If you want to see stupid things in movies, watch Rear Window (1954), Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Everyone leaves their window blinds open, even when they attack someone. A photographer watches the neighbor, who he thinks is a murderer, through a telephoto lens on his camera, but never takes a picture. Two women carrying a shovel around apparently to dig up a dead body. So many things it's distracting. The movie gets great reviews though, so what do I know.
I'm watching "Boyne Falls." In the movie, there are two guys with guns from a meth lab chasing two unarmed non-criminals through a forest. At one point, one of the good guys hits one of the criminals (who are separated) in the head with a rock. Rather than picking up his gun, which is lying right there, they run, reasoning that there wasn't time to pick up the gun. Add, to that, they don't shut up. While they don't have time to pick up a gun that's lying right there, they have time to argue loudly with one another over dumb shit and to call loudly to one another whenever they get separated. It's a movie, so I'm sure they'll win in the end but, in real life, they'd have been dead a long time ago. On the part of the meth lab people, when one guy and a girl walk up to the lab accidentally, having no idea that it is there or what it is, they shoot the girl, but, for some reason, decide to tie the guy up and put him in a shed, where his friend later rescues him.
I went ti IMDB and read some reviews. Lots of 1/10, 2/10 and 3/10 ratings. This one cracked me up: The film was often puzzling as well, because even though they were supposedly deep in the wilderness I kept recognizing the same trees, who's acting by the way was a lot less wooden than the cast.
Now that we have dvd's of the LONE RANGER and other old westerns, if you watch them you will see them galloping through the same scenery over and over. Lots of shows use the same scenery now. Probably because there is less and less wilderness to choose from for sites.
LOL. Maybe that's why it caught my eye. Some of them were merciless. Others were full of praise. One of the characters was named "Boyne," but Boyne Falls is actually in Michigan. I suspect that may have influenced Ken's viewing decision.
Here's the thing. If you're going to attack someone from behind why would you yell 'ahhh' before you even get near the person. You would think you would approach quietly and strike.
I remember thinking the same thing on some cop show, maybe one of the FBI ones. They see a guy they are after and while they're a block away, they yell his name. Chase ensues. Cue music. That's one of the reasons I stopped watching that whole series. That and the really annoying music played throughout. I looked that up and, apparently, they get a lot of complaints about it, but the producer considers it one of his trademarks and won't remove it.
All of the "tie up your enemy and walk away rather than kill him" examples remind me of every Bond movie (and most Batman TV episodes) I've ever seen. "I'd like to stay and watch you die, Mister Bond, but I'm late for a dental appointment." Rube Goldberg must have been technical advisor on some of those contraptions. I read some of Fleming's book when I was a young teen, but don't recall if such things were part of the novels.
I'm being a little facetious today, John B. Really? '... stay and watch you die, Mister Bond.' It wouldn't be much of a movie if Bond got killed off. And duh, by the time the first Bond was on film writers were imagining beyond the books you read as a teen.
Yup. It's funny how some movies do that kind of stuff and you swear you'll never watch them again, while the Bond series (and the TV Batman stuff) had that cheesy edge that made them popular. The TV series Wild Wild West was like that as well.
Here's something else the question raised in the movies particularly Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. "Who is going to pay for all of the damages?' It's always the city and they keep on destroying whatever as long as the villian is around.
That would make a basis for a great new superhero. By day he's a contractor, and at night he fights crime and generates business.
I was just kinda watching a Jackie Chan American western movie short on FB. Note, it definitely was American made but it was dubbed in Chinese and captioned in German. Too much side stuff going on to actually watch the movie short.