quote:The girl is running away from the monster. She trips on something. Then she just lays there screaming until A) some guy comes and saves her or B) the monster has lunch.
That and the women are always trying to run around in stiletto heels. Personally, if I were ever being chased around in heels, the first thing I'd do is take the dang things off. Then again, women's costuming in most fight/chase movie scenes is absurd. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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***Spoiler for every bad rom-com ever made. Notting Hill, I'm looking at you.***
"Oh no! Our amazing romance is derailed because we don't talk to each other and clearly do not trust each other enough to ask the simplest questions!
I will now leave my entire life immediately on a airplane to a land where there is no telephone or Internet unless you race across town on a motorcycle to say nothing new.
The sight of you will cause me to abandon all my new plans I was committed to just a moment ago and this clearly shows that we will be together forever."
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quote:"Oh no! Our amazing romance is derailed because we don't talk to each other and clearly do not trust each other enough to ask the simplest questions!
Spider Man 3 really bothered me with this premise.
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This is one Adam Carolla complains about constantly:
It's the "what's in it for you" test. In so many (perhaps most) films having to do with highschool students, there is the ubiquitous bully character, stupid and usually despicable and pampered, who hassles the protagonist for no particular reason.
There is an analogous adult version where the mean drunken biker picks on the protagonist in a bar for no reason. (see con-air)
What exactly is in it for the bully? I was picked on in highschool, but there was always a reason... not a good one, but there was one.
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I can't stand it when a character is being chased by a car and runs straight down the middle of the road.
That and when a big dramatic conflict could be easily avoided by an intelligent character accurately explaning what happened and possibly apologizing. This happens far more often in television, but movies too.
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I hate how quick agile normal people are constantly tripping on themselves while being chased while their lurching zombie persuers never have that problem.
I REALLY hate it when this situation is playing out, the person look behind them to see where Mr. Zombie (Or the bad guy for that matter) is and he seems to have disappeared. Seconds later they are attacked from the front by the zombie who must have suddenly pulled out silent rocket pack while they weren't looking, flew ahead of them, discarded the pack and then attacked.
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I get bugged by movie/TV situations where a character proficient with firearms has gotten the drop on someone else, but the other person is able to do things like draw their weapon, turn around, fire shots, do a jig, etc. without the first person easily shooting them like 50 times.
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One firearm thing that bothers me is that when you've got somebody at gun point, you don't stand close enough so that they can knock/kick/punch/whatever the gun out of your hands. While I can forgive stupidity like that from most civilians, I can't from LEOs, professional soldiers, or anybody else that knows what they're doing with a handgun.
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: One firearm thing that bothers me is that when you've got somebody at gun point, you don't stand close enough so that they can knock/kick/punch/whatever the gun out of your hands. While I can forgive stupidity like that from most civilians, I can't from LEOs, professional soldiers, or anybody else that knows what they're doing with a handgun.
Well it makes no sense for civilians either as most people's inclination when they have a gun is to keep back from the threat, what bugs me is when the villain monologues his way up to the civilian with the gun and promptly knocks the gun away.
You'd think more then a few would fire out of panic.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: I hate how quick agile normal people are constantly tripping on themselves while being chased while their lurching zombie persuers never have that problem.
I REALLY hate it when this situation is playing out, the person look behind them to see where Mr. Zombie (Or the bad guy for that matter) is and he seems to have disappeared. Seconds later they are attacked from the front by the zombie who must have suddenly pulled out silent rocket pack while they weren't looking, flew ahead of them, discarded the pack and then attacked.
Don't you know about the ZombiePorter 3000? Capable of teleporting a zombie in front of any protagonist in seconds! For only seven easy payments of $349.95, you too can own this remarkable piece of technology!
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: I hate how quick agile normal people are constantly tripping on themselves while being chased while their lurching zombie persuers never have that problem.
