• Things You Hate In Movies
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When movies have oversimplified computer programs. Like for example, a guy needs to hack into something, so he plugs in a flash drive and not only does the program magically run itself with no clicking required, but there just so happens to be a big fat button (and no others) that reads "Hack". And that one virtual button press just knows exactly [I]what[/I] to hack and does the job in seconds. Same goes for websites in movies, which in real life, are dead giveaways to clickbait malware nests. Like this... [img]http://i.imgur.com/Rhsx0rc.png[/img] Because downloading them "feature films" is that easy guys. Another thing that steams all my clams is when movies have ultra-cringeworthy, contrived and forced fake languages. Extra bonus points when the """language""" has weird inconsistencies. I don't know how saying "Goonaka heraka haka laka herk herk glerk" would translate into "No thanks." while "Jerspy dorno!" stretches out into "It's something I'd never do in public or even in the daytime, but I still do it." Your turn.
Forced love interest
The crappy and generic orchestral music that's in every movie these days
Introducing a character just to kill them off to [I]explain[/I] a point (or something similar, like killing a character early on to give the main character motivation for their actions, etc.). Most of the time this also includes a lot of lazy exposition. The only time I'm okay with this is if it has some sort of comedy aspect. Less explanation, more revelation.
Ambiguous endings. I WANT SOME CLOSURE, DAMMIT.
When a camera is 3 inches from the action and is shaking like the camera man is Michael J Fox after downing 7 red bulls.
Clichès and predictability
Weirdly specific here, but I hate when movies or tv shows explain Rorschach tests. Like the audience has never seen one of the other thousands of movies where they explain a Rorschach test. And why haven't the characters themselves ever seen a movie where a Rorschach test has been explained? Who doesn't know what one is? The scenes always play out exactly the same too, the patient will say what they see and they'll ALWAYS ask "Is that right?" and the doctor will say "Oh my dear, there's no right or wrong answer!" We don't need to see the same scene a thousand times.
[QUOTE=megafat;48848082]When a camera is 3 inches from the action and is shaking like the camera man is Michael J Fox after downing 7 red bulls.[/QUOTE] Also when the camera is handheld during dialogue scenes, like in the early seasons of Breaking Bad Just hold the fucking camera still, put it on a tripod or something
Whenever they show off a person playing a game and it either looks like it's made in Second life, it has some retarded shit like 8 bit sounds overlayed onto it, or the person playing it is portrayed as a loser playing it in his basement or something.
when romantic relationships are shoehorned into action movies to draw in a female crowd.
Shaky camera and poor effects. Yeah I know that good cameras and effects are expensive but come on.
Any movie that has an action scene suddenly cut to something either romantic or calming Like what kind of fucking change of mood is that
Blatant exposition. Like when a character comes out saying they don't understand and another character explains, yet somehow the conversation comes off as contrived or unnatural. Often it's over something that really isn't totally unknown (at leas to me) but crucial to the plot. Political commentary. This may be a bit difficult for me to explain; essentially, when a movie puts in or rams down your throat some personal ideals or views. Typically, this bugs me when it's a movie where such a thing isn't necessarily relevant to the plot. Horror movies blatantly construing facts for the sake of "scares" and still claim it to be a true story. Like [i]Annabelle[/i] where the doll is changed from a Raggedy Anne doll to a Porcelain doll (I understand the change, but still idiotic that it claims to be based on true events) and- though not claiming to be a true story- but [i]As Above, So Below[/i] where they claim the phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is a quote from Christian mythology regarding Hell rather than from Dante Alighieri's Inferno [a poem and political satire]. On top of that, horror movies in general annoy me these days. It's hard for me to enjoy them or even feel scared when so many follow the exact same tropes, rely on bullshit pop culture [see: The Gallows], and are formulaic. Few, that I have seen, have really offered anything particularly new or interesting in recent years.
BWAAAAAA BWAAAAAA That and fucking shitty cgi.
When some asshole character won't let someone explain something because the person did something to them and it ends up biting them in the ass later.
When one of the characters is being a fuckboi
[url]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontExplainTheJoke[/url]
I don't like movies that have the generic "win the girl" format. People shouldn't be doing good with the expectations that they'll get returned love - they should be doing good because they want to do good. Return in love isn't really a problem although cliche, but it has to feel coincidental to feel authentic. Another thing I dislike is when characters are easily dispensable. Jurassic World bothered me for this reason - not only did it not highlight the fact that innocent people were dying, but they were completely irrelevant to the main characters. They were concerned about themselves which is understandable in the context of survival, but it seemed like they had no remorse.
When a character dies in a very tragic way, only to be brought back 10 minutes later. That's just cheap.
When one character is being attacked by some one/thing and another character just stands idly by, watching, not doing anything. Especially common in horror movies with the whole "gawking woman" trope.
The good guys always winning
When people come out of water/rain and in the next shot they suddenly have dry clothes.
[video=youtube;wwkTeKtOhnQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkTeKtOhnQ[/video] old gold
Death bed speeches. Terminally ill people moments away from death don't have the ability to speak coherently or even sit upright. There's nothing romantic or poetic about it: it's just cruel ugly misery.
George Lucas-esque scene transitions.. [video=youtube;usXca7W_jvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXca7W_jvM[/video]
When a movie of an old kid's cartoon series is a terrible Live-Action/CG mashup with loads of product placement. Even if it's something like Smurfs.
Too much CGI I'm a sucker for practical stuff, even if it's men in rubber monster suits
Deus Ex Machina / Macguffin plots in action movies Basically any fiction movie involving war with even mild fantasy elements will revolve around one thing like a certain object of power or needing to kill one person or activate something or whatever to instantly win. I lie a little as I don't absolutely hate it, but I think its overdone and I'd like more movies to just stretch out time frame a little and show how conflicts evolve and conclude because of multiple factors, not magic instant solutions
[QUOTE=Zadrave;48848259]Any movie that has an action scene suddenly cut to something either romantic or calming Like what kind of fucking change of mood is that[/QUOTE] That's why I hated the 2001 Stalingrad. It could hace been a badass war movie but instead turned into a fucking love story that simply killed the mood that has been set up at the beginning of the movie.
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