Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Michael Bergeron]

I'm ok with superheroes as long as it's of the recent Marvel quality.

No more vampires - especially if they're still in school.

Granted, just my personal position but I'm COMPLETELY done with them for a long while, high production quality or not.

In the past 10 years there have been 63 Superhero films. In the 60 years prior to that there were 64...

Tired of seeing the posters, tired of seeing the trailers, tired of a million threads of Iron Man suits, or Spidey suits, tired of reboots a year after a franchise wraps up...

Just done. The genre has been killed for me. Let it rest for a while.

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[Curmudgeon]

^I agree, I'm definitely sick of the superhero genre given the rate which they're being released now.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

As for the machine guns in WD, that AUG drove me nuts as well. Yes, Georgia is a Class III-friendly state and I know people in that state today with massive machine gun collections, but they're not THAT common.

My city isn't tiny, but it's smaller than say Atlanta. Our local PD has AR15s, so it could be likely that they raided some PD's for those. I'm guessing a huge percentage of SWAT teams in the U.S. are likely to have MP5s. It would be a good choice because 9mm ammo would be everywhere. Personally I'll take a hunting rifle, a good shotgun, and a Katana.

 

[dascoyne]

Granted, just my personal position but I'm COMPLETELY done with them for a long while, high production quality or not.

In the past 10 years there have been 63 Superhero films. In the 60 years prior to that there were 64...

Tired of seeing the posters, tired of seeing the trailers, tired of a million threads of Iron Man suits, or Spidey suits, tired of reboots a year after a franchise wraps up...

Just done. The genre has been killed for me. Let it rest for a while.

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Hey, I get that.

I also accept that I, as someone whose childhood was immersed in the stories and characters of Marvel comics (as well as Star Wars), am far from an objective viewer. If it were not the case my tolerance would definitely be limited. And, if I never knew about superhero comics at all, I'm almost certain I couldn't digest the preposterous ideas on which the genre is based.

^I agree, I'm definitely sick of the superhero genre given the rate which they're being released now.

I do wish Marvel would regulate its output. I've stated before, it's understandable to ride the wave of popularity, but it's definitely risky to oversaturate the market. Iron Man 2 was a real facepalmer. I want to see the movies but I want them to space them out by years and take the time to make them right. I have faith that with perceptive folks like Joss Whedon calling shots this hazard can be avoided.

 

[Treadwell]

I assume you mean Star Trek IV using Star Trek III footage, right? Either way, there's a far, far worse example than anything here. Batman's super convenient video recording device from Batman and Robin. That wasn't even trying.

I meant when Kirk reviews the security footage of Spock's death with Sarek.

 

[Zombie_61]

I meant when Kirk reviews the security footage of Spock's death with Sarek.

When you really stop to think about it, Star Trek has always been guilty of using "impossible" footage in order to move the story along. All Kirk (or anyone else in command) has to do is utter the magic words, "Put it on screen", and the exact thing they need to see appears before them for a detailed examination. It's just one of those "leap of faith/advanced technology" things that you either accept and go along with, or don't.

 

[p51]

It drove me nuts on 'impossible footage' (good term for that, BTW) in the first Trek movie. V'ger vaporizes that antenna thing, with the crew of the big E watching, right? Okay, so the array and crew are gone. So how is the Enterprise crew still watching that section of space now that nothing's there to film it?
I saw this movie in the theater when it was new, when I was just ten and that didn't make any sense to me even then!

 

[Krull]

I'm getting a bit sick of portraying monsters as hip,cool,or misunderstood...and in particular being teenagers,it was amusing the first few years but now it's just annoying.

Vampires,werewolves and the like will tear your face off,drink your blood,and smear your feces on your mom and dad's faces okay?

Also Zombies,I never cared for them and I can remember when they didn't exist and seriously now the whole idea is just stupid.

 

[Jeyl]

I meant when Kirk reviews the security footage of Spock's death with Sarek.

I actually give a pass on that one since the footage we're seeing is not the same footage that was shown from the actual movie. Like we actually see Spock's face when he says "Ship out of danger?" instead of seeing Kirk's. And sticking with that one constant take of Spock incapacitating McCoy and mind melding with him are all different. TWOK actually featured a close up shot of McCoy's face. So while it is footage that was shot during TWOK, it's not footage that was used for TWOK so it's easier to believe it as security footage.

Star Trek IV is a far better example since, unlike TWOK, most of the footage we see of the Klingons IS used in the actual movie and it gets even sillier when they show footage of the Enterprise exploding from the same angles.

 

[dascoyne]

Any movie whose central conflict is about a marital affair where we are required to feel empathy for each person in the triangle as if they were "helpless" victims of forces beyond their control.
"Things ... got out of hand..." Things? What things? You mean the naughty bits in your bathing suit area?
I typically end up not giving a damn about any of the characters.

ok, the only exception that comes to mind is Casablanca. But, in fairness, Ilsa thought her husband was dead... and it was wartime... and it's Bogart. I can buy that.

 

[Riceball]

My city isn't tiny, but it's smaller than say Atlanta. Our local PD has AR15s, so it could be likely that they raided some PD's for those. I'm guessing a huge percentage of SWAT teams in the U.S. are likely to have MP5s. It would be a good choice because 9mm ammo would be everywhere. Personally I'll take a hunting rifle, a good shotgun, and a Katana.

But your local PD is going to have semi-auto AR15s, not M16s or M4s that are 3 round burst capable if not fully auto.

 

[p51]

Sequels where someone forgot to write a script. I'll have to agree that the Riddick movies were hardly high cinema to start with, but 'Chronicles of Riddick' is Citizen Kane compared to the third movie in that series. Just watched it last night and said out loud at the end, "How did this movie get financed?" Seriously, there isn't any actual plot to the movie that I could see!

