• Things You Hate In Movies
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When a movie/game thinks it ok to recycle footage if you apply a different coat of paint to it.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;48887673]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.[/QUOTE] Crime shows are the absolute worst about this, i can think of several episodes in Bones, Castle and Criminal Minds that do this. My personal hatred is when movies do the hamfisted "IT WAS THEM ALL ALONG" thing. For example, Interstellar, which is a movie i love, mind. Spoilers ho [sp]I understand that there were beings above and beyond them controlling the outcomes and such but having Space John Deere be sent back around and be the one sending his girl a message via black hole dimension was really hamfisted and was a black mark on an otherwise fantastic movie.[/sp]
When there's a 1 second clip that cuts to another 1 second clip, and keeps on doing so for like 5 minutes.
When you never see the villain's vision realised. I don't necessarily mean win, but when a bad guy boasts about summoning a giant monster only for it to never happen, it becomes a bit of a bummer.
"I have to kill the antagonist but I only have one bullet left!" Really? All of these protagonists just so happen to have used their previous bullets on other enemies and whatnot but just have one left at that very moment in time? It's even more ridiculous when the weapon used is a rapid fire one.
[QUOTE=xZippy;48906564]"I have to kill the antagonist but I only have one bullet left!" Really? All of these protagonists just so happen to have used their previous bullets on other enemies and whatnot but just have one left at that very moment in time? It's even more ridiculous when the weapon used is a rapid fire one.[/QUOTE] I love how they do it in movies like Django when people in the room are counting the shots from a revolver
This is kind of peculiar but i hate bad treatment of cars. and i don't mean thrashing cars, i mean not understanding cars or building stupid shit that makes no sense. As much as i love mad max, and as crazy great as 90% of the builds are, some bits are just dumb. You can't "turn off" a supercharger like on the interceptor, you can't run a filterless intake into a supercharger, let alone through a sandstorm (looking at you war rig) and they called their monster truck "The Bigfoot" which really cheap. Likewise in Cars monster trucks are just professional wrestlers, which really bugs me as well. Then there's just not understanding how to operate a car. Like in Big Hero Six the stoic girl shoves wasabe out of the drivers seat and jerks the automatic transmission all the way back at speed to represent gearing down to go faster. I mean she's shown to be the no bullshit person to just shut up and get the job done perfectly, so she'd know that's just going to drop the car into first and blow up the engine. Or in Highway 35 there's one shot in the first quarter of the movie where Vert heel and toes (completely wrong i might add) to do a high speed power slide downhill. Like i like how they were trying to include really high level driving techniques, but why in the fuck would you ever need to feather the clutch and brake at the same time to drift? It's not just limited to animated movies, those are just the first to extreme examples i can think of, i see a disconnect in the drivers and vehicles all the time in films Then there's just poorly written dialogue, like offandedly calling a car "turbocharged" or "Supercharged" when it clearly isn't, or "The nitro boost" macguffin, that sort of shit. Nitrous boosting adds like 80 horsepower at the most unless you're running some crazy setup, it doesn't fix all the problems in the universe when you press a button You'd think with the car being such a vehicle for plot, action and visuals, a metaphor for power, agency and individualism, and such a mainstay of culture, especially american culture/film writing which so heavily focuses and dwells on these things, writers would go out of their way to understand them, but instead just recycle the same tired erroneous tropes, framing, buzzwords and shit time and again, without understanding what makes any of it work, making it all feel stale and extremely played out, even when it really wouldn't be if they'd just go the extra few steps to figure out what they should really be doing or saying. Also this is extremely petty and i really do forgive it, but seeing a vehicle obviously suffer a massive failure and then keep going in the next shot bugs me. And i don't mean like in the Dukes of Hazzard where you can see a frame buckle, because that whole show is jokey and camp, so it's the price of entry, but like in Fury Road, when Joe jumps the monster truck, it lands way nose heavy and you can see the tie rod break right off. Same thing happened to the fuel truck in Casino Royale when it hits the baggage train. Tie rod's splayed out and the front wheels go everywhere but it's A-ok in the next shot. Fury Road bugs me more though, since american monster trucks can survive [URL="https://youtu.be/tHJYurP5mNQ?t=124"]This[/URL] or [URL="https://youtu.be/tndj7ScRjBw?t=104"]This[/URL] just fine, but that dozy old machine can't take a single weird bounce.
