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Post by cheesecake on Feb 25, 2017 5:10:14 GMT
When a character does the dumbest thing (basically if a plot point had a "don't push" button they allude to and then later on a character just goes and does it). I can't even sit through Inside Out. Haha.
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Post by napierslogs on Feb 26, 2017 16:58:15 GMT
When characters always wear really nice/expensive/designer clothes, when in most cases, shouldn't be able to afford it, wouldn't realistically wear it, and should have been ruined hours ago but still looks nice.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 26, 2017 17:34:29 GMT
-supermodel is an ugly nerd because they wear glasses.
-Character closing a mirror and someone being behind them.
-ancient Greeks/Romans with British accents.
-casting white actors as ethnic characters because "they were the best actor for the part".
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Feb 26, 2017 23:36:54 GMT
- Characters stretching out conversations that should be over in thirty seconds. COMMUNICATE, YOU DUNCES! - Misunderstandings, my most hated cliche in film, especially when they only exist because the plot demands them to. Hell, I think Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Adventureland have the same fucking confession scene. - Characters switching languages for no good reason (unless it's a case like Inglourious Basterds)
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Post by taliarowe on Feb 27, 2017 6:42:26 GMT
- No phone reception cliche in horror movies. - Closing laptops to indicate that it's off. - The whole don't push the button or open the forbidden door thing.
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Post by wendy on Feb 27, 2017 11:01:22 GMT
Agree with most mentioned so far. I'm also VERY easily distracted by the brand, spanking new costumes, sets, and hair/makeup in period movies. Very few of them lately have looked convincing, like the people were 'actually' living in that time.
Any movie set in the 1950s and every car is perfectly waxed, new out of the factory, shiny, fresh from the prop department... even the ones in the background on the street. The women's hair NEVER strays even remotely from the too-perfect wig, never a smudge of makeup. I know people were a little more pristine and coiffed back then but they don't even show basic wear and tear like mud on cars, sweat on people, or weather damage.
It just makes it look like people playing dress up.
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Post by emmastewart on Feb 28, 2017 6:21:37 GMT
When characters always wear really nice/expensive/designer clothes, when in most cases, shouldn't be able to afford it, wouldn't realistically wear it, and should have been ruined hours ago but still looks nice. Also when characters have homes they should not be able to afford. I want to punch Hilary Swank in the face when she complains about their "tiny" NYC apartment in PS I Love You. Catherine Zeta-Jokes renting a 2-bedroom in Manhattan on a copy editor's wage in The Rebound is another one that drives me up the wall.
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Post by Schiggy on Feb 28, 2017 6:50:57 GMT
Guns that don't recoil (it always annoys me when Rick is able to have 100% accuracy of a .357 Magnum with no kickback).
Covering up breasts after having sex or wearing a bra during sex *easily handwaved because of not wanting to show nudity*
Law and Order saying "scum" instead of bastard, asshole, fucker, etc. *They have women and children getting raped, beaten, murdered, but they can't include some bleeps?*
When they are pretending to drink something that is obviously not filled with anything. Just an empty cup.
When they knock on a door, and someone immediately answers it *handwavable due to time issues*
Unrealistic amounts of dates/boy- and/or girlfriends. Seriously, do people really go on that many dates with that many people in that short amount of time?
Comedy shows always having to have a super dramatic episode
People talking about really serious things like drug use, affairs, murder, etc. in really audible tones when there are people within plausible earshot.
Characters shooting a revolver 19 times without reloading
Plot twists of "You're supposed to be dead!!!"
Using rape as a way of "developing" a woman's character/story
Really cringeworthy drunk scenes where's it's all lolfunnydrinkmoreformorelolz I think Sandy Dennis in Virginia Woolf gives the best drunk performance. I was prematurely cringing, but she plays it excellently. I might even accuse her of really being drunk.
Fat, ugly guy with a smoking hot wife.
Women always being the straight man/husband being the enabler of sillyness (which is why I love the dynamic of Bob/Linda in Bob's Burgers). King of the Hill also has Peggy being less of a stick in the mud overall.
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Post by levpoldkahnt on Feb 28, 2017 12:46:29 GMT
This sound effect drives me mad. I almost always anticipate it whenever children are playing and then it comes.
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Post by Film Socialism on Feb 28, 2017 20:28:31 GMT
This sound effect drives me mad. I almost always anticipate it whenever children are playing and then it comes. this changed my life
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Post by no on Feb 28, 2017 20:37:35 GMT
This sound effect drives me mad. I almost always anticipate it whenever children are playing and then it comes. OMG Yes. I would have listed this but I didn't want to think about it lol.
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Post by AKenjiB on Feb 28, 2017 20:42:52 GMT
Anytime someone plays the "pronoun game". It's almost always completely bizarre why they'd do it. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a great film but had an especially egregious example. "If you're going to kill Harry, you better kill us too." "Only one will die tonight" The "one" in reference is Peter Pettigrew, not Harry Potter, but Sirius Black doesn't seem to want to clarify "Oh god, no. I don't wanna kill Harry. Don't worry. I just wanna kill Peter Pettigrew. It's all good." And then Professor Lupin comes in and they say "Let's kill him!" once again refusing to explain to the traumatized children that "him" is referring to Peter Pettigrew, not Harry Potter. It makes for a pretty intense 2 minutes on the first viewing, when you think that Lupin is a traitor but once you realize what really happened, their dialogue makes absolutely no sense. Also any action movie where the hero is such an invincible badass that they have no problem with taking out any mook. I can make a few exceptions but in general it just really takes me out of the experience and makes me not excited by the film at all. That's why I was never able to get into the Taken films or The Equalizer, but loved John Wick and The Raid.
