Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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p51
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Yeah, or at least said cute alien comes back with an invasion force when the kids are adults and somehow, the former children to allowed this happen by not letting the evil government people to get their hands on it realize (moments before they're killed along with everyone they know) they're the reason this is happening and they should have turned over the alien after all.
Heck, it'd make a good movie where they're adults now and have to take it upon themsevles to kill the main alien based on their knowledge of it from when they were kids.
You gotta admit, there's a decent plot potential in that concept!
Solo4114
Master Member
And even then, he still got knocked around quite a bit. I remember the credits/outtakes from Rumble in the Bronx where his head got smashed between a pinball machine and a wall.
Look what happened with Harrison Ford this year while filming SW7. The guy was knocked out for several weeks of filming due to an injury suffered on set. Not really a stunt gone awry, but still an on-set injury. That's a show-stopping, production-delaying, RELEASE-delaying issue. And that means earnings forecasts have to be reconsidered, release schedules have to be reconsidered, and you're filing an insurance claim to cover those costs, none of which are cheap.
It's a lot easier to say "Just put Phil in a wig and shoot him from the waist up and from behind. No one will know it's not Sarah Michelle Gellar."
ET'N, This time he's hungry.
Riceball
Master Member
I don't recall if this has been mentioned or not but I'm getting really tired of the old trope of two people meeting (seemingly for the first time), there's a lot of tension between if not outright hostility, only to have them break out in smiles and hugs acting all friendly because they're really old friends. This has been used way too many times, so much that whenever you see the setup you know right away that the two people are really friends and we're just getting the old friends pretending to be enemies gag again.
p51
Sr Member
It took a minute to get what you meant, but in all fairness, I see this all the time among retured military people who've served together. Seems to be huge among retired Marines and pilots especially.
I do this all the time with a pal of mine in my re-enacting group, we're both former Army and people who don't know would assume we hate each other whenever we see each other the first time at an event...
Riceball
Master Member
That's interesting, I've always thought that it was just one of those Hollywoodisms; I've never actually seen it person before, at least not that I can recall, I had no idea that people actually did that in real life. Still, my point still stands, it's so over done on TV & in movies that the minute two characters meet and they act like they don't like each other I know immediately that they're really friends, that gag no longer has me fooled for any length of time.
p51
Sr Member
Fair enough as an oversued movie trope (and I'd agree, now that you've written it and I have given it some thought), just saying I've seen it in person plenty of times.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Really? After seeing it, my friend and I immediately agreed it was one of the worst movies we'd ever seen, and have referred to it ever since as "Unwatchable". That being said, this world would be a boring place if we all liked everything equally, so I am glad someone likes it.
I've also seen this happen a few times in real life. Also, years ago I worked with two guys who would screw with each other, then pretend to get really angry and act like they were going to fight, then break out in laughter at the last moment. This little act of theirs was very convincing the first time you saw it, but after that you'd watch just to see how long they could prolong it without laughing.
Seat Belts! People almost NEVER wear their damn seat belts in car scenes. It particularly bothered me while watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The good guys' number one priority was to keep John Connor alive and safe, yet his own MOTHER never thought to tell him to put on his seat belt of all things?
My family used to scare the pee pee out of each other. Sometimes we would have something in our hands... NOT ONCE did we ever drop something. But in movies...
How many glass coffee pots have met their untimely demise? So very very sad... unless you're in the glass coffee pot industry!
How many glass coffee pots have met their untimely demise? So very very sad... unless you're in the glass coffee pot industry!
or when he broke his ankle and had that nifty painted sock that made his cast look like a sneaker. That's one of my favorite modern Jackie Chan films. I love many scenes: the his scene with the Wing Chun dummy or when the kid tosses him that huge wrench. Anita Mui was also superb in an uncharacteristically subdued role and quite convincing in it - I do miss her (R.I.P.).
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MFP 2020
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Here's one I just saw one too many times: the wanton swallowing of pills. In an episode of Strike Back, Rhona Mitra's character is all strung out. She has a bottle of morphine pills (which we know because they helpfully focus on the label) and when the pain/stress/whatever gets too great, she opens the bottle and dumps a bunch into her mouth, chasing them with alcohol. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that even addicts are more careful than that.
Related: A character dumps a bunch of pills into his/her mouth and chews them up. No way.
Related: A character dumps a bunch of pills into his/her mouth and chews them up. No way.
Fenris
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I agree. Especially with how most pills / medicines taste like... yuck!
Although I am amazed at how my GF can swallow medicine pills without drinking water. Although there was this one time that the she wasn't able to swallow it in time and the pill sort of melted and all the tiny pieces in the inside got in her tongue! She almost puked because of the taste!
I take pills without water. But ya, the taste of some of them when they don't have a coating? Horrendous!
I was watching Taken 2 last night - fun movie and prepping myself for the 3rd and final chapter! BUT... Near the end of the movie our hero, Brian, is hiding behind a door. The bad guys open fire not only at the door but the surrounding walls. Now...
WHY do writers insist on making the bad guys shoot the walls and door at waist level or higher? The hero is ALWAYS laying down in wait when the bad guys slowly open the door... then POW POW POW BANG BANG BANG... the bad guys are dead... UGH!
WHY do writers insist on making the bad guys shoot the walls and door at waist level or higher? The hero is ALWAYS laying down in wait when the bad guys slowly open the door... then POW POW POW BANG BANG BANG... the bad guys are dead... UGH!
p51
Sr Member
In all fairness, in real life, people do this. I served with a soldier who'd been in the big "Blackhawk" down fight in Somalia and he said if they kept low, the Somalis never fired below waist level and nobody he was aware of ever got hit when they were lying prone unless the Somalis got right up next to them.
Also, the supports for the walls are usually thicker and/or heavier the closer to the floor you go as well as lots of stuff on the floor giving more potential for cover than at shoulder level.
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