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Tropes that movies, etc. use that you hate.
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Stupid kids.
Especially stupid kids that will get the whole cast killed by being stupid.
Two examples:
In "A Quiet Place," while a family is out scavenging the stupid youngest boy picks up a toy that makes noise. The dad stops him from playing with it because making noise can get you killed. Behind his back, the stupid teenage daughter gives the kid the toy anyway. While walking home, the stupid youngest son turns on the toy. It makes noise. Guess what happens next.
In "The Purge," a family prepares for Purge Night by locking up their home tighter than Fort Knox. Everything's fine until the stupid son breaches the defenses to offer shelter to the target of a purge gang, which immediately makes his family the new targets of this gang, whose members are apparently smart enough to break into the house, leaving the family vulnerable to attack not only from that group, but another purge gang of neighbors who all secretly hate the family. End result, Dad's dead, teenage girl's boyfriend is dead, lots of people bloodily killed in self-defense, and surviving family members traumitized not just by the event, but also the certainty that the people who live next door have marked them for next year's Purge.
(And yes, I realize the boy was "only trying to help" - one of the many excuses for stupid kids doing stupid things - but the simple fact is in a world where an entire country will face zero consequences for any violent act perpetrated for twelve hours, that kid needs to learn that "Better him than US" trumps all other sentiments)
Stupid kids are a plague on TV and in the movies, one that needs to be stamped out for everyone's sakes.
Especially stupid kids that will get the whole cast killed by being stupid.
Two examples:
In "A Quiet Place," while a family is out scavenging the stupid youngest boy picks up a toy that makes noise. The dad stops him from playing with it because making noise can get you killed. Behind his back, the stupid teenage daughter gives the kid the toy anyway. While walking home, the stupid youngest son turns on the toy. It makes noise. Guess what happens next.
In "The Purge," a family prepares for Purge Night by locking up their home tighter than Fort Knox. Everything's fine until the stupid son breaches the defenses to offer shelter to the target of a purge gang, which immediately makes his family the new targets of this gang, whose members are apparently smart enough to break into the house, leaving the family vulnerable to attack not only from that group, but another purge gang of neighbors who all secretly hate the family. End result, Dad's dead, teenage girl's boyfriend is dead, lots of people bloodily killed in self-defense, and surviving family members traumitized not just by the event, but also the certainty that the people who live next door have marked them for next year's Purge.
(And yes, I realize the boy was "only trying to help" - one of the many excuses for stupid kids doing stupid things - but the simple fact is in a world where an entire country will face zero consequences for any violent act perpetrated for twelve hours, that kid needs to learn that "Better him than US" trumps all other sentiments)
Stupid kids are a plague on TV and in the movies, one that needs to be stamped out for everyone's sakes.
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I hate that scene because the parents also were fucking idiots. When my wife and I go somewere with our children, we never let one of them walking at the back especially when It is busy/ dangerous. One parent should always walk at the end, so he/she can watch the children.
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It does seem like certain genres like horror tend to lean heavily on lapses on common sense to make their entire premise work.
Here's a trope for ya:
Those fucking nauseating syrupy schmaltzy fruit-salad holiday movies.. "White People In Sweaters," I've heard them called.
Anyone convicted of having anything to do with this crap should face some kind of penalty, such as death.
The Peanuts movies are of course exempt.
Those fucking nauseating syrupy schmaltzy fruit-salad holiday movies.. "White People In Sweaters," I've heard them called.
Anyone convicted of having anything to do with this crap should face some kind of penalty, such as death.
The Peanuts movies are of course exempt.
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Actually, there's kind of a subversion.of that trope in "World War Z," and it's my favorite part of the movie.I don't know what it's called, but whenever the other characters don't believe/trust the protagonist, so said protagonist has to spend half the movie convincing them. Just get on with the story, already.
Kor
Brad Pitt goes to Israel to find out why Israel managed to build a wall against the zombies when most of the rest of the world was blindsided by the outbreak. The official goes over the country's history and then explains the tenth man rule: "When nine people hear the same intelligence and come to the same conclusion, it's up to tenth man to disagree."
Pitt: "And you were the tenth man."
Official: "Exactly. So, when everybody thought it was code for something else, I was obligated to assume that when they said 'zombies,' they meant 'zombies.'"
It was his job to believe, so he built the wall, and Israel was saved...for a while anyway.
^ Interesting that you should bring up World War Z, because that's another trope...a movie that has almost nothing to do with the book that it's based on.
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- Ignoring basic laws of nature to have a story at all
Can be dumb funny like in Armageddon or any catastrophe movie made by Emmerich and/or Michael Bay but usually writers need something to happen as imagined so screw natures law or man made engineering/procedure ( love to see military guys critique military movies for example, often enough hilarious)
- Men getting hit in the groin yet can act 5 seconds later ( trust me, i've been there and you're out for at least several minutes and in no shape to continue the fight or run somewhere)
- having the exact specialized equipment to do something so the plot can move along, doesn't matter how obscure or rare the equipment is ( doesn't apply to Bond movies, there it's a feature
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Can be dumb funny like in Armageddon or any catastrophe movie made by Emmerich and/or Michael Bay but usually writers need something to happen as imagined so screw natures law or man made engineering/procedure ( love to see military guys critique military movies for example, often enough hilarious)
- Men getting hit in the groin yet can act 5 seconds later ( trust me, i've been there and you're out for at least several minutes and in no shape to continue the fight or run somewhere)
- having the exact specialized equipment to do something so the plot can move along, doesn't matter how obscure or rare the equipment is ( doesn't apply to Bond movies, there it's a feature
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When a car sustains even the slightest impact...and immediately explodes. It's actually kind of hard to get a car to explode IRL. (Pintos, OTOH.... )
Another trope: Danny Reagan being a dick.
