Bad/stupid/improbable scenes of other wise good movies

[lucas9000]

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Not really a scene: The Deer Hunter, we're led to believe that Nick has been in Southeast Asia playing Russian Roulette for money for however many years that section of the movie spans, and he stays alive until Mike gets there? He wins thousands of dollars to send back Steven flipping coins with his life without ever losing? It's not like it's a game of skill. Just a gross stretch of the imagination.

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but notice that his loss to michael coincides with him snapping back into his former self. i think you're taking it too literally.

[lucas9000]

the part in casino where pesci stabs the guy in the neck repeatedly with a pen, and they show blood squirting out, but somehow the guy isn't dead. wtf.

[daryn]

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[censored] Alobar, if that ruined the beginning of the movie for me, I'll hate you forever.

Daryn, think about what you're saying: a plane can never accelerate to a speed faster than terminal velocity.

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this statement is so ambiguous it's crazy

[johnc]

Just saw Four Brothers yesterday. They are trapped in a house while the bad guys (3 or 4) are shooting into the house nonstop with FULLY automatic weapons. Hundreds rounds are flying all thru the house even the brick portion. Of the five people in the house, with constant shooting, nobody was hit. BS

[RunDownHouse]

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why wouldn't he fall faster than the plane?

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The fastest Bond can fall is, by definition, his terminal velocity. This is pretty much a constant for humans in free-flight.

With me so far?

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he's trying to take off? by going straight down? maybe i'm not understanding the situation, but anytime an airplane moves through air, the wind moving around the wings generates lift, that pushes up on the wings. even if the plane were just falling straight down, i'd imagine the wings would still generate a huge amount of drag compared the the small dude on motorcycle.

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First, the lift generated by (I think) Bernoulli's Principle doesn't necessarily act directly upwards on the wing. The direction of the force depends on the orientation of the wing. Second, by saying that Bond can catch up to the plane, you're saying that the plane is travelling at less than the terminal velocity of Bond, and seem to point to "drag" as the reason. You have discounted the engine entirely, meaning either you forgot about it, or think that the engine can't generate enough speed to overcome the "drag" being generated.

Essentially, you're saying that a plane can't travel downwards faster than Bond's terminal velocity. Even without googling what the terminal velocity (~54m/s) of a body is, this is a pretty ridiculous statement.

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Robin Hood: Men in Tights

When Robin arrives homes from the crusades he finds his castle is on wheels and being towed away. The blind guy is sitting on the toilet and as the castle is pulled away he's left sitting there. I mean how does the wall of the castle go past him?

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Yes, as a guy with a background in Architecture, this really irked me. As well as the Academy who issued this statement: "Due to the underwhelming plausibility of the castle-removal scene, we are forced to keep R.H.M.i.T. off of the Best Picture ballot. We regretfully inform Mel Brooks, and all his loyal fans of this decision."

Signed,
The Academy

Jon Voigt's character in Deliverance climbs up a 100 foot rocky cliff at a 90d angle with his bare hands, while it's getting dark, and it's been a long day and he'd undoubtedly tired as h***.

Then when he gets to the top...I still don't understand how he shot that guy up there... I just don't get it, but whatever.

[daryn]

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The fastest Bond can fall is, by definition, his terminal velocity. This is pretty much a constant for humans in free-flight.

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this statement is incredibly incorrect. well, the first part is correct, the second is not. the first part is just a tautology though, so you get no points.

[RunDownHouse]

If you'll read the link I provided, it gives a range of terminal velocities from various sources.

Try not to be so condescending and insulting in your replies. You have trouble pulling it off, and when you're wrong, it makes you look pretty bad.

[ddubois]

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Die Hard 2. Bruce is in the cop station ... He opens up with a machine gun to prove his point, and about 20 cops just stand around letting him fire for a few seconds.

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Agree, good one.

My nomination: In the first Batman movie, Jack Nicholson as The Joker is hanging onto a rope ladder up to a helicopter, while his ankle is tied to a large stone gargoyle statue. He is an ordinary (albeit ugly) human with no super-strength, but he is able to hold onto the rope with his hands stongly enough that he rips the statue from the portion of the building that it is fused to, and then floats around in the air with it dangling form his leg for awhile. No one's fingers are that strong.