Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[ambulanceartist]

I'm tired of every CG monster/dragon/demon/beast etc. having a cliche roar shot in every freaking trailer. That one where they roar so violently their head vibrates and they spit saliva. It's even worse when they do it directly at the camera.

 

[Cephus]

There was a true story in the news a couple years ago about some guy who jumped from a 43-story window and landed on a car & lived.

Think about that height again: 43 stories. He lived.


IMO it's unrealistic that people get up and walk away without serious injuries.
But a car-cushioned landing could definitely save a person's life from a few stories up.

I'm sure that guy was really, really messed up though. It really doesn't matter how high someone falls from, once they reach terminal velocity, they won't go any faster. You could jump from low earth orbit and go no faster than that guy was probably going. While the car might save their life, I bet they wish it didn't.

 

[jarroth]

cars that explode by a single .22 hit.
nadgrenade that blows up a whole apartment building.
motorbikes with 2698 gears. same goes for cars.
6978 shot revolvers.
rain at a funeral.
3 gallons of blood from each corpse.
gunshot through chest, stand up and just go on shooting your 6972 remaining shots out of your revolver.
zombies!

 

[JLeezy23]

cars that explode by a single .22 hit.
nadgrenade that blows up a whole apartment building.
motorbikes with 2698 gears. same goes for cars.
6978 shot revolvers.
rain at a funeral.
3 gallons of blood from each corpse.
gunshot through chest, stand up and just go on shooting your 6972 remaining shots out of your revolver.
zombies!

I agree with the explosions, one stick of dynamite in the back room, and suddenly all the front windows blow out flames like they were rigged too!

 

[Laspector]

By the way, how much blood is actually in an adult body?

 

[p51]

I talked with a firefighter who'd handled a lot of tall building fires and had seen several people fall great heights over a long career. He told me that he hardly ever heard anyone scream on the way down. I guess because people can't believe it's happening? That was his theory, anyway.

People who fall/jump/get pushed off a building or balcony and always landing on the roof of a car parked below. Stop it.

it happens:


1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the Empire State building and hit a UN limo. Looks much less messy than movie versions.

 

[teragon]

By the way, how much blood is actually in an adult body?

About 5 litres for an average adult male, so 1,3 gallon if my converter is right.

 

[NormanF]

That reassures me. And yup, they are often bad. I kinda liked the Birdcage. I like Robin Williams, so maybe that's why...

The one they really butchered is Le dîner de cons (remake is Dinner for Schmucks). And more recently, LOL... I always wondered why they wouldn't dub the French movies, or just add subtitles and show them in American Cinemas? The movies being good at the first place.... I mean, they wouldn't need extra dollars in remaking them...

I have never understood that either. Even worse is that they do it to British TV shows. There is no reason to do this! But I have seen it work the other direction too. The first few seasons/series of "Law & Order: UK" was just remaking episodes from the original US version.

Back to movies. I am starting to get tired of the hero of the movie getting into a fight with numerous bad guys and yet he usually wins with maybe minor injuries. "Taken" movies, "Equalizer", "John Wick", etc.

 

[dascoyne]

I talked with a firefighter who'd handled a lot of tall building fires and had seen several people fall great heights over a long career. He told me that he hardly ever heard anyone scream on the way down. I guess because people can't believe it's happening? That was his theory, anyway.

I always imagine that, in a long fall, my first reaction would be fearful paralysis or disbelief before screaming terror.

it happens:
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1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped from the Empire State building and hit a UN limo. Looks much less messy than movie versions.

I was impressed that Lethal Weapon got it right. I was certain they used that event as a reference.

 

[Axlotl]

I can't stand movies that are supposed to be 'funny' only because a character is going through as much misery as the scrip writer can come up with. After a while, I just feel sorry for the character and it stops being funny really fast once you realize that a character is just there to be dumped on...

 

[LrdSatyr8]

I'm getting really tired of the travel jumping that's been going on TV lately. For example... NCIS there's a case in Dallas, and they are in LA but they cut to the next scene and viola they are in Dallas without a single mis-step in dialog as if they didn't have any problems whatsoever going thru baggage claim or getting a rental car, or even finding a hotel that wasn't completely booked. I mean comon! Oh... and what about all the times when the good guy is down for the count and getting beaten by the bad guy, and his friend appears out of no where and tosses him a weapon which he ALWAYS catches and uses it to beat the bad guy... especially swords... they get tossed to him blade first but he always catches it by the hilt! I mean comon people!

