Movie Characters With Glaring Oversights.
By Edtrader Oct. 1st, 2021
Sometimes the heroes of the films have a real problem with not seeing what clearly is in front of them.
Sometimes the heroes of the films have a real problem with not seeing what clearly is in front of them.
8. Limited.
In the film Limitless, the 'Super Genius' Eddie takes this magic pill that increases his brain capacity. However, with all that brain power, he doesn't think to pay his drug dealer. He doesn't process the fact that this guy could kill him over this money.
In the film Limitless, the 'Super Genius' Eddie takes this magic pill that increases his brain capacity. However, with all that brain power, he doesn't think to pay his drug dealer. He doesn't process the fact that this guy could kill him over this money.
#7. 250 cars.
Rudy Russo, in the underrated comedy classic Used Cars, faces the challenge of needing 250 cars overnight. To satisfy a legal challenge that there is a mile of cars on his lot. Well, he finds the cars needed, except he really didn't find enough.
After doing the math, another character counts the 26 cars on the lot, his truck, and these 250. All together, they have 277 vehicles. A mile is 5280 feet, so 5280 divided by 277 equals 19.06. That means each car would have to be 19 feet in length. That's pretty long for a vehicle. Especially when a lot of the cars they got were short Mustangs and Beetles.
Rudy Russo, in the underrated comedy classic Used Cars, faces the challenge of needing 250 cars overnight. To satisfy a legal challenge that there is a mile of cars on his lot. Well, he finds the cars needed, except he really didn't find enough.
After doing the math, another character counts the 26 cars on the lot, his truck, and these 250. All together, they have 277 vehicles. A mile is 5280 feet, so 5280 divided by 277 equals 19.06. That means each car would have to be 19 feet in length. That's pretty long for a vehicle. Especially when a lot of the cars they got were short Mustangs and Beetles.
#6. Faris should shut up.
Bueller, Bueller, Beuller. Poor boy is all upset that he doesn't have a car while his sister does. He lives in a big house with caring but easily pushed-over parents. Faris should just shut up and take a look at what he has. Including the badass Emulator II Synth. Which in the mid-80s, cost more than the car his sister had. Plus, he sounds like the kind of kid who would destroy a car anyway. But he could just sell the synth and then pick whatever car he wanted.
Furthermore, he overlooks the fact that his best friend has some serious problems. He has some real fear and daddy issues that need to be addressed. Just look at the way he ends up kicking the sh*t out of the car. If he had a knife and his dad walked in... he'd very well stab him to death.
#5. 100 bucks off.
In 1995's Friday... Smokey and Craig end up owing the local drug dealer, Big Worm, 200 bucks. Asking their families for it and being turned down. Ultimately, they are chased down and shot at. They are able to seize the $200 that Debo stole from a neighbor earlier. Now they can pay Big Worm and live until Saturday. However, they didn't need $200.
In the scene where Smokey is confronted by Big Worm, Smokey has a hundred bucks. He tried to fool Big Worm by counting out the 100 dollars, then flipping it over to recount it. So that's half the money right there. Then he does sell some buds, making more money. That also shows he has more weed. With the 100 in cash, money from the weed sale, and whatever bud he had left... he might have needed only 20 bucks. Which that would have been a whole lot easier to ask for. Or a quick trip to pawn a toaster or something.
#4. Not all the windows.
1968's Night Of The Living Dead was a groundbreaking movie in so many ways. However, the lead character that you think is the hero really isn't all that. Putting aside the fact that Harry Cooper was right the whole time. In the scene where he tells Barbara that he has all the windows boarded up. However, right over his shoulder, there is the dining room window, clearly left as open as it can be. In outside shots where Barbara runs around the house, all the windows on the bottom floor are very low. So it shouldn't be of any surprise that the zombies win in this film.
#3. Back to the oversight.
Doc Brown in Back To The Future learned 'what the hell' as to learning things about the future. Proved by the fact that he did finally read that letter. Going so far as to take Marty and Jennifer to the future to save their son. But he is still so terrified of taking the future into the past. Like preventing the sports almanac from being brought back.
Doc Brown had some questionable calls. Why didn't he notice that his 'crossing line' as to what is acceptable future knowledge... is way off? He could have easily told Marty in 1985 about his son's actions. So that he could take care of it when the time came. short-circuiting the possible problem of the timeline paradox. Also, it's crappy on his part that Doc lets the fact that Marty's life stinks go by. If a true friend saw your life heading for the tank... he would at least tell you.
#2. Pulp holes.
Let's start with John Travolta's death. Anyone else notice that his character is a lousy hitman? Vincent Vega and Marsellis Wallace are waiting at (Bruce Willis's apartment. As Marsellis was going to comb the fires of hell to get Butch. Butch returns just in time to grab some Pop Tarts. And to catch Vincent coming out of the toilet.
Now Wallace had gone out on a coffee run. Hence, a few moments later, he gets run over by Butch. Granted, John was expecting the boss to arrive with Starbucks. But the whole purpose of being there is waiting for Butch to return. He should have been paying more attention. The punishment is that Vincent gets killed by his own gun.
