The most ridiculous "suspension of disbelief" scene in a movie?

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

the neverending story.

how can a story not have an ending? D:

 

[Gibsons]

LOL- that whole movie was a suspension of belief. Also probably one of the funniest movies ever made

"We don't have a cow."

They aimed pretty low. And succeeded.

 

[Kelvrick]

marked

 

[iroast]

Rajinikanth's movies
Examples: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rajinikanth+fighting+scenes&aq=1

 

[Cogman]

Dude, I've touched lead, it's soft, yet firm. Perfect for blocking radiation and for safe deceleration....

And it tastes good too!

 

[Patterner]

Meh, I liked the first 3 Indiana Jone's and 4, 5, and 6. Lucas just became what he originally set out to destroy, a giant corporate fat cat putting out garbage for a quick buck.

People keep mentioning "the first three" Indiana Jones movies...there *are* only three movies, so that seems kind of silly to refer to them that way.

And to contribute to the thread...GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra....of course, the whole thing, but in particular the motorcycle that gets slammed into by a car going at a decent clip and....slides a few feet sideways. wtf?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

James bond movies ... and this is the reason I think the series sucks. It's not manly. Iti s just stupid.

 

[MarkXIX]

People keep mentioning "the first three" Indiana Jones movies...there *are* only three movies, so that seems kind of silly to refer to them that way.

And to contribute to the thread...GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra....of course, the whole thing, but in particular the motorcycle that gets slammed into by a car going at a decent clip and....slides a few feet sideways. wtf?

There are in fact four Indiana Jones movies, listed in order of release:

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

So, when people say "the first three" they are referring to the first three listed above.

 

[Patterner]

*Swoosh*

There are in fact three Indiana Jones movies, listed in order of release:

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

So, when people say "the first three" they are referring to the first three listed above mistakenly including a movie that doesn't exist.

ftfy

 

[Jeff7]

There are in fact four Indiana Jones movies, listed in order of release:

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

So, when people say "the first three" they are referring to the first three listed above.

Right, only three Indiana Jones movies.






Edit...that's what I get for replying to the thread 10 minutes after loading the tab.

 

[sandorski]

And it tastes good too!

It's the perfect metal for surviving the Nuclear Holocaust!

 

[Kadarin]

It's the perfect metal for surviving the Nuclear Holocaust!

And as an added bonus, it's now included in almost anything imported from China...

 

[Bryf50]

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

One of my favourite scenes in that movie was when they were chasing the "bad guys" through Paris causing an insane amount of collateral damage. If you watch it, the good guys slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians. At one point the good guy dodges a missile only to let it fly into a nearby car in traffic. Good Job good guy you just murdered a family.

 

[Patterner]

One of my favourite scenes in that movie was when they were chasing the "bad guys" through Paris causing an insane amount of collateral damage. If you watch it, the good guys slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians. At one point the good guy dodges a missile only to let it fly into a nearby car in traffic. Good Job good guy you just murdered a family.

Yeah, that's the same scene where the motorcycle defies conservation of momentum.

 

[Ninjahedge]

You guys forgot Spidey stopping a (non-existant in NYC) elevated train by "thwip"ing himself on the front and attaching to a bunch of buildings.

There were several no-no's in that, such as attachment to old masonry facades (thry would rip right off), no derailment of the car, denting the fron car when Spidey is still supposed to be soft and fleshy, and my fav... the track leads to a dead end in the middle of the air with no turnabout, no platform, nothing!

Yeah, they really build elevated trains that dead end like that....

BTW, thanks for "Eraser". Man that was bad.

Don't even get me started on that Angelena Jolie flik with the curving bullets. Mythbusters had a ball with that (even though anybody with half an ounce of Physics knowledge would have been able to tell you that).


Again, sometimes movie makers (or comic book writers) forget that they are still writing in the real world. They can make some exceptions (like Superman being bulletproof), but they can't make the bumper on a car strong enough to hold the car up when hoisted and flown about the city.

Everything else is "normal". When they forget these things and start bending what is supposed to be real, it makes it harder to accept the outrageous propositions (Alien transforming robots that somehow thought cars would be the best things to sidguise themselves as?).

Keep the willing suspensions few and/or small and it makes it more engaging.

BTW, who are the new VanDamme, Lungren, Arnold, Segal's in todays fliks?

The mere fact that they were EVER "leading" characters instead of tallented musclemen (like that Sith lord in SWI) is beyond me....

 

[Tweak155]

I don't think I saw 3, but in 2, when he realizes there's a bomb underneath his car, instead of stopping and ripping it off and throwing it, he speeds up, find a convenient ramp mechanism with a crane hook suspended above it, hits the ramp, making the car turn exactly upside down in time for the hook to knock off the bomb, then back around the remaining way to safely land on four wheels and keep driving. :hmm:

This is exactly what I wanted to post. I'm 5 months late and it was on the first page

 

[Cogman]

I find this oddly applicable here

 

[CPA]

Btw, Vader needs to fire his entire weapon engineering team. Their targeting system sucks. How the hell can you miss anything with that technology - every shot with laser should connect.

LMAO. so true.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Cog,

That's 50/50.

The one thing books have an advantage with is that they do not need to express things so precisely.

You can call on "magic" w/o having to explain too much. that is what made things like Light Sabers and the Force work in the first 3 fliks.

But as soon as you try to explain too much (Mitoco-somethings? Sounds like an ep of DBZ!) you run the risk of either stepping on your own toes, or simply making something practically impossible.

YMMV.

What was that one book series that Penny-Arcade kept making fun of?


BTW, one last thing to throw on the heap. If the NYT BestSeller is a book written by "Snooki", I think a bit of swords and sorcery being devoured by smart peeps is not that difficult to believe...

 

[PottedMeat]

LMAO. so true.

i bet those gunners can't see shit with their stupid helmets

 

[Cogman]

i bet those gunners can't see shit with their stupid helmets

Well, apparently light speed travel is easier to do than making high speed computers. After all, the whole "That's impossible, even for a computer." scene seems to suggest they have some crappy computers.

 

[shortylickens]

Well, apparently light speed travel is easier to do than making high speed computers. After all, the whole "That's impossible, even for a computer." scene seems to suggest they have some crappy computers.

I'm about to totally nerd out here, but my understanding it Hyperdrive technology was given to the current civilization by a species who went extinct long ago. People in the current Star Wars universe know how to fix it but they could never have invented it themselves.

 

[Patterner]

BTW, one last thing to throw on the heap. If the NYT BestSeller is a book written by "Snooki", I think a bit of swords and sorcery being devoured by smart peeps is not that difficult to believe...

Well, at least most fantasy novels are internally consistent....many of these flicks aren't.

 

[QuantumPion]

I don't think I saw 3, but in 2, when he realizes there's a bomb underneath his car, instead of stopping and ripping it off and throwing it, he speeds up, find a convenient ramp mechanism with a crane hook suspended above it, hits the ramp, making the car turn exactly upside down in time for the hook to knock off the bomb, then back around the remaining way to safely land on four wheels and keep driving. :hmm:

That was the exact scene and movie I was thinking of when I clicked on this thread.

 

[Gibsons]

But as soon as you try to explain too much (Mitoco-somethings? Sounds like an ep of DBZ!) you run the risk of either stepping on your own toes, or simply making something practically impossible.

Some things are better left unexplained.
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