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Strike Swiftly
8 Apr 2009, 22:44
I'll start off,
It really pisses me off that film makers (especially of expensive flicks), use the poorest photoshopped family photos ie. Childhood pics, in their movies.
I just finished watching The Departed. In the scene where the psychologist girlfriend moves in with matt Damon, she shows him a childhood pic. The photo is a disgrace. It's like a 5 y.o cut and paste a head out of a magazine and placed it on another persons shoulders. Absolutely shocking.
I notice this flaw all the time in movies. Geez its annoying! The studios spend all this money on sfx, but don't put the slightest effort into basic photoshopping. What's the go there?
Anymore examples?
Shinboner '07
9 Apr 2009, 00:17
i hate it when a character ages by like 10 years and all the other characters look the same... just like in The Departed, when we see Matt Damon's character 15-20 years later, and Nicholson's character still looks the same, whereas he probably woulda died of old age in reality
another example is Get Rich or Die Tryin', when we finally see 50 Cent as an adult, the character, Majestic, looks exactly the same, which woulda been like 20 years later
im pretty sure thers more movies with this flaw
Shinboner '07
9 Apr 2009, 00:21
i also, absolutely, hate dancing and singing at the end of movies
Overuse of hand held camera work.
Shits me to tears that this filming technique in being used by more and more by try hard directors... usually brainless sheep who use it to be trendy regardless of how much it detracts from the quality of the movie.
It can work in high action scenes in small doses, but to use it for an entire movie is a joke (ie Bourne movies). The excessive camera shake in non action scenes is massively distracting and takes you out of whatever level of immersion the director has built up.
There is a time and a place for this, but more often than not directors completely **** it up (ie Quantum of Solace, third Bourne flick) or completely overuse it and ruin the movie (ie too many to mention).
Exhale You
9 Apr 2009, 07:54
It shits me when they don't put any liquid in drink cups that actors are drinking from.
It happens in every form of cinema and television.
When watching someone drink a coffee in a takeway cup it's blatantly obvious that the cup is empty.
How hard is it to put something in the freaking cup, even if it's only water?
Magpiespower
9 Apr 2009, 08:52
Passive central characters that don't drive the narrative...
scooterb
9 Apr 2009, 12:51
Vehicles that explode instantly after being shot, even when the bullet doesn't hit the petrol tank.
I don't mind it in brainless action movies, as it adds to the whole over-the-top feeling. Otherwise, it's just laughable.
When a movie shows a character as a child then later as an adult. How do we know it's the same character? They've got the same haircut!
The overuse of CGI in most films, oh how i long for the days where studios didn't rely on flashy imagery to get their point across in movies.
Strike Swiftly
9 Apr 2009, 17:51
^^^ The latest Indiana Jones flick certainly was worse for all the poor CGI.
Another thing that pisses me off in movies, especially blockbusters, is the need for a love story. It is a desperate attempt to make a movie appeal to chicks. It doesnt work the other way round. They didnt add sci-fi or violence to Sex in the City to make guys like it.
Pearl Harbour could have been an unbelievable movie, they just needed to change two elements, Ben Affleck and the dreaded love story. IT DIDNT NEED A LOVE STORY! Another example is Titanic. That didnt need a love story. The ship sinking is a big enough story to make a movie about. The list goes on and on.
Overuse of hand held camera work.
Ever seen Cloverfield? You would love it.
Strike Swiftly
9 Apr 2009, 18:36
Cloverfield is different though. Wouldnt have worked if it was filmed with tripods etc.
LCD time readouts on bombs, why would the terrorists bother? :D
flight23
9 Apr 2009, 19:38
alot of unnecessary romance angles,
body of lies was one for me, movies chugging along ok, not the greatest bit of cinema ever, but doing the job, and when leo went to the hospital, you just knew the nurse was gonna have to hang around
some flicks just do not need females in them, but its part of "the formula"
and im sure there are movies out there that don't need males either, i just don't know any
Ill Chicken
9 Apr 2009, 20:03
Deus ex machina.
