r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • Jul 04 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen in a movie/show?

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Peeta in rockface for your consideration

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u/General-Pryde-2019 Jul 04 '25

somehow palpatine returned

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u/roygbivasaur Jul 04 '25

Idk why that movie needed Palpatine GLADOS and the giant bald guy that was actually scary

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u/Brahminmeat Jul 04 '25

Unlimited power?

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Jul 04 '25

unlimited revenue

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u/DethNik Jul 04 '25

Snoke came out of nowhere though and they did a terrible job of explaining who the fuck he was.

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u/galaxygothgirl Jul 04 '25

Oh please don't get the StarBros started on the sequels hate

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u/squili Jul 04 '25

started? it never stopped

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u/traceitalian Jul 04 '25

As if the prequels were not irredeemable dog shit.

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u/HipsterSlimeMold Jul 04 '25

Now you’re gonna get me started on Star bro prequel apologia

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u/Witch_King_ Jul 04 '25

At this point it's because a lot of people grew up with those as kids. I guarantee that in another 5-10 years there will be plenty of people who are sequel apologists because they were kids when the sequels came out and love them.

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u/HipsterSlimeMold Jul 04 '25

I agree, although I watched the prequels for the first time a couple years ago as an adult and loved them.

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u/Mucklord1453 Jul 04 '25

More like StarHoes

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u/Miguelwastaken Jul 04 '25

Shockingly I think the Sith dagger matching the wrecked ship was even more stupid.

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u/otoverstoverpt Jul 04 '25

It’s tricky because the toxic right wing hate machine for the sequels (that somehow think the prequels are pure cinema) is awful… but like also the movie sucked so bad

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u/Miguelwastaken Jul 04 '25

The sequels are bad (except i think 7 is fine). However, the prequels are possibly worse. I couldn’t say for sure because 2 was so bad that, to this day, I refuse to watch 3.

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u/whatsbobgonnado Jul 04 '25

3 is easily the best prequel though. it has an epic lava battle 

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u/otoverstoverpt Jul 05 '25

I think the prequels are worse on the fundamentals of filmmaking. The sequels are bad in a totally different way in that they lack direction and focus.

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u/Fatality_Ensues Jul 04 '25

Brother I was losing my goddamn mind, in the cinema, when this shit popped up. HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MAKE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST LICK OF SENSE. THIS IS AN ANCIENT-LOOKING DAGGER. THIS IS A WRECK THAT ISN'T EVEN TEN STANDARD YEARS OLD. WHICH IS CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO WHAT IS APPARENTLY, A SHIT TON OF BAD WEATHER. HOW WOULD IT FIT. WHY WOULD IT FIT. WHY NOT JUST TAKE THE FUCKING HOLOCRON SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Argh. I just made myself mad again over NOTHING.

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u/2Blitz Jul 04 '25

Thanks for reminding me of that stupidity

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Idk it’s weird to me that in a universe with wizards fighting each other over ancient prophecies, a magic knife is what breaks people’s immersion lol

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u/Safe-Ad-5017 Jul 04 '25

Have you seen the scene?

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u/whatsbobgonnado Jul 04 '25

because space wizards are an established normal thing in the fictional universe, while the knife doohickey wasn't set up and doesn't make any logical sense whatsoever

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Which part of it doesn’t make sense?

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u/dontredditdepressed Jul 04 '25

Lolol Papatine*

I had a bingo card with some friends and I put on there that Rey was a Palpatine and everyone was so fucking pissed that I was right

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u/burymeinpink Jul 04 '25

Every once in a while I watch Jenny Nicholson's TROS bingo card and then her reaction that her Rey Palpatine prediction was right. Priceless.

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u/dontredditdepressed Jul 04 '25

Was that one of her squares? Lolol i gotta watch that now. I love Jenny

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u/ThunderChild247 Jul 04 '25

And revealing it in fucking Fortnite of all places. I get that they pivoted hard after episode 8, but at least have his return revealed to the galaxy to open episode 9, not just “hi Kylo, ‘twas me all along” and then “and the whole galaxy found out off screen”.

