In sports movies or scenes, the worst players always make the biggest plays. Absurd names for any kind of institutions (ex. Big State in "He Got Game") In almost any film where black people are the main subjects, police when shown are usually always racist. High school movies are really nothing what real high school is like. The outcast(s) usually ends up being very useful to the protagonist People running and catching up with moving vehicles.
In comedic chase scenes, whenever the main character approaches an intersection, they always show two (and only two) cars going through the intersection in opposite directions. Of course, the main character's car always narrowly passes by the two cars unscathed.
What did you mean with "GLORY" to my response? Anyway, to add to yours, the black lower-ranked police officer or detective ALWAYS gets killed...
That's almost as bad as Elizabeth Shue discovering the formula for cold fusion in the last twenty minutes of The Saint, because Val Kilmer seduced her.
Because both off these movies were made so Baby Boomers could feel young again. Like those god-awful Ameriprise Financial commercials. And, frankly, the music (and Robin Wright-Penn) were the only things good about Forrest Gump.
Basically two hours alternating between the Ben Stein scene from Ferris Bueller and the opening scene from Lean on Me (the one with "Welcome to the Jungle" playing). Although I thought Election was pretty close to accurate.
- Forgot where I saw this. The nice guy sees his girl interest at a party all drunk/high being more free spirited than usual and flirting around - he goes to "help her" out Offers to take her home or something lame so she can save herself from the destructive path... Either it should mean she doesn't give a flip about you. Or you should maybe go in and, eeh...have what she's having? - Goodness this pisses me off. When depicting football (there's a current commercial that does it), where they got numbers all wrong. Got a #26 or #78 at QB throwing the ball and #53 catching it. Freakin HATE that. I know Hollywood has a number of fruitcakes or those who never played a sport. But that doesnt take too much more research. I dont' know much about hockey or soccer but I'm sure certain players might wear certain numbers for a reason.
- The reenactment of basketball in most movies. The defense looks completely clueless, nobody can dribble, everyone shoots like a girl, the gym is always packed with rowdy fans, and the main character is never not involved in the play somehow. This also reminds me... - Inaccurate/suspended time. Like when they use a whole 30 seconds of film to depict 5 seconds of a sporting event, and I'm not talking about slow motion. The same goes for The Fast and The Furious. Their races are supposed to be 1/4 mile using extremely fast cars. In fact they say it explicitly (multiple times!) during the movie(s) that they are 10 second cars or faster. Yet somehow it takes them 2 minutes to finish a race and they even have time to look over at each other and taunt.
Well, at the end of Glory all the black soldiers get killed by the white Confederates. It was just an example. I know, it still does not happen very often.
Prostitute has a heart of gold and the main male in the story has to protect her from somebody while also falling in love with her. Injection of some little kid for a cuteness factor. Actors and/or actresses who are billed as the next big thing and do not live up to the hype, sort of like sports draft picks. Examples: Haley Joel Osment, Alicia Silverstone, etc. Kids who hop in a car and some how just know how to drive it perfectly. Going through a chase or fast driving scene a car manages to go through all types of intersections, on the sidewalks, through neighborhoods, crowds of people etc. and either the people manage to get out of the way or the driver just misses them completely. The placement of products in a film for some type of secret advertising. A substance, product, or item is given properties that in real life it no way could replicate. A girl is totally in love with guy A who does not treat her the way she should while guy B longs after girl but she does not notice him until the end of the freaking movie. A guy is a completely ass the entire film but something strikes him in the middle or towards the end of the film and then he becomes a great guy. Unrealistic parents and/or parenting.
I don't agree. Now let me finish my cool, refreshing Coca Cola like all the other cool kids in the world.
Some of ya'll have a laundry list of "peeves" it's a wonder you actually watch movies at all. Movies aren't supposed to be real life...if they were they'd be boring as hell to watch. So you gotta expect them to be a little over dramatic at times, and bend the laws of physics at another. That said, the material could at least be approached in an intelligent manner...you can bend the rules a little, but don't break them. Here's another peeve of mine... goody guy supposedly kills bad guy, but instead of just walking away or erasing any doubt that he's dead (by shooting/stabbing him again, from a safe distance), the good guy HAS to walk up to him in a careless fashion only to be injured or killed himself. Good example of this is in The Patriot...Heath Ledger's death could have easily been avoided had he not been an idiot and walked up to Jason Isaacs. Now I understand that his character logically had to die, but it could have been handled better.
oh, this one irked me a bit yesterday. actually the opposite was happening. i was watching an old Coen Brothers movie, Blood Simple. Spoiler the murdered victim is dragged into the back seat of a car. the car is driven out to the fields to bury the body. blood is everywhere on the back seat. the very next day, the guy who buried the body sticks his finger into the blood and it's still fresh. he put a towel on the back seat and the blood is being absorbed as if someone just poured it on there. besides that, it was a great movie.
That is annoying. Especially in horror movies like Friday the 13th or Halloween. When the villain has shown a history of not dying, why would you assume that knife to the chest will kill him. Erase the doubt and chop his head off.
You know I don't have a problem with product placement...when it's not blatantly obvious (extreme closeup of Heineken in Swordfish). I'd actually prefer to see real products being used then fake ones like you see on tv.
