Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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p51
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I see this way too often in movies, where a power transformer or line gets hit and sparks up but the power to the nearby buildings doesn't even flicker.
I bet the power companies wish as much as I do that it was that sturdy in real life but we all know it isn't, anywhere.
I bet the power companies wish as much as I do that it was that sturdy in real life but we all know it isn't, anywhere.
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joberg
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Actually, a a super recognizer, the female face will have the traits of her father (more than her mother) and vice-versa for males (more toward their mother)
drusselmeyer
Master Member
You mean we should expect that the dude looks like a lady? Dada, dada. Dude looks like a lady.Actually, a a super recognizer, the female face will have the traits of her father (more than her mother) and vice-versa for males (more toward their mother)
somerset fox
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Our heroes are about to storm the villains hideout, together with a heavily armed and armoured SWAT team, while the acting talent wear just bullet proof vests. And because they’re the leads, they go INFRONT of SWAT! Just watching Paris Has Fallen and they keep doing this
Exactly. They would get a bullet to the face and be done with, insta-kill.
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X-Files did that constantly. I rewatched Predator 2 last week and they do that as well at the beginning.
joberg
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Yep, it's nature...btw, Liberty was sculpted by Bartholdi and, according to the story, he copied his brother's face as a base...
Too Much Garlic
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That monster hasn't been seen since the first film. The others are all different.
BB43MAN
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....Yeah...."different". Did you happen to see Romulus?
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Too Much Garlic
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Didn't really bother with what seemed like nothing more than a member-berry movie.
The alien xenomorph has quite the ecclectic hit point scale... in the first film, they never tried to "kill it" until it got blown out into space by Ripley. So we didn't really know its vulnerabilities. Apparently
it can force itself into a coccoon and hibernate when placed into an extreme environment, as Romulus shows us.
In the sequel Aliens, the xenomorphs were PLENTIFUL and overwhelmed our heroes with pure numbers, but were not invulnerable; they could be killed with fire and military grade munitions.
Alien 3: They didn't have weapons to attack the xenomorph, so we don't know although this is the first time in the original chronology that we see a xenomorph formed inside a non-human mammal.
Alien Resurrection: It's been a minute since I saw the film, but IIRC the xenomorphs were shown to be very intelligent, but not indestructible.
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drusselmeyer
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Intelligent characters played off as stupid or non functional or killed of first. Generally a mocking tone when it comes to intelligent characters.
This is also the premise of TV shows like Big Bang Theory.
This is also the premise of TV shows like Big Bang Theory.
I think that's pretty accurate. I've known lots of very smart people who have zero social skills. Not as bad as Sheldon, but close. I'd say they are intelligent in certain areas.
Bloop
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This is more in tv than movies, but I don't need to see another woman giving birth during an emergency or some situation where they can't get her to a hospital or proper medical care. I just rewatched the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Keiko O'Brien gives birth after the Enterprise hits a quantim filament and the entire ship is divided. It's a good episode overall, but Worf being forced to deliver Keiko's baby in 10 Forward made me reach for the remote. Obviously, this is an old example, but it's still a plot that gets reused over and over again. Time to retire it.
I thought that was a great episode and having Worf be the one to deliver the baby was probably seen as a bit of light relief in a heavy episode given his awkwardness in that situation.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
I'm tired of science fiction, being one of the earliest genres of film, getting some of the worst writing for film or TV.
Why does even Horror get more respect than Sci Fi?
Why does even Horror get more respect than Sci Fi?
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