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Professor Smarmiarty 06-04-2008 04:30 AM

Terrible moments in Great movies
 
So this was a discussion we were having today. Here some that came up:
A) "In Latin Jehovah with an I" from Last Crusade. Sigh. 5 minutes of research would have solved that one. For those not in the know Jehovah is only spelt with an I in Latin if J hasn't been invented yet. There was a J on the board and so it should have been spelt with a J. Then again J wasn't invented till the 1500s so there shouldn't have been a J on the board. Either way its wrong.
B) Everything between Optimus' death and the Unicron fight in the real transformer movie. So pretty much the whole movie. But the rest is totally awesome.

C) The robot in Rocky 4 (for those who say Rocky 4 is terrible, fuck you. Real men like Rocky 4). All i have to say is WTF?!?

POS Industries 06-04-2008 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Barrel-Hating Sycophant (Post 792464)
C) The robot in Rocky 4

Oh come on, Stallone's acting isn't that bad!

Doc ock rokc 06-04-2008 04:22 PM

the last half of the newest Indiana Jones movie or more accurately the point when mud swings in the trees and everything after that!

Magus 06-05-2008 12:38 AM

Haha, my sister thought it was Mud as well! It is Mutt, but Mud is pretty damn funny...and yes the part where he swings was horrible. And the inclusion of cute prairie dogs and monkeys was probably George Lucas' idea.

No Country For Old Men: If you're a film maker, don't ever ever ever EVER kill the main character off-screen. Seriously, it's a movie. That might work for a book but doing it in a movie is...not what you do in a movie. Oh, and seriously, Lewellyn's mother (or maybe it's his wife's mother) is a straight-rip on Mama from Mama's Family, right down to the looks and the crotchety acting. Seriously, that was the most stereotypical annoying grandmother I've ever seen in a movie, I couldn't stand it, I swear it had to be based on something else I've seen 100 times, the ten minutes with that character was driving me completely insane. Lewellyn's wife was pretty annoying too, but I can forgive it if that was the actual dialogue in the book.

Meister 06-05-2008 01:55 AM

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No Country For Old Men
I thought it worked exceptionally well. Sure they could have shown it, but we've seen scenes like that a thousand times already, and a film that isn't primarily about such scenes doesn't need to be the 1001st.

Lord of the Rings went pretty bad whenever it turned into the Legolas & Gimli Comedy Hour, which was pretty much whenever they had Gimli on screen.

Magus 06-05-2008 02:17 AM

It's terrible moments in GREAT movies, Meister, obviously I think that No Country For Old Men is the cat's meow. Yes, that great. Besides, it still doesn't change the fact that Llewellyn's mother' character was enough to drive people insane. I would hope you can at least agree that that scene was a terrible moment.

I thought some of the Gimli moments in the LOTR were pretty funny, even if it made the character into a running gag instead of what he was in the novel (which was just a cool dwarf guy). Expect even more dwarf hilarity in The Hobbit as the actual novel made a lot of the dwarves into comic relief, or at least Bombur. Freaking Bombur. I don't know why they brought him along (I can't remember, maybe he did at least one good thing on the trip to redeem himself...I don't think so though).

Bells 06-05-2008 02:20 AM

I know i'm beating a dead horse, but all scenes with Anakin after the point Padme tells him she is pregnant were pretty awfull (the beggining up to Dooku's death is Awesome, it's like a totally different movie...)

The Swing thing with mutt was really pretty bad... but as it was said, probably Lucas had a hand in it (i swear... it's like the guy Cant remember how to make movies now...)

The whole final battle in Spiderman 3 ... i mean "i got her, buddy!" ? Harry only died when he wanted to. and so many other errors and misteps...

Mirai Gen 06-05-2008 02:26 AM

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Lord of the Rings went pretty bad whenever it turned into the Legolas & Gimli Comedy Hour, which was pretty much whenever they had Gimli on screen.
I don't really like the LOTR books that much (And that's just asking for fireballs to be cast at me), but even I figured that Jackson could have found a better way to use Gimli other than comedic relief.

I will, however, give Gimli kudos to one of his best lines. Post Legolas ass-kicking: "...THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!"

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The whole final battle in Spiderman 3 ... i mean "i got her, buddy!" ? Harry only died when he wanted to. and so many other errors and misteps...
Man, the final battle didn't bug me nearly as much as having Tobey Macguire yet again put on the "Battle Torn Spider Man" outfit.

It was bad enough when it was Spider Man 2 and they used the same outfit but come on, everyone can recognize the exposed chunk of Parker's eye the third time around.

Nique 06-06-2008 10:05 AM

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A) "In Latin Jehovah with an I" from Last Crusade. Sigh. 5 minutes of research would have solved that one. For those not in the know Jehovah is only spelt with an I in Latin if J hasn't been invented yet. There was a J on the board and so it should have been spelt with a J. Then again J wasn't invented till the 1500s so there shouldn't have been a J on the board. Either way its wrong.
I'm going to take a concept I talked about in this thread and ask; Was there another Latin character that looks like J?

Speaking of! Let me just mention that I was entirely disappointed with the ending of this last Indiana Jones movie. ENTIRELY. It's not supposed to have a weird sci-fi vibe, he's a freaking archaeologist. It made ZERO sense, not some sense! Can't they count!

Professor Smarmiarty 06-06-2008 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Nique (Post 793295)
I'm going to take a concept I talked about in this thread and ask; Was there another Latin character that looks like J?

Actually this is something I hadn't considered.
Cause I've tried to analyze middle and dark age texts before and they all went to the school of "Pick your own symbols for the alphabet". Some of the Ls that I've seen could be passed off as Js in a poor light I guess.


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