Rage about logical/physical flaws in movies

[JoeJoe]

Oh, how I hate it. It nags at the edge of my mind and I find myself unable to relax and enjoy the movie. So, just rage ahead.

I'll start with:

Iron Man: OK, so he's a super genius and all and he can make all this super material and super weapons and he can even make a super suit and program it in a month and all. I'll accept that. BUT: When he escapes, he flies like, what, 200 metres high and plummets straight into the sand and survives with a few scratches?! Seeing as he wasn't buried very deeply in the sand he must have decelerated from probably over 60 mph to 0 in certainly less than 3 metres (maybe he created a little crater). The sheer force on his body, no matter how well padded would have crushed all his bones. And that's not the only situation.

Next, a minor one:

The day the Earth stood still: WHY THE FUCK WOULD A CIVILIZATION, THAT HAS HACKED INTO OUR SATELLITES AND KNOWS HOW HUMANS TICK SEND A PERSON DOWN TO TALK WITH US, RISKING, WELL EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED IN THE MOVIE AND WORSE, INSTEAD OF JUST SENDING A MESSAGE?! Oh right, then the aliens couldn't have been convinced of our goodness and humanity would really have been fucked.


Anyone else wants to join me?

EDIT: lol, raging about a "minor one" in all caps?

 

[Cognisant]

In Ironman 2, the big showdown scene between the two protagonists & the drones, I want to know how they stood there, surrounded by enemies firing at them, and yet managed to survive without even functional impediment to their suits. If they're truly that invincible, it was never a fair fight to begin with, heck even the portable suit proved itself neigh invulnerable, there was simply no way Stark could have lost that fight.

The cool thing about Ironman, is that he is not Superman, Tony Stark is a mad scientist who overcomes challenges by a combination of intelligence and a "meaner than thou" personality, he is (or was) an arms dealer for fucksake, there's a certain sadism involved with that, I'm amazed he never rocket-booted the big bad in the groin, that would have been hilarious.
More so if he tried it again in the final confrontation, failed miserably, and/or hurt himself.

 

[echoplex]

I have no specific examples in mind, but it generally bugs me when characters can easily escape some sort of danger but essentially pretend they can't (or just refuse to), as if there's some sort of forcefield preventing them from leaving an obviously dangerous situation. But no, they'd rather act all scared/curious and try to 'win' even though they stand to gain very little by staying, since the stakes are simply their continued existence.

And then there are those terrible couple's arguments, which are often about literally nothing and are just an excuse for one of the characters to storm off in senseless anger so the camera can focus on the dejected lover while piano music lets us know they're upset.....which is only done so they can have that charming make-up scene later on, including MOAR piano music and/or adult alternative/pop/jazz/salsa/etc...

Granted, I should probably just avoid such movies, but those scenes have a way of sneaking their way into otherwise okay movies.

 

[JoeJoe]

Talking about Iron Man 2 (just watched it): "Hey, the bad guy is standing 20 meters away from us; let's use a bomb on him, that could destroy a bunker!"

 

[Huxley]

Talking about Iron Man 2 (just watched it): "Hey, the bad guy is standing 20 meters away from us; let's use a bomb on him, that could destroy a bunker!"

He used a particle beam to partially create, in five minutes I might add, a new chemical element. This movie is hardly a realistic one.

There's also, god fore bide me, the entire Back to the future saga.

I mean, the grandfather paradox states that if one is to travel back to time - e.g to kill one self minutes before he or she travels - it would be physically impossible to do so, as the death of you would cause the travel to never happen. When you are unable to travel back in time to do the killing, you never die in the first place, the thing repeats and the paradox that makes it impossible for you to travel in time get's its place.

To place this in context, imagine Marty travelling back in time: he finds his mother, who herself falls in love with him. When this happens, Marty would eventually seize to exist - his non-existens would make the time traveling departure he endured 17 years after his no longer exististing birhtday impossible: making this impossible, he would make the mother falling in love with her own son thing, just as impossible.

Hence the unrealistic beauty of the film.