Things you're tired of seeing in movies

The cop that is good at what he does, but is always in trouble and is one step from being kicked off the force. His LT is usually black, worn out and routinely says, "I'm getting too old for this..."
I am sick to death of this, it's been played out so much that the concept should have a stake driven through its heart.
 
I swear... If I see another fairy tale that has been re-written or re-imagined I'm gonna puke. Same thing goes for vampire and werewolf stories. How many ways can they tell or re-tell the same old lame stories! Or how about re-imaginitings of old TV shows. Now they are coming out with a new Odd Couple show... yeah, this is what we really need. Next is gonna be Archie Bunker, Welcome Back Kotter and Sanford & Son. We don't need rehacked old stuff... what we need is new ideas... new story lines... How many ways can they screw up Superman? I mean comon... the last 3 movies have told the same story of how he was sent from the planet Kypton to earth and raised by the Kents. We know all this! We don't need it drilled into our heads every time we see Superman again. I realize DC is playing catchup with Marvel especially after the whole Batman fiasco with Val Kilmer and George Clooney. We want our comics books left alone... don't change them, just put them up on the big screen so we don't have to go back and read the comic book anymore! And please... someone tell Hollywood to stop all the nonsense with the Blair Witch camera movies that have been plaguing us since Blair Witch. I understand, it's cheaper to make a movie with a camera phone, but you don't have to turn it into a movie. Just because Blair Witch made the money it did don't mean that you'll be able to replicate the same income from that style of movie all the time. Sure movie's like Cloverfield or Chronicle weren't too bad, but comon... I think Paranormal Activity has pushed the interest of the genre to the limit. Oh and did I mention if I see another vampire or werewolf movie I was gonna puke?
 
This is going to sound kind of silly but I'm getting tired of seeing the overuse of the indexed finger on guns. It's nice that Hollywood is getting more savvy about firearm safety and all but it's gone a little too far these days where everybody is keeping their finger off of the trigger, even when it should be on (which I know is something I mentioned previously here), and what I've noticed lately is that people who really wouldn't really know about finger/trigger discipline are doing it. I'm not talking about your average person here who might have had some firearms safety training but I'm talking about the total noob who's picking up a gun for the very first time and they know to keep their finger off of the trigger, or your average gangster thug who thinks that holding a pistol sideways is correct yet know that having your finger on the trigger when not shooting is.
 
Riceball said:
This is going to sound kind of silly but I'm getting tired of seeing the overuse of the indexed finger on guns. It's nice that Hollywood is getting more savvy about firearm safety and all but it's gone a little too far these days where everybody is keeping their finger off of the trigger, even when it should be on (which I know is something I mentioned previously here), and what I've noticed lately is that people who really wouldn't really know about finger/trigger discipline are doing it. I'm not talking about your average person here who might have had some firearms safety training but I'm talking about the total noob who's picking up a gun for the very first time and they know to keep their finger off of the trigger, or your average gangster thug who thinks that holding a pistol sideways is correct yet know that having your finger on the trigger when not shooting is.
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You can blame that on the weapons handlers on set. There's been enough accidental discharges in movie history (Google the actor Jon-Erik Hexum for one of the worst of them) that you'll be seeing that from now on, I'd think.
Ask anyone seriously into competitive shooting or law enforcement, there's only a finite number of ways to hold and shoot a firearm, but trainers have to come up with something new for job security. The 'broken finger' stance (which is what I call it as it looks to me like you're trying not to have a borken finger get in contact with anything) has been used by the military for quite a while now.
But every now and then, someone will come up with some 'new' shooting stance.
But the bottom line is, only porn stars care what they look like when they shoot...
 
p51 said:
You can blame that on the weapons handlers on set. There's been enough accidental discharges in movie history (Google the actor Jon-Erik Hexum for one of the worst of them) that you'll be seeing that from now on, I'd think.
Ask anyone seriously into competitive shooting or law enforcement, there's only a finite number of ways to hold and shoot a firearm, but trainers have to come up with something new for job security. The 'broken finger' stance (which is what I call it as it looks to me like you're trying not to have a borken finger get in contact with anything) has been used by the military for quite a while now.
But every now and then, someone will come up with some 'new' shooting stance.
But the bottom line is, only porn stars care what they look like when they shoot...
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My compliant isn't about the stance or the necessity of firearm safety, trust me I know all about that stuff, my complaint was about movies (& TV) showing everybody using the "broken finger" (as you like to call it) grip including people who wouldn't or shouldn't be holding their weapon in that fashion. I'm not talking about pro shooters, military/LEO, or regular civilian shooters but gangsters and thugs who know little to nothing about gun safety and less about proper stances and grips.

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Which reminds me. In the Firefly episode, War Stories, all the crew took up arms to rescue Mal. Ironically Simon was the only one who held his pistol as if he's handled one before.
 
Riceball said:
My compliant isn't about the stance or the necessity of firearm safety, trust me I know all about that stuff, my complaint was about movies (& TV) showing everybody using the "broken finger" (as you like to call it) grip including people who wouldn't or shouldn't be holding their weapon in that fashion. I'm not talking about pro shooters, military/LEO, or regular civilian shooters but gangsters and thugs who know little to nothing about gun safety and less about proper stances and grips.
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Oh, I got your point. My reply was that everyone will be trained by people who think safety first and what looks right comes... never. They won't risk someone doing something stupid.
 
