A Tiradesverse film is said to be playing fast and loose with time when, in the context of the in-movie universe, we are shown events happening that could not possibly occur in the timespans assumed. The vast majority of the time, it is laziness and/or carelessness on the part of the writer(s) that cause these things to happen.
Examples in the Tiradesverse[]
- Batman Forever - In the span of a few weeks, Riddler and Two-Face steal enough money and jewels to mass-market and mass-produce his stupid blender box thing, get it out into the market, AND outsell Waynetech's stock 2-to-1. This is something that would take YEARS to accomplish.
- The Room - Pretty much the entire movie, but the most memorable occurrence has to be Johnny and Mark saving Denny on the roof of the apartment complex, "taking Chris-R to jail", and showing back up on the roof like two minutes later.
- Battlefield Earth - Jonnie Tyler learns how to operate nuclear weaponry and fly military harrier jets in two weeks.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -
- In one of the most hideous examples ever, Mikaela is able to: get from her auto body shop to the airport (somehow afford and procure a plane ticket), get through the airport, fly from Pennsylvania to California, get through the California airport, hail a cab to Sam's college, walk across the campus, and make her way into his dorm in the span of...what, an hour, based on the events happening at Sam's school?
- The protagonists? manage to drive from one end of Egypt to the other in a matter of a couple hours.
- Samurai Cop - The Katana Gang manages to get to every single cop's house in a matter of maybe two hours and spend the time killing and/or mutilating them.
- Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance - Newton Pyles somehow gets to Montana from Chicago in an undisclosed time and by mode-of-transportation unknown.
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D - In perhaps the most egregious occurrence of this that we've yet seen...in the span of, at most, five minutes of their time, all of this happens:
- Someone finds Douglas Cartland's body wherever the The Missionary left it
- This person calls the police
- The police arrive and cordon off the area where Heather Mason exits the mall
- They apparently do all the forensic study they need to on Cartland's corpse and wheel him out on a gurney
- The cops get all the way down to the sub-basement where Heather was hiding
- They find the ONE room she hid inside
- They find the one piece of evidence (her bloodstained jacket) in said room
- This officer who finds the jacket makes his way back up to the cordoned-off area
- Deadfall - Diane somehow being involved in Mike's scheme even though there was no possible timespan where this could have possibly occurred.
- Jem and the Holograms - Jem becomes world famous from one nondescript Internet video, no different from millions of others on YouTube, in the span of a couple days