When women get into a fight they always get a small sexy cut on the forehead or cheek, no matter how violent the fight. Very seldom do you see them beaten to a pulp like in Atomic Blonde.
shareAny military guy in a war movie who talks about his sweetheart and his marriage plans is getting shot to bits by the next reel!
‘Here’s a picture of Amanda, we’re gonna tie the knot as soon as I get back to 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥😵’
In real life, in World War II, there's a reason many soldiers went out of their way to get married before leaving, so that wouldn't happen; and if they died in battle, their insurance would go towards taking care of their widows. The lucky ones came home alive to raise kids and start the Baby Boom.
shareWhen a character is shot / clobbered / whatever and falls down unconscious, you can tell whether they're still alive or not by whether the other characters even bother to check.
Grrrrr!
No one has said the old pet peeve yet.
* People order drinks/food and don't consume them. Sometimes leaving before it even arrives.
* A mother will cook a huge meal which no one will eat or a character will just take one slice of toast and leave the lashings of bacon and eggs etc behind.
* There is always far more food than anyone in the family seems to want to eat which begs the question. Why is the mother wasting so much time and money making it all?!
Very good list, the food cliches are hilarious!
Who prepares a lavish buffet of breakfast foods on a work or school day? Did Mom get up at 4 AM to prepare all of this? Is she feeding the Chinese Army??
Guy walks into a bar, ‘Bartender, gimme a beer!’ Bartender never asks what brand, pint or bottle, nothing…Guy doesn’t finish it anyway
Yes! I always wonder that too. The mother must have been cooking for hours than no one eats more than maybe a bite of toast and they gulp the coffee down. And you see the more Yuppie households with croissants and baked goods which must have been purchased and again, no one eats anything.
Same with the beer/drinks. It's possible the barman just provides the house beer but it's still weird.
Food has taken over from smoking in regards to giving the actors something to do and setting a scene. The TV Show Big Bang Theory would do it all the time, have the cast eating as a means of bringing them together and giving them something to do.
My two pet peeves:
i. Hero gets shot, knifed, beaten up... whatever. Barely reacts to the pain. The girl applies some alcohol to help disinfect the wound... he winces and sucks in his breath like he's having a limb removed. (See Raiders of the Lost Ark as an example.)
ii. Two partners... cops, detectives, whatever. One gets a lead over the phone. Decides to follow up. As he's leaving the scene the other partner asks: "Where are you going?" Instead of explicitly telling the second cop what he learned, the first guy sez something like: "I'm going to check something out." Later, when the first cop gets killed, or hospitalized, the second cop is left with no clues to follow up because his partner didn't tell him what the hell he was up to.
They did this in the X-Files a lot. Mulder was always dashing off without ever telling Scully what he was up to.
And NEVER calling for back up.
shareI once witnessed a guy being stabbed in a restaurant. It was apparently somekind of a gang fight and the guy was againts multiple attackers. Everyone ran out but keep watching from the outside.
The guy was able to keep standing and fighting with a knife right there in his chest. He was wearing a white shirt which was blood soaked. There were so much blood, unlike in movies where stab wound would be like a little red circle on the shirt. The entire front side of his shirt was practically all blood. And blood were everywhere, on the tables, floor, plates, just from one stab wound. Very unlike in the movies!
His blood was very dark red almost looked like black, and surprisingly very shiny! Hollywood's blood are always way too red and look dry.
Anyhow, it's almost as if he didn't feel pain, this time just like in the movies! He was yelling, but sounded more like roaring a battle cry. Not once he tried to run away. I was so amazed.
Brutal.
I trained in martial arts with a local cop who was the use-of-force expert on the force. He told me similar stories. Knives are the weapons of choice for street punks. Several cops who got into tussles with these guys reported that they didn't even realize they had been stabbed until after the fight was over and they saw all the blood around.
When the adrenaline is flowing, you don't feel the pain at the time.
1. Someone is hiding from a monster or other baddie and they put their own hand over their mouth to keep from making noise (but do anyway). Seriously? If you have enough self control to put your hand over your mouth, you have enough to keep quiet.
2. "Let's split up" or "Wait here". Death generally is imminent.