Things You Hate in Movies/TV Shows v2 - "The power was inside you all along!"
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"I'm the lead female character, I have a fake British accent so you know that I'm supposed to be smart"
[editline]30th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=itsjustjaden;50799020]This scene:
Bad guy has kidnapped something important (daughter, secret briefcase, etc) to the protagonist. The protagonist finally confronts the bad guy. The protagonist asks for what he's looking for, and the bad guy reveals that he has it but doesn't wanna give it straight up. He then offers this:
"Give me [something else valuable in the plot] and I'll/we'll give you what you're looking for."
In an ideal world, the protagonist can't risk (or is stupid) to even consider accepting the trade, because he is, in fact the BAD GUY, and can curve his ass at any given point. But instead, he mindlessly accepts the trade out of pressure, and the bad guy SURPRISINGLY REVEALS that he wasn't gonna hand over what the protagonist was looking for after all and just pces the fuck out.[/QUOTE]
"Give me the mcguffin that will allow me to kill a lot of people or i'll kill your girlfriend"
"hmm, do I give him the mcguffin and therefore knowingly kill a shitload of people usually including my girlfriend? I'm incredibly selfish even though this is supposed to be portrayed as part of my selflessness so sure i guess"
[editline]30th July 2016[/editline]
Oh, your hero is supposed to be so strongly moral that he won't let anybody die even if it means handing over the kill-everybody mcguffin?
Then your hero is incredibly selfish and/or shortsighted for not being able to prioritize the lives of tens or hundreds or thousands of millions above an individual who matters to them personally.
Protagonist has a love interest for the sake of having a love interest.
Arbitrary numbers that add fake tension to a situation. "You have to do this thing and you conveniently have only 24 hours to do it!" and it always has to be done in the last few seconds of that arbitrary number.
-That parallell universe where computer mice don't exist.
-When someone kills another at point blank/melee and doesn't have a single drop of blood landing on them. (looking at you, walking dead)
-Guns with infinite ammo. (still looking at you)
-When the bad guy falls into a hole/offscreen/takes obviously non-lethal damage and the protag doesn't bother making sure and assume he's dead and won't come back to backstab him later.
The Alien movie would have probably solved the situation considerably more effectively by barricading themselves in a single room as a party and waiting for the Alien to starve to death.
[QUOTE=genkaz92;50800732]The Alien movie would have probably solved the situation considerably more effectively by barricading themselves in a single room as a party and waiting for the Alien to starve to death.[/QUOTE]
wouldn't have made a very interesting movie though
[QUOTE=Deri102;50800840]wouldn't have made a very interesting movie though[/QUOTE]
At the very end of the movie which showed the entire thing in real time, one of the crew members would let out a huge fart and cause the entire crew to suffocate, except for Ash who would then go out and strangle the famished alien with his bare hands.
[QUOTE=genkaz92;50800732]The Alien movie would have probably solved the situation considerably more effectively by barricading themselves in a single room as a party and waiting for the Alien to starve to death.[/QUOTE]
misread as tim allen, was very confused
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;50800883]misread as tim allen, was very confused[/QUOTE]
Even better, instead of a Xenomorph they would be hiding from Tim Allen.
Movie speeches that follow this format:
*secondary character makes a speech, gets light applause*
*other secondary character makes a speech, light applause*
*protagonist makes pretty much the same speech as the first two, but gets standing ovation and changes the whole direction of the movie*
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