RagingBull80

Ah, brings me back to the first Dark Knight thread. I miss those days.

tanman

A lot of good ones.

I especially liked the forcefully racially diverse group. The always typing when using a keyboard and never using a mouse and convenient passwords/keys to a parked car.

One for me is during a disaster a large piece of something invariably falls on someone but you usually still hear them scream after the giant piece of rock has fallen on them.


Another one is odd sound effects. Especially the squeaky toy sound effect. Every toy makes that sound effect. I recently watched T3 and in the middle of the major chase they drive through a lawn and some lawn toy is run over and makes a really load squeaky toy sound effect.

The wilhelm scream is very contrived but it is a classic so I guess it gets a free pass.

One of my MAJOR annoyances is the "gun cock because I mean business." Seriously, I'm not a gun owner but I know that you don't have to cock an automatic. They never show them taking the safety off and they always make a very generic chuhCHICK noise. Every single gun sounds exactly the same. That is very annoying and video games portray gun use much more realistically.

Anything medical. Are there no doctors, pharmacists or nurses in Hollywood? Almost everything is wrong. CPR ALWAYS works, and with just a couple of chest compressions too. They always use paddles when a person is flatlining. They have NEVER shown someone in fibrillation which is what you would actually use paddles for. I think medical miracles are my most hated because they really do give people the misinformation that everyone can be cured in a hospital no matter what they have. In fact this perception is very detrimental and really adversely affects the healthcare system and peoples expectations of it.

Solid Snake

I dunno about the sounds in Heat are pretty damn good. Just depends on the film.

UAIOE

"Outdoor shots" or "Nature shots" that use that stock falcon/eagle call.

You know the one I'm talking about.

Giles

fight scenes where someone slugs someone in the head repeatedly, and the guy isn't dazed or have a concusion after the fact, hit someone that hard and that many times, he's down.

MoviePage

I disagree - for some Bond movies, the opening credits sequence is the most creative (and sometimes even the most entertaining) part of the whole film.

MoviePage

That's one of mine too. Good guys and bad guys alike get punched in the face repeatedly and there is no swelling or bruising afterwards. Not even a mark.

I've been punched in the face and it's not pretty at the time, nor is it pretty for weeks afterward.

milo bloom

I have to say something about this: are you telling me you guys never used to subconsciously move your controller in the direction of what you wanted the action on screen to do? I used to catch myself doing this all the time back in my NES days, like during a particularly tense section. When the Wii was announced, I just assumed the design evolution was from other people doing the same thing and thinking "hey, what if jerking the controller around actually did something?"

Groucho

My four-year-old is hilarious with the controller. He totally moves it around, and when he gets excited he'll stand up and get right next to the TV.

Me, on the other hand, I get comfortable on the couch and only move my fingers as much as I have to. If I get hungry, I have my wife dump some Cheetos in my mouth.

stingermck

Yeah sometimes I will move during a driving game, but I dont hold the controller wrong, do jumping jacks with it, or punch buttons that dont work with the game.

For example when Dave spins around in his chair in The Punisher and the game is still playing, or the MK fight in 40 YO Virgin.

Or the lack of cart in the Game Gear in Rumble in the Bronx

Travis McClain

No one in established relationships ever says, "I love you" at the end of a phone call unless it's to add to the drama. They just...hang up. My wife would light me up if I just hung up on her, and so would most of the ones I know.

Also, I despise the idea that every romantic story must lead up to marriage. Either it's a proposal that signifies his growth throughout the movie that ends the story, or it's a scene cut to after the growth stuff is resolved, or some variation thereof. [rant]Why are we so conditioned to view exchanging vows as an objective in and of itself? This, I believe, has greatly contributed to our "checklist" mentality as a society toward relationships--and why so many young people marry, believing they should "take the next step" at that point in their lives.[/rant]

Giles

now that's "love"

milo bloom

Holy crap, I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that years ago

Draven

I don't know about this one. Like it or not, most people view marriage as the "end" of the dating-relationship world. So if a movie is about finding your soulmate or whatever, then logically it makes sense to wrap things up with a wedding. These two people have found each other, they are committed, they have a strong chance of being OK. If they end the movie and are still just "dating" who's to say they won't break up next week? At least with marriage you have some closure.

Travis McClain

But this is my point--people in real life do think of a wedding as some kind of event that locks in their happy relationship forever, etc., when in fact, it does not. Look at the way you yourself have phrased it: "finding your soulmate...logically it makes sense to wrap things up with a wedding." This is the very definition of the "Checklist Approach to Life!" What irks me about this trend is that it frequently happens after the guy has had his epiphany about how, out of all the girls he's slept with, this one is special. That might be sufficient reason for him to feel so excited he proposes, but just once I want the girl to say, "Let's see how special you think I am next week. And the week after that." Instead, it's always presented that the wedding is his reward for realizing that she's special.

Ralph Jenkins

Phone numbers that begin with "555" annoy me because they remind me that I'm watching a movie.

GoldenJCJ

One that gets me is when the good guy waits to cock the gun to make a dramatic effect. The scene usually plays out like:

Good guy: "Freeze!" *points gun at bad guy*
Bad Goy: *freezes* "You aren't going to shoot me..." *Starts moving towards good guy*
Good Guy: "I said freeze!" *cocks gun*

Now I'm no expert, but I would think that one would want a weapon ready to fire from the very beginning!



I remember when I was a little kid how surprised I was when I found out just how rarely CPR and the paddles work in real life. It's very rare to see a movie where CPR or paddles DIDN'T bring someone back.

writer106

High school teen characters always having eye level lockers.

Giles

I think there was scene with a phone number in 'Drag Me To Hell' that didn't have 555.

UAIOE

I usually see those people jerking the controller and thinking about either:

Overacting

Someone who is new to playing video games.

I used to move the controller to my on screen character when I first started playing games, but stopped after I built up my hand/eye coordination. So when I see someone do this in a movie and then make some claim about being a "avid gamer" I know they are full of shit.

Travis McClain

What did you gamers think of Grandma's Boy? It seemed like those guys knew what they were doing to me. I especially liked Doris Roberts. She was awkward, but she didn't overdo it.

writer106

Babies born with perfectly shaped heads.

islandclaws

I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but I hate seeing people drink from a cup when it's obvious there's nothing inside of it.

Draven

If the movie is about two single people ending up together, the movie has to stop somewhere. Marriage is a logical place (from a narrative perspective) to wrap up that particular story.

It's like if a movie was about a pregnant couple. Logically, that movie could wrap up after the baby is born (see movies like Knocked Up and Father of the Bride II). As a parent myself, I know that the birth is actually the beginning of the story, not the end...and the first week home could be an entirely new movie. But it makes sense to wrap it up at that point.

Numanoid

The other part of this is that the women usually have a full makeup job applied, including lipstick. Sorry, women remove their makeup before bed, and if they don't it's smeared all over the pillow.