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Post by Tom on Mar 1, 2017 0:23:24 GMT
When characters always wear really nice/expensive/designer clothes, when in most cases, shouldn't be able to afford it, wouldn't realistically wear it, and should have been ruined hours ago but still looks nice. Also when characters have homes they should not be able to afford. I want to punch Hilary Swank in the face when she complains about their "tiny" NYC apartment in PS I Love You. Catherine Zeta-Jokes renting a 2-bedroom in Manhattan on a copy editor's wage in The Rebound is another one that drives me up the wall. Its even worse in TV-shows and their lame excuse of 'rent stabilized apartments'.
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Post by gyllet on Mar 1, 2017 9:23:47 GMT
Off the top of my head, when characters turn on the TV and breaking news starts right away and in a way that characters don't miss any important information. Right wow good timing!
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Post by kellysassafras on Mar 3, 2017 2:53:14 GMT
There's a stock sound that really bothers me, it's like a creaky door hinge, and it sounds so cheap and awful, and it's still in popular use for some reason even though I've definitely heard this sound effect in different movies/TV shows since I was a child.
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Post by countjohn on Mar 3, 2017 3:15:34 GMT
Agree with most mentioned so far. I'm also VERY easily distracted by the brand, spanking new costumes, sets, and hair/makeup in period movies. Very few of them lately have looked convincing, like the people were 'actually' living in that time. Any movie set in the 1950s and every car is perfectly waxed, new out of the factory, shiny, fresh from the prop department... even the ones in the background on the street. The women's hair NEVER strays even remotely from the too-perfect wig, never a smudge of makeup. I know people were a little more pristine and coiffed back then but they don't even show basic wear and tear like mud on cars, sweat on people, or weather damage. It just makes it look like people playing dress up. A lot of that is that that's how a lot of movies actually made in that time were, so they may be emulating them rather than actual history, which is perfectly valid.
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Post by countjohn on Mar 3, 2017 3:19:44 GMT
When characters stand around talking in a situation where they should be in a hurry (i.e, they just broke into a bank vault and have x amount of time to get out but then stop to have a big long heart to heart discussion). Even worse when used as a plot point (they get caught) or in an attempt to build suspense.
I'm not usually one to nitpick this kind of stuff but for some reason that one is transparently stupid to me and takes me out of the movie. And if it's being used as an excuse to drive the plot along it's just lazy writing.
The "villain explaining his whole plan" thing doesn't quite count to me because that's almost always done ironically or to be funny these days.
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Post by wonky on Mar 3, 2017 3:26:09 GMT
Characters having a loud argument in a public place and nobody around them reacts.
Exhibit A:
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Post by Schiggy on Mar 3, 2017 3:29:38 GMT
Off the top of my head, when characters turn on the TV and breaking news starts right away and in a way that characters don't miss any important information. Right wow good timing! If it's something like a terrorist attack or "The president has been shot!" then it'd likely be broadcast on most stations at the same time, but not if it's something dumb. There's a stock sound that really bothers me, it's like a creaky door hinge, and it sounds so cheap and awful, and it's still in popular use for some reason even though I've definitely heard this sound effect in different movies/TV shows since I was a child. I know what you're talking about! It always reminded me of a stock door sound from the Middle Ages. --- - When characters randomly fall into money - lottery, found briefcase of money, long-lost dead relative, etc. - Whenever there's a bomb ticking down and it says "4:33" or whatever, and like...ten minutes later...it's barely down to "1:10." - And laugh tracks. Fucking stupid things. They'll laugh at somebody open a mailbox or unlocking their car.
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Post by fredrikwiener on Mar 3, 2017 8:03:20 GMT
I get uncomfortable when watching characters having face to face conversations with others while driving, even worse when they turn their head around to talk to people in the backseat. When I started driving as a teen, I felt limited as a driver because I could never look at the passenger for more than 2 seconds, since I had to, you know, focus on the road
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Post by Steve17 on Mar 5, 2017 3:07:47 GMT
A couple of others that came to mind:
Any form/variation of "Ain't got no......"
Another one I recently thought was the trend of a final book of a series being split into 2 films. I didn't mind Harry Potter doing this with Deathly Hallows, but after that it felt like all of the other film series were doing it just because Harry Potter did.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 30, 2017 22:32:11 GMT
Logan (which was otherwise really solid) reminded me of another one: when characters on the run or being chased knowingly stay at some innocent's place and endanger them. Especially in this case, since it got an entire family killed. I know Xavier is the one who pushed having dinner there and he has Alzheimer's, but Logan really should have put his foot down.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Mar 31, 2017 2:34:42 GMT
A shaking glass of water used to build up a sense of danger. Like an earthquake or an approaching giant monster.
Generic blue camera lens for nighttime scenes. Especially the ones that made it seem like there's always a moonlight out every night.
A matrix parody scene whenever a character tries to avert an object in slow motion or gets ready to fight someone in freeze frame with a camera circling around them.
And speaking of cameras encircling someone.... This also takes place in a lot of movies/shows whenever a couple shares that big grand kiss in the end.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 31, 2017 2:37:35 GMT
A shaking glass of water used to build up a sense of danger. Like an earthquake or an approaching giant monster. How bout Jurassic Park???
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Post by CookiesNCream on Mar 31, 2017 3:29:08 GMT
A shaking glass of water used to build up a sense of danger. Like an earthquake or an approaching giant monster. How bout Jurassic Park??? Jurassic Park was fine. I think it was one of the earliest movies to have started or popularized that whole trend. It just felt a little overplayed for me when used in a bunch of other movies and shows after JP.
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