Examples The Departed, Seven and War of the Worlds.
Little annoying kids.
Examples The Crow, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Saluting in a war zone.
Examples Black Hawk down.
Stupid AI.
Examples The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, Transformers and Termintaor III
Crack Squads acting likes crack addicts.
Examples Doom, Aliens, any film where there is an elite special unit that does not act as a team unit and guys start losing the plot instantly.
CGI
Its not needed, take the original Star Wars film. That shit was awesome, without looking phony. Perfect example Speed Racer.
Love stories.
As previously mentioned, love is a chemical imbalance created to make sure humans procreate and continue on the circle of life. It is there for stupid people who need a reason to save the day.
Genre movies.
Are they ever going to stop?
DeadlyAkkuret
10 Apr 2009, 16:52
i also, absolutely, hate dancing and singing at the end of movies
Then why do you keep doing it? Lulz:D
Seriously though, most of the things that piss me off about movies have been covered in this thread but I'll just add my 2 cents anyway.
The need for tacky CG monsters is terrible and can ruin any movie attempting to be scary. I Am Legend could have been decent if it just used Dawn of the Dead style zombies, instead of those cringe-worthy CG things. Lame!
Also, why does there have to be a "cute" kid in a lot of action movies? The dad is always this big bulky dude but there's got to be the touching moment with the cute kid, ffs lose the try-hard emotional crap and shoot some more shit!
I could go on forever but one other thing that's overused is the weird/quirky ethnic character in a lot of comedies today. He wont play a big role, but he'll do a cameo that's usually not funny.
I hate it in a home meal scenes and the character get up and just go out BUT NOBODY CLEANS THEIR TEETH. Also, don't these people go to the loo? There's the token guy pi$$ing against a wall scene in some movies, but don't they have bladders??
Another thing that can pi$$ me off is someone is supposed to be super broke but still manages to be wearing the latest fashions - what, did they steal them?
While I'm on about it, I hate it when you are watching a mystery thriller and think ooooo this is going good when it just fizzes out - geez I could write the story better - i sit there thinking "why didn't they do this or that"..
RobbyRoy
10 Apr 2009, 21:27
Deus ex machina.
Examples The Departed, Seven and War of the Worlds.
How was Seven a Deus ex machina?
DoubleO7
10 Apr 2009, 22:22
Male crying scenes really tick me off. It just seems so fake when a man cries like a little girl on screen.
Does anybody else feel the same way or is it just me?
HoldenMagroin
12 Apr 2009, 01:43
Rah-rah Americana and the contrived use of symbols like flag waving. Think Michael Bay films.
Poor lighting.
Overuse of CGI. ie. latest Star Wars movies. A perfect example that more is less.
Film extras who overact / can't act... though I'd find this more on TV series eg. exaggerated gestures of impatience, dismay, bewilderment, etc. A few crowd scenes in The Dark Knight are a good example.
How was Seven a Deus ex machina?
Se7en? Definitely not.
Strike Swiftly
12 Apr 2009, 07:42
^^ As stated above, American patriotism in movies annoys me. Especially when they rewrite history to put USA in a positive light or to make them the heroes of the day. World war 2 flicks are a perfect example.
JimmyHird
12 Apr 2009, 15:24
LCD time readouts on bombs, why would the terrorists bother? :D
Haha I never actually thought about that. Now that you mention it though, it really is quite funny.
JimmyHird
12 Apr 2009, 15:28
^^ As stated above, American patriotism in movies annoys me. Especially when they rewrite history to put USA in a positive light or to make them the heroes of the day. World war 2 flicks are a perfect example.
Theres also got to be the token guy who fights back against the odds on his own.
Eg. Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack and Cuba Gooding Jnr grabs a gun on one of the ships and proceeds to shoot down a few planes.
