movie Pet peeves?

[Jamison]

whats your biggest pet peeve when watching a movie, Today i watched Goldfinger on AMC theater - ive seen the movie many times before, and it gripes me everytime.. the scene is where bond is in the db5 and sprays the oil out at the car chasing him slides off the cliff and no sooner does the car get off the edge it explodes before hitting anything, were people in the sixties that dumb or is it just me? ive seen that a lot in bond flicks.. you dont have to be pefect but dont insult my intelligence.
my other pet peev would have to be dolby Digital 2.0 gawd i hate those soundtracks compressed and nasty. at least give us a PCM track
other peeves include all the advertising we cant block out by hitting the menu button.

[Unican_Eric]

2 things that I dont like. Since when does a car run into the back of another car and then fly right over it? Ever watch CHiPS?

I am now starting to see channels advertise during the program being watched.
Your watching your program and across the bottom of the screen(and quite large I might add) they start showing whats on tomorrow night or next or whatever.

Oh yeah, those stupid F*****G channel logos. I know what channel I am on I do not need to be reminded.

I can keep going but I have said more than enough to get me upset already.

[mg196]

I hate it when:

A) Directors go back and re-make their own movies with digital special effects (F.U. Mr. Lucas!)

B) Directors feel that special effects are more important than plotlines.

As for TV, nothing is more tired than the infamous Sitcom "list of three" setup, where the first to items set you up for the "joke" third item (enter laugh track).

[Sandy G]

I hate it when directors don't pay attention to details. In "Goldfinger", the Lincoln that is seen taking the gangster to the airport,& in which he's shot, is a '64 model. The one that gets crushed after Oddjob gets out is a '63. In "Goodfellas", Henry & his buds are leaning up against a Chevy in 1963. The car is a '65. A jet goes overhead, the camera pans up, & its a 747. 747s didn't go into service til 1970.-Sandy G.

[OvenMaster]

Lately my local ABC outlet shows local Comcast ads as a crawl during prime-time shows! WTF?? 90% of everyone here has cable already!
Tom

[WhiskeyRebel]

555 phone numbers. Jeez, buy a number with a recorded message promoting the studio and use that at least.

Product placement with the subtlety of a shrieking toddler.

Explosives that just make a billowy yellow flame and have no concussion or ground shock. Physics, people

I think I'm about to veer into a rant that I already posted on another forum of this BB before the movies & TV forum was put up so that's where I'll stop.

[Celt]

I agree with all the above. I've seen several westerns made during the 70's where they'd aim the camera at a wall clock to show the time...and the clock was almost always a battery clock without any keyhole for a spring or weight. Also there's one scene in 'Sacco & Vanzetti' where there's a Model-T car chase and you can see a 70's Lincoln Town Car in the background. Hello? Continuity please? Another gripe of mine is Hollyweird's tendancy to mate young, attractive actresses with old geezers like Jack Nicholson.

[OvenMaster]

Another gripe of mine is Hollyweird's tendancy to mate young, attractive actresses with old geezers like Jack Nicholson.
Gives us old geezers hope, Celt:D At least we can live vicariously.
Tom

[Sandy G]

...Think I've mentioned this B4, but how many times did Jack Lord start out on a chase in that big, black, ominous '68 Mercury, chase 'em in the big, black, ominous '74 Mercury, & get to the destination back in the big, black, ominous '68 Mercury again ? I know it was just TV, but come on, continuity guys, WAKE UP !!! -Sandy G.

[fropiler]

Having to crank the volume to 10 just to hear the dialog, forgetting it there until the music/crash/explosion scene jolts you into cardiac arrest. f'ers. can't they figure out a way to even it up a bit?

[madpioneer]

Ads before the movie totally suck! Come on! Commercials at the theater PLEASE!!
How about when they cut a film like 'The Medallion' w/Jakie Chan they show a print out of a guy and when handed off its a different print out of some other guy then the DVD shows the deleted scenes and there it is the correct print out but for some stupid reason the editing screwed the scene up? Not the best movie example but one I could think of quick.
How about car chases on TV or movies no matter what the windshield is spotless. Car gets shunted or side slammed but in the next scene it is completely intact and then at the end of the chase you see the total damage.
In Beverly Hills Cop II the hitmen are given instructions for taking out Foley while sitting in a 86'-87' IROC Z28, but when they shoot it out with Axel,Billy and Taggert they are driving a 1981 Z ?
In Beverly Hills Cop III the rescue on the ride is just to fake looking. When they are holding Axel underground in the park and he is sitting in the chair you see the mic just at the chairs seat level. The Porsche conveniently with the keys in it Come On!

