Something you hate about an otherwise great movie

[Wingnut]

This scene from Back to the Future:

Diner owner (Mr. Carruthers?) (DO) : So kid, you gonna order something or not?
Marty: Yeah, I'll have a "Tab".
DO: You can't have a tab unless you order something.
Marty: Then gimme a "Pepsi Free"
DO: If you want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it!
Marty: Just give me something without any sugar in it...


"Pepsi Free" was caffiene-free, not sugar-free. I know there's no other way to have that joke come across, but it's still lame.

[Dave I]

It always bothered me in T2 that the technology to make terminators was created using the found remaims of the first terminator. Makes no sense. If you cant create it in the first place, it cant come back in time so that you now can.

[DrewDevil]

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It always bothered me in T2 that the technology to make terminators was created using the found remaims of the first terminator. Makes no sense. If you cant create it in the first place, it cant come back in time so that you now can.

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There are these kinds of paradoxes in all time travel movies.

In Back to the Future, the instant Marty pushed George out of the way of the car, thus preventing his parents' first meeting, he should have disappeared.

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It always bothered me in T2 that the technology to make terminators was created using the found remaims of the first terminator. Makes no sense. If you cant create it in the first place, it cant come back in time so that you now can.

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Sure you can.

Let's say the original one was built in the year 2500. It went back to 1984, or whenever.

Somebody in 2100 finds the remains, and constructs a new one.

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Put me down for Charles Grodin in "Midnight Run", and any female in "Major League". Their scenes are why the Fast Forward button were invented, and skipping those scenes turns "great movies" into "the greatest movies ever".

[DrewDevil]

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Put me down for Charles Grodin in "Midnight Run"

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Whoa there cowboy.

Go watch the 'chorizo and eggs' scene and the scene where Grodin pretends to be an FBI guy, and report back.

Grodin was awesome in that movie.

[Jackie Onassis]

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Put me down for Charles Grodin in "Midnight Run"

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Whoa there cowboy.

Go watch the 'chorizo and eggs' scene and the scene where Grodin pretends to be an FBI guy, and report back.

Grodin was awesome in that movie.

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Seriously, wtf. Grodin rules. You know what's amusing, that he was in his early 50s when the movie was made. Looked so young.

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Put me down for Charles Grodin in "Midnight Run"

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Whoa there cowboy.

Go watch the 'chorizo and eggs' scene and the scene where Grodin pretends to be an FBI guy, and report back.

Grodin was awesome in that movie.

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You're right, of course. He does have some (no, MANY) great scenes.

The parts I don't like are where he's super-annoying, which is precisely what he's SUPPOSED to be. But he annoys me so much (nagging DeNiro about his smoking, etc), I can't stand him.

IMDB says Robin Williams was considered for that part. Suddenly, Grodin doesn't look so bad.

[MicroBob]

Thought of another one.

When Elliot Gould goes on about how it's so completely impossible to rob any casino anywhere as he did in Ocean's 11.

Shortly after this came out there were something like 21 robberies/hold-ups at 9 different Tunica casinos that summer.


Although I'm not sure this qualifies as a great movie and there are other scenes that stick out too I think.
But that one is so dumb it annoyed me the most.

[Dave I]

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It always bothered me in T2 that the technology to make terminators was created using the found remaims of the first terminator. Makes no sense. If you cant create it in the first place, it cant come back in time so that you now can.

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Sure you can.

Let's say the original one was built in the year 2500. It went back to 1984, or whenever.

Somebody in 2100 finds the remains, and constructs a new one.

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Ok, anyway these things can be debated endlessly.

My point is, this is a paradox that simple wasn't needed to enhance or support the plot (IE: Marty not disappearing when preventing his parent from meeting). The dude could have simply been the original inventor of the technology and been on his way. Nice and neat.