[quote]Nards wrote:
When a character needs to have some sort of on-the-spot surgery done so he takes a shot of whiskey and he’s ready…I think most people would need about 8 to kill the pain.
Any period movie will have everyone on all the streets driving brand new cars from that time. I mean like a movie will be set in 1957 and all the cars are from 1955 or 1956 or thereabouts…with no one driving 20 year-old cars.[/quote]
I also love how you’ll only see one brand of car throughout the whole movie. This seems to mostly be with Ford.[/quote]
Not just with Ford. Watch the matrix (whichever of the three, or all, I don’t remember) and you’ll see that GM is almost the only vehicle in there. Audi just dominated I, Robot as well.
It’s just product placement though. GM donated 300 cars to the matrix, and most likely paid them a LOT of money to recoup filming costs. [/quote]
Same thing happened with a movie called Super Size Me. There was McDonald’s stuff throughout the whole film. Ridiculous.[/quote]
Morgan Spurlock just did a movie called The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (he’s the guy who did Supersize me just an fyi) that is about this exact thing … I just thought it was a cool coincidence you guys were talking about this and referenced him doing SuperSize Me and he just did a movie about product placements in movies…
I sent a three year supply of anal and vaginal RAPEAXE!!! to all the Transformers, so I don’t think Michael Bay will be raping them anymore. I hear he has his eyes set on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Voltron, Heathcliff and his friends and the Fraggles. I sent all of them a shitload of RAPEAXE!!! as well. Hopefully we’ve heard the last of Mr. Bay.[/quote]
I doubt the epicness that is Masters Of The Universe could be captured in a live action film.
Deputy is suspicious of sketchy military behavior. Sheriff says “I know you just lost your wife…you need to take some time off…you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into.”
It seems like any kind of action can lead to World War III if James Bond isn’t careful. That’s the way a movie let’s you know that what’s happening is important…if it can led to WWIII.
I hate when small trinkets like a necklace or a kid’s toy is shown blatantly near the start of a movie because you know later when that person dies their loved one will find that thing and then collapse in tears holding it.
This happened 3 times in The Patriot and by the third time I said out loud "DON’T FIND HIS FUCKING TOY GUN…DON’T FIND HIS FUCKING TOY GUN…DON’T FI…AH FUCK YOU FOUND HIS TOY GUN!.
When the male lead runs to get to his love of his life it’s raining and he must run down the middle of the street.
That one particular squeak sound that is used in EVERY film when a shower is turned off or on… as if modern plumbing fixtures actually make that sound.
Everytime the male protagnist comes home/to his apartment he opens the fridge grabs a bottle of beer and then throws the cap randomly around the room…if this were true he would have a pile of bottle caps all over the fucking place!
Same situation above except there is either 1. left over pizza that he takes one bite tnen tosses aside, or 2. some plate of crap covered in plastic wrap that he sniffs then puts back in the fridge.
Women protagnist coming home always 100% of the time has mail and their keys…
All Action/mystery type movies has the one guy at the bar/strip club who knows everybody and everything, even in a city the size of NY/LA, yet he only has information and can’t really help you out…
The villian always drags his hostage half across the world before he decides to kill them, when it is obvious that it would be better just to shoot them and lose the dead weight…geez
Every bartender is either 1. a complete jerk/moron 2. a fucking genious, source of million facts 3. an ex-cop who got fucked out of his pension 4. a hot girl who fucks the guy then lets’ him go take care of saving his girl/wife and helps him so how.
Every gas station has a shitty bathroom and a window big enough for you to crawl out of.
Evil politicians never suspect that you have a recorder and they give detailed confessions just before they think they have you conered, then yell " you won’t get away with this"
The villians/heroes can always easily slip any government building/airport security by using a simple diversion and the guys watching the camera feeds are always looking for a donut at that exact time.
Two tablespoons of water will revive any hero/victim no matter how many times they’ve been shot or badly beaten.
No matter how bad you are tortured and beaten you never lose a tooth…
I’m sick of super long previews that give away 3/4 of the movie, so you go to see it and are incredibly let down. Bad movies of late are bad enough, no need to ruin the surprises too.
Whenever 2 people are having a deep emotional conversation, as they get to the most heartfelt or painful part, one person turns away and looks out the window as the camera changes so we can see that person’s face upclose, while the other person is in the background still listening.
Good one! yeah…the old dramatic talk to the sky shit while the other person looks at your back! Sometimes the person listening will then come up and hug them from behind…while the first person still looks up at the sky, while in real life we’d turn that person around and give them a real hug.
[quote]Nards wrote:
When actors play people that are trying to get a large sum of money, like a million dollars or so, but you know the actor himself got 15 million to play that part…kinda funny.[/quote]
holy fuck, never thought this way, it’s a breakthrough.
-The villian NOT getting away.
-People not actually paying for stuff.
-Lack of mysterious, equivocal endings.
-Children under the age of 10 never being killed.
-Teeny-bopper movies that are almost entirely about acquiring alcohol & ‘coming of age’.
-Adventure type films with too many ridiculously named characters, magic, sorcery etc.
-Baddies without backstories <<< I can go either way with this one tbf, though, I tend to find it adds an extra layer of intrigue if I have at least some inkling as to why psycho-boy/girl has gone LOCO!!!
