Things you wish movies would stop doing
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Shaky-cam in non-1st Person films. I can understand movies like Cloverfield or, .REC having a shaky cam since that's the main premise of those films. What I dislike is in Deathly Hallows how the camera man seems to be having a seizer as Harry and the gang run through the woods in a vain attempt to dodge some snatchers. I can see why shaky cam was used then since that was a pretty visceral scene but it was also used earlier in the movie (I think it was when they were meeting Bethilda) and it seemed really, really unnecessary.
I also would rather producers and, film companies respect their intellectual properties. Like how Hal Jordan seems to be acting a lot more like Tony Stark than Hal Jordan ever did in the old Justice Friends cartoons. I realize Iron Man sold like topless pancakes but Hal Jordan isn't Iron Man. If this keeps up (by which I mean, companies copying each other for the sake of recognizable characters as opposed to singular entities) then even the most dull of average movie goers will realize they're watching the same movie they've already paid to see earlier in the decade.
I also don't get why Micheal Bay is doing Transformers when he's gone on record to say he doesn't like the franchise to begin with. Why not leave it for someone who is like said series? Although I suppose if film makers only made films about things they liked, there would be way more porn and way more Batman...
I also would rather producers and, film companies respect their intellectual properties. Like how Hal Jordan seems to be acting a lot more like Tony Stark than Hal Jordan ever did in the old Justice Friends cartoons. I realize Iron Man sold like topless pancakes but Hal Jordan isn't Iron Man. If this keeps up (by which I mean, companies copying each other for the sake of recognizable characters as opposed to singular entities) then even the most dull of average movie goers will realize they're watching the same movie they've already paid to see earlier in the decade.
I also don't get why Micheal Bay is doing Transformers when he's gone on record to say he doesn't like the franchise to begin with. Why not leave it for someone who is like said series? Although I suppose if film makers only made films about things they liked, there would be way more porn and way more Batman...
That came to mind for me too. Sometimes it just doesn't fit right yet they toss it in anyway.Ekonk said:
unnecessary or poorly made slow motion scenes, like when the protagonist shoots and the bullets travel almost at the same speed as him/her.
Movies where everything at the end, ends perfectly and there's no repercussions. I mean specifically movies where a hero goes on a wild rampage and at the very end is able to drive off into the sunset with his woman as if he'd not just massacred 60 people. I don't mind it so much when it's explained as a freak coincidence, or when the hero dies... But when they just get to live a normal life or walk off alone in the sunset... Um wth?
Mine is one that most people might not notice, but it drives me crazy. Say there's a character talking to someone. All of a sudden they say, "Oh I got to go I'm late for work". They hardly ever say "I'm GOING to be late for work" or "I'm on my way to work" it's always "I'm late for work". Damn Hollywood must have a lousy work ethic.
This one is older than dirt, but any movie/thing where the antagonist has some person locked up or something, and then goes on a massive rant, explaining his/her plans and how they plan to go about it.
It makes it even more infuriating when the protagonist inevitably escapes and thwarts said plans, which they would know next to nothing about had the antagonist not been so goddamned cocky.
*EDIT* Similarly, if the plans are simply to kill someone, and they go on and on about how they could/will kill said person, leaving them ample opportunity to stab them in the face. I'm looking at you, Van Helsing. [small]Of course that's not the only example, purely the only one I can think of.[/small]
It makes it even more infuriating when the protagonist inevitably escapes and thwarts said plans, which they would know next to nothing about had the antagonist not been so goddamned cocky.
*EDIT* Similarly, if the plans are simply to kill someone, and they go on and on about how they could/will kill said person, leaving them ample opportunity to stab them in the face. I'm looking at you, Van Helsing. [small]Of course that's not the only example, purely the only one I can think of.[/small]
Slow Motion
Yes it was cool in The Matrix that doesnt justify using it the whole damn movie. (See 300)
Yes it was cool in The Matrix that doesnt justify using it the whole damn movie. (See 300)
Shaky-camera. I mean, I get it in Cloverfield. It's meant to be recorded by just some guy. But when the production company thinks "OH SHIT AN ACTION SEQUENCE - QUICK, GIVE THE CAMERAMAN A SEIZURE!" it annoys me. You can make camerawork exciting without shaking it up and down like you've just downed two bottles of whiskey.
You want all that stuff from action movies though, it's suspension of disbelief.
I thought you were going to say something more along the lines of GOD DAMN EXPOSITION - let the audience think, notice stuff for themselves rather than spoon-feed everything to them from the script, the dialogue.
Take Monsters for example.
Whatshername's married. We find this out from a phonecall to her father at the start, where she just so happens to mention to him, audibly "Yes, I know he's my fiancée" so we go "OH, SHE'S GETTING MARRIED?" - then, less than three minutes later, when Photographer-man and whatshername are on the train, he looks at her hand.
Boom.
Ring.
