Things that piss you off...in movies!
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When people think aloud, It's not happening as much anymore but seriously it pisses me off when no one else is around and the main character just starts talking...
I guess it happens more in video games...
I guess it happens more in video games...
Ooo, that WOULD! See, if that were to happen, then I wouldn't be upset with all the scenes where the heroes appear to be close to death!Piorn said:
Hrmm, I can't really agree with the total list, such as Fight Club (as the romance was pretty slight and it was an honest contact outside of Norton's current world), and the PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl because it was a movie set up to be a stand alone (though I'm sure they had planned for a squeal, they probably were still crossing their fingers in hoping it was good.Th3Ch33s3Cak3 said:
The rest I do agree with, if not for the fact that romance was forced in them, they were meant to draw in audiences who like the romances.
EDIT: As far as my irritations. The Camera tricks, like the shakey camera syndrome that people above spoke about, and the Panning...the PANNING...Ever watch Unstoppable? You know what I'm talking about. Honestly they had to try and circle around everyone every thirty seconds in that movie.
I 100% agree about the re-casting. It really bugs me too!
Aside from that - really just all the old cliche film techniques. I saw a film recently, and everytime it came to a character having a flashback, it zoomed up very close to their face as they were staring and looking concerned, playing the music that says "WE ARE NOW GOING INTO A FLASHBACK" and then everything is in Sepia tone. Seriously, how thick do they think people are to not understand why all the characters are so much younger and in a different place?
And I know its hard to really argue this, but I wish the villains would ocassionally win. Aside from horror, the good guys always always win and its never even a question if they'll lose. Not that Im against humanity or anything, but how exciting would films be if there was actually a chance that the villains could win? Nowadays, we all know that no matter what kind of pickle "the good guys" are in, they WILL previal. The best alternative we can hope for is a "Pulp Fiction" type case where there are, at least arguably, no good guys or bad guys... just guys.
Aside from that - really just all the old cliche film techniques. I saw a film recently, and everytime it came to a character having a flashback, it zoomed up very close to their face as they were staring and looking concerned, playing the music that says "WE ARE NOW GOING INTO A FLASHBACK" and then everything is in Sepia tone. Seriously, how thick do they think people are to not understand why all the characters are so much younger and in a different place?
And I know its hard to really argue this, but I wish the villains would ocassionally win. Aside from horror, the good guys always always win and its never even a question if they'll lose. Not that Im against humanity or anything, but how exciting would films be if there was actually a chance that the villains could win? Nowadays, we all know that no matter what kind of pickle "the good guys" are in, they WILL previal. The best alternative we can hope for is a "Pulp Fiction" type case where there are, at least arguably, no good guys or bad guys... just guys.
My reason for hate towards action movies today are the mortar in m fortress of love to protect old action movies: the shaky cam. Lemme ask you this: have you ever seen a fight scene in an action movie and the screen is just going everywhere, like the cameraman is an epyliptic through a seizure right on the San Andreas fault line in the middle of an earthquake? That's what I hate about current action movies, the freaking camera! I cannot for the life of me understand why directors still do this, it's been played to death and gives me a headache. That's why I love old movies like from the 70s to 80s, at least than you can tell whose-who and what's going on.
Not to mention fill in all the plot holes of the prequels.Piorn said:
"When I met your father, he was a great pilot"
"I can't recall ever owning a droid"
"There you will meet Yoda. The Jedi Master who instructed me"
Yoda calls Anakin restless and impetuous "So was I if you remember"
As for the OT
I hate the whole "Good guys are good looking. Bad guys are ugly. Good guys who are ugly will turn out to be bad guys. Bad guys who are good looking will turn out to be good guys." with every fiber of my being.
Where to start...
-Cheezy romance
-Gaping plot holes
-The main character being a complete and total idiot
-GAPING PLOT HOLES
-The fact that in horror movies, the main guy and love interest are the only ones who survive...
-That one overly emotional person in action movies that cant seem to pull the trigger to kill the zombie/terrorist/mad gunman who's about to kill their friend
-incompetent bad guys
- The [url = http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedshirtArmy] Red shirt Army [/url]
Etc...
-Cheezy romance
-Gaping plot holes
-The main character being a complete and total idiot
-GAPING PLOT HOLES
-The fact that in horror movies, the main guy and love interest are the only ones who survive...
-That one overly emotional person in action movies that cant seem to pull the trigger to kill the zombie/terrorist/mad gunman who's about to kill their friend
-incompetent bad guys
- The [url = http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedshirtArmy] Red shirt Army [/url]
Etc...
Super obvious plot twists that I can see coming from a thousand miles away. Yes everybody the Sixth Sense was a cool movie but it doesn't mean that every movie has to have a mysterious twist that turns the whole thing on its head.
It's boring.
It's boring.
