{"id":60,"date":"2007-12-20T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/lets-not-make-a-scene\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:23:11","slug":"lets-not-make-a-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/lets-not-make-a-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s not make a scene."},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew<\/a> has a discussion going on <\/a>about “the scene you hate” in the movies; you know, the one that’s technically inaccurate, or logically inconsistent, or logistically impossible, or some combination of all of these.<\/p>\n

There were already over 130 comments when I checked earlier this morning (! – apparently this sort of thing strikes a chord with a LOT of people, especially any scene having to do with computer “hackers”). I couldn’t believe it, but my own pet-peeve movie scene had not yet been mentioned. Here’s what I posted:<\/p>\n

The car-racing scene, in which the hero and his rival blast along at high speed and the director cuts back and forth between close-ups of their faces, with gritted teeth. They are neck and neck as they approach the finish line (or improbably narrow alleyway down which only one of the cars will fit) until one of the characters gets the bright idea to PUSH THE ACCELERATOR ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR and he zooms ahead into the distance. WTF? It didn’t occur to you to floor it already?<\/p>\n

Particularly obnoxious in this regard were the 2 Fast 2 Furious movies, as they invented completely new nitrous-oxide related ways to use this ridiculous scene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While tapping out the another comment related specifically to the movie “Volcano”, I had to check to make sure I had the title of this absolutely horrid movie correct, so I naturally popped over to check the entry for Volcano on imdb.com<\/a>; there’s a line there indicating that “[t]his plot synopsis is empty. Add a synopsis”. <\/p>\n

I swear, I spent about twenty minutes trying to figure out how to post a reply to that message that implored the so-called “writers” of the movie to first “add a plot”, following which I would consider synopsizing same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew has a discussion going on about “the scene you hate” in the movies; you know, the one that’s technically inaccurate, or logically inconsistent, or logistically impossible, or some combination of all of these.<\/p>\n

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