Hollywood remaking great foreign movies and completely ****ing them up... despite in some cases copying scene for scene.
Strike Swiftly
12 Apr 2009, 17:50
All the kids come from behind movies. I call it the Mighty Ducks proforma script. Mighty Ducks, Karate Kid, Little League Baseball movies etc
^^ As stated above, American patriotism in movies annoys me. Especially when they rewrite history to put USA in a positive light or to make them the heroes of the day. World war 2 flicks are a perfect example.
The British were really angry at the movie "U-571" and i cant say i blame them as the Americans completely rewrote history.
Extras who just won't die until they had their 5 minute of fame.
Eg. Beginning of Kingdom of heaven where the guy got stabbed on the neck with a spear or something and continued on killing like a madman before he got shot several more time.
-Movies about dancing. Especially the likes of You Got Served or Step Up 5: the steppening up ....IN DA STREETZ!
- someone killing the bad guy or saving someone's life with their last breath. Can be quite dramatic but it's used waaaaay too often
- This is a huge one for me, it's in movies, tv shows and advertisements. The unrealistic playing of video games (where they press buttons madly, don't
- again unrealistic use of computers, like on a crime movie when some guy zooms in on a surveilance camera.
Guy: hang on, what's that? Zoom in on that guy in the background
Computer guy: zooming in ...now (the guy madly hits the keys)
- Unrealistically smooth talking. Especially in crime shows, people don't talk like that, people don't summarise things so eloquently in a few quick words, and the people they're talking to don't always understand them or are ready to add to their theory.
- Unrealistically smart kids/teenagers. Especially when they're portrayed as average children/teens and then for convenience of the plot they come back with quick smart quips.
- Unrealistic portrayal of high school/university/college classrooms especially in US films where they have a big intellectual debate about the topic like they were experts in the film.
DeadlyAkkuret
12 Apr 2009, 21:02
Some brilliant ones in there Jabso:thumbsu:
DeadlyAkkuret
12 Apr 2009, 21:12
Another one is the timely computer genius, usually contacted via webcam while he's sitting all alone in a dark room.
When someone needs to hack into the American Government's super computer he'll know how to do it. Assuming he has these talents, he could probably hack a major bank and have money transfered from multiple accounts, into one untraceable account, yet he's still in his mum's basement eating potato chips and typing away on a greasy keyboard.
It's never easy at first, though. He will typically take about 10 minutes to figure out this single password that magically grants him access to everything in the entire country or just press the big red button that says "Emergency Password Button".
:rolleyes:
Strike Swiftly
12 Apr 2009, 21:32
^ LOL good ones there guys
Bomber32
12 Apr 2009, 21:52
I hate it how the hero always comes out victorious over the bad guys. The writers should be creating some unpredictabilty in the scripts and making it more exciting for the movie goer.
DoubleO7
12 Apr 2009, 21:57
I hate it how the hero always comes out victorious over the bad guys. The writers should be creating some unpredictabilty in the scripts and making it more exciting for the movie goer.
Like Gladiator?
red+black
12 Apr 2009, 23:20
Another one is the timely computer genius
Silent Bob!
Actresses who take on the role of a stripper, but never strip...
Ill Chicken
13 Apr 2009, 01:44
How was Seven a Deus ex machina?
How did they find John Doe? Real detective work that. Ridiculous. It was a terrible get out of gaol card that doesn't exist.
Ill Chicken
13 Apr 2009, 01:58
Eg. Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack and Cuba Gooding Jnr grabs a gun on one of the ships and proceeds to shoot down a few planes.
Whether or not he actually downed any enemy planes can be disputed, the actually act is true; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller
Just a few other things to go along with some of the computer stuff previously said;
Computers - The noises they make, like zooming in and so on. If you can stand that sort of crap when continually working with a computer, you're deaf or retarded.
Computers screens fuzzing up or breaking up and so forth because of a computer virus, like Die Hard: 4.0, it doesn't happen.