When movies from USA throw in their flags everywhere and give patriotic speeches.
Patriotism makes us sick over here in Sweden, and you can't find anything more over-the-top patriotic than American war movies.
Patriotism makes us sick over here in Sweden, and you can't find anything more over-the-top patriotic than American war movies.
Return of the Living Dead and Dead Snow immediately come to mind, as well as every Romero zombie movie after Night Of the Living Dead (Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead). Also Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead to a certain extent.Scarim Coral said:
Two things:
*Love interest sub-plots. I don't mind them in movies where they make sense, but a movie about giant robots beating the crap out of each other does not need any romantic subplots.
*The cop out "It was all a dream" ending. Okay, it may have been clever the first time someone did it, but now people will just whip it out of nowhere, and then it makes everything you just watched essentially pointless and it makes the director look like an idiot.
There are a few exceptions, but I've seen plenty of movies where at the last minute the movie goes "Whoops, it was all a dream! Everything you just watched was for nothing!"
*Love interest sub-plots. I don't mind them in movies where they make sense, but a movie about giant robots beating the crap out of each other does not need any romantic subplots.
*The cop out "It was all a dream" ending. Okay, it may have been clever the first time someone did it, but now people will just whip it out of nowhere, and then it makes everything you just watched essentially pointless and it makes the director look like an idiot.
There are a few exceptions, but I've seen plenty of movies where at the last minute the movie goes "Whoops, it was all a dream! Everything you just watched was for nothing!"
Dumb fucking villains, it's just bad writing when the bad guy has the hero right where he wants him and can execute him right then and there with absolutely no reason to keep him alive yet he doesn't he just stalls like a complete pussy then leaves it in someone elses hands who inevitably gets their neck snapped by the hero.
Another one I hate when the bad guy tries to play the morality card on the hero "You'll be as bad as me" after the hero has already had to blast his way through dozens of faceless goons, I mean what the fuck? If anything feel bad for the goons they're just following orders of this asshole!
Forced romance sub plot, It's not needed, it only makes realtionships look stupid and it is usually very sexist, how the male lead is rewarded with hot female trophy for all his troubles.
War movies about Heroes. I don't mean like the people who fought in WW2 but the ones that imply ONE MAN on the battlefield changes the course of an entire war, I'm pretty sure generals/strategists are the guys who change the course of wars.
Deus Ex Machina, a case of lazy/convenient writing, sometimes I allow it but other times it's completely obvious, for example every Harry Potter book/film could/should have been named "Harry Potter and the Deus Ex Machina"
The kid, you know the one, you liked a film then the sequel/prequel has a child actor you just have to hate.
The thriller that uses the plot twist/device someone else already did. I'm going to drag in Heavy Rain as the example here, the gold watch is mentioned right at the damn start of the game and everyone who has seen Speed knows what that means. Also the whole "How do children disappear in public" angle, well Persona 4 covered that one, it's a fucking cop!
"THE WEAPON/SUPER MOVE" This is more common in anime but I hate it when some kind of powerful weapon or technique is revealed and they spend half an epsiode explaining it before they use it I mean Christ are they trying to SELL me the fucking gun or what?
Another one I hate when the bad guy tries to play the morality card on the hero "You'll be as bad as me" after the hero has already had to blast his way through dozens of faceless goons, I mean what the fuck? If anything feel bad for the goons they're just following orders of this asshole!
Forced romance sub plot, It's not needed, it only makes realtionships look stupid and it is usually very sexist, how the male lead is rewarded with hot female trophy for all his troubles.
War movies about Heroes. I don't mean like the people who fought in WW2 but the ones that imply ONE MAN on the battlefield changes the course of an entire war, I'm pretty sure generals/strategists are the guys who change the course of wars.
Deus Ex Machina, a case of lazy/convenient writing, sometimes I allow it but other times it's completely obvious, for example every Harry Potter book/film could/should have been named "Harry Potter and the Deus Ex Machina"
The kid, you know the one, you liked a film then the sequel/prequel has a child actor you just have to hate.
The thriller that uses the plot twist/device someone else already did. I'm going to drag in Heavy Rain as the example here, the gold watch is mentioned right at the damn start of the game and everyone who has seen Speed knows what that means. Also the whole "How do children disappear in public" angle, well Persona 4 covered that one, it's a fucking cop!
"THE WEAPON/SUPER MOVE" This is more common in anime but I hate it when some kind of powerful weapon or technique is revealed and they spend half an epsiode explaining it before they use it I mean Christ are they trying to SELL me the fucking gun or what?
Avatar is necessary to the plot and though its not in the main story the appendix of Lord of the Rings has the love plot and LoTr nerds would moan if it wasnt present.Th3Ch33s3Cak3 said:
OT: Characters that exist for no other reason then comic relief and or stereotypes