10 Movie Rules That Make No Sense

in the Fantastical world of Hollywood film making it's not so much important that films be realistic but simply that they adhere to their own internal logic that is lay down some clear rules and stick to them throughout but as we all know that's a lot easier said than done isn't it especially in franchise Cinema which potentially invites a diverse array of different voices lending their own knowledge or lack thereof to a project but sometimes it's also simply a case of a single screenwriter failing to fact check their own movie or perhaps even trying to slip a contradiction past audiences in the hopes they either don't notice or just don't care yet care audiences certainly did where these 10 movie rules are concerned so with that said I am Gareth this is what culture and here are 10 movie rules that make no sense number 10 don't feed Gremlins after midnight Gremlins The Gremlins movies are of course governed by three seemingly specific rules don't get the cute creatures wet do not expose them to Bright Lights and most importantly don't feed them after midnight we all know what happens when these rules are inevitably broken Gizmo spawns mugwa out of his back which eventually transform into evil Gremlins and while the first two rules make perfectly simple sense the third remains a major point of contention among fans the issue is that after midnight is a vague and relative term when does the post midnight period end and as briefly hilariously mentioned in the sequel what happens if a mug crosses time zones sure fans have theorized that a MW can't be fed again until sunrise but this isn't information that the movie itself gives us and so the precise mechanics of their physiology are left needlessly ambiguous number nine the xenomorph gestation period alien the xenomorph is unquestionably one of Cinema's most terrifying antagonists yet it's also fair to say that the creature's physical characteristics have been inconsistent at best across the Alien series tenure by far the most tinkered with aspect of the xenomorph is its gestation period perod within a host body before inevitably bursting out of their chest the original Alien made it clear this took place within a few hours yet throughout most other entries in the series this time is basically adjusted to suit a specific film's dramatic needs for example Alien 3 sees Ripley survive for several days before being chest bursted and while some fans have argued that this is due to her being impregnated with a xenomorph queen that feels like a stretch to justify iffy writing things pretty much go all over the place from this point point the atrocious Aliens versus Predator reum boils the gestation period down to probably less than an hour and alien Covenant follows a similar time frame again you can argue that the gestation period differs depending on the biology of the host but even then the wide disparity between human host is pretty ridiculous number eight the rules of Quidditch Harry Potter Quidditch is of course the famous broomstick riding sport featured in the Harry Potter franchise yet the rules of the game are nebulous and confusing enough that even the hardcore crowd will have difficulty making sense of them let alone mere casuals for starters students are able to use their own broomsticks effectively allowing wealthier students to come to the field with a massive Advantage due to their Superior Wares doesn't seem very fair to me but by far the biggest issue consistently raised by fans is the sports scoring system a mere 10 points are awarded for throwing the quaffle a leather Ball P between players through one of the opposing team's Hoops while of Team Seeker manages to catch the enchanted ball known as the golden snitch they'll score 150 points and end the game immediately potentially even causing their own loss in the process if they're still behind on points funny that and placing so much importance on the golden snitch not only undermines the quaffle but also the team based nature of the game itself given How It Centers the game around the actions of just a single player there's no eye in team but there is in snitch or something number seven the laws of Aging X-Men the X-Men franchise may be a load of silly fantasy hooy at the end of the day but audiences nevertheless expected the movies to adhere to basic aspects of human existence like Aging for example since the X-Men prequels kicks off with first class the series increasingly stretched credibility by leaping forward a decade with each new movie Al while the focal superheroes all look more or less the same age given that dark Phoenix takes place in 1992 some 30 years after first class we'll have to assume that the likes of Professor X and Magneto are now in their early 60s right yeah while you might play the mutant card and argue that their aging is slow by that process that still makes no sense at all considering that in dark Phoenix Xavier and Magneto are supposed to be just a few years away from looking like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen respectively yep they do not the only major character where this defense truly applies is Mystique given both her shape-shifting abilities and Beast Flatout saying in first class that she ages slower than your average person person this is one of those things that fans just need to roll with if they're going to actually enjoy the series Without nitpicking it to death but it's undeniably distracting all the same and while on the subject of the X-Men I want to know what is your favorite X-Men movie of all time you let me know in the comments section down below number six the prime directive Star Trek in Star Trek Star feet is governed by the underpinning principle of the prime directive which prevents Personnel from interfering with the natural advancements of alien civilizations even at the cost of a starle vessel or member fans have passionately debated its philosophical merits ever since it was first introduced in TK's original series and it's enjoyed as a thematic Mainstay of the various track shows and movies the problem however is that its treatment has proven thoroughly inconsistent across all track media largely a byproduct of the huge number of writers who have worked on the Colossal sci-fi Empire over the decades without the prime directive ever been presented in its entirety to viewers they've been left to debate whether it's as strict as some TR media seems to imply or more of a moral guideline the debate was ignited again with the release of Star Trek Into Darkness which saw Kirk removed from commanding the Enterprise after violating the prime directive