Sometimes movie logic baffles me. (Please excuse the crappy MS Paint text, I don't have Photoshop on my work 'puter).

evilspoons · 1 year

How about the part in MI2 where the woman mistakes some 6'2" guy in a Tom Cruise mask for Tom Cruise? He was supposed to be her damned boyfriend, she should at least have a bit of an idea of how tall he is.

Steelejaxon · 1 year

Or video cameras being monitored by security. Later in the movie, the Feds are standing in a huge room full of video feeds but somehow forgot to put one in this room? I'm sure even a federal security guard would think a guy in all black hanging from wire in the ceiling looks a bit suspicious.

dietotaku · 1 year

not to mention "hey, someone's accessing the computer in the room that no one is supposed to be in."

Tayto2000 · 1 year

SIGNS

We've mastered the somewhat tricky task of intergalactic travel, but wooden doors? That shit's got us stumped.

stanthefan · 1 year

It just makes way too much sense.

RogueNine · 1 year

My voice is my passport, verify me.

Throwawayname · 1 year

Willing suspension of disbelief. Otherwise entertainment isn't entertaining.

Sarutahiko · 1 year

For future reference, Microsoft paint is fully capable of text on a transparent background (but not the stroke).

Also, sorry for jpeg. my bad.

number1username · 1 year

I think it would be even better security to put a password on your screensaver so if a guy drops in from the ceiling he's like "oh shit what's Denise's nephew's name?"

DentalNylon · 1 year

Sudden urge to buy motion sensors.

polyparadigm · 1 year

Not to mention that this movie completely overstates the difference between the IMF and the World Bank.

jadams99 · 1 year

Doesn't this scene's dramatic flair also hinge on a lowly rat being in the air duct? A rat above the super-high-tech-controlled-room? Oy!

Among_the_fallen · 1 year

Let me fill you in on this mind blowing scene from a movie called Arn.

It's sometime during the crusades. We're in Europe, somewhere. Two armies line up on the field. Arn's army (army A) and Bad guy army (army B).

Army A is nervous. They are simple peasants, how can they stand againt the might of Army B? Luckily Commander Arn is prepared for this. He stares angrily at the Bad guy Commander, turns and gives a rousing speech to his compatriots. It's super effective.

Arn then instructs one of his archers to loose a single arrow towards Army B. It land halfway across the field. Commander B has a hearty laugh and informs his men Army A is just trying to scare them.

Commander B orders a charge! Two thirds of the soldiers take off. Atleast a hundred extras armed to the teeth pour across the field. Arn calmy instructs his archers to nock their bows and fire on his command.

Cut to the arrow in the middle of the field. Army B is getting closer. Cut Between Arn's face and the arrow three times. Dramatic tension.

As Army B passes the arrow Arn finally shouts "Fire!". The sky is filled with arrows and the entire charge is killed.

Cut to Commander B. Ashen and full of despairful. He simply cannot grasp how his plan failed. He quietly breathes what he obviously believes are his dying words. "It's a trap."

Apparently the invention of bows took him completely by surprise

There is no such thing as movie logic.

bag_of_hammers · 1 year

Nah, motion sensors are too mainstream.

seabiscuit5 · 1 year

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tha_ape · 1 year

Ummm.... most motion sensors are based off of temperature changes.

bsterling · 1 year

I thought there were motion sensors on the floor? Because when the rope slips he almost hits the floor where they are supposedly and it's a big deal? Haven't seen it in a while, so I could be wrong.

hedgecore77 · 1 year

You do now!

coversherinclubsauce · 1 year

I swear they wrote that entire scene just so Tom Cruise could catch that bead of sweat in slow motion before it hit the ground.

Also, so that a polish dude could kill a rat in an air duct.

CTDiesel · 1 year

Another degree of Tom Cruise movies.......We were watching Minority Report last night. There's a scene in the movie where after John Anderton has had his eyes swapped, he uses one of his old eyes at the scanner to gain access to where the Precogs are. At the time, he's one of Precrime's most wanted men. It is kind of baffling to me that he could gain access like that being wanted, considering he had been located via eye scans earlier in the movie. Seems like an alarm would immediately go off.

[deleted] · 1 year

This is why movie logic sucks, especially in the case of any kind of dealings with advanced security measures.

Movie logic sucks because it fails to take into account basic elements of security. Current security measures are hugely kick ass.

Just one example: When the hero needs to identify invisible laser beams, he produces a spray can of some shit - probably Hawaiian Potpourri - and voila! The previously invisible laser beams (because as we all know light is invisible unless it reflects off of something) are revealed in the pine-scented mists, and the hero can safely negotiate the beams.

This ignores the fact that the light from those beams is beamed onto sensors which precisely measure their frequency or some shit. If you spray an aerosol across this beam, it slightly weakens the beam, and this change in state is recorded and sounds an alarm. So doing the spray thing is bullshit.