ExTasDeeMan
13 Apr 2009, 10:05
Directors who put themselves into the movie, allocating an indulgent amount of screentime and lines for their own pleasure.
Strike Swiftly
13 Apr 2009, 10:15
Whether or not he actually downed any enemy planes can be disputed, the actually act is true; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller
Thanks for the link. I never knew of this. :thumbsu:
Actresses who take on the role of a stripper, but never strip...
This majorly pisses me off. If your a stripper, get your kit off!
Directors who put themselves into the movie, allocating an indulgent amount of screentime and lines for their own pleasure.
Quinten Tarantino is a shocker at this. Cant act, has an annoying voice and obviously rates himself pretty highly.
- again unrealistic use of computers, like on a crime movie when some guy zooms in on a surveilance camera.
- Unrealistically smart kids/teenagers. Especially when they're portrayed as average children/teens and then for convenience of the plot they come back with quick smart quips.
Combination of these two is incredibly painful to watch.
Jurassic Park probably the worst example of this... computer security system on the blink, 12 year old kid says "we studied Unix at school", 'fixes' the problem whilst flying through the 'system' using a flight sim user interface.
quickstraw
13 Apr 2009, 10:52
Cheesy catch phrases. Big bold statements that movies try to trade marl their movies with. Every action movie seems to have to have one and those gullible American floggers lap it up.
"You can't handle the truth". Or any wanky catch phrase from David Caruso in CSI Miami.
DoubleO7
13 Apr 2009, 12:20
Actresses who take on the role of a stripper, but never strip...
This majorly pisses me off. If your a stripper, get your kit off!
Marisa Tomei did a commendable job acting as a stripper in the film 'The Wrestler'. She actually performed a lap dance on Mickey Rourke.
Strike Swiftly
13 Apr 2009, 13:16
Maarissa Tomei. Major MILF.
DoubleO7
13 Apr 2009, 13:46
Most definitely:thumbsu::)
Rocket23
13 Apr 2009, 18:37
Similar to the computer hacker is the easy way that someone works out another person's computer password.
Hero needs access to Villians computer. Looks around his desk and sees books on a particular subject. Types subject into password box. Bingo! access granted.
Perfect example is in Watchmen.
There is nothing on my desk or around it for that matter that would give any indication of my passwords!!
JimmyHird
13 Apr 2009, 19:21
Similar to the computer hacker is the easy way that someone works out another person's computer password.
Hero needs access to Villians computer. Looks around his desk and sees books on a particular subject. Types subject into password box. Bingo! access granted.
Perfect example is in Watchmen.
There is nothing on my desk or around it for that matter that would give any indication of my passwords!!
Yeah its always photographs of family members as well.
*Looks around desk and sees photo of dead family member. Puts dead family member name in.
scooterb
13 Apr 2009, 19:28
Another computer one that is massively prominent on TV...
Usually in crime labs, they have these fancy animations on the monitors whenever they do something. Like when they search for a name in a database, there are all these spinning circles, lines flying around and other other the top animations. It looks like the damn AFL website. :thumbsd:
DeadlyAkkuret
13 Apr 2009, 20:06
I saw Watchmen, hated that scene! The worst thing is I knew it would happen, but it gave my girl and I a good laugh.
It's amazing how easy it is to find clues to someone's unique password.
Rowie09
13 Apr 2009, 20:14
How the eiffel tower can be seen from EVERY window in Paris.
How every brown bag of groceries will ALWAYS contain a breadstick and celery.
How average joes can own awesome apartments in downtown Manhattan.
DeadlyAkkuret
13 Apr 2009, 20:23
How average joes can own awesome apartments in downtown Manhattan.
Quoted for truth. They're out of work, have no luck with the ladies, their dog is their best friend, yet they're high rolling it on the upper west side.
Sitcoms seem to do this a lot, just take a look at Friends. That building appears to be right in the middle of Manhattan, not bad for a bunch of people who are constantly in and out of work.
