Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Contec]

People getting shot and not even flinching. I don't care if you're a badass navy seal, you get shot you're going to be hurting.

 

[Riceball]

That's what killed the starting of the Terminator Salvation for me. A-10s were going by WAY too fast. These CGI folks have no concept of what planes look like when they're flying. Sure, hogs are jet-powered but they're just not that damned fast!

I don't think it's something that's inherent with/to CG though, it's just bad animators and FX supervisor(s). It's just as easy to make jets fly unrealistically with physical models as well, it's all a matter of how you shoot it. I'd say that it's more bad directors than bad CG since the final look is dictated by the director and the directors probably wanted these planes to move more dynamically, aerodynamics & physics be damned.

 

[p51]

How about when a cop finds what they think are drugs, and one of them breaks open whatever it is and tastes it? No cop is that dumb to do something like that!

 

[Solo4114]

They haven't been named because they haven't been discovered in nature nor created - yet they're still are described on the periodic table. If they were talking about those elements they'd be exclaiming they've discovered element number "x" and would have the honor of naming it.

And that's completely different than saying you've found elements not even on the table itself which is like stating you've discovered a new integer between 0 and 10.

 

[Laspector]

Can't remember if I already said this one or not.

How about the way someone can be drop dead slobbering drunk in one scene and the very next instant they are stone cold sober. Raiders comes to mind--twice!! Marion's first scene. I don't care how well you can hold your liquor, you can't drink that many shots and still walk and talk. She was almost passed out to begin with. Then boom--sober!

Then after her "death" Indy is so drunk he can barely walk--yet next minute he is totally fine.

Trust me. Up until about 10 years ago, I drank a lot!! I mean alot!! I mean a whole lotta lot!!! Even at my most toxic I couldn't be drunk one minute and sober the next. Just from the two aforementioned scenes neither Indy nor Marion would have remembered anything that happened in that movie. And every minute they were even awake, they would have been so hungover they would've wished they were dead.

 

[Contec]

Can't remember if I already said this one or not.

How about the way someone can be drop dead slobbering drunk in one scene and the very next instant they are stone cold sober. Raiders comes to mind--twice!! Marion's first scene. I don't care how well you can hold your liquor, you can't drink that many shots and still walk and talk. She was almost passed out to begin with. Then boom--sober!

Then after her "death" Indy is so drunk he can barely walk--yet next minute he is totally fine.

Trust me. Up until about 10 years ago, I drank a lot!! I mean alot!! I mean a whole lotta lot!!! Even at my most toxic I couldn't be drunk one minute and sober the next. Just from the two aforementioned scenes neither Indy nor Marion would have remembered anything that happened in that movie. And every minute they were even awake, they would have been so hungover they would've wished they were dead.

Would you say you had a "drinking problem"

I believe that Marion faked the drunkenness at the bar just to win the money from the guys. She can't fake it when she drinks with Belloq and that is why she can't stand up when trying to escape.

 

[KiliOakenshield]

Camera shots inserted solely to show off 3D.
For example, in the first and second Hobbit movies they have insects fly towards the screen.

Spoiler

Moreso with the bees in the second one. "Oh hey guys, remember this is 3D? Here's a bee!"

 

[p51]

Good point on the drinking. How about a character drinking enough booze to literally kill someone, and still seem not all that intoxicated?
I used to drink a lot and have been around people who drank like fish. I'm talking British Paratroopers and SAS, those guys can drink! And even they couldn't drink more than a few shots without showing some signs of the effects. Tolerance is one thing but the movies show downright inhuman ability to absorb alcohol...

 

[Probe Droid]

Camera shots inserted solely to show off 3D.
For example, in the first and second Hobbit movies they have insects fly towards the screen.

Yeah, some of the 3d now is just as blatant as the old early Three Stooges attempts at 3D where Mo's eye-poke fingers come straight at the camera. Awful.

 

[Jon Kelley]

I've only seen this twice but it's bad enough ruin any sci fi film.
It's when somebody exclaims that some alien object is comprised of elements that "aren't on the periodic table".
C'mon! If it's made of protons, electrons and neutrons then it's described in the periodic table. That's like saying you've discovered a new number.

cf: "Island of Stability"

 

[Jon Kelley]

People getting shot and not even flinching. I don't care if you're a badass navy seal, you get shot you're going to be hurting.

Correct. Even if you're wearing a vest - you shouldn't get a hole in you but you WILL get staggered by it (and probably winded, too.)

However, I thought it was a nice touch in the original Predator when the gawky little guy told Jesse Ventura, "You're hit. You're bleeding."

In situations like that, you're so keyed-up on adrenaline that mild to moderate cuts and creases are something you won't even feel. So, we were taught to tell each other we were hit, if you didn't see the other guy doing something about it.

 

[Wes R]

Pro wrestlers acting. The rock does surprisingly well and so did Hulk Hogan but most of these other guys just are terrible and the movies worse.

 

[Jay1138]

I'm tired of seeing period piece movies, with modern hairstyles.

 

[dascoyne]

Pro wrestlers acting. The rock does surprisingly well and so did Hulk Hogan but most of these other guys just are terrible and the movies worse.

Notable exceptions

Ithought Steve Austin was surprisingly good in the Expendables

Roddy Piper in They Live immortalized that catchphrase

And, of course...

 

[The Dark One]

Mainstream movies with wrestlers; ok.
WWE films with wrestlers; not ok.

There was only so much John Cena they could shove out there, and my meter was full the first time he walked out and into the ring.

 

[BornKilr]

Can't remember if I already said this one or not.

How about the way someone can be drop dead slobbering drunk in one scene and the very next instant they are stone cold sober. Raiders comes to mind--twice!! Marion's first scene. I don't care how well you can hold your liquor, you can't drink that many shots and still walk and talk. She was almost passed out to begin with. Then boom--sober!.

Or the flip side of that, where they show someone have a couple shots, and mere minutes later they're slurring and staggering around.

 

[Treadwell]

Indy is drunk though the whole scene with Belloq, not sure where you're getting the insta-sober impression.

 

[Wes R]

The President's easy at using nukes on domestic soil. Seems like half these movies don't even give him a chance of worrying or feeling bad, he just hits the button. Independence day is one like that. I mean it'd be done if needed but you know he'd spend a good while thinking about it. That's the one thing i loved about the original Failsafe back in 1963.

 

[Zombie_61]

Or the flip side of that, where they show someone have a couple shots, and mere minutes later they're slurring and staggering around.

The Big Bang Theory was really bad about this with regards to the "Raj can't talk to women unless he's drunk" gag. First he can't talk, one little sip later (barely enough time for the alcohol to get into his stomach, nowhere near enough for it to get into his system) you can't shut him up, and a few sips later he's a model of improper behavior? Funny, but not particularly realistic. I'm glad they finally decided to ditch that gag; it got old after the first season.

 

[dascoyne]

The Big Bang Theory was really bad about this with regards to the "Raj can't talk to women unless he's drunk" gag. First he can't talk, one little sip later (barely enough time for the alcohol to get into his stomach, nowhere near enough for it to get into his system) you can't shut him up, and a few sips later he's a model of improper behavior? Funny, but not particularly realistic. I'm glad they finally decided to ditch that gag; it got old after the first season.

I believe they alluded to the idea was 100% psychological - even the alcohol effects. Remember there was an episode where Wallowitz pranked him with a non-alchoholic beer. It worked just like the real thing and Raj was talking to women ... that is until they pointed out there was no alchohol.