Things you wish movies would stop doing

[Something Amyss]

Taking cover behind car doors...bullets just go straight through. Oh, and silences- silences are not silent. If you let of a silenced pistol in a building, people in other rooms will hear it.

The main reason you take cover behind a car door is it makes you harder to hit. Anything that breaks up your form does so. People take cover behind doors in real life. You could technically take cover behind a bedsheet to similar effect, but that still doesn't mean it's pointless.

 

[Valksy]

Remakes and 3d. I don't mind cliche, I don't mind stupid stunts (been shot with a 44 magnum and get thrown through a window? sure) but enough with the motherfucking 3d and remakes.

 

[Dags90]

The whole "Divorced/Separated/Soon-to-be" couple brought back together by crazy outside circumstances. It's really insulting viewers' intelligence. By now a good portion of people in the Western world are from divorced homes and pretty much everyone knows someone who is, we know this isn't how it works. You can have a happy ending that ends with Mom and Dad still being separated.

 

[DiMono]

I wish movies would stop sucking. Seriously, there's a really high garbage:quality ratio right now. Also I wish they'd stop letting Michael Bay make movies with no tangible plot.

 

[Amphoteric]

I hate it when several magazines are fired without the main protagonist getting hit by anything. In The Matrix it was understandable and in Hot Fuzz it was funny because they were going for as many movie cliches as possible.

 

[rezaDN1992]

I wish there would be less roman-comedies, horror movies shouldn't have jump scares, and don't put in an happy ending if a sad ending is better. So you also will be surprised if the heroes make it. By most movies I never care about the characters, because I know the directers are to big of a cowards to kill the hero.

ANd they also should stop making shitty movies.

 

[Dr.A]

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

I actually really appreciate this. I think it makes the movies look stranger, more surreal. I wish real life looked like that.

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My main qualm with movies is when they have some kind of bullish happy ending every single time. Everything always turns out ok, and it specifically ticks me off when the movie ends with the characters laughing. >[

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Villains who won't stay dead for no good reason.

 

[Motakikurushi]

Dream sequences for no other purposes than to satisfy psychoanalytical theory. Either you focus on dream sequences, as in the movie involves it as a major theme (David Lynch films, Open Your Eyes, Inception) or you don't include them at all unless for comedic purposes (An American Werewolf in London). I noticed this in the latest Harry Potter. There's a fucking repeated dream sequence which adds nothing to the film at all and serves only to irritate the audiences.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Shooting things makes them explode

Mythbusters ruined this one for me.

It doesn't matter if you have a barrel full of gasoline. Shooting it isn't going to make it ignite. A bullet is a small piece of metal going really fast. There is no fire involved past the firing process. It won't ignite anything. Maybe, maybe, there's a slim chance that it could spark and that spark will cause ignition, but that's unlikely at best. You can't shoot something combustible and reliably expect it to explode.

For a long time I have been willing to suspend my disbelief far enough to allow for the big fiery movie explosions over realistic explosions because they're cooler to watch, but the time has come now. I cannot idly watch as commonsense takes a back seat with Hollywood action movies. If it has to be an unrealistic explosion, at least come up with better ways to deliver it.

What about incendiary rounds. Would they do it? Bear in mind what I know about incendiary rounds are what's in games i.e. they blow shit up and set people on fire. Is that stupid?

 

[John the Gamer]

You could use incindiary shells to set the car on fire...

 

[Scarim Coral]

I wish they not ignoring the whole concept of zombies, seriously acknowledge it already! There is a rich history of zombie but it seen that film universe had never grasp a concept of the undead. I want more of-

"Oh it's a zombie, slow moving type, I gonna aim for the head."

And less of this-

"WTF is this thing? It's dead but it moving and I will try shooting it in the heart!"

Also I wish stop with the unnecessary clapping when it's not needed at all (e.g. the ending to Harry Potter second film when Hagrid came back).

 

[Itsatwap]

3 hours long? Are you serious? That's what really pisses me off. Spielberg's a repeat offender, but EVERYONE'S doing it now. One that really pissed me off was The Departed. A decent (not that great) film's finished after 2 hours, but no, we've got to sit there and watch everyone pointlessly kill each other for a whole fucking hour without adding anything to the plot, as if someone surviving the film is a loose end (presumably Wahlberg's character gets hit by a bus just after the credits roll). If you want to make me sit there for 3 hours straight then you'd better have something bloody mindblowing to say. At least Kubrick had the decency to put an enforced intermission into 2001.

Oh, and another one. I went to see the new Harry Potter film the other week. Another 160 minute bitchslap. But what really pissed me off was paying 10 quid to see something called (with a straight face) "Part 1". For crying out loud. Matrix Revolutions was one of the least enjoyable films I've ever sat through, but Matrix Reloaded was the worse film by default because of the ultimate, limpdick, "To Be Continued" card at the 'end', like you'd just watched an episode of Friends where someone broke up with someone.

 

[higgs20]

the idea that two people glancing across a room at each other can instantly fall in love.

 

[astrav1]

No more 3D, Nicholas Cage, or Meghan Fox.

 

[DiMono]

Actually, I wish movies would stop butchering things I loved as a child. See Yogi Bear 3D as my evidence.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Taking cover behind car doors...bullets just go straight through. Oh, and silences- silences are not silent. If you let of a silenced pistol in a building, people in other rooms will hear it.

The main reason you take cover behind a car door is it makes you harder to hit. Anything that breaks up your form does so. People take cover behind doors in real life. You could technically take cover behind a bedsheet to similar effect, but that still doesn't mean it's pointless.

The lower profile gained by hiding behind a door is offset by its poor stopping power of a bullet traveling at supersonic speeds.

Yes, you'll be harder to hit - but a gun has more than one bullet. A carefully placed shot (and it's doubtful to be a hard task given that you only have a limited surface area behind a car door) will see the bullet clean through the door and into the victim's body..or feet - for obvious reasons. I suppose an argument FOR using a car door as a barrier would be that it would provide support as a shooting platform - assuming you were armed with a really big gun.