I’ll second the dislike of needless nudity. I can’t watch Homeland because my wife doesn’t want to see ‘that girl’s ugly tits’. The worset offender is the show ‘Girls’. The main character has the ugliest tits and insists on showing them in every episode.
When a character in the movie is drunk. I’ve seen maybe 4 movies in my life where someone played a drunk scene and seemed like they could have legitimately been drunk during filming.
^^ That reminds me!
In a movie where some drunk sees a superhero do someting super or a UFO landing or something… they look at the bottle then throw it away, as though drinking makes you hallucinate.
Not in the movie but before the movie…
I hate long trailers. If I watch a trailer which is over 2 minutes long, I’m always afraid that they’ve shown all the good scenes and theres nothing else in the movie but fluff.
This may sound nuts but even though you’re right and I’d prefer trailers not show so much…some people might be surprised to find out how much some older trailers gave away.
I mean some trailers int he 70s seemed to basically give a condensed version of the whole movie starting at the beginning and going through to the end…I mean some trailers now show a mix of stuff from all parts of the movie at least.
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[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
Movies I absolutely hated but everybody else liked:
- The Matrix trilogy… I cut the first one off in the middle. That “deepness” seemed so forced it was just painful.
- Natural Born Killers… Just not that interested in killing.
- 300 - I absolutely hated this idiotic movie. I was forced to watch it at a neighbors house. He kept rattling on about how great and cool it was. To me it was fucking painful.
- The fast and the Furious… I don’t shit how many camera angles you have, rice burners with giant spoilers look stupid as fucking hell. [/quote]
I actually agree with you on those… except for 300. I thought it was beautifully violent. Or maybe that’s violently beautiful.[/quote]
Visually it was well done. Perhaps over done… it was to ‘artsy-fartsy’. I think they just tried to hard. I think if they brought the story down to earth a little bit more, spent less time trying to make it a visual art, and cut the over enthusiastic drama of the dialog it could have been a good movie. The story is cool, I just think they did a bad job with it. That stupid gold filter was over done too.
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I have to defend 300 on that front. They were trying to emulate the visual style of the graphic novel. It worked for the most part. The story is told from the point of view of Dilios the storyteller. What we’re watching is his embellished account of the battle of Thermopylae, which is why the Persians often appear faceless or monstrous.
The hyper-realistic style is meant to show how Dilios is glorifying the bravery of his fallen comrades, both to make them legends and rouse the remaining Spartans into action. [/quote]
100% agree. It was like those stories you hear from old people. It snowed everyday and they had to walk to school in it…uphill both ways. It wasn’t supposed to be literal at all.[/quote]
Yep. A lot of legends were born out of real events, passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, and shaped by the reactions of the listeners. Many mythical beasts or supernatural enemies were once ordinary people who were made larger than life by the imagination of the speaker.
Seems to be an integral part of human nature: you’ve got the old folk romanticizing the good ol’ days, anglers exagerrating the size of their catch to fellow fishermen and mythical events which usually have some basis in reality.
One point that was far clearer in the graphic novel than the movie was that Leonidas went to war with only 300 men because the corrupt priests (again seen as disfigured to emphasize their nature) denied him permission to take all the Spartan men into battle. The priests had been bribed with Persian gold to stop Leonidas from entering into battle with a full complement of warriors. By Spartan law, the will of the priests could only be defied if the king died in battle…Leonidas knew that…
[quote]Cuso wrote:
Not in the movie but before the movie…
I hate long trailers. If I watch a trailer which is over 2 minutes long, I’m always afraid that they’ve shown all the good scenes and theres nothing else in the movie but fluff.[/quote]
x2. I hate that they show scenes all the way through the third act of the movie. The trailer for ‘The Grey’ showed the climax/final scene of the movie. I now avoid trailers for movies I intend to see. I haven’t seen the trailer for the new Batman for that reason.
I hate when you hear the same damn songs used for specific scenes in too many movies.
For example, how many films include Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town”? Or George Thoroughgood’s “Bad To The Bone”? Or Walkin’ On Sunshine"? Or Beethoven’s “7th Symphony” or “Ode To Joy?”
