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6/5/2009 11:07:46 PM

slapping

seriously I don't think I've ever seen someone slapped in real life. happens all the time in TV/movies

sorry if this has been mentioned already

6/6/2009 12:41:10 AM

i've been slapped at least a couple of times. it happens.


Once by a guy. I knocked the shit out of him in return.

Once by a girl...she was drunk and fell over--I caught her...by the boob. She slapped the hell out of me.

[Edited on June 6, 2009 at 12:50 AM. Reason : ]

6/6/2009 12:48:42 AM

probly mentioned, but the whole thing with a bad guy at the end of a movie about to be arrested and has a gun, points it at whomever is with him, then shoots himself right before the cops bust in


that and intense action scenes at movies' endings and cops showing up just seconds after the ordeal is over, rather than interrupting the action

6/6/2009 12:58:00 AM

also probably mentioned, but I hate it when there's some epic battle or chase, one guy gets the other in a compromised, vulnerable position where he could shoot him/stab him/throw him off a building/etc, but instead of just doing it without hesitation while the opportunity is there, he elects to stop and have a damned conversation with him, only to have his victim escape or turn the tables on him.

Quote :

"holding someone at gunpoint, then to be dramatic, they either cock the hammer back or rack the slide, pump the shotgun etc.......do you not have a round chambered already?""

Oh yeah, defiinitely that too.

[Edited on June 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM. Reason : ]

6/6/2009 1:39:27 AM

Capturing the hero and his female sidekick then leaving the hero to die while escaping with the chick.

6/6/2009 2:12:44 AM

acting like you're going to take someone prisoner in the middle of a battle, ie return of the jedi there is a war going on and somehow the storm trooper doesn't shoot at han and leia and just says get ur hands up, which of course leads to leia shooting the guy when she turns around

6/7/2009 8:10:16 PM

Characters who appear randomly halfway through a movie to explain to everyone that they know the mysterious hero and that he is a bigger badass than anyone could have imagined at that point.

Examples are Col. Troutman in Rambo and Chris Walken in Man on Fire.

6/9/2009 3:41:20 PM

A guy or a couple of guys do a job for a very rich/powerful man. Said powerful man promises a great reward, but is secretly planning on putting a bullet through his/their head when job is done.

6/14/2009 4:42:28 PM

As mentioned @ 1:36

Why do I feel bad for watching the whole thing?

6/15/2009 3:06:17 AM

_______ is about to ________, and only one man can stop it.

6/16/2009 5:35:24 AM

^^ It's been a while since I saw that movie. Is Keanu Reeves supposed to be a robot (his line at 1:50), or is he just practicing his trade?

6/16/2009 7:44:42 AM

^No, he's human. I don't exactly know why he says it like that, he didn't just have an episode due to the memory overload in his head.

It's Keanu, do we really need an explanation?

6/17/2009 7:13:08 AM

All I remember is Dolph Lundgren as an insane preacher and then Ice-T saves Keanu with his cyborg dolphin.

6/17/2009 2:20:09 PM

people in different branches of law enforcement always coming in to conflict and disliking each other I think is getting a little old

6/17/2009 3:11:37 PM

This is MY jurisdiction !

It WAS your jurisdiction...now this is a federal case, so you and your men can leave.

6/17/2009 4:01:13 PM

or in the case of the negotiator, "they've left federal property, so this is our case now" or something like that

6/17/2009 4:05:05 PM

^
^^
^^^

Ha. How could this go unmentioned all this time... or maybe it was. Like the local sheriff really, really, really wants to go after an invincible alien that just disintegrated two of his best deputies right before his eyes. Please, increase my workload and exposure to mortal danger! I always imagine the scenario as follows:


It WAS your jurisdiction...now this is a federal case, so you and your men can leave.

Ok. Have fun.


[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Reason : -]

6/17/2009 4:37:44 PM

yea i think it's been mentioned in the sense of "NOT ANYMORE you're not..."

6/17/2009 4:50:47 PM

i hate the conversations that go like this

"i know what you were out doing last night"
"you do??"
"how thoughtful of you to get me flowers!"
".....ohhhh, flowers! right!"

or

"i know what you were out doing last night"
"oh no, please, rachel is just some girl i knew a long time ago, it meant nothing!"
"....i was talking about you getting your laundry. who's rachel?"

i would bet this typically happens in some fashion in just about every romantic comedy ever made

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM. Reason : .]

6/18/2009 8:44:18 AM

yeah yeah reminds me of that classic joke

Quote :

"A man's wife asks him to go to the store to buy some cigarettes. So he walks down to the store only to find it closed. So he goes into a nearby bar to use the vending machine. At the bar he sees a beautiful woman and starts talking to her. They have a couple of beers and one thing leads to another and they end up in her apartment. After they've had their fun, he realizes its 3AM and says, "Oh no, its so late, my wife's going to kill me. Have you got any talcum powder?" She gives him some talcum powder, which he proceeds to rub on his hands and then he goes home. His wife is waiting for him in the doorway and she is pretty pissed. "Where the hell have you been?!" "Well, honey, it's like this. I went to the store like you asked, but they were closed. So I went to the bar to use the vending machine. I saw this great looking chick there and we had a few drinks and one thing led to another and I ended up in bed with her." "Oh yeah? Let me see your hands!" She sees his hands are covered with powder and... "You God damn liar!! You went bowling again!!""

