Nitpick a movie or what you only noticed years later

[Mojochi]

Must never be touched by human hands? Well, who's bloody fault is that? You literally JUST danced around singing a song about imagination right after telling them they could eat everything in there. How is the chocolate river NOT part of everything? False advertising, Bro.

In fact, he may indeed also be a glutton, but I'm with Augustus Gloop on this one. If I win one of only 5 golden tickets to see inside the most famous & secretive chocolate factory in the entire world, & the 1st room this guy brings me into has a chocolate river, & therein he tells me everything can be eaten, I might sample a leaf or blade of grass just to confirm his claim, but it's going to be along the way as I make a deliberate B-Line to that damn chocolate river, because THAT my friends is the main attraction, which he made no verbal provision prohibiting the handling of, & if it was mentioned merely in that highly suspicious contract, then he's an A-hole lol

Clearly, I'm not letting this go

 

[Oddish]

I put this one earlier, but in "Casino Royale", Daniel Craig's debut as Bond...

The last hand's pot: $115 million.
Bond wins it. He tips the dealer with a red tile ($500k). His winnings are now $114.5 million.

So at the end, when the money is released, it's suddenly... 120 million?

Even if the writers figure the viewer didn't notice the 500k (Bond was pretty nonchalant about it), where did the extra 5 million bucks come from?

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Also, a few from "Die Hard 2".

1. Since real hand grenades aren't intended for playing catch, they don't have 32-second time fuses.
2. If you blast a guy who isn't wearing armor with 9mm blanks at point blank range, he might not die, but he will probably be severely hurt. And since he will probably fall over in a bleeding heap, his colleagues will likely shoot you.
3. About that whole Glock 7 thing...
a. The lowest Glock number is the Glock 17, the guns actually used.
b. They contain no porcelain.
c. They were made in Austria, not Germany.
d. Try to take one through a metal detector, and it will beep like hell, because they contain over a pound of steel.
e. That airport security guy could probably have afforded one with a couple day's pay. Maybe less, given that Glock Inc. gave huge discounts to US law enforcement (that's why 65% of US cops pack them).

 

[Mojochi]

Dangerously unpopular opinion: I think Burt Reynolds would've made a more believable Corleone brother to Al Pacino's Michael, & John Casale's Fredo than James Caan did, at least in looks. Caan is clearly a better actor, but he doesn't really look Italian. It always rubbed me wrong that he didn't look related, any more than Robert Duvall did lol

 

[Mojochi]

My two favorite Reynolds films both have him on the verge of tears at key moments (DELIVERANCE followed by SHARKEY) so I'm suddenly picturing him as Fredo now. And his BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME is a very fun bio-read.

I was actually picturing him as Sonny, instead of Caan. Reynolds does hothead/toughguy well too. He is a few years older than Caan though.

 

[Gaith]

I just thought of one: did Tony and Bruce not look for Scott at all after Infinity War? All that equipment being outside should have been a pretty big clue a Quantum Realm experiment was underway, to say nothing of preparatory notes. If they were able to guess that a Quantum Realm experiment was going on, that would mean a 50% chance Scott was stranded there - or maybe greater, as they have no way of knowing for sure if the Snap even applied to the Quantum Realm. (Although, I guess they wouldn't know for sure that Scott hadn't been snapped before he had a chance to get to the Quantum Realm.) Aaaaand, now my head hurts.

 

[Vanyel]

I just thought of one: did Tony and Bruce not look for Scott at all after Infinity War? All that equipment being outside should have been a pretty big clue a Quantum Realm experiment was underway, to say nothing of preparatory notes. If they were able to guess that a Quantum Realm experiment was going on, that would mean a 50% chance Scott was stranded there - or maybe greater, as they have no way of knowing for sure if the Snap even applied to the Quantum Realm. (Although, I guess they wouldn't know for sure that Scott hadn't been snapped before he had a chance to get to the Quantum Realm.) Aaaaand, now my head hurts.

Pym would have done everything he could to hide the experiment from Tony, then while Lang was in the Quantum realm, everyone who knew about it was dusted. At the end of Infinity War, if Tony did know about the experiment, he had no way to tell anybody about it. Banner/Professor Hulk, didn't seem to know about it either so when the van was put away, there wasn't anyone left to know about it. The movie End Game did not let anyone know if the Quantum Realm protected Lang, or he was just lucky enough to not have been dusted. I think the QR did protect Lang as it seemed that nothing in the QR was dusted.
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[FPAlpha]

I put this one earlier, but in "Casino Royale", Daniel Craig's debut as Bond...

The last hand's pot: $115 million.
Bond wins it. He tips the dealer with a red tile ($500k). His winnings are now $114.5 million.

So at the end, when the money is released, it's suddenly... 120 million?

Even if the writers figure the viewer didn't notice the 500k (Bond was pretty nonchalant about it), where did the extra 5 million bucks come from?

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An attempt to explain this - the money was held by a bank. Maybe they invested it and generated some profit from it until the time it was withdrawn/transferred but it's a very flimsy explanation.

