Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[CB2001]

When they set a film or TV show in my home town and obviously filmed it somewhere else.

I feel that same way, except for the whole state of Florida.

Ok, so not a movie, but I feel this topic also applies to TV shows.

And this meme sums up how I feel about The Walking Dead. I do love that show, and I go to Walker Stalker Con. But, c'mon! Really?

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And in scenes where they "go on a run" and end up in a house in the Burbs, the grass is cut there too. Really? Mowed yards might look nice, but it's not realistic.

Actually, I believe that for the prison, that the reason why the grass is like that is due to the fact that some of it may have been a high traffic area and it was mostly dirt near the road area. And due to the lack of activity, and the fall and winter months, it took some time before the grass could grow to how it's seen in the show. I figured this due to the fact in later episodes of the show, there are areas of that fenced in area that have tall grass growing, while the shorter area appears to be near the road.

What I find funny is that same Picard pic and captain is used for a shot of Andrea from Season 2 when she and Shane go to search the housing development for Sophia, the person who made the image not taking into account that the first season, as well as some of the first half of Season 2 took place within the first month of the zombie apocalypse, and that the lawns could have been mowed prior to the outbreak and haven't had time to grow. The only real indication of weeks going starts sometime after The attempt to let Randall loose, which you can see Rick and Shane's faces heal up some, and the group acknowledging that it was getting cold outside.

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[Wes R]

I'm tired of the trailer looking good and when i get the film the scenes aren't even in the movie, they were just put in the trailer and that was it.

 

[Treadwell]

Characters who only whisper.

Mark Sheppard did that every second he was on Battlestar Galactica, with a little affected graveliness, which I also hate. Drove me CURAZAAAY.

 

[gunnerk19]

Whenever someone is murdered by a shot to the head, it's always smack dab in the center of the forehead. Not above the left or right eyebrow, not along the hairline, precisely centered between the eyes just above the bridge of the nose. The only film I remember where this was not the case was "Tombstone" when Doc Holliday is facing off against Johnny Ringo and Doc drills him in the upper left forehead. And even then it takes a few moments for Ringo to die from the trauma.

Oh, and that's another thing. People that get shot in movies die IMMEDIATELY. Bang. Someone checks the guy right away. "He's dead". Every time. Wow. Unless it's absolutely vital to the plot that the shootee stays alive until the hero utters a famous catch phrase.

 

[Wes R]

On that note we should probably address exit wounds too. Every time you see a person with a bullet wound in movies these days the exit wounds are so clean and small, ignore the fact that a shot to the head probably will take a good chunk out the back of it. Just look at JFK's autopsy. Then again when you're dumbing things down to a PG13 rating i guess you have to settle for TV level violence.
American remakes of foreign films: I don't think i've ever seen one that wasn't a train wreck.

 

[PHArchivist]

Oh, and that's another thing. People that get shot in movies die IMMEDIATELY. Bang. Someone checks the guy right away. "He's dead". Every time. Wow. Unless it's absolutely vital to the plot that the shootee stays alive until the hero utters a famous catch phrase.

And no large pool of blood from bleeding out.

 

[glunark]

Would cutting someone's throat result in instant death either?

As seen in every war film ever made.

 

[p51]

Head shots or bad impacts to the coconut can be downright gruesome. A bullet can easily break a skull into several chunks, like a large pane of glass. Part of the forehead and an eye can be inches out of place from a headwound without the skin breaking. Google it if you want, but I wouldn't think photos would be a good thing to look at. I can add this to the list of things I wished I'd never seen in person, let's just say that and be done there...
But as for blood, the body has a lot more than you'd think. Movie never get it right but it'd take forever to clean up if they did and you'd never get a seconf take if you used the right amount.

Would cutting someone's throat result in instant death either?

I personally saw someone get their juggular slit wide open. It really squirts a long way, i was surprised by that. Anyway, that person did live and they didn't even pass out instantly like they do in the movies.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I'm tired of the trailer looking good and when i get the film the scenes aren't even in the movie, they were just put in the trailer and that was it.

It seemed like half of the "Battle of Five Armies" trailer wasn't in the film.. Including what looked like the dwarf army riding in on goats, which would explain why goats materialized when the heroes needed them.

 

[Darth Lars]

I'm tired of lines in a movie, that I know, just know, were put there only because they would sound good in a trailer.

 

[dascoyne]

it pains me to say it: glowing McGuffins

 

[PHArchivist]

Also probably mentioned already, but does anybody ever really leaves keys to a parked car in the sunvisor?