But your local PD is going to have semi-auto AR15s, not M16s or M4s that are 3 round burst capable if not fully auto.

In all fairness, in the last WD, I saw a three-prong flash suppressor at the end of an 'AR' barrel, which would easily support the guy was carrying an M-16A1. I could imagine a police department winding up with an old, 'Nam era M-16A1 which does have full-auto on the third position on the selector switch.
The one guy (a scientist with a mullet? Really?) accidently lighting up that 5-ton with what looked like an M-4 but not firing in burst was just wrong, especially since they were supposed to have gotten all their equipment from the Army. The problem there is that changes in automatic weapons laws in the mid 80s have prevented Hollywood gun rental companies from getting many AR series rifles with 3-shot burst like most current service rifles (other than the Marine Corps A4 series, that is).

 

[Laspector]

I always put the "impossible footage" along the same line as a scanner wave of some sort. That there doesn't really have to be a camera there to take the picture. You just shoot out this beam/wave/thingy to that area and it can send the pictures back in complete 3D so you could zoom in, go around objects, etc. I'm using this as a way to solve the "put it on screen" stuff. I realize that would not work for watching things in the past (like Spock's death footage)...

I mean, we don't really have scanner beams either do we? One naval ship can't just scan another and tell if weapons are locked, or the engine is about to blow, or if there is a build up of nutrenos--- can it?

I hope I am not making myself look like an idiot here, I really don't know much about currrent spy/stealth technology.

 

[Riceball]

I mean, we don't really have scanner beams either do we? One naval ship can't just scan another and tell if weapons are locked, or the engine is about to blow, or if there is a build up of neutrinos--- can it?

I hope I am not making myself look like an idiot here, I really don't know much about current spy/stealth technology.

We can to a certain degree. Weapons lock we can definitely detect so long as it's from a radar, in fact with current technology a radar's emissions is detectable from a far greater range than what the radar can actually "see". In other words, if a plane or a ship is actively using its radar an enemy detect our it well before our ship or plane can detect the enemy if its not using its own radar; the same applies for sonar as well, active sonar (ie pinging) can be heard from a far greater distance than it can actually target something.

In regards to detecting neutrino emissions and the like, we don't quite have that tech just yet but we have means of getting an idea if something is not going right with another ship or plane. The simplest way is IR emissions, if we can "see" that another vessel is emitting far more heat than it should then we have a good idea that something is probably going wrong. With subs if it's close enough to another sub or ship it can use its passive sonar (basically hydrophones) and can possibly hear something going wrong, obviously nothing like some sort of radiation or emissions leak but definitely something mechanical in nature. The passive sonar systems on modern submarines are good to pick up whale songs from miles away and a well trained sonar operator can tell by listening to a sound signature whether something is biological or mechanical in nature and if it's a ship or another sub they can usually tell what type, what class, what direction it's going, and how fast.

 

[Zombie_61]

It drove me nuts on 'impossible footage' (good term for that, BTW) in the first Trek movie. V'ger vaporizes that antenna thing, with the crew of the big E watching, right? Okay, so the array and crew are gone. So how is the Enterprise crew still watching that section of space now that nothing's there to film it?
I saw this movie in the theater when it was new, when I was just ten and that didn't make any sense to me even then!

Sitting in the theater seeing Star Trek IV for the first time, I was the only one who laughed during the sequence on the Bird of Prey when Uhura locates the whales 600 nautical miles away, Kirk tells her to "Put them on screen," Gillian asks, "How can you do that?", and no one explains it to her (for obvious reasons--they can't explain it).

 

[dbuck]

It drove me nuts on 'impossible footage' (good term for that, BTW) in the first Trek movie. V'ger vaporizes that antenna thing, with the crew of the big E watching, right? Okay, so the array and crew are gone. So how is the Enterprise crew still watching that section of space now that nothing's there to film it?

It's a Star Trek tradition. Think back to Balance of Terror. Outpost 4 displays the attack on the Enterprise's screens, outpost 4 is utterly destroyed, and the bird of prey remains on screen.
Um, the 'camera' just got blown to bits. And like you, as a kid I knew better.

 

[Bigdaddy]

Granted, just my personal position but I'm COMPLETELY done with them for a long while, high production quality or not.

In the past 10 years there have been 63 Superhero films. In the 60 years prior to that there were 64...

Tired of seeing the posters, tired of seeing the trailers, tired of a million threads of Iron Man suits, or Spidey suits, tired of reboots a year after a franchise wraps up...

Just done. The genre has been killed for me. Let it rest for a while.

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Right there with you on that.
Admittedly I have a Kick-Ass obsession but the reasons I liked the story so much is because of the way it approached the subject, and it was all new characters instead of an old story being "updated". I liked the 1st IM, and CA was just OK, but the Avengers...I had to force myself to watch it so I wouldn't feel like I wasted my 2 bucks at the video store. :lol On a whim I watched the 1st Thor movie last week, the whole time I had to listen to my daughter scoffing at Ms Portman's performance (worse than the PT?) I thought the whole thing was just going through the motions (badly).
If they have powers, I'm not really interested anymore, but I have a feeling every comic book superhero will get a movie until the money well runs dry. :behave

 

[Egon Spengler]

Not so much seeing, but hearing. That STUPID Wilhelm scream.

 

[Bigdaddy]

Not so much seeing, but hearing. That STUPID Wilhelm scream.

We had quite an argument about using it in our fan-films, I settled for making a short scene with it to satisfy my daughter, but it won't be in the final cut. :lol

 

[NormanF]

TV shows are worse about this than movies, but enhancing pictures and video. They are always able to take grainy, low resolution pictures shot by someone with Parkinsons and make it so it looks like Ansel Adams took the photo.

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