• Things You Hate In Movies
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[QUOTE=Agent 47;48861008]I think the same thing happened to the holy grail and cintamani stone[/QUOTE] haha no i don't ..but your probably right..its sounds a similar situation In another thousand years i bet people will still be looking for the Necronomicon..its allready up there with the great legends. Someone invents a story for whatever reason ..it goes viral and given time (all things seem more mystical given time..say 1000 years later) now uncle jones is off on a journey into the depths of the amazon to find the lost staff of Cleopatra never knowing that the story of its magical powers was actually part of a prank among her servants so some gullible idiot would steal her giant golden dildo
[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;48861144]THIS. Not when it's applied to dumb horror films, but in pretty much every fictional high school setting, the popular kids---all of them---are portrayed as cruel and shallow. Likewise the outcasts are typically sweet-natured and thoughtful. Did the writers never actually attend high school, or is it just too hard to write non-stereotypes? As someone who was bullied during her middle and high school days, let me tell you that those stereotypes are mistaken. Whatever your social standing, you could be either cruel/shallow or sweet/deep, or cruel/deep or sweet/shallow for that matter.[/QUOTE] All the weird kids I've ever met were all fucked up, had poor hygyine, took poor care of themselves, were rude, edgy, and manipulative and played victim and used this trope as a crutch IRL. I would love to see a movie showing how not to judge someone's entire being based on social status. (But that was just my personal experience) > Basically movies that fail to break steryotypes in general kinda irritate me.
- Forced love interest - Possible suspense and danger replaced with cheap slapstick (The Avengers 1, for example) - The good guy is perfect/the good guy is flawed in a really cliched manner and wins no matter what. - The protagonist being indestructible/does not have any vulnerabilities - Trailers revealing way too much about the plot. Seriously. I'm tired of seeing major plot points being obviously thrown into the trailer. i.e.: Ender's Game: [sp]the trailer revealed Ender blowing up the alien homeworld.[/sp] Same goes for Terminator Genisys. I don't even have to say what exactly, the trailers for it revealed more and more with each new one. Especially the final trailer. The movie turned out to be meh at best anyway, so I guess it really isn't a loss.
[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;48861144]THIS. Not when it's applied to dumb horror films, but in pretty much every fictional high school setting, the popular kids---all of them---are portrayed as cruel and shallow. Likewise the outcasts are typically sweet-natured and thoughtful. Did the writers never actually attend high school, or is it just too hard to write non-stereotypes? As someone who was bullied during her middle and high school days, let me tell you that those stereotypes are mistaken. Whatever your social standing, you could be either cruel/shallow or sweet/deep, or cruel/deep or sweet/shallow for that matter.[/QUOTE] On top of all that, more often than not the bully is willing to resort to murder or something.
Glad I'm not the only person who fucking hates shoehorned in romance in movies. I've actually started to praise movies for not having some cliched irrelevant love story tied into the plot.
*strange, inhuman noise* "Stay here, gang of 5 other people, I'll check out this spooky noise alone." Bitch, if I hear something scary I'm getting as fucking far from it as I can, why would I investigate a noise that sounds like a weapon/monster growl?
[QUOTE=YourBreakfsat;48855040]Guns: When the gun isn't being held correctly but the user has a 200% accuracy hit. When the gun obviously has no recoil and is obviously shown that the bolt/slide isn't going back and ejecting rounds. When the character hipfires and sprays and manages to hit and kill everything in its way. When the character never reloads, but suddenly runs out of ammo when the antagonist comes along. When the character apparently packs one magazine for his rifle, but a thousand magazines for his pistol. When the character has very obvious forced trigger discipline. The Walking Dead is a huge culprit of all of these.[/QUOTE] Eh suspend your disbelief a bit these are just nitpicky
- Zombie movies/games where military/police is put like evil for no reason. - Teen-romantic couples being insanely overpowered. They're like a key factor for taking down any shitty sci-fi dictatorship. - Awkward sex, nude, drug/dream scenes. - All rich people are evil. All poor people are good. - The dog/dad/mom/grandma or something died. - Nerdy character with weird pet or toy. - The first encounter with aliens generally involves a dog.
