What is the big deal about having a French lover in a movie these days? They eat horrid-smelling cheese, don't bathe ver
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Altho73 — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 02:14 PM)
From some of the more ridiculous TV detective series
Columbo
How come that in all the murders that he has investigated Lt Columbo has never encountered a Mafia killing? Incredible considering that the Mafia were quite active in LA during the 1970s.
I cannot fail to come to the conclusion that Lt Columbo must have supernatural powers or is psychic in that he has the ability to tell that a supposedly accidental death or the victim of a robbery is in fact a premeditated murder when there is ZERO evidence to even hint that it is anything else.
Also in real life his boss in the Detectives Department would order him to stop investigating and move on to one of the hundreds of inner city murders rather than waste more time on what is obviously an accident or victim of a robbery and the dogged Lieutenant would have to obey him.
How come that every single episode of Columbo is basically the same story with different characters and events, namely a murder committed by a rich and powerful person who is confident he can get away with it yet is stupid enough to constantly talk about the murder to a police lieutenant who continually harasses and annoys him until he slips up and gives the game away.
How come that the District Attorney or one of his assistants never gets involved in any of his cases and points out that Columbos suppositions and conjecture would never be taken in by any Judge or jury???
How come that none of the smooth talking, rich suspects that Columbo has followed around, harassed and annoyed has ever turned out to be a psychopath and in a deserted place with no witnesses has blasted Columbo with a gun or smashed him over the head with a baseball bat etc.
Poirot
How come that murders seem to follow Poirot around and even occur when he is on holiday in other countries etc
How on earth is Hercule Poirot, a Belgian private detective able to conduct investigations and take charge of enquiries of murders that occur in various places like cruise liners and in foreign countries where he has no jurisdiction whatsoever and why would the authorities and local police allow him to do so.
Also why do the suspects and bystanders in such events allow him to question and interview them and by what right can he summon all the suspects into a room to announce who is the guilty person???
Miss Marple
The very idea that a little old lady can always solve crimes in circumstances where the local police and the renowned Scotland Yard are baffled is ( well, lets not beat about the bush here) absolutely ludicrous.
Also in certain stories Scotland Yard are glad to receive Miss Marples assistance in investigating a case something that the renowned police department would never do in real life, a concession that would turn their reputation into a big joke.
Also as in Poirot why on earth would any of the suspects or bystanders pay any attention to Miss Marples investigation or even take her seriously.
Jessica Fletcher
It gets even worse, Jessica Fletcher a crime writer in modern day America constantly investigates crimes and murders, gathers her own evidence, questions and interviews suspects etc. No local police force in the modern day where police actions are strictly monitored would ever let her do any of this.
In real life all any defence lawyer would have to do in Court to get his clients case dismissed would be to announce that a private citizen had illegally gathered evidence, illegally conducted and investigation and illegally questioned suspects etc. A private prosecution against Jessica Fletcher would then have immediately followed.
Midsommer Murders
The number of people that have been murdered in the small town of Midsommer is plainly ridiculous, the percentage of murders compared to the number of residents would have put New York or LA in their worse years to shame, and there would hardly be any residents left alive there!!!!
Bergerac
Again in this TV detective series based on the island of Jersey (which is a rich mans tax haven with a very low crime rate in real life) is continually plagued by murders and high profile crimes.
It is amazing that the authorities and the police on Jersey have never managed to work out a simple measure that they could take to decrease their crime rate by around 90 per cent deport Charlie Hungerford. Most of the criminals arrested have been invited there by him, have had dealings with him or are his sworn enemies.
New Tricks
What police force would be stupid enough to allow a Police Superintendent to employ a group of elderly, unfit, retired detectives to investigate unsolved crimes and allow them out on the streets into dangerous situations.
These detectives have such outdated, sexist, male chauvinist pig attitudes that they would be thrown out of todays modern, stringently monitored, politically correct police force within days.
It is absolutely sickening to see these old guys leering at and making sexual advances at attractive girls young enough to be their granddaughters and even mor -
pmiano100 — 12 years ago(September 03, 2013 02:22 PM)
The Most Ridiculous Private Detective/Adventure Show of All Time: "The Saint" (1962-1969) starring Roger Moore - (WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
No matter how hard-bitten a woman is, she always falls for Simon Templar within one hour of meeting him and is willing to betray her whole gang if she's a crook. Some of them are young enough to be his daughter.