 

[crabra comander]

Head shots or bad impacts to the coconut can be downright gruesome. A bullet can easily break a skull into several chunks, like a large pane of glass. Part of the forehead and an eye can be inches out of place from a headwound without the skin breaking. Google it if you want, but I wouldn't think photos would be a good thing to look at. I can add this to the list of things I wished I'd never seen in person, let's just say that and be done there...
But as for blood, the body has a lot more than you'd think. Movie never get it right but it'd take forever to clean up if they did and you'd never get a seconf take if you used the right amount.
I personally saw someone get their juggular slit wide open. It really squirts a long way, i was surprised by that. Anyway, that person did live and they didn't even pass out instantly like they do in the movies.

Well I hope the guy getting his throat cut had immediate medical attention. :eek Either way thats pretty nuts. I don't remember bleeding too much when I was stabbed in the gut though. Just remember being hunched over like a cripple for a good 100 meters till ambulance came.

 

[gunnerk19]

Head shots or bad impacts to the coconut can be downright gruesome...But as for blood, the body has a lot more than you'd think

I saw an older video (internet famous) of some politician making an announcement once, pulled a revolver out of a manila envelope, put it in his mouth and committed suicide on camera. There was blood coming out of his nose like a damned river for probably a good minute or more.

 

[p51]

it pains me to say it: glowing McGuffins

I assume it's a good thing that I have no idea what this means?

 

[dascoyne]

I assume it's a good thing that I have no idea what this means?

McGuffin (muh-GUF-in) noun, also MacGuffinA device that helps propel the plot in a story but is of little importance in itself.
[Coined by film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980).]
A McGuffin could be a person, an object, or an event that characters of a story are interested in but that, intrinsically, is of little concern. For example, in Hitchcock's movie North by Northwest, thugs are on the look out for a character named George Kaplan. Roger Thornhill, an ad executive, gets mistaken for Kaplan and so he is chased instead. Meanwhile Thornhill himself tries to find Kaplan who doesn't even exist.
Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "In regard to the tune, we have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin'. It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers. We just try to be a little more original." (quoted from the OED)
Hitchcock borrowed it from a shaggy-dog story where a train passenger is carrying a large odd-shaped package. The passenger calls it a MacGuffin and explains to the curious fellow passengers that it's a device used to catch lions in Scottish Highlands. When they protest that there are no lions in the Highlands, he simply replies, "Well, then this can't be a MacGuffin."
"What disrupts all this is a McGuffin so gnarled and elaborate as to throw the novel out of whack, even as it propels the plot. An insane Japanese student armed with a poisonous powder invades the house convinced that he is in love with Hazel."
Richard Eder; The Day After a Night of Happiness; The New York Times; Mar 16, 1999

e.g.
Pulp Fiction glowing suitcase
LotR - ring of power
Capt America/ Avengers - Tesseract
Guardians of the Galaxy - Orb

In Agent Carter she's chasing after lost Stark tech ... which glows.

(It doesn't kill a film for me as I love all those film examples.)

 

[Jeyl]

Character Shields

Recent case? The new Godzilla movie with Ford Brody. Every time he goes into an operation with other troops, he always comes out as the sole-survivor. I know we've got to dial up the action and stakes, but if every other person around him dies so easily while he just walks it off, there isn't any real sense of danger.

 

[Riceball]

Character Shields

Recent case? The new Godzilla movie with Ford Brody. Every time he goes into an operation with other troops, he always comes out as the sole-survivor. I know we've got to dial up the action and stakes, but if every other person around him dies so easily while he just walks it off, there isn't any real sense of danger.

Sort of like in TOS Trek how any time there were red shirts with the away team you could almost be certain that they will be killed with nothing really bad ever happening to Kirk and whatever other member of the main cast that was with him.

 

[Jeyl]

Sort of like in TOS Trek how any time there were red shirts with the away team you could almost be certain that they will be killed with nothing really bad ever happening to Kirk and whatever other member of the main cast that was with him.

I got one even better than anything TOS put together (Although Kirk accidentally killing four of his own crewman in "And the Children Shall Lead" is mighty close). This one comes from the last Enterprise episode "These Are The Voyages". Tucker is inside a corridor wall with these two big cables and in order to kill the bad guys that are holding him and Archer hostage, he decides to connect the two cables together that causes an explosion. This explosion kills the bad guys around them, but doesn't kill him. Sure, he still dies later on but it's not due to the explosion itself, but because he inhaled fire. If he had just held his breath a little longer, he would have survived his own successful suicide bombing.

 

[PHArchivist]

e.g.
Pulp Fiction glowing suitcase
LotR - ring of power
Capt America/ Avengers - Tesseract
Guardians of the Galaxy - Orb

In Agent Carter she's chasing after lost Stark tech ... which glows.

(It doesn't kill a film for me as I love all those film examples.)

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