Thank you, Bug! Good to know that I’m not the only dunderhead who can’t follow the dang plot of most modern action movies.
It all started for me with the first Mission Impossible in 1996. I remember walking out of the theater afterwards and being utterly incapable of describing the plot.
Weirdly, the older Bond movies are much easier to follow and understand.
Modern action movies have no plot. That’s the entire point. Explosions = ticket sales. I once had a roommate that said “I hate it when a plot gets in the way of my movies!”
Not necessarily – Pulp Fiction only required a deck of cards and a little reshuffling to put all the plot threads in order.
That movie separated the artsy posers from the ones who could actually pay attention to the story lines or understood some of the details. There was a small area of overlap between Film Buffs and the Geek community with that one. I now have a number of Artsy Film Buffs in my circle of friends thanks to that movie.
Why he’s in Prague?
Why he’s in an elevator?
Why he’s in an elevator in Prague?
Why he’s fighting in an elevator?
Why he’s fighting in Prague?
Why he’s fighting at all?
Why there’s even a movie where he’s fighting in an elevator in Prague?
Not sure, might be just me, but if the doctor is holding the removed bit of bug’s head (with antennae) in his left hand, shouldn’t the “headpiece” be coloured black? Or is this a rare glimpse of the bony insides of bug’s skull?
Bugs have brains?
Comic bugs and real life bugs do have brains.
They are tiny and not good for much other then basic motor skills, but they do have one.
Just like career politicians.
Thank you, Bug! Good to know that I’m not the only dunderhead who can’t follow the dang plot of most modern action movies.
It all started for me with the first Mission Impossible in 1996. I remember walking out of the theater afterwards and being utterly incapable of describing the plot.
Weirdly, the older Bond movies are much easier to follow and understand.
Modern action movies have no plot. That’s the entire point. Explosions = ticket sales. I once had a roommate that said “I hate it when a plot gets in the way of my movies!”
Now I really want to take the Waylon Jenning narrator bits from ‘Dukes’ and cut them into a Bond movie!
Just a good ole’ boy,
with a license to kill,
one day the jealous husbands might get him
but Blofeld never will!
Toobah for the win!
Very nice!
Better than Tarantino movies that require a whiteboard to outline the plot
Not necessarily – Pulp Fiction only required a deck of cards and a little reshuffling to put all the plot threads in order.
That movie separated the artsy posers from the ones who could actually pay attention to the story lines or understood some of the details. There was a small area of overlap between Film Buffs and the Geek community with that one. I now have a number of Artsy Film Buffs in my circle of friends thanks to that movie.
Why he’s in Prague?
Why he’s in an elevator?
Why he’s in an elevator in Prague?
Why he’s fighting in an elevator?
Why he’s fighting in Prague?
Why he’s fighting at all?
Why there’s even a movie where he’s fighting in an elevator in Prague?
Which is it?
Plot? There’s supposed to be a plot?
It took me more read-throughs than I care to admit before I realised the second panel says “fighting IN an elevator” and not “fighting an elevator”.
Now there’s a film I’d like to see.
The elevator is going up, but I’m going to bring it DOWN!
Davidk92: you’re in luck. “The Lift” (1983) gives you just that (and the elevator starts it).
Moonshine martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Dukes of Hazard starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as actual English Dukes was one of my favorite bits from the GOS podcast.
Not sure, might be just me, but if the doctor is holding the removed bit of bug’s head (with antennae) in his left hand, shouldn’t the “headpiece” be coloured black? Or is this a rare glimpse of the bony insides of bug’s skull?
Oops! Good catch. I just forgot to make that black. Will fix.