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Things in today's movies that are annoying ?

posted 7 years ago by brux (14840)
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Not in any particular order ...

1. Product placements in the middle of an important visual or scene?

2. The attitude of today's movies having to pretend they are so cool and smart. They run the movie really fast and noisy so you have to pay real attention of you miss something important. I guess it makes people who like the movie have to go see it again.

3. Again, the continual self-conscious reversal of expectations. Throwing stereotypes around any which way they can be used, as attention getters in the movie but maybe no real reason for it. Like always showing the little kids as being smarter with computers than adults, or Asians being smart. The young are smarter than they old, and when really old the condescending final reversal of that before death where a doddering old man with wisdom pushed the plot forward.

4. The constant profanity. I wonder if Hollywood is happy now that they have got profanity laced all throughout everything.

5. The inverse relationship between quality of the special effects and CGI and the quality of the movie. If there are good effects, then the movie is usually bad.

6. The same faces in the movies all the time. Certain stars and studios seem to have a monopoly on movies. Give other people a chance ... including Americans.

7. The constant examples of women fighting and defeating men, over and over, constantly until it is almost everywhere. It is sad but true that people have different fighting capabilities, and skill is important, but a 100 pound woman is not going to defeat a 250 pound man in a fight 999,999 times out of a million. It would be nice if movies would try to reflect reality just a little.

8. The total waste that most movies are. I used to see 1-3 movies a week 20 years ago. Not the movies are nothing I want to see, nothing I think anyone else should want to see ( just kidding ), cost way too much. The movie industry used to at least instill values in movies, and way back they have the newsreels and it was where Americans got their news. Today movie are like food, candy, and so much other stuff, cheap junk with an agenda.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 7 years ago

Shaky cam.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

^ Seconded. That got old after the first time I saw it. Actually, 1/4 way through.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

Didn't that start with Blair Witch? Most of the time I find that annoying, but sometimes now. I think they used it in the later Battlestar Galactica series to good effect though.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 7 years ago

Blair Witch was the first one I saw it in, but I couldn't swear it was the first one that used it. It was effective to a point in Blair Witch. I've never seen Battlestar but will take your word for it.

[–] GlenEllyn (21653) 7 years ago

AMEN! Hate it. Sometimes it's so bad I have to fast-forward.

[–] somesunnyday (2078) 7 years ago

This mostly occurs in horror but I find the dialogue too quiet and then all of a sudden the volume ramps up to an unbearable level to convey that something scary is happening.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

I hate any movie that when I am watching it at home has me holding the remote control to turn it up or down as the volume changes like that, really annoyingly.

[–] Stratego (31072) 7 years ago

Too much CGI, even when real props and effects could be used.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7370) 7 years ago

Very small pet peeve of mine, but more and more I see this happening and it drives me nuts. When someone is talking in a scene, but the camera is not on them for much or all of the time they are speaking. I feel like this happens often and repeatedly in films and it isn't done for effect, it's done to show a product, or the hotter actor in the scene, or something entirely unrelated to the scene.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

There is a lot of illogic in movies today, just to test what will work, or not work. In our town we have a theater that plays only old movies us to about the 50's. When I see how some of the best of the older movies are, I appreciate them much more than the movies of today. I have to honestly say that one thing that is ruining movies is the corruption, of the Harvey Weinstein sort. Doesn't have to be sexual harassment, but the use of movies in a brainwashing, experimental sense instead of a positive social artistic sense. There are so few movies that even try to be moral anymore.

Another thing that really gets me is the cookie-cutter plot that is done over and over again. For example the revenge flick. Some guy is shown in a life of domestic bliss, and then something bad happens, the wife or kids are put in danger or killed, and the rest of the movie is just seeking revenge. This is so boring and useless to me.

The super-hero is also another genre I could do without ... or at least 99% of them. I am sick of no-brain sci-fi or action movies. What is wrong with Hollywood ... they are designing movies for idiots and criminals.

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[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

>> But many movies nowadays just take an idea that seems cool, puts it in the movie and never explore it...

Totally ... I think the "establishment" is all about cutting down and tracking ideas that people have been exposed to. Also, schools are not teaching people useful stuff, either or life, or for being a citizen, and certain ideas about democracy and even the Constitution are not shown, let alone celebrated.

Movies are projects by political operatives, and they are blamed on Liberals, but what we see today is not Liberal except in a misleading way.

They never want to go far enough into something that anyone can complain or even see what is going on.

Ha, but coming from a guy old enough to have grown up with black and white TV until my 20's I like color. I think the over-management of elements of video and plot are the problem, and color can fit into that.

All this works into movies just being distraction, and not art, for the most part.

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[–] ThreeTenToYuma (922) 7 years ago

Skinny female heroines who can kill men with their bare hands. In the real world, girls like Gal Gadot and Alicia Vikander get slapped around like rag dolls by even the most diminutive men. Hell, I bet a lot of pre-pubescent boys could beat the snot out of them.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

Yes, it is the rare, almost non-existent female who can beat a male in a fight. It is not impossible ... I like the way it was done in Game Of Thrones with that big blonde female knight ... can't think of her name, oh, Brienne of Tarth, but that makes more sense and is more realistic.

[–] ThreeTenToYuma (922) 7 years ago

I've encountered a few girls who could probably put up a fight. They were serious weight lifters with sufficient body mass and strength to be dangerous. There are some fat girls as well who could probably KO someone if they caught him off guard. But your typical skinny girl has zero chance in a physical confrontation.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 7 years ago

I hate it when someone is partially clothed, like a shirtless man, and everyone refers to them as naked. Or in underwear and then just being casually referred to as nude or naked. It's super prudish and a disservice to the words' actual meaning, not to mention an insult to the beauty of our actually naked bodies.