Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[LrdSatyr8]

Here's a couple of good cliches for everyone that I spotted over the weekend...

- Bad guy gets stabbed by big pole or sword and pulls himself along the blade to get closer to the hero to look in his eyes one last time.
- Good guy running away from crash/explosion/disaster and ducks just in time not to get hit by a huge chunk of debris... car/pole/etc
- 1 stick of dynomite takes down an entire building/structure because the bad/good guy knows exactly where the weakpoints are just by looking at it once.
- During car chase sequence, the car always ends up driving down a flight of stairs with no damage to the car whatsoever.

 

[p51]

Oh here's a good one... bad/good guy is in a room with several other guys and the camera pans outside the door (which always happens to have a frosted window in it) and you hear yelling and then a spatter of blood on the door window, and the door opens and it's just the bad/good guy left!

Or how about the cops show up, 10 guys at the door, and nobody thinks to put at least one at the back door when they knock and announced themselves?

various shows:

Captain: How long will the thing take?
Crew: three weeks?
Captain: You've got two days!

That's not good leadership, that's being an unrealistic ******.

I get your point, but I had this happen countless times in my time as an Army officer. I heard that all the time, when it came to our unit vehicles or equipment. I remember a Brigade XO yelling at me because we didn't have the right number of working TOW missile launchers for our Humvees. I explained one was coming from depot level, across the country. I heard that, "Have it up by tomorrow," and I had to go to his office, with flow charts, showing that we'd be lucky to see it in 3 months. I even had a list of the phone #s I'd called before coming over. He still didn't get it, and of course we were a launcher short the next day.
If you've ever seen the series, "Generation Kill" where they go into combat lacking all kinds of stuff you'd expect them to have, you'll know what I mean. And that is pretty common in the military. Heck, I once went to gunnery exercise and blew a tire on our Humvee. We didn't have spares on any vehicles and my unit wouldn't send us one! I had to steal a tire off another Humvee to get around.
Heck, I'd gone in the field without:
-MREs
-Water
-Batteries for night vision
-Blank ammo for training exercises
-Vehicles (seriously, several of us crossed the country to be range officials at a huge wargame and were left stranded at the airport, never having been given authority to rent vehicles with our government credit cards. I had to call a Colonel and tell them we'd be waiting at the airport as long as it took them to send someone, and they thought we were bluffing or something, they didn't send anyone for a day)
Training aids of any kind (my favorite was doing NBC drills and using pens and sticks to stand in for atropine injectors!)
In the military, you're given completely unrealistic orders all the time. I'm certain that others in this forum who have served will back me up on that.

 

[dascoyne]

Action scenes in slomo where you can see CG bullets moving - especially if you can see everything else moving in the same reference frame.

Or how about the cops show up, 10 guys at the door, and nobody thinks to put at least one at the back door when they knock and announced themselves?
I get your point, but I had this happen countless times in my time as an Army officer. I heard that all the time, when it came to our unit vehicles or equipment. I remember a Brigade XO yelling at me because we didn't have the right number of working TOW missile launchers for our Humvees. I explained one was coming from depot level, across the country. I heard that, "Have it up by tomorrow," and I had to go to his office, with flow charts, showing that we'd be lucky to see it in 3 months. I even had a list of the phone #s I'd called before coming over. He still didn't get it, and of course we were a launcher short the next day.
If you've ever seen the series, "Generation Kill" where they go into combat lacking all kinds of stuff you'd expect them to have, you'll know what I mean. And that is pretty common in the military. Heck, I once went to gunnery exercise and blew a tire on our Humvee. We didn't have spares on any vehicles and my unit wouldn't send us one! I had to steal a tire off another Humvee to get around.
Heck, I'd gone in the field without:
-MREs
-Water
-Batteries for night vision
-Blank ammo for training exercises
-Vehicles (seriously, several of us crossed the country to be range officials at a huge wargame and were left stranded at the airport, never having been given authority to rent vehicles with our government credit cards. I had to call a Colonel and tell them we'd be waiting at the airport as long as it took them to send someone, and they thought we were bluffing or something, they didn't send anyone for a day)
Training aids of any kind (my favorite was doing NBC drills and using pens and sticks to stand in for atropine injectors!)
In the military, you're given completely unrealistic orders all the time. I'm certain that others in this forum who have served will back me up on that.

I'm not military but, as a civilian contractor under the DoD the Catch-22s I've encountered with the military were often unbelievably ludicrous.

 

[SofaKing01]

...During car chase sequence, the car always ends up driving down a flight of stairs with no damage to the car whatsoever...

Back to Steven Seagal... LOL

In the movie "Hard to Kill" he and Kelly LeBrock jump into a convertible Corvette. They are chased by the cops when he gets SLAMMED in the back of the car and you can see the rear bumper cover hanging off the car. 1) Both are totaly unfazed by the hit and 2) in the next scene... the car is perfect and has just been recently detailed.

 

[binkleywalker]

Everybody always knows their friends addresses. Interviewing the perp- 'Write down where your boy lives!'

And they always know the address! I know my address and my parent's address- and that's it. These stupid criminals must have Mensa memories or something.

 

[Treadwell]

Old war movies where the hero is captured by friendlies, and to determine he's genuine, they ask him baseball questions.

I would've been shot as a spy.

 

[batguy]

- During car chase sequence, the car always ends up driving down a flight of stairs with no damage to the car whatsoever.

(assuming the car's body panels are not getting visibly being bent/torn by the steps)

It's not crazy to show cars driving away from this.


The damage would be there for sure. But not necessarily enough to take the car out of commission or be obvious to the audience. Car chassis designers take this stuff into account. It's one thing to wear out parts, it's quite another to have the car become uncontrollable in the middle of the road. You can still keep driving a car with steering that doesn't point straight or loose shocks that make bumps uncomfortable.

