1) Guns firing way more bullets than possible without reloading (revolver 12 shots or more etc)
2) People being given CPR and their heart starts beating again without any drugs etc
3) People being defibralated to start the heart...
4) People getting up and running around straight after being resussed
Which ones do you see often and think THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER!
My pee tastes like toast
Not a big fan of action movies, but some of those car chases defy the laws of physics and gravity. Cars fly up in the air like they were airplanes and land just fine. No damage to the vehicle, it keeps moving. Vehicles fly over empty spaces as if they can behave like an aircraft. The worst was in Speed. Saw a documentary on that film. Just because the bus gathered speed before it went over that big gap in the road, that doesn't mean it would stay airborne! A bus can't fly. It would've been falling as it moved forward and it would never have gotten to the other side of the highway. Fun movie though. LOL
shareYes, that scene in Speed was over the top. There were others where I didn't believe they could keep their speed up: the first exit ramp scene, bouncing off cars on city streets, etc. Even once they got to the airport; wide open but how long could they cruise down the runway before they'd have to circle back? Is there really room to turn around at speed? But hey, I liked the suspense of Speed.
With that said, I shake my head at tire squeals on dirt or gravel roads.
When someone enters a dark room and doesn't turn on the lights to see the guy standing right there ready to pounce.
Girls running up the stairs instead of out the door to safety in horror movies.
Monsters/killers get shot or stabbed multiple times and walk around as though nothing happened.
Or my favorite: People wandering off alone into abandoned places instead of staying together in a group.
The horror movie cliches are so bad that the movie Scream parodied all of them.
The heroine Sydney is talking on the phone and saying how she NEVER watches horror movies because it's always some big breasted girl running up the stairs when she should be running outside. She adds, "It's insulting." Five minutes later she is being chased by the killer and she runs upstairs!
Don't know what it is about the safety of the bedroom when a killer is chasing you. Maybe you could pelt them with pillows. LOL Not like it would make any sense to run into the kitchen to grab your OWN knife when a knife wielding maniac is chasing you.
Yep, horror movie clichés are irritating. I'll also add that I dislike horror movies with twists that are meaningless or don't make sense. That's a recent cliché that won't go away.
share Those horror movie cliche's! In some ways I feel sorry for directors who have to come up with new ways to create suspense ans surprise. It seems as though everything has been done a dozen times before.
My favorite director Alfred Hitchcock pioneered so many of the suspense techniques and the scares. And he has been imitated so much. It's a tribute to him. But after a while the audience is familiar with every technique. Like the famous shower scene in Psycho. From what I have read, it scared the heck out of audiences when they saw it for the first time. But now?? Female character gets in the shower? Ho hum. Might as well start writing her obituary.
I don't envy writers and directors. They have a hard job trying to surprise audiences who have become so familiar with every technique and cliche' that they are totally jaded. Still, the film makers COULD try harder sometimes!
The character hears a "strange noise"....gee I think I'll go investigate and NOT turn on a light.
Yea, horror movies today aren't that scary because of the overuse of clichés. The other cliché I hate is when everyone dies at the end. For some movies, that makes sense, but now almost every other film does that.
sharey'all should check out "behind the mask - the rise of leslie vernon". rather unknown horror-mockumentary, that deals with all of that, but 100x better than "scream". also "student bodies" is pretty awesome. also better than scream, but at least 10 years earlier.
share"Girls running up the stairs instead of out the door to safety in horror movies."
Yup! Or any dumb fucking decisions the characters do in horror movies. Most of the time when i watch a horror film, i just feel like the characters are up for a darwin award.
Mine are two very small, but highly irritating things:
1: Hand (any body part really) close ups where you can clearly tell that it's not a match for the actor.
2: When the actors are face to face, conversing, and someone smiles and then the next frame is shot from behind and you can tell that the facial expression (from the back of the head - NO CHEEKS!) that it's not the same... that the actor is basically standing there limp.
Nothing drives me out of a movie faster than noticing one of those two things..
I do catch myself counting bullets when they're fired, but if the scene is good, I can dismiss it... but I do really appreciate a reload in an action scene.
My pet peeve in major motion pictures is that everyone's home always looks SPARKLING CLEAN, like a housekeeper just left after a 3-day cleaning marathon. Windows, floors, all smooth and shiny...not a slipcover, bedspread or pillow out of place, gracefully arranged flowers at the peak of freshness...NO HUMAN BEING'S HOUSE LOOKS LIKE THAT ROUND THE CLOCK!!
I think I first noticed this on a conscious level in "Sleepless in Seatle". I thought, "Wow, for a single, working dad, Tom Hanks is also ONE HELL OF A HOUSEKEEPER!"
.
A character calmly walking away from a massive explosion going on in the background, usually meant to be climactic near the end. No impact, shrapnel, reaction whatsoever; it's become so formulaic !
shareWhen they pour a cup of coffee or tea and sit down and you can clearly see the cup is empty, and then they pretend to drink from it.
People sitting down for their meals, never taking a bite, talking for a couple of minutes and leaving the table.
shareCats always giving the fake scares in horror movies.
Jumping out at some random moment .
I've heard this complaint from other people. The actors never seem to eat. The popular explanation seems to be that they have lines to say and it's hard to do that with a mouthful of food.
I think it takes a very skilled actor with good timing to be able to take a bite and swallow before his next line. On All in the Family, they were frequently at the dinner table. Archie and Edith were obviously eating and still able to their lines. Carroll O'Connor was really good at talking with food in his mouth.
Of course it is annoying when they offer a guest a cup of coffee or some other beverage and he just holds it during the scene and leaves without even taking one sip.
Another annoying moment in movies is how the hero always manages to find a parking spot right in front of the building no matter the time of day, in places like New York City. There's always that one magical empty spot that no one else saw.
Cats always jump out and scare people. Jones in Alien was the worst culprit! LOL
Another facet to not actually eating is the need for multiple takes. Rosemary Clooney mentioned this when she did the DVD commentary for White Christmas. Even a couple of bites multiplied by a dozen takes, regardless of the reasons for them, adds up to a lot of food. Continuity is another concern - it can't be easy to keep track of who ate how much of what and when, especially in a lengthy scene with several characters.
shareBabies who don't age. I know it's tricky with child labor laws and so on, but if the story line advances several months or multiple seasons, such as spring to Christmastime, the baby should age, too. It doesn't need to be precise but surely they can do better than using a baby who's five or six months old for one who should be nearly a year old or more by that point.
share