• Things You Hate In Movies
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When a movie has [I]one[/I] trailer and that's it, and it gets played all the fucking time and it's never changed up a bit in the future. I like to call them "Kangaroo Jack" trailers.
The "mystical foreign dude" who speaks in a horrible accent and tells people about a local curse or some shit.
This is less "A thing in movies I don't like" and more "A genre of movies I can't fucking stand." I love "so bad it's good" movies like The Room and Birdemic, but movies that are [i]purposely[/i] bad are completely and utterly missing the point of why those movies are inherently hilarious. The point being they were legitimately trying to make a good movie but failed so spectacularly that their Human Drama movie becomes a fucking hysterical comedy. And then you have shameless, absolutely terrible movies that try so hard to be good bad that they just end up as sickeningly awful and missing the point of what makes a truly bad film special and entertaining. Egregious example being Sharknado, which was created explicitly to cash in on this phenomenon and comes off as shameless and completely unwatchable, like most Asylum "films." I don't and probably will never understand how people can find them entertaining because they obviously don't even try. When the director/creators are blatantly going for a cashgrab instead of actually trying to make a film, it noticeably affects the tone of the movie and makes it more of a boring, unfun movie than an unintentionally hilarious film. It's the same reason Birdemic 2 doesn't even hold a light to the first one, because the director noticed that people thought the first one was hilariously bad, and intentionally tried to make the second like the first one, which lead to it being just not entertaining at all.
[QUOTE=AlphaAGENT;48960863]This is less "A thing in movies I don't like" and more "A genre of movies I can't fucking stand." I love "so bad it's good" movies like The Room and Birdemic, but movies that are [i]purposely[/i] bad are completely and utterly missing the point of why those movies are inherently hilarious. The point being they were legitimately trying to make a good movie but failed so spectacularly that their Human Drama movie becomes a fucking hysterical comedy. And then you have shameless, absolutely terrible movies that try so hard to be good bad that they just end up as sickeningly awful and missing the point of what makes a truly bad film special and entertaining. Egregious example being Sharknado, which was created explicitly to cash in on this phenomenon and comes off as shameless and completely unwatchable, like most Asylum "films." I don't and probably will never understand how people can find them entertaining because they obviously don't even try. When the director/creators are blatantly going for a cashgrab instead of actually trying to make a film, it noticeably affects the tone of the movie and makes it more of a boring, unfun movie than an unintentionally hilarious film. It's the same reason Birdemic 2 doesn't even hold a light to the first one, because the director noticed that people thought the first one was hilariously bad, and intentionally tried to make the second like the first one, which lead to it being just not entertaining at all.[/QUOTE] This is the reason i don't like Tim and Eric.
"shit, this antagonist is too strong for me!!!" "You can do it, protagonist!" *protagonist hears this and magically summons strength he didn't have before.*
When movies don't take risks so they can still attain a PG-13 rating (e.g. World War Z, though that film had a more violent version released on home media, which imo should've been the version released in theaters in the first place).
[QUOTE=megafat;48964064]This is the reason i don't like Tim and Eric.[/QUOTE] Tim and Eric aren't trying to be shitty. They're proto-vaporwave, taking things that were/are shitty and making it into surreal avant-garde meta art. They're like Neil Cicierega on acid
[QUOTE=Hypoxide;48968406]"shit, this antagonist is too strong for me!!!" "You can do it, protagonist!" *protagonist hears this and magically summons strength he didn't have before.*[/QUOTE] Basically 99% of anime in nutshell.
Special effects which weren't necessary.
[QUOTE=EqueL;48978309]Special effects which weren't necessary.[/QUOTE] Lately a lot of movies have been giving women CGI breasts in topless scenes which is a huge waste of money like I understand why an actress wouldn't want her real boobs in a movie but come on
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;48983050]Lately a lot of movies have been giving women CGI breasts in topless scenes which is a huge waste of money like I understand why an actress wouldn't want her real boobs in a movie but come on[/QUOTE] Wait, films do this now?
[QUOTE=matt000024;48983470]Wait, films do this now?[/QUOTE] It happened in that neighbors movie and also [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488555/trivia?item=tr1562780"]the movie where ryan reynolds switched bodies with that other guy and banged his wife[/URL]
Scary body horror shit. Hell, any scary movies. I personally can't stand them.
Lemme know if this is either comedic or hated due to overuse. Every Arnold Schwarzenegger that has this line "[I]Come, Do ittt, Kill Me!!![/I]" Anybody feel this one?
when there is a competition and the main character and the main "villain" get the first and second place...
Nearly every horror movie sequel feeling the need to explain everything and thus basically ruining the "fear of the unknown" that the prequel had going for it.
[QUOTE=goatking732;48993493]Lemme know if this is either comedic or hated due to overuse. Every Arnold Schwarzenegger that has this line "[I]Come, Do ittt, Kill Me!!![/I]" Anybody feel this one?[/QUOTE] Why would i watch an Arnold movie for anything other than the Arnold cliche's?
[QUOTE=HoundFromHell;48993541]when there is a competition and the main character and the main "villain" get the first and second place...[/QUOTE] In a similar vein, why do competition based movies even need a villain? If the main character is likable the audience will want them to win regardless of whether their opponent is Hitler or a cancer patient.
Quiet moments where something eventually extremely loud happens. So fucking predictable and obnoxious.
The whole "long drawn out business deal goes perfectly fine until something at the last minute fucks it all up" cliché.
Idk if someone said this already or not. When someone is screaming or crying over someone's death and they just mute the noise and play dramatically sad music and slow it down and have the character shake the dead character's corpse.
[QUOTE=IJNOMED;49003639]Idk if someone said this already or not. When someone is screaming or crying over someone's death and they just mute the noise and play dramatically sad music and slow it down and have the character shake the dead character's corpse.[/QUOTE] The only time that was really hardcore was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan on the beach, when the guy's looking around stunned and seeing the carnage with his ears ringing because of the noise. It was an interesting art way to do it. But I can't stand it otherwise
saving private ryan actually did a good job at that...
When a film overexplains everything. There can be no ambiguity or unanswered question or interpretation, the audience can't think for themselves so luckily here's some expository dialogue to explain why this happened or why the characters chose to do something. The last half an hour or so of Interstellar may as well have shown Christopher Nolan running around a cinema putting seatbelts on everyone and spoon-feeding them bullshit because perhaps too many people weren't sure if the end of Inception was real or not.
When movies or series pause action to have an emotional moment "Yes, I realize your mother just died, but you're being chased by zombies for crying out loud!"
Misunderstandings make two people in love break up.
[QUOTE=jjperks;49005663]Misunderstandings make two people in love break up.[/QUOTE] -Actually this is terrible, so nevermind-
Children in a movie where they aren't required or needed. They make disaster movies a groan zone.
[QUOTE=McTbone;49006260]Children in a movie where they aren't required or needed. They make disaster movies a groan zone.[/QUOTE] Adding onto this, children who are actually worse than useless and end up causing problems by walking right into danger 24/7 It's not enough to be useless baggage, but to also be danger magnets makes me wonder why they're kept around as characters
soulless children's animated films also fifteen second tv trailers that try to condense the five minute theatrical trailer but it ends up being a one line premise with four different mood-establishing songs blaring around in the background
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