When characters are "playing a game" but in reality are just mashing every single input on the controller like an epileptic having a fit. Or when a character is written as "computer genius"/the plot focuses around technology and it's obvious the director is a CIPWTTKT. For example: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ[/media]
When you get that strobey kind of slow motion that looks really cheap.
Race for the macguffin plots. They're so awful.
Something that gets me is how writers are really bad at writing smart characters. Almost all of the smart people I've met act fairly normally, but in movies they are either eccentric and absent minded or cynical and mean.
I can watch any film that is considered "great" or "perfect" by many people. But make no mistake. If the ending is sub par or really shit. The whole film falls apart for me. The beginning must be very good to sustain my interest. And the ending must be satisfying to walk away from. If either of those componants are strung on tackily without second thought... I just think of the film as either alright or horrible.
The villain being purely evil just for the sake of it. It's a rarity for the villain to have some sort of motivation that makes you sympathize atleast a little, like the Russian mobster boss from John Wick, whose reactions are at their base human. Or D-Fens from Falling Down, who is mentally unstable but has no evil motives in mind and just tries to see his daughter.
When a character makes a long jump, and the first camera angle shows him not even coming close to reaching where he's jumping, but then the next camera angle shows him magically making the jump perfectly.
Mostly whenever firearms are done poorly, these have already been touched on but The Walking Dead is one of the most egregious examples. Half the cast aren't even capable of holding them properly, Herschel's DooM shotgun etc etc
Awkwardly forced character development. No, I don't wanna hear about what you did at your grandmother's house as a child if it has nothing to do with the story.
Adam Sandler
I hate it when my girlfriend won't let me shove my dick in her mouth
[QUOTE=MrCanada;48866570]I hate it when my girlfriend won't let me shove my dick in her mouth[/QUOTE] What if she's got oral thrush
When the movie thinks i won't believe that two people are playing a video game unless they are raping the controller with their hands and jerking around their arms, mashing all the buttons really hard and probably almost breaking the poor controller. Also when a character buys food but doesn't eat it by the end of the scene, esp if it's a cool character. Eating won't make you any less cool you jerk.
Wool chain mail in close shots FUCKEN KILL ME
[QUOTE=gary spivey;48866676]What if she's got oral thrush[/QUOTE] What's wrong with a little thrush? Thrushes are cute. [IMG]http://www.animalsandenglish.com/uploads/6/6/0/6/6606397/3805075_orig.jpg[/IMG]
How fight scenes always follow this swingy pattern where one person is losing, then they lash out a half-assed jab and somehow turn the fight around and gain a huge advantage from it. This'll usually repeat a few times until the fight is over and makes it extremely boring to watch as you can tell that the person being pounded into the ground is going to recover instantly as soon as he lands one hit on his attacker.
When there's a lot of build up for a battle in a film or TV series that's over in about 60 seconds Cough. Game of Thrones. Cough.
-Reliance on telling instead of showing -Forced and blatant symbolism
[QUOTE=teddthebucfan;48868388] -Forced and blatant symbolism[/QUOTE] [img]http://lotuspocusfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/gravity-trailer-3-635.jpg[/img] Some critics responded well to the symbolism in Gravity but when I saw this scene I audibly groaned This metaphor is less subtle than a forced example written by an unenthusiastic kid in school
[QUOTE=saintsim;48866788]When the movie thinks i won't believe that two people are playing a video game unless they are raping the controller with their hands and jerking around their arms, mashing all the buttons really hard and probably almost breaking the poor controller. Also when a character buys food but doesn't eat it by the end of the scene, esp if it's a cool character. Eating won't make you any less cool you jerk.[/QUOTE] Also when there's a [B][I][U]huge[/U][/I][/B] fucking feast in front of the characters, and they don't even touch it.
[QUOTE=YourBreakfsat;48869711]Also when there's a [B][I][U]huge[/U][/I][/B] fucking feast in front of the characters, and they don't even touch it.[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/x4fe5sk.png[/t] MHHHH [t]http://i.imgur.com/sxsVyzL.png[/t]
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;48869739][t]http://i.imgur.com/x4fe5sk.png[/t] MHHHH [t]http://i.imgur.com/sxsVyzL.png[/t][/QUOTE] Frozen isn't exempt from this either. A shitload of food is shown in the beginning of the movie, but no one eats it. In the short, Anna takes one bite of a sandwich and throws it away later. :v:
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