Criticize your favorite movies

[gofuckyourself 8,939]

V for Vendetta

When V battles Creedy, they wave some sort of detector over his chest, presumably a metal detector? But he keeps the metal armor and his knives. So...?

[notre dame joe 202]

The rag tag remnants of the human race are cowering in fear of the Terminators, whom they cannot even keep out of their hideout.  But the uber advanced Skynet invents time travel, as a hail mary to save themselves from the junk yard dwellers.

[Dbeasy 15,526]

On 10/29/2024 at 6:01 PM, McCroskey said:

Worst to me on this series is Marty and Jennifer going to the future but their future selves are somehow there, too.

Had they each gone forward 30 years, they should have simply arrived to missing person reports on themselves or featured in an Unsolved Mysteries episode playing on the TV in the cafe. Doc should have just come back to 1985 and said, there’s a problem with your kids, Marty, straighten the fuck up.

Time travel inconsistencies used to drive me insane. I was able to reconcile it all by saying there are parallel universes that intersect. I can now sleep at night. 

[Texzilla58 4,778]

The Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit was in actuality a fat, wheezy, underpowered bucket of bolts.  But Sally Field was smokin in those cutoffs.  

[Deej 77,671]

57 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

he Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit was in actuality a fat, wheezy, underpowered bucket of bolts.

[Parliament 14,559]

In stock form it’s 455 Olds had 185 hp.  Very poor for today but in the last 70’s it was as strong any domestic engine you could get in a sports car.

But you assume it was stock.  Do all the tricks of the day (port/polish the heads, bigger valves, custom cam, custom exhaust) and you could get a lot more.  And do you think for one second Bo Danville didn’t do that?  Lol goddamn didn’t he did.  That car was faster than anything he’d come up against.  Full stop.

[CooterBrown 18,272]

It's always bugged me in Pulp Fiction that Sam Jackson calls the guy both Brad and Brett.  It's crazy that error wasn't fixed in post.

In Gone Girl, if he would've just pointed out the storage shed to the police it would've been all the proof needed that he didn't kill her.

 

[Pokoloco 1,292]

On 11/5/2024 at 10:12 AM, CooterBrown said:

It's always bugged me in Pulp Fiction that Sam Jackson calls the guy both Brad and Brett.  It's crazy that error wasn't fixed in post.

In Gone Girl, if he would've just pointed out the storage shed to the police it would've been all the proof needed that he didn't kill her.

 

I think he was being intentionally indifferent about his name. Kind of like how I call my daughters boyfriend Jacob instead of Caleb.

[Deej 77,671]

*Kurt*

[wutang75 459]

There are intentionally mistakes throughout Pulp Fiction. “Any of you F’n pricks move…….”

[Longhornfan1024 1,707]

On 10/26/2024 at 1:02 AM, cmontexas said:

Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer are obviously terrific in Tombstone, but the pacing of it makes the script feel like it was rewritten many many times.

The Johnny Tyler bit was weird too, although fat Billy Bob is hilarious. He's supposedly badass enough that everyone in Tombstone fears him and is presumably making money off the tables at the Oriental. And Wyatt just beats him up and assumes ownership of the stake. Then he comes back for revenge but gives up immediately and never returns when Doc Holliday makes fun of him

"It's okay, my parents are rich" always annoys me.  Just shoehorn in this dumbass line to make it seem like Wyatt will have a happy ending.  

[Kennythetiger 9,584]

6 hours ago, Pokoloco said:

I think he was being intentionally indifferent about his name. Kind of like how I call my daughters boyfriend Jacob instead of Caleb.

Trixie?  

[Gene Parmesan 4,062]

6 hours ago, Pokoloco said:

I think he was being intentionally indifferent about his name. Kind of like how I call my daughters boyfriend Jacob instead of Caleb.

[Not a cat 5,804]

On 11/4/2024 at 11:06 AM, BabaYaga said:

Wang was obviously NOT Jewish

And electricity has naturally existed since the dawn of time.  How can a woman really be something before electricity if it has always existed?  Even if Czervik meant before man learned to control electricity, the light bulb was invented in the 1870s, so with a setting in Bushwood of 1980, she'd have to be well over 110 years old.

Just ruins the entire movie for me.

[workswithseed 2,201]

On 10/25/2024 at 11:50 AM, Beau Vine said:

JOE JACKSON BATTED LEFTY, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

https://youtu.be/1xeamHyi9u8?si=r2wLyVM_rbkNVJsv

[mr. sunshine 2,852]

and finally to belabor the whole Godfather thing to the nth degree...