TV don't even get me started I'm with Unican_Eric-I know what channel I am on and don't cloud up the screen with whats on next or later tonight. Cable channels are just as bad. Because of these things and the fact that I can no longer stand commercials on TV I have not watched TV in over three years now!

[Jamison]

by the way another pet peeve is with the blues brothers movie... one of my favorites .... but try and watch the sensored version they show on tv? john belushi died before they could edit it for tv so another person does the voice... yuck..

another good one is movies that are very long, I loved the lord of the rings trilogy as well as some others that were 3 hours long or longer but for the love of god give us an intermission so we can take a pee or stretch a bit... alll it would take is to do away with all the previews and advertising... not that the movie industry would go for that.. also shut your frigging cell phone off and shut up when the movie is on...I dont pay good money to watch kids yap and yell

[Holst]

how many times did Jack Lord start out on a chase in that big, black, ominous '68 Mercury, chase 'em in the big, black, ominous '74 Mercury, & get to the destination back in the big, black, ominous '68 Mercury again ?

Answer, as many time as Rock Hudsons Chevy turned into a Ford and and back again on McMillian and Wife.

How about these

If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.

Another Blues Brothers and others... If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

No matter how savagely a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.

Any lock can be picked with a credit card or paperclip in seconds. UNLESS it's the door to a burning building with a child inside.

If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

On a police stake-out, the action will only ever take place when food is being consumed and scalding hot coffees are perched precariously on the dashboard . . .

If a microphone is turned on it will immediately feedback.

Prostitutes always look like Julia Roberts or Jamie Lee Curtis. They have expensive clothes and nice apartments but no pimps. They are friendly with the shopkeepers in their neighbourhood who don't mind at all what the girl does for a living.

Stallone's Law.... One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once

Manix Law..... A guy with a machine gun can't hit anybody, a guy with a snub nose 32 can take out a guy on the roof of a skyscaper while shooting from the hip.

Bonanza's Law.... 75 shot revolvers.

Mel's Law.... Guns are like disposable razors. If you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. you will always find another one.

Harrison's Law.... If being chased through a city you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

Steve's Law.... Cars never need fuel unless they're involved in a pursuit which ironicly ends when the car your chasing crashes into a gas station.

Clint's Law.... Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to learn to speak German. Simply speaking English with a German accent will do. Similarly, when they are alone, all German soldiers prefer to speak English to each other.

Sean's Law.... Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies with complicated devices incorporating fuses, pulleys, deadly gases, lasers and man-eating sharks.

Manix's other law..... During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.

In the midwest, all gas station attendants have red handkerchiefs hanging out of their back pockets.

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it's aired and then they get all quiet.

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital displays so you know exactly when they are going to explode.

Any police officer about to retire from the force will more often than not die on their last day especially if their family have planned a party and their best friend who's a detective can only solve a case after they have been suspended from duty.

All grocery shopping involves the purchase of French loaves which will be placed in open brown paper bags but when said bags break, only fruit will spill out.

A single match is usually sufficient to light up a room the size of the Hubert H Humphery Metrodome.

Plain or even ugly girls can become movie star pretty simply by removing their glasses and rearranging their hair.

Getaway cars never start first go. But all cop cars do.

All single women have a cat.

The ventilation system of any building or submarine is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected. Tom's Law.... if it's a high security building and the ventilation system is filled with alarms that sense the slightest motion, they will have rat's that somehow don't set off the alarms.

It is not necessary to say "Hello" or "Goodbye" when beginning a telephone conversation. A disconnected call can always be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying "Hello? Hello?" repeatedly.

You can always find a chainsaw when you need one

[Manitoulin]

Close ups through windshields; cars do not have rear view mirrors, long shots, there they are.

Dial a number, other end get the call immmediately, eevn cell phones. No one ever gets a busy signal, the called party always answers on the first ring. When to TV characters go to the bathroom?

Pets are always the smartest animals on the planet. No one owns a fat dog or cat.

No hero has a plain or bad looking wife or girlfriend.

Worst of all, studios that actually call Arnold, Sly and Stevan Segal actors...