Another one for sitcoms is the average/fat American bogan with the hot wife who looks 15 years younger. The man will generally treat his hot wife like crap but the marriage will somehow survive. These men also seem to spend a lot of time at home or playing golf, despite having jobs that pull enough income to own a beautiful house.
Strike Swiftly
13 Apr 2009, 20:33
Another one for sitcoms is the average/fat American bogan with the hot wife who looks 15 years younger. The man will generally treat his hot wife like crap but the marriage will somehow survive. These men also seem to spend a lot of time at home or playing golf, despite having jobs that pull enough income to own a beautiful house.
Just about every american sitcom has this. absolute rubbish!
Ill Chicken
13 Apr 2009, 20:39
It's funny though, right?
Rowie09
13 Apr 2009, 20:39
Just about every american sitcom has this. absolute rubbish!
King of Queens!
Tell me how a fat, lazy delivery man can swipe a bird like that?
Strike Swiftly
13 Apr 2009, 20:43
It's funny though, right?
Not particularly. I reckon its better when they're in the same ballpark ie. rosanne and john goodman.
anyway back on topic
DeadlyAkkuret
13 Apr 2009, 20:43
King of Queens!
Tell me how a fat, lazy delivery man can swipe a bird like that?
I guess that delivery man really is packing.....boom tshh!
Rowie09
13 Apr 2009, 20:59
I guess that delivery man really is packing.....boom tshh!
:D
Yeah. I guess you could say he knows how to stuff a box.
JimmyHird
14 Apr 2009, 01:40
Ok so I want to have bit of a rant about a scene I saw last week in a movie. I know action movies are suppose to be over done and thats all part of the fun, BUT...for some reason this one stuck out and just annoyed the absolute hell out of me...
So I don't know how many of you have seen Transporter 2 with Jason Statham, but there is a scene in this movie where he is driving a car with an explosive attatched to the bottom. Statham of course isnt too keen on keeping the explosive where it is, so proceeds to launch the car off some kind of jump, flips the car over in mid air so its upside down....while upside down the car passes under a crane and the hanging hook of the crane grabs the explosive and rips it off the bottom of the car, the car continues in a flip and lands safely back on earth. I might not have done the rediculousness of this scene justice, so I hope you guys have seen it.
Macca19
14 Apr 2009, 11:54
The need for tacky CG monsters is terrible and can ruin any movie attempting to be scary. I Am Legend could have been decent if it just used Dawn of the Dead style zombies, instead of those cringe-worthy CG things. Lame!
Yeah dont know about that. I didnt like I Am Legend, but if they used psycho human zombies it would have been just an American 28 Days/Weeks Later.
DeadlyAkkuret
14 Apr 2009, 12:09
Yeah dont know about that. I didnt like I Am Legend, but if they used psycho human zombies it would have been just an American 28 Days/Weeks Later.
28 Weeks Later was miles better than I Am Legend, so that would have been a good thing.
chirpymagpie
14 Apr 2009, 12:25
When the actors are 25 acting 15 year olds and when we never see high school kids in the classroom learning or doing homework
Invigoration
14 Apr 2009, 12:45
When the actors are 25 acting 15 year olds and when we never see high school kids in the classroom learning or doing homework
Buffy?
Underdog
14 Apr 2009, 12:54
Directors who put themselves into the movie, allocating an indulgent amount of screentime and lines for their own pleasure.
Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Old School) and M Night Shyamalan spring to mind.
I hate that nobody ever says "goodbye" or "take it easy" or "see you soon" etc when hanging up the phone.
AndyLesPaul
14 Apr 2009, 13:09
In Juno
How they played a bunch of random music that wasnt anything near the music Juno was raving about
Spermbird
14 Apr 2009, 14:03
In Juno
How they played a bunch of random music that wasnt anything near the music Juno was raving about
Or more the point having fans of a style of music that don't really listen to that style of music. Movie Metalheads being the prime example.