Al Neri is one of the coolest motherfuckers in the Godfather universe. They could have made a movie from his backstory in the book.

Could have called it Godfather III

[ztejas 44,114]

The Dark Knight - the greatest film ever made (along with Casablanca) - really fucking drags any time Maggie G is in it. 

I don't know if the rest of the film only works so well because she kind of serves as a control/baseline of shittiness or if it could have been even more amazing if they kept Katie Holmes sexy-ass on.

[ztejas 44,114]

On 10/26/2024 at 1:02 AM, cmontexas said:

The Johnny Tyler bit was weird too, although fat Billy Bob is hilarious. He's supposedly badass enough that everyone in Tombstone fears him and is presumably making money off the tables at the Oriental. And Wyatt just beats him up and assumes ownership of the stake. Then he comes back for revenge but gives up immediately and never returns when Doc Holliday makes fun of him

The thread is what's wrong with your favorite movies - not reasons why your favorite movies are awesome. 

[Parliament 14,559]

In last act of the film:

[BearSchlong 8,231]

Deja Vu.

The bomb explodes on the Algiers ferry and people sink into the crystal clear blue Mississippi River.

Otherwise, a great flick.

[Texzilla58 4,778]

It’s a Wonderful life would be better with nekkid scenes with Donna Read and Gloria Graham.

[Rimbo 26,853]

Incorrectly regarded as a mistake: The stormtroopers are missing the heroes on purpose.

Actually a mistake: gestures at most of the dialogue

Furthering a mistake: Adding the Jabba scene back in (it adds nothing and destroys the pacing of that act); Greedo shooting anything other second (changes the character of Han).

[Annie_Tobak 138]

John Wick 2

The deaf assassin (Ruby Rose) is so miscast it's hard to suspend disbelief, which kinda sucks becuase JW1 did such an amazing job of world building with underworld of right under your nose.

Also the contrived line about "duck fat, makes all the difference" is cringe to me because it comes off as what an average person would think the rich and elite and powerful would say. Food fried in duck fat is accessible to the middle class in America and it's not that gourmet or epicurean.

A small nit I know, in an otherwise amazing series.

Edited November 11 by Annie_Tobak

[Texzilla58 4,778]

On 11/5/2024 at 9:58 AM, Parliament said:

In stock form it’s 455 Olds had 185 hp.  Very poor for today but in the last 70’s it was as strong any domestic engine you could get in a sports car.

But you assume it was stock.  Do all the tricks of the day (port/polish the heads, bigger valves, custom cam, custom exhaust) and you could get a lot more.  And do you think for one second Bo Danville didn’t do that?  Lol goddamn didn’t he did.  That car was faster than anything he’d come up against.  Full stop.

I went to high school in the mid70’s.  Rich kids had crap like that wheezy TransAm with all the gold decals.  Or a Bricklin.  Or likely a GMC conversion van.
 

The working stiffs had true muscle cars. I had a 70 442 with that was 365hp stock but put out an estimated 1000 films torque. That was before headers, a Lunati cam, some head work, and a Holley 780.  A buddy had a 70.5 TransAm, in white with blue stripe as God intended with the badass 400.  It was the fastest factory car I was ever in, and it handled.  You could get a hemi cuda for $800.  So the lot was full of all kinds of cool cars:  GS455 Skylarks, Camaro split bumpers. Tons of mopars.  Mustangs.  It would be a me on auction goldmine.  
 

But I’d have still driven that black TA , slow as it was factory, if Sally Field had been in the copilot seat.

[Paco 1,948]

I loved that rocket 455, but it never got close to 1000 lb/ft of torque.

[Paco 1,948]

Shawshank, when he busts a hole in the sewer main to escape. Huge geyser of shit water...nope. Sewer main/ building drain is gravity flow. The only way it's pressurized like that is if it's plugged up downstream and holding back 3-4 floors of head.

It was dramatic though.

[Rimbo 26,853]

4 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

But I’d have still driven that black TA , slow as it was factory, if Sally Field had been in the copilot seat.

I'd drive ANY car with 1977 Sally Field shotgun.

[Gil Bang 26,176]

On 10/25/2024 at 2:59 PM, mr. sunshine said:

Unlike the book neither the Godfather or II mentions anything about the vaginal reconstruction/tightening surgery that Sonny's mistress had to endure after he and his huge hog were murdered 

I don't recall it that way.  It's been years since I read it, but I recall that she was the only one that could take his meat, because...

