Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Laspector]

How about peoples' non responsiveness to gore? Someone sees a mutilated dead body, its one quick scream and then on to the next scene. I remember one time a cat got caught in my car engine belts and was ripped in half. I was puking my guts out trying to pull that thing out.

Or someone's closest friend or loved one is murdered. Sure they weep for a moment but the pain rarely lasts past the next scene. Take Luke for example; his adoptive parents are slain and he sees their charred smoking remains lying there. He looks away and that is pretty much it. Yet when Ben dies--a man he has only known for about a day--he is all broken up..But yet again, only for a moment or two. Leia is even worse, her entire planet is blown up and yet than an hour later she is trading jibes with Solo and the gang.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

How about peoples' non responsiveness to gore? Someone sees a mutilated dead body, its one quick scream and then on to the next scene. I remember one time a cat got caught in my car engine belts and was ripped in half. I was puking my guts out trying to pull that thing out.

Or someone's closest friend or loved one is murdered. Sure they weep for a moment but the pain rarely lasts past the next scene. Take Luke for example; his adoptive parents are slain and he sees their charred smoking remains lying there. He looks away and that is pretty much it. Yet when Ben dies--a man he has only known for about a day--he is all broken up..But yet again, only for a moment or two. Leia is even worse, her entire planet is blown up and yet than an hour later she is trading jibes with Solo and the gang.

This one time at band camp.........a cat got caught in my car engine belts and was ripped in half.....

WOW!

 

[Laspector]

Isn't it fun extracting dead cat parts from your engine? LOL

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Isn't it fun extracting dead cat parts from your engine? LOL

I don't wish that on anyone.

I do agree with your point about how in movies folks don't freak out when they see gore - see someone ripped in half. There's gotta be at least one cop that responds to the scene of some crazy stuff going down, seeing people ripped apart and says "Na, I'm good I'm going home, I'm not a cop anymore".

 

[Laspector]

How about the way, in werewolf movies, everyone just automatically knows when the next full moon is. Now honestly, without looking it up, how many people, off the top of their heads, just happen to know when the next full moon is?

 

[dascoyne]

Any villain whose only motive is to torment the main character.

 

[Zombie_61]

How about the way, in werewolf movies, everyone just automatically knows when the next full moon is. Now honestly, without looking it up, how many people, off the top of their heads, just happen to know when the next full moon is?

Well, y'know, people tend to bone up on this stuff when there's a werewolf on the loose.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Well, y'know, people tend to bone up on this stuff when there's a werewolf on the loose.

There's an app for that.

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.universetoday.moon.free&hl=en

iPhone:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moon-phase-+-free/id671352640?mt=8

Just saying...

but in a movie NOBODY pulls out their smart phone and says "4 days until the full moon guys, so let's be careful since there's a werewolf on the loose"

 

[astroboy]

For a complete list of the modern trends I despise please refer to jjtreks 1 and 2

 

[Zombie_61]

...but in a movie NOBODY pulls out their smart phone and says "4 days until the full moon guys, so let's be careful since there's a werewolf on the loose"

Yeah, but that's only because smart phones didn't exist in the days when people actually believed werewolves existed. Or movies, for that matter.

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Yeah, but that's only because smart phones didn't exist in the days when people actually believed werewolves existed. Or movies, for that matter.

hahahahaha so true.

Maybe they would have to calculate the next full moon on their abacus?

 

[glunark]

Speaking of smart phones, if you had a picture of a crucifix on your phone would that be enough to ward off a vampire?

 

[Helpful Nerd]

Speaking of smart phones, if you had a picture of a crucifix on your phone would that be enough to ward off a vampire?

Hmmm.....

Maybe the flashlight app could help against vampires too.

 

[robn1]

Speaking of smart phones, if you had a picture of a crucifix on your phone would that be enough to ward off a vampire?

The shadow of a windmill worked in one of the Hammer films, so I don't see why not.

 

[Laspector]

I've always thought the vampire/crucifix connection was ridiculous. Does anything with that shape hurt a vampire? Just look around- I bet you can spot at least ten "cross" shaped things in the room you are in right now. Any world filled with right angles and crossed lines would be hell for a vampire.

And it really shouldn't be the typical "cross' shape anyway. Most crosses of the day were more of a T shape.

 

[Riceball]

I've always thought the vampire/crucifix connection was ridiculous. Does anything with that shape hurt a vampire? Just look around- I bet you can spot at least ten "cross" shaped things in the room you are in right now. Any world filled with right angles and crossed lines would be hell for a vampire.

And it really shouldn't be the typical "cross' shape anyway. Most crosses of the day were more of a T shape.

I don't remember where I saw it, but I saw/read something once where crosses by themselves didn't have any affect on vampires unless wielded by someone who was an actual Christian/true believer, and had faith in the cross and believed in it as a holy symbol. So if you were an agnostic or atheist or someone not of the Christian faith a cross would be useless in your hands and it wouldn't bother the vampire in the least.

 

[p51]

In the original book, "Dracula," I'm pretty sure vampires could walk around in the daylight. They were more of a satanic thing than anything else back then.
Movie vampires are so different in each film. "Interview with the vampire" had that crosses did nothing to ward off a vampire.

 

[Riceball]

In the original book, "Dracula," I'm pretty sure vampires could walk around in the daylight. They were more of a satanic thing than anything else back then.
Movie vampires are so different in each film. "Interview with the vampire" had that crosses did nothing to ward off a vampire.

Vamps could walk around in broad daylight during the later seasons of Buffy and on Angel, just not direct sunlight though, they were fine as long as they were either indoors or in shadow/shade.

 

[Riceball]

I just caught part of Battle for LA last night and I was reminded how much I hate seeing scenes in military related movies where you have a bunch of grunts (both Army and Marines) heading off to a helo or some other vehicle and they're all dressed and equipped exactly alike. By alike I mean exactly alike like as if they had just one extra and cloned him in post, everybody's cammies are in the same condition (usually brand new), pants bloused or tucked in exactly the same, pouches in the same exact spots, nobody is carrying anything that the other squad/platoon members isn't carrying, and nobody is carrying wearing any personally purchased gear everything is either all standard issue or it's the same exact brand even if it isn't standard issue. While to uninitiated, read: average civilian, this seems perfectly reasonable and can't find anything wrong with this the reality is that this never happens, nobody in the military is perfectly uniform unless it's inspection time or at some sort of special ceremony. But when wearing full combat gear there's a fair amount of variation as not everybody is going to be wearing everything in the exact same spot, oh they'll be close but never exact, and nobody ever has all the exact same stuff, not even for things like boots, some people will be happy with standard issue and/or can't afford any better while others will want better and go out buy their own boots or piece of gear because they either can't stand the standard issue version or, in more than a few cases, want to be like like a SEAL, or Green Beret and that's what they use.

An example of real life non-uniformity in the military was when I was in the Corps, way back when, I used to always have a pair of goggles strapped to my helmet (until it got stolen), a helmet band around the helmet, and a butt pack attached to my H-harness. This was back in the 90s before goggles were common place and we weren't issued any sort eye protection, helmet bands weren't widely used nor issued in the Marine Corps, and the butt pack was definitely not a standard issue piece of gear either. Yet in the movies you'll see every last member of a unit will be dressed either like me with all this extra stuff that I purchased with my own money or wearing nothing but standard issue gear with everything arranged the same way.

 

[Treadwell]

How old is vampirism according to lore, anyway? Wouldn't there have been vampires before Christianity?