Incompetent Movie Robots
Hollywood knows that simply having a robot in a movie can double its potential audience. Movie robots typically possess the human abilities to think, reason, communicate and kill. Most of the time, however, these robots that look so cool on screen are really incompetent losers on the job.
For example, the Terminator movie asks us to believe that computers become sentient, launch a nuclear holocaust, then “demonstrating child-like frustration at having only murdered about 5.8 billion people, send a Terminator back in time to take out the most annoying human before he knows how to fight back.” Then a waitress and eventually her kid manage to outwit the clueless robot three times.
“That alone should be proof of the laughable incompetence of the grossly misnamed Terminator. But it gets worse. As witnessed in T3, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator has a little battery thing in his chest that basically acts like a nuclear device when he needs it to. Why didn’t the original, whilst crawling through the machines that eventually crushed it, just use that to kill Sarah Connor? We may never know.”
143 Simpsons Mistakes
To be filed under the category “Too much time on their hands,” MovieMistakes.com has compiled a visual list of 143 Simpsons mistakes.
One such mistake appears in the opening credits of every Simpsons TV episode. As shown in this photo, when Maggie goes through the supermarket checkout, Marge’s shopping cart is gray and has a red handle. But in the next shot when Maggie pops out of the shopping bag, the cart and handle are turquoise. This is known as a continuity error, and a quick perusal of any entry on Internet Movie Database will show that every movie and TV show has dozens of similar errors.
So which is the best (worst) movie mistakes? The site asks its viewers to vote, and the winner is Star Wars: When the stormtroopers break into the control room, the trooper on the right of the screen hits his head on the door frame. To cover this mistake, LucasFilm added a corresponding “thump” sound on the DVD release. As Homer Simpson would say, “D’oh!”