Of course, they're all gone and forgotten by the next episode.
Templar always lets the women criminals escape, unless they're murderers. This makes him an accessory after the fact to their crimes, but he's never busted for it.
No matter what he's called on to do, even fly a jet plane, Simon Templar knows how to do it, and do it like an expert.
How does he make a living? In the novels Simon Templar steals from the criminals he exposes, but in the TV show he never steals anything.
Although middle-aged even then, Templar is able to overpower any number of thugs with his fists. He never even gets his hair messed up.
How come none of them ever step back or throw a lamp or chair at him, or shoot him?
Like almost all private detectives, Templar will work with the police and use illegal means to gather evidence. But this evidence would be inadmissible in court since he was working with the police, and he himself would be prosecuted.
Does this man even have a permanent address? He's always somewhere in the world except home.
He sometimes goes undercover, which is ridiculous. One, he is so notorious every crook and cop in the world apparently knows who he is. Second, in the unlikely event he infiltrates a gang that doesn't know who he is, someone always pops up who does know him. Oh come now!
He is never in a city anywhere in the world where he doesn't have an old friend willing to help him no matter how bad the mess. They all owe him some kind of debt.
In seven years, he must have proved about 100 old friends innocent of crimes they were accused of and avenged another 100 murdered ones. Being friends with Simon Templar is apparently bad luck.
With his notorious reputation, the police in any country he visits would tell him to keep his nose out of their investigations, declare him persona non grata, and put him on the first plane or boat back to Great Britain.
Like Miss Marple, Poirot, and Jessica Fletcher, who are at least honest citizens, no reputable big city police force would call in a notorious criminal like Simon Templar to take over an investigation for them, no matter how baffled they were. The press would have a field day and they'd be a laughing stock.
When the crooks do capture him, their boss always tells his henchmen to take Templar somewhere else and kill him. Of course, he always figures out a way to escape or overpower them. Oh come now! Why not just kill him then and there?
In one episode, Templar breaks up a blackmail organization that uses murder arranged to look like freak accidents as an enforcement tool. How many people die by freak accidents? The most common accident is a car crash. Even in the 60s, odd accidental deaths were often investigated and secrets exposed. Why not use an occasional faked "natural" death?
When the boss of the blackmail ring is killed, Templar decides to burn all the gang's files. But most of the boss' minions are still around and the police will need evidence to convict them. Destroying evidence, especially when murder is involved, is a serious felony. What's more, the file room is filled to capacity and he's burning everything one by one. It'll take him forever unless he burns the whole house down and risks an arson charge. Also, many of the blackmail victims may be guilty of serious crimes such as rape, embezzlement, bribery, drug dealing, treason, or even murder. Why should Templar protect them?
In one episode and one mission, Templar is able to defeat an entire Communist revolution in an Asian country that was once a British colony. Oh come now!
Who's helping the rebels? A blowhard British plantation owner whose family has lived there for three generations. He resents the new taxes and laws, thinks the people, especially the new democratic government leaders are "wogs" (a racist expression)and thinks if he helps the Communists win, he'll be able to live like he used to when the country was a British colony. What a moron!
Templar of course takes the moral high ground and defends the local government. "It's their country and everything you've put in you've taken out with considerable interest." Very high and mighty talk for a thief. But considering what a bunch of crooks and fools most Third World leaders have turned out to be, maybe it's just professional courtesy.
Granted this show was made before the "Great Woman's Liberation," but the women in this show, good and bad, have to be the biggest bunch of helpless ninnies in the history of English-speaking television. They all have to depend on big, heroic Simon Templar to answer every question, solve every puzzle, and rescue them from every situation. Lois Lane didn't -
Altho73 — 12 years ago(October 20, 2013 09:14 AM)
With the 50th anniversary of Dr Who rapidly approaching here are some observations about the Classic Who adventures (1963 to 1989)-
At the start of Jon Pertwees era we learn that the Government has set up a top secret organisation called UNIT to observe and deal with the sightings and landings of life forms from other planets that may be hostile. Yet if UNIT is supposed to be top secret and does not officially exist why is there a sign saying UNIT HQ directly in front of the building and the name Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Commanding Officer underneath it????
