Movie Stuff That's Always Bugged You...

Jcomp · Aug 14, 2008

Not necessarily plot holes, or stuff that ruined a movie, but little things that nag at you about certain flicks.

For instance, in Return of the Jedi, after Luke rescues Han, Han tells him, "Thanks, I owe you one." Of course, Han had previously saved Luke's ass twice, at the first Death Star raid and then on planet Hoth. So really, Luke still owes him one. And technically, Han saved him again during Luke's attempted rescue right before he was about to get blasted by Boba Fett. So really Luke still owes him two. Dammit...

And in Tombstone, the scene after the Cowboys retaliate on the Earp boys and the whole family starts yelling at Wyatt like the situation's all his fault. I love the movie, but I hate that part. Wyatt was the only one saying they shouldn't get involved, he knew things would end up badly, if y'all had listened none of this crap would've happened. Plus we all know he'll end up saving the day anyway, so everybody needs to drink a warm glass of shut the hell up and let the man get on with his vengeful business...

maestrowork · Aug 14, 2008

The hairstyles in Zodiac. They're SO not time-appropriate. Why, oh, why, did they have the same hairstyles from late 60s to the 80s? Why did Paul Avery (RDJ) have "disco" hair in the late 60s? Didn't the hair/make-up person do any research? Or were they just so lazy to fix the character up? All Jake Gyllenhaal got, over a span of 20 years, was a new mustache!

shawkins · Aug 14, 2008

I think I've seen a sufficient number of car chases.

If God had wanted monsters to be made out of CGI, He wouldn't have given us latex.

Julia Roberts.

Plucky kids.

Pretty much every scene in every movie that involved some computer nerd hacking into somewhere.

LloydBrown · Aug 14, 2008

There have been many. Sadly, none comes to mind when somebody starts a thread like this.

dgiharris · Aug 14, 2008

The thing that DRIVES ME NUCKING FUTS is monster movies in which the Monster is immune to bullets, bombs, missiles and every weapon known to man.

I don't care that Godzilla is 500 ft tall (or however tall he is).
A missile will at the very least, blast a big chunk of flesh off of him. A tank shell (that can go through 5 ft of steel) will easily pierce his skin and again, at the very least rip chunks of meat off of the monster.

UGGGG!!!! That just annoys the hell out of me. Especially in Cloverfield. The bombs they dropped would have blown that monster into bit sized chunks.

Hollywood, stop it. STOP IT NOW!!!

Mel...

katiemac · Aug 14, 2008

I hate it when characters overlook the simple solution. Chick flicks do this a lot ... TELL THE TRUTH and the entire conflict goes away. *sigh*

Gravity · Aug 14, 2008

Any action movie that gives the MC a comic sidekick. Because you just know somewhere toward the end of the third act the sidekick will get killed in a heart-tugging way, right after giving a final wry quip to the MC. It's become so obvious that whenever my wife and I see the SK for the first time, we immediately name him Mr. Dead Meat and start placing bets on how Mr. Meat will die, and what ironic thing he'll gasp.

donroc · Aug 14, 2008

Blame Shakespeare. He started it with Mercutio.

DeleyanLee · Aug 14, 2008

katiemac said:
I hate it when characters overlook the simple solution. Chick flicks do this a lot ... TELL THE TRUTH and the entire conflict goes away. *sigh*

Known in Genre Romance circles as "The Big Misunderstanding Plot".

Kids in movies bug me to no end. They either have mouths on them far beyond their years (I so hate Bart Simpson clones) or they're heart-tugging props that are going to be used against the heroes but never actually killed or maimed as real baddies would do in a heartbeat.

In the last 10 years, I think the only kid in a movie that didn't bug me was in Return of the Mummy. Alex wasn't a prop, wasn't mouthy just to be a cute kid and actually DID something fairly worthwhile and intelligent (several times) in the storyline.

katiemac · Aug 14, 2008

Kids in movies bug me to no end. They either have mouths on them far beyond their years (I so hate Bart Simpson clones) or they're heart-tugging props that are going to be used against the heroes but never actually killed or maimed as real baddies would do in a heartbeat.

My second pet peeve; kids. Especially as a device in sequels. Including the long-lost son or daughter angle.

maestrowork · Aug 14, 2008

Talking dogs and cats and chihuahuas. Freaks!

(I did, however, love Babe -- that's an exception)

shawkins · Aug 14, 2008

Not really movie related, but that dancing baby always creeped me out.

Deccydiva · Aug 14, 2008

Cartoons where the animal characters all have blue eyes (Cuz it's "cute") and human, false teeth. And the human characters are size zero.

Kids. I'm with the rest of you on that one! :Soapbox:

dgiharris · Aug 14, 2008

Evil characters that take shit from their hostages

UGGG!!!!! That just annoys me to no freaking end.

How can you be the big bad villian while the uppidty hostages give you lip or refuse to follow your orders.

Or worse, tries to screw up your nefarious plan when you've expressly forbiddened them and threatened their lives or the lives of their families.

Take Firewall with Harrison Ford. He blatantly disregarded the terrorists threats and was caught trying to screw up their plans, and all the terrorists do is feed candy, that has peanuts, to his kid (kid is allergic to peanuts).

Wow, you are evil. Gave the kid a whole peanut. *shivers*

Mel...

