Things your tired of in movies
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I don't like it when the bad guy gets killed at the end and never gets to experience the consequences of their actions.
I thought that scene was hilarious.
As for shaky cam, I like it. Done appropriately, it's can be more interesting than your basic point-the-camera-and-just-film-it style.
It works when the character is in a daze or running scared.
"I'M ALIIIIIVVVVVE!!!!!!!!"
I thought that scene was hilarious.
I like the montages at the beginning of the Bond movies and I wouldn't want to see them go.
It's an effective way of showing confusion like in Batman Begins where the bad guys didn't know who or what they were fighting.
As for shaky cam, I like it. Done appropriately, it's can be more interesting than your basic point-the-camera-and-just-film-it style.
And who covers up right after sex anyway?
I'm sick of Zach Snyder-style action scenes. You know.. speed up, slow down, speed up.
It actually takes talent to direct an action scene.
It actually takes talent to direct an action scene.
Ever been watching the news and they say "after this commercial, an update on the hostage crisis/alien invasion/pie eating contest/whatever" ? So the other character sees that, thinks "my friend needs that info", so he has to look for his phone, then look up his number, misdials, tries again, finally calls him and connects and tells him to turn on the TV right as the news comes back from commercial. Why is that so hard to believe?
And if it's a major event, then the 24 hour news channels will be replaying it constantly, so the odds of a character turning on the news channel and it being the event that's important to the plot of the movie are actually pretty good.
Yep, that's a good one. Or when the tv/radio "interrupts the broadcast" for some plot-related specific information that would not be near important enough to justify breaking into programming in real life.
Oh, yeah. When somebody has a "now I mean business" moment and works the slide, which means that, no matter what happened before that point, the gun wouldn't be able to fire.
A revolver with a silencer/suppressor is always good for an eye-roll, too.
Also all the easily accessible, easy-to-crawl-through ventilation ducts that you never see in real life.
Justin
I recall an episode of Fame (yeah, I used to watch it!) where a substitute teacher fell in love with Nia Peeples' character and said "She's no ordinary 16-year-old!" And I thought, "Yeah, she's about 25!"
A movie I saw a while back, soldiers go into a massive cave after a monster, obviously hours go by the way it's shot, when they finally come upon the monster, they all work their charginbg handles. Which mean they were carrying unloaded guns up to that point!
Consider the beginnings of the Star Wars movies,
you see the title and they start the story ... perfect.
You're too hot and sweaty at that point.
Hey, cut me a break, I was trying to be generous! Really, the only Sandler movie off the top of my head that I liked was Happy Gilmore, and that was 15 years ago.
For me, the worst culprit of this isn't any film or movie, but rather in DS9's "Past Tense." The characters did it with their shotguns every time they wanted to emphasize a point. What happened to good ol' fashioned voice inflection?
To expand on this, when a character tells another to turn on the TV, but no one mentions which channel. This is especially noticeable if it's a news item that isn't catastrophic or apocalyptic, but something kind of ordinary (a specific murder, a store opening, whatever).
the worst one for guns was in Doctor Who The End of Time Part II where the Doctor kept turning around between aiming a revolver at two different people and EVERY TIME he turned he took the safety off!
3D, lens flares, JJ doing Star Trek...
Britain only consisting of London, all British people being either Cockneys, posh or Scots, America winning the war on their own... crappy geography...
3D, lens flares, JJ doing Star Trek...
Britain only consisting of London, all British people being either Cockneys, posh or Scots, America winning the war on their own... crappy geography...
On a related note: Revolvers that shoot seven, eight, ten or twelve rounds without reloading.
Didn't you know that every commercial and industrial building has ventilation ducts wide enough for a grown man to crawl through? And some ships have them as well!
The good ones do.
Extra scenes that only appear after the 15-minute end credit sequences. 
Extra scenes that only appear after the 15-minute end credit sequences.
You don't have to stay for those scenes, you know, they almost never have anything to do with the main story and are usually just an extra little bit of geek-service put there to thank the people with enough respect for the craft of movie-making to sit through the credit sequence, which usually don't even approach 15-minutes long to view.
I absolutely hate the technique of pushing the film or pushing the camera. They did it twice in Die Another Day and I groaned loudly. My buddy knew why and started to laugh.
I can see that POV from the "bad guys confused" standpoint, but now and then you want to see the martial artist in Batman - something even the comics do from time to time. They did do it in "The Dark Knight" and I loved those parts.
With shaky cam, I think it has its place, but in a spectacle movie such as Transformers were seeing the big robots is part of the magic, only see flashes of silver and gold metal flash by the screen doesn't particularly excite me.
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