I’m sick of those extended credit montage things BEFORE the movie.
I don’t have the patience to sit through five minutes of atmospheric music and stupid landscape shots of driving cars just so fifty producers feel important.
[quote]Nards wrote:
The good guy on a superhero movie being thrown backwards through walls and into pillars or steel girders and the girder then bending from the impact.
It even happened 45 bloody times in Scott Pilgrim vs The World.[/quote]
and the guys just brush themselves off and go on like nothing happened. Van Helsing too. Characters thrown through the air 10 feet, land on stone floors and get right back up.
How about the Rundown, awesome fight between The Rock and rebels, but come on, if he were hit in the head with a limb that size and it shattered on impact, his skull would have been crushed. But, he got right back up and kept fighting…
^^ True…we’re supposed to give some movies that are sci-fi/action a bit of leeway, but man, they do stuff to regular heroes in movies now that they never did to Indiana Jones or James Bond.
“In a World…” used to be the thing that would start most trailers and it has of course worn out its welcome, but I see no end to trailers saying in a deep voice: “This Summer!” or This Year!".
The record scratch when used in a comedy trailer…here’s a link:
using dogtags to demonstrate that someone is military or former military. Dogtags are uncomfortable and if you’re in the military and you wear them as some sort of decoration in civilian clothes, you face ridicule (and rightly so).
Lesbian robot sex scenes. That shit is sooo 1999. In this day and age do we really need to see more of them?
What really bothers me is formulaic storytelling. ‘Intro, development, Conclusion’, the Cinderella ‘sadness, hope, crush of hope, hope again and victory’ formula that gets pushed into every movie and you already know the entire plot just from watching the trailer.
9/10 Hollywood movies are like this.
Hollywood is awful, awful, awful plot conditioning.
I know what you mean.
Like the stupidity in Night at The Museum. The only reason for the kid to exist in the film was to say: “dad, you can’t keep a job, so I hate you.” in the beginning. and “dad, you got a job, now I love you.” at the end. Other than that, the kid had no point in the film.
People and plot points have no depth, no background and only are used to set up ridiculus forced “conflict” and “resolution” just for the sake of having some sort of conflict and resolution.
That noise Michel Bay plays during his trailers as the shit is about to hit the fan, it started with Transformers but now I’ve seen it in Batleship it makes a “woooom” sound and then cut it just irritates the fuck out of me
What’s wrong with movies today? Case in point: The Vanishing. Check out the American version, then the original French version. The French version was far superior. Great, dark ending.
(no spoilers).
Why did they have to change it for American audiences? Do they think we can’t handle an ending like that? An unhappy ending wouldn’t sell?
The French ending was cool and totally appropriate.
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
That noise Michel Bay plays during his trailers as the shit is about to hit the fan, it started with Transformers but now I’ve seen it in Batleship it makes a “woooom” sound and then cut it just irritates the fuck out of me[/quote]
I’ve noticed there’s a deeper one that accompanies alien technology emerging from the ocean, and a higher-pitched “neeeaoow” that’s paired with land-based robots or vehicles. Very annoying.
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before (I’m too lazy to go backand check), but I’ve grown weary of scenes in comic book movies where cops sweep a crime scene and find the hero’s symbol- usually painted on a wall, but just as often rendered in fire on the ground and shot from above.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
I’m sick of those extended credit montage things BEFORE the movie.
I don’t have the patience to sit through five minutes of atmospheric music and stupid landscape shots of driving cars just so fifty producers feel important.[/quote]
I’m equally sick of post-end credits sequences. They were necessary to set up The Avengers, but that doesn’t mean nearly every other genre movie has to jump on the bandwagon.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
That noise Michel Bay plays during his trailers as the shit is about to hit the fan, it started with Transformers but now I’ve seen it in Batleship it makes a “woooom” sound and then cut it just irritates the fuck out of me[/quote]
I’ve noticed there’s a deeper one that accompanies alien technology emerging from the ocean, and a higher-pitched “neeeaoow” that’s paired with land-based robots or vehicles. Very annoying.[/quote]
Battleship, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Wrath of the Titans all had that freaking noise, it’s not even in the fucking film, at least in Transformers that noise was sort of like the transformation noise they make.
On the subject of Wrath and Transformers I’m excited to finally have decent CGI I really am but there needs to be some gravity to the 5 ton robots, or 12 foot Titan, they run and their movements just look off I can’t explain it see here in the trailer
[quote]roybot wrote:
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before (I’m too lazy to go backand check), but I’ve grown weary of scenes in comic book movies where cops sweep a crime scene and find the hero’s symbol- usually painted on a wall, but just as often rendered in fire on the ground and shot from above.[/quote]
You mean like in Daredevil with the alcohol, how did a blind guy do that, when did he have the time, and how did Urich know it was there
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
… there needs to be some gravity to the 5 ton robots, or 12 foot Titan, they run and their movements just look off I can’t explain it see here in the trailer
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SO right! I’ve been saying this for years. It’s the ONE THING that makes ALL CGI seem unrealistic and subsequently incredulous.
I don’t know what they could do to fix it, but we’ll know it when we see it. And if they can pull that off, it will change moviemaking in general forever.
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before (I’m too lazy to go backand check), but I’ve grown weary of scenes in comic book movies where cops sweep a crime scene and find the hero’s symbol- usually painted on a wall, but just as often rendered in fire on the ground and shot from above.[/quote]
You mean like in Daredevil with the alcohol, how did a blind guy do that, when did he have the time, and how did Urich know it was there[/quote]
Yeah, I had Daredevil in mind specifically, but the “flaming symbol” has cropped up in several other movies: The Crow and Punisher '04 to name but two.
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
That noise Michel Bay plays during his trailers as the shit is about to hit the fan, it started with Transformers but now I’ve seen it in Batleship it makes a “woooom” sound and then cut it just irritates the fuck out of me[/quote]
I’ve noticed there’s a deeper one that accompanies alien technology emerging from the ocean, and a higher-pitched “neeeaoow” that’s paired with land-based robots or vehicles. Very annoying.[/quote]
Battleship, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Wrath of the Titans all had that freaking noise, it’s not even in the fucking film, at least in Transformers that noise was sort of like the transformation noise they make.
On the subject of Wrath and Transformers I’m excited to finally have decent CGI I really am but there needs to be some gravity to the 5 ton robots, or 12 foot Titan, they run and their movements just look off I can’t explain it see here in the trailer
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I’m sick of Hollywood molesting the Greek mythology. Let’s move on. Why can’t they make a bad-ass, CGI and explosion-packed take on Christian mythology? Let’s put some Manson tracks to a scene of Jesus running slow-mo through an outdoor market while Roman speers bury themselves in the sand all around him. Then, KRAU, a goat explodes, and he gets slammed into a wall. Then he gets up and we can see a mixture of anguish and determination on his face, cut to God on high furrowing his brow, mumbling “get up, get up Jesus,” real quiet like, and as the song crescendos Jesus picks himself up and we can literally feel the tension in his perfectly defined abdominal wall and quads as he launches himself through a window and evades his pursuers…or does he?
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but:
Visible passwords when trying to hack a system and using dictionary words or proper nouns as the password.