Tropes that movies, etc. use that you hate.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How's this for a trope:

On any version of L&O...everything always comes back to Olivia Benson, who is an absolutely perfect saint who can do no wrong. Other detectives can and do make mistakes but Benson sure as hell can't. Everything she does is right, without question.

Hell, even in a L&O series that shouldn't involve Benson (like Organized Crime), they find a way to shoehorn her in there!

 

[Admiral2]

How's this for a trope:

On any version of L&O...everything always comes back to Olivia Benson, who is an absolutely perfect saint who can do no wrong. Other detectives can and do make mistakes but Benson sure as hell can't. Everything she does is right, without question.

Hell, even in a L&O series that shouldn't involve Benson (like Organized Crime), they find a way to shoehorn her in there!

I still can't believe that goody-two-shoes made Captain before Sylvvia Van Buren...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I still can't believe that goody-two-shoes made Captain before Sylvvia Van Buren...

You're thinking of Anita Van Buren.

Sylvia was from War of the Worlds.

 

[Admiral2]

You're thinking of Anita Van Buren.

Sylvia was from War of the Worlds.

I stand corrected. Shoulda just said Lieutenant Van Buren. It makes the same point.

 

[dupersuper]

What I really loved about "Columbo' was it was about the only "who dun it" where you knew who the murderer was at the very beginning and the rest of the show was a cat and mouse game of uncovering the truth.

Monk does that pretty well to.

 

[FormerLurker]

I didn't watch much of Monk, but one episode I did see part of shocked the hell out of me. Monk was in a prison, visiting a nemesis, who was a corpulent man lying on a bed that Monk was verbally dueling with. The actor looked familiar, and I could tell the face and fatsuit were makeup and props, but I couldn't figure out who he was. Then he said something telltale and I said "Holy shit, that's Tim Curry!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In honor of David Lynch's birthday I put forth a trope of his:

A plot where I can't understand a damn thing about what's going on.

Except for Dune, of course.

 

[galleywest]

This has probably anyway been mentioned, but the ol' "I practiced it once and now I'm perfect at it," trope. Similarly, the no learning curve trope. Hawkeye, I'm looking at you. Also you, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. And Book of Boba Fett.

 

[ToddKent]

"I need to talk to you"
Pause
"Alone"

 

[galleywest]

I like Tina Fey better without Amy Poehler anyway.



Or in a similar vein, a teacher instructs his/her students to not think with their heads but their hearts. Tear up the books. Don't think, just do. Feelings, not facts. (MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS/DEAD POETS SOCIETY/MUSIC OF THE HEART, etc.)

Oh I forgot about that one! Of course! Especially for anything artistic or creative. You don't need to practice or hone your technique, you just have to feeeeeeel it.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ok, how about this one: Cartoon characters who end up in the real-world. One of the worst offenders of this is the first Smurfs movie. With a property with long decades of history, with being out of the spotlight for so long, instead of giving whole new audiences exposure to the smurf world, they inexplicably decide that the best thing to do would be to have the Smurfs visit our world. So, an out of context version of the Smurfs is the first thing they see. On top of that is the complex contrivance they've had to think up to have the Smurfs be in our world, because the problem with the concept is that you end up spending so much time and energy explaining anything away just to have it happen instead of just having a movie set in their own world. And now I see the latest attempt at this kind of thing is with the Rescue Rangers. Just why? It doesn't work.

 

[wayoung]

Ok, how about this one: Cartoon characters who end up in the real-world. One of the worst offenders of this is the first Smurfs movie. With a property with long decades of history, with being out of the spotlight for so long, instead of giving whole new audiences exposure to the smurf world, they inexplicably decide that the best thing to do would be to have the Smurfs visit our world. So, an out of context version of the Smurfs is the first thing they see. On top of that is the complex contrivance they've had to think up to have the Smurfs be in our world, because the problem with the concept is that you end up spending so much time and energy explaining anything away just to have it happen instead of just having a movie set in their own world. And now I see the latest attempt at this kind of thing is with the Rescue Rangers. Just why? It doesn't work.

Don't forget, everything they were in previously was just a Tv show/movie so now they can cross over with all the other popular IP owned by the studio.

 

[Owain Taggart]

In Rescue Rangers? Yeah, I saw that. Makes even less sense. It's like a way to remind audiences that other Disney properties exist too!

 

[wayoung]

In Rescue Rangers? Yeah, I saw that. Makes even less sense. It's like a way to remind audiences that other Disney properties exist too!

Rescue Rangers specifically, but also in general. Lots of things going the Meta route to mine IP.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ahh fair point. I guess I just never noticed before. Sometimes it's done subtly, but in the case of Rescue Rangers, they're really drawing attention to it.

 

[Farscape One]

Are you talking about CHIP 'N DALE'S RESCUE RANGERS?

I remember that cartoon as a kid. It was fun.

 

[wayoung]

Are you talking about CHIP 'N DALE'S RESCUE RANGERS?

I remember that cartoon as a kid. It was fun.

Yeah, the trailer for the reboot dropped today. New movie has the show as a TV show but cartoon characters are real a la Roger Rabbit so that they can throw as much Disney IP into the movie as possible (Space Jam 2, Free Guy, Ready Player One, etc) and also have the celebrity voice actors perform in their reg voices and have the voices we know from the characters as their character voices.

 

[gweeps]

The mid movie montage set to music.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As for this trope, I'll just let Bill Burr take over...

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[fireproof78]

The interrupted wedding. Aside from romantic comedies where that is a part of the larger theme, I cannot stand weddings in most stories. It feels packed with clichés that make it hard to care.