Things your tired of in movies

[sojourner]

As a companion to the "transcendent scene" thread, what are you tired of seeing in movies.

For me it's not a scene, but a technique that will immediately take me out of the movie. I'm talking about the camera strapped to the chest and aimed at the actor's face. For some reason the minute this gets used it just stops the movie cold for me until the sequence is done. I can't stand the technique.

 

[Jetfire]

Lens flare?

 

[T'Girl]

Personal pet peeve is when they run the credits at the begining of the film. Seriously, give us the studio, the title, the names of the two biggist stars ... and start the damned thing.

If I really what to know the name of the producer, or director, or the food services guy I'll sit throught the credits at the end of the movie.

 

[J.T.B.]

One that happens a lot in movies and always bugs me is when a character gets a phone call and then ends the call without saying goodbye or closing the conversation in any way. They just hang up. That almost never happens in real life.


Justin

 

[RoJoHen]

For me it's not a scene, but a technique that will immediately take me out of the movie. I'm talking about the camera strapped to the chest and aimed at the actor's face. For some reason the minute this gets used it just stops the movie cold for me until the sequence is done. I can't stand the technique.

Ew, yeah, I can't stand this either. I honestly don't understand what this effect is trying to convey. It just always looks retarded.

 

[Vulagr]

Wrongful use of the word theory. In science a theory is a body of facts. What they really mean to say hypothesis, because a hypothesis is not a fact until it becomes observable through scientific testing of some sort.

It's especially annoying when I see somebody on a show who is very scientific that uses the phrase "I have a theory" when they mean hypothesis.

Oh, and as far as camera work goes, overuse of lens flares, shaky cam, and blurred cam.

I want to see the movie, dammit

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Anything related to "Saw"

 

[Cyke101]

I'm tired of Adam Sandler playing a successful (insert white collar profession here): lawyer, plastic surgeon, advertising exec, etc.

Oh, and I'm tired of Adam Sandler movies, but that's been going on for 10 years now.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Romantic comedies where the guy is intentionally written to be a dumbass (like in 99% of commercials made today).

 

[Starbreaker]

30 year olds playing 15 year olds.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

When they start a conversation in one location and the continuance of the conversations happens in another location, usually real far away and the conversation picks up like there wasn't even a break.

When ever someone gets shot and they rip rags or shirts or whatever into pieces.

 

[Shurik]

Excessive use of slow motion in fight scenes. It got really bad after 300, I think.

 

[TrekNut87]

I'm tired of Adam Sandler playing a successful (insert white collar profession here): lawyer, plastic surgeon, advertising exec, etc.

Oh, and I'm tired of Adam Sandler movies, but that's been going on for 10 years now.

This. I fail to understand why people are so obsessed with him.

Other than Adam Sandler, I really hate that SFX and CGI seem to take precedence over a well-told story/character development.

 

[CorporalClegg]

"Three-Dee"

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

For me it's not a scene, but a technique that will immediately take me out of the movie. I'm talking about the camera strapped to the chest and aimed at the actor's face. For some reason the minute this gets used it just stops the movie cold for me until the sequence is done. I can't stand the technique.

Ew, yeah, I can't stand this either. I honestly don't understand what this effect is trying to convey. It just always looks retarded.

please cite examples of whre this is used

 

[scotpens]

When people in movies use computers and they emit all kinds of little bleeps and clicks that real computers never make. It's a corollary of the "sounds in space" thing. Every action has to be accompanied by a sound effect regardless of whether you'd actually hear sound or not.

Personal pet peeve is when they run the credits at the begining of the film. Seriously, give us the studio, the title, the names of the two biggest stars ... and start the damned thing.

If I really what to know the name of the producer, or director, or the food services guy I'll sit through the credits at the end of the movie.

Don't all modern movies list only the main credits at the beginning -- title, principal actors, producer, director, editor, composer, maybe a couple of major technical credits? Everything else is in the long crawl at the end, which continues to run while the audience is leaving the theater.

Before the 1970s, movies used to have all their credits at the beginning. Except that AIP's pictures had only the main title at the start, and all the credits at the end. That was weird.

30 year olds playing 15 year olds.

Well, that convention isn't going to disappear any time soon, unless they change the child labor laws. Underage actors have limits on how many hours they can work, and a tutor has to be present on the set to ensure they keep up their education. So we get over-18 actors playing high schoolers. Thus it has ever been, and thus it shall ever be.

 

[Mr Silver]

Personal pet peeve is when they run the credits at the begining of the film. Seriously, give us the studio, the title, the names of the two biggist stars ... and start the damned thing.

This is one of the few things I really dislike about the Bond movies.

I'm tired of mystery/adventure movies using the Chekov's Gun plot device. Gone are the days of a subtle CG which made you go "oh yeah!" when the big reveal came. Nowadays the camera technique succeeds in focusing too much on the CG in question which makes things very predictable.

 

[auntiehill]

-I am tired of shaky-cam. Enough already
-3-D. Most movies don't need to be in 3-D. It's just a stupid gimmick.
-the phone thing. People in real life don't just hang up on each other when they're done. They say "Bye" or "gotta go" or something.
-the hero walk. The slow-motion strut in the front of the fireball. Puh-leeze. It's laughable.
-people suffering ridiculously horrible injuries and then promptly getting back on their feet, to show how tough they are. In reality, they'd be dead. Unless this character is supernatural or alien, it just doesn't work.

 

[RoJoHen]

For me it's not a scene, but a technique that will immediately take me out of the movie. I'm talking about the camera strapped to the chest and aimed at the actor's face. For some reason the minute this gets used it just stops the movie cold for me until the sequence is done. I can't stand the technique.

Ew, yeah, I can't stand this either. I honestly don't understand what this effect is trying to convey. It just always looks retarded.

please cite examples of whre this is used

Off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of any.

I think it tends to be used a lot more in TV, but I know I've seen it quite a few times.

 

[sojourner]

^It's used a lot in horror flicks when people are running scared for their lives. Strangely enough, the only movie I can name at the moment is "Get Him to the Greek", a comedy. The fat comedian gets stabbed with an adrenaline needle, switches to chest cam and his eyes pop open and he runs around like a mad man.