Darth Lars
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... but we are saved because the aliens discover later in awe that we were actually very noble and gentle beings with "potential".
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Helpful Nerd
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Speaking of Aliens.....
I'm tired of aliens that have some crazy design to their anatomy yet their ships have human styled buttons and joystick controls. Their fingers are long and spindly, or they only have 3 fingers, etc but the cockpit is full of tiny switches and knobs. I'm talking to you Independence Day!
My Dad came up with another good point that I need to share here. My Dad and I where watching an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and Capt. Archer gets kidnapped by a bounty hunter to be sold to the Klingons. Archer escapes his cell, acquires a gun and gets off the Klingon ship via an escape pod. My Dad looks over at me and says "The Klingons would rather die in battle than retreat...so why do their ships have escape pods?"
Good call pops.
I'm tired of aliens that have some crazy design to their anatomy yet their ships have human styled buttons and joystick controls. Their fingers are long and spindly, or they only have 3 fingers, etc but the cockpit is full of tiny switches and knobs. I'm talking to you Independence Day!
My Dad came up with another good point that I need to share here. My Dad and I where watching an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and Capt. Archer gets kidnapped by a bounty hunter to be sold to the Klingons. Archer escapes his cell, acquires a gun and gets off the Klingon ship via an escape pod. My Dad looks over at me and says "The Klingons would rather die in battle than retreat...so why do their ships have escape pods?"
Good call pops.
p51
Sr Member
You're forgotteing the possibility of accidents. It could be shameful to die in an accident in time of war. For example, Japanese WW2 Kamakaze pilots were taught how to land. The Empire would rather they come back and try again later if they couldn't find any ship to sink.
Just sayin'...
Helpful Nerd
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On the other hand I remember reading a book that pointed out that aliens in ships are at the top of the food chain where they come from. You don't achieve that by being nice. I wish i could remember what book that was. However, it is possible they got past being aggressive at some point.
Riceball
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There's that and learning how to land is a part of learning how to fly, after all not even the kamikaze pilots were just thrown out there their first time behind the stick, they had to learn how to land in order to actually learn how to fly. Granted they didn't have to learn how to fly well but even learning the basics takes more than one lesson.
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Riceball
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While we're on the subject of Klingons, a friend of mine always had issues with pretty much all Klingon ships in TNG on having cloaking devices, he always felt that it didn't fit with the whole honourable warrior culture that they tried to portray. He didn't think that sneaking about while essentially invisible before attacking their opponent was his idea of honorable behavior, which makes sense although I don't ever recall hearing Klingons saying anything about honorable battle, just their own honor.
My personal Trek pet peeve has always been how compatible everybody's tech is with each other, no matter the race, when it's a previously unknown race on the other side of the galaxy. To add to that, Starfleet officers always seem to be able both operate and repair alien tech even when they've never seen the systems before.
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jarvis
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How about that one hot movie every year that everyone just loves; it's got a few A-listers in it and they're acting their hearts out. It's about something really serious, it might be "independent" but it's really just Oscar-bait. And it usually does win an Oscar, but fades into obscurity. The Social Network, Silver Linings Playbook etc... pft
Helpful Nerd
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I have to say I'm getting tired of slow motion or super slow motion in movies "just because". Where it was once cool when Neo was dodging the agents bullets, now it's so overused.
I think there is a time and a place, but when it becomes so prevalent it just becomes annoying. Played out is the term I'm looking for or as my Dad says "Tiresome".
Ooh, and one more thing to mention again because I hate it so much is the sound effects that computer operating systems make in movies or TV shows.
Every little thing the computer does has some dramatic sound effect.
I'm talking to you CSI!!! The forensic folks are running a fingerprint and on the left side of the screen is a ton of finger print images cycling through, on the right side is the finger print they are trying to match. Then when the computer finds the match large text in a green box flashes on screen "MATCH! MATCH! MATCH! accompanied with a sound effect.
Or this classic computer fail on NCIS:
http://youtu.be/u8qgehH3kEQ
I think there is a time and a place, but when it becomes so prevalent it just becomes annoying. Played out is the term I'm looking for or as my Dad says "Tiresome".
Ooh, and one more thing to mention again because I hate it so much is the sound effects that computer operating systems make in movies or TV shows.
Every little thing the computer does has some dramatic sound effect.
I'm talking to you CSI!!! The forensic folks are running a fingerprint and on the left side of the screen is a ton of finger print images cycling through, on the right side is the finger print they are trying to match. Then when the computer finds the match large text in a green box flashes on screen "MATCH! MATCH! MATCH! accompanied with a sound effect.
Or this classic computer fail on NCIS:
http://youtu.be/u8qgehH3kEQ
BlackKnight247
Well-Known Member
Over exaggeration of pain like when daredevil kicked king pin in the knees
Bruce Lee for sure is spinning in his grave ...
p51
Sr Member
A couple new ones:
1. People having no apparent problem with death. I'm thinking the ending of Prometheus. Geez, the crew seemed just fine with going out like that.
2. In films where the world comes to an end, a couple of people seem calm, comfortable and in no pain at all as everything vanishes in a slow disolve to white. Every movie like that seems to have end the exact same way!
1. People having no apparent problem with death. I'm thinking the ending of Prometheus. Geez, the crew seemed just fine with going out like that.
2. In films where the world comes to an end, a couple of people seem calm, comfortable and in no pain at all as everything vanishes in a slow disolve to white. Every movie like that seems to have end the exact same way!
mattycsi
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BlackKnight247
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-_- my face when he screamed
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