Movies, Stop using the Wilhelm Scream.

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

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I honestly can't remember the last movie I saw it in, even though I know it's been in recent movies. So clearly it must not be that big of a deal breaker for me

As I said, keep that stuff in Comedies at this point, it has no place in Movies like say There Will Be Blood.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

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I honestly can't remember the last movie I saw it in, even though I know it's been in recent movies. So clearly it must not be that big of a deal breaker for me

As I said, keep that stuff in Comedies at this point, it has no place in Movies like say There Will Be Blood.

Really? JUST comedies? What about Indiana Jones or captain America? Those are pulpy action movies and they fit right in

Yep not in those movies too. Make original scream sound effects.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

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I honestly can't remember the last movie I saw it in, even though I know it's been in recent movies. So clearly it must not be that big of a deal breaker for me

As I said, keep that stuff in Comedies at this point, it has no place in Movies like say There Will Be Blood.

The Lord of the Rings isn't a movie "like say" There Will Be Blood. It's a big sweeping adventure flick, and a little bit silly (in its movie form anyway). I've never heard the Wilhelm Scream in anything other than these kinds of movies - like Indiana Jones and Star Wars, also adventure movies that are (sorry) a little bit silly if you think about them. You're acting like it's being used on movies like Shoah.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Stophavingfunguys.jpg

I honestly can't remember the last movie I saw it in, even though I know it's been in recent movies. So clearly it must not be that big of a deal breaker for me

As I said, keep that stuff in Comedies at this point, it has no place in Movies like say There Will Be Blood.

The Lord of the Rings isn't a movie "like say" There Will Be Blood. It's a big sweeping adventure flick, and a little bit silly (in its movie form anyway). I've never heard the Wilhelm Scream in anything other than these kinds of movies - like Indiana Jones and Star Wars, also adventure movies that are (sorry) a little bit silly if you think about them. You're acting like it's being used on movies like Shoah.

Its just that I have read the Lord of the Rings books more often than watched the movies, reading the Battle of the Hornburg feels much more dire than the adventurous looking one in the movie.

 

[hermes]

It has certainly been overused, and it is not like they are only in comedies or lighthearted action movies... You can hear it in "Missconduct", "Birdman", "The Hunger Games", "Watchmen" and the DC movies.

At this point, it only works as a reference to other movies, like them trying to emulate Star Wars or Indiana Jones. It is not worth much of a complain, but sometimes it takes you out of a movie.

It's also public domain. So, unless you can distribute them with something as good, funny and malleable for free, they'll keep using it, forever...

Sharknado 3 trying to save money in sound packs sounds reasonable. Batman v Superman no...

 

[the December King]

I remember I first identified it as a special recurring element in The Burbs(1989). Just before Rumsfield tackles Hans on the lawn at the end, Hans screams as the ambulance plunges into Art's house... I think. It's been a while.

 

[kiri3tsubasa]

It can work just fine, as illistrated here

 

[sageoftruth]

Yeah, obviously overused stock sound effects do ruin immersion.

Not just stuff like the Wilhelm Scream, but when someone opens and shuts a door and they have to make it noisy and use a sound that's in loads of stuff already. We can see the door move, it can be a quiet door.

Indeed. There's a stock horse whinny sound effect that my roommate never fails to notice in movies or games and he rolls his eyes every time.

 

[Worgen]

I don't mind the scream, but don't use it in any scene that is supposed to be taken seriously. Like, seriously at all, the scream just kills that, use it for a comedic death.

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

Using this scream reminds me of a guy I used to work with.
Every single day, several times per day, he used to say the same exact in-joke.
I've worked with him for over 2 years and he didn't say it only on 1 day because he got punched in the face and fell down a flight of stairs the night before.

A joke told 10000 times is not funny anymore.