Movie Apologist Thread

darth_ender said:

You know, all movies have goofs.  It's what inevitably happens when you edit together various takes of a story.  Things will never work out perfectly in every way.  But sometimes there are holes in logic that are just so glaring that it truly disrupts your enjoyment of those movies.

Most of this site is devoted to trashing certain movies, and that mentality has carried beyond Star Wars.  Any flaw in any film is just unacceptable to some.

But that's not what this thread is about.  This thread is for movies you love and cherish, but where you just need a little help explaining away some problems so you can get rid of that cognitive dissonance.

Take Jurassic Park.  I love that movie.  There are errors, like doors that magically change between open and shut, movie player bars when we're supposedly watching a live video conversation, etc.  I can overlook those, understanding they are part of the natural movie-making process.  However, I cannot get past the Tyrannosaurus paddock problem, where the ground magically drops 100 feet between T. rex's escape and Grant's/Lex's descent on the wire.  I cannot think of a reasonable justification.

OT.com: you're so good at tearing movies apart.  Can you explain away problems with the same ease?  Help me, OT.com.  You're my only hope.

 T-Rex quake...

Me too...!

darth_ender said:

However, I cannot get past the Tyrannosaurus paddock problem, where the ground magically drops 100 feet between T. rex's escape and Grant's/Lex's descent on the wire.  I cannot think of a reasonable justification.

^Nice! Here's a link to a discussion about that, using more pics.

https://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/22433/jurassic-park-mystery

Pfft. You clearly haven't watched JP hard enough...

darth_ender said:

doors that magically change between open and shut

 To quote Dennis Nedry "Some of the minor systems, they might go on or off but it’s ah, nothing to worry about, just a simple thing". Obvious really.

darth_ender said:

movie player bars when we're supposedly watching a live video conversation,

 iplayer has the same thing. It means you can skip back and forwards during live TV. JP was just ahead of it's time... it was a Unix system afterall.

darth_ender said:

I cannot get past the Tyrannosaurus paddock problem, where the ground magically drops 100 feet between T. rex's escape and Grant's/Lex's descent on the wire.  I cannot think of a reasonable justification.

 Never heard of erosion? From Wikipedia: "In geomorphology and geology, erosion is the action of exogenic processes (such as water flow or wind) which remove soil and rock from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited". Remember Hurricane Clarissa was in full effect during the T.Rex padock incident, which could easily have caused the necessary water and wind damage to displace the earth beyond the fence. Also nobody would have heard the rapid subsidence over all the screaming and nashing of teeth.

There you go, hope that helped.

TV's Frink said:

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.  I don't care that everyone hates it, I kind of enjoy it.

Well then I kind of don't enjoy you. 

I don't get where that image comes from. Is that supposed to be a statue of an evil Abraham Lincoln (I mean that smile...ugh...)

*Thank god that image is a jpeg. If that were a gif or png and didn't move for like 30 seconds and then jumpscare...

Danfun128 said:

I don't get where that image comes from. Is that supposed to be a statue of an evil Abraham Lincoln (I mean that smile...ugh...)

It's from the end of that terrible Tim Burton abomination, "Planet of the Apes". 

TV's Frink said:

Neglify said:

TV's Frink said:

Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.  I don't care that everyone hates it, I kind of enjoy it.

Well then I kind of don't enjoy you. 

All of us?

Team Olie

Nah, only like 19% of you.