[TVTeufel]

....usually a biblical epic with Charlton Heston or whomever addressing the multitudes on horseback spread out over 500 acres. All he has to do "shout" whatever the rallying message, & we get "booyahs" from the back rows probably located in another zip code.

Along the same lines, why don't opposing forces simply shoot/spear/blow-up the horses? (Oh,yeah...PETA).

How come cars in those 10 minute bash n' chase scenes look better in the end than those that we drive after a 10mph fender bender during a rush hour crawl?

How come our hero, after a 3 minute bar room brawl usually with multiple adversaries brandishing heavy metal blunt & sharp thingies, never loses a tooth?

How come knuckles never hurt after the same mayhem?

Why do so many male actors when confronted with comely women displaying opulent cleavage never stare at it, & drool like the rest of us would?

:scratch2: Ron.

[Mike Bama]

In a Starsky & Hutch (TV series) scene, the bad guy drives a red 64 Chevy into a paint shop, and when it comes out it's a white 63. Ah.......... the marvels of Hollywood.

I do like the six shooters that have unlimited capacity.

[gearhead]

I thought it was funny that Starsky could shift a 4 speed with both hands on the wheel.
At least it SOUNDED like a 4 speed.
(And an automatic shift selector was on the column, hmmmm)

[mhardy6647]

The only one that really, and routinely, bugs me is when something blows up in outer space, and we hear it on the soundtrack.

That's why I always really appreciated the "airlock" scene in Kubrick's 2001. It's completely soundless, until enough air rushes in to conduct the sound. Very cool (and that was in, what? 1968?)

[THOR]

My biggest peeve is that Hollywood guns seem to have the unlimited ammo cheat some of my video games use. It's especially bad in westerns, I mean I may have trouble counting to 15 or 30 like some autos and semi autos hold but I can count to six ;)

[foetusized]

Having to crank the volume to 10 just to hear the dialog, forgetting it there until the music/crash/explosion scene jolts you into cardiac arrest. f'ers. can't they figure out a way to even it up a bit?

Add to that, turning up the volume of a movie on TV to hear the dialog, and then a commercial comes on at twice the volume.

[Cloth Ears]

People who get shot are blown backwards by the force of the bullet (.177's .22's, .303's, .5's - makes no difference)...

'Exploding car' syndrome...

Re-writing of history (or historical epics) to make a 'better movie'...

The transposition of movie characters into their historical conterparts (people now think Moses looked like Charlton Heston, whereas he probably looked more like Osama Bin Laden)...

That almost every single gripe mentioned in these pages are in movies made in the USA, England, or Australia. Think of the final gunfight in "Once upon a Time in the West" - Henry Fonda stands stock still, fumbles putting his gun away, and finally crumples to the ground. In "The Transporter" - the only cars to blow up are the ones with bombs in them.

[2DualsNotEnough]

I hate that Im old enough now to remember the original films of all the remakes they are making for the teens now.In the last year alone-The Fog,Fun With Dick and Jane,When A Stranger Calls,The Longest Yard,Willy Wonka,The Producers,etc.

I hate what they do to martial arts films by the time we get them here-Dubbing them instead of using original soundtrack,waiting years before we get them,totally re-editing them,to the point of changing the order of scenes,and shortening the action scenes for western tastes,and removing the comedy scenes,or love scenes because we might find them silly.

Who decided that Paul Walker or Scarlett Johansen could act?

I hate the 80's and 90's action movies that felt it was exciting to kill as many people as possible.Ive never seen a horror movie that had as many killings as a Swartzenegger or Stallone movie.

I hate going to a film aimed at a more intelligent audience that features a big hollywood star.Half the audience is expecting their usual film,and loudly voices their opinions/or laughs because the film doesnt aim as low as they were hoping:Hero(w/Jet Li),Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind(Jim Carrey),Punch-Drunk Love(Adam Sandler).

I hate going to a film aimed at teens,and know that all the kids are going to laugh when one of the characters cries during a very emotional scene.

I hate being so spoiled that I get bummed when a theatre doesnt have stadium style seating.

