Was The Wickerman's Sgt Howie a rubbish policeman, and other randomness
The Wickerman: Occurred to me the other day that the West Highland Constabulary's Police Sergeant Howie's police work needs some improvement. The plot involves a policeman searching the Pagan isle of Summerisle for a missing girl whom he suspects will be sacrificed to the old gods to ensure a good harvest.
So our intrepid lawman searches high and low for the missing girl - but fails to notice a giant wickerman built on a hill just along the road from the village?
Jurassic Park films: So they built a very expensive dinsosaur theme park on an island (twice) but no one thought to check the volcano for activity first? Even had the events of the fourth film not happened, the park would still have had to shut down.
Indiana Jones: The world's most pointless hero? In both Raiders and the Last Crusade, Indy might as well have gone on vacation. As has been pointed out before, he had no impact on the plot of Raiders; had he not been involved, the Nazis would have still found the Ark and still died on opening it. In the Last Crusade, even if the (again) Nazis found the Grail and even managed to choose the correct cup, they couldn't remove it from the temple, and so would have either lived forever trapped, or been forced to leave and eventually die.
Okay, in Temple of Doom Indy prevents the bad guys from gaining ultimate power with the stones. I can't remember if Indy made any difference in the fourth film, and I'm not up for re-watching it to find out!
Blade Runner 2049: A good film, albeit too long, but we're supposed to buy that the resistance managed to wipe out all data everywhere? Every backup, every memory stick, every hard drive?
Skyfall (spoilers): The one Bond film where the bad guy completes his victory conditions, and wins.
So our intrepid lawman searches high and low for the missing girl - but fails to notice a giant wickerman built on a hill just along the road from the village?
Jurassic Park films: So they built a very expensive dinsosaur theme park on an island (twice) but no one thought to check the volcano for activity first? Even had the events of the fourth film not happened, the park would still have had to shut down.
Indiana Jones: The world's most pointless hero? In both Raiders and the Last Crusade, Indy might as well have gone on vacation. As has been pointed out before, he had no impact on the plot of Raiders; had he not been involved, the Nazis would have still found the Ark and still died on opening it. In the Last Crusade, even if the (again) Nazis found the Grail and even managed to choose the correct cup, they couldn't remove it from the temple, and so would have either lived forever trapped, or been forced to leave and eventually die.
Okay, in Temple of Doom Indy prevents the bad guys from gaining ultimate power with the stones. I can't remember if Indy made any difference in the fourth film, and I'm not up for re-watching it to find out!
Blade Runner 2049: A good film, albeit too long, but we're supposed to buy that the resistance managed to wipe out all data everywhere? Every backup, every memory stick, every hard drive?
Skyfall (spoilers): The one Bond film where the bad guy completes his victory conditions, and wins.
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