Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Treadwell]

Someone is hurt and on the ground. People run up to help. One person says "give him some air!"
Like a few people standing a couple feet away in an outdoor setting is somehow creating a vacuum around the victim.
"CAN'T.... BREATHE. PEOPLE....AROUND!"

Also, the person who says that gets right up next to the person. Oh, so it's okay if YOU do it.

 

[p51]

In any war movie where you see aerial bombs or artillery impacting, each round/bomb will hit exactly dead center whatever the production put in the scene to show it getting hit. I've never seen a sequence like this where a corner of something gets hit and you see half or so in pieces. Just once I'd like to see that.

 

[13doctorwho]

//rant on

One of the things I hate more than anything is no consequence writing. Dramatically killing off a character and immediately bringing them back. Like Gamora in Infinity War. Fixed with time travel to reboot the character and erase the relationship with Starlord that happened over two years off camera. Killing Groot in the first movie and then growing a son/replacement. Killing Superman and resurrecting him in the next movie. It's just so tired.

Every time someone dies in a SciFi or comic movie I feel NOTHING, because I know it's temporary. There were people in Infinity War that cried when Spiderman dissolved, not me... I knew he had three movies left in his contract. So far, Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers are really gone... until they get desperate and throw money at the actors. The writer want the emotional impact of killing a character with out the work of changing the series/movies going forward.

//rant off

 

[p51]

One of the things I hate more than anything is no consequence writing. Dramatically killing off a character and immediately bringing them back. Like Gamora in Infinity War. Fixed with time travel to reboot the character and erase the relationship with Starlord that happened over two years off camera. Killing Groot in the first movie and then growing a son/replacement. Killing Superman and resurrecting him in the next movie. It's just so tired.

I agree 100% with this!
Or how about when a 'character of the film' is written in and gets snuffed, and you couldn't care less. Just like every Star Wars movie made After RoTJ came out!

 

[greenmachines]

I agree 100% with this!
Or how about when a 'character of the film' is written in and gets snuffed, and you couldn't care less. Just like every Star Wars movie made After RoTJ came out!

Like the long list of characters we wished got snuffed but instead made totally anti Star Wars decisions and ruined canon and our interest forever.

 

[blewis17]

When the hero of the film gets to play poker, mainly to showcase their superior intellect and skill by winning with an amazing hand, such as 4 ACEs or a Royal flush. While this can happen, the odds are very high against and it is NOT necessarily based on pure skill. There is a lot of random luck these goes into these type of poker hands, you can't just magically make them happen because you have a lot of knowledge about poker.

Or when the hero/villain sneaks an extra card into their hand that they just happened to need (such as an ACE, a King, Queen, etc), to force the win. None of the other players at the table ever seem to realize that there is now a duplicate card in play, and now there are 2 Ace of Diamonds or 2 King of Clubs, etc.

 

[Riceball]

What gets old is seeing the military portrayed as this monolithic entity with high ranking officers almost always these war mongering , moustache twirling villains who have no regard for the lives of their troops and/or civilians. Likewise, junior officers and enlisted as essentially mindless robots who follow their orders blindly. Most senior officers aren't war mongers, though they may still be jerks and a-holes, often times their concern is not so much about trying to push their nation into war but to advance projects with select contractors/vendors in order to try to secure themselves a cushy job with said contractor/vendor after they retire. That or doing things that might be considered unethical in order to advance their careers and look good for that next promotion since (at least in the US) the military runs on an up or out system; after a certain point if you get overlooked for promotion one too many times then you're forced out.

 

[Tommy]

Most senior officers aren't war mongers, though they may still be jerks and a-holes, often times their concern is not so much about trying to push their nation into war but to advance projects with select contractors/vendors in order to try to secure themselves a cushy job with said contractor/vendor after they retire.

Sounds like you might enjoy 1998's The Pentagon Wars.

 

[greenmachines]

What gets old is seeing the military portrayed as this monolithic entity with high ranking officers almost always these war mongering , moustache twirling villains who have no regard for the lives of their troops and/or civilians. Likewise, junior officers and enlisted as essentially mindless robots who follow their orders blindly. Most senior officers aren't war mongers, though they may still be jerks and a-holes, often times their concern is not so much about trying to push their nation into war but to advance projects with select contractors/vendors in order to try to secure themselves a cushy job with said contractor/vendor after they retire. That or doing things that might be considered unethical in order to advance their careers and look good for that next promotion since (at least in the US) the military runs on an up or out system; after a certain point if you get overlooked for promotion one too many times then you're forced out.

I have seen this first hand in the small business administration's military appropriation processes. Nepotism and the good old boy's club. The reasons I have seen for their selection of one invention over another.... pure drivel. Certainly not war mongers because they are to busy padding the mattress.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

What gets old is seeing the military portrayed as this monolithic entity with high ranking officers almost always these war mongering , moustache twirling villains who have no regard for the lives of their troops and/or civilians. Likewise, junior officers and enlisted as essentially mindless robots who follow their orders blindly. Most senior officers aren't war mongers, though they may still be jerks and a-holes, often times their concern is not so much about trying to push their nation into war but to advance projects with select contractors/vendors in order to try to secure themselves a cushy job with said contractor/vendor after they retire. That or doing things that might be considered unethical in order to advance their careers and look good for that next promotion since (at least in the US) the military runs on an up or out system; after a certain point if you get overlooked for promotion one too many times then you're forced out.

