Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[Lightning]

No, you’re right. I get that and have made the inward comment myself before when our hero turns up at a formal event, with stubble, thinking “you might have made the effort!”

In Temple of Doom, Indy is cleaning up before the dinner at Pancot Palace. The filmmakers can't have Indy clean shaven in later scenes, it's not his look, so we get the line (offscreen, no less) "Shorty, where's my razor". We do get to see Indy's travel Gilette set very briefly in the set dressing in Last Crusade.

 

[InvaderBeepis]

Apologies if this has already been posted in the insurmountable 264 pages of responses. But I've always had a love/hate relationship with the mind-boggling phenomenon where a laser-blaster fired at a door control panel while the sci-fi hero runs towards it always makes the door open. But the same shot fired while running away from the door inexplicably jams it closed, forcing it to be pried open.

 

[jkno]

When an airplane or a starship falls beneath clouds, in a chasm etc., out of the view, and then rises again victorious. Done to death already.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

When an airplane or a starship falls beneath clouds, in a chasm etc., out of the view, and then rises again victorious. Done to death already.

And done best in Buckaroo Banzai.

 

[somerset fox]

character A walks into a room and wants to talk to character B. Says to the entire ensembled cast “can you give us the room” (statement not a question). And the entire ensembled cast of non speaking extras, obediently stand up and walk out. Just once, I’d like one of them to say “oi, no. Go get a room. I’m not going anywhere”!

 

[joberg]

In Temple of Doom, Indy is cleaning up before the dinner at Pancot Palace. The filmmakers can't have Indy clean shaven in later scenes, it's not his look, so we get the line (offscreen, no less) "Shorty, where's my razor". We do get to see Indy's travel Gilette set very briefly in the set dressing in Last Crusade.

Lots of Directors are known to recycle bits and pieces from their other movies. Ridley Scott comes to mind immediately

 

[p51]

character A walks into a room and wants to talk to character B. Says to the entire ensembled cast “can you give us the room” (statement not a question). And the entire ensembled cast of non speaking extras, obediently stand up and walk out. Just once, I’d like one of them to say “oi, no. Go get a room. I’m not going anywhere”!

Yeah, I experienced that personally in the Army once (I was a 1st LT at the time). Someone the same rank (but a different unit in the Brigade) came into the room and demanded the room so he could chew out a NCO for something. I looked him up and down in that way NCOs look at LTs anyway and said, "There's six of us and two of you. Do the math."
He just stood there dumbfounded. The NCO slipped a little smile. As he walked away, I commented to one of my NCOs, "I think he's watched too many movies," and everyone in the room snickered. I'm sure they both heard that.
I had the feeling the butt-chewing didn't go as the LT wanted.

 

[Mottrex]

Apologies if this has already been posted in the insurmountable 264 pages of responses. But I've always had a love/hate relationship with the mind-boggling phenomenon where a laser-blaster fired at a door control panel while the sci-fi hero runs towards it always makes the door open. But the same shot fired while running away from the door inexplicably jams it closed, forcing it to be pried open.

The obvious answer is...
The Hero is an Ace shot and knows where to aim.. a la Han "He shot first"Solo.

 

[Riceball]

The obvious answer is...
The Hero is an Ace shot and knows where to aim.. a la Han "He shot first"Solo.

Or just about every character in the Walking Dead franchise. Those people could be running for their lives from a zombie, aim over their shoulder without looking & hit them (the walker) in the head, even with crappiest most inaccurate gun you can possibly find.

 

[Mottrex]

Or just about every character in the Walking Dead franchise. Those people could be running for their lives from a zombie, aim over their shoulder without looking & hit them (the walker) in the head, even with crappiest most inaccurate gun you can possibly find.

Don't get me started on that show... I do still watch it though just to see how Rick is going to explain why he left his daughter for seven years.
Well technically it was his best mates kid so that makes it easier maybe ?
"Oh by the way I killed your Zombie papa

and I liked it" ‍

 

[Schlegel]

The obvious answer is...
The Hero is an Ace shot and knows where to aim.. a la Han "He shot first"Solo.

No, plainly it's the doppler shift in the laser between running towards and running away that does it.

 

[Mottrex]

When a body that is emitting radiation has a non-zero radial velocity relative to an observer, the wavelength of the emission will be shortened or lengthened, depending upon whether the body is moving towards or away from an observer..

See a Hero would know that.. or their sidekick would naturally being the smarter cookie in the box whisper it to them..

 

[Cephus]

Or just about every character in the Walking Dead franchise. Those people could be running for their lives from a zombie, aim over their shoulder without looking & hit them (the walker) in the head, even with crappiest most inaccurate gun you can possibly find.

I gave up on the show at the start of season 4 when I realized that I didn't give a damn about any of the human characters and I figured if they all died, it would be fine with me. I liked the comics, at least at the beginning. The show... no thanks.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

As soon as they let Negan live, I was out. They were adamant about killing people who were way less of a threat, like the Governor, yet let someone who personally bashed their friends heads in, live. It's so completely against how any of those characters would act.

 

[p51]

The end of the WD season where when the good guys would go anywhere, Negan's guys were waiting for them and the baseball bat killing. That was just silly and I quit watching at that moment.
Frankly, I find zombie fiction to be silly anyway and never understood its appeal.

 

[Riceball]

The end of the WD season where when the good guys would go anywhere, Negan's guys were waiting for them and the baseball bat killing. That was just silly and I quit watching at that moment.
Frankly, I find zombie fiction to be silly anyway and never understood its appeal.

Z Nation is a great take on the whole zombie apocalypse genre because it doesn't try to take itself too seriously. It was a nice change from all of the super serious zombie apocalypse shows and movies that had come before. It's just a pity that after they canceled it, they made a prequel series that was really dark and serious, unlike the original.

 

[Mottrex]

Z Nation is a great take on the whole zombie apocalypse genre because it doesn't try to take itself too seriously. It was a nice change from all of the super serious zombie apocalypse shows and movies that had come before. It's just a pity that after they canceled it, they made a prequel series that was really dark and serious, unlike the original.

Loved ZNation.. some clever story lines a bunch of cool misfits and a Zombie Cure hidden in the veins of Murphy who had the ability to control Zombies oh and make a Zombie baby along the way..
The prequel started off well Black Summer was it ?

 

[Riceball]

Loved ZNation.. some clever story lines a bunch of cool misfits and a Zombie Cure hidden in the veins of Murphy who had the ability to control Zombies oh and make a Zombie baby along the way..
The prequel started off well Black Summer was it ?

Yeah, the prequel is Black Summer. Not a bad show, but not as good as the original Z Nation which didn't try to take itself too seriously, which is what I loved about the series. Given how other shows and movies in the genre are always so grim and dark, seeing a show in the same genre not be all grim-dark and actually take a comedic approach was very refreshing to me.

 

[p51]

People in western movies dealing with crazy amounts of money. Average folks in those movies often throw around figures such as fifty or a hundred dollars or more.
The writers apparently have no concept of how much fifty bucks was worth back then.

 

[harrisonp]

People in western movies dealing with crazy amounts of money. Average folks in those movies often throw around figures such as fifty or a hundred dollars or more.
The writers apparently have no concept of how much fifty bucks was worth back then.

I figure that has to be semi-deliberate so a modern audience can make sense of the stakes