In horror films, the [slasher/creature/monster] that has been killed must revive at least one more time for a mandatory jump-scare.
shareIt’s especially annoying when the lone survivor of all the bloody mayhem conks the villain out and then just walks away…Wouldn’t you crack the bad guy over the head a dozen more times just to be sure?
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shareWalking away from a large explosion and there is no shockwave.
shareThe Hurt Locker shows a pretty realistic result of being anywhere near a huge explosion in the very first scene
Your guts would be scrambled, it’s not survivable … scary stuff!
That was a great scene. The movie introduces one of my favourite actors -- Guy Pearce -- and several minutes later he gets taken out by an explosive. Me: "I did not see that coming!"
Did you see The Hunt? It pulls the same trick... we see a goodly number of familiar C-listers introduced in the opening scene... only to watch them get picked off within minutes. I love that sort of unexpected element in a movie.
I had the same reaction to that Hurt Locker scene.
Yes, I saw the Hunt and I really enjoyed not knowing who was going to survive, it was really well done.
the obvious kill shot that somehow only injured a character in the "shoulder" and they survived
shareOr the bad guys who spray thousands of bullets around yet don't hit anything.
shareThe instant expert. A character begins learning something new and within a short space of time they become an expert.
shareI learned from the movies that hacking into government computers only takes like 30 seconds and pretty much any fool can do it
shareAnd you can break out of NORAD rooms with a tape recorder and medical equipment. You can also wander off course from tour groups. Because a place that launches nukes would have tour groups!
shareone of my favourite indie-sci-fi films of the past few years is coherence, & it does this so precisely that i think they must have meant it as satire.
literally they stop & read a physics textbook one guy had in the trunk of his car & figure out why the world has gone loopy.
i love it so much that i forgive it and don't really care whether they meant it as a way of making fun of a trope or a short cut. it makes me laugh every time i watch it regardless.
"The instant expert."
Or this variation: the conveniently available expert. Example: An airliner is halfway across the ocean and a passenger suffers a heart attack. One of the other passengers just happens to be a cardiologist. Or the pilot becomes disabled and there's a vacationing retired pilot who just happens to be on that very same flight.
‘Back off, give him room! Is there a heart Doctor on the plane ?!?’
Or the ones where the person starts performing a medical procedure while being guided via the phone, usually it's a Tracheotomy. I just know I would be cutting in the wrong place!
shareYou just need to look one second in the driving mirror to know that somebody is following you .
shareYou can always find easily a parking space, it does not matter when or where.
shareThis one is especially annoying to me
Parking in NYC is utterly atrocious, I’m not kidding when I say I’m surprised I’ve never witnessed a killing over a parking spot in The Bronx
Parking is the goal , if you can park the rest of work is just so much bullshit
When someone is trying to make a quick getaway in a car, that they have trouble starting the car.
shareIs that still a thing in modern movies? No carbs to flood these days. 😀
shareThey should update the cliché to use modern cars that have the longest animations and lightshow before you can turn on the engine.
I think it would be so frustrating getting into your car while being chased by a crazy killer, monster, demon or whatever only to be greeted by "Welcome, Dan." and 10 seconds of Chevrolet logo animates with an uplifting chime, ambient lights and 3D graphics of the car rotates 360° on all the screens. While the character frantically pushes the Start/Stop engine button over and over mumbling come on, come on, just start the engine! And when the engine finally starts it turns off again because he keeps pressing the button.
Now that is an idea! The cars these days are getting pretty ridiculous.
shareSomeone is pinned to the ground, being aggressively strangled, when just before losing consciousness, manages to latch onto a baseball sized rock barely within arm's reach, and takes it to the assailant's head.
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