Don’t get me wrong, I love most of those songs, but NOT in so many films.
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I haven’t seen the trailer for the new Batman for that reason.[/quote]
Spoiler alert: In the end it turns out he was a ghost the whole time.
If a woman is alone and hears a noise, she will go and check it out in her most revealing underwear.
If someone starts dancing in the street, everyone else will know the dance moves and join in.
When someone turns the light off and goes to bed, everything in the room will remain visible, just slightly bluish.
Nearly everyone speaks English, regardless of where they’re from. Even aliens from outer space.
All police investigations require at least one trip to a strip club.
Ventilation systems in buildings are the greatest hiding places (and apparently big and sturdy enough for a 200 lb dude to comfortably crawl through) and allow one to travel to any part of a building totally undetected.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
If a woman is alone and hears a noise, she will go and check it out in her most revealing underwear.
If someone starts dancing in the street, everyone else will know the dance moves and join in.
When someone turns the light off and goes to bed, everything in the room will remain visible, just slightly bluish.
Nearly everyone speaks English, regardless of where they’re from. Even aliens from outer space.
All police investigations require at least one trip to a strip club.
Ventilation systems in buildings are the greatest hiding places (and apparently big and sturdy enough for a 200 lb dude to comfortably crawl through) and allow one to travel to any part of a building totally undetected.[/quote]
Great list ID, every one of these are a ten!
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
If a woman is alone and hears a noise, she will go and check it out in her most revealing underwear.
If someone starts dancing in the street, everyone else will know the dance moves and join in.
When someone turns the light off and goes to bed, everything in the room will remain visible, just slightly bluish.
Nearly everyone speaks English, regardless of where they’re from. Even aliens from outer space.
All police investigations require at least one trip to a strip club.
Ventilation systems in buildings are the greatest hiding places (and apparently big and sturdy enough for a 200 lb dude to comfortably crawl through) and allow one to travel to any part of a building totally undetected.[/quote]
Great list ID, every one of these are a ten![/quote]
On the back of that, what about when people in old/mythical movies also have a british accent.
Game of thrones
Spartacus (greece by the way)
300
Lord of the Rings
Eragon
Any period drama no matter where its set… eastern europe etc…
Clash/Wrath of the Titans
The list is endless.
I believe it’s because Brits are badass and Awesome.
Imagine Saramon or Gandalf or Leonidas with a Boston or Alabama accent, fml.
Although I see this more one shows like “Bones” or “CSI” then in movies, I’m sick of video editing equipment that can “clean up” a pixeled picture taken from a low capacity camera to show a revealing face or some other kind of evidence. How can this be done if the digital information isn’t there?
^^Akin to that is when something happens in a movie and is caught on security cameras and later when someone watches the security footage it looks exactly like the earlier part of the movie…just in black and white.
Saw Moneyball yesterday and what got me was that for the 1,000,000th time the good looking go-getter sportsman guy (Pitt) was partnered up with the nerdy, chunky guy with glasses and a degree in economics from some ivy league college.
While I was watching the movie I was constantly thinking about this thread and it ruined the whole moneyball experience for me.
I hate you all.
Huh? Did anyone mention something like that here???
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Huh? Did anyone mention something like that here???[/quote]
Probably. I officially apologize for infringing on the copyrights of somebody elses hate post.
I have to work sometimes and can miss about 50 posts in a thread.
Edit: People with photographic memories are not to be fooled with…
Tired of seeing tricky type treatments in the title screen and credits.
Example, when text becomes part of the scene, then dis-assembles and flies off-screen or whatever.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Tired of seeing tricky type treatments in the title screen and credits.
Example, when text becomes part of the scene, then dis-assembles and flies off-screen or whatever.
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Good point.
There’s a lot of “clever” stuff in film that’s getting old and worn out.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Tired of seeing tricky type treatments in the title screen and credits.
Example, when text becomes part of the scene, then dis-assembles and flies off-screen or whatever.
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I think it can be creative if done right. I just saw Hostel 3 and they did a good job putting the title of the movie on screen as if it were a huge neon sign. It even reflected correctly off the car window.
I really liked what Zombie Land did with the text on screen during the movie.