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battleknight24

(1,165 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 12:00 AM Jul 2012

Movie Fans: What are the most RIDICULOUS action scenes in movie history?

As a big movie fan, I can usually suspend my disbelief to extremes, but this was BAD... (and this is coming from a big fan of the movie HIGHLANDER... but then again, that was a fantasy movie)

Near the beginning of the movie:

From http://www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/reader/466.shtml ... Bold text emphasized...

"Basically, after saving some important FBI person, the Angels are stuck on the top of a huge dam (the one from "Goldeneye&quot in a jeep, stuck between a tank and some guy with a rocket launcher. A missile is fired from both sides, and the Angels decide the most sensible thing to do is to drive straight off the side of the dam. And then -- surprise! -- the missiles cross by each other and end up blowing the two baddies to bits. But then, as if the scene couldn't get even worse, we're treated to a frankly terrible sequence which mixes both real action and CGI in a horrid mesh of uber-ugliness. The Angels dive out of the jeep (which smashes into a wall behind them), plummet down the side of the dam, and -- get this -- grab on to a helicopter, which is moving at full speed towards the ground. Then they manage to climb into the helicopter, which in turn instantly pulls out of its free fall and flies away."

Apparently, turning on a helicopter is like turning on a car... It's ready to go right away...

Hey DU... what do you think?

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Movie Fans: What are the most RIDICULOUS action scenes in movie history? (Original Post) battleknight24 Jul 2012 OP
You realize this thread may test the limits of DU's capacity - there are WAY too many cases. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #1
Christopher Nolan directing Christian Bale equals too many scenes to mention CBGLuthier Jul 2012 #2
Tom Scientology Rambis Jul 2012 #3
I don't know if this counts as an action scene Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #4
That's because he had a movie gun. harmonicon Jul 2012 #6
Die Hard 4 - the entire film. harmonicon Jul 2012 #5
The entire Transformer movie nt riderinthestorm Jul 2012 #7
The climax of Battleship charlie and algernon Jul 2012 #8

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
2. Christopher Nolan directing Christian Bale equals too many scenes to mention
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 08:19 AM
Jul 2012

I am sure there is a whole shitload more of them about to be unleashed upon us.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
3. Tom Scientology
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 09:05 AM
Jul 2012

was on the front of some vehicle and was blown onto another one in an explosion? Don't know what movie or what vehicle because I don't watch Tom Scientology movies. I think it was a preview?

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)
4. I don't know if this counts as an action scene
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 09:26 AM
Jul 2012

In "Die Hard," Bruce Willis is under a big corporate conference room-type table, and a bad guy is standing on top of it and is about to shoot down at him through the table. But Bruce beats him to it and fires his handgun up through the table several times, killing the bad guy.

Suspension of reality is necessary for that movie, for so many reasons, not the least of which is Bruce's unlimited ammunition.

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
6. That's because he had a movie gun.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 10:37 AM
Jul 2012

I was talking to some friends about this the other day, and we had an idea: go into a gun shop with a picture of a gun from a film, and ask for that model. When they start telling us the features, including the bit that it holds seven rounds or whatever, we'll stop them - "no, the gun I'm looking for holds at least 27 rounds but looks like it holds seven. I want one exactly like the gun in that film."

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
5. Die Hard 4 - the entire film.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 10:33 AM
Jul 2012

The point of Die Hard was that it was just one guy and his ingenuity. In Die Hard 4, he can will a motorcycle to jump into a helicopter. He can also fall out of aircraft, get into car accidents, and it's like nothing has happened to him. In the first film, glass hurt his feet. In the fourth film, I'm pretty sure that he eats glass and walks on scorpions as if they were plush carpet.

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)
8. The climax of Battleship
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 11:04 AM
Jul 2012

Where a couple sailors from a DESTROYER and several World War II vets are able to outfit a BATTLESHIP, the USS Missouri, for combat in the span of an hour and single handedly destroy the alien fleet. It's nice to know that the Navy stores live shells and gun powder on a ship that's now a museum and serves tourists.

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