Mine was the heads of state videolink snap vote wIth the Russian obviously voting for first strike against the orb.
They did soften it with the US vote after but it was too late by then i'd already cringed my pants.
There were definitely other contenders but cant remember them now
The scene when Jessie Usher was giving the speech right before the jets took off for battle. If you listen close you can hear him almost stutter one of the words. I just palmed my forehead and was like I can't believe they went with that take lol.
shareAfter the end battle, the African warlord guy says to the white lawyer guy, "You have the heart of a warrior. You can fight alongside me anytime." Or something like that.
shareHeartburn of a warrior.
Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement... Listen, kid, we're all in it together.
Wasn't that because he just witnessed his mom dying hours before? Kinda a lot of pressure on you when you're that vulnerable and have to explain the mission and motivate your squad.
I thought it was one of the better scenes but it was cringed as hell.
I noticed that stutter, too.
I thought he was trying to sound emotional or something.
Pretty much every single scene with Okun. David's father's story was just dumb. But Okun made me cringe. And I loved that character in id4.
shareAny scene with Hemsworth's best freind, or Jessie usher trying to act badass. Those 2 ruined the film for me.
By the beard of Zeus!
I was really bothered by the unrealisticness of Okun having so much energy and running around after TWENTY YEARS IN A COMA.
Do not give me Bull#hit about how the whole movie is unrealistic with space aliens. There are DIFFERENT KINDS OF UNREALISTICNESS. Something that is very down to Earth and basically a real life event like someone waking from a coma still needs to follow reality. Suspending disbelief for something that obvious is NOT the same thing as suspending disbelief for aliens and space ships.
If the writers needed him to be hyperactive and running around then they could have addressed it and made it a part of the story in some way.
For example one of the other characters could say to a colleague "Isn't it impossible for a person to be so mobile after twenty years in a coma? Shouldn't it take months just for him to learn to walk again? (or something similar). And the other person could say something like "maybe it was not what we would call a "normal" coma because of his psychic bond with the aliens, we know very little about how that affects the body and mind. At least then the issue is ADDRESSED with a possible pseudo science solution its not an insult to our intelligence where they just blow over it.
Suspending disbelief for something that obvious is NOT the same thing as suspending disbelief for aliens and space ships.
army of 10-year olds
Despite the fact that I love science fiction, more and more I'm avoiding the genre in film, because almost every science fiction movie seems insistent on relentlessly insulting the intelligence of all of their scientifically literate audience. Once in awhile it would be nice to be able to just sit down to watch a sci-fi movie and NOT immediately spot fifty stupid goofs that have me going, "Oh come ON! How did nobody catch that?!" I really don't think that's too much to ask.
These productions cost millions of dollars, take years to make, are worked on by thousands of professionals. Yet, time and time again, dumb and obvious mistakes somehow slip past the producers, the directors, the cinematographers, the actors, the writers, the test audiences, and so on. These goofs range from minor details to plot-breaking absurdities.
Quick example: in Gravity, a movie which purported to pride itself on its realism, they describe the debris cloud as orbiting at fifty thousand miles per hour. Sounds pretty scary... if you happen to know zero about astronomy. Fifty thousand miles an hour just so happens to be twice Earth's escape velocity... which means, far from whipping around the planet and striking them again ninety minutes later, the cloud would simply go flying off into space, never to return. (just one small problem out of many problems with the plot of that movie)
Now sure, I recognize that most people don't know what Earth's escape velocity is, and many probably don't even know what the term means, and therefore obviously would not spot that particular problem. But bad writing is still bad writing even if most people don't spot it, and there's no excuse for professional writers penning a script for a multimillion dollar blockbuster that's supposed to be realistic to not take twenty seconds to google the scientific figures they're throwing into their film to make sure that they're in the right ballpark. If filmwriters were making a historical film about Chuck Yeager and wrote the speed of sound as 2000 mph, or were making baseball movie and talked about how pro players usually pitch at around 180 mph, people would throw rocks at the screen.
He was 20 years in a coma, yet he was still treated in the sick bay of a somewhat secret military base. Are there no hospitals anymore. No, wait, we see a hospital collapse killing off Dylan's mom. So why the hell was that guy still at the base AFTER TWENTY YEARS IN A COMA?
shareThat's classified.
shareNot just that but he can actually just wander to the commandcenter without anybody stopping him. He just walks until he is standing next to the president.
shareEverybody walks in on everyone.
Bill Pullman's daughter walks in and out of command rooms. Bill Pullman 'drunkenly' climbs the stairs of what must be the most heavily guarded stage in the world. Bill Pullman gets into a holding cell with an alien. A school bus full of kids just drives into a battlefield unchecked. Okun's boyfriend gets to follow him like a shadow. Hemsworth steals a spacecraft and lands in the compound of an African warlord.
Biggest cringe moment?
The African kids and fighters waving bye bye.
I was really bothered by the unrealisticness of Okun having so much energy and running around after TWENTY YEARS IN A COMA.
