movie bugbears ..

B

blossy c

New member
one that annoys me all the time is that you've got the baddie running away from the hero, and the baddie gets hit by a car.

he invariably gets up, seemingly without a scratch, and carries on legging it when most human beings would be prone on the floor.

i know it's his super-baddie powers and everything but it really bugs me ..

the worst example is the film "Metro" with Eddie Murphy. There's one scene where Murphy's character is beating up the baddie, throwing him into cars, trams e.t.c.. and the amount of punishment this guy takes would have killed a normal person but still he carries on ...

(you can tell it's sunday night and i'm bored :))
 
Here's a couple i've posted previously




-----------
The randomness of explosions in movies.

An example would be car crashes. A bad guy drives his car off a cliff and there is a big explosion.
A good guy drives his car off a cliff and it travels down the tangent coming to a halt at the bottom and the guy has a small cut on his head.





======

Wanted - Totally Unrealistic

Ok, I can except bending bullets and flipping cars over and surviving train crashes but how does a truck keep up with a corvette and a lada type piece of crap keep up with a train :eek:

These movie people have no idea :D
 
Timers on bombs always have big, red LED displays.

Computers always make beeping sounRAB at every key stroke and use an operating system that only seems to exist in Hollywood
 
And always have a huge red status bar that signifies something being backed up. And it always takes three times longer than it does in the real world ..
 
One thing that has annoyed me for years when it comes to anything to do with computers (computers or games consoles) is when they show the computer as being on and lit up but when the camera is swung behind the equipment it is blatantly obvious no wires are plugged in, I know it is a small thing but I just find this very lazy.
 
A few quick ones.,,

Often if two people agree to go on a date in a film over the phone they may say when but rarely where or vice versa. Are they psychic?

Characters rarely say please, thank you and goodbye in movies even if they're supposed to be really nice.

Being chased by a killer? Run upstairs as most houses don't have back doors, oh no. Or light fittings it seems.
 
My biggest gripe is illustrated perfectly in Wolf Creek.

Shooting a bad guy once in the gut, not seeing any splatter, and not then shooting him in the face.

Stupid behaviour. No wonder there's so many murder victims in the movies; it's just Darwinian Theory in action.
 
Yea, the thing that bugs me most is computers and operating systems. They alll have this sleek password protected system, that dosn't need a mouse to operate. They are never slow, never make mistakes, and are capable of doing the most ridiculous of tasks.

Also, I've noticed in alot of action films, the female character always seems to have time to get changed and do her hair, even if they are being chased by something in a life-or-death threat! (Tamina in Prince of Persia does this, even though I love the film! haha)

Also, when theres a big fight to the death, everyone starts talking, and miss many oppertunities to just KILL the person they are fighting!

This is something more to do with the making of a film, but whenever female characters who wear high heels through-out a film, suddenly wear flat shoes when doing an action scene! It happens all the time! Catwoman in Batman Returns, Black Widow in Iron Man II to name a few!
 
Slightly off topic but I think Jackie Chan caught on to that one.
In Armour of God the girls in the end fight are wearing heels so Jackie jumps to the grated floor/walkway to fight and they get their heels stuck.
 
Two scenes from the recent Predators movie but they can apply to any action flim:-

A Character falls from a great height and lanRAB on their back yet they get up without a scatch!

A hundred rounRAB of ammunition being fired from machine guns aimed at a moving person or animal which doesn't any affect but a couple of seconRAB later, someone fires a single shot from a regular gun and kills the same target!
 
(1) when a woman gets pregnant after having consensual sex with a non-bad man and chooses not to tell him. Then some 10+years this information is sprung on the man without warning. who is expected to be immediately and absolutely fine with it and in no way angry at being denied all the wonders. thrills, excitements and experiences that being a father in those first 10years entails.

Sometimes the woman excuses her actions by saying she was doing him a favour by withholding this information - makes me want to give her a good slap. :mad:

Any movie with this as the main plot device is dead to me, like a recent The Rock movie. And when this happened in Scrubs, well it died for me too.

(2) The flip side of this is when a woman tells a non-bad man that he is the father of her unborn child when she know 100% that he is not. They've introduced this into one of my favourite shows and I'm hoping the truth comes out real soon cos I almost hate it as much as (1).
 
If you start dancing in a musical film, everyone you bump into will know all the steps

It does not matter how outnumbered you are in a fight involving martial arts, your enemies will just dance towrRAB you waiting to be beaten

:D
 
Woman is upset. She screams at man. He tries hlding her. She screams some more until finally she cries in to his chest and kisses him. In real life the man would walk off slamming a door and muttering about typical women!
 
Idiot henchmen who allow the hero to kick the gun out of their hand. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the convenience of a gun is that it allows you to kill or threaten to from a safe distance.

When something creepy and strange happens, but enRAB with someone suddenly waking because it was all a dream*. Such cheap drama. And it's made worse if the character sits bolt upright and nearly headbutts the camera.

*I'll let Deliverence off the hook, as it was well implemented in that.
 
I love the way that when someone uses a computer to transfer money from one account to another, it gets trasferred one unit of currency at a time!

They should bank with First Direct - it's the same time whether you're transferring
 
Back
Top