Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Laspector]

Here's one I am tired of--armor that can just "unfold" from nothing. And the reverse. I really hate when someone's helmet can just magically slide around to the back of their head and then just disappear down into their collar.

 

[p51]

While it's kind of rare, I really don't like the "Kid" trope. To be more specific, putting a kid in the film simply to attract a younger audience so that the little brats can have others to relate to. Like how Star Trek: The Next Generation put a kid on a bridge and outsmarting all the adults. Let the adults handle it for crying out loud.

I agree. I always thought writers can't write kid dialogue well. As a kid, I'd hear kids talking and think, "I don't know anyone who talks like that." for example, kids don't often refer to each AS kids. A boy would ref to other boys as "the guys" instead of "the kids."
Frankly, as a kid, I didn't want to see kids doing adult stuff. I wanted to see adults doing that. I loved Johnny Quest, for example, but mostly when Dr Quest and Race Bannon were doing things you'd expect from adults. The Johnny/Hadji scenes got annoying to me, I wanted to see Race shoot some villager and hear that, "Aie-EEEEEEE" scream when they bought it!

 

[TheDarkPope]

Endless British accents. Saw 300 last night - in what world do (Ancient) Greek people sound like Brits?

The need for sound bites - 300 again - "This is Sparta!" which when you watch the movie, the yelling doesn't fit the tone of the sentence before.

Horror movies where everyone knows to stay together, yet split apart and - rightfully die because of it.

The overuse of "This is our time". I saw the preview for "The Social Network" too many times and refused to see the movie because according to the preview, this sentence is the focal point of the movie.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Got another one. I HATE whenever someone says "Do I make myself clear?" and the other says "Crystal." SHUT UP. That's so cliche. Just say "Yes." or something.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Oh , and Gene Hackman

He announced his retirement in 2008, so you're safe unless he decides to come out of retirement for whatever reason.

If only Leonardo DiCraprio would follow his lead...

 

[pengbuzz]

poor scripts

 

[pengbuzz]

While it's kind of rare, I really don't like the "Kid" trope. To be more specific, putting a kid in the film simply to attract a younger audience so that the little brats can have others to relate to. Like how Star Trek: The Next Generation put a kid on a bridge and outsmarting all the adults. Let the adults handle it for crying out loud. I know the kid in "Iron Man 3" wasn't bad, but he didn't really amount to anything and his "Just build stuff" suggestion that solves Tony's anxiety was shoe horned in at best. I mean, how does building christmas ornament bombs cure anxiety but building a huge army of Iron Man suits in stunning variety does not? Speaking of that kid, why does EVERY Jurassic Park movie have to have kids?

They did that with the "Thunderbirds" movie; look how THAT attrocity came out. >:C

 

[dascoyne]

While it's kind of rare, I really don't like the "Kid" trope. To be more specific, putting a kid in the film simply to attract a younger audience so that the little brats can have others to relate to. Like how Star Trek: The Next Generation put a kid on a bridge and outsmarting all the adults. Let the adults handle it for crying out loud. I know the kid in "Iron Man 3" wasn't bad, but he didn't really amount to anything and his "Just build stuff" suggestion that solves Tony's anxiety was shoe horned in at best. I mean, how does building christmas ornament bombs cure anxiety but building a huge army of Iron Man suits in stunning variety does not? Speaking of that kid, why does EVERY Jurassic Park movie have to have kids?

e.g.

 

[Viscumin]

I hate completely gratuitous nude scenes.

When the killer mysteriously knows where the victim is even though they are no where near where the rest of the action in the movie took place.

The female victim finally gets away from her tormentor and goes SCREAMING through the woods. Really? She should shut up and maybe he wouldn't capture and kill her again.

Scenes that are too dark to actually see whats going on.

Found footage films.

 

[laserpistol76]

I hate it when a film score is released and the track order is completely different than that of the film. Can anyone explain this to me?

 

[Wes R]

I hate it when a film score is released and the track order is completely different than that of the film. Can anyone explain this to me?

or leave songs out or divide it up into 2 soundtracks with the music divided up between the orchestra tracks and other tracks. Villians who are either too likeable or totally unlikeable. Slasher porn films like Saw and whatever you'd classify the paranormal activity movies as.

 

[Zombie_61]

I hate completely gratuitous nude scenes...

One of my joke critiques for almost any movie is, "Not enough gratuitous female nudity." :lol In reality I like looking at attractive women as much as the next heterosexual male, but in some movies the nudity is not only gratuitous but jarringly incongruous with the scene.

 

[Wes R]

I classify those as needless nude scenes. They're just thrown in there to get butts in seats, sorta like pg 13 movies having girls in next to nothing for any reason but to get teenagers in seats.

 

[pengbuzz]

Invincible killers that are impervious to everything up to (and including) nuclear weaponry.

Just once, I'd like to see a movie where a police SWAT team takes down someone like Jason or Freddy, and they DON'T come back. Ever.

 

[Wes R]

Transformers that don't look like Transformers, Cobra Commander who doesn't look like Cobra Commander (though they fixed it in the last movie which was about all that got right), blatant continuity errors as if they continuity staff had been asleep, fast paced editing that'll cause seizures. These new editors are as bad as the camera men with their shaky cams, editing is an art and these guys are like drunks taking a chisel to the statue of David.

 

[CB2001]

Speaking of that kid, why does EVERY Jurassic Park movie have to have kids?

Because they're all about the difficulties of adults accepting being parents, which comes from Spielberg's unresolved abandonment issues due to being a child of divorce, which has become a running theme in almost all of his movies?

 

[pengbuzz]

Transformers that don't look like Transformers, Cobra Commander who doesn't look like Cobra Commander (though they fixed it in the last movie which was about all that got right), blatant continuity errors as if they continuity staff had been asleep, fast paced editing that'll cause seizures. These new editors are as bad as the camera men with their shaky cams, editing is an art and these guys are like drunks taking a chisel to the statue of David.

Yeah, especially on the first two. Really irks me that the Transformers look more like they're wearing vehicle parts than are composed of them. As for GI JOKE (I won't dignify it with the GI Joe moniker), I really tried to like the two movies, but could not stomach them no matter how hard I tried.

 

[p51]

Non-man-made disasters which always have to happen in the very center of major cities. Like in Armageddon, that one piece of rock just happens to hit in the very center of Paris? What are the chances of that?

 

[dascoyne]

Because they're all about the difficulties of adults accepting being parents, which comes from Spielberg's unresolved abandonment issues due to being a child of divorce, which has become a running theme in almost all of his movies?

So the shark in Jaws was simply expressing deep seated psychic trauma? Now I feel bad for him. Poor Bruce.:cry

 

[joshvanrad]

So the shark in Jaws was simply expressing deep seated psychic trauma? Now I feel bad for him. Poor Bruce.:cry

If you listen VERY carefully in the scene where the girl is out swimming at night and gets "attacked" you can hear Bruce say "No, I'll never let you leave me."