Our friends at Cracked.com are back at it again with a fresh installment in their weekly video series, "Your Brain On Cracked." This time they take a look at four infamous sequels, and a prequel, that just messed up the original movie. Nothing hurts like a sequel that messes up its predecessor.
"There's no time to explain, follow me!" Yes, there is definitely time to explain. The amount of times we see this particular TV/movie scenario involving a rushed individual telling someone to follow them into situations of obvious peril, without offering an explanation, is absolutely absurd. It's like, take a second, and provide a little context, my dude. Oh well, it clearly contributes toward that stressful pacing, and keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
This fun AskReddit thread features a whole lot more of those moments from TV/movies that just don't hold up in real life as we know it. It'd be quite the strange world if we saw more of these phrases being used. Like going to a bar, and just ordering a "beer."
For more fun movie content, check out these plot holes that people just couldn't look past.
Man, Tumblr does it again with just the kind of thread that leaves us speechless. As far as Tumblr taking us down rabbit holes goes, this one takes the cake. We get to see a deeply enjoyable analysis on a movie, "The Incredibles", that so many of us love. There's just no school like the old school.
Many of us have shared in that experience where we're watching a movie, maybe even enjoying parts of it, and then bam: it all falls apart, and the ending is a confusing disasterpiece. Or you have movies like Eragon or any of the Percy Jackson films, that have been hailed as fails in their entirety.
Simple plot holes can bring the whole experience of getting lost in a movie to a complete halt. Our brains rely on a certain amount of logic to follow a storyline, and when the logic isn't around, it's just hard to enjoy the movie to the fullest. Unless you enjoy random plots that make no sense; then you're set. These simple plot holes were too much for people to look past though.
When the flow of logic in a film is disrupted in such a way that it takes the viewer of the film out of the experience, and into a mental roadblock, it's a bummer. Some plot holes are just too big for people to look past, and ultimately be able to enjoy the film. Consistency can go a long way in immersing the audience in the storyline, as it was meant to be experienced. Another plot hole covered recently, was that plot hole we can often see in zombie apocalypse movies/shows. Tumblr did it justice.
If only life were like the movies, but most of the time, no such luck. Yes, it'd be nice to cruise carelessly down freeways with no traffic in sight, in the middle of rush hour. Yes, it'd be beautiful to have a flowing conversation between a group of people, where nobody is talking over each other. For now, we get to experience those pleasant moments on movies. If we're lucky, we see some of it carry over into our actual lives.
People are describing those frustratingly unrealistic things they see in movies that just defy the way real life works. You know, things like holding intense conversation (and eye contact) with someone, while driving down a busy highway, and somehow not causing a massive accident. Or, if you were in an accident, how the cars actually don't just explode, but do all kinds of crazy stuff upon impact.
We've assembled a fine collection of failed movie pitches that simply didn't make it past the pitching process. Sometimes what seems like a great idea at the time is anything but that. But hey, you never know if an idea is truly not worth seeing through until you go ahead and pitch it. Poor Seth Rogen got shut down hard with that R-rated Care Bears pitch.
