Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[mattycsi]

Movies where they start telling you about a female character who is renowned for her beauty, wars are fought over her, men can't think straight around her, etc. Then when they finally show the character, she looks nothing like the build up. For example, I expect Monica Belluci to walk out and out walks Chloe Sevigny.

I first noticed this in The Truth About Cats and Dogs. The whole film sets up Uma Thurman as this goddess type that men lose their minds over and Janeane Garofalo as her much less appealing freind that you have to get to know to fall in love with her personality!
I know there is personal preference there, but I don't think I would even notice Uma in a room that had Janeane in it.

 

[Strikerkc]

Yea, at that time, Garofalo would have caught my eye from across the room before Thurman too.

But, it's also film, and in the grand scheme of things, actors and actresses are attractive people; on average, I would say most of the least attractive actors are still more attractive than the general public. So I suspect it's more of a matter of "they cast two pretty women in this movie, and if one is your 'type', you'll like that one more".

Though I don't really like Thurman in basically anything. she's always getting cast in the "strong and confident woman" roles, and she never carriers herself that way in those movies to me. she never fits. Ironically, she seems confident and strong just walking around and interviewing, but on film in movies I never see it.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

It is the reason why, in historical movies, you often don't see main characters wearing helmets, esp. full faced helmets and why, in military movies like Top Gun, the hero pilots are never seen with their visors down, it's so you can see the expensive actor(s) the production paid for. Is it kind of annoying and unrealistic, yes, but I can appreciate and completely understand why they do it.

The one that bugs me the most, which is a little different, is in Saving Private Ryan and they have Tom Hanks' character with a huge bright white set of Captains bars on his helmet! Yes, they acknowledged it was wrong, but most officers went out of their way to camouflage that they were officers during WW2. Well the smart ones anyway. Again they assumed the audience was too dumb to figure out who Tom Hanks was in the movie...

 

[Laspector]

No one in the movies ever has a steering wheel cover.

 

[HMSwolfe]

No one in the movies ever has a steering wheel cover.

How many people do you know that have those? Is that really something taking you out of a film?

 

[Riceball]

How many people do you know that have those? Is that really something taking you out of a film?

I actually have a steering cover on my cover because it has a two-tone finish and the secondary color was rubbing off in spots. But, I don't think they're all that common though, not enough so that I would notice the lack of it presence in film and TV.

 

[AJK001]

I used to put a cover on some of my steering wheels but I have not done so for at least 40 years as most later model cars started coming with padded steering wheels. I also used to just replace the whole thing if it was in bad shape.

 

[CT1138]

Just throwing this out there, but the last time I saw a steering wheel cover, it was on my grandmother's Cadillac, and she's been dead for 10 years.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Are you talking about a cover that you put over the wheel as a grip or just a cover? I had my Grand National steering wheel recovered because they are leather and it was in bad shape. After I did that I did get a cover to protect it from the sun. This one you remove when you drive.

 

[Laspector]

Just the round grip thing. I always put one on mine.

Anyway, it was just an observation. No, it doesn't take me out of the movie. Nor really do any of the other ten thousand things listed in this thread.

 

[Lissavi]

I don't think that's entirely unrealistic. I imagine that this has happened more time than not throughout history,

If with guns, bombs, of course yes, but if only with chainsaw, knife, golf bat, baseball bat... I don't think so.

 

[CT1138]

Well I've watched a ton of WW2 documentaries and I've always wondered why Jews who were being forced to dig their graves, or were being led into pits where they knew they were going to die, didn't fight. I think hopelessness, fear, or something else might be a factor in those situations.

I'm guessing the fact that they were starved for months on end put a real damper in any energy they might have had to fight back against people with machine guns.

 

[Laspector]

If with guns, bombs, of course yes, but if only with chainsaw, knife, golf bat, baseball bat... I don't think so.

What the hell is a golf bat?

 

[mattycsi]

What the hell is a golf bat?

I think it is similar to a pool bat or maybe a hockey bat.

 

[Laspector]

Okay, you're just coitusing with me now, right?

 

[dascoyne]

I think it's the one between foxtrot bat and hotel bat.

 

[robn1]

What the hell is a golf bat?

A bat that plays golf?

 

[p51]

People being massacred, screaming the sh1t out of their lives while unrestrained instead of fighting for their lives.

Yeah, you only have to watch the horrible film the Germans shot of their efforts to liquidate whatever population irritated them. Countless feet of film exist today of people being ushered into the killing areas, almost certainly aware of what was going to happen, but going anyway.
As a kid, I asked my Dad why would anyone just walk over and let themselves got shot, and Dad figured that people generally can't accept something like that is really going to happen. Over 40 years later, to me that's still the best reason I've ever heard for that.

 

[p51]

The one that bugs me the most, which is a little different, is in Saving Private Ryan and they have Tom Hanks' character with a huge bright white set of Captains bars on his helmet! Yes, they acknowledged it was wrong, but most officers went out of their way to camouflage that they were officers during WW2. Well the smart ones anyway. Again they assumed the audience was too dumb to figure out who Tom Hanks was in the movie...

That actually was quite common in the European theater. It was also common for officers to have a large diagonal white stripe on the back (so those behind him could tell he was an officer) and NCOs a horizontal one.
Tom Hanks' helmet markings are very accurate for the Rangers who came ashore at Omaha beach on 6-6-44...

 

[CT1138]

Yeah, you only have to watch the horrible film the Germans shot of their efforts to liquidate whatever population irritated them. Countless feet of film exist today of people being ushered into the killing areas, almost certainly aware of what was going to happen, but going anyway.
As a kid, I asked my Dad why would anyone just walk over and let themselves got shot, and Dad figured that people generally can't accept something like that is really going to happen. Over 40 years later, to me that's still the best reason I've ever heard for that.

The Nazis were experts at deception when it came to the home front. During the 1936 Olympics, they went through massive lengths to hide the blatant antisemitism they openly displayed.

They also led the people in concentration camps to the gas chambers by dressing them up as showers and acting as if they were to be bathed. They preyed upon human desperation for any level of empathy. It's not that the victims of the Holocaust KNEW they were going to be systematically executed, because many times they didn't. They still held out hope that, one day, they may be free of the nightmare. The Nazis knew they felt this way and took every advantage of it.