Top ten worst superhero movie moments/things

[Chimera]

Hmmm. I would have thought the fact that there are no elevated trains in NYC would have been a bigger annoyance. That's much more of a chicago thing. Though I know in the past they did have them. Besides it would be pointless to have a train line that ended like that, except if you were looking for something to make for dramatic scenes in movies.

Oh, spoiled New Yorkers.

Maybe he hasn't seen Rumble in the Bronx yet. It was filmed in Vancouver. There are freaking MOUNTAINS in the background!!!

 

[bodhi]

Jumping in late, but...

Fair point. But he was hit by like lightning, off of the top of the statue of liberty. And he never came back.

The general rule is: if you don't see the body, he's not dead.

And sometimes, even with a body, he's not dead. It's not him, it's a planted clone body. It's not him, it's his evil/good/unfrozen twin. It's not him, it's him from an alternate universe.

Or...

Okay, okay, it was him, but we cloned him. Made him faster, stronger, better (and more eeeeevil). It was him, but now he's undead. It was him, but now he's a cyborg. It was him, but we make you think he's back with new superpowers, but then we reveal it's just an imposter taking his form and memories, yadda yadda yadda.

Gotta flex them rationalization muscles.

 

[hero4hire]

The general rule is: if you don't see the body, he's not dead.

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Gotta flex them rationalization muscles.

Perhaps a current carried his body to the artic freezing him in an iceberg and he is being worshipped by eskimos.

 

[Milkman Dan]

The main one I can think of is storm from the X-mens. Specificly the toad line.... Also why did such a cool character have to die?

Either Halle Berry blew it, or the director didn't understand the line. It went something like, "Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? (pause) The same thing that happens to everything else."

Halle said it completely straight. But what I hear is that it was in an original draft of the script, on which Joss Whedon worked. See, he never meant that line to be delivered straight. He meant the second half to be delivered off-handedly, and a bit sheepishly. Like, "Huh.... the same thing that happens to everything else."

Alas, she said it all SERIOUS and SCARY and stuff, which completely missed the point.

 

[shilsen]

There's a movie - 'Above the Law' - with Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock. It's mostly set in Hong Kong, but the opening scene is in Auckland.

The camera starts on an imposing white building... lots of pillars, broad steps. The front door opens, and a bunch of lawyers walk out, discussing the case that just concluded.

That's right - a bunch of lawyers walk out of the Auckland Museum.

Gotta tell you, it completely spoiled the verisimilitude of the movie for me.

confused:)

-Hyp.

Boy, you guys are picky! Once I found out that you could actually sail to Bohemia (The Winter's Tale) even though it was a land-locked country, I figured I'll stop treating fiction as a documentary.

 

[Klaus]

Joss Whedon mentioned in an interview that the line was supposed to go like those off-hand remarks he used so often in Buffy. Instead we have Halle Berry pronouncing it like Moses coming down the mountains with the Ten Comandments (his analogy, not mine... but accurate as heck! ).

 

[buzzard]

For the issue of strange locations used i movies I submit a few of Silence of the Lambs. The "Smithsonian Museum" visited to research bugs, was actually the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. The building in Tennessee where Hannibal made his escapse was Soliders and Sailor, a war monument in the same town.

buzzard

 

[Hypersmurf]

Boy, you guys are picky!

For what it's worth, I was kidding

-Hyp.