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So PJ pretty much over powers and ties up a LION in seconds?

posted 12 years ago by dont_diss_dave
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I can watch a comedy and forget some stupid things because of that, but this I think is the biggest piss taker I think I've seen in a long time. I know lions are big animals, but I didn't know exactly how big until I quickly looked into it. Some males can exceed 250 kg/550 lb in weight. So not only does it weight a hell of a lot, it's fast, has very powerful jaws and killing claws and faster and stronger than humans... but little PJ managed to tie it up in a matter of seconds because this a a comedy? I can suspend disbelief for somethings, but come on

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[–] distantobserver 12 years ago

The scene was absurdly unrealistic and totally hilarious! One of my favourite scenes in the film.

[–] testinator 11 years ago

The entire scene from conception to execution was absurd and just served to lower what was an average movie at best anyway. I mean, who the hell would keep a real lion as "security" for multi-million pound paintings and remove (or not ever install) a basic CCTV system monitored by an off-site security company? Just thinking about the logistics is a nightmare - feeding the lion, training it so it stays healthy, etc etc. And then if someone does remove a painting and the lion gets called into action, there's no real guarantee it'll attack a human in the first place if its domesticated/well fed, or if it did attack it's highly likely the multi million pound painting that was removed will get covered in blood, be damaged, ripped apart, slashed, bitten, etc etc. It's essentially the worlds worst security system.

And this is before we even begin to get to the actual CGI lion scene (horribly done, clearly on a low budget or just badly incorporated/directed) and the sheer ridiculousness of Diaz's character lasoo'ing what looked like a male lion.

Anyway, what I didn't get was how Firth's character knew there wouldn't be cameras, yet also didn't know there would be a lion let loose as soon as he took the painting off the wall.

Well, trying to make sense of it is pointless I guess. It's just one of the more stupid scenes and plot elements I've seen in a movie in recent times.

[–] IMDB_Vits 11 years ago

what I didn't get was how Firth's character knew there wouldn't be cameras, yet also didn't know there would be a lion let loose as soon as he took the painting off the wall.

Maybe the lion was bought on that same day?

[–] daddysarm 10 years ago

or just take a piss.

2 things you missed:

1. This was at the end of a movie that was purposefully becoming more absurd. Go complain about the realism of Raising Arizona.

2. It was not a WILD lion. It was a TAME, HOUSE lion. If you think it was trained to KILL whomever it found in the room, you're even more absurd than the movie. Horses & cattle weigh as much or more than a lion. THe whole thing went way over your head, which, given that it is a silly comedy, must be pretty depressing for you.