But they continue to do it because people don't know any better. As long as it sells tickets, the movie company people wouldn't care if they made 2-hour long flicks featuring nothing more than pictures of various kittens in baskets.

Explosions are over-rated, with every pound of C4 doing the work of forty. Not every car explodes when driven off a cliff. People don't just walk away from explosions in slow-mo, because there's this thing called a shock wave.

Movie companies deliver what they believe people will pay to see. When people pay to see it, they movie companies are happy. Why bother with accurate portrayals of real-life scenarios? That's the movie companies. They're like, "why bother to pay someone to write something good when people will pay to see the same old crap recycled and redelivered.

It's like your dad giving you his old bike. Sure he painted it up and put a cool racing stripe on it, and the horn's pretty kick ass, but he's all like, "I gave you a new bike". And you're all like, "No, you gave me your old bike and you got a new bike." And he's all like, "I fixed it all up and made it shiny! It's like a new bike." And you say, "Well, 'like new' isn't new, is it. And he's all like, "But, you wouldn't download a bike, would you?" And you're all like, "Shut up Sal, you're not even my real father!"

So yeah, that's why movie logic sucks.

TL:DR Go away, I have no patience for your impatience.

artman · 1 year

If you are looking for logic in movies, watch documentaries instead.

Pantstown · 1 year

How else is Brad Pitt supposed to get in?

HeyCrabman11 · 1 year

What security do they actually put in vaults?

Clawdius · 1 year

Yeah, all that. Or maybe, say, an actual security guard just standing there looking at the damn computer.

Boris2k · 1 year

I don't think you understand how stupid the average person is.

Galevav · 1 year

Ms. Paint is doing a fine job.
I thought of this book when I read this post. I guess...sort of relevant.

eldy_ · 1 year

Tom Cruise NOSE!

VLDT · 1 year

Decibel meter motherfucker.

Thrawny183 · 1 year

If movie opponents always followed the evil overlord list, the protagonists would almost always lose.

fnork · 1 year

Didn't they heat up the room for the purpose of defeating the motion sensors?

mjc7373 · 1 year

A password on that computer would have helped too.

Roobomatic · 1 year

photoshop isnt going to set your margins or pick a proper font for you. you'd be wasting your time getting it if you think it will make your work better.

babycheeses · 1 year

http://getpaint.net

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Raptorace22 · 1 year

Hey man, screw you. I ONLY use MS Paint.

rownpown · 1 year

I mean its possible. When the british sunk the bismark, one reason the planes succeeded was because the guns on the bismark couldnt train on the slower planes. The guns were too fast for the planes

mrdobo · 1 year

That scene in MI1 is the best spy/heist scene. Ever. In anything.

Let's leave it be...

rdzzl · 1 year

Omg what are the odds. Just watched this movie with a couple of friends!

CowWithGun · 1 year

Or why the lights are on..

mywowtoonnname · 1 year

Could have overcome that with a bed sheet.

mrpopenfresh · 1 year

Fuck everything about Mission Impossible. None of it is believable.

throw_away_31415 · 1 year

Room: massive amounts of surveillance equipment.

Sophisticated supercomputer with trivial capability for surveillance: nup, none here.

Also I'd like to see them crawl through a real server room air cond duct.

fdelys · 1 year

Christ, tell me about it. I saw this movie called Star Wars and they had faster than light travel and this mystical power that was like, mind control and telekinesis...I mean, HELLO??!!

lidko · 1 year

Motion sensors (infrared ones) can reportedly be compromised with a cardboard 'sheild' that is acclimated to the room temperature.

[deleted] · 1 year

Or how about "You can't log in to the computer if the security systems are turned on."

I mean, when he leaves and locks the door, the room color changes, the floor sensors turn on, all this crazy defensive shit happens... why not just turn off the monitor? Or put the computer in sleep mode?

Ruabadfsh2 · 1 year

Sometimes I tell people like you, "Shut up, it's just a movie!" when you point things like that out during movies.

cmontgomery33 · 1 year

if you ever abbreviate computer to ('puter) again, I will cut off all of your limbs.

[deleted] · 1 year

Yeah, but it's government logic, so of course it's retarded.

rift321 · 1 year

Yeah, but that XXL-ATX computer case is pretty sick.

pelito · 1 year

Sinking ice in GI Joe The Rise of Cobra.

Lots42 · 1 year

I love how they didn't count all the firemen coming OUT of the CIA...

djdementia · 1 year

Motion detectors are fairly easy to defeat assuming you know in advance that they are there (and where they are). All you do to defeat a motion detector is hold up a regular bed sheet between you and the detector.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vmd3DkzDg&feature=player_detailpage#t=59s

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