Clair Dickson · Aug 14, 2008

Why is it all futures have transparent computers/paper/etc for people to read off of. I don't know about the rest of you, but I totally would NOT be able to read much off a transparent surface.

And the whole thing where people chose to not tell the truth in relationships-- I really think that's helping to warp people's perceptions of how a relationship is supposed to work. (Yeah, in the movies, things work out whether they ever admit they lied or not... in real life, not so much.)

And it's way too easy to spot the bad guy. I'd have more fun in a movie if the bad guy wasn't the only one with the beady eyes and scarred face twisted into a scowl. It would add more suspense...

maestrowork · Aug 14, 2008

Computer user interfaces. Like, who designed these computers? And for whom they designed for, people who can't read the screen unless the letters of "PASSWORD GOES HERE ->>>" are like 1" wide and tall each?

And how come it always takes them 30 seconds, 40 tops, to figure out the password?

And don't get me started on Jurassic Park...

"Oh, this is Unix system, I know this." Then she flew her mouse cursor over a friggin' model of the "file system" that looked more like a flight simulator. ^@$% me.

Jcomp · Aug 14, 2008

Evil boss characters who always kill a henchman arbitrarily. Certainly there are some situations where killing one of your henchmen may be necessary, but you have to know that doing it just to be doing it is going to bite you in your ass later.

John Lithgow in Cliffhanger comes to mind. By the end I bet he was thinking, "I made a bad mistake killing one of my own. I could really use their help right now."

Also, the whole way the Jedi council treated Anakin throughout the prequels. You know, if you'd just been nicer to the kid a whole lot of disaster and murder and genocide could've been avoided...

Jcomp · Aug 14, 2008

maestrowork said:
And don't get me started on Jurassic Park...

"Oh, this is Unix system, I know this." Then she flew her mouse cursor over a friggin' model of the "file system" that looked more like a flight simulator. ^@$% me.

Dude... I hate that scene...

alleycat · Aug 14, 2008

When the good guy(s) has the bad guy down on the ground, sometimes just dazed, other times completely knocked out . . . and instead of finishing him off, or at least tying him up, they go, "Let's get out of here" and take off running. Then the bad guy comes to before they're even out of the building and off after the good guys again. Sheesh.

If some guy had been shooting at me with a submachine gun and I get him down on the ground, he ain't getting back up. Even if I didn't kill him, I would break enough bones so that he couldn't move.

regdog · Aug 14, 2008

I hate smart mouthed smart ass kids.-Well I hate them in real life too but that's besides the point

I hate movies that are made from books and they change the story. -Excuse me but the story has already been told stop changing it. Example-Demi Moore's abomination of The Scarlett Letter

I hate sappy music that is supposed increase the drama.

I hate car chases, stupid explosions, and pointless excessive violence.

I hate women always being victims and stupid.

I hate in horror movies that the idiots ALWAYS go down the dark stairs, hall etc where the homicidial looney is.

I hate it when the MC's survive the impossible-Example Twister the 2 MC tie themselves to a pipe and survive a catagory 5 tornado after it passes directly over them :Wha:

I hate the MC is dying but finds true love as they're dying and they look fantastic to boot. And the person they love becomes a better person for having known them.

I hate really bad American remakes of good foreign movies

WOW I hate a lot of things about movies

jgold · Aug 14, 2008

Any number of teen movies from the eighties and nineties when the unpopular/semi-ugly kid wants the prom king/queen to notice him/her. Why should the prettier people settle for less than the best when the MC doesn't look more than skin-deep either? Always struck me as a bit hypocritical.

regdog · Aug 14, 2008

alleycat said:
The only thing you left out were the floors being sticky in the theater.

;-)

S**t you're right :roll:

KTC · Aug 14, 2008

Leslie Nielson.

Nuff said.

Jersey Chick · Aug 14, 2008

A few things -

1. Any movie set in any major city, where characters

a) can find the perfect parking place right in front of the building they are going to - yeah, right. That doesn't ever happen out here in the sticks, never mind NYC.

b) can always catch a cab the moment they step off the curb - in the rain, in the snow, major holidays, or coming out of a Broadway theatre with 6 million other people.

2. When the pyscho killer in any horror movie isn't killed - i.e. Michael Myers - he's supposedly a regular ol' person, right? So how come he can get stabbed in the eye with a wire coat hanger, get shot 5 or 6 times, fall from a second (maybe third, can't quite remember) story window and just get up and walk away???

3. When people know said psycho killer's on the loose, and no one ever uses the buddy system.

4. Who the hell goes searching through a pitch-black house, looking for that same psycho killer, in their SKIMPIEST LINGERIE???

5. Cheesy villains who explain their every evil motive for their every evil action to the hero before attempting to kill him (which never happens anyway because Token best buddy/cop partner bust down the door at the very last minute, free the hero and let the hero get all the glory in killing the villain because best buddies are far too generous to want that glory for themselves.)

Okay - I think that's it for now.

regdog · Aug 14, 2008

Jersey Chick said:
A few things -

4. Who the hell goes searching through a pitch-black house, looking for that same psycho killer, in their SKIMPIEST LINGERIE???
Okay - I think that's it for now.

I always look for psycho killers in my skimpy lingerie and I flip my hair while I'm searching too.

Jersey chick I think your list is as long as my list

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