6/18/2009 9:26:53 AM

when people threaten to shove their foot up another person's ass if they dont shut up, and the one threatened quiets really quickly, as if the threatening person is actually going to put their foot up their ass

6/18/2009 3:14:44 PM

especially attempts at a clever variation of "I'm going to put my foot so far up your ass that _________________________"

6/18/2009 5:34:57 PM

Prosecutors pushing a defendant until they have an emotional outburst on the witness stand that amounts to a full confession, followed by an "OH SHIT" look on their face.

6/19/2009 12:44:11 PM

^ did you watch runaway jury last night by chance? that crossed my mind watching it

6/19/2009 4:47:06 PM

6/19/2009 5:26:47 PM

any variation of whenever someone who the audience doesn't yet know as a marksman kills a bunch of bad guys with deadly accuracy and someone goes "Where'd you learn to shoot like that ?"

6/19/2009 5:30:18 PM

people frantically fucking in a car and the horn blows

6/20/2009 8:07:34 PM

when a computer rebels against humans and the hero has to destroy it. It makes this ridiculous powering down sound complete with NES style sound blips and pitch-bending robot voice yelps before it often explodes.

6/21/2009 6:24:32 AM

sweeping shots of Washington DC landmarks, especially of the mall where you can see the Capitol and the Wash. Monument together

7/3/2009 10:12:08 PM

When a car gets smashed up in one scene, then is pristine in the next.

7/3/2009 10:41:54 PM

COMMANDO!

7/3/2009 10:49:31 PM

Scenes where a parent s separated from their spouse watches their child sleep while stroking their hair with the other parent standing in the doorway impatiently.

7/3/2009 11:16:14 PM

when two guys are pretend-boxing or sparring, and one guy says "go on, give it all you got", then the other guy punches him in the hand, then the first guy turns away from the puncher and towards the camera and gives an exaggerated silent "ooowwwwww" motion.

same with a hard high-five or any situation where one guy hits or slaps another guy and they have to pretend it didn't hurt

7/3/2009 11:52:58 PM

i'm sure it's been mentioned at some point, but where a novice (usually a woman) has someone they hate at gun point, and then the comforting policeman, government agent, etc has to gently tell them the bad guy isn't worth it and to give them the gun. actually, "give me the gun" is probably used way too much as it is

7/4/2009 5:38:23 PM

henchmen and a sub-boss infiltrate a place with a guard
guard says "WHAT DO YALL THINK UR DOOIN"
sub-boss shoots guard with silenced gun, bonus points if they make a comment

7/4/2009 6:00:00 PM

i like when the evil boss randomly kills one of his own henchmen because they made a minor mistake.....just to show us what an evil badass he is

7/4/2009 6:03:55 PM

^ That was one of mine a few pages back.

Also: something to the effect of "You can't kill me, I'm already dead."

7/4/2009 7:32:09 PM

Noisy night vision goggles.

7/5/2009 11:25:36 AM

Basically any time movies use computers/hacking as a plot device... they're not fucking magic, people, the 19-yr-old hacker isn't going to make the servers in someone's base explode from a public terminal at some internet cafe.

For that matter, the fact that all hackers in movies are represented by some scrawny 19-yr-old, and usually act as the pussy sidekick to make the action hero look more badass.

7/5/2009 3:15:55 PM

When someone is stading on the opposite side of a street, train platform, etc then along comes a truck/bus/train/etc and that person vanishes.

(not reading through 10 pages to see if it was mentioned)

7/5/2009 3:19:12 PM

^^didn't you see the movie Hackers? Computers are obviously made of magic and real hackers rollerblade around attending raves.

7/5/2009 8:26:30 PM

and most hackers/script kiddies are fat disgusting blobs of human waste.

7/5/2009 10:05:14 PM

i like the ones that work for the gov...

7/5/2009 10:12:58 PM

My wife was watching "no reservations" or somethign like that last night and it was FULL of these


how about when person 1 runs away in a city and person 2 chases them on foot, but person 1 gets across a busy street unscathed and person 2 gets the "screech and beeeep-beeeep" or "truck horrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnn"

7/6/2009 2:34:52 PM

A guy will be walking by a window, open door, hallway, etc

and he'll look in for a second and keep walking without breaking stride

The camera stays in the same spot, and 2 seconds late the guy slowly comes back and looks back in the same area, as if he saw something before and is just now realizing what it was

Hard to explain but you know it when you see it

7/6/2009 3:34:42 PM

Villain is beating the shit out of hero, sidekick sneaks up behind villain and hits him in the head. Villain is not knocked out, but rather angrily turns around to deal with the sidekick (who makes a "who me?" face at him), giving the hero time to catch his second wind.

7/6/2009 3:46:14 PM

^^ in that same vein, when someone says something in passing and the main character goes "wait, what did you just say??" and then makes the guy repeat what he said verbatim even though he obviously heard what it was and gleaned something off it. this happened in independence day when jeff goldblum got the idea for the virus from his dad

"wait what did you just say?"
"what, about faith? well, blah blah blah..."
"no the other part"
"what, i don't want you to catch cold"
"...doohhhhhh!"

7/6/2009 4:03:44 PM

^ rofl, that reminds me of that parody they did of him in south park.

7/6/2009 4:09:14 PM

^^ "They should call them floories."

7/7/2009 12:31:10 AM