Things that piss you off...in movies!

[Jesus Phish]

people who have glasses suddenly become blind when they lose them. i've ranted about it in a youtube video and it still seems to be happening (becuase i should be THAT influential!)

Uhm, I have glasses, and I can't see very well without them...

Some people have them to correct minor problems, but not everyone, and that wouldn't be dramatic. "Oh no, I lost my glasses! Now I have trouble reading things that are far away!"

But you don't go completely blind whenever you take them off, do you? And even if some people are like that, it's not very common; Most people who wear glasses have moderate eyesight problems at worst.

For the perfect example of tension working in a movie without resorting to making the character blind, see L.A: Confidential. Exley has trouble seeing correctly without his glasses, but we don't know how much. So when there's this scene where he doesn't have them with him, you think "oh shit, will he manage?". It works without being stupid and unrealistic.

If I take my glasses off my vision drops so dramatically that unless something is within 4 inches of my eyes, it goes out of focus. I sit about 2ft from my screen, and if I take them off now everything you see on this page turns into a blur. Those blue boxes for the latest content etc, go away and are absorbed into the white space. So yes, some people would infact go very very near to being blind. Particularly at night or in dark spaces. If my glasses where knocked off my head in a dark club, I wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of where the hell I was trying to go.

 

[Virtual-Goose]

Dues ex machinas

 

[mb16]

-cocking a weapon that has already been cocked/fired
-people being able to dodge/take 100s of bullets, apart from the one plot convenient one
-bombs with LCD timers
-random romance (also known as the "QUICK the audience is getting bored, throw in some tits)
-major logical fails
-major engineering fails (the super base only has on weak spot "then why didnt the engineer designing it fix that?)
-people who are evil just because
-explosions with giant fireballs (not all explosions are thermobaric)
-the ak47 (its from 1947, the Russian army doesn't use it any more!)

 

[GrimGrimoire]

Romantic comedies, I have never seen a good one, and I watch them all to often.
They are all (I hope there are some exeptions) made from the same prinsiples:
Bad plot, shallow characters and forgettable moments. All written by writers who know that they are not funny, and don't try to be.

And I am just wondering, has Adam Sandler ever played in a good movie?

 

[marioandsonic]

Any movie in which the entire film could be easily resolved by just doing one simple thing.

I find this happens a lot in comedies or romantic comedies.

 

[Vykrel]

i cant stand shaky-cam in action films. the Bourne trilogy is a good example of this. great movies, but the action scenes are absolutely ruined from the camera constantly being shaken. it doesnt make it feel more exciting, it makes it hard to tell what is going on.

 

[omega 616]

The only one that comes to my mind at the moment is the "and one/two survive ..." what the fuck is up with that!?

In every horror movie I have seen (I think there might be the odd exception) at least one person lived, more commonly two though. Where did this even come from? Why do so many directors or writers allow people to survive? Just massacre the lot and be done with it.

 

[Nannernade]

The one major problem I have is not going through how someone reached a certain point, for example in the movie Knowing when he is at home drinking his coffee and glances at the paper full of numbers and he just happens out of all of those numbers to look at 9112001? Really? Out of all the numbers he picks 9/11 as if there were no other numbers there. Then there was in the car scene before the plane crashes, he looks again and just goes OMFG the last numbers are coordinates! I am so super smart even though I have no idea how I figured that out. That's the worst movie in my opinion... -.-

 

[Ironic Pirate]

people who have glasses suddenly become blind when they lose them. i've ranted about it in a youtube video and it still seems to be happening (becuase i should be THAT influential!)

Uhm, I have glasses, and I can't see very well without them...

Some people have them to correct minor problems, but not everyone, and that wouldn't be dramatic. "Oh no, I lost my glasses! Now I have trouble reading things that are far away!"

But you don't go completely blind whenever you take them off, do you? And even if some people are like that, it's not very common; Most people who wear glasses have moderate eyesight problems at worst.

For the perfect example of tension working in a movie without resorting to making the character blind, see L.A: Confidential. Exley has trouble seeing correctly without his glasses, but we don't know how much. So when there's this scene where he doesn't have them with him, you think "oh shit, will he manage?". It works without being stupid and unrealistic.

No, I don't go *completely* blind, but anything at more than maybe a foot, foot and a half away is quite indistinct. And if I was in any kind of perilous situation, or a darkened room, then I probably would grope around on the ground or remain still so as not to step on them.

I agree the LA: Confidential thing was awesome, love that movie. On an unrelated note, does Exley look strikingly like Steven Colbert to you as well? Maybe it's because I watched them back to back, but still.

 

[R3VOLU7ION]

How the concept of an "undead" or "zombie" does not exist at all in that film universe. For once I would love to see a zombie movie were most of the cast know they are dealing with zombies (aid for the head and shoot their bitten comrades without hesitation).

Shaun of the Dead, dude. Sure it's a comedy, but they sure as hell know they're dealing with zombies even if they don't want to admit it.