Movie trailers that have that [I]one[/I] joke they really drive home as if it's the funniest part of the movie. By the time people watch the actual motion picture and get to the part with said trailer joke, nobody's laughing. They've already seen it a million times on TV beforehand. And on a similar note: fucking fart jokes either specifically made for trailers, or with other footage of people reacting to something else spliced in.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;48926535]Movie trailers that have that [I]one[/I] joke they really drive home as if it's the funniest part of the movie. By the time people watch the actual motion picture and get to the part with said trailer joke, nobody's laughing. They've already seen it a million times on TV beforehand.[/QUOTE] On a related note, when they change a scene from the trailer to the movie, so you expect it and when it's different, it ruins the whole tone of the scene and ruins the immersion. For example, this, in the Avengers: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iy7ZV8Tz_w[/media] Turns into this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlumXJ5HWQ[/media] And completely ruins the scene for me, especially with the fairly poor delivery of the same line. I realize it's probably petty and isn't a huge change but it's just an example. They could have had the scene play out in the exact same way and in fact, i think it'd be better for how dark that scene gets if it started off with that and slowly had Tony get angrier.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;48926642]On a related note, when they change a scene from the trailer to the movie, so you expect it and when it's different, it ruins the whole tone of the scene and ruins the immersion. For example, this, in the Avengers: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iy7ZV8Tz_w[/media] Turns into this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlumXJ5HWQ[/media] And completely ruins the scene for me, especially with the fairly poor delivery of the same line. I realize it's probably petty and isn't a huge change but it's just an example. They could have had the scene play out in the exact same way and in fact, i think it'd be better for how dark that scene gets if it started off with that and slowly had Tony get angrier.[/QUOTE] How the fuck does the trailer have the better take?
Shitty book adaptations. I know you can't cram in all the detail from the book, but a lot of these movies seem to drop what's actually important to explain or important details in favor of minor ones. Like for instance, years back I watched the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief movie adaptation, and I hated that shit. Aside from being like this really stock, cliche movie, that turned Grover in to a fucking like Chris Rock wanna-be, they change or drop things but take time out to explain what a fucking hydra is, like everyone and their mother doesn't already know. Then, they go ahead and completely change the main villain to another dude, just for a goof. And it has the usual movie swordfighting where the characters spin around, telegraph their attacks, and generally fight like idiots. And Percy has a shield that as far as I'm aware would actually be pretty impractical. I know it's nitpicking, but you really can't help it when you've actually read the source material.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;48930366]they change or drop things but take time out to explain what a fucking hydra is, like everyone and their mother doesn't already know.[/QUOTE] Isn't that kinda like a plane engine or something
I think I'm starting to notice this more but I'm getting bothered by seeing [b]multiple[/b] switches between cameras when there is a one-on-one conversation. Like, I think this is a good example of how it's executed properly. I'm no film expert but the camera doesn't make any extreme changes in angles; it remains on the same side. Each subject gets good exposure and the dialogue also allows the camera to stay focused on them longer. But at times the camera zips to the other subject that is simply idling or is being quiet, I would understand that I would help capture the subject's reaction to the other's dialogue but in other films/tv shows, they seem to go overboard. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfSjs_6MZOQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;48930366]Shitty book adaptations.[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Eragon_soundtrack.jpg[/IMG]
When a character who practices some form of martial art, especially with a weapon, is introduced for the sole purpose of being sucker punched/shot while he's twirling his sword around/to do nothing but air fu for his entire screentime and make "deep" comments, while providing literally nothing to the actual situation To a lesser extent, the above but with any other tropey kind of character, i.e. the GRIZZLED VETERAN or TIRED DETECTIVE or ASSUMEDLY SMART HACKER NERD GUY or TOKEN BADASS GUY WHO DOES NOTHING etc
Dumb girl/Black guy is always first to die in the horror movies. Can we just have a horror movie that breaks "the rules" ??? Ex. Scream did a good job at this.
