I'm sure this has been said before, but sound in space really gets on my nerves. (*cough* Star Wars *cough*) That's why I loved Interstellar and Gravity so much, there was no sound in space.
For the purposes of suspension of disbelief, I guess I always just assume the sounds are only audible in the ships producing them, but then they're all broadcasting them over their radios so everyone can hear them.
Anyway, I hate when some character is portrayed as a genius, but still comes up with remarkably idiotic plans. Not so much when reasonable oversight or absentmindedness is involved, but more when the plot itself treats the plan as if it should be a brilliant plan, and yet it has flaws that even a 6-year-old could spot easily. Something like:
"Smart" Character: Ok, so all we need to do is say we're repairmen who forgot our IDs, and then the guards of this super-secure facility will let us in with no questions asked. Then we just need to find a computer, assume it either doesn't require a password or that the password is easy to guess, AND assume that just because it's a Top Secret computer it'll automatically have access to ALL Top Secret information in the entire world!
Characters of Supposedly Normal Intelligence: Brilliant!
...on a related note, I also find it hilarious when characters password-protect their important files with 3-character passwords that end up just being their wife's name, or something equally easy to figure out.
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-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
It's spiteful how the main character, regardless of past interaction with firearms, can fire bullets magnificently, while men who have training/experience can't hit a bloody bullet (I'm looking at you, police! What kind of training did you have anyway?).
It's spiteful how the main character, regardless of past interaction with firearms, can fire bullets magnificently, while men who have training/experience can't hit a bloody bullet (I'm looking at you, police! What kind of training did you have anyway?).
I can see what you mean, but in fairness, there are some real police departments who have this trouble (i.e. they fire hundreds of bullets at a stationary suspect and only hit him a couple dozen times).
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"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
It's spiteful how the main character, regardless of past interaction with firearms, can fire bullets magnificently, while men who have training/experience can't hit a bloody bullet (I'm looking at you, police! What kind of training did you have anyway?).
The prime example here? Storm Troopers.
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Ikr. There's also these Bolivian cops in Butch Cassidy. I know it's 19th century Bolivia but gdi two dozen of cops should be enough to at least hit once correctly.
It's spiteful how the main character, regardless of past interaction with firearms, can fire bullets magnificently, while men who have training/experience can't hit a bloody bullet (I'm looking at you, police! What kind of training did you have anyway?).
This just reminded me.
Moments where the Police SHOULD be at a specific place, and end up appearing at the very end when the issue is resolved.
For example, someone gets kidnap, the police is aware of that and procrastinate while the victim some how escapes and fights off his holders and escapes from his captivity. At that moment, do the police show up after all the action is over.
I can name so many movies that have such a similar situation, but frankly I've lost count.
Doesnt apply for jedis, if you know what they powers are and recently at least they seem to be able to hit their enemies.
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Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move
Moments where the Police SHOULD be at a specific place, and end up appearing at the very end when the issue is resolved.
For example, someone gets kidnap, the police is aware of that and procrastinate while the victim some how escapes and fights off his holders and escapes from his captivity. At that moment, do the police show up after all the action is over.
I can name so many movies that have such a similar situation, but frankly I've lost count.
thats more normal that you can think of,at least were i live.
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Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move
I immensely dislike the occurrence in which individuals possessing intellects higher than would normally be found amongst the lay folk speak in a manner which is overly verbose and riddled with vocabulary that is woefully archaic or pretentiously uncommon; for any self-respecting genius must invariably prattle on as if he were delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy.
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
I immensely dislike the occurrence in which individuals possessing intellects higher than would normally be found amongst the lay folk speak in a manner which is overly verbose and riddled with vocabulary that is woefully archaic or pretentiously uncommon; for any self-respecting genius must invariably prattle on as if he were delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy.
A probably good example: Team Rocket, despite how utterly stupid they are sometimes.
I immensely dislike the occurrence in which individuals possessing intellects higher than would normally be found amongst the lay folk speak in a manner which is overly verbose and riddled with vocabulary that is woefully archaic or pretentiously uncommon; for any self-respecting genius must invariably prattle on as if he were delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy.
• Forced politics (like in the Star Wars prequels).
• Boring-ness (like in the Star Wars prequels).
• The Star Wars Prequels.
Been a long while since I came back to this thread. This I couldn't agree with more.
Yeah, a movie about The Force, lightsabers and downright trippy technology needs to have long talks about the economy and trade routes in fictional cities.
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Star Wars OT is politics at the level of a child's understanding. It simplifies everything into black and white and makes sure the good guys win in the end. Star Wars PT is a pretentious take on politics still at level of child's understanding but instead dresses up the Jedi to not be the same dictators as the Sith, good intentions aside. I have no idea or interest in Disney's take on Star Wars politics.
