the transformers know how to calculate their force and trajectory so that the human would not be knocked out

OBVIOUSLY

6/10/2008 5:45:14 PM

Gee I sure hope Hollywood doesn't find this thread cuz all ya all have just pretty much ruled out all my favorite parts of action movies.

- of course he doesn't look back at the explosion, no it is not realistic that's the point. Larger than life is the point.

- of course the explosions, grenades, gun shots etc... have unrealistic sound effects. But, these sound effects are in some sense consistent across a large class of action movies so we know what is meant. Again, its larger than life.

- Yes lasers do not make sound in outer space's vacuum, but do you really want to watch Star Wars without the super cool lazery sound effects? It be like listening to fish. Gosh people.

- guy gets the girl. Well, by in large the nerd audience needs some assurance this is possible. Don't take this away from us.

- separate story lines that merge at the end. This may be overused, but I find this must be a more challenging thing to tell artfully. Like the way Babel unfolds. Or, The Usual Suspects, or Memento or well I don't care if there are a thousand of these it doesn't make the movie less interesting to me.

In short, stop yur hating. It could be much worse, go rent some Greek movies and reconsider your grumblings.

6/10/2008 6:40:29 PM

its a thread

6/10/2008 6:56:53 PM

-Slow motion as someone dies with one woman singing in the background

-Deaths you just know aren't real

These two are the main reasons The Two Towers is my least favorite LotR film.

-Hot girl that inexplicably goes for dumb main character

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and any Adam Sandler film come to mind

-gay/black/both best friend who gives advice and spouts stereotypical one liners for main white/straight/both character

6/10/2008 7:08:16 PM

that one annoying track of overly dramatic music with the choir and shit, you know what I mean

6/10/2008 7:41:04 PM

lol i think i do

choir is all like HEY HEY HO HO...HEY HEY HO HO...HEY HEY HOO HOOO HOOO HEEY HOOO

6/10/2008 7:48:23 PM

The Matrix slow-mo cam

Stop. Just stop.

6/10/2008 7:51:22 PM

Anytime someone wakes up and it was all just a dream.....































or was it?

6/10/2008 8:34:10 PM

yea i started reading a book about screenwriting and one of the first lines was please don't start off with a dream/wake up sequence cause its old

6/10/2008 9:09:27 PM

Anyone waking up from a bad dream by sitting up sweaty and yelling "BAHHH!!!!"

6/10/2008 10:04:04 PM

Quote :

"that one annoying track of overly dramatic music with the choir and shit, you know what I mean"

carmina burana - o fortuna

6/10/2008 10:07:29 PM

movies where the germans/russians/other random eastern europeans speak in english to each other but in stupid accents, if your going to not have them speak their language and subtitle it, just have them speak plain english

6/10/2008 11:01:51 PM

A-MEN

6/11/2008 12:00:29 AM

mel gibson in a mel gibson directed movie

6/11/2008 1:48:20 AM

when the guy finishes on the girls face

6/11/2008 3:09:42 AM

Indicating that sex just happened by showing a man and a woman both falling back on pillows saying "ahhh".

6/11/2008 3:14:22 AM

2/3 through the movie things start to fall apart for the main character (who was previously successful or gave the impression of improving) and you doubt things could get any worse for him/her. The writers expect you to abandon all hope at this point...BUT WAIT! In a few minutes things are gonna start turning around for our hero so you can start smiling again! Almost every hollywood movie follows this pattern. I can see it coming a mile away and it is old. The good part is it usually lets me know when a bad movie is getting close to being over.

just thinking of recent movies i've seen:
that will smith movie where he's a po guy
taladega nights, old school, dodgeball, ron burgandy (all those will Ferrell and similar type movies have it real bad)

6/11/2008 7:00:57 AM

^Following the 2/3 formula for romantic movies, especially romantic comedies...

The relationship that goes completely south due to some misunderstanding - usually involving the girl seeing their boyfriend holding hands with his ex. She storms off, but if she would have stayed a few seconds longer she would have seen her boyfriend totally reject the ex's come on as he explained to the ex how he was finally willing to settle down with one girl.

The rest of the move is the boyfriend trying to "make up" with the girl. They eventually do and they do it in a way where he doesn't even make the slightest attempt to explain the situation/circumstances behind what the girl saw.

[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 7:34 AM. Reason : -]

6/11/2008 7:32:56 AM

not a movie, but curb your enthusiasm is almost painful for me to watch because of the ridiculous misunderstanding that happen to him every episode

6/11/2008 9:11:09 AM

This is more or less a (bad) Japanese anime, but when one character cries over the body of a dead friend and then screams loudly, usually in a zoomed out shot to say "OMG he's in so much pain", I roll my eyes.

6/11/2008 10:04:51 AM

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"-Hot girl that inexplicably goes for dumb main character Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and any Adam Sandler film come to mind"

funny thing about that-

from imdb:

Quote :

"Heather Graham was originally offered Shannon Elizabeth's role, but she turned it down because she couldn't figure out why her character would fall in love with Jay."

6/11/2008 7:07:29 PM

when a girl goes to bed and shes obviously thinking about something

and then a guy goes to bed and hes obviously thinking too

and then obviously they are thinking about eachother

and then obviously they end up together

and then obviously the movie blows.

6/11/2008 7:21:04 PM

When unarmed characters have 5 bad guys with guns pointed at them, but they somehow punch and kick their way out of it without a shot being fired.

