Something you hate about an otherwise great movie

[TheDudeAbides]

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the video game scene in The Beach

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This made sense if you read the book first. In the book, he is constantly using video game analogies and relating them to his current situation. But I agree that the scene came out of nowhere and really didn't tie into the movie at all.

[dlk9s]

I loved the movie Tombstone, but...

...the part where Wyatt Earp is stomping across the river, shooting the baddies and yelling, "No!" is really lame.

[bobman0330]

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The justification for enslaving humanity in The Matrix. So the machines have mastered nuclear fusion, but they'd rather use humans to generate heat than, for example, cattle? I could think up any number of more plausible justifications there -- it was just an extremely conspicuous point of no thought in an otherwise creative movie.

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Even more importantly, the whole setup violates the laws of thermodynamics. You can't get energy out of nowhere just because you have a bunch of humans locked up. They need to be fed, and whatever you're using to feed them could be processed much more efficiently by a mechanical system than by a person.

[DrewDevil]

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I loved the movie Tombstone, but...

...the part where Wyatt Earp is stomping across the river, shooting the baddies and yelling, "No!" is really lame.

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Hm, interesting. I really like that part, especially the exchange right after:

"Have you ever seen anything like that?"
"Hell, I ain't never even heard of anything like that."

The part I hate in Tombstone is the "Hell's coming with me!" line by Earp. Booooooooooo.

[econophile]

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Die Hard: when McClain falls two stories and then catches himself by his fingertips on the AC duct. There's a lot of implausible stuff in that movie, but that defies the laws of physics.

What else?

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i don't mind that, but i think die hard would be even better if the cops/fbi working on the ground weren't such douchebag idiots

[swede123]

And to continue my harping on Tom Cruise, what the hell were they thinking when they made the ending of Last Samurai. I really enjoyed the movie for the most part, but they totally should have ended it as they samurai make their last charge. Yet another case of Hollywood chicken-[censored] endings that neatly wrap everything up...

Swede

[Performify]

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The justification for enslaving humanity in The Matrix. So the machines have mastered nuclear fusion, but they'd rather use humans to generate heat than, for example, cattle? I could think up any number of more plausible justifications there -- it was just an extremely conspicuous point of no thought in an otherwise creative movie.

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Even more importantly, the whole setup violates the laws of thermodynamics. You can't get energy out of nowhere just because you have a bunch of humans locked up. They need to be fed, and whatever you're using to feed them could be processed much more efficiently by a mechanical system than by a person.

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The original script had it that humanity was enslaved not for an energy source but as computing resources - we were wired together and they were using the processing power of our brains. The matrix itself was being run on our own hardware so to speak. Along the lines of some of the real world research which indicates that our brains may function as rather intricate quantum computers i.e. exceedingly powerful. The thermal energy was captured just as a byproduct, i.e. if we're going to enslave them for their processing power we might as well capture their bio-energy and use that as well to help power the systetm.

Most of these details were obviously simplified in to the "human = coppertop" speech that Morpheus gives in the first Matrix movie.

Not that having this detail exempts the movie, as they obviously chose to shoot / cut it as they did. And certainly doesn't excuse the travesty of the following two movies...

[Wynton]

In Schindler's List, I hate the scene in the end where Schindler is bemoaning how he could have done more, how he could have sold his watch.

[Borodog]

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The datedness of Swingers with the chains and the swing music.

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You're upset because the movie is dated to the era in which it was made? Does the hockey video game bother you too? How about the fedoras in Casablanca, or the make of the cars in Bullit?

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And the one scene where the answering machine talks to Mike. I heard a reason for it on the Director's Cut or something but it was still dumb and out of place.

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You're crazy. That scene is money and you don't even know it. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[DrewDevil]

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In Schindler's List, I hate the scene in the end where Schindler is bemoaning how he could have done more, how he could have sold his watch.

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This I really don't understand. Very powerful scene, and perfectly understandable emotions as the war finally ends.