Zes beroemde film plots die rammelen aan alle kanten

RDJ134 28 januari 2011 om 18:54 uur

Een hele hoop films laten wel eens hier en daar een steekje vallen met het verhaal, maar daar staan de meeste kijkers niet eens bij stil. Maar wat als je eens goed en serieus naar bepaalde films kijkt, dan zitten er meer gaten in het plot dan een gatenkaas. Daarom heeft Cracked.com deze lijst gemaakt met een aantal oude en nieuwe films, waarvan het plot rammelt. Let wel op dikke SPOILER!! alert. Mijn favoriet en film tip:

#4.Fantastic Voyage -- What About the Sub?

When a Russian scientist named Jan Benes defects to the West after developing an experimental shrink ray, he falls victim to an almost-successful assassination plot that leaves him in a coma and with a blood clot threatening his brain.

At that point a team made up of a secret agent, a pilot, a surgeon and his assistant get inside a specially designed submarine, are shrunk to microscopic size and are sent in to remove the blood clot from Benes' head.

But there are complications. For one, they have only a limited amount of time to get in, fix the problem, and get out before the effects of the shrink ray wear off and they spontaneously grow back to normal size. According to the scientists, objects stay miniaturized for only a short time, depending on how much miniaturization the object undergoes.

Also, going along with them is the chief of the hospital's medical staff, Dr. Michaels, played by Bond baddie and Dr. Evil template Donald Pleasence. He shockingly turns out to be a traitor intent on sabotaging the operation.

But eventually the saboteur is caught, the blood clot is cleared, the ship is destroyed by a white blood cell and the crew escape Benes' body through a tear duct with literally seconds to spare before they end up back at full size. Phew!

But What About ...

Uh ... the wrecked submarine is still inside the patient.

Generally speaking, any medical procedure that accidentally leaves things inside you is considered less than successful. But this isn't like a typical botched surgery, where if they leave a scalpel inside you, they can just whip you open again and take it out, no harm, no foul. This is a full-size submarine ... or at least, it will be once the shrink ray wears off.

Why then, when we hear the swell of violins and the triumphant return of the four non-asshole crew members to their normal size, do we not see in the background a shot of Benes' head being stretched to bursting point by the rapidly swelling shape of a nuclear sub?

OK, so maybe you're saying that for some reason not given in the film, the shrunken submarine was made from some special material that means it won't blow back up to full size when everything else does. Fine.

They also left Dr. Michaels behind. You know, the bad guy saboteur?

At some point he is going to return to adult size, from within the patient, possibly wearing him like a character costume at Disneyland.

Either way, it seems almost certain that the film should have ended with a bunch of embarrassed-looking and blood-spattered doctors standing around in an operating theater that looks like the final scene from a Saw sequel, gazing at one another sheepishly and swearing a pact never to mention the whole affair again.





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