Overall the thing the annoys me the most is lack of decnet plot and/or dialogue.
The bigger the budget the dumber the film premise which is when all the CGI comes in to distract you from the fact that the main characters are monosyllabic morons.
AndyLesPaul
14 Apr 2009, 17:21
Or more the point having fans of a style of music that don't really listen to that style of music. Movie Metalheads being the prime example.
Overall the thing the annoys me the most is lack of decnet plot and/or dialogue.
The bigger the budget the dumber the film premise which is when all the CGI comes in to distract you from the fact that the main characters are monosyllabic morons.
Yeah what he said.
Also Distinct references to the bible
In films like "The Knowing"
Coach Bombay
14 Apr 2009, 19:01
In TV shows/movies when somebody is driving a car they will be turning the wheel left and right constantly even when driving down a straight road.
scooterb
14 Apr 2009, 19:19
In films like "The Knowing"
That's another thing that is starting to piss me off.
All horror movies nowadays are called 'The xxxxxxx'.
Strike Swiftly
14 Apr 2009, 19:56
theyve been called "the xxxxx" for decades.
examples:
the blob
the fly
the shining
the thing
the birds
the haunting
the phantom of the opera
Eugoogoolizer
14 Apr 2009, 21:20
- This happens more often in Tv shows (neighbours and home and away) when they are at a restaurant, and they receive their meal or drink, and leave without touching it:mad: They sometimes even order something then leave.
- When the houses are extremely clean as if no one lives there (display homes) e.g. I Am Legend his daughter's room is spotless, when it should have been covered in dust (because i can't imagine him cleaning it)
matty p
14 Apr 2009, 21:38
- Unrealistically smooth talking. Especially in crime shows, people don't talk like that, people don't summarise things so eloquently in a few quick words, and the people they're talking to don't always understand them or are ready to add to their theory.
I know a lot of people like NCIS and Boston Legal, but this is why i can't stand those shows. Ridiculously unrealistic smooth-talking and in-jokes, which are only used to create cult figures of the characters involved. Anyway, I know they aren't movies, but I couldn't resist.
ExpectToWin
16 Apr 2009, 13:37
Those big 'everyone clapping' scenes at the end of the movie. (typical yanks)
Makes me feel ill
Falchoon
16 Apr 2009, 15:13
Overquoting/overrepresentation of authors/writers
I'm sure it's not 50% of Yanks who can quote Keats at the drop of a hat
Pornstar
16 Apr 2009, 16:41
- Bad guys with ouzis can't hit the good guy after shooting at him constantly for 5 minutes.
- The ridiculous power of computers to zoom in on photos to the point where they enhance a fuzzy character in the background and end up reading the letters on the tattoo on his arm.
- In ghost movies there's always a little kid with powers to communicate with the dead.
- Fight scenes where a guy takes 10-15 king hits to the head and doesn't suffer any ill effects.
- Car chases. Enough already.
TV
- The number of people that readily confess to committing murder after the CSI team inform them that they found one of their hairs at the scene of the crime.
Pornstar
16 Apr 2009, 16:43
Oh, and and WTF is going on with those 20 foot phone cords in American movies?
USAEagle
18 Apr 2009, 07:44
Another example is Titanic. That didnt need a love story. The ship sinking is a big enough story to make a movie about. The list goes on and on.
Titanic WAS the love story. That was what the whole story being told was about.
I agree the movie sucked, but without Jack and Rose, there isn't a story there.
USAEagle
18 Apr 2009, 07:56
When someone's cell phone rings, they always take about 3 or 4 steps off to the side to talk, and you can't HEAR them. In my experience, people shout into their cell phones in public places.
How Jack Bauer can be racing down US 101 in Los Angeles and the CTU truck is the only vehicle on the road. Anyone who has ever been to LA....well enough said.