Aww, I actually like that "stepping up behind someone and breaking their neck by grabbing their neck and twisting it to the side" bit!

But I do hate:

-bad science (I mean stupid-lame science, which saddens sci fi***)
-bad bullet substraction (handguns that fire 48 rounds because no one thinks to reload)
-"through and throughs" (hero gets shot, but it's "through and through" so s/he gets a bandaid and goes jogging/swimming/whatever an hour later)
-breaking the laws of physics for fight scenes (so much wire work these days).

Oh--and 15-minute fight scenes from which they all walk away with a tiny, attractive cut on their cheek covered by a butterfly bandage. Blech. Shorten the the fights or increase the greivous bodiliy harm, people!


**a show set 40 years in the future and uses cell phones lamer than mine today. Painful failures of sci-fi imagination.
**bad naming: "they're using flashmasks" (because the mask is flashy). "They're using plate scramblers" (because it scramblers a license plate). "They're using face makers" (because the hologram projector conceals their real face and somehow projects a different color, size, and shaped face than the real person's).

And uh, hi. I'm Christine. I have opinions about, er, everything?

**"They're using DNA bombs (actually, that one I loved).
 
CharlotteC0129 said:
-"through and throughs" (hero gets shot, but it's "through and through" so s/he gets a bandaid and goes jogging/swimming/whatever an hour later)
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I have had a 9mm "through and through" my thigh (yup... did it myself... long and embarrassing story... :$) and was able to walk with almost no problem immediately afterwards. Having experienced it first-hand, it was shocking just how "unhurt" I was and how mobile I still was. Now, the next day was rough, but immediately following, I was not incapacitated since it only went through muscle and didn't hit bone or any major blood vessels, so it all depends on WHERE you get shot.
 
Wes R said:
Bad science in movies supposedly meant to be hard scifi and even have advisers who are real scientists but still fail.
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I couldn't agree more... Shall I mention Sharknado in that same breath? I mean c'mon... using a propane tank "bomb" fashioned out of fire alarms to throw into a tornado to disperse it was a bad enough idea, but throwing it by flying a helicopter up to the side of it was completely and totally laughable!!
 
Wes R said:
Bad science in movies supposedly meant to be hard scifi and even have advisers who are real scientists but still fail.
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That's because some producers just like having an advisor, science or other, just to say that they did in order to make people believe that the science, history, or whatever shown in the movie is accurate; the truth is that the advisor just either points out things that are wrong in the script or sits on set and makes observations but just gets ignored.
 
Sorry to hear it--but, uh, I think it's gotta be an interesting story, yes?

I'm truly surprised it could happen, unless it just went through fatty tissue. I hear so much about the tearing capacity of a round on flesh, and have fired at a roast to see what it does to muscle tissue for research purposes.... These days I think I also imagine the bad guys use hollow points which--well, you know. What kind of round did you fire? And--okay, what is the story?

I have used the "through and through" device myself in my writing, too often (probably why I'm so sensitive to it; it's such an easy way to force drama and brush off consequences). I just think, if you shoot 100 people through-and-through, 90+ of them are gonna be waiting for their internal and external stitches to heal. Am I totally off base?
 
CharlotteC0129 said:
-"through and throughs" (hero gets shot, but it's "through and through" so s/he gets a bandaid and goes jogging/swimming/whatever an hour later)
-breaking the laws of physics for fight scenes (so much wire work these days).
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Yeah, I've always wondered about when they show a bullet would that they say "went clean through" and it's on the chest near the shoulder, why they don't also say "And it shattered your shoulder blade on its way out, so you should be screaming in pain right now, action hero guy."
 
Art Andrews said:
I have had a 9mm "through and through" my thigh (yup... did it myself... long and embarrassing story... :$) and was able to walk with almost no problem immediately afterwards. Having experienced it first-hand, it was shocking just how "unhurt" I was and how mobile I still was. Now, the next day was rough, but immediately following, I was not incapacitated since it only went through muscle and didn't hit bone or any major blood vessels, so it all depends on WHERE you get shot.
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I got capped my a 5.56MM rifle round to one of my feet on a training exxercise. Thankfully, it was laterally across the top of my foot, which would have been impossible for a self-inflicted accident discharge.
Felt like I got hit with a golf club at full force, knocked me right on the ground. Hurt like heck, even though it was a very small grazing wound. Bled like heck, I was sure I'd just lost all my toes when I looked down and saw the top of my boot ripped off and all that blood. Once I realized the wound wasn't bad at all (I was back on duty the next day, I didn't even need stitches, but I did limp for a while), I got ticked as I'd just broken those boots in.
The irony was I got capped by a Marine for crying out loud (I was an Army LT at the time). They were doing a live fire tactical exercise in the next training area to our right, several hundred meters away and his weapon wasn't point downrange like it should have been. He tripped. snapped off a round, and hit me from a very long way off. Total fluke as to it hitting me, I wouldn't have thought an M-16 round would travel hat far and still have that kind of force.
I bet the Marine who did that is still doing pushups for that.
 

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