halfway through the story, Aragorn tricks Sauron into thinking that he has the ring.

 

[JGS]

Do these hypnotic powers work through photographs?

The John Byrne Superman run explained it best. He combed his hair a different way and he also made sure he vibrated his head at superspeed so he looked blurry.

Lex Luthor had a computer figure out they were the same and he fired the person who made the program for making such a ludicrous deduction

&

Lois figured it out pretty early and he got someone to impersonate him while standing next to Clark & said they were raised like brothers.

Byrne's Supes was far from nerdy. I think he was portrayed as a nice guy hunk.

 

[Monroeski]

This is pretty easy to answer. The Nozgul.

Also the fact that the eagles are intelligent creatures and if they could even convince them to fly them in in the first place, there would be nothing stopping the eagles from just dropping everybody from a mile up and after they all splatter the eagles just take the ring for themselves.

 

[BattleMonkey]

They didn't know about the Fellowship! The whole thing was a ruse, remember? For the entire time, up until the very end, Sauron thought that Men were trying to USE the ring against him. Halfway through the story, Aragorn tricks Sauron into thinking that he has the ring.

Which also makes it silly that they couldn't just fly the ring in when they didn't know about the fellowship at least in the movie. Just cause they have Nazguls like everyone keeps saying, doesn't mean they would find them, the sky is large and they don't got radar or satellite tracking.

This was thankfully canned

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Which also makes it silly that they couldn't just fly the ring in when they didn't know about the fellowship at least in the movie. Just cause they have Nazguls like everyone keeps saying, doesn't mean they would find them, the sky is large and they don't got radar or satellite tracking.

Sauron had spies all over Middle Earth, and if he heard about (or heck, even saw himself) Eagles flying the Ring to Mordor, he would have quickly figured out what they were trying to do and sealed up Mount Doom and heavily fortified it.

 

[G-Fex]

This was thankfully canned

Yeah. I guess Robo wouldn't fit well in the new times. :\

 

[Eteric Rice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwxA9O-q2o8

 

[Monroeski]

How can you not tell that Superman is Clark Kent, just without glasses?

Come on!

 

[BattleMonkey]

He makes a good point

 

[G-Fex]

I thought supes married Lois or did they retcon that too?

 

[EmCeeGramr]

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[IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/2h6xb2u.jpg

 

[NullPointer]

He did actually try quite a bit before he eventually went off to raise amoeba for fun. He gave the world a clean energy source, which did nothing to solve political tensions, he fought wars for the US which didn't accomplish much either...

True. But once again, like most Gods, he was nicer overall when he was getting laid on a regular basis ;p

Longer version: He slowly detached from the human condition the more he explored time, space, and the machinery of the universe. With that impossibly wide perspective its hard to take any human drama seriously, whether that drama is from world wars or ignoring an anniversary. Both are equally irrelevant and trivial, and not even a whisper of a speck against the backdrop of life-in-time itself.

To add insult to injury he was being actively deceived and manipulated by a devious intellect who used his own ethereal intentions against him.

Lastly, when you figure that nothing ever ends maybe he thought personal interventions are always doomed to failure as the cycle of human misery and bliss revolves yet again.

 

[x Power Pad Death Stomp x]

Shouldn't the resistance in the Terminator movies be trying to kill or stop Kyle Reece and John Connor while Skynet protects them?

Skynet only exists because it was reverse engineered from the T 800 sent back to kill John Connor.

Stop the T800 from going back in time, you end the future war. Kill John Connor before Skynet trys its time travel stunt and....Skynet does not exist.

 

[Monroeski]

I thought supes married Lois or did they retcon that too?

There were a lot of old covers that were really odd. I don't think they really cared much about continuity back then.

Spoiler

Not that they do these days, either, of course.

 

[Zoe]

Does Skynet know that Kyle Reese is John's father?

 

[h_a_t]

GASP. How dare you.

Batman's only weakness.


Leaving everyone Alive.

But it's true.
You have to factor in the countless amount of prep-time.

The only advantage Dudikoff has over Batman is his sidekick...

Cannonically there are two reasons: firstly that Superman has mild hypnotic powers and thus prevents people from noticing. The other is that the people close to him DO know, but realise that he needs the double life to stay sane so support him.

Goddamn I'm a nerd.

I have an issue of Superman where they explain the difference between Clark and Supe. Clark's spectacles are made from the Kryptonian glass of his spaceship. When Clark looks at people through his glasses, his super-gaze and the lenses help to hypnotize people into seeing him differently. He has a Daily Planet artist sketch him and he's nerdy and balding. A cop sees him as being taller from behind. It's incredibly stupid.

So he has Genjutsu abilities?

 

[hteng]

Why do they never use a mouse when on the computer?

this, and those fancy GUIs

 

[G-Fex]

But it's true.
You have to factor in the countless amount of prep-time.

The only advantage Dudikoff has over Batman is his sidekick...

Indeed, that dude would beat Chris O' Donnell any day of the week.

And I thought Superman married Lois for reals in the 90's, around the same time Cyclops married Jean Grey.

Robocop 2 is coming out right now. And if a exploding car blown up with rocket launchers can't hurt him i'm pretty sure shooting his mouth won't either.

