The thing on the left.
I’m sick of insurance jokes in action movies.
There’s gotta be something funnier to say after you drive a car into a helicopter than something about how much the insurance company will need to pay and whether they’ll believe what happened or not.
This doesn’t fit perfectly, but I’m sick and fucking tired of people complaining about anticlimactic endings. Sometimes they are well done and appropriate. No Country for Old Men was a big one. I thought the ending was perfect, and it wasn’t even exactly how McCarthy wrote it.
I just watched Contagion and knew beforehand that people were bitching about that. What the hell do they want? Should there be a final showdown between Matt Damon and the bat that infected the pig? Should they all start coming back as zombies? Should Matt Damon find his daughter dead and naked, entwined with the corpse of her infected boyfriend? What the hell do you people want?
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
This doesn’t fit perfectly, but I’m sick and fucking tired of people complaining about anticlimactic endings. Sometimes they are well done and appropriate. No Country for Old Men was a big one. I thought the ending was perfect, and it wasn’t even exactly how McCarthy wrote it.
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YAAAHHH NO COUNTRY! WOO!
This may have been mentioned before, but so many movies will telegraph who will get killed in any fight.
- Small guy fights big guy=big guy dies (1st 5min of Troy)
- Protagonist fights 3 armed thugs=thugs die (too many to name)
- 105lb woman with some martial arts training vs literally anyone= 105lb woman wins without a scratch (Salt)
- Primitive warrior fights technologically superior foe= wooden spears will pierce metal (Avatar)
- If a bad guy has a crew and none of them are named or given attention, they will all die.
Also, if you’re in a movie getting your ass kicked you should always do this: Close your eyes and remember something really important to you and have a flashback. Then discover newfound superhuman strength (because you weren’t going 100% when the fight started). Best example: Matrix vs. Bennett in Commando.
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
This doesn’t fit perfectly, but I’m sick and fucking tired of people complaining about anticlimactic endings. Sometimes they are well done and appropriate. No Country for Old Men was a big one. I thought the ending was perfect, and it wasn’t even exactly how McCarthy wrote it.
I just watched Contagion and knew beforehand that people were bitching about that. What the hell do they want? Should there be a final showdown between Matt Damon and the bat that infected the pig? Should they all start coming back as zombies? Should Matt Damon find his daughter dead and naked, entwined with the corpse of her infected boyfriend? What the hell do you people want?[/quote]
Steven Soderbergh dropped the ball by not having the pig do this:
I’d have settled for this:
Funny how in any movie where the main character has to run through Chinatown he always seems to do it on Chinese New Year, with the lion and dragon dances and firecrackers and everything.
Stupidly predictable plots. Pretty much every apocalypse movie ever made. “Oh no we’re all going to die, but not really”.
^^ yeah, and how the kids in a disaster movie will call their parent(s) by their first name, then gain respect for them over the course of the movie and you know the parent has succeeded when they finally get called “dad”
Money’s fun, looks are power, Hallowed is too cocky for the internet; If I can’t find you on google images then you can’t brag over somebody with which I can.
Huh?
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^That’s true!
I mean, Maggie Gylemnhalerltrty certainly does look like oatmeal, but before her was Gwyneth Paltorw (better but still odd) and Uma “Bugface” Thurman.[/quote]
I agree with Gyllenhaal looking like a dog, but Uma and Paltrow are absolute, exquisite, entrancing beauties
In a movie when a character is playing basketball alone or some other sport and they do their own play-by-play out loud.
Like the guy is playing basketball in his driveway but he says “Worthy passes to Bird, Bird dribbles, passes back to Worth, Worthy shoots…nothin’ but net! And the crowd goes wild!”
He then makes that loud crowd roaring noise.
[quote]Nards wrote:
In a movie when a character is playing basketball alone or some other sport and they do their own play-by-play out loud.
Like the guy is playing basketball in his driveway but he says “Worthy passes to Bird, Bird dribbles, passes back to Worth, Worthy shoots…nothin’ but net! And the crowd goes wild!”
He then makes that loud crowd roaring noise.[/quote]
You’ve been coming up with some great ones lately, Nards.
After reading through this thread, I have no desire to see another movie again in my life.
[quote]dcolacu1 wrote:
This may have been mentioned before, but so many movies will telegraph who will get killed in any fight.
