Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Solo4114]

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I'm assuming you're talking about anatomically impossible scenarios stemming primarily from bodily trauma.

I agree that it'd be nice to see people get more beaten up -- realistically -- in films, to help both ground the violence and to make it far more meaningful and serious.

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I'm assuming you're talking about anatomically impossible scenarios stemming primarily from bodily trauma.

I agree that it'd be nice to see people get more beaten up -- realistically -- in films, to help both ground the violence and to make it far more meaningful and serious.

 

[Riceball]

Here's something I'm really tired of seeing in the movies... Remakes of old sitcoms! I mean comon? You can't think of anything new so you dig deep into the well for 21 Jump Street the Movie? How many old TV shows have you seen recently they have turned into movies? Here's a little list:

Wild Wild West
Addams Family
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
21 Jump Street (and 22 Jump Street)
Mission Impossible
I Spy
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Beverly Hillbillies
Dragonball Z
Dukes of Hazard
Flash Gordon

The list goes on... now some aren't too god aweful, but I dare any of you to tell me Addams Family Reunion was a good movie... or even the Beverly Hillbillies.

Not that it matters but of the show's you listed maybe only 2 or 3 could really be considered sitcoms and that's if you want to consider The Adams Family, Bewitched, and Beverly Hillbillies as sitcoms.

Anyway, here's one that gets old. You have a situation where 2 people are fighting, person A (usually the hero) knocks person B on the ground, person B is now on their back and weaponless and possibly gravely injured, person A holds a weapon (sword, gun, spear, sharp stick) at person B and is torn between killing them or just letting them go, meanwhile person B is taunting person A saying things like "Go ahead, do it!" or "Kill me!" at which point person A gets frustrated and screams like they're going to do it, that's when the camera cuts away and moment later you see that person A has not killed person B but instead shot or stabbed the ground next to person A's head.

 

[Jeyl]

"Trust no one."

Character proceeds to trust other people anyways, and it works.

 

[dascoyne]

I'm assuming you're talking about anatomically impossible scenarios stemming primarily from bodily trauma.

I agree that it'd be nice to see people get more beaten up -- realistically -- in films, to help both ground the violence and to make it far more meaningful and serious.

Which makes me appreciate films that do have a touch of unexpected realism. In 48 Hours when Nick Nolte is in a protracted street fight with Eddie Murphy a police cruiser rolls up and the cop tells them both to raise their hands. Nolte says, "I'm too ****ing tired to raise my hands!" So true.

Anyway, here's one that gets old. You have a situation where 2 people are fighting, person A (usually the hero) knocks person B on the ground, person B is now on their back and weaponless and possibly gravely injured, person A holds a weapon (sword, gun, spear, sharp stick) at person B and is torn between killing them or just letting them go, meanwhile person B is taunting person A saying things like "Go ahead, do it!" or "Kill me!" at which point person A gets frustrated and screams like they're going to do it, that's when the camera cuts away and moment later you see that person A has not killed person B but instead shot or stabbed the ground next to person A's head.

Agreed.
I like that episode of Firefly called Shindig when Mal is in a duel with swords against the villain and finally gets the upper hand (standing over the bad guy who was just disarmed). Of course he refuses to kill the guy ... but then decides to stab him a couple of times in the gut. So funny

 

[Riceball]

I like that episode of Firefly called Shindig when Mal is in a duel with swords against the villain and finally gets the upper hand (standing over the bad guy who was just disarmed). Of course he refuses to kill the guy ... but then decides to stab him a couple of times in the gut. So funny

Agreed, we all knew that Mal wouldn't kill the guy but he definitely wasn't above poking him a couple times with his sword just because. I liked that they played with the old trope of not killing the bad guy when they're down by not letting the bad guy without getting a couple of jabs in first, literally.

 

[p51]

Then there's the old, "You're not going to kill me" bit from the bad guy who thinks the good guy can't do it. And the good guy starts to leave, then does it after all.
I first saw that on the classic "Ivan" ending on Magnum PI, but it's been done to death since then, and never like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vW1oEKP1k

 

[LrdSatyr8]

"it is just a fleshwound"

makes me almost throw up when i hear that.

Unless of course its the Black Knight saying it just after Arthur cut his arm off! Then its funny!

 

[p51]

Yeah, I have taken a bullet, just scraped laterally across one of my feet (got shot by someone with an accidental discharge from an adjacent training area when i was active duty) and all it did was ruin a good pair of boots and scare the poop out of me, but it didn't even require stitches.
And let me tell you, it hurt like heck. I thought half my foot had been blown off at first.

 

[kristen jones]

Second place goes to the Alien franchise where they show xenos constantly killing people for no other reason than just to kill them and they never, not in 4 movies, did they ever explain what they actually ate or if they even ate at all.

