Things you wish movies would stop doing

[Kaboose the Moose]

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No prob. As a final point though I do need to clarify something because it's easy to misunderstand the point I am trying to make.

I don't find it difficult to be immersed in movies. I can watch Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and other sci-fi/supernatural/fanatsy shows and not need to have things always obey the laws of thermodynamics, conservation of energy or Newton's laws of motion. It's just that if you are committing to a decent and logical plot, then the least I expect is some subtle polishing to the movie - that extra bit of attention that shows you thought of everything. Wouldn't it be nice that if for once a car falling off a cliff, didn't explode like a Michal Bay movie?

It's the braking of the pacing and immersion of a good/logical story with nonsensical things that get to me. As with your example in Back to the Future - I really would not need to have seen McFly change the wheels of the Delorean all the time, for the sake of realism..because right from the start I know it's an unrealistic premise so I am fine with it. That said, movies that take itself too seriously or want the audience to connect with the plot and then show a barrel explode thanks to a stray bullet kind of dampens my immersion.

That's the crux of my complaint. I can appreciate the coolness factor but I much prefer a movie where the plot and logic is in sync.

 

[Nouw]

I think someone has been on Cracked a bit too much XD.

Anyway, I love it how people cock their guns, as stupid as it is. All the strange and bullshit happenings in movies are fun and I don't want them to be realistic.

 

[Rofl Harris]

Teal and Orange [http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html]

Dude WTF! i think that article just ruined the entire film industry for me. now i'll be more conscious of that... like a dead pixel. thanks!
OT: Game movies. why? Marky mark.

Ditto. I walked past a billboard poster yesterday for Tron and immediately noticed the teal and orange, all because of this post. Damn you!

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Being made from video games.

 

[MrMullet]

3D, 3D, 3D! I don't think they thought about short-/far-sighted people when they designed 3D glasses. This pisses me off every time I go to the movies. "Hey! You want to see the new Resident Evil movie? TOO BAD, Put on the glasses and look like a complete fucktard chump!"

 

[Red_Serpent]

Things I wish movies(people) would stop doing are...

- Filling background scenes with american flags and have the camera focus in on them.
- Writing a script for a videogame-licensed movie that has nothing to do with the actual videogame.
- Remakes of great movies/series from the past. Leave things alone for crying out loud.
- Rush-editing with nearly no time for character development.
- Dumbing stuff down so far my dog can understand the movie...and feel insulted.
- Writing a love plot in every movie.
- Casting caucasian people for non-caucasian roles.
- Hiring photo-models instead of actresses. Looking "pretty" isn't acting.

I guess I could keep going but I'm sure its all been said before.

EDIT: - 3D indeed! Getting a headache is not my idea of fun!

 

[MrMullet]

Let the good guys lose for once....

I think you should watch the film Inside Man.

Or basically any heist movie really. It's pretty easy to forget that no matter what their intentions are, the "heroes" are still criminals.

 

[Arsen]

- The fight scenes with swords are basically dance scenes involving swords.
- Sean Bean always playing a guy who dies. SOMEONE GIVE THE MAN A BREAK. HE PLAYED ALEC TREVELYAN AND BOROMIR!
- A guy with a pistol being able to shoot guys with more efficiency despite the fact that they have better guns than him.
- Two pistols. It's so damned impossible to accurately hit someone.
- Making up horrible excuses to have a fight scene: Like the movie Inception. So...the only way the mind defends itself is by sending physical constructs of guards after the individual who breaks into their head? No nightmares, no illogical memories mixed with strange dreams? Just...armed guards for the sake of a Matrix style fight scene? Plausibility is dead.

 

[[Gavo]]

Stop making so many sequels...

This. No one gives a damn about, say Pirates of the Caribbean 4. The first was good, the second was okay, the third was shit.