- Small guy fights big guy=big guy dies (1st 5min of Troy)
- Protagonist fights 3 armed thugs=thugs die (too many to name)
- 105lb woman with some martial arts training vs literally anyone= 105lb woman wins without a scratch (Salt)
- Primitive warrior fights technologically superior foe= wooden spears will pierce metal (Avatar)
- If a bad guy has a crew and none of them are named or given attention, they will all die.
Also, if you’re in a movie getting your ass kicked you should always do this: Close your eyes and remember something really important to you and have a flashback. Then discover newfound superhuman strength (because you weren’t going 100% when the fight started). Best example: Matrix vs. Bennett in Commando. [/quote]
This reminds me; you should watch Game of Thrones.
Absolutely RUTHLESS show. Full of twists and turns, but cold cut and schocking. Don’t expect any sugar coating or formulaic hollywood stories.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
[quote]dcolacu1 wrote:
This may have been mentioned before, but so many movies will telegraph who will get killed in any fight.
- Small guy fights big guy=big guy dies (1st 5min of Troy)
- Protagonist fights 3 armed thugs=thugs die (too many to name)
- 105lb woman with some martial arts training vs literally anyone= 105lb woman wins without a scratch (Salt)
- Primitive warrior fights technologically superior foe= wooden spears will pierce metal (Avatar)
- If a bad guy has a crew and none of them are named or given attention, they will all die.
Also, if you’re in a movie getting your ass kicked you should always do this: Close your eyes and remember something really important to you and have a flashback. Then discover newfound superhuman strength (because you weren’t going 100% when the fight started). Best example: Matrix vs. Bennett in Commando. [/quote]
This reminds me; you should watch Game of Thrones.
Absolutely RUTHLESS show. Full of twists and turns, but cold cut and schocking. Don’t expect any sugar coating or formulaic hollywood stories.[/quote]
and bewbies…
I hope the movie Haywire is decent. Someone mentioned earlier the movie Salt. A one hundred and ten pound female scarecrow can’t kick a three hundred pound trained killer across a room and through a door, or three for that matter. Even in make believe hollywood I want some realism. The fight scenes in the trailer for Haywire look great but maybe it’s because the actress was a pro fighter and knows how to make it look more realistic.
Angelina should stop making action movies except Lara Croft, stick to dramatic roles(she’s a good actress) and just show us her tits before she gets to old.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I hope the movie Haywire is decent. Someone mentioned earlier the movie Salt. A one hundred and ten pound female scarecrow can’t kick a three hundred pound trained killer across a room and through a door, or three for that matter. Even in make believe hollywood I want some realism. The fight scenes in the trailer for Haywire look great but maybe it’s because the actress was a pro fighter and knows how to make it look more realistic.
Angelina should stop making action movies except Lara Croft, stick to dramatic roles(she’s a good actress) and just show us her tits before she gets to old.
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She has shown her titties before. On the movie ‘Hackers’ before she was somebody.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I hope the movie Haywire is decent. Someone mentioned earlier the movie Salt. A one hundred and ten pound female scarecrow can’t kick a three hundred pound trained killer across a room and through a door, or three for that matter. Even in make believe hollywood I want some realism. The fight scenes in the trailer for Haywire look great but maybe it’s because the actress was a pro fighter and knows how to make it look more realistic.
Angelina should stop making action movies except Lara Croft, stick to dramatic roles(she’s a good actress) and just show us her tits before she gets to old.
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She has shown her titties before. On the movie ‘Hackers’ before she was somebody.[/quote]
Google search in 3…2…1…
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I hope the movie Haywire is decent. Someone mentioned earlier the movie Salt. A one hundred and ten pound female scarecrow can’t kick a three hundred pound trained killer across a room and through a door, or three for that matter. Even in make believe hollywood I want some realism. The fight scenes in the trailer for Haywire look great but maybe it’s because the actress was a pro fighter and knows how to make it look more realistic.
Angelina should stop making action movies except Lara Croft, stick to dramatic roles(she’s a good actress) and just show us her tits before she gets to old.
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She has shown her titties before. On the movie ‘Hackers’ before she was somebody.[/quote]
She also did that movie for HBO where she is playing some runway model.