Things that piss you off...in movies!
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Anything that occurs because of the meta issues with it being a movie.
My personal pet peeve is the "post-coital dive under the sheet". It exists purely to affect the ratings of the movie, but always breaks whatever realism the scene may have. In 20 odd years of having sex, neither myself nor anyone I'm with has ever instantly dived under the covers afterwards. We're sweaty, we want to dry off a little first.
Likewise the classic, "I'm getting out of bed and tearing the sheet off the bed to wrap around myself before I walk out of the room" thing. Who does that?
It also drives me nuts when guns only run out of ammo if they need to do so as a plot point.
What else... Disney deaths, where bad guys essentially kill themselves (generally by falling off of something) after the good guy spares their life.
Oh, and of course, any movie with insanely heavy handed moralizing. (as this is heavy handed Christmas movie moralizing season, I'm in for a tough month)
My personal pet peeve is the "post-coital dive under the sheet". It exists purely to affect the ratings of the movie, but always breaks whatever realism the scene may have. In 20 odd years of having sex, neither myself nor anyone I'm with has ever instantly dived under the covers afterwards. We're sweaty, we want to dry off a little first.
Likewise the classic, "I'm getting out of bed and tearing the sheet off the bed to wrap around myself before I walk out of the room" thing. Who does that?
It also drives me nuts when guns only run out of ammo if they need to do so as a plot point.
What else... Disney deaths, where bad guys essentially kill themselves (generally by falling off of something) after the good guy spares their life.
Oh, and of course, any movie with insanely heavy handed moralizing. (as this is heavy handed Christmas movie moralizing season, I'm in for a tough month)
I don't know if it pisses me of but it's a small fact I don't like...
When someone gets shot, for example in the shoulder, they just keep shooting with said arm. In few cases of adrenalin rush this might be possible (or if on drugs) but it happens in every action movie.
I mean my mom fell with her bike and dislocated her shoulder 6 years ago and it still isn't the same as it was before, and a bullet wound is pretty much permanent damage to the body if you happen to get one.
When someone gets shot, for example in the shoulder, they just keep shooting with said arm. In few cases of adrenalin rush this might be possible (or if on drugs) but it happens in every action movie.
I mean my mom fell with her bike and dislocated her shoulder 6 years ago and it still isn't the same as it was before, and a bullet wound is pretty much permanent damage to the body if you happen to get one.
The fact that the handsome white male protagonist is never the emotionally unstable one (District 9 being an exception to this) and the existence of Transformers 2 (I once wrote a cynical plot synopsis to it in which I described every single flaw and plot convenience before showing it to firstly a fan of Transformers as a whole and then to a quality deficient fan of the films, both now agree with me.)
Lack of over-the-top, unnecessary, stylized violence. I'm serious, nothing makes a movie cooler to me than awesome action scenes.
Lack of improbable, physical comedy. I'm talking about stuff you'd see in a Leslie Nielsen movie like Airplane or The Naked Gun. The only one I had seen recently with that in it was A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (which was funny as hell).
I don't know if more movies than I think have these. If there is I missed it.
Lack of improbable, physical comedy. I'm talking about stuff you'd see in a Leslie Nielsen movie like Airplane or The Naked Gun. The only one I had seen recently with that in it was A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (which was funny as hell).
I don't know if more movies than I think have these. If there is I missed it.
Oh, I've got plenty of objections.
1) The corrupt corporate executive: I'm sick and tired of the villain always being a corporate executive of some sort. I think it's a gross oversimplification. Granted, corporations can engage in some antisocial behavior in the name of profits, but painting the executives as just being pure evil isn't fair. A CEO has to maximize profits for his investors. That's not just good business, it's the law. Antisocial business practices are best attributed to a flawed system, rather than the malevolence of an individual.
2) The repetant hero: I hate this cliche mainly because I can't relate to it at all. Often times, the hero starts out working for the evil corporation or whatever, only to realize that what they're doing is somehow wrong and jumping ship to join the resistance. See Avatar, Daybreakers, District 9, and so forth. A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies ever because even though Alex is a monster, he's not sorry about it, which I find far more relatable.
3) The female love interest: I find that in movies, often times a secondary character is female solely for the purpose of hooking up with the male protagonist. It's stupid, it's obvious, and it's done to death. If you must have a female character, make sure it's for reasons beyond screwing one of the male characters. Which leads me to-
4) The white male 20-something: So many protagonists these days are white men in their twenties. The irony is that I fit that category and I still find them unrelatable. Such protagonists are often boisterous, immature man-children, or in the best case scenario, utterly generic and forgettable as characters.
5) Nicolas Cage: You're ugly and you can't act for beans. Stop getting lead roles.
I'm sure I could find more if I tried, but you get the idea. I'm not much of a movie buff.
1) The corrupt corporate executive: I'm sick and tired of the villain always being a corporate executive of some sort. I think it's a gross oversimplification. Granted, corporations can engage in some antisocial behavior in the name of profits, but painting the executives as just being pure evil isn't fair. A CEO has to maximize profits for his investors. That's not just good business, it's the law. Antisocial business practices are best attributed to a flawed system, rather than the malevolence of an individual.