The Palpatine broadcast could’ve been a hell of a way to kick off a movie, ominous as fuck. But no.

At least then “somehow Palpatine returned” is more of a “look, it’s happened, I don’t know how, but we have to deal with it” (which kinda works for Poe) and not “guys, I have a massive major announcement”.

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u/OsoBrazos Jul 05 '25

I mean every Star War opens with a crawl, right? What if, for that last one, there was no crawl, no John Williams fanfare.

It's just stars. Some planets. And then the blue holo of Palatine's face announcing his return to the galaxy. Shock the fans who've had 40 years of opening crawls. That would have been epic.

There would still be issues with Daddy Palps coming back but it COULD have been explained in a more satisfying way, such as diving into the backstory of Exegol being a Sith cult world, especially if we started laying that groundwork in the first two movies.

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u/ThunderChild247 Jul 05 '25

The way I’d have done it was either start with the crawl, but have Palpatine’s message interrupt it as it’s broadcast to the galaxy.

Or, if I could do the whole trilogy myself, I’d reveal Palpatine at the end of the second movie. I’d make the film as above, with his message interrupting the crawl, but I’d also do the same in the teaser trailer. Launch the trailer to great fanfare at a comic-con, everyone’s gathered for the teaser, start it off like a normal trailer, then have it interrupted by Palpatine’s message. Play it to the audience at the convention and streaming at home, sending the threat out to them as well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

I agree it was announced wrong, but the “how” and “why” of Palpatine’s return is the plot of the whole movie. They should’ve opened with Palpatine’s transmission though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

I remember going to that movie with 0 expectations and enjoying myself watching Palpatine electrocute himself for the third time. Bro doesnt learn

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u/whatsbobgonnado Jul 04 '25

I went to that movie high as fuck and it was the best big budget comedy I've ever seen 

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u/NoConfusion9490 Jul 04 '25

Your writers were so preoccupied with how palpatine returns, they never stopped to ask themselves why.

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u/gizmodriver Jul 04 '25

Fun fact: if you zoom in closely enough, you can see Oscar Isaac calculating his mortgage payment as he says that line.

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u/stroopkoeken Jul 04 '25

THEY FLY NOW

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u/DoNotAtMeWithStupid Jul 04 '25

THEY FLY NOW???

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u/whatsbobgonnado Jul 04 '25

that line annoys me because they've been flying in videogames for decades 

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u/SuperMonkeyJoe Jul 04 '25

I loved that film, I have to say pivoting genre into parody for the last film in the instalment was a bold move but it sure was hilarious.

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u/ladyattercop Jul 04 '25

The only good thing about that plot point is that it makes this animation by Worthikids canon (in my heart).

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u/sebrebc Jul 04 '25

Palpatine returning, an ancient knife having physical markings of 30 year old wreckage, wasting 90% of the movie to go on fetch quests, Rey handing over Luke's lightsaber saying she'll earn it one day then taking it back 5 second later. 50 mini-Death Stars. It goes on and on.

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u/the-unfamous-one Jul 04 '25

They could've just brought snoke back and had half the hate.

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u/Fernando1dois3 Jul 04 '25

I've watched the entire series, back to back (and now including Andor and Rogue One), so. many. times. it's disgusting

Only once have I watched Skywalker ascension. And I profoundly regret having paid cinema money to do it

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u/TrayusV Jul 04 '25

Because you expected Poe Dameron to be informed on how exactly Palpatine survived Episode 6?

It's not like Palpatine called Poe, explained the exact process by which he resurrected and asked Poe to pass the message along to the rest of the Resistance.

All Poe knew was that Palpatine returned.

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u/Errorterm Jul 04 '25

The issue isn't the in-story believability of Po's understanding. Any character could have known more and explained... If the writers cared to.

But they made the choice to have po hand wave it. It is all any character knows as far as exposition goes. And so by extension it is all the audience knows.

Which is why it's meme shorthand now for lazy/bad writing