[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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That sounds almost Kafkaesque[/quote]
Don’t get me started on Kafka! One of my favorites of all time is The Metamorphosis. There isn’t a movie director in the world that could pull it off convincingly and with the subtle and varied emotional content intact without a trace of irony or kitsch - Tim Burton need not even try.
Maybe, just MAYBE David Lynch.
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Sorry to say this, but HH is also a fan of The Metamorphosis. During one of our encounters, he called me “his cockroach”, probably because I was hounding him and his personas like a bastard at the time.
Just to make sure that the reference wasn’t lost on me, he kindly provided a wikipedia link to the plot synopsis. That’s kind of like insulting someone, giving them a book to read so they could understand the insult and making them agree to return to the same place in a few days, just so he could see how cutting the insult was.
Nice to know that he has a soft spot for the culturally challenged peons…you’d swear he’s the only guy who ever broke open a book. [/quote]
Thanks Roy. My day was going SO well up until now.
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Well, misery loves company as they say, and I take solace in the fact that Kafka would have probably found HH just as tiresome as everyone else does.
It seems to be a universal rule of scriptwriting that whenever two people have a disagreement, one of them will say “I don’t have to listen to this”, then they’ll carry on arguing.
I tried to find a Youtube compilation of the best “I don’t have to listen to this” moments. I was surprised that no such vid has been made.
There are NO good insurance or frequent flier miles jokes or times when they make reference to old commercials like “Don’t leave home without it!” or “Reach out and touch someone”…like holy shit…those commercials are from the late 70s early 80s for cryin’ out loud!
When vomiting is used to show how intense the thing that just happened was.
You know in some disaster movie or alien invasion one or whatever after the shit hits the fan one character will have to vomit, in order to show the audience how big the thing that just happened was.
Having stars of TV shows/films that were popular a few decades ago doing cameos as themselves.
I first noticed this wil Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle, which I didn’t mind, but saw Ted yesterday with Flash Gordon and it got on my nerves.
The whole female victim getting dragged off camera by the unknown assailant, this started with quarantine then paranormal activity and taken now I’m seeing it everywhere
[quote]Nards wrote: When vomiting is used to show how intense the thing that just happened was.
You know in some disaster movie or alien invasion one or whatever after the shit hits the fan one character will have to vomit, in order to show the audience how big the thing that just happened was.[/quote]
I think its used effectively some of the time.
In Remember the Titans when coach Boone vomits just before the game, and then plays it off like its cool, that was good.
Person A and Person B are having a deep discussion or argument. Person C walks in with his head down talking about something unrelated. He then looks up, notices Person A and B staring at each other with passion/anger and says “…what?”
Probably already mentioned but my hate is strong with this one:
It’s the morning after a sexy night.
He gets up (if he’s build decently, now is the time to show off) and does his thing.
Mostly he runs around the house, and they talk.
But SHE has to wrap the blanket around her teats!
Damn prudes.
Some french director already joked about this in the 60s:
A lady actor was showing her titties in “that morning after” scene.
So the guy tells her: “hey, cover your shame, this is a decent movie!”, which she immediately does.
[quote]biglifter wrote:
Hey, late to the party here and just skipped to the end. Did anyone mention Maggie Gyllenhaal yet? You could cut diamond with that grill. [/quote]
I’ve said it before and everyone was mean to me, she ruined the Batman movie she was in. Her and the Chinaman’s scene is atrocious.