2) The repetant hero: I hate this cliche mainly because I can't relate to it at all. Often times, the hero starts out working for the evil corporation or whatever, only to realize that what they're doing is somehow wrong and jumping ship to join the resistance. See Avatar, Daybreakers, District 9, and so forth. A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies ever because even though Alex is a monster, he's not sorry about it, which I find far more relatable.
3) The female love interest: I find that in movies, often times a secondary character is female solely for the purpose of hooking up with the male protagonist. It's stupid, it's obvious, and it's done to death. If you must have a female character, make sure it's for reasons beyond screwing one of the male characters. Which leads me to-
4) The white male 20-something: So many protagonists these days are white men in their twenties. The irony is that I fit that category and I still find them unrelatable. Such protagonists are often boisterous, immature man-children, or in the best case scenario, utterly generic and forgettable as characters.
5) Nicolas Cage: You're ugly and you can't act for beans. Stop getting lead roles.
I'm sure I could find more if I tried, but you get the idea. I'm not much of a movie buff.
Esotera said:
Only the subtitles are russian, the video is in english.
Anyway, when things are cut out unnecessarily. I was watching some shitty TV movie once, and the whole thing was a lead up to one massive fight... which isn't shown. Fuck.
For me it's the fight scenes, or to be more specific, fight scenes where the moves they pull off wouldn't work in a real fight even if you allow for perfect timing, dumb-as-bricks henchmen, and a protagonist who spends their every waking moment on a gymnastics assault course. Case in point, in Iron Man 2 when Scarlett Johannson's character runs up a guard to kick him in the face. First off, she's already shown she's flexible enough to kick the guy in the head from standing. Second, the moment she put her foot on his kneecap, it would have given way. Thirdly, high kicks are way too slow to be of use in a scrap without giving them a couple of taps to muddle their senses. I've studied martial arts for nine years, and it always grinds when I see heroes and heroines in a true to life setting clear a room with flashy, over-the-top strikes.
Ah, I've just thought of another one; animals. I really dislike the way animals are just used as death machines with teeth, even more so when it's inaccurately depicted. Piranhas are timid creatures that only attack if they're sure their prey is wounded. Sharks will normally take a single exploratory bite, then move away when they realise you are not a normal food source. Turning them into mindless killers just really rankles me, I can't fully explain why, just rest assured it does.
Ah, I've just thought of another one; animals. I really dislike the way animals are just used as death machines with teeth, even more so when it's inaccurately depicted. Piranhas are timid creatures that only attack if they're sure their prey is wounded. Sharks will normally take a single exploratory bite, then move away when they realise you are not a normal food source. Turning them into mindless killers just really rankles me, I can't fully explain why, just rest assured it does.
Three things...
1. Where certain things don't need explaining and given an awful explaination, for example Highlander 2 where it turns out that all the Highlanders are from another planet.
2. When the sequel has barely any or no continuation from the original film.
3. When a character is killed off screen between movies due to the actors not wanting to be in the sequel. The worst has to be the off screen death of Sarah Connor between T2 and T3 as she was the main character of the first 2.
1. Where certain things don't need explaining and given an awful explaination, for example Highlander 2 where it turns out that all the Highlanders are from another planet.
2. When the sequel has barely any or no continuation from the original film.
3. When a character is killed off screen between movies due to the actors not wanting to be in the sequel. The worst has to be the off screen death of Sarah Connor between T2 and T3 as she was the main character of the first 2.
Hmm,ZenMonkey47 said:
1: Anakin Won the pod race. Who is a good pilot
2: Could have been hiding it from luke that he knew. If he knew the droids he might have to indulge other information
3: Yeah i got nothing on yoda
OT: To me its the making that bad guys seem overly evil to the point of just crazyness(given exceptions)
The best villains are the tragic ones or the ones who are the most human and thefore scary(they aren't monsters they are humans just like us)
3d to movies that dont need it (or to older movies that didnt have it)
remakes of classics (im talking about the live action akira)
movies based off a source, and done by people who werent fans or had no prior knowledge of it.
movies that try to cater to fans and newcomers of a source, they usually suck
colin firth (the guy plays the same character in everything he does, except in king's speech where the only difference was a stutter
remakes of classics (im talking about the live action akira)
movies based off a source, and done by people who werent fans or had no prior knowledge of it.
movies that try to cater to fans and newcomers of a source, they usually suck
colin firth (the guy plays the same character in everything he does, except in king's speech where the only difference was a stutter
See i don't mind that so much, but it allways bugs me that movie characters can't ever say the words zombie, seriously watch any zombie film and they will use every word other than zombie to describe them...theres a pretty funny joke in "Shaun of the dead" where one of the characters uses the word Zombie and the other tells him off for being disrespectfulScarim Coral said:
Exploding cars, seriously just stop that shit, you will save a considerable amount of money that can be spent on better writers.
Epileptic cameramen, I understand people with such disorders also need work but could you not push them to have seizures during the biggest action scenes where we just want to see what the fuck is going on.
Epileptic cameramen, I understand people with such disorders also need work but could you not push them to have seizures during the biggest action scenes where we just want to see what the fuck is going on.
When the badass dies and the weakling main character takes over and discovers some hidden power that allows him to beat the bad guys.