10 WTF Moments That Made You Give Up On A Movie
No amount of CGI can hide that...
Making movies is a complicated business given how many moving pieces and people with their own ideas pulling the project in different ways there are.
Somehow, directors have to bring all these together to successfully create a coherent story, which is why they're the ones who get the big bucks and their own Oscars category. And let's be honest, sometimes, navigating the murky waters of writing the script, assembling a crew, negotiating with studios while trying to stick to your original vision can prove impossible. It's a wonder sometimes that movies even get made in the first place.
Sometimes, inevitably, this results in flaws. Sometimes movies are released with a moment so bad, out of place or cringeworthy that it can pull you right out of the experience, no matter where in the run-time they happen. And to be honest, these moments can be so bad they can ruin an otherwise great movie.
10. Knowing - The Plane Crash
Knowing is a strange film, even for a Nicholas Cage flick. It's the story of a man who is able to predict future disasters and death tolls and Cage spends the film running between GPS coordinates trying to make sense of it all.
In the middle of the story, our protagonist finds himself stuck in a traffic jam, realising that the next disaster will happen at his exact location in a minutes time. During a conversation with a policeman, the officer suddenly looks up and directly behind Cage in fear, and runs the opposite way. Cage turns behind him, only for the camera to flip a full ninety degrees to the right in time to see a crashing plane.
Anyone with half a sense of direction at this moment is immediately removed from the drama of the crash, bewildered at how this was not spotted. In the end the scene's biggest shock was not a fiery plane crash, but something far more terrifying, a continuity error.