Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Movies shouldn't set up for a sequel unless they know for sure there will be one. Predator: Badlands I'm looking at you. It's not the only one but it's the most recent one I've seen.

Given that it was a big success for them, I think it's going to work out in this case.

 

[MarkB]

This really is a pointlessly small nitpick about a fairly old movie, but in The Mummy Returns, the scene where they're racing to get into the pyramid before the sun hits it. They're racing ahead of this wave of oncoming daylight on the ground, and dive in just at the last moment just as the light hits the base of the pyramid before touching any other part of it.

I know exactly why it's done that way, and it makes for a great dramatic scene in a way that the actually realistic version would not, but seriously, sunrises and tall buildings don't work that way.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Given that it was a big success for them, I think it's going to work out in this case.

Trachtenberg said he had ideas for more Predator stories. Not that he had ideas for a Badlands sequel. Prey and Killer of Killers were also left open ended.

 

[Aeson]

The Predator movies generally end with a cliffhanger of some sort. And usually it does not lead directly into a sequel, even when there is one (AvP is an exception). If there is another Predator movie I wouldn’t expect it to be a direct continuation of Badlands.

I hadn't noticed that it's common thing with the Predator movies.

 

[jian]

yeaaah, im so glad they didnt go there. I like the idea of a limited series more and more these days.

If I’d been the GM I’d definitely have gone there.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Trachtenberg said he had ideas for more Predator stories. Not that he had ideas for a Badlands sequel. Prey and Killer of Killers were also left open ended.

I don't recall any obvious hooks for a sequel with Prey, but it's been a while.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I did the website for and was crew for the female rider (not the model who takes of the helmet) and would talk suspension setups with the male rider (not the male lead).

It wasn’t you.

 

[cranberry]

In Wish Master II, the "final girl" is able to ask for a wish the Djinn can't grant, thus destroying him.

But in order for her to know about the Djinn's rules and limitations, she would have needed to be aware of Meta information that she did not have access to or discover during the movie. It was just a lazy Deus ex Machina by the writers.

 

[Artamo]

This really is a pointlessly small nitpick about a fairly old movie, but in The Mummy Returns, the scene where they're racing to get into the pyramid before the sun hits it. They're racing ahead of this wave of oncoming daylight on the ground, and dive in just at the last moment just as the light hits the base of the pyramid before touching any other part of it.

I know exactly why it's done that way, and it makes for a great dramatic scene in a way that the actually realistic version would not, but seriously, sunrises and tall buildings don't work that way.

Outrun the tidal wave? Outrun the explosion?

Amateurs!

I’m going to outrun the SUNRISE!!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't recall any obvious hooks for a sequel with Prey, but it's been a while.

The art in the end credits. Also Easter eggs in Killer of Killers.