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Not sure if actions taken/not taken before the plot in question qualify as an idiot plot, or if this example belongs elsewhere, but it\'s still really really stupid.
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Not sure if actions taken/not taken before the plot in question qualify as an idiot plot, or if this example belongs elsewhere, but it\\\'s still really really stupid.
Face/Off subentry:
This is not even to mention that the entire plot of the movie relies on nobody **noticing that Nicolas Cage and John Travolta have switched faces in a process that apparently leaves zero scarring. Just their faces. There is a scene wherein Evil Cage-As-Travolta sleeps with Good Travolta-As-Cage\\\'s wife of about, let\\\'s say fifteen or twenty years, and she flat-out does not notice that her husband\\\'s body is completely different. Tattoos, body hair, scars, moles, musculature, weight, his freaking penis, she does NOT notice. She\\\'s been with him for as many as twenty years, she has NO IDEA A SWITCHEROO HAS BEEN MADE, having apparently only paid attention to her husband\\\'s face, and absolutely zero to the fact that Nick Cage and John Travolta are built completely and utterly differently.
This is partially wrong. In the movie, the \\\'experts\\\' mention changing scars around (including the good guy having a scar removed where he came thisclose to being shot in the heart), lengthening limbs, and the like. This is also partially \\\'\\\'right\\\'\\\', since changing the insane number of details mentioned in the subentry would have taken a ridiculous amount of time (which, thanks to the bomb, they didn\\\'t have). And either way, the wife had to do a blood-typing test to cotton on that something really was up with her husband, not notice a variety of behavioral changes like you get with two different people.
Face/Off subentry:
This is not even to mention that the entire plot of the movie relies on nobody **noticing that Nicolas Cage and John Travolta have switched faces in a process that apparently leaves zero scarring. Just their faces. There is a scene wherein Evil Cage-As-Travolta sleeps with Good Travolta-As-Cage\\\'s wife of about, let\\\'s say fifteen or twenty years, and she flat-out does not notice that her husband\\\'s body is completely different. Tattoos, body hair, scars, moles, musculature, weight, his freaking penis, she does NOT notice. She\\\'s been with him for as many as twenty years, she has NO IDEA A SWITCHEROO HAS BEEN MADE, having apparently only paid attention to her husband\\\'s face, and absolutely zero to the fact that Nick Cage and John Travolta are built completely and utterly differently.
This is partially wrong. In the movie, the \\\'experts\\\' mention changing scars around (including the good guy having a scar removed where he came thisclose to being shot in the heart), lengthening limbs, and the like. This is also partially \\\'\\\'right\\\'\\\', since changing the insane number of details mentioned in the subentry would have taken a ridiculous amount of time (which, thanks to the bomb, they didn\\\'t have). And either way, the wife had to do a blood-typing test to cotton on that something really was up with her husband, not notice a variety of behavioral changes like you get with two different people.
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It\'s still a really stupid plot, though. The plane should have been kept gassed up (since they\'re frequently flying off at a moment\'s notice.) Why didn\'t they have fuel reserves on site? (Technically illegal, but so is a lot of what they do?) And Xavier\'s described as a really smart guy and planner many many times; so why isn\'t there an emergency fund with several thousand or so in it, that at least two or three of the present X-Men can access when there\'s such a situation as described?
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It\\\'s still a really stupid plot, though. The plane should have been kept gassed up (since they\\\'re frequently flying off at a moment\\\'s notice). Why didn\\\'t they have fuel reserves on site? (Technically illegal, but so is a lot of what they do.) And Xavier\\\'s described as a really smart guy and planner many many times; so why isn\\\'t there an emergency fund with several thousand or so in it, that at least two or three of the present X-Men can access when there\\\'s such a situation as described?
