cannonballs that explode the tiny, skinny 5-foot pretty girl whose poorly formed and powerless punch is able to topple the 6-and-a-half foot 250-pound muscle-bound man. prisoners who conveniently spend their entire prison time in the same cell (not having to switch cells) and giving them the convenient luxury of dedicating time to digging out. the hand-grenades that take .5 seconds to explode next to the bad guy, but 30 seconds to explode when they land next to the good guy - and never contain shrapnel.
Reminds me of more: * Movies that are obsessed with supposedly great cities, like Paris (Paris, Je T'Aime, though I liked the movie), New York or LA. I want to make a movie called Houston, I Like You. * Movies about script-writers (and novels about writers). They say you should write about what you know, but, script-writers, your life is really not as interesting as you think. * Great-Man biographies about musicians, mathmaticians, artists, and other "geniuses." They're all the same: protagonist has early success that shows his genius, overindulges in the fruits of that success, struggles with an addiction to drugs/alcohol, hits bottom, gains some redemption before its too late by getting clean and letting his talent shine through one last time.
Heroes getting his *ss handed to him by taking like 100 solid good hits but is able to survived and get a send wind. . but 4 good hits and the Bad Guy is down for the count. Rocket River
- How come whenever a guy jumps through a window, therefore breaking the window, he never gets stabbed by those itty bitty broken glass pieces. - For originality's sake, I'd like to see a bad American v good Russian. - In all of "high school" teen movies, the jock is always the bad guy and the loser or nerd is always the good guy. - In a typical white guy/black guy flick, the black guy is always super hip and knows the ways of the streets while the white guy seems like he's never heard of rap before.
What's there to know? Jeff played a genius who saved the world in the film. If he took the time out to tell us how he managed to pull it off, then the world would have ended. So, you just have to take him at his word. It appeared to work. lol Plus, the Aliens weren't smart enough to use encryption on their network. So, they deserved it. Build all these big, bad ships and don't even encrypt their own network. WTF were they thinking?
Why is it that when it's a movie about BLACKS vs. WHITES, the blacks always get integrated at the end? Change it up a little... have one race shoot the entire other race... Remember the Titans (football) Glory Road (basketball) Pride (swimming) Hairspray (dancing) Here's one that no one EVER thought of: How come they never shoot and wound a guy WITHOUT a shirt?
Rock music in movies. Why? I never understood the reasoning. Forrest Gump, for example. It was cramming all these rock songs down our throat. Was it really that !@#$ing necessary? Almost Famous was another movie that used rock music as an afterthought more than highlighting the story, maybe, maybe with the exception of the Tiny Dancer/bus scene. But even with that, you think they could have done more with what they had. A song written for a movie is one thing, but just using rock music for no good reason but to have some songs for the movie soundtrack really pisses me off.
Related, I cringe when movies (and, more often, tv shows) do concerts and club-scenes badly (which is usually).
I've got to disagree with this. Music can really make a movie and the music in Forrest Gump was great.
Don't know if it has been mentioned before, so hopefully it hasn't. This really applies more to sitcoms than movies, but it does happen in movies too. When people first walk into their home/apartment, why do they never lock the door? That's the first thing most people do (excluding those who live out in the country where break-ins don't happen). They only do it in scary movies/sitcoms where there is actually something to be afraid of. We have all seen it in various sitcoms; walk into the home, (usually they are already talking to begin with before they enter the door) slam the door behind them and keep going on to whatever they need to do next. It's just something I noticed.
JusBleezy, some door knobs have mechanisms that allow you to just unlock and get in, and the lock stays on and when you close the door behind you, it stays locked. One more: in boxing or wrestling movies where the good guy is about to get beat by the otherwise known to be bad guy, ONE OUNCE of strength overcomes whatever the bad guy's strength is.
Having characters (usually chicks or yuppies) bond by singing along together to a Motown song. Often accompanied by house cleaning or (if it's a chick flicks) makeovers. Characters who crack one-liners after killing someone. Most people who have killed someone find it rather traumatic, even if that someone was a bad guy. Movies where lazy slackers somehow manage to overcome the smart kids/talented jocks in order to win the big (game/academic contest/test/etc...) and win the affection of some hot chick. Teen movies with crappy covers of crappy 80s songs by crappy "contemporary" bands (who usually have used up their 15 minutes of fame by the time the movie is released on DVD). Movies where the dude is in love with a "hot chick" and enlists his even hotter female friend (who's also nicer and actually in love with him) to help him. Later, he realizes his friend is hotter and they get together.
As in Homer's Iliad Trojan War??? Wasn't that about one guy stealing another man's wife and the war that ensued?
