Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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harrisonp
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I’ve only seen the first one and been subjected to the ride media a nauseating amount of times. It’s probably the best example that I can think of a series escalating into insanity from relatively small beginnings. The original is basically Point Break with road racing, and in these new ones they’re black ops assets racing all around and jumping on drones.
George
Master Member
And on that subject, let's talk about Michael Bay's Transformers...
Riceball
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A minor nitpick but I'm tired of seeing movies and shows where people use the stock, default ringtone that comes with the phone. You know, the one ringtone that comes from the manufacturer on all models of their, like the main Nokia or Samsung ringtones. I'm not sure if anybody uses the main ringtone from the phone's maker, I'd think that one of the first things that people do when getting a new phone is to change the ringtone to either one of the alternates provided with the phone or some sort of custom ringtone.
Zombie_61
Master Member
I sure can't explain it to you. I saw the first two or three movies and gave up because they're like watching someone play a video game--no actual cars, just CG cartoons doing things that can't happen in the real world. Then I get on the local freeways, and it's clear which drivers have seen these movies far too many times because they think they can drive their p.o.s. imports as well as the cartoon cars in the movies.
Oh, have I mentioned people are ****ing stupid?
I use the manufacturer ringtone on my phone. But then again I'm a psychopath......
harrisonp
Sr Member
On the ride Dom definitely jumps from his Charger onto a drone helicopter and then effectively THROWS IT to it’s destruction in mid air before landing back on his car. To be fair that’s a ride but it’s the same DNA that made the franchise.
Didn’t they jump a car from one skyscraper to another in the most recent movie?
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Hey hey hey, it took them decades to make Star Tours cannon, at least extend the same courtesy to F&F, rides are a separate issue.
No.
It was in the second most recent.
Third most recent if you count Hobbs & Shaw.
And they jumped it from one skyscraper to another, to another.
And on that subject someone DID jump onto a drone in one of those. Actually ran on a few midair. Then flew one to the ground.
p51
Sr Member
A big one that drives me nuts:
You have the ultimate "can't stop me" person/mecha/weapon that countless people go up against and don't do anything to the buy guy, then the main character essentially does the exact same thing from earlier and it then works.
Can't count the number of times I've seen that in a movie.
You have the ultimate "can't stop me" person/mecha/weapon that countless people go up against and don't do anything to the buy guy, then the main character essentially does the exact same thing from earlier and it then works.
Can't count the number of times I've seen that in a movie.
I can't recall the movie, but I saw that exact thing in something I watched recently. Everyone was shooting the guy and then the hero comes in and pops him once and kills him.
I just watched the newer Midway, which wasn't bad, but I can't stand a movie where they have the hero being the only person who "gets it". Everyone in that movie was incompetent except the main hero pilot, who was an a-hole, and he's running around telling the anti-aircraft guys on the ship how to shoot and torpedo bomber pilots how to drop the torpedoes.
Oh and can I add the fact that Hollywood feels the need to "improve" on things that were already spectacular real world events? At the end of the movie, the a-hole hero is dive bombing a Japanese carrier, but in this movie the fool doesn't drop his bomb berfore he pulls out of the dive, instead he skims the deck and lays the bomb down on the surface of the deck. The whole freaking purpose of dive bombing is to get your bomb to penetrate the deck and blow up below deck! WTF?!?! Seriously! I haven't seen anything that dumb since Enemy At the Gates where the snipers stand 20 feet apart and shoot it out like the Wild West! If I was the family of the real pilot who was the a-hole hero in this, I would be really ticked off my relative was portrayed that way!
Oh and another thing that was dumb in this is that the dive bombers and torpedo bombers never had any fighter cover! I didn't see one American fighter in this whole movie while the bombers were attacking!
I just watched the newer Midway, which wasn't bad, but I can't stand a movie where they have the hero being the only person who "gets it". Everyone in that movie was incompetent except the main hero pilot, who was an a-hole, and he's running around telling the anti-aircraft guys on the ship how to shoot and torpedo bomber pilots how to drop the torpedoes.