Also come to think of it why do the Brigadier and his men go around dressed in distinctive beige coloured army uniforms with the emblem UNIT on their berets and jackets if the organisation is top secret and is not supposed to exist.
During the period 1968 to 1974 UNIT aided by the Doctor had to deal with around fifteen individual attempts of invasion/take over of the Earth etc from various aliens or criminal masterminds etc, so how come it is still a very small organisation of less than a hundred people and the only regulars we ever see are the Brigadier, Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton.
Also how come that whenever aliens or criminal masterminds build a machine that will in some way take over, conquer or destroy the Earth the Doctor is always able to either render it inoperable or turn it against the perpetrators who build it by a very simple method like flicking a switch or reversing the polarity.
How come that the Sarah Jane Smith, the Doctors friend and travelling companion who is a journalist is allowed to enter UNIT HQ whenever she likes and wonder all over the place. Surely a journalist would never have been allowed inside such a top secret place, Doctors assistant or not.
Why is the Brigadier always surprised at the amount of knowledge that the Doctor has about secret UNIT operations. Surely as one of the primary and more important members of UNIT the Doctor would be expected to have been given this information.
In the earlier UNIT adventures the Brigadier has considerable knowledge and understandinge about scientific matters. So how come that in the later episodes he appears not to understand anything scientific and has to ask the Doctor to explain everything???
In Invasion of the Dinosaurs a group of crazy environmentalists decide that humans have ruined the earth by their greed and pollution so they build a machine that will take the earth back to the age of the dinosaurs so that the history of the human race can begin again. A clever idea, except why would they pick the age of the dinosaurs, considering that it came to an end when the earth was hit by a giant meteorite!!!!
In order to orchestrate this scheme the environmentalists decide to use metropolitan London as the centre of their operations so they create panic by staging a series of dinosaur sightings by bringing the creatures forward in time which caused the whole of metropolitan London to be completely evacuated. Wouldnt it have been far easier to have decided on a sparsely populated area like the Highlands of Scotland as their centre of operations????
At a later stage Sarah discovers their plot but unfortunately for her the person she tells is in league with the environmentalists so they knock her out and put her on board the fake spaceship that their nave followers think is taking them to a new Earth like planet. Wouldnt it have been far easier to have just killed her?
In The Macra Terror the Doctor and his travelling companions are invited into a Health Spa for a spot of rest and relaxation. Whilst there Polly has her long blonde hair cut into a short cropped style. Yet in the next adventure The Faceless Ones her hair is again long like it used to be. How come????
In The Faceless Ones an organisation has set up a fake travel company at Heathrow Airport which offers package holidays to Europe. They fly people out to various European destinations and they are never heard of again, yet despite the fact that thousands of people have gone missing Scotland Yard have only assigned two detectives to investigate!!!!!
Also you would think that with thousands of people having vanished into thin air that hundreds of friends and relatives would be making complaints to the police but only ONE, (Samantha Briggs about her missing brother Brian) actually does. Oh please!!!
When Polly accidentally witnesses one of the conspirators murdering one of the detectives you would think that they would then also murder her or at least make her disappear, but no they hypnotised her into thinking she is another person, set her up with a fake ID and put her to work on the travel companys check in desk!!!!
In Pyramids of Mars the Doctor becomes annoyed at Lawrence Scarman when his actions cause the Marconiscope (which he needed to block alien signals from Mars to Earth) to be accidentally destroyed. The Doctor berates him and says that he has ruined his only chance of stopping Sutekh, yet in t -
pmiano100 — 12 years ago(November 12, 2013 12:00 AM)
Will there ever be a movie where a rock star wants his son to become a rock musician like him but the kid wants to go to law school instead?
Will there ever be a movie where the nerd launches a campaign to win the campus beauty, and fails miserably?
Will there ever be a movie where the heroine is a karate expert and takes on five guys, and they beat the crap out of her?
Will there ever be a movie where earthmen fight alien invaders who are not giant insects?
Will there ever be a movie that gets the Legend of the Lone Ranger right?
