Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Joosh]

What is the one thing you are sick of seeing in movies?

For me, it's the slow motion fight scenes, especially if it also involves the high wire stuff.

 

[yakcam]

The Wilhelm scream.

Cheers,

Kraig

 

[The Mad Professor]

Physically impossible feats in the name of excitement.

I'm not talking improbable things, I'm talking about 250-rounds-of-ammo-in-a-pistol-magazine, normal-human-jumps-down-three-stories-and-land-with-no-injuries, explosion-goes-off-behind-the-person-with-no-ill-effects, run-a-car-off-a-roof-and-barrel-roll-it-to-rip-a-bomb-off-using-a-hook-on-a-wrecking-ball-and-land-on-all-four-wheels-with-absolutely-no-damage-to-the-car impossible feats.

Sick of them.

 

[rodneyfaile]

An entire cast of perfect looking people with perfect hair and makeup, regardless of time period or distressing situations.

 

[The Mad Professor]

Contemporary music in period pieces (completely destroyed A Knight's Tale... that and the Nike Armor).

Dance scenes where apparently everyone is not only a professional dancer, but they have perfect choreography as well.

Stupid bad guys that REALLY need to read the Evil Overlord List.

People who cannot do accents correctly (I'm looking at you, Kevin Costner...)

 

[dascoyne]

"white savior" movies

 

[The Mad Professor]

Actually, you wanna know what I am REALLY tired of seeing in movies?


Unnecessary and often horrific sequels and/or remakes.


PLEASE STAHP!!!

 

[Feraud]

Head-butts..

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

When a character knocks on the front door and it's answered in less than 10 seconds.

 

[Wes R]

shaky-cam, flavor of the month bands making the movie a giant music video, bad cgi (let's face suddenly every movie's cgi isn't much better than scifi channel).

 

[laserpistol76]

Movies that sell because of their cast, unnecessary romance stuff, Disney movie deaths (apparently, falling is the only way to die in a Disney movie), generic web search engines no one has ever heard of, explosions that happen for no possible reason, alien invasions always happen in London, New York City, major cities, and the list goes on and on...
Joosh, rodneyfaile, Fiction Engineered, I second yours.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

How loud computer keys are when a character is typing.

Characters who read out loud while they write something, or read something out loud when they are alone.

 

[dascoyne]

cinema verite aka. "shaky cam" - in the early days (e.g. Hill Street Blues) it was used in moderation.
Nowadays it's used to a ridiculous degree - camera sweeps across an elbow then an eyeball then ... WTF?

 

[Wes R]

How loud computer keys are when a character is typing.

Characters who read out loud while they write something, or read something out loud when they are alone.

Remember when reading a letter alone or while writing was doing in a voice over which made more sense? Poor camera work in general, nobody uses traditional camera shots anymore. Oh not filming in location anymore but dressing up another country to look like the US (I'm looking at you George Romero).

 

[dbuck]

I'm also going with shaky cam, my number one peeve.

 

[Ronan87]

Shaky cam when everything is very dark...

I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!!!

Anyone else annoyed by that???

 

[Wes R]

The names: michael bay, damon lindelof, jj abrams, alex kurtzman, and roberto orci in the credits. Also tired of movies based on 80s properties made by directors and writers who had no interest in the subject matter back then.

 

[dascoyne]

smarmy comedies about Hollywood where every character is supposed to be charmingly and disarmingly eccentric

 

[dascoyne]

rebooted classics that "modernize" details that don't really need it ...
e.g. Casino Royale - changing Baccarat to Texas Hold'em,

 

[cayman shen]

Found footage. If you can't afford to make a real movie, use you mommy's Visa card.

Yes, there are a few I really, really love. But the vast majority look like they were made by junior high kids on an iphone.