Eye Rolling Movie Tropes
- Thread starter 2006_Eagles
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Lord_Flashheart
Chicken Twisty Epicurean
Whether she's the main protagonist or co-star the female in most adventure or disaster type movies, irrespective of what she started out wearing, nearly almost ends up scantily clad, in a sometimes torn and often wet singlet/tank top...?
Last edited:
- Sep 15, 2011
- 31,643
- 48,199
- AFL Club
- West Coast
Hot Shots Part Deux nailed that trope.
- Feb 21, 2006
- 20,735
- 19,581
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
- Other Teams
- Turtles, NYJets, Celtics, Tottenham
Smoke me a kipper! I'll be back for breakfast.
Get outta town, your name was never Ace. Maybe Ace-hole.
peternorth
Moderator
- May 6, 2005
- 127,495
- 75,594
- AFL Club
- Richmond
- Moderator
- #133
In gotham city when batman fights the streets are empty. No collateral damage. No one sticking their heads out taking happy snaps or selfies.
- Jun 21, 2008
- 4,928
- 3,828
- AFL Club
- Geelong
- Other Teams
- Might need to find one
Women running upstairs for safety when they think someone is about to break in to the house?
MatthewB
If the drinking lamp is lit, you should be too
- Sep 17, 2015
- 9,999
- 12,173
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- NY Yankees, Glenelg Adelaide Giants
Cop shows or movies - when the detective or cop finally solve/ figure out who the criminal is and know the criminals location and might be with someone who might be their next victim and the cop is a on the side of town and race to save victim..why don’t they call it in and closest patrol car can go save the next victim.
Perhaps not eye rolling, but the frequent oversight in some movies when the protagonist/s, usually at a street stall, buys an ice-cream/flowers/hotdog or a newspaper yet there is no apparent exchange of money - also happens a lot in bar scenes where someone walks into a bar, orders a beer, has two sips, gets a phone call and then just leaves..?
Interestingly the reality is, specifically for street stalls in the US, the usual protocol is a simultaneous exchange of product and payment as the vendor has little recourse if the buyer does a runner and if you're not a regular, you're usually asked to prepay upon order - ordering drinks or food at bars or restaurants (controlled spaces with CCTV and/or security staff) not so much...
Interestingly the reality is, specifically for street stalls in the US, the usual protocol is a simultaneous exchange of product and payment as the vendor has little recourse if the buyer does a runner and if you're not a regular, you're usually asked to prepay upon order - ordering drinks or food at bars or restaurants (controlled spaces with CCTV and/or security staff) not so much...
Last edited:
GreyCrow
TheBrownDog
- Mar 21, 2016
- 74,560
- 118,399
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Sturt, White Sox
Netflix have a show called Hollywood Great Cliches which I expect will cover a lot of this ground
- Sep 6, 2015
- 28,197
- 23,338
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Pelicans, Perf Wildcats
- Thread starter
- #139
I directed that. Here's some more:
Characters not reacting with the sufficient pain reaction to injury relationship ie. being shanked in the back and just falling over front first. Also walking on legs with a gunshot wound
Characters blatantly acting as a proxy for the audience
Carbine Chaos
The Gaff-er
- Apr 1, 2009
- 64,000
- 94,419
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Perth FC, Everton, Delhi
Best part of that is how Sidney runs up the stairs about 5 minutes later. Such a great movie, keen for the new one.
Somebody has probably said this one, but characters who hang up phones without saying a goodbye to the person on the other end.
Drugs Are Bad Mackay?
Moderator
- May 24, 2006
- 77,397
- 152,140
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Redbacks, Sturt, Liverpool, Arizona
- Moderator
- #141
- Sep 6, 2015
- 28,197
- 23,338
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Pelicans, Perf Wildcats
- Thread starter
- #142
So you have a movie trope for me?
Carbine Chaos
The Gaff-er
- Apr 1, 2009
- 64,000
- 94,419
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Perth FC, Everton, Delhi
Not telling someone when you get shot is tight.
MatthewB
If the drinking lamp is lit, you should be too
- Sep 17, 2015
- 9,999
- 12,173
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- NY Yankees, Glenelg Adelaide Giants
Only have to wait a month now
Movie romances do my head in.
Most movie time lines are within a few days to a few weeks. Yet we are supposed to believe these ultra romantic subplots where not only a couple first meet but then get engaged.
Painful
Most movie time lines are within a few days to a few weeks. Yet we are supposed to believe these ultra romantic subplots where not only a couple first meet but then get engaged.
Painful
DIG
Brownlow Medallist
Conversation ends. But for some reason we’re still filming as one character gets up, walks to the door and as he opens it...
“Oh and by the way....”
“Oh and by the way....”
Related - how about those 'magic Hollywood bullets' that somehow make people fly backwards through the air, defying even the most basic physics given the zero apparent recoil of the gun or the shooter - and this oddity has been portrayed in movies since the early westerns of the 40's.!
Taylor
Community Leader
- Moderator
- #148
This is one of the many issues I had with Prometheus where she had an emergency c-section stapled together and then was able to run, jump, climb, crawl.
It's just inconvenient for the story, so it's forgotten.
A good example of more realistic handling is in the fight scenes from Nobody.
- Sep 6, 2015
- 28,197
- 23,338
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Pelicans, Perf Wildcats
- Thread starter
- #149
I hear you on the emergency c sec. I tend to give sci fi movies set in the future the benefit of the doubt. Like maybe there was some sort of pain killer administered at same time