Vincent perhaps didn't get the best training. Pulp Fiction started with Vincent and his elder partner, Jules, bringing the wrath of the Bad Mutha Fucker wallet down on some college kids. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson walk into a small apartment. But they didn't notice all the bullet holes on the wall. As professional hitmen, you'd expect them to know to look around at their surroundings.
As you watch the movie, the bullet holes are already in the wall. When Alexis Arquette runs out ten seconds later, he fires blanks, obviously. Samuel goes into his whole ''God did this' mood. He even looks at the holes and says they should be dead. If they had noticed the holes, then Vincent ultimately might have lived. As Jules wouldn't have left the team.
#1. Sarah became the Terminator.
Sarah Conner in T2 decided she must go kill Miles Dyson to prevent judgment day. She goes off to kill someone for something they haven't even done yet. Doesn't she realize that she has become the thing she hates the most? She also loses part of her humanity. And begins to think systematically. She is no better than the Terminator!
Bueller, Bueller, Beuller. Poor boy is all upset that he doesn't have a car while his sister does. He lives in a big house with caring but easily pushed-over parents. Faris should just shut up and take a look at what he has. Including the badass Emulator II Synth. Which in the mid-80s, cost more than the car his sister had. Plus, he sounds like the kind of kid who would destroy a car anyway. But he could just sell the synth and then pick whatever car he wanted.
Furthermore, he overlooks the fact that his best friend has some serious problems. He has some real fear and daddy issues that need to be addressed. Just look at the way he ends up kicking the sh*t out of the car. If he had a knife and his dad walked in... he'd very well stab him to death.
#5. 100 bucks off.
In 1995's Friday... Smokey and Craig end up owing the local drug dealer, Big Worm, 200 bucks. Asking their families for it and being turned down. Ultimately, they are chased down and shot at. They are able to seize the $200 that Debo stole from a neighbor earlier. Now they can pay Big Worm and live until Saturday. However, they didn't need $200.
In the scene where Smokey is confronted by Big Worm, Smokey has a hundred bucks. He tried to fool Big Worm by counting out the 100 dollars, then flipping it over to recount it. So that's half the money right there. Then he does sell some buds, making more money. That also shows he has more weed. With the 100 in cash, money from the weed sale, and whatever bud he had left... he might have needed only 20 bucks. Which that would have been a whole lot easier to ask for. Or a quick trip to pawn a toaster or something.
#4. Not all the windows.
1968's Night Of The Living Dead was a groundbreaking movie in so many ways. However, the lead character that you think is the hero really isn't all that. Putting aside the fact that Harry Cooper was right the whole time. In the scene where he tells Barbara that he has all the windows boarded up. However, right over his shoulder, there is the dining room window, clearly left as open as it can be. In outside shots where Barbara runs around the house, all the windows on the bottom floor are very low. So it shouldn't be of any surprise that the zombies win in this film.
#3. Back to the oversight.
Doc Brown in Back To The Future learned 'what the hell' as to learning things about the future. Proved by the fact that he did finally read that letter. Going so far as to take Marty and Jennifer to the future to save their son. But he is still so terrified of taking the future into the past. Like preventing the sports almanac from being brought back.
Doc Brown had some questionable calls. Why didn't he notice that his 'crossing line' as to what is acceptable future knowledge... is way off? He could have easily told Marty in 1985 about his son's actions. So that he could take care of it when the time came. short-circuiting the possible problem of the timeline paradox. Also, it's crappy on his part that Doc lets the fact that Marty's life stinks go by. If a true friend saw your life heading for the tank... he would at least tell you.
#2. Pulp holes.
Let's start with John Travolta's death. Anyone else notice that his character is a lousy hitman? Vincent Vega and Marsellis Wallace are waiting at (Bruce Willis's apartment. As Marsellis was going to comb the fires of hell to get Butch. Butch returns just in time to grab some Pop Tarts. And to catch Vincent coming out of the toilet.
Now Wallace had gone out on a coffee run. Hence, a few moments later, he gets run over by Butch. Granted, John was expecting the boss to arrive with Starbucks. But the whole purpose of being there is waiting for Butch to return. He should have been paying more attention. The punishment is that Vincent gets killed by his own gun.
Vincent perhaps didn't get the best training. Pulp Fiction started with Vincent and his elder partner, Jules, bringing the wrath of the Bad Mutha Fucker wallet down on some college kids. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson walk into a small apartment. But they didn't notice all the bullet holes on the wall. As professional hitmen, you'd expect them to know to look around at their surroundings.
As you watch the movie, the bullet holes are already in the wall. When Alexis Arquette runs out ten seconds later, he fires blanks, obviously. Samuel goes into his whole ''God did this' mood. He even looks at the holes and says they should be dead. If they had noticed the holes, then Vincent ultimately might have lived. As Jules wouldn't have left the team.
#1. Sarah became the Terminator.
Sarah Conner in T2 decided she must go kill Miles Dyson to prevent judgment day. She goes off to kill someone for something they haven't even done yet. Doesn't she realize that she has become the thing she hates the most? She also loses part of her humanity. And begins to think systematically. She is no better than the Terminator!