Transporters don't work through shields. Plus there are many ways to disrupt pattern locks (ionic storms, 'interference', etc). Biggest nitpick I have wrt Star Trek is that damn Voyager being repaired after every damn show, and having about 6 dozen shuttles. And alternating between using replicators to have whatever food they want, and having to survive off rations depending on what the stupid writers want them to deal with that week.
Saving Private Ryan was about the American invasion and about an American company saving an American soldier...I suppose they could've thrown in some French and British troops in there but it wasn't really necessary cause the movie wasn't a broad story of the war. There's plenty of other movies that feature other nation's involvement in the war (Enemy at the Gates, Empire of the Sun, Letters from Iwo Jima). The Ocean's movies were great BECAUSE of the all-star cast assembled...just like the original Ocean's. I never got that impression. In fact I think Eric Bana had just as good of on-screen presence as Brad Pitt. Now this I agree with...I don't think anybody saw Steven Seagal's death coming like that...if you blinked you missed it. Another example I can think of is Spoiler Julianne Moore in Children of Men...wow.
Oh wow, I thought it said "MORE pet peeves". When the good guys always win is a number one for me. The survival of one or numerous bullet wounds. The incredibly horrible shooting/aiming skills of the villains and the precise and amazing shooting skills of the good guys.
Standoffs with the cops where both sides have their guns drawn and just shout at each other. If you actually did that the cops are going to shoot you without thinking twice.
Movies like NATIONAL TREASURE! There always seems to be some freaking clue that is left behind in the perfect place. I don't know if Nicolas Cage has some sort of all knowing clues book but it sure seems like it. Oh! In the span of a couple of hours lets go from some random deciphered code to the city of gold hidden under Mount Rushmore!
thought for sure this would get mentioned already: CHILDBIRTH - If a pregnant lady appears in an action movie or comedy, bet your bottom dollar she WILL deliver a baby and it WONT be in a hospital. - And it WILL be for unnecessary melodramatic effect. - And of course all females or those in the medical field will be sure to mention out loud all the inaccuracies of the delivery (baby too big, too much hair, etc...) High school and sometimes college movie parties: - The parties are always RAGING big time bashes (especially in the 80's). Got tissue and confetti always wrapped around the house... When they open the car door or front door to the house, beer cans come falling out... At least 200 people packed in a house all of them slobbering drunk or high off their minds & wearing "party style" fashion... People passed out or making out in every space in the house including the kitchen, bathroom, garage, broom closet, under the bed, maybe on top of household objects. - Everyone hollering, dancing and smiling - except for the main character and possibly the guy or girl interest. Cuz they got to move the plot along and of course their intentions are better than everyone else's. And if he/she does get drunk or high it'll be the whole blurred hazy view around the room through their eyes "omg-what's-happening-to-me" thing. Seriously, I aint EVER been to a party like that. If movie parties are an accurate depiction of real life parties, I musta missed out on a lot
Samuel Jackson getting chomped by the shark in that supersmart shark movie - that was the highlight of a mediocre flick. But when Jackson got eaten like that, it was so freaking shocking. I didnt think Ben Affleck would be killed in the first 20 minutes of Smokin' Aces, but that movie was a waste of time and just remembering it causes me pain.
Not to mention the 1st shot always knocks something important out Mysteries: Revealing vital evidence at the end. . . or information the audience could not possibly have known to resolve the issue. Rocket River
- The evil sidekick who follows the main bad guy around like a lap dog, as if there's some kind of promotion coming his way, or that the bad guy isn't going to just screw him over after he gets what he's after. - There is always a parking space, even if the movie takes place on the busy streets of New York. - When a character wears a bullet proof vest in order to intentionally fake their death. I guess they just knew the wouldn't get shot in the *****ing FACE, right? - Along those same lines, anytime someone gets shot in the chest but survives because they had a watch/badge/trinket/artifact/deck of cards in their breast pocket. - Gunshots that send people flying 10 feet backward, especially into glass windows or off of platforms. - Blood never continuously runs from a wound, unless it's a horror movie and it's for effect. Someone gets cut, you see blood on/around the wound, and that's the end of it.
