Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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See my prior post on this topic that explains it all:As a physician, it amazes me how:
1) TV/movie characters can constantly be tossed around, flipped, fall from over 10 feet and get back up to continue the fight. At the least, you would have a concussion. At the most, you would be unconscious with a potential cerebral bleed. A fall from a 6 foot ladder can do significant harm to neck and head, crack ribs, puncture a lung, let alone a drop from a second story window.
2) Your back is NOT made of rubber. Heroes got tossed across the room/forest/haunted tomb/parking lot etc. and whack up against a wall/post/support beam/car with their back, and slide down. Somehow, their spine protects them from serious harm (cough...cough... Black Widow... cough... Rey).
3) Our hero gets stabbed through the abdomen with a sharp object (ala Tony Stark) and somehow lives without medical care. Even if a major blood vessel isn't hit by the implement, intra-abdominal stab wounds put holes in you intestines, which leak your "poop" and digestive juices into your abdominal cavity. While not immediately fatal, this can quickly lead to peritonitis, bacteremia, sepsis (aka blood poisoning) and death without immediate surgery.
Hollywood radiography has revealed that movie-land protagonists have no vital organs to speak of. Their bodies are composed of a simple skeletal framework covered over with a soft gelatinous mass and skin.
"What... ?"
Laspector
Master Member
A plane or car goes by fast and the camera shakes. That's fine for a documentary, or found footage, or even 'in movie' camera footage. But not in a movie where there is not actually supposed to be a camera there. Same goes for blood or explosive debris hitting the camera lens. Totally takes me out of the movie.
Axlotl
Master Member
Saving Private Ryan did all those things, and it's a great movie.
Egon Spengler
Master Member
Probably going to be an unpopular one, but sex scenes. Show them necking, show them kissing, show them getting ready to get down, then move on with the plot.
Laspector
Master Member
And that movie was specifically shot to be like documentary footage. I have no problem with that. But now it is just used as a cheap gimmick. "Something big is going by, let's shake the camera!"
CT1138
Sr Member
I think that's meant to be used as a camera effect to fudge the "weight." It's meant to make the audience understand that the size of the object in camera (even if not on-set) is so great, that it causes the camera to wobble.
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Cephus
Master Member
Unless there's an actual story-based reason for it, it doesn't belong on screen. That's just gratuitous but a lot of Hollywood is that these days.
p51
Sr Member
Here's one as old as movies themselves:
Someone on horse back walks up to a tree or hitching post and lays the reins across it, or odder still, will walk up to a tree and push them into it (clearly with a hook visible to the actor alone). I can count the number of times I've seen horses properly done like that in films on probably one hand.
Someone on horse back walks up to a tree or hitching post and lays the reins across it, or odder still, will walk up to a tree and push them into it (clearly with a hook visible to the actor alone). I can count the number of times I've seen horses properly done like that in films on probably one hand.
I might have mentioned this, but tv shows where they do the episode full of flashbacks to other episodes. It's boring, to me, and it's obviously so they could fill the show with old footage. I don't know if it's a budget move, like they had used too much money for a previous episode so they do one of these or what. It just really bugs me. I was rewatching Stargate SG1 and the episode "Disclosure" did that.
Riceball
Master Member
It's a budget move. Reusing old footage saves them money since most of the work ends up being done in the editing bay with a lot less time on a soundstage. The actors are already being paid so that's a done deal, but it saves money on guest stars and extras since you will either not need them or need them for a lot less time. Same goes with all of the behind the camera people like lighting people, gaffers, set dressers, and so on.
Galactican
Sr Member
"Buck Rogers: A Blast for Buck" and "Star Trek - TNG: Shades of Grey" are two other examples. I always skip the flashbacks but watch the montages. The flashbacks in "The A-Team: Curtain Call" were not as boring as usual.
mattycsi
Master Member
Or, if they're gonna do it, do it properly, the whole nine yards. Sweat, grunting and a gratuitous money shot.
But not get any hitting the camera lens.
jkno
Legendary Member
Unless they show how they cleanup the camera with some Windex and only then move on
mattycsi
Master Member
There's a Clerks reference in there for sire!Unless they show how they cleanup the camera with some Windex and only then move on
p51
Sr Member
Good one I'd never thought of before. And there's always room for the extra person as well (I know several motorcycles that don't have room for another rider)
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