Here are a few I have wondered about:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Henry is a librarian. When was he ever around long enough to get a library degree?
Gone with the Wind
What on earth did Scarlett see in Ashley Wilkes when she could have had Rhett Butler?
Ashley?
Or Rhett? You be the judge.
The Neverending Story
If it's neverending, how come it ended?
Alien
"In space, no one can hear you scream." Is that really true?
District 9
How did the malnourished sick aliens get those huge weapons down out of the spacecraft? And why did they come to earth in the first place?
Mulholland Drive
Just in general, whaaaat?
***SPOILER ALERT***
If you haven't seen The Sixth Sense yet, read no further but for the rest of you:
How can Bruce Willis not know he is dead? No one talks to him except the kid who sees dead people.
See what you think.
If you haven't seen these films or want to see them again, they are available at the library. I have provided links directly to our catalog.
And by the way, is there a better deal out there than the free DVDs at the library? You can check out 10 DVDs at a time for free!
When times are tough, your library is there to help! Now that does make sense.
Take that Netflix!
What films do you think have plot devices or scenes that just don't make sense?
12 comments:
Re Aliens: sound that you hear is caused by air being compressed by waves in the audible spectrum (about 20-20,000 Hrz for humans). Since space is a vacuum with no air, then technically, in space, no one really can hear you scream. But you don't have to take my word for it - you can look it up at your local library!
There actually are some loopholes such as radio waves - so technically you could scream into a radio and someone could hear you, right? :)
Wow--I had NO idea that Bruce Willis' character was dead in the movie either...the things you learn from the library!
OK - true enough, if you were screaming into a radio transmitter (Houston, we have a problem - aaarrgghh!) then I guess whoever was on the other end would hear you. Unless the aliens had already attacked and vaporized Mission Control!
I second your Whaaaat? after Mulholland Drive. Maybe it's a California thing?
Mulholland Drive is simply brilliant, but I get the whaaaa..? It's a film that needs more than 1 viewing.
Even then...
"The Neverending Story" as a book had two sequels. If you try to read all three it really does seem to be neverending in the sense that however much you liked it at first you wish it would just end. In the author's world, as long as a kid with imagination reads an adventure story, it is neverending and infinitely varied.
When I watched The Sixth Sense, after Bruce Willis's character got shot and then no one could see, hear, talk to, or reacted to him, I knew he was dead. It was so obvious that I didn't realize it was supposed to be a "twist" until I left the theater and people commented about the big surprise at the end that he was actually dead. I still don't know why people would assume he was alive?
I must confess, I fell for it. At the end, I was looking confused and my daughter whispered, "He was dead, Mom." Oh.
RE: Mulholland Drive it's a David Lynch thing, watch some of his other movies you'll see what I mean.
The time traveler..good question...but I still liked the movie.
I think Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him, nor could she bear anyone else being more important than her.
Most of us at least pretend we don't think we are the center of the universe.
In the Sixth Sense, at first I thought he was in a coma somewhere, I mean yes he was shot but he might be alive, about 3o minutes in I started getting that he was dead. It was still well done though.
Rosy, you always ask interesting things, very fun
About the Sixth Sence, I hadn't known that Bruce Willis was dead, but half way through the movie, I remembered a qoute from 50 First Dates, when she (Drew Barrymore's character Lucy)says that he died and she was shocked. So thats how I figured it out.
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