Things actors /can/ do but shouldn't be able to!

[Jax]

Like how the hell do those women survive so many days without brushing their hair and still having it look perfect!?
And how do those actors (the Matrix excepting) jump from building rooftop to rooftop!?
Hmmm what else, how is it that the main character's car smashes into other things like cars and buildings and still manage to drive properly?
Why is it that if you're the one being chased the chaser is always faster than you, and if you're the chaser you can't catch up!
why is it that the bad guy won't be hurt by a car crash, is able to disappear without a trace without making a sound when he obviously must be hurt (thinking of Scream there)

[NeouofPern]

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Hehe.

[Mausey]

Another thing I learned from the movies. There are always plenty of parking spaces in New York City. Nobody ever has to circle the block waiting for a spot.

No matter how badly beat up the good guy is, he can still win the big fight at the end against a horde of healthy bad guys. :D

[Anareth]

No matter how badly beat up the good guy is, he can still win the big fight at the end against a horde of healthy bad guys. :D

And this is made easier because even when the good guy is outnumbered twenty to one, the bad guys will obligingly wait their turns and take him on no more than two at once, instead of just dogpiling him.

[AnnMarie]

And this is made easier because even when the good guy is outnumbered twenty to one, the bad guys will obligingly wait their turns and take him on no more than two at once, instead of just dogpiling him.
Which goes right along with the fact the bad guys usually can't shoot for sh*t, while the good guy should be recieving the NRA's MARKSMAN OF THE YEAR award....conostantly!

[Kitsch]

Which goes right along with the fact the bad guys usually can't shoot for sh*t, while the good guy should be recieving the NRA's MARKSMAN OF THE YEAR award....conostantly!

This was especially prevalent in the Mines of Moria sequence in Fellowship of the Ring, particularly Aragorn managing to save Frodo whilst simultaneously shooting an Orc with the other hand.

:evil:

[Kugai]

And have you ever noticed in some Sci-Fi Films, no matter how badly smashed up the 'Hero' Starship is, ('Life support malfinctioning Sir. Engines offline, Transporters out, We're breached on all decks and dead in space!"), somehow, they will find that they have at least one working Torpedo Tube or Phazer/Lazer/Pulse Cannon working and that it will take only one shot at a dramatic moment to destroy the Enemy Starship even though they hardly dented it in the first 30 or so minutes of battle previously?!

[NeouofPern]

Or the speech an evil villian has to make before every single captured hero, while the hero struggles valiantly.

[Danae]

I hate it when everyone wakes up in the morning with perfect hair and makeup. If I looked that good when I wake up, I'd wakeup more often! :roll:

[Monkeysrule]

Yeah... and how can guys get wounded in battle with either too little or too much bluood? :banghead:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

This was especially prevalent in the Mines of Moria sequence in Fellowship of the Ring, particularly Aragorn managing to save Frodo whilst simultaneously shooting an Orc with the other hand.

:evil:
That's because some of the Fellowship were expert hunters/marksmen, and the Orcs probably had warts obscuring their vision and aiming capabilities :evil:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Or the speech an evil villian has to make before every single captured hero, while the hero struggles valiantly.
LOL the Monologue! I love that :laugh: It was excellantly parodied in The Incredibles :D

From Frozone - "So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean one more jolt of this Death Ray and I'm an epitath. Somehow I managed to find cover, and what does Baron Von Ruthless do? He starts Monologuing! He starts this like prepared speech about how feeble I am compared to him. How inevitible my defeat is, the world shall soon be HIS! Yada, yada, yada. Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter, and he won't shut up!"

Hehehe one of my favorite lines in the movie :rofl:

[Milo]

LOL the Monologue! I love that :laugh: It was excellantly parodied in The Incredibles :D

From Frozone - "So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean one more jolt of this Death Ray and I'm an epitath. Somehow I managed to find cover, and what does Baron Von Ruthless do? He starts Monologuing! He starts this like prepared speech about how feeble I am compared to him. How inevitible my defeat is, the world shall soon be HIS! Yada, yada, yada. Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter, and he won't shut up!"

Hehehe one of my favorite lines in the movie :rofl:
Ya beat me too it. Haw haw haw. What a great movie.

[Jax]

:bump:

[Miss Scarrlet]

I was watching "The Cowboys" with John Wayne. It's funny to me how the 10-14 year olds outshot Bruce Dern and his gang to get back the cattle herd!

[spellwight]

I'm always impressed how everyone has every phone number memorized. They never have to look on a list, or in a phone book, or on a Rolodex unless it's part of the storyline - like so someone can steal the Rolodex card.

And the "meet me in an hour" comment which is always followed by everyone looking at a watch or a clock, oh wait . . . they don't! You'd think killers or kidnappers would be anal about the exact time, yet when instructed on an exact amount of time nobody ever checks to see what time it is NOW in order to BE on time.

[Jax]

Why does noone say goodbye when ending a phone call?? They just hang up! People don't actually do that in real life do they?? :faint:

[Milo]

Why does noone say goodbye when ending a phone call?? They just hang up! People don't actually do that in real life do they?? :faint:
:erm: sometimes. :shhh:

In movies they're always in tense situations, so they can't be bothered with nicities ;)

[Lady Legira]

In many films when a actor or actress is in bed and sits up the cover will stay at the waist line on a man and under the armpits of a woman no matter how much action has taken place before hand.

Even if the woman is far taller then the man...

[Aurelia]

Also - how is everyone so thin and goodlooking, and they all end up together and happy at the end? So unlike RL....

[Staerwyen]

How the music on the radio is always perfect for the situation.

[Aranel]

Or how none of the bad guys can shoot... anything.

I.e. Star Wars

[Bobbsy]

Let's see...a few that come to mind are:

When the lead characters fall into a muddy pond or river, they are soaking wet in the shot where they emerge, more or less dry in the next shot...and even the mud is pretty well gone one shot later.

Or, how about the way they can emerge from a bone crushing accident with only a fashionable scrape on the forehead...which is healing nicely a couple of shots later?

Leading on from something Debbie said, I've noticed that when two characters agree to meet for a date that night they never discuss the time or place...but always manage to find each other!

Don't you wish we all had film computers by the way? Have you noticed how Jeff Goldblum can interface his Apple with an alien computer in a few seconds...while down here on earth half our KT members still can't get into the KTL despite hours of trying? Also on computers, isn't it amazing how an on-screen computer whiz can programme a 3D rotating image of the enemy fort...or ship..or starship...or whatever in about 10 keystrokes? Heck, it took Scotty 20 or 30 strokes to display the atomic diagram for transparent aluminium on a PC!

Bobbsy

[Aurelia]

In Trapped in the Closet, a guy gets shot in the arm...then goes into the bathroom, washes his arm off....and he's fine. What happened to the bullet? :shrug:

[Purpura]

In Serenity one of the male characters got something through a leg... I wanted to see LIMPING happen and he didn't limp at all...

[Brenda]

In Trapped in the Closet, a guy gets shot in the arm...then goes into the bathroom, washes his arm off....and he's fine. What happened to the bullet? It could easily have just creased his arm, which would result in a lot of blood but no lodged bullet and not even a very serious injury.