the old guy who apparently knows everything those characters are some of the worst
[QUOTE=IJNOMED;48930935]Dumb girl/Black guy is always first to die in the horror movies. Can we just have a horror movie that breaks "the rules" ??? Ex. Scream did a good job at this.[/QUOTE] You could but it'd probably make people feel unscared if you highlighted that you were being nontraditional more than once. It'd start to feel more like the movie was being a checklist of supplanted horror cliches if not done well. Something I once seen was someone had posted that they theorized that all horror movies take place in an alternate universe where horror movies don't exist :v:
Writers that convince themselves that there needs to be a "comic relief" character when there really doesn't, and they end up just making a character that's completely Jar Jar Binked where the majority of viewers hope they get killed off for closure.
I don't know if there's a name for this but if there isn't I'd call it the Gears of War effect or something, and that's when there's like 4 or 5 main characters and they're pretty much the only people who exist and actually have a unique appearance, face, and name, and everyone else is just a faceless sea of anonymous extras.
In sci-fi's especially, when a space suit has lights inside the helmet that are pointed at the face. What functional purpose could lights pointed [I]at[/I] the face possibly serve? If anything, wouldn't it just make it more difficult to see with glare in your eyes and your reflection in the helmet?
[QUOTE=Ardosos;48933205]In sci-fi's especially, when a space suit has lights inside the helmet that are pointed at the face. What functional purpose could lights pointed [I]at[/I] the face possibly serve? If anything, wouldn't it just make it more difficult to see with glare in your eyes and your reflection in the helmet?[/QUOTE] Face-to-face communication with other people. Also, it's for the sake of the audience.
Y'know, even though I love old 80s slasher flicks, I am really tired of the "retard teens" trope. I get it if someone's young and reckless and they do something dumb, but can we quit it with making every single character in a horror movie some sort of debaucherous sex zombie? I mean honest to god it just gets annoying. And no, saying "but it makes you want to see them die" is a shitty excuse, I like it when I feel for my characters and nearly say "oh fuck!" audibly when they get whacked.
Superheroes. THERE, I SAID IT!
"It Ain't Me" by CCR playing whenever there's a scene during the Vietnam War
[QUOTE=Ardosos;48933205]In sci-fi's especially, when a space suit has lights inside the helmet that are pointed at the face. What functional purpose could lights pointed [I]at[/I] the face possibly serve? If anything, wouldn't it just make it more difficult to see with glare in your eyes and your reflection in the helmet?[/QUOTE] i know where you're coming from but having nothing but a bunch of talking helmets with opaque visors for two hours would be kind of shit and at least a little confusing
[QUOTE=Boaraes;48933925]"It Ain't Me" by CCR playing whenever there's a scene during the Vietnam War[/QUOTE] It's called "Fortunate Son".
All Genres are the fucking same, Horror you can expect the same bullshit scare and you know when it's coming. Action, blow shit up WOO hollywood. Sci-fi are getting worse with alien invasion shit. Whole lot has gone to pot. The only thing I can bare is post-apoc because I love fallout
[QUOTE=Kairi.;48935206]All Genres are the fucking same, Sci-fi are getting worse with alien invasion shit.[/QUOTE] The martian.
[QUOTE=Boaraes;48933925]"It Ain't Me" by CCR playing whenever there's a scene during the Vietnam War[/QUOTE] Same with All Along The Watchtower. People keep using it if their movie/game takes place in the late 60s. I love these songs but jfc, they ain't the only songs that were made back then. Also, I'm getting really tired of the use of prophecies in movies. I can't help but see them as a cheap way to feel artsy and smart by revealing very vaguely how things will turn out.
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