Things in movies that you find loathsome?

[ify_]

Physics! When the guy with a gun (let's say a .357) shoots the other guy and the victim goes flying 17 feet through the air. It just doesn't work that way...and you see it happen over and over! ...even after the Myth Busters movie episode.

also, I hate how in some action movies they seem to run in nitroglycerine cars, a slightly hard bump and it blows in to pieces!!

I'll second that! Why is it that (almost) every car in the movies explodes on impact? What's up with that? I hate to bring up Myth Busters again but they have destroyed numerous vehicles none of which exploded in the process (excepting those loaded with high explosives).

Finally, what's going on with the whole phone number thing? Almost every time I've heard a phone number quoted they all start with "555". I realize they don't want to accidentally give out a real phone number (There was actually a story recently on NPR about the owner of the 8675309 phone number) but the "555" shtick is getting a little old.

I dislike it when the good guys (the AMERICANS) are standing there at the end of the movie, all emotionally saluting the U.S flag while some cheesy orchestra plays some kind of "heroic" music in the background. It's so extremely common and cheesy, but I guess it's quite appealing to the american watchers, being all patriotic and all. But I don't like it.

Heck, sometimes on weekends we Americans do this just for fun.

 

[Koski]

Undeveloped characters with the personality of a piece of paper who do nothing but shout out one-liners. I mean, sheesh. You guys get paid to write scripts, write some interesting characters!

Also, movies getting their facts wrong. There's nothing wrong with tweaking history and such for dramatic purposes, but PLEASE retain some credibility. Problem with these things is that they're usually small, but once you notice them, they're all you can think of.

E.g: The use of the tarot card Death in the movie version of Hellboy, it's made to make the audience expect someone's death, when Death really means change, usually drastic, but positive. For the rest of the movie, that was all I could think of.

 

[dwightsteel]

You know what I hate? When a movie sucks. Just hate it, hate it, hate it.

 

[zoozilla]

I hate when at the very end the main character suddenly has a revelation that causes him/her to act in a completely un-characteristic way just to save the day.

 

[dwightsteel]

What they did to the max payne movie
need i say more?

That and dragonabll evolution and you got it spot on
have half a cookie

I was about to make a statement saying I was waiting for someone to talk about Dragonball Evolution, but I thought better of it, because I wanted to make sure somebody hadn't already done it, but low and behold, the second a "shitty movie" thread comes into being, somebody has already done it. Seriously. I get it. DBE sucked. Can I make an early birthday request that we stop talking about it now?

 

[sky14kemea]

nicolas cage

edit: should probably post more...

the fact that in action movies the main guy is always bursting with muscle or something equally as 'macho'
what, normal people cant save the day?

what do you hate about Nicholas cage? and what does the other stuff you said have to do with him?

the second bits nothing to do with him... XD

i just dont like him because i dont think he's a good actor, i dont mind if other people like him though

 

[Inverse Skies]

I'm not much of a fan of movies in general, so the idea of watching them in the first place is the thing I don't like most of all. Just.... can't sit still throughout a movie, I'm a bit too fidgety in order to do that.

 

[asmondaus]

The good guys winning, i wanna see a movie where the bad guys win for once, mabey a few sequals later and the good guys win but just barely, then he/she/they die after the fight because they were wounded fighting the evil dude. if this has been done already please tell me cuz i wanna see that movie

 

[Hollso]

nicolas cage

edit: should probably post more...

what do you hate about Nicholas cage? and what does the other stuff you said have to do with him?

the second bits nothing to do with him... XD

i just dont like him because i dont think he's a good actor, i dont mind if other people like him though

I agree, Cage just gets on my nerves. His voice his irritating, a little bit like Lloyd Grossman's. And he can't act. National Treasure would have been even cooler without him.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Typical cliches.

To name but a few in resident evil: Degenerations.

"Go on without me!"
There is also a protagonist quotation where a character will say something, and whilst rescueing said person, will repeat their saying.

 

[MacTavish_Son]

nicolas cage

edit: should probably post more...

the fact that in action movies the main guy is always bursting with muscle or something equally as 'macho'
what, normal people cant save the day?

what do you hate about Nicholas cage? and what does the other stuff you said have to do with him?

the second bits nothing to do with him... XD

i just dont like him because i dont think he's a good actor, i dont mind if other people like him though

If you watch all of his movies in succession, you'll see that, he always seems to be the same person, really you should be able to tell his characters apart, not just confuse them with another. Except for the one movie where he was an arms dealer (Forget the name) I enjoyed that more than the other crap.