 

[p51]

I'm getting really tired of the travel jumping that's been going on TV lately. For example... NCIS there's a case in Dallas, and they are in LA but they cut to the next scene and viola they are in Dallas without a single mis-step in dialog as if they didn't have any problems whatsoever going thru baggage claim or getting a rental car, or even finding a hotel that wasn't completely booked. I mean comon! Oh...

Don't get me started on NCIS and all the stuff I hate about it..
But even the James Bond movies showed him in airports often.
But how about movies that ignore someone is in one place then instantly somewhere else?
As much as I loved the movie, "Space Cowboys" I wanna scream every time you see the people watching the STS-200 crew head out to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, then moments later, they all walk into Mission Control... in Houston! They're several hundred miles apart, people! Not even a TARDIS would get you there that fast.

 

[Ham Salad]

nadgrenade that blows up a whole apartment building.
!

Hey, those 'nadgrenades can be pretty destructive. You gotta have balls to use one.

 

[Riceball]

Comedy movies featuring actors who have a certain kind of shtick, after the first few times it starts to get old and no longer funny. That's why actors like jim Carrey and Will Ferrell are hugely popular initially but then after while rapidly lose their box office draw, because they have a shtick that they always use in every movie that loses its humor after a while. In spite of that Hollywood thinks that they're still funny and continue to put them in movies where they're doing the same thing long after they're no longer funny.

Another thing that Hollywood, or more to say actors and/or directors need to get over is the stereotypical old person's voice. Every time you have a youngish actor play a much older version of their character, or any old person in general, they use a softer, raspier voice to show that they're supposed to be old. I don't need an "old peron's'" voice to tell me that they're old, the make up does that for me just fine and no old person that I know of sounds like your typical Hollywood old person as played by a younger actor.

 

[p51]

Another thing that Hollywood, or more to say actors and/or directors need to get over is the stereotypical old person's voice. Every time you have a youngish actor play a much older version of their character, or any old person in general, they use a softer, raspier voice to show that they're supposed to be old. I don't need an "old peron's'" voice to tell me that they're old, the make up does that for me just fine and no old person that I know of sounds like your typical Hollywood old person as played by a younger actor.

Yeah, or the makeup for that matter. When people get old, they don't just get grey hair and some bags around their eyes and neck!
I have always given massive kudos for the producers of, "A league of their own" where they got older ladies to play the elderly versions of the main characters, and even then you knew who was who pretty easily the way it was written.

 

[NormanF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JwJtq40-Wk

That is why I did not like "Dinner for Schmucks". I was too busy felling sorry for Steve Carell's character. But that could be a personal or cultural thing. A friend of mine from Germany loved it.

 

[Laspector]

Yeah, or the makeup for that matter. When people get old, they don't just get grey hair and some bags around their eyes and neck!
I have always given massive kudos for the producers of, "A league of their own" where they got older ladies to play the elderly versions of the main characters, and even then you knew who was who pretty easily the way it was written.

That's always the problem with old-age make up. No matter how good it is done it is still adding stuff on top of one's existing face and always makes the head look too big. Unless their head is basically nothing but a skull to start with it is always going to be noticeable. I've seen a lot of old-age make up and honestly I've never see one that really convinced me it was real. Once CGI was introduced and they were actually able to take away from the face things have been improving, at least on the believability factor.

 

[glunark]

They very rarely make anyone fat when they get older, I think the only time I have ever seen that was in the final episode of SG1.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Comedy movies featuring actors who have a certain kind of shtick, after the first few times it starts to get old and no longer funny. That's why actors like jim Carrey and Will Ferrell are hugely popular initially but then after while rapidly lose their box office draw, because they have a shtick that they always use in every movie that loses its humor after a while. In spite of that Hollywood thinks that they're still funny and continue to put them in movies where they're doing the same thing long after they're no longer funny.

I dunno... Gotta hand it to Jim Carrey... it took me a little while to actually realize that he was in Kick-***** 2... he's been trying to brake out of his shtick roles and he's not doing to bad!

 

[Riceball]

I dunno... Gotta hand it to Jim Carrey... it took me a little while to actually realize that he was in Kick-***** 2... he's been trying to beak out of his shtick roles and he's not doing too bad!

That I don't mind, shtick actors/comedians breaking out of their shtick roles; one of my favorite movies of all time is Coming to America, an Eddie Murphy movie where he's not being his usual wise cracking self. Jim Carrey definitely did a good job in KA 2 as did Nicholas Cage in the first one, both, I feel, normally have a shtick and both managed to not fall back on using their shtick in their roles which really helped me believe them as their characters and not just Kim Carrey or Nick Cage being their normal movie selves again.