Which scene in a movie/series do you think didn't make any sense to the plot ? (lemmy.world)

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Claudette:

He’s always bugging me about my house. Fifteen years ago, we agreed, that house belongs to me. Now the value of the house is going up and he’s seeing dollar signs. Everything goes wrong at once. Nobody wants to help me, and I’m dying.

Lisa:

You’re not dying, mom.

Claudette:

I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer.

Lisa:

Look, don’t worry about it. Everything will be fine. They’re curing lots of people every day.

Claudette:

I’m sure I’ll be alright.

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[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This Scene from Designated Survivor. I'm still chuckling when thinking about it.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

😂

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

Drop the scene from deadpool and wolverine where they chop up a hundred deadpools. It's cheap cgi at that. The animations at the end were pulled straight from a video game

[-] mwproductions@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

In Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever, the scene where they go over to someone's house and pretend to worship their refrigerator doesn't further the plot or character development in any way.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Looper when they're "torturing" the one guy and his body parts are disappearing one after another.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

The whole Looper premise doesn't make sense.

Criminals in the future send people back in time to get whacked. If you get an abnormally large payout, that means you whacked your future self and are now retired.

Why have someone kill themselves with a large payoff? Why retire them? If they're retired in the future, why have them killed?

You have present day hitmen, A, B, and C. Future victims, a, b, and c.

A -> a, B -> b, C -> c results in stupid large payouts and retired killers.

A -> b, B -> c, C -> a has normal payoffs and no retirements.

Still doesn't explain why you wanted a, b, and c dead in the first place.

Looper is a great LOOKING movie, those shotguns were on point! Just don't go thinking about it for more than 5 minutes.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

Their concept of time travel is definitely unorthodox compared to other time travel movies. One of the main characters literally said not to think too much about it.

Everything else was pretty much explained by the protag.

He did mentioned that his line of work doesn't attract forward thinking people. This is quite realistic, I mean, have you seen how a lot of people (and companies) sacrificed long term benefits for short ter ones? It's also posible that they think they can beat that system.

Their future selves are killed to tie up loose ends. The change in power dynamic with Rainmaker's takeover definitely plays a role. This is actually a common trope in crime dramas (and probably also in real world).

It definitely is not a perfect movie, but it's a damn good one to me. I definitely think Joseph-Gorden Lewitt and Emily Blunt lack chemistry, and the sex scene was forced, but I guess it's somewhat realistic someone living in a farm out of nowhere all by themselves can get so horny...

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The part that pisses me off. "We can't kill people in the future because the forensics are too good." Then armed men come for him in the future. They can't kill him or they'll get caught, why are the guns a threat?

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[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

To clarify, do you mean it wouldn't make sense that his body part would dissapear as they were severed in an alternative past. Or do you mean it doesn't belong on the plot/add to the story?

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Not Op, but...

Spoiler for the torture scene in Looper

At the start of that scene, they're inflicting harm that would still allow the dude to do everything he's done so far, just scarred. And the scars are appearing on his future self. It makes a kind of weird sense, if we stretch our imagination.

But they cross well past anything reasonable into injuries that would have just made anyone's past self decide to retire and hide out in the woods in Florida.

It made no sense at all by the end, that his future self was somehow still working for them.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

The first. Those injuries were done decades ago, and yet they are just appearing now to the surprise of the character.

If that's how the time travel "works" in this universe somehow, then Bruce Willis disappearing at the end contradicts this.

[-] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The Office, Season 6, episode 20, “The Leads”. All the characters in this episode always seemed to me like they had a different personality for just this one episode. It really stands out IMO.

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