Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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cratercritter
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opcornSpeaking of Nerds and geeks.......Commonly used in films is a nerdy, geeky or "annoying loser type" acting as the sidekick 'know it all relationship advisor' to the cool looking seemingly confident lead character. Telling the lead character (who somehow feels so awkward with picking up the guy or chick) what to do and not to do..........:sleep
p51
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Yeah, but that happens all the time in real life. Not good for movies. If the hero realizes the pretty girl/guy isn't anything but pretty, that means the hero wins (in a way). Otherwise, it's way too depressing...
mattycsi
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I think Angus is about as close as you'll ever get to a realistic scenario in that kind of movie.
CB2001
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Here's another thing: airlocks that can allow people to get blown out into space. Seriously, you'd think that spaceships would be designed to have an airlock with safety systems that detect a human being without a space suit inside the airlock. I mean, how many movies and TV shows have we seen set in space where someone got spaced?
Yorkie Fett
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A class of 'unteachable' kids who are turned around in the space of 2 weeks by a substitute teacher, with tough love (yeah, I'm looking at you Michelle Pfeiffer!). They then go on to win a singing competition/ major sporting cup/ spelling bee/ chess competition/ build a community centre/ (insert here).
The rescue mission where several people die while trying to rescue one person. SyFy is currently showing "Timeline". Six or so people go back in time to save the father of one of the characters. Five minutes back in time and two of them are dead. A little while later another one gets killed.
p51
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How about a concept like, "Timeline" where people so quickly accept the reality of a situation nobody would believe? Like "Timeline" mentioned above, really, if you went looking for a family member and someone in a lab said that they were in 14th century France, would you really believe that?
No, of course you wouldn't. But in that obvious reality, the movie would last 5 hours with the first four being the lab guys trying to convince the main characters that, yeah, they're serious.
No, of course you wouldn't. But in that obvious reality, the movie would last 5 hours with the first four being the lab guys trying to convince the main characters that, yeah, they're serious.
Riceball
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How about the friendly sparring match where one of the fighters gets knocked down, the one still standing reaches down to give them a hand up and the person on the ground does something to knock them down on the floor with them. Then there's the variation of this trope that's commonly used in RomComs where a guy or girl gets knocked into a pool/pond/lake and when the person that did the pushing goes to help pull the person out, they get dragged in and both end up laughing hilariously.
Speaking of which, (and this is a little OT because it's about shows instead of movies), names of shows that describe the situation during the first five minutes of the pilot and then is irrelevant. Kotter was "back" to his old high school, now as a teacher. That was no longer a story point by what, the first commercial? (See also: "Empty Nest", about a man whose adult daughters move in with him. What's so empty about it?)
Yorkie Fett
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The last scene in the film when good guy cop finally gets his man. Simple solution, cuff him and take him to the station.
But no:
'Come on, you and me, lets sort this out for good.'
Cop hands his badge and gun to colleague, then they procede to smash seven shades out of each other whilst everyone stands by and watches.
Guess what, the cop always wins.
But no:
'Come on, you and me, lets sort this out for good.'
Cop hands his badge and gun to colleague, then they procede to smash seven shades out of each other whilst everyone stands by and watches.
Guess what, the cop always wins.
p51
Sr Member
Yeah, that never made sense. What motivation does the bad guy have? Even if he does win, he knows he's going to jail anyway and probably also beaten like a red headed stepchild by the other cops standing by.
I always liked that moment near the beginning of BTTF#3 when Doc (his 1955 self) is looking at the 1885 sepia-toned pic of him & Marty at the brand new clock tower. He has a moment of surprise, like he's still absorbing the truth of all this time travel stuff in his future.
Even by the 3rd movie they had the presence of mind to think about how the 1955 Doc would be feeling. He really only had a week to absorb it all by then. His airtight proof mainly consisted of a few bits of trivia and a futuristic vehicle. He saw it disappear from a lightning strike but even that only happened a matter of hours before he was looking at the 1885 pic.
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They did the first version of this in the last episode of "Blindspot".
Riceball
Master Member
It was that scene from Blindspot that prompted me to post that complaint. As soon as I saw the agent fall and Jane reaching out to help her up I knew that Jane was going to wind up on the mat.
Still catching up with Supergirl, but here's an old trope that showed up in Ep2:
You don't know how to fight so here...attack me. I'm going to spend about 20 seconds kicking your ass around this room. Then, next time you fight the bad guy who has been training for years, you'll win because you'll remember the moves I used against you in here!
I wont pretend to know anything about combat training, but in real life there's more to it than that right? Is the sentence "I got my ass kicked by a guy who used this one move so...I'm totally an expert on how to do it myself now." a sentence that really gets used that often?
You don't know how to fight so here...attack me. I'm going to spend about 20 seconds kicking your ass around this room. Then, next time you fight the bad guy who has been training for years, you'll win because you'll remember the moves I used against you in here!
I wont pretend to know anything about combat training, but in real life there's more to it than that right? Is the sentence "I got my ass kicked by a guy who used this one move so...I'm totally an expert on how to do it myself now." a sentence that really gets used that often?
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