drusselmeyer
Master Member
In classical theater, actors all learned basic fencing. It is a shame there isn't a required "boot camp" for actors anymore.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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I'm going to guess that it's a generation of kids who grew up watching CHiPs. Everything that goes off a cliff in that show usually blows up. The only ones that don't are when the story requires them to rescue the person first. THEN it blows up.
Yes... and in the 1970s / early 1980s shows, when the "bad guys" went over a cliff in their vehicle, you would always see them at the bottom of the ravine, slowly climbing out of their totally destroyed automobile. Scraped and dirtied up, but still alive.
ScourgiousJinx
Master Member
Beyond ludicrous amounts of gore, blood, guts and absolutely repulsively disgusting imagery. I'm looking at you Nosferatu and The Substance.
It's so overdone these days. Even the free antenna TV channels are full of gory stuff on the cop shows.
Teaching the TNG actors to correctly “aim” the phaser at their target was another problem, altogether:
TimDRX
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I think the over-the-top gore was sorta the whole point of The Substance lol. Wouldn't have been remotely as good if it was toned down. It's even a lil meta joke with the title - style over substance and all that.
And FWIW Jack Quaid's dad eating shrimp was easily the most disgusting moment in that movie and it didn't involve any gore, blood or guts at all! ;p
Cephus
Master Member
Nope. Have the button to turn the light on in the hands of the effects crew, connected by wifi or bluetooth. They couldn't do that back in the day, but now, they easily could.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
Knife throwing that is too far but lethal.
I noped out when she was transforming and multiple eyes were in her sockets. That was just too weird for me. But it was also kind of a final straw, because I almost stopped watching during the shrimp scene. So gross and unnecessary. He's a disgusting jerk, we get it, we knew it already.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
They used real physics back then. Somewhere there is a video of this actual jump.Car physics just worked differently back then.
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p51
Sr Member
Tough enough for a real firearm. A plastic toy looking raygun in an era where NOBODY was taking sci-fi seriously?
Please.
Don't forget this was also the era where most western movies had actors shooting blanks from single action pistols with whipping their wrist downwards, as if they'd only go off with a whipping motion!
"It's a late 1980s/early 1990s TV sci-fi show on analogue NTSC broadcast TV, 480 lines of resolution. No one will notice."
Any movie with a battle scene where the battle hasn't begun, but the actors are just now readying their weapons/equipment. I just watched Gladiator II (ugh...) and they were just winding the catapults and loading them right before the Roman ships were in range. They knew they were coming long enough to call up their militia!
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
I can actually accept bad aim on some sci-fi weapons as they may have aim assist features.
Not so much in movies using real style firearms.
Not so much in movies using real style firearms.
Bloop
Sr Member
I feel like someone might've mentioned this (though a quick search of the thread didn't find anything) but anytime a giant video screen is on outside, like in Times Square, and there's audio. It's usually some news where everyone looks up and is listening to it in awe. This happens at the end of Spider-Man Far From Home/beginning of No Way Home and it's annoying. I suppose one could argue that they're in a parallel universe where that sort of thing happens (audio on outdoor screens), but it's used in way too many films. Juat unrealistic and takes me out of it.
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ScourgiousJinx
Master Member
That's like saying graphic nudity was the point of Basic Instinct. Not quite. Actually it would've been better.
Suggestion and hints of the grotesque with a strong tension build up leading to limited moments of revelations of it are far more impactful than blatantly and constantly throwing it in the audiences face at nearly every opportunity. It really loses its impact quickly and becomes dull when it's overplayed. Which it really was.
The most disturbing part of the film by far was the line "pretty girls should always smile" and Quaid's exceptional delivery of it. Much more gut wrenching than a remarkably silly looking face blob slowly inching across the ground for what seemed an eternity, an amalgam of twisted body parts limping around for several minutes, a closeup of a slob eating shrimp etc.
The acting in this film was very good- Qualley, Quaid and Moore were all great. It was a 5 or 6 when it could've easily been a 9 or 10 with some clever editing.
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p51
Sr Member
Good point. As a veteran, that's always driven me nuts as well.
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