Will there ever be a movie where the heroine suspects her husband is out to murder her for her money, and she's wrong?
Will there ever be a Dr. Who story line where somebody tells the Doctor to stop talking like a 19th Century eccentric and shut up?
Will there ever be a James Bond movie where the British Secret Service finally admits it doesn't have that much to defend and the CIA is the real leader in the war on terror and just as good as it is?
Will there ever be a movie about WWII where there are actually Nazi soldiers in the regular forces too and not just the SS? There was no massive anti-Nazi underground in Germany except for the Communists.
Will there ever be a movie where a sheltered kid runs away from home to experience life, and runs right back because it's scary out there and he/she can't deal with it? Oh, come now.
Will there ever be a movie where a male and female cop of the same race are teamed up and don't become lovers? Movies with Rosie O'Donnell don't count.
Will there ever be a movie set in ancient times, not made in Italy in which the Romans are the good guys?
Will there ever be a movie in which a Protestant minister is not a weakling, a hypocrite, a criminal, or a religious fanatic?
Will there ever be a movie where the corporation is digging or drilling safely and responsibly and the environmentalist is a dangerous wacko?
Will there ever be a movie set in a prison where the warden isn't corrupt, brutal, or insane?
Will there ever be a British movie where the American guy from Texas is actually a decent and moral man?
Will there ever be a movie where a British girl dumps her worthless British boyfriend for a nice American guy instead of an American girl dumping her loser American beau for a dashing Brit? Oh, come now!
Will there ever be a movie set in the Middle Ages where Moslems are bad guys again?
Will there ever be a movie set in the Middle Ages where the filthy, disease-ridden peasants don't have perfect teeth?
Will there ever be a movie where someone needs to make a phone call, but has to look up the number or call directory assistance first?
Will there ever be a movie where the wife/girlfriend is giving birth and the husband/boyfriend isn't a complete wreck?
Will there ever be a movie where the mother gives birth after hours in labor, and not five minutes after she arrives at the hospital?
Will there ever be a movie where someone awakes from a nightmare, but stays lying in bed instead of bolting upright and looking shocked (man) or screaming (woman)?
Will there ever be a serious action film with an Asian actor playing a cop or soldier who is not a martial arts expert?
Will there ever be a movie with a Native American character who can't predict coming events by mystically divining the signs of nature?
Will there ever be a movie where the hero defeats the villain in a fight on top of a cliff, building, or other high place, but the villain doesn't fall off screaming and plunge to his death? -
Randy-144 — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 02:09 PM)
In
The Third Man
message board topic, "watered-down penicillin?", how come
pmiano100
and
Altho73
have gotten away with posting 48 pages of off-topic comments over a 6 and 1/2 year period regarding movie chiches, unbelievable scenes, and plot holes, in clear violation of the
Message Boards Etiquette
(see the tenth reason on the list
http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&fi le=boardsetiquette
) and not have their comments removed by the IMDb administrator? I'm not complaining, mind you, just wondering.
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pmiano100 — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 02:23 PM)
I have no idea. I didn't know we were breaking any etiquette rules. I apologize for that. You're the first person in nearly seven years to mention it. It got started quite accidentally when I commented that I liked that Holly was out of his depth throughout the film and didn't turn into a superhero like the protagonists in other films. Altho73 replied that he agreed and mentioned a cliche he disliked. The ball started rolling, stalling occasionally, but always it resumed snowballing. As you can see we haven't posted in some time, as Altho73 has had to hold off for personal reasons. I am totally sincere in saying that if you know a more appropriate venue where we could post and others could look in and contribute, please let me know. I know about the Sandbox, but I would like to transfer what we already have posted to it.I know too little about computers and the Internet to create our own website. I am bound by courtesy and friendship to consult with Altho73. I will send him a personal message with a copy of your post. I am flattered that you have found us entertaining. Neither of us meant any harm. Some people have suggested we write a book, but legally we can't. All our posts are now the property of IMDb.
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Altho73 — 11 years ago(April 24, 2014 12:30 PM)
Why is it that in virtually all American WW2 movies about the South Pacific it is always the US Marines that are the only ones involved in combat, whereas in reality this is far from the truth. British and Australian combat units were involved in Guadalcanal and US Army units were involved in Okinawa etc.