Some dude hooked her up with a doc post-Sonny. 

[D_Goose 496]

On 10/26/2024 at 5:27 AM, Bama Llama said:

1. No Country For Old Men.  Llewellyn Moss, wounded in the obliques I guess, having jumped out a second floor hotel window in El Paso, is limping with his jumbo attache case full of cash down a dark street trying to get away from Anton Chigur, when an kind older man in a pickup truck gives him a ride.  Moss gets in and is just settling in his seat when one of Chigur’s shotgun slugs blasts through the truck back window and takes off half the old man’s head, the truck stalls off to one side, and poor wounded Moss is back on the street.

There is no fucking way Chigur could have been close enough to that truck to have so accurately placed that shot.

I don’t have a problem with this because I think of Chigurh as a sort of supernatural figure. Throughout the narrative he’s referenced as almost some kind of ghost. Think of the scene where he’s shown seemingly lying in wait in the motel room for Sheriff Bell only for the room to be empty when Bell walks in.

It’s a perfect movie.

 

 

[Upgrayedd 5,861]

1 hour ago, Paco said:

Shawshank, when he busts a hole in the sewer main to escape. Huge geyser of shit water...nope. Sewer main/ building drain is gravity flow. The only way it's pressurized like that is if it's plugged up downstream and holding back 3-4 floors of head.

It was dramatic though.

Force main perhaps?

[Paco 1,948]

Force main perhaps?

Building drains are typically never forced mains. (Building drain meaning the main exiting the building and leaving the property). And a forced main would go straight up to a maintenance port before dropping back down to a gravity drain leaving the property. Also, at that time it would be extra heavy cast iron or ductile iron and basically impossible to break with a rock. Still my favorite movie.

[mr. sunshine 2,852]

6 minutes ago, Paco said:

31 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

Force main perhaps?

Building drains are typically never forced mains. (Building drain meaning the main exiting the building and leaving the property). And a forced main would go straight up to a maintenance port before dropping back down to a gravity drain leaving the property. Also, at that time it would be extra heavy cast iron or ductile iron and basically impossible to break with a rock. Still my favorite movie.

Drainage nerd talk not going away

[Paco 1,948]

Well fuck me for taking the thread title seriously.

[notre dame joe 202]

The Baseball Furies are clearly a major gang with great branding.  But they are not at Cyrus's big meeting.

[Dbeasy 15,526]

Was watching my favorite movie Gladiator, and realized that in the first coliseum fight before anyone knew he was Maximus, one of the other prisoners called him Maximus. Dammit. 

[miguelito 11,449]

Some of the prisoners knew who he was. One of them even says "I served with you at ____."

That might have been the 2nd fight, but they still knew him. They saw him without a mask.

[Reynolds Woodcock 5,064]

45 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Was watching my favorite movie Gladiator, and realized that in the first coliseum fight before anyone knew he was Maximus, one of the other prisoners called him Maximus. Dammit. 

There is a very long list of mistakes with Gladiator floating around. An extra laughing during a battle scene, clearly rubber military items, etc.

[Parliament 14,559]

1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

Was watching my favorite movie Gladiator, and realized that in the first coliseum fight before anyone knew he was Maximus, one of the other prisoners called him Maximus. Dammit. 

That Prisoner also said, "I served with you at vinta vona (sp)."  He recognized him from when he was in the army.

[closetohumping 17,778]

Karate kid 

m to believe that John Kreese was racist?  Guy was trained at a Japanese karate compound and still had an ongoing relationship with them.  

[notre dame joe 202]

I thought 'Maximus' was an official nickname, not a birth name.  Or unofficial in the case of Naughtius Maximus. 

Edited November 13 by notre dame joe

[66BUFF 2,608]

14 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Karate kid 

m to believe that John Kreese was racist?  Guy was trained at a Japanese karate compound and still had an ongoing relationship with them.  

South Korea

After escaping prison, he reunites with Kim Da-Eun and his old master Kim Sun-Yung, and helps train their students for the Sekai Taikai tournament. He takes an interest in one of the rebellious students Kwon, whom he corrupts even more. When all the dojos arrive for the Sekai Taikai, it is revealed that Tory has joined Kreese.