We think "Ah, she's married/engaged".
That's how it should be. We notice these things, not have them forced into our heads like cretins through bloody exposition. Argggh, it pisses me off.
I thought you were going to say something more along the lines of GOD DAMN EXPOSITION - let the audience think, notice stuff for themselves rather than spoon-feed everything to them from the script, the dialogue.
Take Monsters for example.
Whatshername's married. We find this out from a phonecall to her father at the start, where she just so happens to mention to him, audibly "Yes, I know he's my fiancée" so we go "OH, SHE'S GETTING MARRIED?" - then, less than three minutes later, when Photographer-man and whatshername are on the train, he looks at her hand.
Boom.
Ring.
We think "Ah, she's married/engaged".
That's how it should be. We notice these things, not have them forced into our heads like cretins through bloody exposition. Argggh, it pisses me off.
Everyone's extreme lack of AIMING DOWN THE GOD DAMN SIGHTS ON THE GOD DAMN GUN!
They're not decorative, they're there so people can kill other people before the other people kill the people.
GWAAAH!
They're not decorative, they're there so people can kill other people before the other people kill the people.
GWAAAH!
Casting Jennifer Aniston as what is essentially Rachel in everything she's ever done since Friends ended.
Gratuitous swearing to avoid a G rating and bump it up to to PG in otherwise lighthearted family entertainment.
Gratuitous sequels/prequels. Specifically horror franchises with no continuity after maybe the first two.
Having Will Smith in it. (Sorry, I just can't stand the guy... or his kids, but thats beside the point. He does the same two characters in almost every film. He's either the predictable action hero or a bland, down on his luck, everyman.)
Having the artsy/romantic cliche movie get multiple Oscar nominations when the critics and the box office preferred the "L.C.D. action movie"
I.e. The Reader V.S. The Dark Knight
HAVING THE BEST SCENES IN THE TRAILER AND THE REST IS CRAP!
Promoting children's (10 and under) merch for R rated movie!- Watchmen and Pan's Labyrinth and to a lesser extent the Nolan Batman films.
When the trailer uses either O Fortuna and Lux Aeterna. ARRRRRRRGH!
Gratuitous swearing to avoid a G rating and bump it up to to PG in otherwise lighthearted family entertainment.
Gratuitous sequels/prequels. Specifically horror franchises with no continuity after maybe the first two.
Having Will Smith in it. (Sorry, I just can't stand the guy... or his kids, but thats beside the point. He does the same two characters in almost every film. He's either the predictable action hero or a bland, down on his luck, everyman.)
Having the artsy/romantic cliche movie get multiple Oscar nominations when the critics and the box office preferred the "L.C.D. action movie"
I.e. The Reader V.S. The Dark Knight
HAVING THE BEST SCENES IN THE TRAILER AND THE REST IS CRAP!
Promoting children's (10 and under) merch for R rated movie!- Watchmen and Pan's Labyrinth and to a lesser extent the Nolan Batman films.
When the trailer uses either O Fortuna and Lux Aeterna. ARRRRRRRGH!
I'm tired of four major things I keep seeing especially in modern movies.
1. Horror movies that aren't scary but are instead nothing but torture porn. Gross does not equal scary. What happened to messing with the viewer in ways other than gore?
2. Clueless villains. Give me a truly competent villain for once. Someone who will trash the hero fairly quickly and the movie has to focus on the remaining actors instead.
3. The same actors showing up in everything. Seriously give someone new a chance and stop acting like only the popular people are in the movie. In fact more ordinary looking actors would help immerse me in the movie world much better.
4. Stop the cgi barrage. Every time I see a movie nowadays it's cgi this and cgi that. What happened to other special effects? You know like the amazing animatronics and sets of old? All this cgi bull is just going to age modern movies faster.
1. Horror movies that aren't scary but are instead nothing but torture porn. Gross does not equal scary. What happened to messing with the viewer in ways other than gore?
2. Clueless villains. Give me a truly competent villain for once. Someone who will trash the hero fairly quickly and the movie has to focus on the remaining actors instead.
3. The same actors showing up in everything. Seriously give someone new a chance and stop acting like only the popular people are in the movie. In fact more ordinary looking actors would help immerse me in the movie world much better.
4. Stop the cgi barrage. Every time I see a movie nowadays it's cgi this and cgi that. What happened to other special effects? You know like the amazing animatronics and sets of old? All this cgi bull is just going to age modern movies faster.
1) Stop being in 3D.
2) Stop forcing romance.
3) Stop being overly simplistic. Things in life are never as simple as "Good guy vs. Bad guy."
2) Stop forcing romance.
3) Stop being overly simplistic. Things in life are never as simple as "Good guy vs. Bad guy."
Well, seeing as Arnie is a wrinkled old politician now the 80's action hero ideals are dead, it's best for them to just cut their losses and move on.Erecting a Sentry said: