Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[dascoyne]

Fixed.

But if its in SUPER SLOW motion its ok, right?

I bothers me when it happens after a battle when both fighters would be appropriately gassed. A showy flourish kick like this (done in perfect form) like this just pulls me out of the reality. The closing battle of Daredevil episode 2 is a notable exception - while there were a couple of fancy moves his form showed he was clearly spent and falling over himself.

 

[Axlotl]

Against giant monsters they always do the same thing too, see Godzilla, lets hit with our Sidewinders and AMRAAMs from only a few hundred yards away so we can get swatted out of they sky him or blasted by his atomic breath all the while doing nothing more than annoying him. Why not launch these missiles from miles away, which they're perfectly capable of and something the size of Godzilla or a Pacific Rim kaiju is going to give both a nice heat signature as well as radar signature for the missiles to lock on to. You'll probably still only end up barely stinging the monster but at least you're not losing planes and pilots in the process. Once you learn that's not working you start gliding JDAMs from as far and as high as you can manage, I'd bet that most kaijus (Godzilla included) would feel the effects of multiple 500 - 1,000 lbs bombs hitting it.

But that's what makes Pacific Rim so great!
Instead of doing the sensible, they opt for the absurd.
Del Toro should make a prequel just so we get to see the war-room round-table discussion where somebody says:
"We need to build giant robots to punch them in the mouth!" and all the combat vet generals say "By god, man, that's BRILLIANT!"

 

[glunark]

People that have utterly no fear of heights, or have them, but then get over them in about twenty seconds, even when stood on the roof of a skyscraper.

 

[dascoyne]

Small thrown dagger hits someone in the back ... and kills him instantly.

 

[p51]

People that have utterly no fear of heights, or have them, but then get over them in about twenty seconds, even when stood on the roof of a skyscraper.

How about the idea they can easily get on the roof of that skyscraper anyway?
Has anyone here ever tried to get onto the roof of a very tall building? You can't just walk up the stairs through an open door!

 

[gunnerk19]

Small thrown dagger hits someone in the back ... and kills him instantly.

Same with shuriken, and hatchets, and boolits...

 

[p51]

How about, a missile that looks like a real one. I can't think of any movie that gets that right.
And a nuke that doesn't look like a chrome-plated mess of random stuff that looks like the circuit board on a ATV. And strategic nukes that have KEYBOARDS on them? The hell is that all about???

 

[Riceball]

Nukes are understandable because outside of Fatman and Little Boy few people know what a real nuke looks like. But the missiles, you have a good point there, no reason to get that wrong since there are so many pictures of missiles out there.

 

[bwayne64]

People running right in the middle of the road, chased by a car. Forgetting that a car should over take them in seconds, nobody would stay right in the middle of the street. Not with parked cars and alleys on both sides.

In a similar vein people just doing stuff that nobody would do in real life. Walking right up to someone holding a knife or gun. It's actually stupid on both sides, the person billy bad enough to ignore the weapon, and the person who doesn't bus' a cap, the minute they walk up.

Also people who forget how to stay on there feet when running from a psycho. They always fall down and can't get back up. I think if your adrenalin was pumping you would be even more athletic. I understand suspence and drama but come on. There are a million such stupid things portrayed in movies. Especially recent ones.

Directors used to put a little thought into realism. I guess with the advent of shaky cam, and the teal, orange color scheme, we also get this nonsense. I can believe a man can fly, but can we put a little more thought into everyday things. If not before too long all we'll have is Sharknado infinity, LOL.

 

[NormanF]

"Inspired by _____". It's right up there with "based on book ______". What you really mean is the movie was written by somebody who heard the story twenty years ago and is writing from memory with a maybe a little bit of research to get the names right.

 

[dascoyne]

"Inspired by _____". It's right up there with "based on book ______". What you really mean is the movie was written by somebody who heard the story twenty years ago and is writing from memory with a maybe a little bit of research to get the names right.

"Inspired by True Events" is one I used to hear a lot.

 

[jarroth]

"Inspired by _____". It's right up there with "based on book ______". What you really mean is the movie was written by somebody who heard the story twenty years ago and is writing from memory with a maybe a little bit of research to get the names right.

long time ago a vulcano erupted and burried a town called Pompei under ashes. inspired me to write a story about a goldfish that vomited and poisend the whole fishtank.

or at least simular to that seems to be what some studios mean with inspired by

 

[LrdSatyr8]

I hate when they take real true stories and Hollywoodize them! If they would have just kept to the original story it would have been so much better,... but no... they have to throw in a love triangle or change the ending. Truly sucks!

 

[Zombie_61]

"Inspired by _____". It's right up there with "based on book ______". What you really mean is the movie was written by somebody who heard the story twenty years ago and is writing from memory with a maybe a little bit of research to get the names right.

It's even funnier when the "Based on a true story" disclaimer is a lie. The Coen Brothers slapped that onto the beginning of their movie Fargo because they wanted the audiences to buy into the story, but the movie is a complete work of fiction. Yes, there were crimes committed in Minnesota that were similar to the events in the movie--a murder-for-hire in 1962, and a kidnapping in 1972--but the Coens didn't know that when they wrote the story.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

They did the same thing with The Blair Witch

 

[dascoyne]

Here is a great use of that principle -

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

 

[p51]

It kills me that "Saving Private Ryan" is still being called based on a true story when it really wasn't. Robert Rodat got the idea while visiting the D-Day memorial at Bedford, VA. Only a long time later was it found there was a story sort of similar to the underlying concept of that movie.

 

[Zombie_61]

It kills me that "Saving Private Ryan" is still being called based on a true story when it really wasn't. Robert Rodat got the idea while visiting the D-Day memorial at Bedford, VA. Only a long time later was it found there was a story sort of similar to the underlying concept of that movie.

But it was based on a true story--World War II. All that other stuff was just artistic license.

 

[Riceball]

Same with shuriken, and hatchets, and boolits...

What we don't see enough of are sword pommels. There's quite like a good sword pommel thrown at an opponent to end them rightly.

 

[p51]

How about when someone is being chased by someone who has the same capabilities, such as cops being chased by bad guys with the same types of guns? One of the things that they teach special operations units is to break off engagements like that, often by turning and chasing the people chasing you. I know it's worked in several cases, the SAS broke up an ambush while Scud hunting during Desert Storm, they got jumped by dismounted infantry supported by vehicles, and the SAS troopers, instead of running turned and ran right at the Iraqis. And beat the heck out of them.

People running right in the middle of the road, chased by a car. Forgetting that a car should over take them in seconds, nobody would stay right in the middle of the street. Not with parked cars and alleys on both sides.

Yeah, that always cracked me up. In an alley, I can see it, but have you ever seen the ridiculous movie, "The Car"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Car That movie would have lasted 20 minutes if people had acted like they would in real life...