How often do we see movies bend the rules of different subjects in their favour in order to suit the script......ALWAYS.....well this has to stop!Case Study 1: Vampires (Twilight)
Can they only come out at night? Do they need human blood to survive? Cant they only be killed with a steak through the heart?
Twilight bends these rules more than Buddy Franklin bending one from the boundry on the run. If Twilight were to the rules, Bella would have been dead in scene 1 act 1. Also the Cullans should be much weaker than any other vampire as they are not getting the energy that human blood can give. And vampires and wolves? Cmon! The wolves are happy for the cullans to kill any animal they like, just not humans (What the Face!). And if sun hits them the shine! He went to FLORIDA!!!!
I have only seen the first ep of True Blood so I will reserve my comments on this blog.
Case Study 2: Time Travel (Terminator)
Big ups to Back to the Future for being as accurate as you can when it comes to time travel. Unfortunately the Terminator movies are less strict than Cory Worthingtons Parents. Firstly you cant send back anything metal so they put skin on the terminator, (yeah that would work), Secondly they have travelled back in time now 3 times, yet not one of the stories actually matches up! 2 follows 1 however 3 and Salvation are all over the show. Now regardless of director changes and all that jazz lets just get organised people, the first 20 mins of the movie should specify the rules of time travel and stick to it. And if they can time travel they should go back to the time of casting and NOT give the role to Christian Bale!!! OH YEAH I WENT THERE!
Case Study 3: Nerdy guy gets Hot Girl
No rules on this one, more chance of Lional Messi winning a World Cup than this......OH yeah I went there!!!
Case Study 4: Cop Movies
Why does the guy (and or girl) who is on their last legs within the 'force' always get the toughest case! There is always a scene....'if you stuff this up its ya badge'.......put one of your best men on it.......so the Rule on this one........Give the big cases to your best cops!
Case Study 5: Never Negotiate with Terrorists (Hostage Movies)
Then why pick up the phone and try to talk them down, they are happy to lose 100 no name cops to save 3 hostiges.......just sacrifice the 3 and be done with it!!! Movies are always so worried about saving the 1 person that they put whole cities at risk. Also who pays the claims for all the cars that get banged into, I think there should be notes left on the cars with rego details and a contact number, they are the real victims!!! OH YEAH I WENT THERE - Fitzy
I agree with most, well sort of.... Vampire 'Rules' in Twilight really suck!, they seem pretty convenient for the script if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteTime Travel was a pain in Terminator, the movie as a whole made up for the John Connor sending his dad back in time to get his mum pregnant thing! That was abit hard to make sense of, doesn't seem possible but hey time travel itself isn't possible either is it?
The rest of your 'Case Studies' are interesting, they all pretty much mean that Hollywood loves the underdog status, nerd v hot girl, bad cop v hard case and action heroes v terrorists. I gather you don't like movies that have an underdog?
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ReplyDeletelike that all the different vampire novels (read worlds) have different rules it makes it more interesting or else they would all be rehashes of Bram Stoker's original masterpiece. However the sparkly thing, yeah okay a bit much, I'll agree with that. And I'm sure there are those who would be happy with Bella's death in the opening scene then all the other movies could simply be kick-ass death matches between the vamps and wolves. Now there's a thought.
ReplyDeleteAs to the terminator, we've had this discussion Fitzy do I need to get the whiteboard out next? I reckon it all works, maybe it bends the brain a bit but you can make it work. Even if 3 is a bit dubious and Christian Fail was upstaged by Worthington, Sam not Cory. But it could be that you Gen-Y'ers can't figure it due to A D D. Oh yeah...I went there!
KJ is right the underdog no matter what form is a winner as a plot.
Oh yeah/nah/yeah you went there Kim like Gen-Y'ers have like A.D.D!!!! PS: take it from the BOFA and don't ever mention the Terminator Salvation time travel and whiteboards in the same sentence around Fitzy/KJ unless you're a glutton for punishment!!
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