Minor Irritant #1

Today, I'm going to be making a list of things that just irritate the heck out of me. Not that I'm going to start a mad crusade against them - these are the windmills that you bypass, but that are still in the way.

#1) Lazy movie writers:

Example A) Flyboys - Admittedly not a great movie, but it had some good moments, and for the most part I found it well written and informative. But there were a couple of scenes that defied credibility. First, the love interests farm which is near the airfield is overrun by Germans (our hero rescues the girl, of course) and the girl is sent south to another town. When next we see the girl, she is fleeing the town because it is about to be overrun by Germans. It is war and these things happen, but what irritates me about it is that the entire time the Germans are taking over farms and overrunning towns - they never seem to make a move on a largely unprotected airfield a few miles away.

Example B) Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer - this one is just downright annoying because anyone with a sense of geography could have told them how stupid it was. They capture the Surfer and take him to an American military base in Jakutsk, Siberia. Uh, guys, last I checked that was smack dab in the middle of Russia. And, uh, last I checked, we didn't have any military bases there. ;)

And to think, people get paid to write these things!

Minor rant mode off... until later...