to save an indigenous species from an erupting volcano on their Planet the simple answer is that the prime directive is discretionary from Captain to Captain depending on their own respect for it but more than half a century on we still don't have a concrete grasp of its full scope and utility cheers for checking out this video today folks and if you are enjoying what watching then hit that subscribe button down below for more what culture stuff in your day number five time travel logic Looper time travel is a tough logical nut to crack at the best of times so for Ryan Johnson's sci-fi hit Looper he basically decided to throw his hands up and accept the contradictions many complained about the film's various logical issues per its tyy wiy Shenanigans particularly the sequence in which young Seth has his limbs dismembered and these effects immediately appear on Old Seth's body and after all if this always happened to Seth as a Young Man wouldn't he always be mutilated as an older man and so in order to hang a lampshade over all this nitpicking Johnson literally put a scene in the middle of the movie where old Joe tells young Joe that his logical questions aren't important and he shouldn't overthink at all good advice considering how the overwhelming majority of time travel movies are totally unwilling to confront their paradoxes it's at least refreshing that Loper decided to embrace its inevitable nonlogic number four the double Je law double jeopardy 1999's Ashley Jud starring crime Thriller Double Jeopardy was a huge hit with audiences despite being built on a fundamental misunderstanding whether willful or not of the American legal system the film's protagonist is Libby Parsons a woman convicted of her husband Nick's murder but before she sent to prison she comes to realize that Nick most likely framed her and faked his own death Charming after being paroled she invokes the double jeopardy clause which according to the film's logic means a person can't be convicted of the same crime twice apparently allowing her to hunt Nick down and kill him without legal consequences of course anyone with even a basic understanding of the law will appreciate how ridiculous this is as the real Double Jeopardy Clause only actually applies to prevent people being convicted again for the specific criminal event they've already been tried for and so if Libby killed her husband in real life as she does in the movie she'd actually be opening herself up to all sorts of legal action not smart number three the rule of two Star Wars much like Star Trek's prime directive Star Wars rule of two is vaguely defined and interpreted with a varying degree of faithfulness by different parties at face value the rule of two is a Sith philosophy stating that only two Sith Lords can ever exist at one time one master and one Apprentice the rule was first concocted by the legendary Sith Darth Bane who felt that an overabundance of self-serving Sith Lords led to the order's downfall through betrayal and in fighting and the rule of two endured for a very long time allowing the Sith to operate undetected while maintaining a status quo whereby The Apprentice inevitably killed their master and found themselves their own Apprentice to Mentor Star Wars media in general has found ways to conveniently handwave the rule of two over the years such as the Clone Wars are s ventrus being presented as more of a dark Jedi than a formal Apprentice to Count Dooku he was himself The aridus Apprentice the rule became even more strained with the release of of the rise of Skywalker which presented an entire fleet of Sith acolytes residing on exagol with zombie Palpatine however the movie's Junior novelization wreck on the rule of two to mean rule by two basically implying there can be many more Sith but only two Sith rulers yeah okay number two the superhero no kill policy given that most superhero movies are designed with younger audiences in mind it's little surprised that a few Frontline Movie heroes like Batman Superman and Spider-Man tend to be profoundly moral people with a major aversion to killing this is especially true in the case of Batman who in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Saga in particular has held a steadfast promise not to take the lives of his foes for fear of crossing the line from heroism to criminality except of course the Caped Crusader is shown killing several people throughout the trilogy whether blowing up the League of Shadows HQ leaving Ral ghoul to twist in the wind tackling Twoface to his death or blood blowing Talia alul to holy hell his hands are plenty bloody the point isn't that these actions were wrong in any sense but simply that rigid no kill policies make no sense whatsoever especially in a movie series desperately trying to seem as grounded and real as possible though it proved divisive with fans at the time this is exactly why man of Steel's decision to have Superman kill Zod was so damn effective because it trampled over unrealistic binary morality and asked a bulletproof man to make an impossible decision the fact that most superheroes these days don't make a big song and dance about the amount of bad guy death on their conscience also really underlines how unrealistic and unfair it is to hold anyone in their position to that sort of pristine standard tough life being a soup and number one the aliens are allergic to water signs ight shamalan signs revolves around an alien invasion on Earth and concludes with a characteristically barmy shamalan twist that the aliens are actually deathly allergic to water of all things ever since the film's release fans have questioned why an alien species would dare try to invade a planet where 71% of its surface is covered by the very thing that kills them dumb aliens are one thing but this perceived plot hole actually overlooks the movie's true logical fallacy the inconsistency of the water rule itself lat in the movie we see that a glass of water severely scolds an alien's skin and so considering that there are 37.5 million gallons of water in the earth's air at any time should the aliens sheer presence on our planet cause them some measure of discomfort even if you argue the aliens need to be hit with a greater concentration of water in order to be harmed you think the residual water in the air would at least singe their skin if a light spill can make them resemble a third degree burns victim no science is a perfectly entertaining movie up to this point so it's just a shame shamalan invites so much second guessing from the audience so late in the game a damn shame indeed

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