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Post by Don Quixote on Jul 20, 2005 17:12:45 GMT -5
When all Nazi's are portrayed as evil demons who kill everything. Every German man who could be in the army, was forced to br! It's not like every evil person in Germany said "Let's kill people we don't like" and let the nice Germans sit in their living rooms and drink tea. Good point. Plus all the crap propaganda that was shoved down Germans' throats... Germany was essentially brainwashed by the party. Please, noone mistake this for a defense of the horrible governmental system that was nazism.
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Aug 8, 2005 1:44:37 GMT -5
2) When foreigners (well, non-English speakers) talk to each other, they don't use their own language, they talk English to each other with an appropriately heavy accent. Look, trust the audience. Either have them speak their native tongue and give us subtitles, or else just let them speak without the fake accent. Presumably we understand where they are from, you don't have to hit us over the head with it. The French Connection got it right as they had multiple French scenes.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Aug 12, 2005 20:02:49 GMT -5
I just thought of something else that REALLY gets on my nerves, and this usually happens a lot in comedies (to use the term loosely). There'll be a scene of someone saying they will NEVER, EVER do a particular thing, and then in the very next scene they're doing it. This is supposed to be funny because it is "unexpected" or "ironic," but I find it simply "formulaic" and "irritating."
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Post by KGB on Aug 12, 2005 21:03:01 GMT -5
-Every grocery bag has to have a loaf of french bread sticking out of it That's great! I never thought of that, but it's so true. Sometimes, though, a shock of parsley will substitute for or complement the bread
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Post by siamesesin on Aug 13, 2005 12:10:34 GMT -5
All of these are great.
-People being shot in general in movies. Flying backwards (I love that Mysthbusters did this one), barely getting winged and dropping dead, or having a wound practically waterfalling blood and having a ten-minute death scene. In general deaths in movies have a tendency to annoy the hell out of me.
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Post by TV's Cowboy on Aug 13, 2005 19:31:38 GMT -5
-Phone numbers consist of 555-5555 or something like that There is an excuse for that. 555 numbers don't exist in real life and because of that people won't get the urge to actually dial the phone number they saw in the movie. I know it sounds stupid but some people actually tried to call God because his phone number was shown in the movie Bruce Almighty(And they didn't use a 555 number)which resulted in a lot of angry people with the same phone number threatening to sue the filmmakers. Course if you want to know the real culprit here then look no further then Tommy Tutone and the song Jenny(8675-309)
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Post by Don Quixote on Aug 13, 2005 20:33:23 GMT -5
How easy it is to get electricity to arc through the air in films... grrr...
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Post by kronos on Aug 15, 2005 16:45:14 GMT -5
One thing in action films that gets me is the trickle of blood out of the corner of someone's mouth. It happens when they're punched, it happens when they're stabbed, it happens when they've got internal hemmorhaging, it happens when they're shot...it happens way too much.
I also hate "Bullet Time". Thanks to the Wachowski Bros. and their awesome Matrix movies, we're now subjected to numerous shots of everyone slow mo fighting or slow mo dodging of bullets (or milk squirted from an udder in Kung Pow-Enter the Fist-a movie that I love!).
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Aug 23, 2005 17:22:23 GMT -5
Easily, my favorite is when there is a car chase going 60 miles per hour, both cars his each other multiple times they hits the road and walls, and other such stuff. Finally, another car hits one of the cars in the chase at five miles per hour and they both explode on impact!
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Post by KGB on Sept 10, 2005 13:46:43 GMT -5
I just witnessed another one. Why is it that when someone is "driving" a car in front of a chroma key, they constantly rock the steering wheel back and forth. Wouldn't that make the car swerve all over the road?
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Post by Bix Dugan on Sept 13, 2005 15:00:18 GMT -5
Shots of a car, say, in the middle of the desert, going down the road at a blistering 25 mph. I guess they couldn't afford stunt drivers?
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Post by Da Worm Fizzle on Nov 27, 2005 22:04:33 GMT -5
People in horror movies. They never do anything right. They investigate when they should run away, and they never finish of the killer/monster when they get the chance. I've seen so many movies where the heroine, (and it's almost always a woman, why is that?) he just knocked the killer out with a log or something, but instead of picking up the killer's knife/hook/gun/sword/chainsaw and ending the job right there, they run away. I hate how people will always trip and fall when being chased. And they always look backwards instead of at where they're going.
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Post by Don Quixote on Nov 28, 2005 1:02:08 GMT -5
OOH! Or when the heroine is running through the woods/street/whatever in her spike heels. Or when the heroine KEEPS HER DAMN SWEATER whilst being chased by the killer/mob of people/alien/whatever.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was great for that.
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Post by Da Worm Fizzle on Nov 28, 2005 22:01:50 GMT -5
Keeps her sweater? You mean, instead of getting rid of it so she can't be recognized?
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Post by Don Quixote on Nov 28, 2005 22:09:06 GMT -5
Yeah, and keeps it instead of tossing it to get away better, since she's not wearing it.
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