AndyLesPaul
18 Apr 2009, 09:25
The Unborn
The uninvited
The Ring
The Ring 2
The Grudge
The Grudge 2
ETC
Strike Swiftly
18 Apr 2009, 13:36
Titanic WAS the love story. That was what the whole story being told was about.
I agree the movie sucked, but without Jack and Rose, there isn't a story there.
Rubbish. A massive ship going down like that with as many casualities as there were is a perfect basis for a storyline. Make it a serious historical drama, without the lovey dovey bullshit.
USAEagle
18 Apr 2009, 19:33
That is fine if you want to make a documentary.
James Cameron wanted to take a historical event, and weave a beautiful love story into it.
I have one word to say to James Cameron....
FAIL!
Exhale You
18 Apr 2009, 20:43
They're out of work, have no luck with the ladies, their dog is their best friend, yet they're high rolling it on the upper west side.
Sitcoms seem to do this a lot, just take a look at Friends. That building appears to be right in the middle of Manhattan, not bad for a bunch of people who are constantly in and out of work.
The apartments were rent controlled, which is common in New York.
It was mentioned quite a few times throughout the run of the show.
Bretski
18 Apr 2009, 21:17
When thrillers use their build up 'shock-moment' music, and you have no idea when the scary bit is gonna happen, and quite often it doesnt happen at all, so they end up keeping you on edge throughout the film. I know its a popular technique, but it does piss me off.
Mondo Cane
19 Apr 2009, 11:47
Rubbish. A massive ship going down like that with as many casualities as there were is a perfect basis for a storyline. Make it a serious historical drama, without the lovey dovey bullshit.
It was done quite brilliantly (and thrillingly) in 1958 with "A Night To Remember".
Mondo Cane
19 Apr 2009, 11:54
Screenwriter William Goldman has discussed the sort of things many of you are complaining about.
He gave the example of, say, Mel Gibson needing to get into the Court House before the judge gives his verdict and, after speeding through the streets, Mel parks directly outside the courthouse and runs inside. Anyone with any sense knows that it would be nearly impossible to get a vacant car space right outside the front door and, more than likely, Gibson would be driving around the block for an hour.
But the film is ABOUT Gibson getting into court, it is NOT about Gibson finding a car spot. Everything has to be shorthanded.
If a new film came out promising to fix everything complained about in this thread, it would run for 38 hours and be as boring as batshit.
Ill Chicken
19 Apr 2009, 22:43
That is fine if you want to make a documentary.
James Cameron wanted to take a historical event, and weave a beautiful love story into it.
I have one word to say to James Cameron....
FAIL!
While I haven't seen Titanic, it did gross over a billion dollars world wide.
Ill Chicken
19 Apr 2009, 22:45
Screenwriter William Goldman has discussed the sort of things many of you are complaining about.
He gave the example of, say, Mel Gibson needing to get into the Court House before the judge gives his verdict and, after speeding through the streets, Mel parks directly outside the courthouse and runs inside. Anyone with any sense knows that it would be nearly impossible to get a vacant car space right outside the front door and, more than likely, Gibson would be driving around the block for an hour.
But the film is ABOUT Gibson getting into court, it is NOT about Gibson finding a car spot. Everything has to be shorthanded.
If a new film came out promising to fix everything complained about in this thread, it would run for 38 hours and be as boring as batshit.
That's a poor example. I mean if it's that important that he has to speed there and so on, he would double park someone anyway.
Mondo Cane
20 Apr 2009, 01:11
That's a poor example. I mean if it's that important that he has to speed there and so on, he would double park someone anyway.
Fine, then change it to Mel Gibson taking Julia Roberts out to a romantic dinner at a popular restaurant in a busy New York street. They will get a parking spot out the front, not six blocks away and have to hoof it like the average person does.
Jonesy1987
20 Apr 2009, 05:03
How 98% of movies have happy endings, Pan's Labyrinth and Gone Baby Gone are two of the best movies from the last few years and have far from happy endings.
