• Things You Hate In Movies
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Ex machinas. What do you guys think of Quentin Dupieux films?
[QUOTE=xamllew;48880737]This is one of the biggest offenders for me, having just watched a movie where I heard HL2 bullet impact sounds several times. I understand that not every producer can go out and record their own authentic sound effects but at least find a sound library that isn't used by ten other popular movies/games.[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k[/media]
Romantic comedies pretty much all have the same plot and it's all hinged on the dumbest shit There's always something where the guy acts like a dick for some kind of perfectly justifiable reason and the girl leaves him and he feels shitty, but the he does something nice again to make up for it, and he [I]never explains why he did the dickish thing.[/i] That conflict realistically would be resolved super fast but instead they make it all unrealistic and it's apparently a world where people never explain why they do anything
[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] Nah it's just being classy. Get offered a shit ton of food, or otherwise have the opportunity to eat a shit ton of food, but as a character in the movie you are too cool to engorge.
If my computer made beeping and chirping noises when it was doing anything at all, it would be annoying as shit, but it's completely ok in movies and tv. How is the audience supposed to know the computer is working if it's not making stupid fucking noise the entire time it's being used???
This happens more in TV shows than movies but I hate it when something starts with an action scene and then just as the main character is in some kind of mortal peril, it cuts to three weeks earlier.
When the story is about an officer or agent of a law/legal firm, having to fight evil criminals only to find out the company they work for is just as evil, then to only do nothing about it and live and let live. The problem with this trope, is that you present an interesting conflict, but do little to nothing with it. Examples of this painful trope goes towards the likes of "RIPD" "The third season of Homeland" and "Psycho Pass". This might just be a personal preference, but I prefer stories where the hero would turn on their own faction the moment they come to a big moral disagreement, rather than them kneeling to a corrupt infrastructure. Sure in real life you're supposed to kneel, but I always felt like entertainment should be about escapism. I don't watch shows to be reminded how life sucks.
[QUOTE=Secrios;48888199]When the story is about an officer or agent of a law/legal firm, having to fight evil criminals only to find out the company they work for is just as evil, then to only do nothing about it and live and let live. The problem with this trope, is that you present an interesting conflict, but do little to nothing with it. Examples of this painful trope goes towards the likes of "RIPD" "The third season of Homeland" and "Psycho Pass". This might just be a personal preference, but I prefer stories where the hero would turn on their own faction the moment they come to a big moral disagreement, rather than them kneeling to a corrupt infrastructure. Sure in real life you're supposed to kneel, but I always felt like entertainment should be about escapism. I don't watch shows to be reminded how life sucks.[/QUOTE] In Psycho-Pass [sp]Akane really couldn't do anything since they would've killed her on the spot[/sp]
When they give computers and programs generic BEEP BOOP sound effects, like government database does a search for a specific thing the progress bar does this jingle like sound. Computers don't do that shit in real life. TV shows are huge culprits of this more-so than movies.
When characters talk about how much they love porn and that they watch it too much but they're never shown in a way that implies they masturbate, nor do they even mention masturbation in these scenes which is pretty much the only reason someone would actually watch porn to begin with [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] [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] Are you Tom Hanks at the end of Cast Away
[QUOTE=Griffster26;48888393]In Psycho-Pass [sp]Akane really couldn't do anything since they would've killed her on the spot[/sp][/QUOTE] Plus, [sp]it's sort of morally ambiguous, since while the system may be headed by the brains of particularly insane criminals, it works at keeping crime levels down, and the criminal brains don't go on to commit further crimes. It's too strict sometimes, but the vast majority of people are living happily.[/sp] Unless if you count season two, which doesn't exist. Primarily because of this: [QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48863929]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.[/QUOTE] Pycho-Pass s2 still: [sp]One of the main villains literally kills puppies for the fun of it. His mother, another of the main villains, trained him to kill puppies for fun.[/sp] It's incredibly stupid. On a different note: characters acting hypocritical and the story ignoring it. This is from a video game, but I'm sure it's not limited to games. [del]Plus it got its own tv show adaptation, so it still counts![/del]:eng101s: In Tales of the Abyss, the main character Luke has a sword trainer that's basically his father. He lives with his actual father, which says something about how close he is to his trainer. A few hours into the game, [sp]the trainer tricks Luke into magically nuking a town, killing thousands of people.[/sp] Afterwards, the party says things like "Luke, you're terrible, how could you!?" and "Luke, you can never be forgiven" even though Luke [sp]has no goddamn idea what just happened and was simply obeying the most trustworthy person in his life[/sp]. Also, the sister of the sword trainer, who has been with Luke since 15 minutes into the game, never bothered to mention [sp]"Oh yeah that sword trainer guy is evil"[/sp] before this point. The rest of the game is about Luke slowly redeeming himself for his mistake and the very slow process of being forgiven. Cut to later in the game. One of the other party members has a sick parent and financial issues, so instead of talking to the party for help, they [sp]kill fantasy Jesus for money, fulfilling part of an apocalyptic prophecy[/sp]. The group forgives them immediately.
