Movie Incongruities/Lucky Coincidences

[jester710]

I don't think a deus ex machina has bothered me more than the one in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I spent about 8 hours of my life wondering, "How the hell are these few humans and elves gonna defeat thousands upon thousands of orcs?" The characters kept harping on it too, making sure we knew what an obstacle they were facing.

Then 3/4 of the way through the last movie Viggo Mortensen slaps his hand to his forehead and says, "Oh yeah! I almost forgot, we have a [censored] ghost army that's invincible! We'll just use them!"

I know that that's Tolkien's fault and not the fault of the filmmakers, but since I've only seen the movies I choose to blame Peter Jackson.

[Dominic]

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I've been thinking a whole thread just for this subject on Independence Day. I know it's supposed to be ridiculous. But still might be fun to catalog the most ludicrous ridiculosity. I vote for Will Smith happening to crash his jet within alien dragging distance of Area 51.

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I always thought the fact that the aliens computer system was compatible with Windows 95 was fairly implausible.

[swede123]

Come on Dom, there's enough Apple product placement in that movie to make a guy sick, at least recognize what platform they use to hack the alien network.

Swede

[Dominic]

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Come on Dom, there's enough Apple product placement in that movie to make a guy sick, at least recognize what platform they use to hack the alien network.

Swede

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you're right, it was Apple! I've always thought that was a lucky break for Earth that Steve Jobs apparently got the alien computer system contract right before they invaded.

[DrewDevil]

I always thought it was hilariously stupid the way Tom Cruise contacts Max in Mission Impossible.

First he does a search for "Job 314" on the internet, then sends an e-mail to Job@3:14, or something like that, then starts posting Bible verses on newsgroups.

Right away, he gets a message back.

[ScottieK]

Collateral....the DA that Max picked up in his cab and is working on the case is the same one that Vincent has on his hit list. And they all meet on that one fateful day. What are the odds of that happening in a bigass place like L.A.? Lucky for us, she's last on the hit list, so we get all the interplay between Max and Vincent and a nice little role for Bruce McGill (homage to "that guy" thread.) Good movie, but kinda tough to swallow in retrospect.

Props to the ID4 pickup. "I gave it a cold." What a crock of [censored].

I think this also goes for movies like Blade, X-Men, etc. where some mystical phenomenon like vampirism or mutation can be cured with a simple injection. Whatever.

ScottieK

[HLMencken]

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Darth Vadar being Luke's father and Leia being his sister. I mean, come on...

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How is that a lucky coincidence? It's central to the entire plot.

[HLMencken]

I can't think of a specific example at the moment but so many action/heist/war movies would be examples. How often do you see a huge elaborate plot which takes so much planning or is crucial to the story and then when its pulled off, it could have been spoiled if one person would have screamed, or some other very easily possible event occurred--like people actually had peripheral vision and could easily spot someone running just out of their main field of view (every escape movie ever fits here, too).

[Sooga]

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I've been thinking a whole thread just for this subject on Independence Day. I know it's supposed to be ridiculous. But still might be fun to catalog the most ludicrous ridiculosity. I vote for Will Smith happening to crash his jet within alien dragging distance of Area 51.

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I always thought the fact that the aliens computer system was compatible with Windows 95 was fairly implausible.

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Umm, HELLO? Windows 95 was revolutionary because it was PLUG N PLAY

[bbones31]

When Wolverine is hacking into some bank's computer to get money for Vincent Vega, why doesn't he get Storm's help and just beat the [censored] out of everyone? That would have been so much easier.