Your single most annoying thing/mistake in a movie!
Discussion
Frimley111R said:
Any film where someone walks away from their car and remotely locks it and it makes the same stupid noise its done for 30 years!! Cars don't do that FFS!
Walking past someone locking their Dacia Duster last week, it made an audible beep when they locked it.People making a call on their mobile to their Mum/Dad/Son/Daughter, by typing the number in in full, surely is would be saved.
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.Terminators on the other hand terminators don’t toy or drag out kills. Neither do predators
Pesty said:
Terminators on the other hand terminators don’t toy or drag out kills. Neither do predators
I've mentioned this a few page ago but there is a scene in The Terminator in Sara Connor's flat where the Terminator just throws someone around instead of quickly killing them.The Predator also does this to Dutch at the end of Predator.
yellowjack said:
Watching the 2008 movie 'Eagle Eye' (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan) a few nights ago.
Then we find out that the device(s) our two stars were required to steal from armed security guards in an armoured truck, and which they had to smuggle at great risk through airport security, are in fact not weapons, as we've been led to suspect, but in fact they are medical devices. They contain an experimental drug to lower the heart rate and reduce the human body's requirement for oxygen. Why? Because our two hapless pawns are to smuggle themselves aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster, secrete themselves within a transport container, and inject themselves with this experimental drug in the hope that they'll survive to carry out evil AI's plan. But the C-17 is both a cargo transporter and a passenger transport airlifter. It delivers personnel and evacuates casualties as part of it's combat role. So it is a pressurised aeroplane except when it has the ramp down or doors open at low level to drop paratroopers or cargo pallets out of the back. Why the feck would an internal cargo-only flight within the continental USA be carried out unpressurised? FFS!
I put that bit down to the fact they were in a box for several hours, meaning the oxygen in there would be limited.Then we find out that the device(s) our two stars were required to steal from armed security guards in an armoured truck, and which they had to smuggle at great risk through airport security, are in fact not weapons, as we've been led to suspect, but in fact they are medical devices. They contain an experimental drug to lower the heart rate and reduce the human body's requirement for oxygen. Why? Because our two hapless pawns are to smuggle themselves aboard a USAF C-17 Globemaster, secrete themselves within a transport container, and inject themselves with this experimental drug in the hope that they'll survive to carry out evil AI's plan. But the C-17 is both a cargo transporter and a passenger transport airlifter. It delivers personnel and evacuates casualties as part of it's combat role. So it is a pressurised aeroplane except when it has the ramp down or doors open at low level to drop paratroopers or cargo pallets out of the back. Why the feck would an internal cargo-only flight within the continental USA be carried out unpressurised? FFS!
warch said:
I've mentioned this a few page ago but there is a scene in The Terminator in Sara Connor's flat where the Terminator just throws someone around instead of quickly killing them.
The Predator also does this to Dutch at the end of Predator.
I think I accept the Terminator scene. The first time we see a Terminator kill someone, he punches a useless mook standing in front of him, he tries to do the same to the meathead, he fails and then it's a fight, meathead is big and moving, can't just punch through him, we do not see the Terminator throw meathead, we just see him land each time, we don't actually see the fight, but from the damage that occurs, Terminator is not playing games. So to me it's not incongruous with the vibe, especially as meathead dies fairly quickly. This is unlike the fight scene from terminator with christian bale, which is just stupid.The Predator also does this to Dutch at the end of Predator.
I think the Predator is toying a little, not fully with Dutch. He knows he's way stronger, so he can ragdoll him. This happens in fighting when a fighter knows he can ragdoll and opponent. From what we've seen of the Predator in the film, again it doesn't feel stupid.
The video I linked says the protagonist throw has become overused, which I agree with.
Fluid said:
Frimley111R said:
Any film where someone walks away from their car and remotely locks it and it makes the same stupid noise its done for 30 years!! Cars don't do that FFS!
Walking past someone locking their Dacia Duster last week, it made an audible beep when they locked it.People making a call on their mobile to their Mum/Dad/Son/Daughter, by typing the number in in full, surely is would be saved.
My wife's mobile number is especially memorable, because it used to be mine! She "stole" it from me because it has a pleasing, easy to remember repeating pattern in it. Perhaps one for the "annoying beyond reason" thread? When she bought a new phone recently, she swapped her old number into it, in the process binning off an even more memorable repeated pattern number.
easytiger123 said:
robemcdonald said:
You are obviously speaking from experience and based on your location I guess you know what you are talking about. I suppose if they ever bothered to do a movie about sales reps I would be in the same boat as you.
Please watch Glengarry Glen Ross and report back!singlecoil said:
IIRC it wasn't a mountain road, it was a level dual carriageway, and the ramps were left straddling the two lanes.
I always thought it was a test track somewhere but it was an unopened section of autostrada near Aosta. The mountain road where the coach ends up dangling over a cliff doesn't actually lead anywhere - it's a dead end. So not only is Large Wiliam a useless driver, he's a dead loss as a navigator as well.Halb said:
singlecoil said:
IIRC it wasn't a mountain road, it was a level dual carriageway, and the ramps were left straddling the two lanes.
Ahh, I'd have to rewatch then.But let's not get into the minutiae of that scene. Especially not how the road markings keep changing from two lanes to three, from broken to solid lines to no lines at all, and from open countryside to buildings alongside the road...
Trevatanus said:
Always make me laugh when you see someone going on a flight and they show the takeoff as for example a single aisle aircraft, the internal shots show a widebody, and then the landing is a single aisle again.
My #1 aviation-related bugbear, and one that I have mentioned in this thread before, is in Full Metal Jacket.They are riding along in a honking great transport helicopter*, and we cut to an exterior shot of the shadow of the helicopter travelling over the trees, then back to the interior. However, the shadow is of a small scout helicopter, which is almost certainly the helicopter used to do the filming. Probably a Jet Ranger as these were very prevalent at the time.
To put it in motoring terms, it would be like a truck casting the shadow of a small car.
(* - If you want to get really nerdy, even the transport helicopter is wrong; it's a Westland Wessex pretending to be a Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw. But that doesn't annoy me too much.)
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