Reality is that either the writers screwed up or they decided to round up the number to make it even and ignore those small details that nobody but people on message boards would notice and talk about

So many others had vanished. As for Scott, they were clueless. They may as well have checked all of Paris, or asked an anchorman for his whereabouts. (If you see where I'm going.)

The worldwide situation immediately post Snap has got to be one of the most chaotic periods in human history. I figure once the first dust settled and people were not reachable common sense would say they were snapped.

I guess after the first shock one of the Avengers would try to reach Scott but no one picked up his phone and if they knew his home address ( much more real world - do superheroes know each others private addresses and visit each other socially?) maybe someone went by and he was not there. I figure once they checked they declared him snapped and moved on.

 

[Oddish]

An attempt to explain this - the money was held by a bank. Maybe they invested it and generated some profit from it until the time it was withdrawn/transferred but it's a very flimsy explanation.

Figure Bond was laid up for about a month, given that he faced digitalis poisoning, a catastrophic car accident, and an extended torture session. An increase from 114.5m to 120m in that time would mean a yearly growth rate of about 55%. The only way you can get that much growth is on high-risk investments, which no self respecting bank would make on its own.

 

[Oddish]

When they made the movie "Demolition Man", they originally intended to have John Spartan's daughter (now in her 40's) turn up among the Scraps. Indeed, in the a tual movie, they come under attack and Spartan is seen protecting a nameless Scrap. Pretty sure that was her, and footage was just chopped.

In the book, her presence affects what was a rather repellent scene in the movie. Earlier on, Spartan tried to kiss Huxley, his partner. Since kissing wasn't allowed, she wanted none of it. So of course, later in the movie Spartan just grabs her and does it to her anyway, and of course she's fine with it (classic "I'll do it and she'll like it" mentality that leads to date rape). In the book, his daughter kisses him on the cheek, and Huxley doesn't get why that chaste daughterly peck is illegal, so Spartan takes that as permission to... yeah, still not great, but better than just sucking her lips off at random.

Also at the end of the book, Spartan finally asks how the three seashells work... Huxley explains, and Spartan admits that it's way better than toilet paper.

 

[Vanyel]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, how was the sunlight spike trap reset after Indy and Doc Oc passed through it?

 

[Aragorn]

This isn't years later, but why couldn't the ship fire missiles at the missile turrets in Top Gun: Maverick?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Also at the end of the book, Spartan finally asks how the three seashells work... Huxley explains, and Spartan admits that it's way better than toilet paper.

Do not, for the love of all that's holy, attempt to Google Stallone's explanation for how the three seashells work. Toilet paper would be an improvement!

 

[Oddish]

I read it elsewhere, and yeah, blecchhh. But no worries... given that Cocteau was a major germaphobe, I'm pretty sure it didn't work that way.

My theory? There are three buttons on 2030's toilets, and seashells are a popular decorative motif for keeping them covered until you need them. Button #1 gives your behind a well placed squirt of warm water, like a bidet but you don't have to relocate. Button #2 hits you with a nice blast of toasty warm air, rendering your "down there" spot dry and cozy. And Button #3 gives you a puff of scented powder or something. Perfectly hygienic, just the sort of thing that would appeal to a guy for whom fluid transfer was a big no-no.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My theory was that the seashells, when combined in a certain way, generated a sonic field that cleaned you out. Kind of like Trek's sonic showers.

But yours works too.

 

[Oddish]

My theory was that the seashells, when combined in a certain way, generated a sonic field that cleaned you out. Kind of like Trek's sonic showers.

Well, that sort of tech did exist in 2032 San Angeles, for removing spray paint anyway... only problem is it was lethal.

It's strange that Stallone was called the Demolition Man, but both the buildings that were demolished in the movie were actually destroyed by Phoenix. The museum was busted up as well, but both if them were responsible.

The only place that Spartan really destroyed was the car dealership. And fun fact... in the book, after Spartan drives the Oldsmobile muscle car out the window, one of the car shoppers declares: "I want one of those!"

 

[thribs]

I just watched Air Force One again. It’s a very good movie but that ending is rather silly watching it now. Couldn’t they have the guy just send over parachutes rather than dragging them back slowly?
Also, I find it hard to believe the baddie got rid of all the parachutes. I would imagine a plane like that would have them everywhere.

 

[Oddish]

Not necessarily. Most jets of that size don't have parachutes onboard because you can't really bail out from the height and velocity they typically fly at. The wind speed would disintegrate you, and the lack of atmosphere at 37,000 feet would suffocate you.

 

[thribs]

They were not at that height at the end.

 

[Oddish]

No, I know that. But if you ever fly on a commercial jet, there are no parachutes for the passengers. It's just not an item they expect you to need.

Not saying AF1 doesn't have them, but they wouldn't be a priority, since the odds of people being in position to parachute out is quite low.

 

[Oddish]

Here's a thought about "Jurassic World"... instead of an unarmored civilian helicopter with a minigun designed for antipersonnel use grafted on... why didn't they get something that could (1) take damage, and (2) actually kill dinosaurs. Given the park's likely security budget, I don't think a couple of AH-64 Apaches would have been a problem. And I doubt the Indominus Rex would have been able to shrug off a 30mm chain gun and up to 16 hellfire missiles.