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irrelevant, inexplicable music sequences in Bollywood films. I mean like, if you want a musical number, try to be relevant to the setting instead of teleporting halfway across the world complete with instant costume change because 'everybody else is doing it'
"gimme a beer" "ok here you go" "oh wow thanks for giving me a beer i like without me telling you what kind i want. i also noticed that you can do this same thing with coffee" "yea its crazy innit"
The shitty argument between two characters where they try to yell each other out. It sounds way dumber with dub.
romance for the sake of romance
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;48891246]"gimme a beer" "ok here you go" "oh wow thanks for giving me a beer i like without me telling you what kind i want. i also noticed that you can do this same thing with coffee" "yea its crazy innit"[/QUOTE] People do this irl, you'll see it in older movies. Basically its a homley, host-like gesture to give a guest coffee/alcohol or some sort of beverage.
"<Question about plot vital information that if I had would avoid a ton of problems and allow us to do something important>" "No, there's no time." There absolutely is time, there's literally never a situation in which there's no time to explain, the wonderful thing about Humans is that we can talk and do other shit at the same time. It's especially bad when it goes: "Who is this? / What is your name?" "There's not enough time." Just say your fucking name, it'd take less time than telling them there's no time.
When they make it so obvious who the killer is. Then it's someone that you didn't espect and they give no excuse...
Whenever "hackers" uses the matrix-screen savers on their screens or have stupid over the top GUIs for everything I cringe. Also when they drop the name of the movie in the movie, it's just cheesy.
when you see a smoking character inhale smoke in one scene but then it cuts to another scene and you never get to see the character exhaling the smoke. makes me want to slit my throat open in agony seriously. in a more serious note, treating your audience like a bunch of dumb toddlers by doing this: [quote]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. [/quote] like in interstellar where an ASTRONAUT asks another astronaut what a wormhole is. like it's obvious they wouldn't be asking that because 1. they're fucking astronauts and 2. why would you ask what a wormhole is (right before stepping into one) if your mission literally consists in hopping in a wormhole to travel to another star system? didn't you know beforehand what a wormhole is??? how did you even get assigned to such crucial mission if you don't even know what a wormhole is?!?!?! oh my god that scene broke my immersion so much. the point is: the characters weren't talking to eachother. they were talking to the audience. and this breaks the fourth wall and makes me want to puke.
[QUOTE=Melvinthe2nd;48885126]unnecessary stunts in action movies. Like when characters do random flips when they are chasing someone. like this [URL="https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B2h0SvmCIAAsjl8.mp4"]https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B2h0SvmCIAAsjl8.mp4[/URL][/QUOTE] Oh god this. I was watching Daredevil on Netflix (fantastic series by the way), but there's one scene where Daredevil is running across some rooftops to keep track of a car. And he hops down one of those rooftop access doorways and he does a flip just like you linked, and the rest of it has had him scrabbling this way and that, and then he tucks himself up and flips down a 6 foot drop.
[QUOTE=IJNOMED;48891673]People do this irl, you'll see it in older movies. Basically its a homley, host-like gesture to give a guest coffee/alcohol or some sort of beverage.[/QUOTE] What he means is whenever someone wants liquor or coffee all they have to say is "give me a beer/coffee" and don't actually ask for a specific drink but apparently get what they want every time
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;48894572]What he means is whenever someone wants liquor or coffee all they have to say is "give me a beer/coffee" and don't actually ask for a specific drink but apparently get what they want every time[/QUOTE] oh
The unnecessary amount of shaky-cam in nearly every movie nowadays. Why does any bit of action need to be filmed by someone having a seizure? Is there an actual explanation for it? Does it save resources while editing or something?
I hate it when black man dies first
[QUOTE=MenteR;48892885]like in interstellar where an ASTRONAUT asks another astronaut what a wormhole is. like it's obvious they wouldn't be asking that because 1. they're fucking astronauts and 2. why would you ask what a wormhole is (right before stepping into one) if your mission literally consists in hopping in a wormhole to travel to another star system? didn't you know beforehand what a wormhole is??? how did you even get assigned to such crucial mission if you don't even know what a wormhole is?!?!?! oh my god that scene broke my immersion so much. the point is: the characters weren't talking to eachother. they were talking to the audience. and this breaks the fourth wall and makes me want to puke.[/QUOTE] iirc he never asks what a wormhole is, just says he thought it wouldn't be a circle. [editline]14th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=AlphaAGENT;48895178]The unnecessary amount of shaky-cam in nearly every movie nowadays. Why does any bit of action need to be filmed by someone having a seizure? Is there an actual explanation for it? Does it save resources while editing or something?[/QUOTE] Easier to hide faults in fistfights, stunts in general. Mostly because everyone is doing it though.
[QUOTE=xZippy;48883966]The cliché of the unpopular, awkward and supernerd protagonist somehow having that [I]one[/I] extremely hot female friend.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;-mGeRC6k5Fc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGeRC6k5Fc[/video] (skip to 2:12 for the skit)
[QUOTE=Novangel;48895689]iirc he never asks what a wormhole is, just says he thought it wouldn't be a circle. [/QUOTE] sure and then the other astronaut goes and literally draws and explains a wormhole on a sheet of paper like you would to a fifth grader.
When a sequel, prequel, or reboot decides to just spend the whole movie making winks to the audience. [I]Pan[/I] was just downright offensive in this regard.
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