My vote is for the end of the Gauntlet where all the cops are shooting at the bus but would be hitting each other. Thousands of cops shooting across the street from both sides. Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
That harold and kumar one was unbelievably ridiculous although the movie was funny as hell. I also hate the scene from speed where the bus jumps the gap in the freeway.
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A poorly done job at depicting anything whether it be drama, action, science fiction or fantasy???
Or expertly done scenes that are unbelievable?
Poorly done. Let's face it, boys and girls. All Star Wars stuff is pretty much an excuse for a bunch of stuffed animals making gurgling sounds and born again hot wheels "roaring" though space. Not to forget a bunch of pseudo-profundities passing off as wisdom and then becoming a nauseating part of popular culture.
Expertly done but unbelievable are many of the Hannibal scenes. The exposed brain scene did not have enough blood in it and did Hannibal really need to cut his hand or thumb off to escape? As for Luc Besson's film "The Fifth Element" with Bruce Willis (Korben Dallas),Gary Oldman (Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg),Ian Holm (Priest Vito Cornelius), Milla Jovovich (Leeloo), and Chris Tucker (Ruby Rhod). What's not to like here? Totally unrealistic but funny to save the world.
Just about all movie explosions with flaming explosives are unrealistic. All of the explosions I've caused or witnessed have a brown, gray blast with a little flash. Hollywood adds gasoline to their effects. It's unrealistic. Also, you can't hear rounds hitting a helicopter. Helo's are too loud to hear anything but the transmission/engine/rotor.
Unrealistic scenes are funny! Part of why we find movies so engaging is because they force us to suspend disbelief, to live in a world where everything is bigger than life, where everything goes out with a bang. You want realism? Watch C-Span or COPS.
That being said, I have some unrealistic scenes that always make me laugh, like the bus jumping the gap in Speed or Tom Cruise fight scenes in Mission Impossible movies. I also laugh at all of the improbable physics in movies. Number one: If someone fires a gun powerful enough to knock someone back when hit, it would have knocked the shooter on their butt as well. (Equal and opposite reaction.)
The scene in "Signs" where Mel Gibson learns that the alien spaceships have been making crop cirlces in his cornfield in order to communicate with each other. Oh, I see ... these creatures have the technology to traverse the galaxy and land on earth undetected but they can't communicate with each other once they get here. Also unbelievable that these creatures can't break out of a flimsy pantry and decide to take over a planet 70% of which is covered by a substance which is lethal to them (water).
nixdad...that brings up a good point, why are movie aliens always slimy and tentacled and wierd, but yet they seem to have intelligence and technological capabilities far beyond our own...yet they slime and drool around. If they can travel light years, etc, why can't they take care of that slimy, drooly problem?
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