Comment Juvenille (Score 5, Funny) 42
Totally juvenille but I always chuckle a little when I see the URL for this company, www.anker.com
Comment "Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is." (Score 1) 76
A crisis entirely of their own making, and completely avoidable.
Comment Quote - "Worst Movie Ever" (Score 1, Interesting) 328
I normally refuse to see hollywood drivel (a fact which causes my friends to label me "elitist") but somehow last weekend I allowed myself to be dragged into this movie.
The plot holes don't just relate to technology - that is somewhat to be expected in the movies.
What bothered me more was that many of the plot elements just flew in the face of common sense. For instance, why would you sell a house with 22 million dollars still hidden in the safe? How did these guys think they could just walk into a bank with million-dollar bonds (gee, look at all those zeros!) without raising some eyebrows?
The plot was so ridiculously predictable, from the first time you see Forrest Whittaker you know he's the one who will turn out to have the heart of gold and save the little girl...
But worst of all, was the scene near the end (I'd call this a spoiler, but the movie is so bad it can't be spoiled!) where Jodie Foster's character whacks Dwight Yoakum's character in the head with a big sledgehammer - she winds up and really gives him a good blow, and you see his body limply falling down several flights of stairs. I am not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that a sledgehammer blow like that would be fatal! Or at least put you into a coma or something. But our indestructible hero is conscious in the next scene, climbing back up the stairs - it was like the Terminator! Actually, everybody in the theater started laughing at this point - it was supposed to be Hithchock-esque and terrifying and suspenseful, bue we were all cracking up - not just me and my friends, but many people in the theater. I would say that a suspense movie that makes people laugh is a failure.
As we left the theater my friend (who suggested we see this) turned to me and said "That must have been the worst movie ever..."
The plot holes don't just relate to technology - that is somewhat to be expected in the movies.
What bothered me more was that many of the plot elements just flew in the face of common sense. For instance, why would you sell a house with 22 million dollars still hidden in the safe? How did these guys think they could just walk into a bank with million-dollar bonds (gee, look at all those zeros!) without raising some eyebrows?
The plot was so ridiculously predictable, from the first time you see Forrest Whittaker you know he's the one who will turn out to have the heart of gold and save the little girl...
But worst of all, was the scene near the end (I'd call this a spoiler, but the movie is so bad it can't be spoiled!) where Jodie Foster's character whacks Dwight Yoakum's character in the head with a big sledgehammer - she winds up and really gives him a good blow, and you see his body limply falling down several flights of stairs. I am not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that a sledgehammer blow like that would be fatal! Or at least put you into a coma or something. But our indestructible hero is conscious in the next scene, climbing back up the stairs - it was like the Terminator! Actually, everybody in the theater started laughing at this point - it was supposed to be Hithchock-esque and terrifying and suspenseful, bue we were all cracking up - not just me and my friends, but many people in the theater. I would say that a suspense movie that makes people laugh is a failure.
As we left the theater my friend (who suggested we see this) turned to me and said "That must have been the worst movie ever..."
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