In Ryans Daughter, set in a small rural village somewhere in the south of Ireland shortly after the Easter rising in 1916, Ryan, Charles and the Father are talking to the British Army Corporal in the pub and Ryan asks the corporal if he was involved in the battle of Paschendale which didnt happen until Spring 1917.
In Dr Who, The Black Orchid the Doctor and his companions have landed in a British village in the 1920s where the Doctor is mistaken for a visiting cricket player. When Lord Cranleigh asks him if he is comparable to The Master the Doctor looks bemused. Lord Cranleigh then explains, you know The Master W G Grace. In reality W G Grace was actually known as The Doctor, it was Jack Hobbs that was known as The Master.
Why is it that in so many movies, (Line of Duty, Turks and Caicos and many others) when the hero goes to a bar with the glamorous woman she invariably turns out to be a champion pool player. How probable is this in reality??
In so many movies we see the leading lady walking by herself in a dark, eerie place like a forest or a deserted warehouse which raises the question, never satisfactorily answered why was she there in the first place and why didnt she have the common sense to get someone to accompany her.
Following on from the previous point the woman in question invariably runs into the man she was looking for in the first place OR the villain that she was desperate to avoid and these people dont just appear in the distance and walk or run towards her but they suddenly materialise right next to her.
The leading character (male or female) start belittling and running down their boss in front of dozens of people and just carry on and on despite the fact that some of the others are desperately trying to initimate to them that they should shut up. They never get the message that the subject in question has just walked into the room and is standing behind them.
Why is it that in period dramas based in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s etc whenever thete are British upper class men they invariably always have long, floppy fringes whereas in real life it was not acceptable for British men to have any hair covering their foreheads during these eras.
In so many detective stories a big name actor/actress frequently appear in an unimportant bit part and rarely appear for the first half of the story, then in the second half they suddenly turn out to be either the murderer or an undercover detective who uncovers the murderer. (Why else would they be in the movie or drama?)
Why is it that in modern detective stories (British and American) the detectives are such arrogant, rude, obnoxious and bullying jerks that we the viewers dislike them so much that we side with the criminals. This never used to be the case with the older detective stories, (Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Ellery Queen etc)
Why do so many of the characters in TV dramas, particularly detective thrillers have a host of character all of whom have guilty secrets. Why cant we have a detective thriller where all of the characters have led blameless lives and it is up to the detective to dig deep to find the bad guy.
In countless war movies we start the story with a big name actor accompanied by four unknowns. Have a guess who are the ones that are going to be killed in the first twenty minutes????
Why do so many American prison movies show the convicts (apart from the few psychos) as all being quite good guys, criminals with a heart of gold whereas the majority of the guards are cruel and sadistic and enjoy taunting and mistreating the convicts. How so different to real life.
How can you tell when an aircraft is going to crash in a movie? Easy if its called United Arilines, American Airlines, British Airways etc it will not, but if its called Collingwood Airlines, Stone Age Airways or Charles Jones Airways you can be certain it will crash!!!
Why is it that people who never grow up and always behave like they are still at school (like Robin Williamss character in Good Morning Vietnam) are always popular with their colleagues whereas in reality they are the ones who get everyone into trouble and are resented by their colleagues. -
pmiano100 — 11 years ago(April 24, 2014 03:32 PM)
Why is it that the working class kid is always morally superior to the rich kid when in fact such kids are often brutal, bullying, dishonest, and envious?
How do idiots like the characters Robin Williams plays even get to their positions as doctors, teachers, and military NCOs when in reality their bizarre behavior would have washed them out long ago?
Why is it that in the film and TV series versions of MAS*H, Hawkeye and Trapper were constantly drinking bootleg booze, but it never impaired their surgical skills?
Why is it that reluctant, maladjusted soldiers are always shown rising to the occasion and heroically doing their duty when in reality they constantly hide out on patrols, don't go all the way to their objectives, fail to complete their assignments, and then lie like hell to hide their dereliction of duty.
