Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Solos blaster]

I really like The Last Boy Scout because Bruce Willis takes a few beatings and he doesnt heal inbetween scenes. You can see the wear and tear affect him pretty well. Especially for a 90's movie.

That's not just limited to stab or gunshot wounds, though. Watch ANY action movie and you'll see people not only surviving, but still going strong when they've had any number of debilitating injuries occur. Like, that one where the martial arts master villain kicks the hero's knee sideways (but somehow the hero can still stand/limp/fight on it?). Or the number of concussions that most heroes, villains, and "heavy" henchmen seem capable of weathering, given the kind of impacts their skulls take. Nobody ever seems to suffer lacerations when heading through a glass window... Nobody seems to get tired particularly when engaging in about of fisticuffs that lasts for 20 freaking minutes...

Don't get me wrong. It's visually exciting and I accept most of it because of that, but if you stop and think about it, most action films have heroes (and often villains) that are apparently made of rubber.


Oh, and speaking of fistfights, one movie that I saw recently which (surprisingly) got one important aspect of that right was Divergent, where the heroine basically gets her ass kicked regularly because SHE HAS NO MUSCLE TONE AND WEIGHS A BUCK TEN SOAKING WET but was going up against people who had AT LEAST 30 pounds on her, often with a substantial amount of that being muscle. She'd try to tackle some bigger dude and he'd just pick her up and throw her across the freaking room, and rightly so.

 

[Zombie_61]

It's a practice in my home and in the home of at least three of my buddies' homes, off the top of my head. In my 48 years in the SF Bay Area (off and on with some years abroad) I've known a few homes that do this - not the majority but a few. Granted mostly Asian but a couple of white folks, too.
I can't speak for SoCal - I can just say it's not rare, in my experience. Maybe it's more of a thing with us tree-huggers up north.

Interesting. Regardless of whether it's a regional thing, a cultural thing, or whatever the reason, I think you'll find it's not as common as you might think it is.

As I mentioned above, I hate having to wear shoes and I walk barefooted as often as I can get away with it. This includes our nightly strolls when we take our dog out for his "evening constitutional", and a couple of neighbors have voiced their surprise that I prefer bare feet. They were really shocked the first time they saw me crush a lit cigarette beneath my bare foot to extinguish it. :lol

 

[BlackKnight247]

Not to be racist but a child's mum dies and they are coincidentally white and theyre father goes to prison, the child is always taken in by a black cop.like in kick ass or the flash. And i have nothing against this since I'm black myself but I just wonder why the story can't change and why it's always a cop and maybe not a doctor

 

[glunark]

Well if they get taken in by a doctor chances are they aren't going to grow up to fight crime.

 

[Philly]

SPARKS!

Everywhere there shouldn't be a spark, there is millions of them. I was watching Pacific Rim last night and everythime there was an impact the cabin filled with sparks. How badly were those things designed

 

[Contec]

So what's with the sunlight thing anyway? Moonlight is nothing but reflected sunlight. How do they handle that? Does the reflected light lose so much of its radiation that it is now harmless to a vampire? I find that unlikely, if one ray of sunlight will cause them to intantaineously burst into flames, the crap must be pretty darn strong. Simply reflecting it causes it to lose every single drop of its dangerousness?

......damn vampires.....I hate when they come over......

And talking about Moon Light, Wolfman and other werewolfs that transforms during the night because there is a fullmoon....and its only during the night...I have seen the fullmoon during the day as well and the never seem to tranform during that time...Oh and they always transform when the "see" the fullmoon even if the moon might have been visable a few hours before they saw it. What would happen if a astronaut was turned into a werewolf and going to space... He would see both the moon and the sun at the same time and it would be the fullmoon all the time.

 

[Contec]

SPARKS!

Everywhere there shouldn't be a spark, there is millions of them. I was watching Pacific Rim last night and everythime there was an impact the cabin filled with sparks. How badly were those things designed

It was designed by the same people who does the consoles in startrek ships......

 

[dascoyne]

Interesting. Regardless of whether it's a regional thing, a cultural thing, or whatever the reason, I think you'll find it's not as common as you might think it is.

As I mentioned above, I hate having to wear shoes and I walk barefooted as often as I can get away with it. This includes our nightly strolls when we take our dog out for his "evening constitutional", and a couple of neighbors have voiced their surprise that I prefer bare feet. They were really shocked the first time they saw me crush a lit cigarette beneath my bare foot to extinguish it. :lol

A lit cigarette? That's quite a .......... ........ "feat." :lol

Well, I wasn't trying to make the case that it was common - only that it wasn't unusual, in my experience, to come to a house where all the shoes remain at the front entrance.

 

[p51]

SPARKS!
Everywhere there shouldn't be a spark, there is millions of them. I was watching Pacific Rim last night and everythime there was an impact the cabin filled with sparks. How badly were those things designed

How about that trend for a while where bullets would spark. I've shot countless bullets in every environment imaginable, as a competition shooter, plinker and an Army Ordnance officer in my 45 years on this earth. I have never, not once, seen any sparks.

It was designed by the same people who does the consoles in startrek ships......

Good one! :thumbsup

 

[astroboy]

Why would they take off their shoes? I don't take off my shoes when I enter a home. Is that the culture of some other countries? Most of us in America don't do that unless our shoes are muddy. Unless its some crazy old lady with white carpet.

For some reason, it's a american thing to take your shoes off in a house. I live in Canada and unless your host tells you otherwise, you always take your shoes off in someone's house.

 

[JLeezy23]

Bulletproof, bombproof, industrial strength dumpsters that survive any kind of artillery and ammunition, including heat from explosions. Who makes these things?

 

[Contec]

For some reason, it's a american thing to take your shoes off in a house. I live in Canada and unless your host tells you otherwise, you always take your shoes off in someone's house.

Same thing here in sweden, Its rude to not take off the shoes. Guess it has something to do with the climate, in europe it can be crappy weather.

 

[Solo4114]

It's most likely climate/environment-related.

Muddy, snowy, or sandy conditions? Take your shoes off. Most of the time, people don't do it if the weather's nice, but here in Philly, when it gets crappy out, people will take their shoes off rather than track stuff through someone's home. My girlfriend's from Hawaii, and everyone takes their shoes off at home there. Partially because it's heavily influenced by East Asian culture, but also because you don't want to track sand in.

 

[Philly]

Same thing here in sweden, Its rude to not take off the shoes. Guess it has something to do with the climate, in europe it can be crappy weather.

England here and its pretty weird to take your shoes off at other peoples houses unless really good friends or family.

 

[BlackKnight247]

Well if they get taken in by a doctor chances are they aren't going to grow up to fight crime.

True, however doctor is an example, and hitgirl was gonna fight crime anyway because her dad wanted her to

 

[Argonaut]

Yep. Have taken off my shoes at home every day for my entire life. I don't mind getting dirty outside but I really do not want to bring that into the house. I can't understand why you would wear shoes indoors haha

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

 

[p51]

Would make for some interesting orbits for a werewolf in a command service module on a NASA Apollo mission, turning into a wolf every 2 hours...

 

[Zombie_61]

Would make for some interesting orbits for a werewolf in a command service module on a NASA Apollo mission, turning into a wolf every 2 hours...

"Houston, we have a problem..."

 

[Megamicrofish]

Camcorders in movies always have blinky red lights to tell you they are recording.
Also, every time a "super computer" or a bunch of servers in a server room are shown they have so many bright flashing lights - I work in IT and server rooms are pretty boring