10 DUMBEST MOMENTS IN SCI FI CINEMA

[aTOMiC]

I ran across this article and found it fairly amusing and suprisingly accurate in some cases.

Enjoy.




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[dlbpharmd]

Thanks for the link!

[Usivius]

yah, good and funny link... but there is a MISTAKE in the list! Gasp! Yes! Allow me a moment...
# 3 is the "John Hurt feels better so opts for breakfast" scene from 'Alien'. The nit-pik point that is mentioned is that after the alien thingy fell off his face, no one did any check to see if there were eggs in him. Wrong! Of course someone did a medical on him.. but it was the corrupt, Company-bound android! The one who was programmed to bring back a sample! So, of course he did a check on him, and cleared him... the real mistake was allowing him the run of the ship, but perhaps they had no idea just how FAST he thing would hatch...

my nit-pik back at a nit-pik..

[Cail]

The other issue with Alien is that the crew were space truckers, not "intelligent scientists".

[matrixman]

Nice point, Usivius!

Very entertaining article, aTOMiC. Thanks!

Superman turns back time ("Superman: The Movie")

Why it's so dumb: This is the classic problem with any time travel plot. If Superman can turn back time, why not turn it back a few years, find Lex Luthor, and break a few fingers? Instead, Superman turns back the clock just enough to save Lois from a not-so-shallow grave.

Why we don't care: Actually, we do. This one is just too dumb.

I'm fond of this movie, but I agree, this was a dumb plot moment. Yes, the actual scene of Supes zipping around the Earth was cool...but all that just for Lois? Romantic, maybe, but a wee bit anti-climactic. It defeats the emotional power of the prior scenes when Superman first shows up and realizes he has arrived too late to save Lois. But I guess one of the cardinal rules of the Superman mythology is that you don't kill off Lois Lane.

On a related note, I'd just to like to say that the whole sequence in Matrix Reloaded with Neo doing his "Superman" thing and flying in to save Trinity was visually spectacular, but it had zero emotional content for me. At that point in the film, I just didn't care much at all what happened to the characters. That's the difference between Neo/Trinity and Superman/Lois. Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann-Moss had very little chemistry in my view, and all the CG effects in the world can't make up for that. Say what you will about Margot Kidder's looks, but there was a definite spark between her and Christopher Reeve, IMO.

[Cail]

I'd say everything between the opening and closing credits in Matrix Revolutions should be on the list.

[Usivius]

although not as severe, I do agree that Revolutions was a pretty disappointing movie...

[Loredoctor]

odie Foster and company pass the alien MENSA test
"Contact"

Why it's so dumb: Intelligent creatures from across the universe go to great lengths to let humanity know they exist in an otherwise great movie called "Contact." Life from distant galaxies intelligent enough to capture our rays, translate them, then dramatically send us the blueprints for a wormhole machine, somehow found it necessary to put those blueprints on a flattened piece of origami.

That's not a fair criticism; when you think about the way the blueprint was set up, it is more efficient. And anyway, all they could do was send the signal - how the hell could they have traveled to earth?

[ChoChiyo]

Well, my opinion is that any moment of Ewok screen time was a moment better vaporized in the cutting room.

[aTOMiC]

Well, my opinion is that any moment of Ewok screen time was a moment better vaporized in the cutting room.

Well said. Bravo! Bravo indeed!!!!!

[wayfriend]

This list confirms my opinion that Repo Man isn't a dumb movie.

[Furls Fire]

Well, my opinion is that any moment of Ewok screen time was a moment better vaporized in the cutting room.

I'll take Ewoks over Jar Jar Binks anyday...

[onewyteduck]

Well, my opinion is that any moment of Ewok screen time was a moment better vaporized in the cutting room.

I'll take Ewoks over Jar Jar Binks anyday...

How right you are, Furls! How right you are!

[ChoChiyo]

I refused to watch any more Star Wars after the Ewok debacle.....

Though I did watch the last one.

[Furls Fire]

at least the Ewoks were cute...Jar Jar was an abomination...

[duchess of malfi]

I am still waiting (and praying) for a dvd with a "mute Jar Jar" feature -- or even better, a feature that will not only mute him, but also make him look like a fuzzy blur on the screen, so you don't have to see him, either.

[Edge]

I'd rather sit through the 2 Ewok movies than 2 minutes screen-time of Jar-Jar Binks.

[dANdeLION]

I'd rather not sit through either.

[matrixman]

I am still waiting (and praying) for a dvd with a "mute Jar Jar" feature -- or even better, a feature that will not only mute him, but also make him look like a fuzzy blur on the screen, so you don't have to see him, either.

I figure that if Lucas could digitally insert Jabba into Episode IV, he could also digitally remove Jar Jar from the prequels. How about it, George? The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: The Un-Jar Jar Special Edition.

[High Lord Tolkien]

I figure that if Lucas could digitally insert Jabba into Episode IV, he could also digitally remove Jar Jar from the prequels. How about it, George? The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: The Un-Jar Jar Special Edition.