Ridiculous claims about movies

[Twed]

People who think that "let's get into character" in Pulp Fiction is breaking the fourth wall.

At the conclusion, Jules tells Vincent, "Come on. Let's get into character." The implication is, for one minute, the movie just stopped. Our two characters took a break, had a chat, and then walked back on set.

No, the implication is that the characters Vince and Jules need to stop having normal people conversations and get into character as assassin gangsters because it is time to kill some people now. That's the entire point of just about every conversation they have.

[marquis_de_sad]

Yeah, spot on.

I also dislike it when people say that when characters break the fourth wall, they "know" they're in a film. Why apply realist assumptions to something so deliberately anti-realist as breaking the fourth wall?

[Serge]

I've mentioned it on here before, but the theory that I've seen online that the alien that comes out and does the hand signals to Lacombe at the end of 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' is Roy Neary who has somehow been altered (in the space of a couple of minutes, apparently) to be able to travel in space with the other aliens. I mean, WHA-A-A-A-A-AAT? To believe this, you literally have to ignore the fact that dozens of other people have been kidnapped by the aliens and returned to Earth just minutes before this scene, and somehow invent a scenario in which a human can be 'alienised' in your own head, as there's nothing in the film (even in the 1980 Special Edition where we see Neary inside the ship, which seems to be what triggers this theory) to support it whatsoever.

[QDRPHNC]

There's a ghost in 3 Men and a Baby.

[Steven]

If you watch Mac & Me while eating a Big Mac your arsehole turns inside-out.

[Bazooka]

If you watch Mac & Me while eating a Big Mac your arsehole turns inside-out.

I wondered what caused that.

[mothman]

Every so often, "Ewan MacGregor's character actually being dead at the end of Shallow Grave" rears its ugly head. He isn't.

[Steven]

If Michael J. Fox asks for film recommendations and you suggest Tremors he gets offended.

[Glebe]

I was just out shopping when who should I bump into but Michael Gove and family!