 

[Spookimitsu]

1.) White girls doing karate
2.) People with katana who aren't in fuedal japan. This even goes for the bastardized hollywood shinobigatana. Have some of those bastards fight with hook swords, the yari, the naginata, butterfly swords, gusari-kama, escrima, blah blah blah. there are tons of other eastern weapons to choose from. Or you can let your actors use a f*cking gladius or a battle-axe for a change. How bad-ass would that be? Even in HIGHLANDER not everyone used a tachi. The Kurgen's weapon was bad-ass.
3.) Slo-motion shots of the protagonist walking looking "cool" (usually and explosion behind said protagonist, or henchmen or something else)
4.) Exposition. Leave some stuff a mystery for crying out loud
5.) Slo-mo gunshots (slo-mo in general. can we get more inventive shots? Chill out on the pull-back, dolly-in too.)
6.) John-Woo inspired double pistol fisted action shots. I loved Hard Boiled too, but I am seeing just a little too much of this. Time for originality
7.) Taking video-games and comics I have loved and turning them into big-budgeted poopfests that I can't seem to forget (not all of them, I tend to generally like the Resident Evils and Batmans)
8.) WIRE WORK - omg incorrectly used wire work kills action shots for me.
9.) Stop doing Dance movies. Thats why they have videos.
10.) Stop avoiding little-known actors for big movies, Give a chance, and hey, you may just make bunch of new superstars.
11.) Stop making the "SUSPENSE" genre synonymous with supposed sexual tensions of the lead actors. There are other reasons for suspense.
12.) If the movie doesnt need Dialogue, DONT PUT IN ALOT OF DIALOGUE. Nothing ruins a good show like actors who wont stfu.
13.) For pete's sake, stop letting the SCORE of the movie give away the plot. If It's Scary, make it scary. Dont just TRY to make it scary but put in the scary music. Or if it's romantic, MAKE it romantic. Same applies for moments of high drama and tension. Enough with the cheesy scores.

ok thanks for letting me rant... back to work

 

[New Vegas Samurai]

Brilliant Ideas on the Subject matter, sadly, I have to refer to another site which is just as funny

http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html

 

[sgwee]

or if you do, choose good ones. like pixar, whats up with an open season two, and a monsters inc 2, wheres my Incredibles two!

Incredibles was Dreamworks, I believe.

OT:The painfully awkward, shoehorned romance.

I still would like an incredibles two

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Going way back to the beginning of the thread, you can knock someone out by hitting them in the back of the head. Rattling the brain stem is what knocks you out, usually. We learn this in Jiu Jitsu, where one of the primary strikes that keeps showing up as a finisher is a palm blow to the base of the skull. It shakes up the brain stem and should theoretically, if you did it right, send them right to the ground. But it a targeted thing.

I hate the art style that goes into 3d animated movies. No matter what their plot, movies like The Incredibles and Despicable Me make the art geek in me cry a river. It looks so fake! At least 2d animation looked like art. This stuff just looks like some kid playing around in Maya. It's the rendering...it looks plastic and wrong.

The worst thing animators did was get rid of 2d animation like the kind in Old Disney. At least Miyazaki still hand-animates beautifully. Take me back to the 1990s!

I also don't like Tim Burton's art style.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

or if you do, choose good ones. like pixar, whats up with an open season two, and a monsters inc 2, wheres my Incredibles two!

Incredibles was Dreamworks, I believe.

OT:The painfully awkward, shoehorned romance.

I still would like an incredibles two

Understandable. It could work too...

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Climatic confused camera spin.
OH NO THE HERO IS IN A PUZZLE WHAT CAN HE DO!
*Hero looks confused as the camera spins all around the room*
*He then spins around*
Now he know what to do!
Ugh.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Climatic confused camera spin.
OH NO THE HERO IS IN A PUZZLE WHAT CAN HE DO!
*Hero looks confused as the camera spins all around the room*
*He then spins around*
Now he know what to do!
Ugh. Okay. Once and a while it can be cool. But it feels like it's a cliche to do a camera spin.

 

[Omega Pirate]

The ever popular and overly dramatic speeches that movie characters make

I especially hate when a villain takes a hostage and tells the good guy to put down his gun/sword/etc. Then proceeds to make a speech. This is what they should do instead. (skip to around 3:00 to see what I mean.)

Spoiler: Warning, spoiler for movie Taken.

 

[yanipheonu]

Parachutes. Specifically, they always pull the parachute right before they hit the ground, as if it will magically save them, and they don't get injured at all. The worst offender is in Quantum of Solace, they pull their chute RIGHT BEFORE hitting the ground. That wouldn't have helped much... they would have been DEAD or at least horribly injured.\

Though it's one of those things I suppose, like how every car explodes.