Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Riceball]

Another after being asleep... when someone turns on a light and their eyes have adjusted within miliseconds...

I don't think that can be helped, not without "fixing" it in post, it's one of those human nature kind of things. I think the best they can do is make sure the actor at least looks and acts appropriately groggy and not instantly awake and alert right after the lights come on. Of course, there are exceptions to this, and those who've been in the military learn to do this during boot camp, even if they forget it later on.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Speaking of getting up after being asleep, what about when you see women wake up from having been asleep for hours and yet their hair looks like just like it did when they went to bed. That's part of what I think I found so funny about the end of the opening scene in Guardians of the Galaxy when Starlord's one night stand shows up, she actually had a pretty serious case of bed hair.

I think that had more to do with the fact that the ship was tumbling around alot before she peeked up from the lower deck and not as much as her just waking up.

 

[Riceball]

I think that had more to do with the fact that the ship was tumbling around alot before she peeked up from the lower deck and not as much as her just waking up.

I kind of think it was bit of both. She was initially sleeping down below then was (rudely) woken up with Starlord started to make his escape and his ship was tumbled about.

 

[harrisonp]

[video]https://youtu.be/lfMaOyPQz18?t=56s[/video]

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Here's something that's always bothered me in movies and on TV shows. Why is it when they have a costume party or a Halloween party, everyone who shows up in costume is wearing something that would have cost thousands of dollars. A costume that would have taken months to create. You never see the $20 Walmart costumes or the ones who just threw something together. Every costume looks perfect in everyway! I hate that!

 

[Riceball]

How about the old gag where two people are fighting over a weapon, either a knife or a gun, and are struggling and wrestling (standing of course) when you see either the gun fire or sound of the knife hitting flesh and both combatants react not knowing who it was that got shot or stabbed. At least that's what the writers and directors want you to think but you know that it's the villain because it's never the hero or if it's between the villain and secondary character it's always the villain so that the hero can avenge the fallen secondary character.

Another thing I'm getting tired of seeing is shows starting in flashback, this is something that Killjoys and Dark Matter seem to enjoy doing with every other episode starting with a subtitle saying X hours earlier. Once in a while is fine, like once twice a season, but 3 or more a season is just too much for me and I find it annoying when it happens that often.

 

[Zombie_61]

Here's something that's always bothered me in movies and on TV shows. Why is it when they have a costume party or a Halloween party, everyone who shows up in costume is wearing something that would have cost thousands of dollars. A costume that would have taken months to create. You never see the $20 Walmart costumes or the ones who just threw something together. Every costume looks perfect in everyway! I hate that!

This is one of the things that cracks me up about The Big Bang Theory. Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are movie and costume/cosplay fans who would fit right in here on the RPF, but almost every time we see them in costumes they're the inexpensive, off-the-shelf, run-of-the-mill variety that you can get at almost any costume shop.

 

[Laspector]

Yeah that's true. Their Justice League costumes were pretty 'off the shelf'. Also the time they went to Penny's Halloween party. They once talked about how they went to Comic con dressed as Jabba, I would assume they built that but it was never shown or spoken of again. However their ST:TNG costumes were pretty good. Bernadette did speak of Howard being up all night sewing on his Borg costume, but I would figure a Borg costume would be more fabricating than sewing.

 

[Riceball]

I did catch part of an episode where Penny was going through Leonard's closet and they showed a TOS BSG costume that looked pretty decent, even if it didn't have the jacket or boots to go with it.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Gotta love the Big Bang Theory! I think my favorite episode was when Penny gave Sheldon Leonard Nimoy's autograph! I was on the floor laughing so hard!

 

[Treadwell]

IIRC their TNG costumes were Anovos.

 

[p51]

Here's something that's always bothered me in movies and on TV shows. Why is it when they have a costume party or a Halloween party, everyone who shows up in costume is wearing something that would have cost thousands of dollars. A costume that would have taken months to create. You never see the $20 Walmart costumes or the ones who just threw something together. Every costume looks perfect in everyway! I hate that!

They also look like the same person made them all. Which, in real life, is probably the case as the costumers on the show almost certainly made them.
Same as in a crowd scene, have you noticed that if people are carrying hand-written signs, the writing looks the same on all of them in many cases?

 

[dascoyne]

Superpowers, magics or high tech energy represented as glowing tendrils of colored light.

 

[dascoyne]

A: "How do I know I can trust you?"
B: "You don't."

 

[AJTaliesen]

After 87 pages I'm sure this got mentioned somewhere, but even if it did, it deserves another mention:

various shows:

Captain: How long will the thing take?
Crew: three weeks?
Captain: You've got two days!


I've been rewatching deep space nine, and for the most part, it holds up great. It really is a wonderful show. But is definitely has this weakness. In the episode I'm watching now The chief is telling the captain it will take three weeks for Star Fleet to send the part they need, and the captain says strait up "That's your problem, I want it in three days."

That's not good leadership, that's being an unrealistic ******.

Stargate actually got this one right and it made me love the show even more. I remember a scene of Gen. Hammond asking a tech how long it will take to repair the iris on the gate and the tech says something like 12 hours (I forget the actual numbers) and the general says 'you've got six!" and the tech actually, in one of the only times ever in a sci fi show, responds with "Sorry Sir, it doesn't work like that. It'll be 12 hours." I actually felt like cheering.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Here's something that drove me nuts about tv dramas... they are on case and realize that the killer is in another state on the opposite coast and next thing you know they are there! Like it took only a moment to walk there... happens a lot with Bones and Fringe

 

[robn1]

Here's something that drove me nuts about tv dramas... they are on case and realize that the killer is in another state on the opposite coast and next thing you know they are there! Like it took only a moment to walk there... happens a lot with Bones and Fringe

I get what you're saying, but do you expect a 12 hour long episode that depicts their cross country flight?

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Oh here's a good one... bad/good guy is in a room with several other guys and the camera pans outside the door (which always happens to have a frosted window in it) and you hear yelling and then a spatter of blood on the door window, and the door opens and it's just the bad/good guy left!

 

[nightwind1]

How about windows in residences that DON'T HAVE SCREENS?

I mean, there might be a few real houses that don't have screens, but I can't remember the last time I saw a screen in a window in a TV house.

All the easier for the next door teen buddy to come into the house without the parent discovering them.

 

[Zombie_61]

I get what you're saying, but do you expect a 12 hour long episode that depicts their cross country flight?

Depends...what's the in-flight movie?