 

[crazyarms33]

I HATE cheesy speeches in action movies. Every sports movie needs one motivational speech and they do a good job of making it appropriate and SHORT(for the most part) before continuing on to the ending of the movie. In action movies, especially if someone is dying, I do not want to hear an emotional diatribe about how the main character has to live since the character giving the speech will expire literally as soon as they finish their speech. Its complete crap. Also enough of the cross-dressing gag. It's done, let it go Hollywood.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

I hate it when an alien or monster is invincible to conventional weapons. Its such a cheap way to add drama. Although, I'm okay when the "alpha" monster or queen or whatever is invincible and its minions aren't.

Related: the armed forces are completely useless against the aliens/zombies/monsters. If a rag-tag group of civilians with no special training and several severe emotional problems can survive a zombie attack, then you'd think a mechanized infantry platoon with Bladley IFVs would at least stand a chance. They don't even need to shoot the zombies, just drive over them from the safety of their armored vehicle.

Exactly my friend, exactly.

Another thing that really pisses me off these days in films (or in anything really) is the "tough girl" character. Now I don't mean a girl character who just happens to be tough, but the kind of character that rubs herself in everyone's face (wait . . . that metaphor just went somewhere horrible) or is forced down our throats, presumably so the film/game/whatever seems "modern" or something. A sterling example is Jack in Mass Effect 2. Also, theres the other Jack in Pitch Black.

 

[crazyarms33]

Romantic comedies, I have never seen a good one, and I watch them all to often.
They are all (I hope there are some exeptions) made from the same prinsiples:
Bad plot, shallow characters and forgettable moments. All written by writers who know that they are not funny, and don't try to be.

And I am just wondering, has Adam Sandler ever played in a good movie?

I liked Click and Waterboy. If you were asking about a serious movie, then no. Absolutely not.

 

[Dags90]

Teeth really get to me. Whenever I see a poor character with perfect teeth (or worse yet, caps) it breaks my immersion as I think "Man, being poor must get you a great dental plan."

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Inconsistencies between sequels/prequels. (generally movies don't have inconsistencies within the one movie, luckily)
So that includes both mistakes or retconing.

X-men Origins: Wolverine comes to mind, with his bones being coated in liquid metal, when in the first movie they clearly showed X-rays that had metal framework surgically grafted onto the bones (and talked about how it was a surgically grafted framework, NOT metal coated bones).

>.>

 

[Terminate421]

How the concept of an "undead" or "zombie" does not exist at all in that film universe. For once I would love to see a zombie movie were most of the cast know they are dealing with zombies (aid for the head and shoot their bitten comrades without hesitation).

You have not seen Zombieland.

 

[Idlemessiah]

The big one however is not employing the right actors for accents. This is one of the many reasons I refuse to acknowledge the latest 3 musketeers movie, where are the French accents???

Well they're supposed to be French people speaking in french to each other so, why would they have french accents?

No I mean the newest one with the flying ships and stuff. Most of the cast use generic British accents and the lead (the kid) has a very obvious and very out of place American accent. It's jarring as hell.

 

[Something Amyss]

Shaun of the Dead, dude. Sure it's a comedy, but they sure as hell know they're dealing with zombies even if they don't want to admit it.

Which only uses the word because it's parodying the exact thing he was complaining about.

Teeth really get to me. Whenever I see a poor character with perfect teeth (or worse yet, caps) it breaks my immersion as I think "Man, being poor must get you a great dental plan."

It doesn't bug me so much as amuse me, but I love it in period movies.

"Verily, we art in the fourteentheth Century---eth. Lo, yon teeth are perfect and coated with some form of witchcraft...eth..."

 

[Mysticgamer]

While I like the Transformers movies, I hate it when the humans get more bullshit character development than the robots do. Okay with the first film it made sense, you were introducing it to people who have never watched Transformers, but I think by the second movie they should have got rid of the majority of human characters, and by that I mean everyone but the army.

More things I hate about the Transformers movies would be:
-Optimus saying One shall stand one shall fall, when he's getting his ass kicked.

-Megatron not turning into a gun. HA! No I'm just kidding about that one.

-Really really stupid plots, than again Generation 1 had a bucket of silly stories.

I guess that last complaint is the reason as to why I like all three movies because the movies were stupid and so was G1 and I love G1.

But back to the robots having little character development. I wasn't expecting the movies to be rich in character development like Beast Wars or Animated, but I was expecting that the characters have a sense of purpose about them when they don't.

So at the end of the day, I like the movies, they're stupid, but I like them, but I will always prefer the cartoons, or at least 5 of the Transformer cartoons.

When I went to see this movie I wanted to see the Transformers and maybe a human helping out a little, I didn't want to see that human go to college make lame ass friends who contribute nothing to the plot or token chick there for T&A. Worse the third movie plagiarized the plot to Count Down to Extinction one of the best multiparters in G1. I'm not looking forward for the 4th and 5th movies...with Sam and new girl getting married they might throw in Danny and God help us Grimlock.