Master Kim is a sensei from South Korea. A master of Tang Soo Do, during the Korean War, Kim Sun-Yung trained many American soldiers in unarmed combat and was credited with creating what is now known as "The Way of The Fist", a particularly ruthless style used in modern martial arts and the U.S. military for close-quartered hand-to-hand combat situations. His ruthless teachings are the reason for the cut-throat and malicious behaviors of Kreese and Silver, which they pass down to their students.

[LTbear 4,209]

When Grant and Lex are standing still beside the jeep and the T rex is sniffing them, you can see that the blast of air from its snort comes from off screen, not the nostril.

Dilophosaurus didn't have frills, tyrannosaur vision wasn't movement based, raptors had feathers - all that stuff I can write off due to the genetic engineering aspect.

[Texzilla58 4,778]

On 11/11/2024 at 6:22 PM, Paco said:

I loved that rocket 455, but it never got close to 1000 lb/ft of torque.

Hot Rod magazine when testing the 70 w30 said it pegged their machine and estimated it was quite a bit stronger.  It wasnt alone; the Buick 455 and Pontiac SD455 among others were way above the understated factory specs.  
 

maybe they had a shitty gauge from TG&Y.

[TwiceHorn 31,987]

On 11/5/2024 at 9:58 AM, Parliament said:

In stock form it’s 455 Olds had 185 hp.  Very poor for today but in the last 70’s it was as strong any domestic engine you could get in a sports car.

But you assume it was stock.  Do all the tricks of the day (port/polish the heads, bigger valves, custom cam, custom exhaust) and you could get a lot more.  And do you think for one second Bo Danville didn’t do that?  Lol goddamn didn’t he did.  That car was faster than anything he’d come up against.  Full stop.

Assuming we're talking about a 77 T/A.  The 455 was no longer available.  Engine choices were a Pontiac 400 that made 185 and an Olds 403 (the subsequent 6.6) that made 180.  The Pontiac made 325 ft-lbs of torque, though.

The Oldsmobile engines suffered mightily under emission controls, moreso for their displacement than other GM engines.

[Rimbo 26,853]

15 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

I thought 'Maximus' was an official nickname, not a birth name.  Or unofficial in the case of Naughtius Maximus. 

 

[Not a cat 5,804]

5 hours ago, LTbear said:

When Grant and Lex are standing still beside the jeep and the T rex is sniffing them, you can see that the blast of air from its snort comes from off screen, not the nostril.

Dilophosaurus didn't have frills, tyrannosaur vision wasn't movement based, raptors had feathers - all that stuff I can write off due to the genetic engineering aspect.

How the fuck can scientists look at fossils of an animal and determine whether or not its vision was movement based? 

[LTbear 4,209]

2 hours ago, Not a cat said:

How the fuck can scientists look at fossils of an animal and determine whether or not its vision was movement based? 

Certain taxonomic groups have vision based on movement. Tyrannosaurs are not particularly closely related to any of them, and that type of visual system is not at all common among vertebrates, so you can rest assured that their vision didn't work that way. I think the assumptions of the movie/ book is basically the reverse of everything I just said, but obviously it was just a gimmick for entertainment.

[ztejas 44,114]

On 11/11/2024 at 7:08 PM, D_Goose said:

I don’t have a problem with this because I think of Chigurh as a sort of supernatural figure. Throughout the narrative he’s referenced as almost some kind of ghost. Think of the scene where he’s shown seemingly lying in wait in the motel room for Sheriff Bell only for the room to be empty when Bell walks in.

It’s a perfect movie.

 

 

I was meh on it the first watch. Liked it the second watch.

It gets better literally every time I watch it - which, for me - is a hallmark of a great film.

I'm not sure I like it better than There Will Be Blood but I'm totally fine with it taking Best Picture that year. 

[Guadaloopy 11,129]

Jake Taylor had zero business hitting in the 2-hole behind Willie Mays Hayes.  

[mchookem 16,728]

On 11/11/2024 at 6:08 PM, D_Goose said:

I don’t have a problem with this because I think of Chigurh as a sort of supernatural figure. Throughout the narrative he’s referenced as almost some kind of ghost. Think of the scene where he’s shown seemingly lying in wait in the motel room for Sheriff Bell only for the room to be empty when Bell walks in.

It’s a perfect movie.

 

 

not to derail... but I've always been confused by this scene, is he there or not... if not, where is he, they clearly show him hiding...

i finally landed on it's just Bell's imagination, but i'd be interested in other interpretations.