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Aside from sound in space? Plot convenience. The hero saves someone just as they're about to die, the hero barely escapes from such and such situation, the hero does this, the hero does that.
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"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
Bullets sparking when they hit things, when a container of diesel fuel explodes, how the rule of 2 is always friggin broken, "let's split up in this dark cave with no map or compass...", when anime characters have to prattle on and on about how damn fantastic their new special ability is, or their sword or whatever, shields take one or two hits and then they are gone, photon torpedos... uh.... why? They don't use photons to wreck stuff, they use a matter/anti-matter reaction, which brings me to my next point: whenever somebody says the matter to anti-matter reaction ratio is anything other than 1:1, (I might be getting into television territory here, but these things annoy me extremely),Somehow the delta flyer in star trek voyager can after a few modifications, can go warp 10 and be everywhere at once, and then Tom Paris turns into a kimono dragon or something... and get's frisky with the Captain -.-, OH HERE'S ONE, "let's jump into this cold ass water, WITHOUT TAKING THE DARK MAGICAL NECKLACE OFF", somehow a crap load of clones shooting at a jedi can kill him, yet when a hell of alot more battle droids (of all sorts) do it he doesn't really get hurt that bad, these movies where the "nerdy" kid just HAS TO be popular, like dude, quit being a friggin poser, honestly, "oh look at the cute little animal"; get's face ripped off, ate, and crapped out somewhere, any apocalypse movie, movies with gushy ass love scenes, I have to fast forward, pause it, and go listen to thrash metal for an hour just to get the stupid ass crap out of my head. Alright I need to go get galacticraft, if I come up with anything else, I'll be back.
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White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
Bullets sparking when they hit things, when a container of diesel fuel explodes, how the rule of 2 is always friggin broken, "let's split up in this dark cave with no map or compass...", when anime characters have to prattle on and on about how damn fantastic their new special ability is, or their sword or whatever, shields take one or two hits and then they are gone, photon torpedos... uh.... why? They don't use photons to wreck stuff, they use a matter/anti-matter reaction, which brings me to my next point: whenever somebody says the matter to anti-matter reaction ratio is anything other than 1:1, (I might be getting into television territory here, but these things annoy me extremely),Somehow the delta flyer in star trek voyager can after a few modifications, can go warp 10 and be everywhere at once, and then Tom Paris turns into a kimono dragon or something... and get's frisky with the Captain -.-, OH HERE'S ONE, "let's jump into this cold ass water, WITHOUT TAKING THE DARK MAGICAL NECKLACE OFF", somehow a crap load of clones shooting at a jedi can kill him, yet when a hell of alot more battle droids (of all sorts) do it he doesn't really get hurt that bad, these movies where the "nerdy" kid just HAS TO be popular, like dude, quit being a friggin poser, honestly, "oh look at the cute little animal"; get's face ripped off, ate, and crapped out somewhere, any apocalypse movie, movies with gushy ass love scenes, I have to fast forward, pause it, and go listen to thrash metal for an hour just to get the stupid ass crap out of my head. Alright I need to go get galacticraft, if I come up with anything else, I'll be back.
thats the prequels fault and on starwars comics they explain a lot of those things. by the way there are some cases like batman movies on which batman is left alive by bane so then he can see its city destroyed(at least for me it makes sense).
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Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move
Cars exploding from taking two bullets to the passanger's seat. As if cars have some Grand Theft Auto health bar.
That thing to,or people running from a explotion,like if on real life they would make it alive.
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Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move
For the purposes of suspension of disbelief, I guess I always just assume the sounds are only audible in the ships producing them, but then they're all broadcasting them over their radios so everyone can hear them.
Anyway, I hate when some character is portrayed as a genius, but still comes up with remarkably idiotic plans. Not so much when reasonable oversight or absentmindedness is involved, but more when the plot itself treats the plan as if it should be a brilliant plan, and yet it has flaws that even a 6-year-old could spot easily. Something like:
"Smart" Character: Ok, so all we need to do is say we're repairmen who forgot our IDs, and then the guards of this super-secure facility will let us in with no questions asked. Then we just need to find a computer, assume it either doesn't require a password or that the password is easy to guess, AND assume that just because it's a Top Secret computer it'll automatically have access to ALL Top Secret information in the entire world!
Characters of Supposedly Normal Intelligence: Brilliant!
...on a related note, I also find it hilarious when characters password-protect their important files with 3-character passwords that end up just being their wife's name, or something equally easy to figure out.
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
It's spiteful how the main character, regardless of past interaction with firearms, can fire bullets magnificently, while men who have training/experience can't hit a bloody bullet (I'm looking at you, police! What kind of training did you have anyway?).