Look, I love Blue Bloods with all my heart, it's my favorite TV show of all time, and Donnie Wahlberg is great in it, it's just...could Danny just pull the scorpion out of his ass? He's grumpy as shit in pretty much every scene he's in.
)Another trope: Danny Reagan being a dick.
Look, I love Blue Bloods with all my heart, it's my favorite TV show of all time, and Donnie Wahlberg is great in it, it's just...could Danny just pull the scorpion out of his ass? He's grumpy as shit in pretty much every scene he's in.
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^Not to mention that a lot of what he does would probably get cases thrown out of court in real life, like beating the crap out of suspects, threatening them, asking a psychic for help, etc.
In any place other than TV-land, he's a horrible police detective.
In any place other than TV-land, he's a horrible police detective.
^ You think Danny's bad? Hank Voight's worse.
And Vic Mackey makes them ALL look like saints.
At least with Danny and Hank, you can be reasonably sure that they have the best interests of their job, and their cities, at heart. Their intentions are good; they try to be good cops.
Vic Mackey, on the other hand...he's no better than the criminals he purports to hunt. I doubt he's ever done a good deed in his miserable fucking life.
And Vic Mackey makes them ALL look like saints.
At least with Danny and Hank, you can be reasonably sure that they have the best interests of their job, and their cities, at heart. Their intentions are good; they try to be good cops.
Vic Mackey, on the other hand...he's no better than the criminals he purports to hunt. I doubt he's ever done a good deed in his miserable fucking life.
When the spy is revealed and immediately reverts to his or her original accent. That's a sign of being a bad spy.
I remember reading on the internet -- maybe it was here -- where someone was actually upset Black Widow didn't revert to a Russian accent in Iron Man 2.
I remember reading on the internet -- maybe it was here -- where someone was actually upset Black Widow didn't revert to a Russian accent in Iron Man 2.
I've never seen BLUE BLOODS, though I have seen RANSOM, also with Wahlberg, playing a kidnapper. For me, he can do no wrong, as he visited my injured younger cousin in a Boston hospital after she was nearly killed by a drunken driver. He gave her his cap. This was about 1990.
Wasn't that about the time he was convicted for arson and had to do a bunch of community service?
Offhand, my most hated trope is the bomb disarming scene. I don't know how common it is these days, but it never generated any tension for me since they're obviously not going to kill any main characters by having them randomly cut the wrong wire. Galaxy Quest gets a pass for its self-destruct scene since it hilariously pokes fun at the countdown trope.
I was watching the third season of The Dragon Prince on Netflix recently and there was a scene where the soldiers that are about to march to war are given the choice to leave if they want and many of them do. I thought it was a neat subversion of that trope, especially for a kid's show.
The worst was some anthology show from the seventies, which had some plot to revive Nazi Germany. This guy had been living under an assumed American identity for thirty years, with no accent whatsoever. But as soon as the plot is uncovered and he is exposed and forced to admit what is going on, he switches mid-sentence to a strong German accent.
And then there's Melina and Alexei's complete absence of Russian accents when we see them at the beginning of Black Widow, but then when we meet up with them later on they not only have accents but they speak with grammatical errors such as missing articles. Maybe their language skills regressed from two decades away from it. It makes more sense for Yelena since she was taken from the English-speaking environment as a child, whereas Melina and Alexei were speaking perfect English as adults.
Kor
Speaking of reverting to original language, there's a similar trope that I don't necessarily hate but find funny. It's when a non-American actor stars as an American - complete with a pitch perfect American accent - but "fakes" their real accent for some situation.The worst was some anthology show from the seventies, which had some plot to revive Nazi Germany. This guy had been living under an assumed American identity for thirty years, with no accent whatsoever. But as soon as the plot is uncovered and he is exposed and forced to admit what is going on, he switches mid-sentence to a strong German accent.
And then there's Melina and Alexei's complete absence of Russian accents when we see them at the beginning of Black Widow, but then when we meet up with them later on they not only have accents but they speak with grammatical errors such as missing articles. Maybe their language skills regressed from two decades away from it. It makes more sense for Yelena since she was taken from the English-speaking environment as a child, whereas Melina and Alexei were speaking perfect English as adults.
Kor
An example from "House, MD," Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is trying to get information from various hospitals about a patient or something. At one point he calls a hospital in the UK and gets stonewalled, so he calls again using his foppish "Blackadder" accent in order to fool the hospital admin. I'm pretty sure it's literally in the first episode.
In "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," Sarah Connor (Lena Heady) has to meet a contact, Jesse Flores (Stephanie Jacobsen). Both actresses are rocking great American accents, until they actually meet. Since both characters try to hide their identities, Sarah suddenly "pretends" to a Brit, while Jesse "puts on" a mostly Australian accent.
And in the short lived show "The Riches," Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver play Romanian American grifters who in one episode put on English accents as part of a con, which of course are fake, because they were born and raised in the US, right? (wink wink, nudge nudge)
There are more examples, of course, and most viewers wouldn't think about it, but I find it freaking hilarious every time it happens.
God yes, it bugs me to no end when basic mistakes are made in regards to astronomy in order for them to tell a story. Though I do think they're getting better at this. But one of them, from a local series made me roll my eyes when producers could have simply contacted our very active local astronomy club for reference, and it was right at the beginning of the series, so it didn't give me a great first impression. It was the fact that a character mentioned having 'a telescope with a refractor', and telescopes are either refractors or reflectors. They don't have one.
Who are you talking about? Donnie has never done anything like that.
On a completely unrelated matter, his cheeseburgers are great.
Yes, he has. In 90 or 91 he burned down a hotel and made a plea deal to do a whole bunch of community service to avoid 20 years in prison. The whole family is just a fantastic group of people /s
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