 

[ellie91]

I hate when at the very end the main character suddenly has a revelation that causes him/her to act in a completely un-characteristic way just to save the day.

this

And when you get the really weedy flawed hero who comes up against the big bad ass villan and loses first time but then by the end beats him and gets the girl who he managed to piss off in the second act. For once can't the girl not get with the hero! what's wrong with a little rejection in films.

 

[Sheinen]

I hate when at the very end the main character suddenly has a revelation that causes him/her to act in a completely un-characteristic way just to save the day.

this

And when you get the really weedy flawed hero who comes up against the big bad ass villan and loses first time but then by the end beats him and gets the girl who he managed to piss off in the second act. For once can't the girl not get with the hero! what's wrong with a little rejection in films.

So basically you really hated Never Back Down then...

Theres a well recognised 'rule' to writing which revolves around 3 basic acts: Flawed Balance, Imbalance and Better Balance. this really means it needs to start with something that works but in a sucky way, get's totally ruined and ends up working much better for it.

Unfortunately that's now more predictable than the end of a Porno!

 

[dukethepcdr]

nicolas cage

edit: should probably post more...

the fact that in action movies the main guy is always bursting with muscle or something equally as 'macho'
what, normal people cant save the day?

what do you hate about Nicholas cage? and what does the other stuff you said have to do with him?

Exactly. In fact Cage is an example of a "normal" looking guy who is the hero of some of his movies. He doesn't have any big muscles. In fact in most of his movies, he plays a pretty dorky guy who still manages to save the day somehow. The best examples of this are his "National Treasure" movies which are pretty good.

What I get tired of and find kind of loathsome are the little "call back" lines in movies where they say something towards the beginning of the film and then repeat it again towards the end. Sometimes it's just repeated by a different actor, other times, it's repeated by the same actor in a different context etc. I know, it's supposed to help tie the ends of the story together, but it's just so gimmicky that it's annoying. Almost every movie I've seen does it. Is it a requirement for scripts to get "green-lit" or something?

 

[ellie91]

I hate when at the very end the main character suddenly has a revelation that causes him/her to act in a completely un-characteristic way just to save the day.

this

And when you get the really weedy flawed hero who comes up against the big bad ass villan and loses first time but then by the end beats him and gets the girl who he managed to piss off in the second act. For once can't the girl not get with the hero! what's wrong with a little rejection in films.

So basically you really hated Never Back Down then...

Theres a well recognised 'rule' to writing which revolves around 3 basic acts: Flawed Balance, Imbalance and Better Balance. this really means it needs to start with something that works but in a sucky way, get's totally ruined and ends up working much better for it.

Unfortunately that's now more predictable than the end of a Porno!

i've never seen or even heard of never back down but if that's basically the plot i think i may steer clear. yeah the whole 3 basic acts is mostly very annoying and really obvious so you can always guess what's going to happen but i will admit occasionally it works. it's just been overdone to death

 

[Davey Woo]

When the producer thought "Hey let's see how many "this character must die because" rules we can fit into a film" One example is the film The Core.
They have:
The wimpy guy who suddenly gets all heroic and then dies.
The family man with a photo of his wife and kids who dies.
The commander who dies saving the apprentice/private.
The soppy guy with a picture his 5 year old daughter drew him who dies.
The techy who dies saving the computer system.
The black guy who martyrs himself for the sake of the mission.

This leaves the main character and the love interest.
Out of a team of 8 people, 2 survived. 2!

So yea basically when there's a completely insignificant character that is put in just to make a dramatic death scene. Or when they kill off an important character just for the hell of it.

 

[schubi]

A typical hot chick (usually in leather) kicking ass.

Don't get me wrong, i am straight male and can understand the appeal, but it's such a moronic stereotype in movies nowadays it makes me puke.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Chessy love scenes that are harder to watch than any horror movie you've ever seen.

 

[J-Dubb]

Mary sue's ruin movies (i'm looking at you Resident Evil)

 

[Aristol]

I can't stand 3D movies. Half the movie just ends up having crap getting poked at you just so you know its 3D.