Why don't people understand this?
Why don't paratroopers just use old refrigerators instead of parachutes?
as pointed out by Mr. Plinkett, the child sized goggles and helmet used by anikan in the phantom menace when he piloted the star fighter was a huge wtf...
I always knew those movies were bad, but Plinkett pointed out a dozen things I never even thought of, for each movie.
That just makes them even worse. Amazing a movie could suck more, years after I've seen it.
Lots of cowboy movies supposedly in Texas often have the Rockies in the background.
ok i'll bite.. what about the goggles and helmet?
The worst for that type of thing has to be "I Dream of Jeannie" and all those amazing mountains they had around Cocoa Beach, Florida.
One of the many things that just doesnt make sense in Episode 1, is the fact theres a child size helmet and goggles than just happened to be waiting in the one fighter Anakin picked to hide out in. If they had used teenage Anakin and let him wear adult equipment that could make sense. But as a little boy it just doesnt work. Even if they were teaching kids to fly it doesnt make sense they would leave kiddie gear inside the thing.
Also, the seat must be adjustable cuz he can see out just fine. And reach all the controls, so the whole damn cockpit must magically shrink just for him. That Force is fucking amazing.
Of course then theres the whole concept of bringing a little boy on a raiding mission anyways. Thats probably the biggest bullshit idea in any movie ever made, and sadly in a movie as bad as Episode 1, it doesnt stand out because by that point the suspension of disbelief had already been horribly beaten to death.
Well, there are explanations. For example, we are talking about a universe where aliens are common. Whose to say this didn't just so happen to be alien bobs fighter and alien bob just so happened to be anikins size.
That being said, his ability to just hop into an alien space craft, start the engines, and then fly it like he had been flying these things for years was complete feel good BS. He was a freaking slave, where on earth would he get spaceship piloting training (even assuming that all spaceships are alike in their control)
This is George Lucas we are talking about here. It's all BS. Some of it being entertaining.
And that somehow negated the IMPACT FORCES?!
Most of the problems are easy easy-fixes or spectacular screenshots.
Cars never blow up like they do in life. Somehow they all have 90% empty gas tanks in the middle of the passengers seat that es-plodes when hit by anything. Fights have people that can be knocked out by a single Karate-CHOP, but yet get kicked in the face repeatedly and end up with just a puffy eye and small nosebleed. If you EVER saw a true broken nose (done right), those things are gushers!
Physics? What dat? These CGI junkie monkeys don't seem to understand that even though you CAN make a car turn a 90 on a city street at, well, 90, it does not "feel' right and ruins the illusion. If teh best car games are made to feel right (despite some almost invincible body construction) why is it such a surprise that people would expect similar in a movie?
Guns, penetration (huh huh) and recoil are the WORST. The portable "linear accelerator" in... True Lies? (was it TL?) that could accelerate aluminum pellets in a magnetic field over about 1m length of barrel to hit a guy at "near light speed' and throw him against the wall? How many no-no's was that??!? The grenade used in the same movie that somehow contained enough pointy metal in it to line an entire kitchen in foot long barbs but measured only about the size of a grapefruit. Don't forget the whole Underworld super pistols that can shoot through 1'+ of concrete, hold 50 shots per clip, and get our hero to safety?
And don't even start on the product placement. How many of you have had a can of soda whose lable was just right to read while drinking? T3 was HORRIBLE with placement, with the jacknifed trailer emblazoned with some (dot-com?) logo in white on blue. And apple laptops appearing everywhere (I think it is in inverse proportion to their proximity to Jeff Goldblume).
I am surprised The Fly did not use an iMac.....
Or that every car in a flik whose logo is legible is ONE brand.
Wow, they all drive Fords!!!!
Movies have gotten a bit better in some ways, but they are still catering to cheap thrills in most cases.
but without all these bungles and bloopers, we would never have had jems like Naked Gun and Hot Shots.
Nothing to see here! Nothing to see!
One of the many things that just doesnt make sense in Episode 1, is the fact theres a child size helmet and goggles than just happened to be waiting in the one fighter Anakin picked to hide out in. If they had used teenage Anakin and let him wear adult equipment that could make sense. But as a little boy it just doesnt work. Even if they were teaching kids to fly it doesnt make sense they would leave kiddie gear inside the thing.
Also, the seat must be adjustable cuz he can see out just fine. And reach all the controls, so the whole damn cockpit must magically shrink just for him. That Force is fucking amazing.
Of course then theres the whole concept of bringing a little boy on a raiding mission anyways. Thats probably the biggest bullshit idea in any movie ever made, and sadly in a movie as bad as Episode 1, it doesnt stand out because by that point the suspension of disbelief had already been horribly beaten to death.
It's called a "Naboo Starfighter." Gungans and Naboo (Humans) are the only races I know of that live on that planet and we already know that Gungans are BIGGER than typical humans, so it probably wasn't made for a smaller species and is total fail.Well, there are explanations. For example, we are talking about a universe where aliens are common. Whose to say this didn't just so happen to be alien bobs fighter and alien bob just so happened to be anikins size.
That being said, his ability to just hop into an alien space craft, start the engines, and then fly it like he had been flying these things for years was complete feel good BS. He was a freaking slave, where on earth would he get spaceship piloting training (even assuming that all spaceships are alike in their control).
Lead is extremely malleable.
And that kept the fridge from flattening or his brain from smashing around in his skull?
Yes. Yes, a thousand times, yes.