Things your tired of in movies

[zakkrusz]

"Shaky Cam" action scenes (Looks bad and unprofessional and I'd rather see what's going on.)
3D (As if movies weren't expensive enough already. Damn glasses give me a headache afterward too.)
Remakes of movies that have been remade already a hundred times (3 Musketeers, Robin Hood, etc.)

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Computer printers in some movies still, apparently, using more mechanical means to print, taking a long time to print even a single page. (My simple Printer/Copier/Scanner prints off a single full page of text and images in about 5-10 seconds.)

Or when there are typewriter sounds as a location is printed on screen as it was coming off some teletype feed.

 

[Tiberius]

These days they often use beeps instead. Same problem, just sounds more modern.

 

[TheSeeker]

Computers in movies, apparently, only needing the keyboard to interface with.

And you only need one for everybody!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ[/yt]

 

[Forbin]

Until I succumbed to the mighty laser I was in this situation whenever something happened to my glasses and I didn't catch the general area they landed.

Well, you probably didn't get on all fours and fumble around like a blind person. You probably squinted, searched, looked around and tried to find them. It's happened to me more than a few times and usually it's just a matter of, well, looking for them as I would any other object.

But in movies or TV shows usually it's like the person becomes blind and gropes around for them and, many times, they usually search right around the very glasses they're looking for until their hands actually touch them. You can't tell me any glasses wearing person wouldn't be able to see their glasses that are right in front of them until they make physical contact.

This, of course, may exclude octogenarians with pop-bottle thick glasses with 20/100 vision without them.

Depends on the light, but I have a pretty hard time seeing objects as small as my glasses from 5 feet away. I do have to do the squinting, crouching thing. Feeling around is a bit more than I have to do, sure. But I'm sure there are people with worse eyesight than me. (Probably not many! )

 

[milo bloom]

Until I succumbed to the mighty laser I was in this situation whenever something happened to my glasses and I didn't catch the general area they landed.

Well, you probably didn't get on all fours and fumble around like a blind person. You probably squinted, searched, looked around and tried to find them. It's happened to me more than a few times and usually it's just a matter of, well, looking for them as I would any other object.

But in movies or TV shows usually it's like the person becomes blind and gropes around for them and, many times, they usually search right around the very glasses they're looking for until their hands actually touch them. You can't tell me any glasses wearing person wouldn't be able to see their glasses that are right in front of them until they make physical contact.

This, of course, may exclude octogenarians with pop-bottle thick glasses with 20/100 vision without them.

Depends on the light, but I have a pretty hard time seeing objects as small as my glasses from 5 feet away. I do have to do the squinting, crouching thing. Feeling around is a bit more than I have to do, sure. But I'm sure there are people with worse eyesight than me. (Probably not many! )

I think my vision is about 20/80 and I can take my glasses off right now and look across the office and see details about the size of my glasses, so it's pretty ridiculous to see people flailing about like they're truly blind (and I've seen blind people find things with more finesse).

 

[Kirby]

The obnoxious buddy. Usually relagated to Romantic Comedies, he's the best friend of the male lead and has absolutely no sense of boundaries, or is a big time womanizer. He always gives bad advice to the handsome male lead.

Witty comments. The lead character always has the perfect quip to say that right time. I'd love to see Arnold confront a bad guy, and remains silent while he incinerates said bad guy with a flame thrower, only to have him say in the next scene. "Oh... I should have told that guy he was 'fired' that would have been awesome!"

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

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.

But it's hard to sing "I have a hypothesis"

30 year olds playing 15 year olds.

But that's going to be my niece's career. She's an aspiring actress, currently 11 years old, and because she has the family shortness, she can play younger characters. So later on, she'll be playing teenagers when older than that.

 

[sojourner]

Well, you probably didn't get on all fours and fumble around like a blind person. You probably squinted, searched, looked around and tried to find them. It's happened to me more than a few times and usually it's just a matter of, well, looking for them as I would any other object.

But in movies or TV shows usually it's like the person becomes blind and gropes around for them and, many times, they usually search right around the very glasses they're looking for until their hands actually touch them. You can't tell me any glasses wearing person wouldn't be able to see their glasses that are right in front of them until they make physical contact.

This, of course, may exclude octogenarians with pop-bottle thick glasses with 20/100 vision without them.

Depends on the light, but I have a pretty hard time seeing objects as small as my glasses from 5 feet away. I do have to do the squinting, crouching thing. Feeling around is a bit more than I have to do, sure. But I'm sure there are people with worse eyesight than me. (Probably not many! )

I think my vision is about 20/80 and I can take my glasses off right now and look across the office and see details about the size of my glasses, so it's pretty ridiculous to see people flailing about like they're truly blind (and I've seen blind people find things with more finesse).

I blame Velma from Scooby Doo for this trope. To be honest, I don't recall a movie taking it to this extreme. I am guessing either slasher films or comedies would be the most likely places to see it.

 

[Vendikarr]

destroying the monitor in order to destroy the data in a computer , sigh

-Kytee

YES, this. A computer is controlling the bomb or some countdown, and the hero shoots out the monitor with two or three seconds left. I really want to see the surprise on the idiot's face when the detonation occurs because he shot the pretty picture.

 

[Forbin]

There was an X-File episode where a scientist was trying to improve the performance of a wind tunnel. I guess that basically means make the wind go faster. I imagine to do that you'd have to get a more powerful motor, a better-designed fan, or improve the shape of the tunnel itself. But this guy spent the whole episode pounding away on his computer keyboard in the lab while the wind tunnel's sounds changed and the wind speed got faster. The music and the sounds kept getting more and more dramatic, and he kept typing harder and more dramatically. Even in the 90s, when I'd only had a PC for a few years, I was saying, "what the hell is this guy typing for the last ten minutes?! 'go faster' over and over?"

 

[Shazam!]

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.

I knew Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson looked too old in Chamber Of Secrets.

NOW I KNOW WHY.

 

[Trekker4747]

Computers in movies, apparently, only needing the keyboard to interface with.

And you only need one for everybody!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ[/yt]

:facepalm:

Yeah, that's one of the more ridiculous moments ever.

Infact, THIS article sums everything up about Hollywood and computers nicely.

 

[scotpens]

30 year olds playing 15 year olds.

But that's going to be my niece's career. She's an aspiring actress, currently 11 years old, and because she has the family shortness, she can play younger characters. So later on, she'll be playing teenagers when older than that.

If you're playing juvenile roles, it always helps to be short. Just ask Burt Ward (21 when Batman premiered on ABC-TV) or Jennifer Jason Leigh (20 when she did Fast Times at Ridgemont High).

 

[TheMurph]

As someone who wears glasses it always bugs me in movies when someone's glasses are knocked off of them and we then see them squinting and stumbling around, usually grasping at the air on the ground, trying to find them.

Not having your glasses on doesn't render you blind it just makes things very, very blurry. It should be fairly easy to find your glasses if they're knocked off your face and if you can't then you've likely have such terrible eyesight you should be considered legally blind which, naturally, would hinder many aspects of a normal life.

I can't see squat without my glasses or contacts in. When I drop my glasses and I didn't get an idea of where they went I have to squint and feel around till I find them by touch or vague impression visually. Not legally blind. Just poor vision...

 

[Forbin]

And god forbid I drop a contact when I'm putting them in. "HONEEEEEEE! HEEEEEELP!!!!"