I REALLY hate it when this situation is playing out, the person look behind them to see where Mr. Zombie (Or the bad guy for that matter) is and he seems to have disappeared. Seconds later they are attacked from the front by the zombie who must have suddenly pulled out silent rocket pack while they weren't looking, flew ahead of them, discarded the pack and then attacked.
Don't you know about the ZombiePorter 3000? Capable of teleporting a zombie in front of any protagonist in seconds! For only seven easy payments of $349.95, you too can own this remarkable piece of technology!
-pH
Can I get the Portiero Head edition?
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#50 was kinda dumb since fictional numbers in media are required be law to always begin with 555.
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Nope, not true. They usually are and they aren't allowed to use a number that's in use by someone else, but there is no law stating that they HAVE to begin with 555.
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quote:Originally posted by Javert Hugo: Nope, not true. They usually are and they aren't allowed to use a number that's in use by someone else, but there is no law stating that they HAVE to begin with 555.
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Here's my thing, with really out-there stuff in movies.
Generally, if they establish in the first half hour that it's part of the premise of the movie, I'll just suspend my disbelief and accept it. For example, in Die Hard, the idea that guys could hack into every electric appliance in the whole world was the premise. I'll accept it, since they gave it to me in the start.
Same with season 4 of 24. The idea that there's one remote control that can control every nuclear reactor in all of north america is silly, but they gave it to me at the start so I'll go with it.
It's sort of like they're being up-front about it, "Here's the thing you're going to have to buy if you want to enjoy this movie." I decide to buy it, I enjoy the movie.
What gets me is when these things are introduced later on, or when the movie violates its own rules.
Or the Star Trek: Next Generation thing, where they pull some weird rule out of a hat at the end. "Captain, if we just exedrinate our Robitussion field, the Tylynol Core should Obscusificate!"
And sure enough, the Tylynol Core DOES Obscusificate, and everything is okay. And we wonder why everybody was so worried all this time when Obscusificating was always an option.
So, to sum up:
The closer the end of the movie you establish your reality-bending rule, the less likely you are to be forgiven.
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I hate it when a woman breaks up with her boyfriend because she falsely accuses him of cheating on her. The man tries to explain that it is just a misunderstanding, but the woman refuses to listen to him. Then, an hour later in the movie the man explains to the woman what really happened, and they live happily ever after. This all could have been avoided if the women just listened to the man in the first place.
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quote:Originally posted by otterk10: I hate it when a woman breaks up with her boyfriend because she falsely accuses him of cheating on her. The man tries to explain that it is just a misunderstanding, but the woman refuses to listen to him. Then, an hour later in the movie the man explains to the woman what really happened, and they live happily ever after. This all could have been avoided if the women just listened to the man in the first place.
I hate this too, but occasionally movies are smart and instead have the man explain everything, confident the woman will then understand, and the woman responds with a left hook that clarifies everything and lets the man know that what he thought was wrong was in fact wrong, but for a different reason.
edit: though to be perfectly honest it's QUITE plausible to have a woman who encounters such a traumatic revelation to just feel overwhelmed and just need her space, without any chance for you to get anything substantial in.
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quote:Originally posted by otterk10: I hate it when a woman breaks up with her boyfriend because she falsely accuses him of cheating on her. The man tries to explain that it is just a misunderstanding, but the woman refuses to listen to him. Then, an hour later in the movie the man explains to the woman what really happened, and they live happily ever after. This all could have been avoided if the women just listened to the man in the first place.
I hate this too, but occasionally movies are smart and instead have the man explain everything, confident the woman will then understand, and the woman responds with a left hook that clarifies everything and lets the man know that what he thought was wrong was in fact wrong, but for a different reason.
edit: though to be perfectly honest it's QUITE plausible to have a woman who encounters such a traumatic revelation to just feel overwhelmed and just need her space, without any chance for you to get anything substantial in.
My problem with this is not that the woman does not forgive the man. What angers me is when the man actually explains what happened, the woman just says "Ok. I forgive you." Then, the two kiss and all is forgotten.
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