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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 17, 2019 16:42:13 GMT
Batman Forever - When Harvey goes to flip his coin, Batman thankfully has a dozen coins ready to toss up in the air. Superman: The Movie - Maybe the most notorious.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 17, 2019 16:48:35 GMT
Commando: It's very convenient that the stewardess whom Matrix kidnaps just happens to be a pilot, so she can easily fly him to the island where his daughter is held hostage. She even has some in-depth knowledge of that area.
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Post by ck100 on Jan 17, 2019 19:19:33 GMT
Speaking of Batman, I just find it funny, for Batman & Robin in particular, how Batman and Robin have gadgets for every situation even if they don't know they're going to need them. For example, they need to skate on ice on the ground? Just click their heels and they have ice skates ready to go. They need to blow up something? They have a bomb all ready to go to use. They need to climb up a wall? They have grappling hooks ready to go.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 17, 2019 19:24:37 GMT
Speaking of Batman, I just find it funny, for Batman & Robin in particular, how Batman and Robin have gadgets for every situation even if they don't know they're going to need them. For example, they need to skate on ice on the ground? Just click their heels and they have ice skates ready to go. They need to blow up something? They have a bomb all ready to go to use. They need to climb up a wall? They have grappling hooks ready to go. It's a running joke. In the 1989 film, it's good The Batwing had a pair of giant scissors to ensnare Joker's balloons.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 17, 2019 19:42:11 GMT
Speaking more generally, anytime a character just shows up at the location they're supposed to be at is a moment of convenience. The world is a large place and it takes a many hours to plan, pay for, and actually take a plane flight to the other side of the world.
So many movies have moments of convenience like these, but they use film language so subtly that we don't even think about it anymore.
How about when the good guy kills a person and hides the body and no one finds it? Or the gadget the super spy has fits just the dangerous situation he's in? Or when our hero gets shot for the fifth time and survives, but the slew of minions he shot once each are all dead? Or when someone is being held at gunpoint in a headlock but they do nothing to get out of it even though their hands are free?
There's tons of things like that in movies. Without them very few movies could actually proceed story wise!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 17, 2019 19:43:03 GMT
The tyrannosaur showing up at the end of Jurassic Park to grab the raptor in mid-air, especially without either raptor noticing the arrival.
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Post by ck100 on Jan 17, 2019 19:45:59 GMT
The tyrannosaur showing up at the end of Jurassic Park to grab the raptor in mid-air, especially without either raptor noticing the arrival. You're forgetting about the human characters not seeing or even hearing the T-Rex somehow. Deus Rex Machina.
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Post by ck100 on Jan 17, 2019 19:46:53 GMT
Well all know of the classic one where our main character knocks out a person and puts on their uniform and it perfectly fits. At least Raiders of the Lost Ark has some fun with this.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jan 17, 2019 19:47:13 GMT
Star Trek (2009) - Kirk is randomly ejected, lands on a planet next to Spock
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 17, 2019 19:50:38 GMT
You're forgetting about the human characters not seeing or even hearing the T-Rex somehow. Deus Rex Machina. I know but I can expect them to be dumb (and they did react before the raptors did). Raptors supposedly were highly attuned to environment and one of them was positioned way off. Most likely would have vocalized a warning as soon as the t-rex's head popped through one of the entrances, assuming none of them "heard" the t-rex's impact tremors!
The wow of the FX effectively masked this issue for years--since having the t-rex reappear was more cool than any story sense.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2019 22:08:46 GMT
ALWAYS the parking spot on the city street exactly where it is needed !
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 17, 2019 22:16:30 GMT
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Just re-watched. The baddies skiing downhill to the barn in the morning to catch Bond & Tracy. Jump to them not there, yet out skiing themselves downhill from a giant alp peak. If there's skiing in this movie, it's downhill all the time. Mountains everywhere, & ppl magically able to start from the top.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 17, 2019 22:19:34 GMT
Step out on the sidewalk, raise your hand.......Lo and behold, a taxi pulls up.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 17, 2019 22:28:51 GMT
The Lincoln Continental in The French Connection was taken apart, right down to the rocker panels. It was put back together in less than half an hour.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2019 22:31:26 GMT
Step out on the sidewalk, raise your hand.......Lo and behold, a taxi pulls up. funny alternate version in Planes, Trains and Automobiles 
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 17, 2019 22:54:40 GMT
The Lincoln Continental in The French Connection was taken apart, right down to the rocker panels. It was put back together in less than half an hour. Yeah, I questioned that. Seems impossible they rebuilt the car that quickly. Maybe they found a replacement car. |
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 19, 2019 4:30:19 GMT
Hudson Hawk: You're supposed to be all cracked up at the bottom of the hill!
Tommy Five-Tone: Airbags! Can you f*cking believe it?
Anna: You're supposed to be blown up into fiery chunks of flesh!
Tommy Five-Tone: Sprinkler system set up in the back! Can you f*cking believe it?
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 19, 2019 5:15:54 GMT
Speaking of Batman, I just find it funny, for Batman & Robin in particular, how Batman and Robin have gadgets for every situation even if they don't know they're going to need them. For example, they need to skate on ice on the ground? Just click their heels and they have ice skates ready to go. They need to blow up something? They have a bomb all ready to go to use. They need to climb up a wall? They have grappling hooks ready to go. That's how it was on the Adam West series. Of course that series succeeded in what it wanted to be, which Batman & Robin did not. |
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