As long as the car went down the steps pointed at least sort of nose-down (the direction the designers assumed the car would take the most hard hits from road surfaces) it could come out of it rolling. The car would be more fragile laterally, like sliding sideways and whacking a wheel rim into a curb. Diagonally down/sideways might be the best way to tackle a flight of steps.

 

[Megamicrofish]

Mini's handle stairs pretty well

 

[somerset fox]

How about the shootout were the pursued hero (somehow, even in Hollywood) runs out of bullets. They momantarily stare at the gun, then throw it away, as if in disgust, or even at the pursuing attackers! They'd kick themselves if around the corner they found a full clip, but no gun with which to fire the rounds!

 

[LrdSatyr8]

How about the shootout were the pursued hero (somehow, even in Hollywood) runs out of bullets. They momantarily stare at the gun, then throw it away, as if in disgust, or even at the pursuing attackers! They'd kick themselves if around the corner they found a full clip, but no gun with which to fire the rounds!

Even better... this is been used an awful lot in movies lately... killer has conveniently placed his clips sticking out the back of this pants or belt etc and when he's finished emptying a clip, without looking drops the empty clip and thrusts the gun butts down on the clips in his belt to keep on firing without missing a beat! Now I'm sure it's possible, but am so tired of seeing that cliche used over and over again!

 

[Riceball]

FYI, most modern guns don't use clips, they use magazines which hold cartridges (also commonly referred to as rounds) and not bullets. Clips are what's used to load magazines, whether fixed or removable, external or internal.

 

[gunnerk19]

Heck, I'd gone in the field without:
-MREs
-Water
-Batteries for night vision
-Blank ammo for training exercises
-Vehicles (seriously, several of us crossed the country to be range officials at a huge wargame and were left stranded at the airport, never having been given authority to rent vehicles with our government credit cards. I had to call a Colonel and tell them we'd be waiting at the airport as long as it took them to send someone, and they thought we were bluffing or something, they didn't send anyone for a day)
Training aids of any kind (my favorite was doing NBC drills and using pens and sticks to stand in for atropine injectors!)
In the military, you're given completely unrealistic orders all the time. I'm certain that others in this forum who have served will back me up on that.

Don't forget the box of grid squares, ID 10 T forms, and blinker fluid.

 

[p51]

Don't forget the box of grid squares, ID 10 T forms, and blinker fluid.

I'm still ticked that my armorer couldn't get us any M203 blank adapters...
Seriously, though, there is a solvent used to clean off helicopter rotors when they're new. One of my NCOs was a real jerk and played that, "Get me a bucket of prop wash" bit on a SPC of mine who was pretty decent. I got the NCO back by telling this kid where he really could get it. Sure enough, he comes back with a real, honest-to-God, bucket of prop wash.
I was told later that the NCO just stood there in befuddlement for a few minutes, wondering what to do next. It got funnier when I told his warrant officer to send him to see me because I had an aviation supply person asking why we needed something for helicopters when we were a heavy mech unit. You should have seen his face when he showed up as he was the one looking like a fool. I should have been in contention for the Oscar that year in the role of a ticked off 1LT...

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Just don't forget to check on the alternator fluid before heading out!

 

[Riceball]

I'm still ticked that my armorer couldn't get us any M203 blank adapters...
Seriously, though, there is a solvent used to clean off helicopter rotors when they're new. One of my NCOs was a real jerk and played that, "Get me a bucket of prop wash" bit on a SPC of mine who was pretty decent. I got the NCO back by telling this kid where he really could get it. Sure enough, he comes back with a real, honest-to-God, bucket of prop wash.
I was told later that the NCO just stood there in befuddlement for a few minutes, wondering what to do next. It got funnier when I told his warrant officer to send him to see me because I had an aviation supply person asking why we needed something for helicopters when we were a heavy mech unit. You should have seen his face when he showed up as he was the one looking like a fool. I should have been in contention for the Oscar that year in the role of a ticked off 1LT...

What about jet wash, you ever run across any of that?

While we're on the subject of stupid military pranks and jokes, there's one that I'm told gets done to newbies onboard ship and it's called mail buoy watch. The idea behind it is simple, you tell some poor newbie to go out on some spot on the ship to go on mail buoy watch, their job is to watch for a buoy to which all of the ship's mail is attached to, miss the buoy nobody gets their mail and you're going to have a ship full of angry sailors and/or Marines. The joke is that there is no such thing as a mail buoy, all mail is delivered by other means but not sitting in the middle of the ocean attached to a buoy.

 

[SofaKing01]

Another thing I'm very tired of seeing in movies is two people supposedly meeting for the first time and they trade insults and sometimes get physical and it turns out they are long time friends...

 

[Riceball]

Another thing I'm very tired of seeing in movies is two people supposedly meeting for the first time and they trade insults and sometimes get physical and it turns out they are long time friends...

I mentioned that previously, and it's gotten so old to the point that the minute you see that scene happening you know that they really actually know each and are friends.

 

[Jeyl]

This one is pretty much nails my thoughts on what I'm sick of seeing.

Hollywood Reboots Keep Using This Lazy Trope and It Makes Their Characters Look Like Idiots

"In every single case, these are supposed to be the best of the best, the tops in their field. But they are incapable of exercising the bare modicum of professionalism when paired with this person. The point of this trope seems to be to inject personal conflict into the “opposites attract” idea."

 

[dascoyne]

How about the brave character who is being interrogated/threatened and says, "... then you'll have to kill me."

 

[Krull]

I'm honestly getting sick of cool trendy Vampires or a zombie outbreak,they literally are starting to look/play out the all the same to me :wacko

And grenades blowing up cars/houses/ships,they DON'T do that.