Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
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Morningside said:
Need to collect something from town like flowers. Amazing that there is always a parking space right outside.
Reality is driving 30 minutes away in some overpriced carpark that is supposed to have spaces and then when you finally find somewhere you can never find any change. Once you get to the damn florists you find it closed 5 minutes ago,
That was the one I was going to say. Reality is driving 30 minutes away in some overpriced carpark that is supposed to have spaces and then when you finally find somewhere you can never find any change. Once you get to the damn florists you find it closed 5 minutes ago,
So my alternative is men wet shaving with a shirt or t-shirt on. I would never do that so I'm sure nobody in the world does in real life. Only in films or on TV.
Oh, have we had baths overflowing yet? Baths have an overflow pipe, so they don't overflow.
motorizer said:
When someone gets saved by a bulletproof vest, why do they always then take it off? That's the last thing you'd do.
Lamp-shaded in Saving Private Ryan when a soldier takes a bullet to the head but is protected by his helmet, takes it off and shows it to someone, and whilst doing so takes another bullet to the head and dies. motorizer said:
In a similar vein... films where body armour only works for main characters.....
Ah, well, the main characters have plot-reinforced body armour you see. It's far more effective than kevlar. Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 15th February 10:28
There are two main things that I cringe at when watching some scenes (although I am sure they have been mentioned before.
The first, and most annoying, is any scene where the driver of the moving vehicle looks at whoever they are talking to without even a quick glance at the road ahead, sometimes for well over 10 seconds.
The second is something fairly new in the identikit crappy action movies, where the villain, although seriously injured and finds it difficult to move, grabs hold of the protagonist and then throws then across the room, whereby the villain has to do a slow crawl to get the guy again, even though they could have easily killed them when they had hold of them in the first place.
The first, and most annoying, is any scene where the driver of the moving vehicle looks at whoever they are talking to without even a quick glance at the road ahead, sometimes for well over 10 seconds.
The second is something fairly new in the identikit crappy action movies, where the villain, although seriously injured and finds it difficult to move, grabs hold of the protagonist and then throws then across the room, whereby the villain has to do a slow crawl to get the guy again, even though they could have easily killed them when they had hold of them in the first place.
chris watton said:
The second is something fairly new in the identikit crappy action movies, where the villain, although seriously injured and finds it difficult to move, grabs hold of the protagonist and then throws then across the room, whereby the villain has to do a slow crawl to get the guy again, even though they could have easily killed them when they had hold of them in the first place.
yes!Watch the Terminator, what happens, T-101 stands in front of a human, kills him instantly by ramming his hand into the body of human.
Watch the one with Christian Bale, the T-101 picks him up a few times to throw him...why? WTF!?!? Is he playing tic?
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
chris watton said:
The second is something fairly new in the identikit crappy action movies, where the villain, although seriously injured and finds it difficult to move, grabs hold of the protagonist and then throws then across the room, whereby the villain has to do a slow crawl to get the guy again, even though they could have easily killed them when they had hold of them in the first place.
What like at the end of Bladerunner? It’s usually an indication that the bad guy is toying with the hero. Brilliantly deconstructed in the Cairo Swordsman bit of Raiders of the Lost Ark.warch said:
chris watton said:
The second is something fairly new in the identikit crappy action movies, where the villain, although seriously injured and finds it difficult to move, grabs hold of the protagonist and then throws then across the room, whereby the villain has to do a slow crawl to get the guy again, even though they could have easily killed them when they had hold of them in the first place.
What like at the end of Bladerunner? It’s usually an indication that the bad guy is toying with the hero. Brilliantly deconstructed in the Cairo Swordsman bit of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Morningside said:
Knife sticking out of the body, blood all over the place. Walks over, checks body and announces the obvious to the world "He's dead".
Or, conversely, someone briefly touches the neck of the (potentially) deceased for all of a second and then declares that they are dead. Despite there being no obvious sign of trauma, unlike in your scenario.(Granted, they could be checking for temperature rather than a pulse. But, even so, it doesn't seem a very thorough medical examination).
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 15th February 22:39
Halb said:
Watch the Terminator, what happens, T-101 stands in front of a human, kills him instantly by ramming his hand into the body of human.
Watch the one with Christian Bale, the T-101 picks him up a few times to throw him...why? WTF!?!? Is he playing tic?
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
There is in fact a scene in the first Terminator film where the eponymous bad guy starts throwing someone around instead of killing them (Sarah Connor's flatmate's boyfriend). Watch the one with Christian Bale, the T-101 picks him up a few times to throw him...why? WTF!?!? Is he playing tic?
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
As I said this is an extremely old film trope related to the need for bad guys to be demonstrably sadistic rather efficient. Jaws in the 70s Bond films also tended to do this instead of killing people straight away.
warch said:
There is in fact a scene in the first Terminator film where the eponymous bad guy starts throwing someone around instead of killing them (Sarah Connor's flatmate's boyfriend).
As I said this is an extremely old film trope related to the need for bad guys to be demonstrably sadistic rather efficient. Jaws in the 70s Bond films also tended to do this instead of killing people straight away.
I suppose that might be valid, even though we don't actually see him throw, and he is fighting a huge muscular human who is clearly keen on fighting back, he goes for a face punch to kill him straight away but misses and the big guy charges back, so it's not quite like the first death, but it's arguable. We do see the damage done to the bloke with each attack.As I said this is an extremely old film trope related to the need for bad guys to be demonstrably sadistic rather efficient. Jaws in the 70s Bond films also tended to do this instead of killing people straight away.
https://youtu.be/7EQQNIww5LQ
Halb said:
I suppose that might be valid, even though we don't actually see him throw, and he is fighting a huge muscular human who is clearly keen on fighting back, he goes for a face punch to kill him straight away but misses and the big guy charges back, so it's not quite like the first death, but it's arguable. We do see the damage done to the bloke with each attack.
https://youtu.be/7EQQNIww5LQ
I know exactly what point you are making and I agree that the depiction of the Terminator in the first two films is much more 'realistic' for the business like efficiency it uses to despatch its targets. I get rather bored with long drawn out fight scenes in films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix had a lot to answer for in my opinion.https://youtu.be/7EQQNIww5LQ
DJFish said:
Has anyone ever seen, heard, or otherwise known about a family member going into a bathroom, and then two minutes later started banging on the door demanding to know whether they’re ok?
Anytime someone on the silver screen goes to the smallest room in the house, either to flush the microfilm, assemble the secret radio transmitter or whatever, someone always starts banging on the door.
Just doesn’t happen in real life.
I'll bang on the door if I know my son is in the bath. Not because I'm worried about him though. I just like annoying him, and maybe I get lucky occasionally, and manage to "put him off his stroke"... Anytime someone on the silver screen goes to the smallest room in the house, either to flush the microfilm, assemble the secret radio transmitter or whatever, someone always starts banging on the door.
Just doesn’t happen in real life.
..if I do it often enough, maybe he'll be more motivated to leave home and fend for himself, somewhere he can enjoy more privacy.
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