Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Riceball]

Watching Castle last night it reminded of two things you always see in Hollwood.

People tucking guns inside their waist band, either in an appendix carry or in the small of their back. Does no one in Hollywood believe in holsters? What's worse was that in Castle it was Beckett tucking a gun in her waistband, you'd think that a police captain, of all people, would know better and actually holster her weapon considering that it was almost certainly her weapon and not just something she picked up since she was in her office at the time.

The other thing that's annoying to see, or more like hear, is the super quiet pew, pew of a suppressor. Once again, in the last episode of Castle I was reminded of how little Hollywood understands guns. A suppressor is not that quiet, with a few exceptions, it doesn't make a gun whisper quiet, certainly not so quiet that a shot fired in a part of house (or in this case a loft) won't be heard in another room, with the door open. Although I've never actually heard a suppressed weapon fired in person before but I know enough to know that they're not that quiet and at best your neighbors might not hear the shots (if you're in a single family home or a loft like Castle lives in) but it's definitely going to be heard inside the whole loft/house.

 

[somerset fox]

One that always grinds my gears; when a teacher starts to talk about a new subject in a classroom, then the bell for end of class goes. How likely is it that the teacher doesn't know the time and how long they have before end of class. Just strikes me as lazy story telling.

 

[dascoyne]

Bad guys who meet in abandoned warehouses or in the desert to conduct business - especially if a good guy is about to crash the party.

 

[SofaKing01]

One that always grinds my gears; when a teacher starts to talk about a new subject in a classroom, then the bell for end of class goes. How likely is it that the teacher doesn't know the time and how long they have before end of class. Just strikes me as lazy story telling.

Ah yes... And the teacher ALWAYS reminds the students, as they are leaving the classroom, to read Chapters 9 thru 11 because of a quiz that Friday and the quiz is 25% of their quarterly grade!

 

[clancampbell]

Vehicle tracking devices that have a bright LED and make loud beeping sounds.

And bombs that do the same.....

Rich

 

[dascoyne]

CGI characters in a live action film that look great but gesture "too much." e.g. Colossus in Deadpool looks great but because he waves his arms around - especially during his "hero" speech at the end - it's hard to forget he's animated.

 

[Treadwell]

One that always grinds my gears; when a teacher starts to talk about a new subject in a classroom, then the bell for end of class goes. How likely is it that the teacher doesn't know the time and how long they have before end of class. Just strikes me as lazy story telling.

And all the kids jump up at the bell even though the professor is talking. My teachers never put up with that, you didn't move until you were dismissed.

And, come to think of it, bells in a college setting? There were never bells in my life post high school.

 

[SofaKing01]

And all the kids jump up at the bell even though the professor is talking. My teachers never put up with that, you didn't move until you were dismissed.

And, come to think of it, bells in a college setting? There were never bells in my life post high school.

And there's always the usual collection of teachers in the teacher lounge... the drunk, the geek, the romantic, the hot one, the nerd, and on and on and on and on...

 

[TheseusPro]

There's 134 pages on this thread so I haven't read em all but here's mine
Bad CGI blood splatters
I don't understand why they need CGI blood for things like normal gunshots
Can't you just use the exploding packs like they used to?


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[dascoyne]

There's 134 pages on this thread so I haven't read em all but here's mine
Bad CGI blood splatters
I don't understand why they need CGI blood for things like normal gunshots
Can't you just use the exploding packs like they used to?

Squibs need to be rigged and need skill to activate. If you need another take it means time spent changing costumes and setting up the charge and the entire shot all over again.

CG blood can be done on a $0.99 iPhone app.

but the squib does look better.

 

[Riceball]

And bombs that do the same.....

Rich

Or bombs that always have a convenient timer display on it, even bombs that logically wouldn't have one; best example of this, the warhead on Agents of SHIELD, it's a freakin' warhead that goes inside a missile, why would you need a countdown timer on it?

 

[NormanF]

Or bombs that always have a convenient timer display on it, even bombs that logically wouldn't have one; best example of this, the warhead on Agents of SHIELD, it's a freakin' warhead that goes inside a missile, why would you need a countdown timer on it?

It would have been so simple to have a box connected to it by a few wires with the timer display to show it was a hack.

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[Riceball]

It would have been so simple to have a box connected to it by a few wires with the timer display to show it was a hack.

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That or, I don't know, how about simply not having one at all? It's not like anyone was supposed to be aboard the Zephyr to watch the warhead go off anyway, so why do you need a visible timer on it? For that matter, why does any bomb need a visible timer on it, aside from setting timing but once it's set you'd think they'd turn off or disable the display so that nobody but the person who set the bomb knows when it will go off and how much time is left on the clock.

 

[NormanF]

That or, I don't know, how about simply not having one at all? It's not like anyone was supposed to be aboard the Zephyr to watch the warhead go off anyway, so why do you need a visible timer on it? For that matter, why does any bomb need a visible timer on it, aside from setting timing but once it's set you'd think they'd turn off or disable the display so that nobody but the person who set the bomb knows when it will go off and how much time is left on the clock.

But then you cannot see that the bomb was defused with two seconds left.

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[SofaKing01]

But then you cannot see that the bomb was defused with two seconds left.

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ALWAYS 2 secs left... Come on Hollywood! For once I would like to see a bomb diffused with like 18 min to spare!

 

[Wes R]

A bomb with no timer is far more terrifying than one where you watch the seconds count down because you could have a minute left and hours and never know.

 

[jarvis]

What about when someone is trying to diffuse the bomb and, whoops! suddenly the timer jumps from a few minutes to a few seconds. Drama!

 

[robn1]

It's about creating tension, Hitch describes it here:

And it isn't always 2 seconds, in Goldfinger it was 7

 

[NormanF]

This is more TV than movies, but the super powerful child. The first time this angered me was the original "V" where the kid was able to keep the ship from crashing just by touching a console and using some sort of power. I think it has been long enough to not need to be spoilered. The current example is Grimm. They have this little girl that so far appears more powerful than any of the other characters and is controlling them.

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[astroboy]

Orphans.

I'm tired of protagonist orphans

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