Jimmy

[Icon]

speaking of the transporter

it drives me crazzy that ever single gunshot has a fricken yellow tracer like flight path. otherwise the movie is good tho

[Sandy G]

Another thing I HATE is people bringing infants/rugrats to theaters w/them, & the inevitable caterwauling that ensues, along w/trips to the bathroom, concession stand,'splainin' the movie-LOUDLY- to the rugrats, more trips to the can, crying when the Pepsi/popcorn gets spilled....or when you have a gaggle of 10-14 yr old grrrrls who whisper, giggle, go back & forth during the flick. I would probably gotten arrested, but once I came THIS CLOSE to sticking my leg out in the aisle to see how many of them I could trip....And then you have the Father of the aforementioned brood of squallin' young uns...He's ALWAYS 7' tall, wears a cap, & invariably plonks down square in front of me. The thought to remove his chapeau would never, of course, cross his Nascar mind....Grrrrrrrrr !!-Sandy G., Curmudgeon

[SPL db]

I thought it was funny that Starsky could shift a 4 speed with both hands on the wheel.
At least it SOUNDED like a 4 speed.
(And an automatic shift selector was on the column, hmmmm)

Add to that when they do a close up of the actors driving a car and you can clearly see that the car is in park!

I've never liked any Steven Segal movies because he never gets a hair out of place let alone hurt.

I mean he can walk down a street with like 50 bad guys and kill each one first try and never get a scratch? Please...

Scott

[Sandy G]

...Or when you hear tires squealing in utter pain...An' its a DIRT ROAD they're on...Jeez !!-Sandy G.

[THOR]

A guy actually brought like a 5yr girl to LOTR's the Two Towers. You know we waited a friggin' year to see this movie! This little girl would not stop talking LOUDLY the whole time. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and turned to the guy and VERY LOUDLY and not very nicely told him to make that kid STFU! Guess what? The WHOLE movie theater applauded!!!!!!! Then the guy got up and left and thank god he took the brat with him ;)

[Sandy G]

The way many chilluns act in public nowadays is truly deplorable. When Yrs Trly was a tadpole, getting to Go Out was a treat, but I knew if I acted badly, I'd 1) Not get to Go Out again for awhile, & 2) prolly have my Fanny Tanned. After a couple of Henry-my Dad's- Old-Fashioned Fanny Tannings, I sorta got the message, & was a Dood Widdle Lad. Now we have "Time-Outs"...WTF izzat? Yeah, they work REAL WELL....I also have a Bridge I'd like you to buy...-Sandy G., Spare the Rod & all that...

[Icon]

how about we talk about the fast and the ferious... hehe maybe we should save that one for its own thred

[Sansuiman]

Great observations and rants all! Really nothing I can add to the above except:

Time out? Yeah. You take time out to take the belt off. That's what I'm talking about. And belive me, my parents knew the effectiveness of a strap across the ass-end (usually mine, less often my younger siblings) towards adjusting one's attitude.

And guess what? I grew up to be a productive, responsible well adjusted person. With a few scars ;)

Kevin

[jimmymagick]

I was telling my girlfriend now that we qualify for senior discount (55+ at most theaters around here), we need to get into the whole "senior experience."

You know, talk throughout the movie. Ask for every plot point of the movie to be explained to us--LOUDLY! In general, just act like we were sitting on the couch in the living room without any consideration of the people around us.

[soundmotor]

This one irks me.

Pursued Movie Character (PMC), is being chased by bad guy(s) who intend to rape/maim/molest/kill/dismember him/her. PMC manages to cold cock or otherwise incapacitate one of the pursuers who drops his loaded gun. PMC then continues to run, sometimes after hiding pursuer in utility closet after tying him up, and leaves loaded weapon behind. Farking moron. I'd have to believe that even the most anti-gun PMC would seriously reconsider their position on firearms, even temporarily, if one meant the difference between rape/maim/molest/kill/dismember.

[RussinOhio]

Both goodguys & badguys....constantly checking to see if their guns are loaded!

...And, cocking their guns right AT the moment of danger! (just to display that "COOL" clicking sound!).

Russ

[soundmotor]

Both goodguys & badguys....constantly checking to see if their guns are loaded!

...And, cocking their guns right AT the moment of danger! (just to display that "COOL" clicking sound!).

Russ

To add -

The ratcheting sound a revolver cylinder makes when spun.....only in the movies.

Cocked, hammer back, finger on the trigger, and running.

[Holst]

Originally Posted by RussinOhio Both goodguys & badguys....constantly checking to see if their guns are loaded!

Oh yeah, that reminds me of another one, the phrase "lock and load", how do you load a locked gun.