Oh and can I add the fact that Hollywood feels the need to "improve" on things that were already spectacular real world events? At the end of the movie, the a-hole hero is dive bombing a Japanese carrier, but in this movie the fool doesn't drop his bomb berfore he pulls out of the dive, instead he skims the deck and lays the bomb down on the surface of the deck. The whole freaking purpose of dive bombing is to get your bomb to penetrate the deck and blow up below deck! WTF?!?! Seriously! I haven't seen anything that dumb since Enemy At the Gates where the snipers stand 20 feet apart and shoot it out like the Wild West! If I was the family of the real pilot who was the a-hole hero in this, I would be really ticked off my relative was portrayed that way!
Oh and another thing that was dumb in this is that the dive bombers and torpedo bombers never had any fighter cover! I didn't see one American fighter in this whole movie while the bombers were attacking!
Riceball
Master Member
The purpose of dive bombing wasn't specifically for armor penetration so much as a means of delivering your bomb more or less where you want it. Point your nose at the target and the bomb will hit more or less around there. You have to remember that dive bombing was done over land as well, it wasn't a purely naval thing.I can't recall the movie, but I saw that exact thing in something I watched recently. Everyone was shooting the guy and then the hero comes in and pops him once and kills him.
I just watched the newer Midway, which wasn't bad, but I can't stand a movie where they have the hero being the only person who "gets it". Everyone in that movie was incompetent except the main hero pilot, who was an a-hole, and he's running around telling the anti-aircraft guys on the ship how to shoot and torpedo bomber pilots how to drop the torpedoes.
Oh and can I add the fact that Hollywood feels the need to "improve" on things that were already spectacular real world events? At the end of the movie, the a-hole hero is dive bombing a Japanese carrier, but in this movie the fool doesn't drop his bomb berfore he pulls out of the dive, instead he skims the deck and lays the bomb down on the surface of the deck. The whole freaking purpose of dive bombing is to get your bomb to penetrate the deck and blow up below deck! WTF?!?! Seriously! I haven't seen anything that dumb since Enemy At the Gates where the snipers stand 20 feet apart and shoot it out like the Wild West! If I was the family of the real pilot who was the a-hole hero in this, I would be really ticked off my relative was portrayed that way!
Oh and another thing that was dumb in this is that the dive bombers and torpedo bombers never had any fighter cover! I didn't see one American fighter in this whole movie while the bombers were attacking!
As far the fighter cover for the attack planes goes, if memory serves, they had no fighter cover. The torpedo bombers went in and got wiped out, but this drew the CAP for the Japanese carriers down low to where the torpedo bombers were at wave top level. This left them out of place for when the dive bombers came in at high(er) altitude and helpless to intercept them.
Regarding your original point, yeah, it's annoying but for this movie I'd give them a bit of slack since it's common practice in historical movies and TV shows to merge several characters into one. So, in this case, where it might have been several different people in real life doing these different things, they gave it all to one character to simplify and streamline things instead of introducing a bunch of extra characters (and having to cast an actor to play them) just to do one brief thing.
p51
Sr Member
During the battle, there was B-26 that flew right down the flight deck of the Akagi, to get away from the AAA and attacking Japanese fighters. It worked, and with some wounded crewmen, they all made it back. If they'd included that, I guess nobody would have believed it.
I don't recall if it was Midway, but there were incidents of pilots landing on the wrong carriers in WW2, and a flight of Japanese aircraft were in the landing pattern for a US carrier at some point during the Pacific War. At the last minute, the lead realized it wasn't one of theirs and pulled out of the pattern. But someone got on the intercom on the carrier and ordered the crew to prepare to repel borders!
The Midway movie had amazing visuals and the dive bombing sequences were very well done, but yeah, I got really tired of the cliché factory characters!
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