Implausible but funny

Did anyone else find it funny in the movie Speed when the bus jumped a 50-foot gap and maintained 50 miles/hr and no one got hurt? Also when Indy is being dragged behind the truck by the whip and somehow manages to get back on the truck. :rolleyes:
 

Indydan13

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The Speed one is impossible because the bus would have sunk in the air instead of making a jump like it did, thus crashing and blowing up. Not to mention the pure acting talent of Sandra Bullock and Keaunu Reeves would be a dead-weight so heavy, that the bus would have broken through the pavement.

I would say that the Whip-behind-the-truck trick could work...as long as there is a trench in the ground where you're getting dragged.
 

IndyFrench

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Some contrived implausibilities are acceptable in any adventure film. Now, admittedly, in Speed (more an "action" than adventure film) the suspension of disbelief is impossible to maintain completely given the rules of the plot (e.g. "Don't go under 50 mph.").

However, if you want to see the WORST of action/adventure contrivance, may I direct your attention to the following films:

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold - Lesson learned: You can hold an axe in a lightning storm and get hit with electricity over and over again without dying...Oh, and a cotton shirt stops spears.

Superman IV - Lesson Learned: Provided you have the ability to fly, you can leave a normal human in orbit around the Earth without fear of them suffocating, imploding, freezing, and/or drifiting into outer space.

Goldeneye - Lesson Learned: You can dive off a cliff after a falling Cessna, catch up with it, pull yourself inside the plane, work your way to the cockpit, and pull the plane out of a vertical dive at terminal velocity with your bare hands without ripping the wings off the plane.

Charlie's Angels 2 - Lesson Learned: You can dive off a cliff after a falling Apache chopper, catch up with it, pull yourself inside, work your way to the cockpit, start the chopper in mid-dive, and pull the whirlybird out of a vertical dive at terminal velocity with your bare hands while other skydivers hang onto various bits of the aircraft without falling off.

UGH
 

Ska

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John McClane said:
Also when Indy is being dragged behind the truck by the whip and somehow manages to get back on the truck. :rolleyes:

We did that to my friend in our IJ fan film, IJ and the Spirit of the People. Now mind you it was in a field instead of on rocks...and he was getting dragged behind a fast moving quad instead of a faster moving truck...but still, that one could be manageable. He was able to crawl up the whip and get on the back of the quad, knocking off the driver and taking over the controls.
 
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