6/11/2008 8:09:24 PM

^^^HAHAHAHA

6/11/2008 8:30:58 PM

and she doesn't come of as the brightest crayon either.

6/11/2008 9:11:24 PM

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"tires squealing every time a car starts moving/stops."

what about TIRES SQUEALING ON DIRT?!?!?!.................oh that pisses me off

6/12/2008 1:34:06 AM

^Reminds me of a Zena episode where they made fun of that. They had a scene where a chariot peeled out.

6/12/2008 7:47:40 AM

Quote :

"not a movie, but curb your enthusiasm is almost painful for me to watch because of the ridiculous misunderstanding that happen to him every episode"

curb your enthusiasm is a satire, though.

6/12/2008 9:28:26 AM

^i have a hard time enjoying king of queens for that reason too.





and i just want to reiterate my most hated cliche

Quote :

"when every car has a *chirp chirp* style alarm system."

especially when they go to unlock the car. I was watching something last night and they guy went to unlock his circa 96 jeep grand cherokee and chirped the alarm and got it. ughhhhh

6/12/2008 9:37:05 AM

For the longest time, the Atari 2600 Pac-Man sound was the generic "video game" sound effect until they realized games had advanced well past that era.

Now video game references are either pre-1986 (PacMan, Space Invaders, Mario Bros.) or Grand Theft Auto which an occasional Sonic the Hedgehog reference. It's like 1987-2001 never occurred or something. There are a few exceptions, like Robot Chicken, but that's a TV show.

[Edited on June 12, 2008 at 9:45 AM. Reason : .]

6/12/2008 9:45:32 AM

Cars exploding after they crash . . . every single time!!!

People driving cars and they are shown shifting gears (manual transmission) and then putting the car in park with the column shifter (automatic) in a later scene.

6/12/2008 10:47:21 AM

Quote :

"i have a hard time enjoying king of queens for that reason too."

well, i have a hard time enjoying king of queens b/c it's a terrible show, but that's not the point.

and a lot of these are not cliches, but rather movie fuckups that annoy you. stick to proper cliches people!

6/12/2008 10:56:01 AM

^ok yeah i agree that show does suck.

6/12/2008 11:07:54 AM

I like King of Queens

but only in the episodes where the girl is skinny

she got fat for a few seasons in the middle of the series' run

[Edited on June 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM. Reason : x]

6/12/2008 11:49:56 AM

^she was prego...its happens. I think that show was hilarious .... at least better than Everybody Loves Raymond... I can count on one hand how many times I"ve laughed watching that show

6/12/2008 4:15:37 PM

Quote :

"things making noise as they travel through space."

6/12/2008 4:22:24 PM

Not a cliche but i hate any owen wilson character.. or should i say the only owen wilson character

6/12/2008 4:39:05 PM

This may be limited to Star Trek, but the ship is hit anywhere and BAM - sparks on the bridge.

6/12/2008 4:41:37 PM

I just saw No Country for Old Men and I gotta say, **SPOILERS** I was glad to see the bad guy win for once.**END SPOILERS**

[Edited on June 12, 2008 at 9:47 PM. Reason : ]

6/12/2008 9:46:39 PM

^ If having a car crash into you and break your arm counts as winning

6/12/2008 9:59:12 PM

Quote :

"King of Queens"

I liked this show until maybe 3 episodes in when I figured out the pattern -

Husband: I'm fat LOL

Wife: You're fat LOL

6/12/2008 11:22:06 PM

^^Well he won in the traditional sense in that the main guy died and he lived. He even kept his word and killed the wife. He may have broken his arm, but that is easily something that would heal.

6/12/2008 11:30:27 PM

Did he kill the wife? We never actually saw it happen, and there's always the possibility that she called the coin toss correctly.

6/12/2008 11:42:45 PM

^ he killed her. notice how he checks his shoes when he leaves the house. All throughout the movie Chigurh made sure to avoid getting blood on his shoes.

6/12/2008 11:46:04 PM

Quote :

"King of Queens"

Quote :

"I liked this show until maybe 3 episodes in when I figured out the pattern - Husband: I'm fat LOL Wife: You're fat LOL"

Doesn't help that they used the standard "guy is a moron, wife is cruel, wife is also out of dopey husband's league" mold. The fat thing was the differentiator.

6/13/2008 7:37:39 AM

A pair of indians on horseback sitting on a ridge watching the white folk.

6/15/2008 2:25:01 PM

Quote :

"This may be limited to Star Trek, but the ship is hit anywhere and BAM - sparks on the bridge."

And then an extra falls backward, does a gymnast flip, and is dead.

Quote :

"A pair of indians on horseback sitting on a ridge watching the white folk."

Or Arabs on camels.

[Edited on June 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM. Reason : /]

6/15/2008 4:05:33 PM

Yeah, you'd think that Starfleet would wise up and put in some surge protectors so that the no-name ensigns stop being killed in their first episode.

6/15/2008 5:45:50 PM

Canned sound effects. Seems like almost every action movie, most action TV shows, sometimes video games, and occasionally commercial have the same canned sound effects.

The generic "YEAAHAAAAAARH!" when someone dies.

The generic police radio broadcast, which is like "Twenty eight four three nine mumble mumble mumble" that always plays during cop scenes.

I can't figure out if those effects are just free for anybody to use

6/15/2008 6:07:30 PM

^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

6/15/2008 6:42:41 PM