Agree with the happy endings. Also that most movies have neat endings with everything answered at that point. And so, to get to that neat ending the narrative takes some questionable twists.
Apparently audiences don't like endings which leave you thinking, or don't give all the answers.
JimmyHird
20 Apr 2009, 19:14
Who else has seen No Country For Old Men?
Another good movie without a 'happy' or expected ending.
Agree with the happy endings. Also that most movies have neat endings with everything answered at that point. And so, to get to that neat ending the narrative takes some questionable twists.
Apparently audiences don't like endings which leave you thinking, or don't give all the answers.
The whole point of a movie is to tell a story, if everything isn't answered the story isn't finished, seems fairly logical to me.
Ill Chicken
23 Apr 2009, 00:10
Fine, then change it to Mel Gibson taking Julia Roberts out to a romantic dinner at a popular restaurant in a busy New York street. They will get a parking spot out the front, not six blocks away and have to hoof it like the average person does.
I think you're going completely in the wrong direction with this.
Ill Chicken
23 Apr 2009, 00:12
When thrillers use their build up 'shock-moment' music, and you have no idea when the scary bit is gonna happen, and quite often it doesnt happen at all, so they end up keeping you on edge throughout the film. I know its a popular technique, but it does piss me off.
Supposedly turning the sound off and using sub-titles is a cure for this.
legitimatic
23 Apr 2009, 04:10
Not really just movies but when there is an Australian character they always sound Kiwi instead, it's like Americans have no idea what we sound like..
Not really just movies but when there is an Australian character they always sound Kiwi instead, it's like Americans have no idea what we sound like..
The Australian accent in anything American is always terrible. It can sound South African or like a New Zealander or in a even worse case they have accents of what Americans "think" we sound like (as it a extremely rough accent where they person says terms like crickey and stone the crows which have not been common expressions since the 1920's).
Punchy Bassett
23 Apr 2009, 12:22
The Australian accent in anything American is always terrible. It can sound South African or like a New Zealander or in a even worse case they have accents of what Americans "think" we sound like (as it a extremely rough accent where they person says terms like crickey and stone the crows which have not been common expressions since the 1920's).
And the fact they think we use the word 'crikey' in every sentence we say :rolleyes:
I hate it when the hot female sidekick/assassin/evil bitch is killed off early, depriving me of eye candy for the remainder of the film.
Contra Mundum
23 Apr 2009, 13:16
Bullshit "fixing everthing up in the end" resolutions to movies
Mondo Cane
24 Apr 2009, 00:00
I think you're going completely in the wrong direction with this.
Nup.
magtrev
24 Apr 2009, 10:46
Hmm, things that regularly piss me off. I only really have two major ones, both related to incompetent bad guys.
1) bad guys that cant aim, especially with automatic weapons. Flimsy railings becoming miraculous bullet proof screens. Good guys sniping perfectly with tiny pistols.
2) bad guys hesistating for no reason when they have a clear shot at a guy they clearly intend to kill. or the old 'shoot once and comically miss the good guy that has no idea they are there and then wait a few seconds while good guy finds cover before firing again'
I've liked my Die Hard movies, but the end of the third one where theres a dude in a helicopter with a freaking mini-gun just looking at bruce willis in the middle of an empty carpark for like 15 seconds with a menacing look on his face and then Bruce takes him out by sniping a powerline like 150 meters away with a tiny revolver which then proceeds to take out the helicopter a few seconds later, all while the guy in the helicopter is still inexplicably not killing Bruce, that just made me angry.
soupaman
24 Apr 2009, 13:32
How upon capturing their arch nemesis, whether good or bad, they always spend ages going on about how they're going to kill them and punish them, always giving them enough time for ither rescue to come or to somehow work their way out of a situation.
This also works for other scenarios, for instance how many times could someone from Gotham City just put a bullet in the Jokers head, only to not do so and allow him to go back out there and wreak some more carnage.