What is this movie? NOTHING makes sense!
I tried. Walken, nurse Ratchett, big names, good actors, early eighties, what could go wrong?
Couldn't do it, so here is the first 10 minutes and link to the rest at Justpasteit, I can't be bothered to make multiple posts here:
Sometimes when I watch movies, the stupidities and the ways movies always cheat pile up so much I can't take it anymore, I have to scream it out into the world before I lose my mind.
This movie sure knows how to cheat and pile on all kinds of stupidities, illogicalities and other crap.
First, the way nurse Ratchett 'smokes' her cigarettes. What the F?! Seriously, WHO thought this is the way it should be done? Have you EVER seen any smoker do it this way?
I mean, putting a cigarette between your teeth is a really bad way to hold it in your mouth, you CAN technically smoke this way, but it's unpleasant, inconvenient and no actual smoker would really do this after trying it for awhile. It's just so much better in all possible ways to do it normally. You can take a puff by pushing your lips together and sucking, but smoking a cigarette requires you to also take a breath of air after you have sucked the cigarette, so that's going to be clunky and difficult this way, because the smoking cig is constantly at your face instead of you being able to move it further (there is a reason why 'normal smoking' looks like it does) and so on. It's very stupid and very annoying to do it this way, the smoke would get in your eyes and so on and so forth.
NO ONE in their right mind would do this, as it would be WAY more distracting than just taking a break to smoke normally.
"Smoking while working/typing" is also idiotic, no one is THAT addicted that they can't do their computer stuff, then light up and just chat for awhile, then finish the cig and THEN keep working. What is this stupid trope/cliche of 'smokers can't stay 0.01 seconds without a cig in their mouths'?
This trope is basically PROVEN by her lighting up ANOTHER cigarette pretty much INSTANTLY. After all, we HAVE to be shown that she's a smoker, and every smoker in movies has to be SUPER addicted, they can't just be a normal, casual one. So they have to smoke multiple cigarettes in a row. Sigh.
Well, does she smoke this cigarette properly? We never even saw her actually smoke the previous one, just holding it in her mouth/between her teeth.
She has no time. After all, she has to LIGHT UP A THIRD CIGARETTE before she has taken a proper hit from the second (not to mention the first) one!
What.. the.. F?! WHO lights up this many cigarettes in a row, ESPECIALLY since she has NOT SMOKED THE PREVIOUS TWO ALMOST AT ALL!? Continuity girl, where are you?
(That was a bit of a reference, get over it)
Then we have the ridiculous black cook that talks in a very weird, unrealistic way.. why is it always like this? WHY would they have those crazy ingredients, if they have to then make a comment about how crazy it is that the guy 'chose' crazy ingredients..?
The whole 'rotate clockwise'-scene would also be so much better if they didn't cheat and just jumpcut to the 'correct display', but morphed it beautifully from the rotation they were doing.. it looked like that's what they were going to do, but suddenly we just jumpcut through a boring effect into it.
Walken's character then picks up a really weird, long, cumbersome-looking bicycle thing from an elevated position, just so he can first in a clumsy way turn it around before he can lug it DOWN THE STAIRS and THROUGH THE HALLWAY and.. what the heck? Why wouldn't he just leave this thing at the front desk instead of lugging it all the way in this very weird place to keep it?
I could go on about smoking in the lab, eating or drinking in the lab, USING LAB EQUIPMENT AS GLASSES (why do we have these tropes in movies, it's almost as idiotic as some coroner being shown to be 'tough' by eating something while doing autopsy or whatnot). Labs should never be this sloppy, think how much damage you can do to sensitive lab equipment, computers, and especially your own body by drinking ANYTHING from these completely unhygienic beakers measuring cups! SURELY THE FACILITY HAS SOME CAFETERIA or something nearby! Geez!
The last thing I want to mention right now is the amount of beer or whatever he brings. One can? Why would he think that's enough, and good enough for everyone? Why would he mention champagne and glasses, and then end up bringing beer and using measuring cups?
I mean, look how much he pours to nurse Ratchett's measuring cup - MOST of the can, right? Yet, you can immediately notice two things after the jumpcut:
1) Nurse Ratchett has WAY less than he actually poured
2) The can STILL HAS ENOUGH beer in it for the others
3) In the end, everyone has equal amount
THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE! Just LOOK how much he pours to her cup, the can should be EMPTY at that point, and yet it keeps on giving.. is this a MAGIC CAN?!
This was just 10 minutes - the rest:
https://justpaste.it/af36o