 

[adamsappel]

 

[Dr Zhivago]

I watched G.I. Joe and it got me thinking about something I've noticed a lot lately:

Why are all American soldiers depicted in desert fatigues even when they are not in desert locales or the movie is not related to any of the current wars?

There was an episode of Dr Who with soldiers in desert camo, despite the fact they weren't in a desert. I guess people just think that's what soldiers look like now.

 

[BattleMonkey]

There was an episode of Dr Who with soldiers in desert camo, despite the fact they weren't in a desert. I guess people just think that's what soldiers look like now.

Well also camo has no use in most situations outside of actual in the field combat. Green or brown makes no difference usually if your in a city or other non field environments.

 

[Chuckie]

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jesus fuck.... the explanations they come up with are even more ridiculous than the terrible disguise in the first place.

 

[neorej]

Why wasn't Kevin not taken away from his family and put in the care of child-protective services after they proved that they were unfit to take care of a child in Home Alone?

 

[Fallout-NL]

lol wut?

Man, that blood-spatter looks amazing. Bring back the 80ies/early90ies.

 

[Monocle]

Why didn't they just fly the ring to Mount Doom on an eagle? - most asked

This has a one-word answer. Care to guess?

Spoiler

Nazgul.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Does Skynet know that Kyle Reese is John's father?

No, unless it was peeping when Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor were boning in that motel.

Which is why I got annoyed during Terminator: Salvation, amongst other reasons.

Like....if it's all machines, why does Skynet have so many damn tactile/manual controls?

Off all the aircraft they could use...A-10's? Really?

 

[JGS]

Sauron had spies all over Middle Earth, and if he heard about (or heck, even saw himself) Eagles flying the Ring to Mordor, he would have quickly figured out what they were trying to do and sealed up Mount Doom and heavily fortified it.

Eagles don't care. Attacking the Nazgul outside of Mordor wasn't risky at all.

Going into Mordor with Nazgul, archers, and who knows how many other dangers was not something they cared much about and was not a good tactical plan anyway- especially since only one eagle could carry the thing and if they're shot down the enemy has the ring. A sneak in was the most logical solution.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

1885: Why didn't Marty and Doc use the gasoline from the second Delorean (the one that Doc hid) into the Delorean of the future (the one which Marty came from) to go back to the present?

 

[EvilMario]

"Only imperial stormtroopers are so precise."

Sure, baddies in movies always have horrible aim. Often the good guys as well. :lol

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

And other logical problems in movies in movies.

I remember watching RoboCop as a little kid and thinking to myself "Yeah he has that armor and everything but why don't the bad guys just shoot him in the exposed part of his face?" It seemed like a pretty glaring flaw. Why would they make him armored everywhere except half of his head? Same goes for Batman. You'd think after shooting him in the chest a hundred times you might get the idea to aim for the big fleshy part of his head but noooo, nobody ever thinks of that.

Do things like this ever bother you while watching movies? Why doesn't anyone ever call 911 in a horror movie? Fucking hell.

How can bad guys reload like 6 times and not even come close to hitting the good guy?

 

[Monroeski]

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"The plexiglass window in the rocket also shattered--coincidentally enough, into rounded pieces..."

:lol

 

[Operations]

So, has the why didn't Michael Caine take Cobb's children to Paris question been answered yet?

 

[JGS]

So, has the why didn't Michael Caine take Cobb's children to Paris question been answered yet?

That's considered a plothole?

All of these events happened in less than a year (I assumed). People were looking for Cobb both from the private sector and the government. Why would a grandfather take a fugitive's kids to see him knowing that would lead them to Cobb?

Plus it's pretty clear from the phone conversation that grandma wasn't as big of a softy as grandpa.

 

[John Dunbar]

People always say that "Han shoots first!", but I haven't seen anyone point out how incredible stupid that scene is anyway. Greedo (or whatever the fuck his name was), I'm assuming, is some kind of an experience bounty hunter, but apparently has no problem with the fact that Solo was armed. I mean, the gun was on his fucking belt, so I'm assuming that'd be the first thing a bounty hunter would notice, and he just let him sit down with his hand under the table?

So either Greedo had the worst aim in the galaxy or Han Solo murdered a retard. Awful fucking scene, anyway.

 

[Operations]

That's considered a plothole?

All of these events happened in less than a year (I assumed). People were looking for Cobb both from the private sector and the government. Why would a grandfather take a fugitive's kids to see him knowing that would lead them to Cobb?

Plus it's pretty clear from the phone conversation that grandma wasn't as big of a softy as grandpa.

Cobb visited Caine without much precaution and claimed the extradition process was complex. And however cold and heartless the grandma was, I don't think she would have opposed to an occasional Paris visit.

 

[Chorazin]

So, has the why didn't Michael Caine take Cobb's children to Paris question been answered yet?

Because Cobb was on the run from the law? It's a little hard to keep on the move with some children in tow.

 

[toxicgonzo]

I've only watched one episode of pushing daisies, but why does the girl still hangout with that guy? All he has to do is trip once, accidently land on her, and she'll end up dead.