Plot devices that ruin any movie

[Cheesezorz]

Aliens.

 

[twistedmic]

Edit: The USA save the day. Cause there's no other countries in the world, right? I'd like to see Russia or China or Canada save the day in a movie for once.

I'm not trying to sound like a dick here, but if you want to see movies where Russia, China or Canada saves the day you should go watch a movie made by, or set in Russia, China or Canada. It only makes sense to have the country that the movie is set in to save the day.

 

[Locko96]

Starring Ben Affleck

Uuuugh...

Seriously, I've yet to see a film where I haven't gotten annoyed the instant his face shows

Conversely, his brother, Casey Affleck, is a much better actor. Watch "Gone, Baby, Gone".

OT: Evil twins...ugh..

 

[Hristo Petrov]

You wanna know how I got these scars OOOPS I mean you wanna know what I hate I hate it when there is a character who knows everything that's going on but still he doesn't reveal anything to the protagonist till the end when it doesn't even matter anymore

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Where the film has a really ridiculously contrived ending, in order to make the good guys win unrealistically (looking at you, Predators!). Seriously, 5 humans for 3 predators? You wouldn't be too impressed if you got that K/D in COD, let alone if you were an alien with superior technology and physical prowess.

Ridiculously contrived anything gets my vote, when the plot/characters do something obviously pants-on-head retarded for the sole purpose of moving the movie along. Salt is the most recent one that made me rage in this regard:

Spoiler: Salt spoilers, in case you haven't seen it yet

"Oh look, a super-spy just breached the most significant Secret Service security team and killed the Russian president - let's handcuff her IN FRONT OF HER BODY and put her in a police car WITHOUT A CAGE DIVIDER. Oh, and no need to send any agents as escorts, I'm sure 6 RANDOM NYC POLICE OFFICERS can handle her just fine. That's a fucking BRILLIANT idea!

Later on:

"Well, we finally managed to arrest her again, this time make sure the handcuffs go behind her back - remember what happened last time? Oh, but intsead of normal handcuffs, USE AN 18-INCH STEEL CHAIN. I'm sure she won't be able to strangle anyone with that!

I mean, I can look past your average stupidity and/or plot holes, but some of this crap is inexcusable.

 

[tehroc]

Science Fiction movies that take themselves too seriously and contain lots of bad science.

 

[nomadic_chad]

I'm tired of stereotypes in movies. I'd like to see more nerdy looking guys holding their own out of sheer determination and a bit of luck. I'd like to see the hero lose, I'd like to see the hot girl finally fall for the dork, only to have the dork tell her to piss off, because he likes the "not quite hot" girl. I'd like to see more black girls falling for white guys and white guys falling for black girls (bear with me, not a racist thing, but a disparity that I've noticed in movies and advertisements).

And for whoever dissed Shutter Island earlier and said they saw the twist in it in like 5 minutes or whatever, I kind of call bullshit. I don't really believe that you saw the outcome that early in. You could get a hint with all the flashbacks that there was some mental issues with the guy, but not who he was, what exactly happened, or what happened at the very end.

Spoiler

you do realize that he walked off to be lobotomized not really as "Teddy", but as Andrew, don't you? the comment, "is it better to live as a monster or die as a good man?," the fact that he wouldn't respond to his "partner" calling him by his made up Marshal name, and the fact that he allowed the orderlies to walk him off all point to the fact that he was "cured", but unwilling to continue remembering how he failed his wife and kids.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

Starring Ben Affleck

Uuuugh...

Seriously, I've yet to see a film where I haven't gotten annoyed the instant his face shows

You know, he's a really good director...

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

TIME TRAVEL
Make you think about the very fabric of life

 

[Terramax]

Jumping-out-of-the-closet scares.

I watched The Wolfman the other day and their constant, dumb attempts to make you jump completely ruined that movie.

 

[Terramax]

Edit: The USA save the day. Cause there's no other countries in the world, right? I'd like to see Russia or China or Canada save the day in a movie for once.

I'm not trying to sound like a dick here, but if you want to see movies where Russia, China or Canada saves the day you should go watch a movie made by, or set in Russia, China or Canada. It only makes sense to have the country that the movie is set in to save the day.

No. Not at all. Films should be about the audience, not about those who make them. If the audience want more films where Americans aren't saving the day, even American movies should be catering to that.

 

[wolf92]

Alien, evil twins, waking up and the story was aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal a dream.
Oh and double agents who are supposed to be dead

 

[Solemn Soup]

The ending to Shutter Island was terrible, so whatever plot device that was, it was a good movie up till like the last 30 minutes.

 

[NotAnEscapist]

Automatically ruins movie: Directed By M. Night Shyamalan.

 

[nomadic_chad]

Is it possible that it's not the plot devices we dislike, but the way a particular director or writer pulls them off? For about every plot device listed here I can think of a movie or two that did it superbly and I rather enjoyed.

Sure, there's "exceptions that prove the rule", but when every rule has exceptions (plural mind you), maybe it's not the rules we dislike, but the way they're usually enforced.

Meh, maybe not. My mind got to wandering and I wrote it down to try and make sense of where it was going.

 

[Fraught]

Well, the number one must be
"And it was all a dream!"

Hey, I wanted to say that!

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

In films about supernatural phenomena, the ending being that the main character(s) is actually a ghost or already dead. The Sixth Sense perfected this twist in that no body saw it coming or even expected such a thing. Ever since then, I can't help but keep that as a possible option in these types of movies, to the point where I can call it out by the half-way point whether the characters are or aren't ghosts in the end.

 

[cheese_wizington]

Genre movies about genres.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

"Oh no! Our only chance of success was destroyed! What's that? There was another, easier and never blocked way of winning in the first place? Let's use that now!"

Gosh that sucks huge...