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Author Topic: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies  (Read 137812 times)

Sergius

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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #405 on: January 23, 2013, 03:19:17 pm »

Well it seems like Santa Claus was originally Odin :D
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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #406 on: January 23, 2013, 03:21:30 pm »

I am just going to nit pick The Hobbit for a bit.
1: changed the book
2: the tree scene
3: they shrunk Mirkwood.
thats all.
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« Reply #407 on: January 24, 2013, 05:17:17 am »

There's but one explanation. This film took place during the events of The Day the Earth stood still.

Note: I haven't seen either of the films
Either?  Oh, they remade it.  Haven't seen the new version.  But if I remember the former correctly, you'll get no solice out of "The Earth Standing Still", because it's a purely psychological "standing still" of the Earth (or, rather, of its populations, holding their breath as it were).

OTOH, there's an SF-ish short story I remember where some guy gets the power of 'miracles', or some way to wish for things and them to happen, no matter what.  At some point in his experimentation, or perhaps demonstration of his powers to a friend or colleague (I forget) he decides to make "the Sun stop in its tracks", in the sky...  Of course, because the apparent movement of the sun is due to the rotation of the Earth, his will gets translated into "stop the Earth rotating[1]".

The Earth stops rotating[2], but everything on the Earth still has the inertia relevant to the prior state, and everything (presumable less so as you near the poles) is now flung sideways, w.r.t. the now 'stationary' Earth. Our miracle-endowed guy, whilst violently thrown sideways (or violently finds the Earth no longer turning with him) rushes out a mental command along the lines of "whatever else happens, let me be safe!", and so is protected from the worst of the effects, but witnesses the gross destruction he has caused as people and things and buildings and seas and oceans and perhaps the air itself rushes across the face of the Earth, spin-wise, with very little surviving.  I think it became one of the moralistic "be careful what you wish for" tales, at that point, because he works out why all this happened and makes one last combined 'wish' that: a) Everything be set back as it should, and b) That he no longer have (or remember having?) the powers.

(I cannot hope to remember the author.  It's as likely to be Brian Aldiss as Clifford D. Simak or the rest.  Shall we say pre-'70s, and in my mind it could even read like a 1950s SF style, or perhaps earlier, but not as far back as Wells.  Tries to put a contemporaneous veneer of "hard SF" onto a basic fantasy plot, though, like they did back then...)


[1] Or, I suppose make it rotate at whatever rate would be 1 revolution per year, but events don't continue long enough to reveal whether the author appreciated this depth.

[2] Or at least grossly alters the rate of it, as per footnote 1.
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« Reply #408 on: January 24, 2013, 05:26:55 am »

I am just going to nit pick The Hobbit for a bit.
1: changed the book
2: the tree scene
3: they shrunk Mirkwood.
thats all.
If that's 'all' (although (1) sounds like it could be a biggy), then you might actually be tempting me to go and see it. ;)

(I know there's at least one thread on here about it, but I've left it unread, in case of spoilers. ;))
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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #409 on: January 25, 2013, 07:24:35 pm »

It's pretty good, although more actiony and less humorous than the book. I suggest seeing it.
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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #410 on: January 29, 2013, 10:48:09 am »

I am just going to nit pick The Hobbit for a bit.
1: changed the book
2: the tree scene
3: they shrunk Mirkwood.
thats all.
Dont forget about the stupid mountains coming to life and fighting scene.
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« Reply #411 on: January 29, 2013, 11:33:47 am »

Dont forget about the stupid mountains coming to life and fighting scene.

As long as we can't say that Tolkien stole that idea from Pratchett ('Grandad', in TCOM I think). ;)
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« Reply #412 on: January 29, 2013, 04:04:43 pm »

That too.

And i have one for los miserables:
1. They messed up the flags. they where red with black boarders, not solid red.
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« Reply #413 on: February 09, 2013, 10:18:10 am »

Ok here is just a general nitpick but It is actually something I am noticing that bugs me in everything I watch and play.

I dislike it when the solution to a problem could easily be solved by the characters simply talking about it and yet it never happens.

I even watched a show where this Kids mom was a nurse at his school for a week. He solved that problem IMMEDIATELY by just saying that he is embarassed at school and that they shouldn't associate. BOOM! Solved! No 30 minutes of trying to get the mom to quit, hiding from her, or having people laugh at the kid at school.

Mind you I know why they don't just talk. Since that would get in the way of contrived issues or comedy they are trying to force into their plotlines.
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« Reply #414 on: February 09, 2013, 11:04:36 am »

Spoiler: Hellboy 2 (click to show/hide)
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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #415 on: February 09, 2013, 11:58:40 am »

Neonivek: Admittedly a lot of IRL drama could be avoided if people just got cool and talked to each other honestly. Since it doesn't happen IRL, it's not a stretch to see it not happening in movies.
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« Reply #416 on: February 09, 2013, 12:44:28 pm »

Spoiler: Hellboy 2 (click to show/hide)
Its entirely possible that the crown couldn't be destroyed unless it was joined and deconstructed as a whole. I mean those golems were made of a similar looking metal and they were nigh indestructible.
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« Reply #417 on: February 09, 2013, 01:24:50 pm »

Spoiler: Hellboy 2 (click to show/hide)
Its entirely possible that the crown couldn't be destroyed unless it was joined and deconstructed as a whole. I mean those golems were made of a similar looking metal and they were nigh indestructible.
That could be true but then the crown was originally willingly broken to stop the army ever being used again. It could have been destroyed then. I think it was how simply and without word it was destroyed in the end that made it stand out to me.
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Re: Nitpicks that Ruined Movies
« Reply #418 on: February 09, 2013, 05:16:58 pm »

I dislike it when the solution to a problem could easily be solved by the characters simply talking about it and yet it never happens.
People in real life not communicating and thus causing problems that will haunt them in the future...

Sounds like humanity in a nutshell.

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« Reply #419 on: February 09, 2013, 11:30:22 pm »

Neonivek: Admittedly a lot of IRL drama could be avoided if people just got cool and talked to each other honestly. Since it doesn't happen IRL, it's not a stretch to see it not happening in movies.

When the issue is the inability to talk I give it a pass.

For example Angelic Layer's (and anime) entire plot revolved around how none of the characters could communicate with eachother. There is no issue here because that is the problem, that is the hurdle they needed to get over.

When it is "Instead of talking about it, which I have no issue doing or could easily not do in an insulting way, I am going to do some CAARAAAZY hijinks" is when it starts to bug me.
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