Movie cliches that you find hilarious . . . or annoying.
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Simple physics. The asteroid is a sphere and so the explosion would easily force its way out, combined with the shattering of the inner asteroid's core meaning the rest of the asteroid would fall in on itself or be blown to bits by the debris forced out by the explosion.thenumberthirteen said:
I actually can't wait to see how they end 2012, hopefully it won't involved the Earth blowing in some "deep" and "emotional" way. What makes me sad is they gave away almsot all of the plot in the trailers and pretty much all the CGI scenes.thenumberthirteen said:
On topic:
When love is the answer. Ugh.
Not sure if this was mentioned yet but...
The best friend/family member/team-mate who 'dies' but was just faking there death to come back evil, or betray's the group and reveals themselves as a bad guy without the faked death.
Can't trust anyone these days haha
The best friend/family member/team-mate who 'dies' but was just faking there death to come back evil, or betray's the group and reveals themselves as a bad guy without the faked death.
Can't trust anyone these days haha
The hidden weapons in Equilibrium. I still don't quite understand how he managed to hide not just a pair of guns, but a full reloading system in his sleeves. And the ability to be shot at by about a dozen blokes with assault rifles and not get hit once...
Mmmm. When the story of comedy arrives at the end. It's the end of all bad events that can possibly happens....Then you have a montage of everyone either laughing or nodding with a smile.....
When, instead of just instantly slaughtering the protagonist like the villian had intended, he enjoys a lengthy chat with him, outlining his plans, how they can be stopped, and even throwing in a nice incentive for the hero.
For anyone who hates slasher movie cliches, watch "Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon". It's a mockumentary about the titular Leslie Vernon, who is setting out to become the next masked slasher legend in the style of Jason Voorhees or Leatherface. It goes through all the classic slasher tropes such as the Final Girl, but it's all told by the guy who's about to do it for real. Hilarious stuff.
Oh, and people who hate long villain monologues? There's a card game out there called "Before I Kill You, Mister Bond.." that you might like to check out. You play Bond-style villains who have to set up their evil plans and overcome attacks from spies. When you capture a spy, you have the option of just killing them or really spinning out their death with long, gloating speeches and slow moving, elaborate death traps. This will earn you more points, but it gives the spy more chance to escape and press the self-destruct button that you decided was a good idea when you built your island volcano lair.
On to the cliches!
Cop Shows: "YOU HAVE TWENTY FOUR HOURS TO FIND ME THAT EVIDENCE!"
Anything With A Stern Female Character: "I'm so stern and officious and a complete *****, but when I let down my hair and take off my glasses you can see I'm really beautiful and just want to be loved. Take me, studmuffin!"
Okay, here's another one.
You know how when there's a vampire and they get staked, they turn to dust? Or when someone who is immortal is killed, time 'catches up with them' and then age four hundred years in a second or some shit? That pisses me off. Heroes is a really bad example for this; a guy who suddenly loses the healing power that's kept him alive immortally for hundreds of years suddenly turns to a skeleton for no apparent reason.
Oh, and people who hate long villain monologues? There's a card game out there called "Before I Kill You, Mister Bond.." that you might like to check out. You play Bond-style villains who have to set up their evil plans and overcome attacks from spies. When you capture a spy, you have the option of just killing them or really spinning out their death with long, gloating speeches and slow moving, elaborate death traps. This will earn you more points, but it gives the spy more chance to escape and press the self-destruct button that you decided was a good idea when you built your island volcano lair.
On to the cliches!
Cop Shows: "YOU HAVE TWENTY FOUR HOURS TO FIND ME THAT EVIDENCE!"
Anything With A Stern Female Character: "I'm so stern and officious and a complete *****, but when I let down my hair and take off my glasses you can see I'm really beautiful and just want to be loved. Take me, studmuffin!"
Okay, here's another one.
You know how when there's a vampire and they get staked, they turn to dust? Or when someone who is immortal is killed, time 'catches up with them' and then age four hundred years in a second or some shit? That pisses me off. Heroes is a really bad example for this; a guy who suddenly loses the healing power that's kept him alive immortally for hundreds of years suddenly turns to a skeleton for no apparent reason.
I've never cared for the mandatory car chases in every action movie. Even more hilarious are the horror movies. Slasher films are predictable, where the virgin girl is the only one who survives. Or torture films, where the director just thinks of whatever would shock people instead of using subtlety.
When the villain has the hero at gunpoint, but still bothers to have a conversation with him. "I can shoot you now but I somehow want to talk to you, so you can make up an escape plan."
The obligatory black guy, who can't say a sentence without using "f*ck" and holds his gun sideways.
The obligatory black guy, who can't say a sentence without using "f*ck" and holds his gun sideways.
I'm no Physicist (and since your profile says you're 16 then can I assume that you aren't either), but I don't think that's how it'd work. If by "force it's way out" you mean out the other side then you don't have a grasp of the scales at hand. The movie says it's an iron asteroid "the size of Texas". Texas is about 1400 Kilometres across, the hole they dig is 800 feet (say 250m) that's only 1/5000th of the way in (1/2500th of the way to the core) assuming it's a sphere then the blast will not reach the core, but will instead blast away all it's energy into space leaving a small crater. Even if it did gut the asteroid like you say it wouldn't collapse in on itself as it's gravity would be negligible. Any way it doesn't matter as it would still hit Earth.Disaster Button said:
<spoiler=Here's a scale diagram of the Asteroid>
On this scale Bruce Willis's drill hole is 1/10th of a pixel in size
As a side note I realised we both have the same first name, and we live about 30 minutes away from each other
The Willhelm scream. It's in so many movies now that I think you could call it a cliche. I always burst out laughing when I hear it and everyone else looks at me like wtf? It's my own little secret...
I like to think I know what I'm talking aboutthenumberthirteen said:I'm no Physicist (and since your profile says you're 16 then can I assume that you aren't either), but I don't think that's how it'd work. If by "force it's way out" you mean out the other side then you don't have a grasp of the scales at hand. The movie says it's an iron asteroid "the size of Texas". Texas is about 1400 Kilometres across, the hole they dig is 800 feet (say 250m) that's only 1/5000th of the way in (1/2500th of the way to the core) assuming it's a sphere then the blast will not reach the core, but will instead blast away all it's energy into space leaving a small crater. Even if it did gut the asteroid like you say it wouldn't collapse in on itself as it's gravity would be negligible. Any way it doesn't matter as it would still hit Earth.Disaster Button said:
<spoiler=Here's a scale diagram of the Asteroid>
On this scale Bruce Willis's drill hole is 1/10th of a pixel in size
As a side note I realised we both have the same first name, and we live about 30 minutes away from each other
But I dunno I still think it could work. Buuuttt I'm probably wrong. Damn, you just poked a massive plot hole through a really good movie..
And that is one weird coincidence. I actually live about 15 mintues way from Newcastle, it's just easier to right that than Washington. D'you know where that is?
You guys should read TVtropes.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
Seriously, it's all on there. Now go read for hours and hours. Don't forget to eat.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
Seriously, it's all on there. Now go read for hours and hours. Don't forget to eat.
I hate it when people need to get out of a place and they've had every single warning by the bad guy to leave to safety and they dont. They could even have time to eat or go to the bathroom or alert the authorities or even find someone better suited to help them, yet they stay in one place and are soooo suprised when the enemy rears his ugly head and destroys them all.