Well that's not entirely true. though they may not have explained what the EAT, they diefinitely showed--on occasion--people being apparently "killed" for a specific purpose. A good example of this is in Alien when Dallas is "killed". We find out in a deleted scene that he wasn't killed after all... instead he was taken and used later. I can't recall now if the dialogue said "food" or if it was implied that he would have been a host for a xeno to be "born". But the point is that the Alien did in fact have a reason for "killing" him.

Also, Brett got his "head bit" by the small secondary jaws of the alien. Though it isn't expressly stated, I always assumed that when the alien did that to someone he was making a snack of them in some way, whereas when an Alien "drags someone off" it intends to "cocoon" the person for some later use.

 

[p51]

Well that's not entirely true. though they may not have explained what the EAT, they diefinitely showed--on occasion--people being apparently "killed" for a specific purpose. A good example of this is in Alien when Dallas is "killed". We find out in a deleted scene that he wasn't killed after all... instead he was taken and used later. I can't recall now if the dialogue said "food" or if it was implied that he would have been a host for a xeno to be "born". But the point is that the Alien did in fact have a reason for "killing" him.

Also, Brett got his "head bit" by the small secondary jaws of the alien. Though it isn't expressly stated, I always assumed that when the alien did that to someone he was making a snack of them in some way, whereas when an Alien "drags someone off" it intends to "cocoon" the person for some later use.

Good point. And Ash at one point did mention, "It's nutritional requirements," as to infer it was eating people to a degree.
But the deaths at the end of the first Alien movie? Yeah, those seemed malicious and not the actions of any normal animal behavior.

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Well that's not entirely true. though they may not have explained what the EAT, they diefinitely showed--on occasion--people being apparently "killed" for a specific purpose. A good example of this is in Alien when Dallas is "killed". We find out in a deleted scene that he wasn't killed after all... instead he was taken and used later. I can't recall now if the dialogue said "food" or if it was implied that he would have been a host for a xeno to be "born". But the point is that the Alien did in fact have a reason for "killing" him.

Also, Brett got his "head bit" by the small secondary jaws of the alien. Though it isn't expressly stated, I always assumed that when the alien did that to someone he was making a snack of them in some way, whereas when an Alien "drags someone off" it intends to "cocoon" the person for some later use.

Good point. And Ash at one point did mention, "It's nutritional requirements," as to infer it was eating people to a degree.
But the deaths at the end of the first Alien movie? Yeah, those seemed malicious and not the actions of any normal animal behavior.

 

[Xtafa]

"Raise the shield" Shields should be up anyway! Space debris and crap zooming through space.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

"Raise the shield" Shields should be up anyway! Space debris and crap zooming through space.

No those are deflectors... always up and operational. The shields are used for defense. Adding rotating modulations and various other means for protecting the main hull from damage.

 

[Treadwell]

Characters in command giving blatantly obvious orders to people who already know their jobs.
"They're on a collision course."
"Evasive maneuvers!"
"No duh, Captain."

 

[funboy1013xx]

well like gwen said in GALAXY QUEST "look I got one job on this ship, it may be stupid, but im gonna do it!" or something to that affect lol

 

[dascoyne]

So yeah, it really ought to be the guy standing 4 or 5 ft beside him who is the one buried in shells.

 

[Treadwell]

^ During the first Gulf war I saw video of that exact thing happening in real life to an Iraqi soldier.

 

[NormanF]

Here's something I'm really tired of seeing in the movies... Remakes of old sitcoms! I mean comon? You can't think of anything new so you dig deep into the well for 21 Jump Street the Movie? How many old TV shows have you seen recently they have turned into movies? Here's a little list:

Wild Wild West
Addams Family
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
21 Jump Street (and 22 Jump Street)
Mission Impossible
I Spy
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Beverly Hillbillies
Dragonball Z
Dukes of Hazard
Flash Gordon

The list goes on... now some aren't too god aweful, but I dare any of you to tell me Addams Family Reunion was a good movie... or even the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dukes of Hazzard was itself based on a movie. There was legal stufff going on when they were working on the movie version.

 

[glunark]

21 Jump street was one of the funniest films I have seen in years, and it did a lot of trope busting, a lot of the things people have complained about in this thread they turned on its head, and gave people the opposite.

 

[astroboy]

21 jump street was done by the guys who did clone high. They are amazing

 

[binkleywalker]

When people get out of bed without waking up the other person. They climb out, maybe even kiss the person, get dressed and leave without the other person even stirring. If the people sharing my bed- and there have been many(or not)- even blink, I can tell. But maybe I'm a light sleeper.