Why Does It Always Come Down To The Last 2 Minutes

Why Does It Always Come Down To The Last 2 Minutes

I'm a sports fan, but this blog has nothing to do with sports. I'm also a movie fan. It could be a theater movie or a TV movie. It could be a four checker movie or a one checker movie. Actually, I've seen one-checker movies that were better than some four-checker movies. However;

Why Does It Always Come Down To The Last 2 Minutes. 

I'll get to that, but first, there are some things that people, who write movies, makes me nuts. For example, the car won't start trick. The goodie is trying to catch the baddie. They run from each other. The baddie gets into his car and drives away. The goodie gets into his car and the car won't start. Now tell me, when in the modern era have you ever been in or seen a car that wouldn't start - who writes this shit?

I love shoot-um-up movies. What I can't stand is that when chasing the bad guys in a car chase, they never SHOOT THE TIRES! It doesn't matter if it's a movie from the forties - fifties or a movie today. It doesn't matter if the good guys and/or the bad guys are using automatic weapons - they never SHOOT THE TIRES. I find myself watching these movies and screaming at the screen: "SHOOT THE TIRES." Who writes this shit?

Did you ever notice that cop movies never catch the bad guy on the first try. For example, the cops know who the bad guy is and see him on the street corner. They yell, Police! Guess what happens next, the bad guy runs (DUH) and they have to chase him for many blocks before he always gets away. Why not assume he will run and surround him before they yell "POLICE." Who writes this shit?

Back to the subject of this blog - "Why Does It Always Come Down To The Last 2 Minutes." It doesn't matter if it's a James Bond movie from the fifties or today. It doesn't matter If it's a Spy movie or any other action movie, the bad guy always has a bomb that will go off in just a few minutes unless the good guy stops the bomb in the last second. 

About seventy percent of action movies involve something really bad is going to happen unless the good guy stops it from happening. The clock (it's always a clock - analog or digital) is set for 10 minutes. The bad guy starts the clock - 9.99 - 9-98 - 9-97 etc. The clock is now at .09 - .08 - .07 and at .01 (in some better movies it goes to .02) before the good guy or good girl stops the clock.

This situation is pretty standard, but what really makes me crazy is that the clock is going down much slower than the action. for example, in the 2010 movie "SALT," Angelina Jolie is trying to stop a Russian baddie from starting a war between Russian and The United States by sending a nuclear missile toward Russia. 

He captures the Unites States President and knocks him out. He puts the President's hand print on the control that will allow the missile to activate. The clock starts the countdown 2.00 - 1.99 - 1.98. SALT is the only one who can stop the countdown. First, she has to break in to the room the Russian maniac is in - that takes five minutes. 

Then, once in the room, she has to fight to the death with the Russian maniac - that takes ten minutes. The countdown is now .05 - .04 - .03. She finally reaches the button and stops the countdown at .01. A 2 minute countdown has now taken fifteen minutes - who writes this shit.

To all my readers, if you don't read this blog in 2 minutes:

BOOM!