Things that film makers and writers do that piss you off.

[Dangit2019]

Snip Snip Skyline Snip

Oh God, that movie. The look of it itself looked cheaper than the action scenes that film school YouTubers will pump out in a day. It's like the people who made it had never heard of color grading or editing...or compositing...or acting...or- you know what, it just wasn't a good movie.

Princess Jubbly Tits and Prince Bruce got married, they had 3 kids and all loved each other. HAHAHAHAHAHA kidding it was all a dream!

That is the worst ending ever.

To quote Mike Stolklasa:

"If there's 2 things that film school taught me, it was to never begin your film with an alarm clock going off, and never end it with 'it was all a dream'."

OT: I'm a pretty big fan of Chris Nolan, but the action scenes in Batman Begins look horrible. Fast editing punch-outs can work, but the people that try them often don't know how to do them right. I'm just glad that he reeled back his bad habits in the other two films for the most part.

 

[Quaxar]

When the Hero and Villian are fighting, and the Villian is winning but then suddenly, through the POWER OF LOVE HE GAINS THE STRENGTH HE NEEDS TO WIN THE FIGHT! Or any crap like that.

B-but... Scott Pilgrim!

That being said, I've now started hating every. single. love/relationship subplot. everywhere. It's generic, often annoying and most of the time simply unnecessary. Kick-Ass would have been so much better if they had approached that girl-thing like the comic and have her laugh at him, but instead she fucks the nerd behind the comic shop... really?

 

[SckizoBoy]

Spartacus snip

It's only just occurred to me, but the film was based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast and was not meant to be completely (or even partially, I think) historically accurate. It was self-published because no publisher wanted to touch the work primarily because the author had been imprisoned for contempt of Congress (the basis of which was one of the dumbest things ever), though granted, he was a communist. He started writing it while in prison and the (perceived) parallels between Roman and McCarthy era suppression of the slave-class/freedom of speech (sort of... not an authority on McCarthyism...) respectively sort of became the novel's (and Fast's) statement.

So it was rather a romantic notion of standing up to the authoritarian state and an ostensibly 'nobler' path taken by the protagonist, the ultimate failure being just for added drama. *shrug*

 

[Lionsfan]

When the Hero and Villian are fighting, and the Villian is winning but then suddenly, through the POWER OF LOVE HE GAINS THE STRENGTH HE NEEDS TO WIN THE FIGHT! Or any crap like that.

B-but... Scott Pilgrim!

Didn't he fail with "The Power of Love"? I thought he won when he unlocked "The Power of Self-Respect"?

 

[Quaxar]

When the Hero and Villian are fighting, and the Villian is winning but then suddenly, through the POWER OF LOVE HE GAINS THE STRENGTH HE NEEDS TO WIN THE FIGHT! Or any crap like that.

B-but... Scott Pilgrim!

Didn't he fail with "The Power of Love"? I thought he won when he unlocked "The Power of Self-Respect"?

Exactly. And that's a nice twist in my eyes. For once, self-respect trumps love instead of the other way round.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Attempts to make us give a damn about a certain character just so they can kill them off near the end in a shallow shot at an emotional reaction from us, and to give the protagonist crazed motivation to do whatever they were doing, especially if they were about to go do it anyway.

Video games are mostly guilty of this, but pulling the above and then having the protagonist forget about it two or three scenes later, often never mentioning them again. It's as if even the character knows the guy was there just to get die for an emotional reaction.

Forced romance subplots. Which is most of them, by the way.

Shaking the fucking camera around, for any reason other than there's a damn earthquake. Ugh.

Another video game thing: Building up a huge conflict throughout the game and giving us a bunch of smoke and mirrors about why we can't just deal with it now, then just randomly making us go handle it all of a sudden with no preamble at all. By ourselves. It obviously wasn't that big of a deal.

Making gay characters stand out in some way.

Five foot tall, hundred pound women beating the crap out of everything that opposes them. While wearing skintight body suits. Good fucking god, knock it off.

Prequels produced after the main series that insist on explaining every single thing about the prior-existing works. Extra points taken off when they contain every single important event mentioned as taking place before the prior-existing works' storylines.

Zooming the camera in on a character as he gets up from being knocked down during a physical conflict so we can't see the guy moving up to hit him just as he gets to his feet. You can see these coming a mile away, without fail.

Honestly, I could go on all day. I've never encountered any work that didn't make some stock, cliched mistake like the above.

 

[Tiger Sora]

This sums up alot of what I think of Hollywood. I don't want a 100 million dollars of explosions. I want a story told.

 

[The Sanctifier]

Something I really hate is when you got some really powerful bad guy trying to choke the main character to death and then he suddenly decides to throw him across the room instead, giving him a chance to get back on his feet. Seriously, just fucking choke the guy, why the hell give him a chance to recover. Its one of those things that seems to spoil a lot of fight scenes in movies.

Special mention would have to go to Terminator Salvation, where not only does the robot at the beginning of the film fail to pulverize John Conner when it had the chance, but instead, flings him towards a conveniently placed machine gun on a downed chopper.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"We have to rescue her before the evil villain marries her!"

...why? Unless the marriage unleashes some ancient evil or something, who cares? Catch up to them at the reception; a laser blast to the forehead counts as an annulment! Oh, wait, I know what the issue is... if the bad guy marries her, then her "purity" is spoiled and she can't give it to the hero as a reward for his bravery instead. Because we're still in the 50's or something, I suppose.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I ***** about this almost every time but. You take off your helmet in space, your head freezes solid. I hate that. I just hate it.

I've seen the Instant Freezing Space Thing averted maybe twice. The first time was in the film Titan A.E, and the second time was in the Cowboy Bebop Episode Heavy Metal Queen.