Why is it in the American TV police show "Blue Bloods" Detective Danny Reagan always talking insolently to big shots and slamming suspects back in their seats when they have every legal right to leave? If his father the police commissioner is as fair and objective as he professes to be, he would have no choice but to allow his son's superiors to discipline him for such outrageous behavior.
Why is it Blue Bloods is full of corrupt and morally deficient Italians, Jews, WASPs, African-Americans, Hispanics, Poles, etc. but very few bad Irish people? Of course, it may have something to do with the head writer, Siobhan Byrne O'Connor.
Why is it on the rare occasions when the villain is a Moslem, almost every movie and TV program goes out of its way for 45 minutes out of an hour to explain that 99% of all Moslems are good people? No population has that many good people, and they never do that for Christians.
Why is it in British WWII films about the RAF, the American volunteer is almost always from Texas? In reality, there were only 2 or 3 American volunteers from Texas and most members of the Eagle Squadron were from the Midwest and Northeast.
Why is it so many British spy and war films make Americans out to be impulsive fools who act without thinking but the British are always patient, calm, and understated? Admittedly the Americans made mistakes and lost battles in both world wars and the Cold War, but so did the British and French.
Why is it so many war films venerate Erwin Rommel as an incomparable general and a hero in the anti-Hitler movement? In reality, he made many serious mistakes, threw away the lives of his Italian troops to save the Germans, and had very little to do with Operation:Valkyrie. In fact, he was totally loyal to Hitler until the Germans started losing.
Why is it American films decry the excesses of wealthy professionals and business people, but have no problem with the selfish, childish, and hedonistic lifestyles of athletes, musicians, and actors?
Why is it that the only villain who seems able to give a female hero a good fight, ot even lay a hand on her, is another woman?
Why is it that heroines in action films are able to move like greased pigs in tight, black leather outfits that in real life would barely allow them to move?
Why is it that women in films and TV wear suits and dresses with hemlines only slightly above the knee, but when they sit down and cross their legs you can see most of their thighs?
Why is it that the hero in any given film or TV show is usually younger, taller, handsomer, and better coiffed than the villains? In reality some crooks are good-looking and many heroes are as ugly as sin. Of course, the women are almost always young and beautiful, good or bad. The sole exception is a Helen Mirren movie.
Why is it that whenever the good hero faces ruin, disgrace or destruction, his wife or lover is almost always supportive, encouraging, and loyal? In real life, many such men have been deserted by faithless women who did not want to be associated with "losers."
Why is it that so many male private detectives/consultants on TV have serious emotional problems or mental eccentricities, but the women are usually stable, secure, and totally unflawed?
Why is it that their partners are almost always of the opposite sex. In the real world, pairs of two men or two women are the norm?
Why is it the male protagonist's child never likes the glamorous woman pursuing him and instead prefers the quiet, mousy woman who barely knows the father is alive?
Why is it the hero/heroine returning to his quaint small hometown never tells the old friends/lovers that the big box store, chain store, or factory he/she is trying to bring in will bring a fortune in revenue and many new jobs, and in this poor economy, quaintness is something they can't afford.
Why is it that he/she always decides to move back to his hometown and marry the high school sweetheart? If they were that great, why did he/she leave in the first place?
Why is it that "underdogs" are always depicted as the good guys? Some underdogs are just dogs. Using that logic, Hitler should be considered a hero because he was th -
pmiano100 — 10 years ago(June 29, 2015 10:15 AM)
(One last time for the road)
In "Jurassic World" Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) is able to out-run Owen (Chris Pratt) in the jungle, even though she is wearing high heels. Oh come now.
What's this? Claire, the heroine, gets scared sometimes and actually has faults? Doesn't she know women in modern action pictures are supposed to be fearless and perfect in every way?
Doesn't the artificially made monster dinosaur look suspiciously like Godzilla? -
alfa — 11 years ago(May 23, 2014 10:52 AM)
I have no idea. I didn't know we were breaking any etiquette rules. I apologize for that. You're the first person in nearly seven years to mention it.
Errr that's not strictly true is it? There was quite irate protest at the beginning at the board being pruned much more regularly because of your long posts. I seem to remember you telling us protesters to get lost. In fact various methods were tried, such as pointing out that a lot of your so-called clichs were actually something else. Nothing worked.
