| Bette Midler joins 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' By 2010-10-13T16:28:57ZNEW YORK (AP) -- Bette Midler has signed up to help produce the stage version of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."... hosted.ap.org |
What's the most flaw-ridden scheme in cinema? We asked you to suggest the most defective crime capers on screen. Here are some truly ludicrous grand plans@AcropolisNow Ocean's Eleven – how did the fliers for hookers, which doubled as the money, get into the vault? If the SWAT team had brought in large bags that looked like money and then came out without them would that have not sent the alarm bells ringing?@RichAlchemy Ocean's Twelve. The fact that they spend at least half their time trying to steal £2m worth of stuff, when they need £90m, and their equipment looks like it costs far more than £2m. The fact they construct a ludicrous plan to steal an egg from a museum, only to find that the French guy did it by dancing round the lasers. Oh, and the fact they actually get said egg by nicking a guy's backpack off a train.@unke How about the scheme in Ocean's Thirteen to simulate an earthquake by using a tunnel-boring machine from the Eurotunnel construction? Purchase and transport of the machine would probably cost more than could possibly be robbed from Las Vegas hotels. @jimd The Minis in The Italian Job could never have pulled off those jumps with all that gold in the boot. And it looked like an awful lot of gold to have fitted into three Mini boots. I struggle to get a paperback into mine.@cagool Running Man: How is it that everyone is fooled into thinking that it is Arnie in the helicopter that kills all those people? If it was Arnie he would make a bad pun just before pressing the button.@WelshMorgan Snakes On a Plane: The cargo hold of a plane is cold. Those snakes could never have been active enough to slither into the passenger areas.@MawalTrees Se7en has a ludicrous story line. Given that Gwyneth's character was petrified of the city, why did she let John Doe into the flat? Her head wasn't wrapped in plastic, how come no blood leaked out of the cardboard box? Is it possible for a human stomach to explode? Is it possible to cut off a pound of your own flesh without passing out?@normalvision In François Truffaut's La Mariée Était en Noir (The Bride Wore Black), Jeanne Moreau takes revenge against the five men responsible for the death of her newly minted husband. After the murder of her fourth victim, she allows herself to be captured, in order, miraculously, to a) wind up in the same prison as her fifth prey and b) serve as a deliverer of meals to the other prisoners, in which duty she has access to a monstrously large bread knife.@cinematicarchitect Any film that relies on moving through ventilation vents/ducts of any sort. Even if they were be big enough to squeeze through there are so many bits of kit along the way that you would never get far …@maid2 Arlington Road: Oliver Lang (Tim Robbins) is an evil terrorist who wants to blow things up, not to publicise his own cause, but to incriminate Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges). Faraday is mad, paranoid and easily manipulated into accidentally stealing the van with the bomb in it, running a gauntlet with the police and crashing it into the very building that Lang was hoping to blow up. It doesn't seem like a good idea to base your entire plan on a mentally unstable character acting in exactly the way you need him to act at every turn.@nilpferd Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair – he co-ordinates the split-second heists via payphones, using a team of personally hired strangers (an odd scheme that involves breaking into their flats and confronting them when they come home, concealed behind a bright lamp), in the middle of a crowded city, to rob banks, overlooked, in some cases, by his own office.Crimeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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