When the good guy hesitates to kill the bad guy when he accidentally has them cornered and the bad guy gets away! DON'T HESITATE! UNLOAD ON THE FUKER!
I was recently watching Animal House and at the end it gives the date of graduation for the main characters and their current jobs. It's funny. But wait. One, weren't the Deltas expelled? Two, if they all found another college to accept them, they had a 100% graduation rate (weren't their grades horrible?)?
-Conversations where one party speaks English and the other speaks some other language and they are conversing perfectly. Have you ever seen this? If I speak my limited Spanish to someone I know who speaks Spanish, they speak Spanish back to me. -The clap stared by one person clapping very slowly and deliberately. Pompass b*stard. -Super noisy, zoomy and flashy computer interfaces. -Or someone typing and reading their own text out loud as they do it. -And super-cool good looking stylish 'hackers'. (see Swordfish, even though I liked that movie). -Bombs with timers that have sound. Like terrorists have time to put a flipping speaker on the bomb. -The good guys not grabbing guns from the fallen bad guy when they aren't armed. -Bruckheimer movies and the people who like them. -Chick flicks. I don't need a 'good cry'. Thank God my wife realizes this and doesn't force these things on me. -Chick flicks that are disguised as guy movies. Example: The Wedding Crashers. -Ethnic stereotypes, ex: every Asian knowing martial arts, (see Bruckheimer). -The new fad of torture 'horror movies'. They're just soft snuff films. -Douchebags who give up the hot chick to the dork after some moral apophony. And women who prefer the dorks over the douchebags. -Obnoxious, super articulate child actors. -Poorly cast, obviously over aged High-School/College kids. I love you Jake Ryan and Dyllan McKay!
Ding. Ding. Ding. This is my biggest peeve at the moment. Any computer geek can hack into ANY computer system in the world in less than a minute. Or said geek can use computer technology to do just anything he damn well pleases. I think Live Free or Die Hard and Transformers are the biggest examples of this right now....Justin Long hot wiring a cell phone to act like his own little laptop. Or the bad guys easily hacking into a government database...and then Justin Long coming along and hacking into the very same database with ease as well. Remember Die Hard one? Remember how long into Gruber's computer geek to break the vault. And yet here it takes them 30sec max?! Then in transformers, let's just hot wire this computer here, hook it up to an antique morse code machine, and relay a signal to the military. Yeah ok. Now I loved the movie, but that storyline with the Aussie chick and Anthony Anderson and John Voight went to s**t by the end of the film. And here's another one...let's make a Die Hard movie and not make it rated R in the theater. Or let's cut Bruce Willis off when he says his trademark "yippe kay yay motherf****!" What the hell is that?!?! Oh and another one...let's make a spoof movie (Scary Movie, Date Move, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans) where the spoofs are nothing but tired pop culture references that are so f***ing obvious that only an innocent kid that doesn't know better or the same adults who keep Martin Lawrence's and the Wayans brothers' careers alive would find funny.
Most of the time, Hollywood trying to show any high-tech computer stuff is lame, hacking or not. Also, sound in outer space bothers me.
Harrison Ford in that K-9: The Widowmaker or whatever such **** it was called. OK, you're Russian, yet you speak English to all other Russians. In a Russian accent.
George Lucas said he first tried to make Star Wars with no sound in space. He said it was just too strange etc.
The hero has the villain on the run, but the villain takes a hostage and points a gun at his/her head. He demands that the hero put down his weapon...and the hero actually DOES, turning a standoff into a situation where the villain holds all the cards.
A little more on the foreign language conversations... - When one is speaking English and the other is speaking Japanese, but then both start speaking English. - Arnold making no attempt to not have an Austrian accent. The hacking scenes are pretty absurd. I mean in Hackers and Jurrasic Park it looked like they were hacking screen savers or video games. Some sports movies get a little crazy with hits too. Almost all punches in boxing movies are haymakers and fights last 10 rounds. Boxers would barely last 2 rounds at that pace. Football movies have the trampoline hits where people come flying in and cause potential career threatening hits that have very little effect on the player getting hit. As much as I like the first two Home Alone movies, no way Joe Pesci and David Stern survive what they go through. James Bond movies that point out every gadget that you know Bond will eventually use somehow.
The marksmanship of the villains vs that of the hero. That has always bothered me and out of the large mass that you have to aim on the brawny good guy you can only seem to injure him in the shoulder....... which actually makes his arm work better moments later in the movie. And how come the hero can always outrun the shots......i.e. the gunshots spark up right behind his heal yet nothing ever hits either his foot or ricochets to hit them. Whack.
- The protagonist, armed with a single semi-automatic weapon takes on a dozen bad guys who are weilding shotguns, sniper rifles and fully automatic machine guns...and he never gets hit. - Aside from comedies, nobody ever has to take a crap. Maybe in a horror movie they'll take one but it's only a method of getting that person alone so they can be killed. - No matter where they are, the protagonist's cell phone will be unable to get reception as long as it is convenient for the storyline. - If a female character goes through any kind of ordeal with the protagonist, regardless of how short the time span, she has to fall for him. I wish for once that the hero could save a girl's life and that they wouldn't kiss at the end of the movie. Just for originality's sake. - In their attempt to save the life of one person (a girlfriend, relative, etc.) the protagonist will put the lives of countless innocents in danger. How many times have we seen the "good guy" run a red light during a car chase, resulting in a head on collision in the intersection? "I hope nobody's baby went flying through the windshield or anything, but I have to save my girlfriend!".
Wasn't there a subtitle at the beginning of the movie that said "translated from russian" Or was that another movie of Harrison Ford's?
Movies that pretend to be historical, yet contain a non-stop stream of blatant half-truths, fabrications, or outright falsehoods.
Today's movies have the streets wet down because it's easier for the stunt men to spin cars around and keep control. To make the streets wet, they'll either write it up where a car has broken through a fire hydrant or it's been raining, or they've knocked over a truck full of bottled water or something like that. Back in the old-school days, stuntmen weren't pu$$ies like that and they'd have to actually do car stunts on dry streets. Knowing this, if you see a modern film with car stunts done on a dry street, you might appreciate it more.