I can see what you mean, but in fairness, there are some real police departments who have this trouble (i.e. they fire hundreds of bullets at a stationary suspect and only hit him a couple dozen times).
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
The prime example here? Storm Troopers.
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Ikr. There's also these Bolivian cops in Butch Cassidy. I know it's 19th century Bolivia but gdi two dozen of cops should be enough to at least hit once correctly.
This just reminded me.
Moments where the Police SHOULD be at a specific place, and end up appearing at the very end when the issue is resolved.
For example, someone gets kidnap, the police is aware of that and procrastinate while the victim some how escapes and fights off his holders and escapes from his captivity. At that moment, do the police show up after all the action is over.
I can name so many movies that have such a similar situation, but frankly I've lost count.
Doesnt apply for jedis, if you know what they powers are and recently at least they seem to be able to hit their enemies.
thats more normal that you can think of,at least were i live.
This is so. Damn. Real.
I immensely dislike the occurrence in which individuals possessing intellects higher than would normally be found amongst the lay folk speak in a manner which is overly verbose and riddled with vocabulary that is woefully archaic or pretentiously uncommon; for any self-respecting genius must invariably prattle on as if he were delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy.
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
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probablygood example: Team Rocket, despite how utterly stupid they are sometimes.hahaha! I see what you did there. Very funny!
I don't know if this has been said before, but hacking in movies is downright depressing. Numbers flashing by on a command prompt =/= hacking.
Been a long while since I came back to this thread. This I couldn't agree with more.
Yeah, a movie about The Force, lightsabers and downright trippy technology needs to have long talks about the economy and trade routes in fictional cities.
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Star Wars OT is politics at the level of a child's understanding. It simplifies everything into black and white and makes sure the good guys win in the end. Star Wars PT is a pretentious take on politics still at level of child's understanding but instead dresses up the Jedi to not be the same dictators as the Sith, good intentions aside. I have no idea or interest in Disney's take on Star Wars politics.
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski
Aside from sound in space? Plot convenience. The hero saves someone just as they're about to die, the hero barely escapes from such and such situation, the hero does this, the hero does that.
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
Bullets sparking when they hit things, when a container of diesel fuel explodes, how the rule of 2 is always friggin broken, "let's split up in this dark cave with no map or compass...", when anime characters have to prattle on and on about how damn fantastic their new special ability is, or their sword or whatever, shields take one or two hits and then they are gone, photon torpedos... uh.... why? They don't use photons to wreck stuff, they use a matter/anti-matter reaction, which brings me to my next point: whenever somebody says the matter to anti-matter reaction ratio is anything other than 1:1, (I might be getting into television territory here, but these things annoy me extremely),Somehow the delta flyer in star trek voyager can after a few modifications, can go warp 10 and be everywhere at once, and then Tom Paris turns into a kimono dragon or something... and get's frisky with the Captain -.-, OH HERE'S ONE, "let's jump into this cold ass water, WITHOUT TAKING THE DARK MAGICAL NECKLACE OFF", somehow a crap load of clones shooting at a jedi can kill him, yet when a hell of alot more battle droids (of all sorts) do it he doesn't really get hurt that bad, these movies where the "nerdy" kid just HAS TO be popular, like dude, quit being a friggin poser, honestly, "oh look at the cute little animal"; get's face ripped off, ate, and crapped out somewhere, any apocalypse movie, movies with gushy ass love scenes, I have to fast forward, pause it, and go listen to thrash metal for an hour just to get the stupid ass crap out of my head. Alright I need to go get galacticraft, if I come up with anything else, I'll be back.
White coats to bind me, out of control
I live alone inside my mind
World of confusion, air filled with noise
Who says that my life's such a crime?
Trapped in this nightmare
I wish I'd wake
As my whole life begins to shake
four walls surround me
an empty gaze
I can't find my way out of this maze
'Cause I don't care
Fall in, fall out
Gone without a doubt, help me
I can't take the blame
They don't feel the shame
It's a madhouse
Or so they claim
It's a madhouse
Oh, am I insane?
My fears behind me, what can I do
My dreams haunt my sleep at night
Oh no, won't learn their lesson, white fills my eyes
And only then they see the light
-Joey Belladonna, Anthrax
thats the prequels fault and on starwars comics they explain a lot of those things. by the way there are some cases like batman movies on which batman is left alive by bane so then he can see its city destroyed(at least for me it makes sense).
Cars exploding from taking two bullets to the passanger's seat. As if cars have some Grand Theft Auto health bar.
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That thing to,or people running from a explotion,like if on real life they would make it alive.