And so, along with all the long and interesting threads, translations of the German dialogue, the secrets of Orson Welles' ad libs, most of the regular posters are long gone. -
Jessica_Rabbit69 — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 02:12 PM)
Pmiano and Altho, please keep up the good work. This thread is great.
So what if it is off-topic. As for being against message board etiquette, as Randy says, it doesn't matter because the thread is funny, intelligent and does not hurt anyone. As opposed to the crap that is posted here on imdb so often and that consists of nothing but screaming and insults, this thread is positively brilliant.
Jessica Rabbit
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neverthereever — 11 years ago(September 05, 2014 10:21 AM)
Penicillin was just reaching the market and supplies were extremely limited. The more cultures that were used to produce medicine the less could be used to increase the stock of cultures to mass produce penicillin. The high value of black market penicillin would have been a very small window before the drug became common place. So it's use in the plot is really for that one off time.
It is so scare that it is reserved for the most urgent and needy cases. If Lime diluted the penicillin for 100 children then he effectively destroyed it, condemning those children to death. He also prevented the next batch of children from receiving any alternative treatment. There is no suggestion that only children with meningitis received it, that was just the case presented to illustrate the extreme effect of what he did. It's left to the imagination as to how much he contaminated and what percentage was in each dose. -
pmiano100 — 11 years ago(December 21, 2014 10:37 AM)
Actually, I've researched it and the black market for penicillin extended into the early 1950s in Western Europe and even longer in the East. There was a great deal of corruption and a lot of residual hatred against all Germans, Austrians, and even Italians in those days.
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pmiano100 — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 05:47 PM)
Thank you but we called it quits some time ago. However, I will leave you with one last cliche.
A beautiful young woman is in love with a seemingly perfect guy who either doesn't notice her or dates her but won't commit. She decides to go all out in an attempt to get him to notice her or commit. In the course of this campaign she meets a guy who at first seems totally wrong for her. Sure enough she falls for the new guy in a few days and drops the perfect guy because he suddenly shows major faults she's never noticed before, even though she's known him for a long time. She then goes off with the new guy seemingly unconcerned that he may have major faults too. -
Altho73 — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 09:49 PM)
Did you know that there are specialist shops who sell attache cases specially designed for money laundering, payment of contract killers etc. You go into one of these shops and tell the shop owner that you have $250,000 in $100 bills to launder and you need an attache case. The man will then produce a case in which the $250,000 will fill the case to the top and all the bundles will be exactly level and there will not even be half an inch of space to spare on the sides.
How do I know this???? Well there has to be such shops, have you ever seen a movie where an attache case full of money doesn't fit exactly???? I have yet to find one of these shops but I will keep trying. -
pmiano100 — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 10:36 PM)
Let me know when you do. In the meantime I will keep looking for those silencers on handguns that make supersonic speed pistol shots sound like whispers, instead of like a large book hitting the floor from a ten-foot drop, like real silencers sound.
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Altho73 — 9 years ago(April 02, 2016 11:21 AM)
In the Columbo episode 'Lady in Waiting' Beth Chadwick shoots and kills her brother when he enters her house thru the French Windows claiming that she mistook him for a criminal. A Coroner's inquest is held and closes with a verdict of accidental death, so how come that the extremely annoying Lt Columbo is still obsessed with the case and continues harassing the poor woman and almost drives her into a breakdown?
Also why doesn't the Lieutenant's boss in the LAPD call him into his office and tell him -'Listen lieutenant this case is over, finished, closed. There are these unsolved murders in Watts, go and investigate them' -
pmiano100 — 9 years ago(April 02, 2016 11:53 AM)
Have you ever noticed that the so-called "kick-ass" heroines in adventure and super-hero movies and TV are usually able to take out a gang of 20 male opponents in 30 seconds, without taking one punch, even if they don't have super-powers? But what really gets me is that when they face a female villain, she's almost always a superb fighter too, and gives the heroine a tremendous fight, often landing hard-hitting punches.
Of course, the heroine always wins, and 10 seconds later, her hair is perfectly combed, her lipstick isn't smeared, and there's not a mark on her.
Also, how come nobody ever sues the super-heroes for excessive force or negligence when buildings are destroyed and innocent people are killed or injured?