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re: What movie has the worst plot holes or hist. inaccuracies?
Posted on 11/2/08 at 8:25 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 11/2/08 at 8:25 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Fewer Kilometers
your sig is hot
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Posted on 11/2/08 at 8:27 pm to Mikes My Tiger
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Are you talking about the fact that he can remember he has a condition?
Yeppers
Posted on 11/2/08 at 8:32 pm to kizomich
look at when he is getting a blood transfusion. The lighting in the lab/cages. Using a firehose.
as for the language barrier, um, hello Taylor, you think there might be a reason why you might be able to understand them.
as for the language barrier, um, hello Taylor, you think there might be a reason why you might be able to understand them.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 9:21 pm to prplhze2000
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look at when he is getting a blood transfusion. The lighting in the lab/cages. Using a firehose.
Ok, I just rewatched the transfusion scene. I didn't see an electric light anywhere. Granted, it looks electrically lit. The audience deserves to see what's going on, don't you think? And I'm not a fireman, so I don't know much about hoses. But I don't think they necessarily require electricity or plastic. The tubes the blood travels through look synthetic, but hey, maybe they aren't. Who knows?
And besides, even if they did have electricty and plastic, why does that automatically mean they should have cars? Who knows how the technology of an ape society 2000 years in the future is supposed to progress?
A larger point is that Planet of the Apes was made in 1968, before the army of fanboys and super-geeks arose and started dissecting every aspect of science fiction movies. The main objective was to effectively tell a great story on screen from a basically unfilmable (at that time) novel. Mission accomplished.
This post was edited on 11/2/08 at 10:04 pm
Posted on 11/2/08 at 9:30 pm to prplhze2000
Die hard 2. Absolutely ridiculous. Are you telling me that a few goobs can take over an airport traffic tower? Fine, but thay can't keep a Radio broadcast from going out. Oh, and there are probably 2 dozen damn airports within 100 miles of D.C. that could handle any size commercial airplane.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 9:42 pm to prplhze2000
As far as historical inaccuracy concerned, the Whitewashed Biography Trophy goes to Birdman Of Alcatraz.
The movie, very well made it's true, presents Burt Lancaster as a kindly old man doing his best to survive against a heartless prison system.
Robert Stroud, the real Birdmnan, was a vicious killer who relaxed by writing stories in which little boys get raped and murdered. At a parole hearing Stroud was asked why he felt he should be released, and he replied, "Because there are still people I need to kill."
After the movie came out the prison bureau began getting letter from kids asking for "that nice old man" to be released.
Dishonorable Mention: Bonnie and Clyde
Can't wait to see if Soderbergh's upcoming Che will be a nominee for this award.
The movie, very well made it's true, presents Burt Lancaster as a kindly old man doing his best to survive against a heartless prison system.
Robert Stroud, the real Birdmnan, was a vicious killer who relaxed by writing stories in which little boys get raped and murdered. At a parole hearing Stroud was asked why he felt he should be released, and he replied, "Because there are still people I need to kill."
After the movie came out the prison bureau began getting letter from kids asking for "that nice old man" to be released.
Dishonorable Mention: Bonnie and Clyde
Can't wait to see if Soderbergh's upcoming Che will be a nominee for this award.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 9:49 pm to prplhze2000
Bout It
Posted on 11/2/08 at 10:34 pm to ATLTiger
Spider-Man 3
In the movie they said the black stuff (venom) was a symbiote which needs a host to survive and it takes up the characteristics of that host which is why when it bonded to Spider-man it had spider like characteristics. When spiderman got rid of it and it bonded to Eddie Brock it should have picked up Eddie Brock's characteristics and shouldn't have had any spider characteristics.
In the movie they said the black stuff (venom) was a symbiote which needs a host to survive and it takes up the characteristics of that host which is why when it bonded to Spider-man it had spider like characteristics. When spiderman got rid of it and it bonded to Eddie Brock it should have picked up Eddie Brock's characteristics and shouldn't have had any spider characteristics.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 10:52 pm to Kafka
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As far as historical inaccuracy concerned, the Whitewashed Biography Trophy goes to Birdman Of Alcatraz.
Did you watch that when it hit the theaters?
Posted on 11/2/08 at 11:01 pm to Afreaux
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As far as historical inaccuracy concerned, the Whitewashed Biography Trophy goes to Birdman Of Alcatraz.
Did you watch that when it hit the theaters?
I was wondering if you'd done time with him.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 11:25 pm to Kafka
Off the top of my head, I think one of the biggest is in Braveheart.
I think we all know about the inaccuracy of the Battle of Stirling BRIDGE.
JESUS CHRIST MEL!!!!!!! The BRIDGE is the reason the Brits were annihilated by the Scottish!!!! NO BRIDGE in the movie.
I think we all know about the inaccuracy of the Battle of Stirling BRIDGE.
JESUS CHRIST MEL!!!!!!! The BRIDGE is the reason the Brits were annihilated by the Scottish!!!! NO BRIDGE in the movie.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 11:34 pm to Kafka
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I was wondering if you'd done time with him.
That would have been funny if you weren't old, and I had ever been arrested.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 11:45 pm to LuckySo-n-So
Longshanks was actually a decent king.
Posted on 11/2/08 at 11:49 pm to Afreaux
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That would have been funny if you weren't old, and I had ever been arrested.
Feeling a bit defensive are we? Don't worry, I won't tell any of your cellmates.
Posted on 11/3/08 at 1:18 am to Kafka
Plenty of plotholes in "I am legend". Still a badass movie though.
Posted on 11/3/08 at 1:28 am to indytiger
Posted on 11/3/08 at 1:38 am to LuckySo-n-So
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I think we all know about the inaccuracy of the Battle of Stirling BRIDGE.
Or perhaps the fact that Wallace died long before the princess gave birth?
Posted on 11/3/08 at 2:22 am to prplhze2000
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The Captian didn't commit suicide.
The fact is that we don't know what happened with him. It really isn't historical inaccuracy if no one knows what happened.
And FWIW, an eyewitness sighting of him going in the bridge shortly before it going under does exist. It is pretty much clear that DID happen. What is unknown is what happened after that. Some reports have him jumping into the ocean from the bridge, others have him bringing a kid to an overturned lifeboat and them swimming off to die, etc, etc.
The movie just decided to set the movie's depiction here by how the last confirmed data ended and leave the conflicting reports out of it. Can't really fault a movie by that and cite that as a historical inaccuracy.
Posted on 11/3/08 at 2:52 am to Volvagia
I gotta give it up to the band though, those dudes were hardcore. Playing classics till the end.
This post was edited on 11/3/08 at 4:13 am
Posted on 11/3/08 at 8:22 am to Afreaux
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Did you watch that when it hit the theaters?
Wow, you're an a-hole on this board, too.
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