I once spent about one week in an unresponsive state and when I awoke it was several days before I could stand unaided, maybe a week before I could walk. Probably a month before I was really back to normal. You spent 8 months.
Okun spent 20 years? Wouldn't his legs be jello? Wouldn't he be in a wheelchair? But then we wouldn't get that oh-so-awesome joke about his asscrack showing through the hospital gown.
There's plenty but for me it has to be:
Two words, interstellar travel!
Take the fight to them?
WHEN DO WE LEAVE?
We're gonna kick some alien ass!
All 12 of us in the theater audibly groaned.
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So many...so so many:
1. So the aliens are smart enough to do interstellar travel and create massive spaceships, but they are so dumb that their army is run by a queen, where if the queen dies, everything fails. They don't have successors in command? Come on...
2. So if the queen is so important, why would she send herself into combat in order to retrieve the sphere? She would send in a special task force to do something like that. We don't even send our generals into combat. There is a reason for that.
3. So aliens with advanced technology have obvious weak spots in their armors. They never bother to fix this flaw after 20 years.
4. Why not just set off the EMP shockwave outside the ship? Why do they need to lure the planes in?
5. A enormous armada of alien ships just form a tornado around the queen and do nothing to stop two planes from diving in on her firing weapons at will...
6. A couple guys and a girl can basically crawl around in a enemy alien space ship with advance technology avoiding capture and stealing ships. The aliens don't have breach protocols and security plans apparently.
7. So David's dad just drove from the ocean to Nevada desert in like 2 hours and he just happened to bump into his son.
8. A guy can function normally after 20 years in a coma. A president can suddenly fly a plane he is unfamiliar with despite needing a cane to walk.
9. All the acting scenes in the movie. Every time Maika Monroe tries to act like a badass, Hemsworth looking stiff as a cardboard, Angelababy's blank stares, etc. Sela Ward was terrible as a president btw.
10. The science.
Basically every time they talked, we groaned. Every single scene was a trope. Every single one.
share2 hrs of my life I cant ever take it back LOL.This movie was a big mess from the very beginning, but totally 100% with You, Dr.Okun's quotes a the end it has got to be the worst "ending-quotes-of-blockbuster-movie" [ or any movie, for that matter ] I have ever seen it.
shareWithin the first 15-20 minutes?
- Helmsworth looking for excitement. One does not get to that point in an aerospace career and OT know what he signed up for.
- warlords meet Levin's on with guns...not 10 minutes after into said earthlings now lives as one in peace.
- Okun waking up fully lucid and physically able after a long coma. I had a friend who was in a coma for 3 wks - he was in physiotherapy for over a year after we awoke and has never fully regained his physical capabilities.
Yeah, we knew this was going to be a summer blockbuster popcorn flick, but I wonder if the makers of this film went out of their way to make it even stupider than we were preparing to endure.
Given, however, that we knew going in what this was fixing to be, I had to decide to just stop thinking and just watch the special effects spectacle.
Yeah i should say i dont hate it. Theres a lot about emmerich that i like. This film reminded me a lot of 2012 and im not even sure which one is dumber but hes almost normalising his own little genre of movies that look amazing but make you want to eat your own fist through embarrassed discomfort.
shareIt was just so bad. It's like he took what was great about the first one and turned into some crazy scifi thing where there was a milion things going on at once. ALl of it was bad. I'm glad Will Smith said no to this. He knew wtf he was doing
shareThey said no to Will Smith.
The first movie was already bad, this one exceeded its predecessor in that aspect.
Quite a success.
Dumb and dumber.
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Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!
Because he is Data, a Cyborg.
Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley
"Hey man were not friends and I didn't know your dead mom, but let me tell you what she would want"
shareThe scenes when more than one person is talking in it.
The second is the queen alien chasing the school bus.
The queen alien chasing the school bus was a scene I commented on in a youtube video. I pointed out how "intelligent" the queen must have been to put that much effort into destroying a beaten up old school bus populated by a bunch of children WHILE THE FIREPOWER OF AN ENTIRE MILITARY FORCE WAS BOMBARDING HER. That was a HORRIBLE prioritizing from a military standpoint.
Strange that such a powerful alien military force could be led by a "queen" with such horrible military strategy.
It had to be one of the worst scenes ever put on film. But I'm sure Emmerich with all his intellectual prowess had a vision one night on the can trying to come with a climax that would be a total heart stopper for everyone as he made the most powerful alien in the film spend time chasing a school bus full of kids. Its like watching a bear chase a fly while hunters with big ass rifles shooting at you. Made no sense.
shareAlso the scenes with anyone talking.
We are the music are the music makers... we are the dreamers of dreams.share
Every time they spoke, I felt like I was watching a power rangers episode.
shareOh my God, that is the perfect example if how this movie felt. I posted how corny and cheesy it felt, but that is the perfect way to describe it. Like a Power Rangers episode.
shareYou just nailed exactly what it felt like. XD
sharehaha this!!this made me LOL. i was trying to say something along the lines last night but just said cheesy. this is defo the best way to describe it.
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