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Added 2023-09-19 21:10:45 +0000 UTCTalk about a movie cliche that drives you nuts and why.
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New trope I see recently where in order for someone to die, they have to be unlikable. Even if the audience loves or likes the character, the movie will quickly change your mind before they die moments later.
Gabriel Woodward
2023-09-25 14:47:19 +0000 UTCGuns. 1) Guns make way too much noice. Every time a character moves with a gun in hand it makes some kind of click or the sound of being cocked. 2) Guns always misfire when they hit the floor. This “never” happens. Not to where it’s frequency in film is justified. Only gun reliably capable is a shot gun if dropped on the butt. 3) When characters ask “how do you know how to do that?” When the action was simply ejecting a mag or racking slide. Only military, cops, or thugs know what they’re doing is such bogus. Normal people know too. 4) I’m sure there are others I’m not thinking of at the moment. But a shout out goes to AntMan. There’s a scene that drives me nuts. Darin points a Glock at antman. Hope makes ants hold back the external hammer. What the heck guys?!
Gabriel Woodward
2023-09-25 14:45:53 +0000 UTCI really don’t like how a lot of digital movies use color these days. Color tech has never been better; we can do almost anything with current color grading programs. But it seems like 90% of the movies out today use the same color palettes. I’m so sick of filmmakers using Orange highlights and Teal shadows to make shots “look cinematic”. It’s such a waste of the tech’s potential and it makes movies look boring and forgettable.
Jared Angcanan
2023-09-20 19:25:07 +0000 UTCI’m reminded of Adaptation where Nicolas Cage’s Charlie Kaufman is talking to Tilda Swinton’s Valerie Thomas about adapting The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. And she suggests that Susan & Leroche get together and Charlie says, “Okay. But, I'm saying, it's like, I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases, you know... or characters, you know, learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcoming obstacles to succeed in the end, you know. I mean... The book isn't like that, and life isn't like that. You know, it just isn't. And... I feel very strongly about this.”
TenzingNorgay82
2023-09-20 05:30:07 +0000 UTCNot really a cliché, but I have begun to develop a concern about cars having no wing mirrors - it's so common in films from the 50's and every time I'm like - how is this even a good idea! Health & Safety nightmares. Crazy Stuff.
Ross Skilton
2023-09-20 00:22:03 +0000 UTCold master who teaches an undisciplined rebel
anthony scully
2023-09-20 00:10:29 +0000 UTCMy bad
Ken
2023-09-20 00:04:11 +0000 UTCA lot of film noirs did that in the 40’s and 50’s. Definitely ruins the pacing a bit
Henri J. Mertens
2023-09-19 23:22:49 +0000 UTCHave you ever noticed bad phone etiquette in movies? Nobody ever says “Goodbye” to end a conversation. They usually say something along the lines of “I’ll talk to you later” and then abruptly hang up. Sometimes they don’t even say “Hello?” when answering a phone. It’s “Yeah?” or “What is it?” or “Talk to me.”, and this is even when landlines were being used. Sometimes these things get said during matters of urgency and it’s a screenwriter’s way of cutting to the chase, but in real life, even during high-stress situations, people don’t bypass the formalities when talking on the phone. At least, that’s my experience. So yeah, it bugs me.
Bennett Oliver
2023-09-19 23:08:14 +0000 UTCDoug Walker of Nostalgia Critic used to call it The Whimsical, Innocent, Rebellious Poet. I just realized it spells "twirp" which is an appropriate description of these characters. Ferris Bueller, Maverick from Top Gun, Patch Adams are all examples of protagonists who are the definition of contrived with no genuine motivation except for what the writers come up with to manipulate the audience into feeling a certain way without any intelligence or respect for them.
Wolfman Brandon
2023-09-19 22:48:59 +0000 UTCWould be helpful if you mentioned the movie at the very top lol
Henri J. Mertens
2023-09-19 21:56:09 +0000 UTCThere are several and some are just the worst time wasters: - Opening credits over city skyline (yeah, we've seen it in every other movie in the history of cinema by now). The only modern movie that does this and I forgive it for that is Drive (2011). - This one is the classic: Wakeup and hit the alarm clock. It's not done in movies for a while now but man the amateurs love it to death. - A long awaited letter arrives, the boy gets it, opens it up by the kitchen table, all the supporting characters come by and look over the should as he reads the letter -> The Hurricane (1999) - Looks at the other person "Let's do it" and cocks the gun.
Tom Rufer
2023-09-19 21:51:21 +0000 UTC(THIS ANSWER CONTAINS A SPOILER FOR Bottoms) It’s a basic answer, but the cliche where the two main leads split up around 2/3rd’s of the way through the movie. It’s usually a friendship or a relationship. I was watching the new movie Bottoms the other day and that cliche came up. I started to groan.
Ken
2023-09-19 21:47:28 +0000 UTCI hate how so many modern movies start off with a cool scene, and then transition to "months/weeks/days/hours" earlier. You might as well just tell me you don't know how to write a good opening if you are going to do that. Bugs the crap out of me.
Cameron Q Nelson
2023-09-19 21:40:35 +0000 UTCI hate when a character is crying over someone they think just died, but then the supposedly-dead character starts breathing and is magically alive just so that the film won’t be too depressing for the audience.
Shane Palamara
2023-09-19 21:36:00 +0000 UTCWhenever a war, disaster or action film uses the dialogue “I’m afraid that’s above my pay grade”, I roll my eyes so hard. It would be ok if the film was self aware, but these movies act as though this line has never been said.
Henri J. Mertens
2023-09-19 21:25:16 +0000 UTCThis is probably unhealthy for my love of the artform but I pay attention to how movies introduce character names and 90% of the time it's bad. "Like I keep telling you [character name], we gotta get going!"
Arthur Augustyn
2023-09-19 21:15:12 +0000 UTCIt's hard to answer lol. Because every movie has some cliches , and without them ... gonna be difficult for the film to move forward. I suppose some are when someone tells the bad guys Thier gonna turn them in and expect them to just let stand there and do nothing.
swift minus one
2023-09-19 21:15:03 +0000 UTC