You will not freeze to death in space. Ever. You will either die of asphyxiation, explosive decompression, or radiation burning you to a crisp. Your corpse will freeze sure, but it will take hours for your body temperature to dissipate in a vacuum, since radiation is the only feasible way to transfer energy, and it's pretty slow compared to conduction or convection.

But if films are to be believed, you will freeze faster than Boris getting drenched in nitrogen in Goldeneye.

 

[Icehearted]

Red herrings, loose ends, and deus ex machina like with Lost. It's all proof most of these writers are talentless hacks. Remakes are further proof off their lack of talent and imagination. What, no original ideas? Great, because we need another version of Planet of the Apes again.

 

[Gregory McMillan]

I ***** about this almost every time but. You take off your helmet in space, your head freezes solid. I hate that. I just hate it.

Don't forget sound effects in space. Because obviously spaceships would make whoosh noises when they travel and pew pew pew noises when they fire their guns.

Sound travels faster in space because there's no air to get in the way.

The one thing that really bugs me in films? Crap villains and crap villain dialogue. Personally, I often find villains more interesting than heroes, so when they spout clichéd shit like, "The world will be mine, I will have my revenge, kneel down before me peasants, face your doom, you cannot defeat me blah blah blah," it really kills my villain boner.

I understand the realism issue, but could you imagine a star wars space battle without sound? I would fall asleep. Or go blind.


Forced romance, stereotyped characters, and little inspiration aside, I hate poorly-written child characters in movies.

Anakin Skywalker for example, would have made the entire trilogy better if he was 17 years old in The Phantom Menace. That's a good age because he's still a needy, whiny, stupid boy but he's on the precipice of manhood, and I'm sure being a slave for 15 years teaches you to be more mature than your peers. The whole mother-child attachment is still there and still serves as basis for dark side temptation. By the time Attack of the Clones rolls around, he would be 27 and giving up your oaths as a grown adult takes more courage, strength, cowardice, or weakness than it does as pubescent teen. In addition, it would've place him and Obi-Wan closer in age and give them more a buddy buddy feel.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The Hollywood portrayal of Love being one or two steps above porn.

this is true. it seems in the majority of movies, the love is always played out like a competition. Even if it's not an action movie, you can see it's all about "winning the girl". As if it's some holy relic or some shit. They almost always choose the guy as the lead role and they have to jump through hoops to win over the girl's impression. Even if the movie is from the girl's POV it usually seems even worse at how they portray these women. A female role in a romance/comedy movie is terrible. I always hate the character, every time.

I was more referring to cases like in, I think it was The Skulls (or whatever that movie was called about the stupid fraternity from hell, that starred that one guy from Dawson's Creek), where the long time female friend of the main protagonist reveals that she had always been in love with him so they immediately hit the sheets. ...WHAT?
But what you were talking about is certainly annoying too.

 

[GoAwayVifs]

"We have to rescue her before the evil villain marries her!"

...why? Unless the marriage unleashes some ancient evil or something, who cares? Catch up to them at the reception; a laser blast to the forehead counts as an annulment! Oh, wait, I know what the issue is... if the bad guy marries her, then her "purity" is spoiled and she can't give it to the hero as a reward for his bravery instead. Because we're still in the 50's or something, I suppose.

The reason they stop the marriage is so she doesn't have to go through all the red tape of dealing with her spouse's death after the hero kills him. Not to mention the costs associated with disposing of the body. It's really just easier to make sure they don't marry in the first place.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Basically, any revisionist history, unless it's way over the top and obvious.

Changing a rela life person's ethnicity to "appeal to a wider audience"...blech.

I ***** about this almost every time but. You take off your helmet in space, your head freezes solid. I hate that. I just hate it.

You hate that they show it, or you hate that they don't?

It could go either way, depending on things.

I'm quite certain that it wouldn't go either way. You'd lose all oxygen in your lungs and would get the bends but your head isn't going to freeze solid for no apparent reason.

 

[Remus]

Orange and teal. Seriously, this color grading template has completely changed the way I watch movies. Color grading can be cool if used to effect. Take the movie "Pulse" for example. It starts out bright and vibrant, every color readily apparent, then over the course of the movie changes to just blues and grays, with the occasional splash of red (tape). That's effective without being obnoxious. It alters the mood of the film subtlely and you wouldn't notice it unless you were watching for it. Orange and teal is not subtle, is obnoxious, and turns me off of a movie the second I see it.

 

[mrhappy1489]

What I'd say irritates me the most is when someone is adapting a book into film and rather than include all the characters, simply take one or two out and copy them onto another character. Game of Thrones for example, removed both Jojen and Meera Reed from the Second season and gave most of there dialogue to Osha (Which also meant they changed Asha's name to Yara because people might get confused). Now I can understand the need to keep the cast within limits, but Jojen and Meera are fairly important characters in the Bran arc and by taking away a portion of their lines and character building it might cause trouble down the road. Also what irritates is the way roles are reduced. Using Game of Thrones as an example again, Qhorin Halfhand's role was significantly reduced and thus his characters importance. He's responsible for teaching Jon some very strong life lessons while scouting Mance Rayder's camp and by removing that, Jon hasn't experienced nearly half the growth he did in the book. I realise that budget is a constraint, but honestly I'd rather have seen Jon and Qhorins interactions as opposed to his and Ygrittes. There is enough of that in the Third book, did they really need to take that away from Qhorin. By the way I love the show, bits of it just irk me.

 

[Cheesus Crust]

I hate romantic plot tumors or that thing where writers tend to pair the spare characters even if there was nothing there in the beginning.

I also hate ramping if its too overplayed. There's only so much slow motion the accelerated to insane speeds action sequences that I can enjoy. Use it too much and it gets boring.