Stupid movie cliches and impossibilities

[gmcbee]

You know it's not his real hair, right?

[dickerbetwixt]

The scene in Kill Bill at the end where Uma Thurman is surrounded by samurai wielding villains and she kills them all whilst only suffering a few cuts

....yeah, right.

Why is it the most talked about, hyped films are utter s*!te ?

[TheDogThatDidntBark]

Originally Posted by eelcat

Hero walks into a Monte Carlo casino and goes to hugely popular roulette wheel and immediately places a bet at 33 to 1. After collecting his 5 grand...

Big cheese director releases a movie in which the hero plays poker in a casino. By sheer magic, the audience actually understands why two aces are not better than two jacks and a dog unless there's an R in the month and the banker's cat had exactly six fleas last week.

I mean, who on earth would believe that? You'd think they expect me to know what all that mumbo-jumbo means

[squigg58]

Originally Posted by dickerbetwixt

The scene in Kill Bill at the end where Uma Thurman is surrounded by samurai wielding villains and she kills them all whilst only suffering a few cuts

Haven't seen it, but did the bad guys do the usual stupid trick of standing around and only attacking one at a time?

[TheDogThatDidntBark]

Originally Posted by gmcbee

There was a Ray Bradbury story about an astronaut who fell back to Earth and as he flashed on reentry, a mom said to her kid "make a wish!"

Professional pessimist J G Ballard had an even weirder take on that - a widow waiting for her dead husband's space capsule to fall back to earth. ("The Dead Astronaut".)

[electile disfunction]

Originally Posted by squigg58

Haven't seen it, but did the bad guys do the usual stupid trick of standing around and only attacking one at a time?

Yup. She even took the time to literally spank one of them with a katana scabbard.

e.d.

[electile disfunction]

Originally Posted by gmcbee

You know it's not his real hair, right?

The stuff on his chest or his upper lip?
e.d.

[gmcbee]

Originally Posted by dickerbetwixt

The scene in Kill Bill at the end where Uma Thurman is surrounded by samurai wielding villains and she kills them all whilst only suffering a few cuts

At first I misread that as "samurai wedding villains"! Snork!
And they all had to wait in line one at a time because the blood-pumping truck
out in the alley had a faulty compressor.

[gmcbee]

Originally Posted by squigg58

Haven't seen it, but did the bad guys do the usual stupid trick of standing around and only attacking one at a time?

Doesn't that just piss you off? All these professional assassins just standing there going bibbita-bibbita-bibbita until it's their turn to get kicked in the face? YEAH, man!

Edit: It's especially inane when our hero is barefisted, punching out a dude with a chainsaw
and the nine guys waiting are armed with axes, bats with nails, assorted yard tools etc.
Not yet. Wait. Waaaaaaaaaaait. Ok. Almost. Wait, Ok. NOW!

[dickerbetwixt]

Whilst watching 'The Hitcher' last night I noticed another cliche.

Every time a car overtakes another, there is always a lorry coming the other way which always causes the car to swerve and crash