That's why I quite watching the movie Tigerland halfway through. They portray the soldiers as not caring one bit about civilian casualties. In one scene the DI tells them that if they hear any noise in the jungle, they are to unload on the jungle until the noise goes away. They told them it doesn't matter whether it was civilians or whatever. Now we do know there are some nutjobs in any war, but it wasn't institutionalized like that.

 

[p51]

That's why I quite watching the movie Tigerland halfway through. They portray the soldiers as not caring one bit about civilian casualties. In one scene the DI tells them that if they hear any noise in the jungle, they are to unload on the jungle until the noise goes away. They told them it doesn't matter whether it was civilians or whatever. Now we do know there are some nutjobs in any war, but it wasn't institutionalized like that.

Baloney. The did teach soldiers "shoot first and ask questions later" in basic. They taught plenty of soliders for 'Nam at Ft Lewis and I encountered several former drill Sgts who said stuff like that was being taught then, specially once lots of GIs started coming back in body bags from 'Nam....

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Baloney. The did teach soldiers "shoot first and ask questions later" in basic. They taught plenty of soliders for 'Nam at Ft Lewis and I encountered several former drill Sgts who said stuff like that was being taught then, specially once lots of GIs started coming back in body bags from 'Nam....

My dad, his cousin, and uncle were all Marines in Vietnam, all three voluntarily enlisted and were in country around 66-69. all three said they were never told anything like this. Maybe the Army was told to shoot randomly because the Marines were better shots...?

 

[Riceball]

Maybe the Army was told to shoot randomly because the Marines were better shots...?

As a former Marine, I can attest to the truth of that statement. In my time (the mid '90s) our rifle qual started at the 200 yard line, we then went to 300, and finished at 500. Part of the Marine Corps creed is that every Marine is a rifleman first, but the reality is that we're all riflemen second. All Marines, particularly the junior enlisted, are all janitors, food servers, (mall level) security guards, and basic manual labor first, and then we're riflemen.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Pristine bullets from bullet wounds.

Many characters talk about hollow points, but the enemy has no knowledge of such things and bullets are easily dug out on the first or second try with little trouble by amateurs. In the real world, bullets do weird things and expand and even break apart in a half dozen directions. Surgeons sometimes miss fragments that wander around. The bullet that almost killed Ronald Reagan wasn't even a direct hit.

Characters don't often have wandering fragments or even die from these wounds. Characters never have amputations or die from injuries suffered 3 sequels ago.

 

[drusselmeyer]

What did they do from 2049? Rachel? I thought they just got a spot on actress for that one.

That was not good at all. The bone structure was completely wrong. The double should have a nearly identical face to the original. This allows proper tracking of the model. I have seen ordinary people that looked much closer to the original than the actress chosen. Hollywood could do this right if they cared to. They have the headshots of numerous wannabes that are lookalikes.

Nepotism destroys art.

 

[George]

The 'drinking culture' in movies:

I thought Hollywood nowadays very well knows that kids watch (and envy) this superhero stuff, and they tend to copy everything.
While we all know for a fact that alcohol destroys a (muscular) body (that has been painstakingly sculpted at the gym) . If you want to look like this and not kill yourself in the process of creating it, rather drink 'Aqua, man' ! Or glasses with eggs

 

[p51]

As for the drinking culture, it's just a mirror of far too many cultures that place a premium on manhood for being able to survive alcohol poisoning.
Think of all the westerns that have someone coming off the trail and then downing a huge slug of whiskey. Most trail bosses would ban booze on the trail, so their ability to process booze wouldn't be keenly honed after a long ride. They'd get bombed really fast.
Thankfully, the drinking culture was being beaten out of the military when I showed up, but I've seen people try to drink like a hollywood character, and they get dizzy really fast.

 

[drusselmeyer]

When did this happen?

 

[AJK001]

As for the drinking culture, it's just a mirror of far too many cultures that place a premium on manhood for being able to survive alcohol poisoning.
Think of all the westerns that have someone coming off the trail and then downing a huge slug of whiskey. Most trail bosses would ban booze on the trail, so their ability to process booze wouldn't be keenly honed after a long ride. They'd get bombed really fast.
Thankfully, the drinking culture was being beaten out of the military when I showed up, but I've seen people try to drink like a hollywood character, and they get dizzy really fast.

My father was in the military from the late 1940's through 1970 and the drinking culture was alive and well at this time. They thought nothing of drinking at the NCO/Officers clubs most every night. Of course booze and smokes were dirt cheep at the PX so it made it even easier to get all you wanted with relatively small pay they got.

 

[Riceball]

As for the drinking culture, it's just a mirror of far too many cultures that place a premium on manhood for being able to survive alcohol poisoning.
Think of all the westerns that have someone coming off the trail and then downing a huge slug of whiskey. Most trail bosses would ban booze on the trail, so their ability to process booze wouldn't be keenly honed after a long ride. They'd get bombed really fast.
Thankfully, the drinking culture was being beaten out of the military when I showed up, but I've seen people try to drink like a hollywood character, and they get dizzy really fast.

When I was in the Marines back in the '90s my buddies and I hardly drank, mainly only during Marine Corps Balls. Granted I was a Reservist so we'd only be actively serving one weekend a month and 2 weeks during the summer. On drill weekends me and my buddies would just go out and grab dinner and then a movie, no booze ever. Even during our 2 week Summer drills at 29 Palms, nobody I knew would drink at the all hands club.