Are you ever annoyed by a scene in an otherwise good film?
Just watching 'The Day After Tomorrow' (felt like a bit of spectacle today), and once more when it got to the bit where Emmy what's-her-face, Jake G's love interest, cuts her leg but then goes back to get the bag of the black non-English-speaking mother and child, I gritted my teeth, jolted out of a great action movie.
There's a wall of water coming at them, panic everywhere, and she goes back to get someone's bag, if you please, after helping to save her from the waterlogged taxi. There being nothing preventing the woman from going back for her own bloody bag, by the way, English not being required to reach into a car. And nothing preventing Emmy-Love-Interest from saying, 'I've just helped save your life, at risk to my own. I've got a bloody great gash in my leg. The world looks like it's coming to an end. Get moving or I'll drown you myself.'
It's such a sledgehammer way to show her 'character'. It's like the writers are saying, 'You WILL like her! You WILL! She's sweet and lovely and wonderful and you WILL LIKE HER!' Why not just have her saving a basketful of kittens and have done with it?
It reminds me of the Rasta-biker/cop in the trunk scene in the otherwise excellent 'Thelma and Louise'. Callie Khouri is showing us the cop is OK, and trying to lighten the situation, because otherwise we might not be so happy about what Thelma and Louise have just done, but what a shame she chose to use such a stereotype character, who seems so out of place in the film, to do it.
Anyone else feels like saying, 'Get out, you're spoiling my movie' to a certain scene?
Just watching 'The Day After Tomorrow' (felt like a bit of spectacle today), and once more when it got to the bit where Emmy what's-her-face, Jake G's love interest, cuts her leg but then goes back to get the bag of the black non-English-speaking mother and child, I gritted my teeth, jolted out of a great action movie.
There's a wall of water coming at them, panic everywhere, and she goes back to get someone's bag, if you please, after helping to save her from the waterlogged taxi. There being nothing preventing the woman from going back for her own bloody bag, by the way, English not being required to reach into a car. And nothing preventing Emmy-Love-Interest from saying, 'I've just helped save your life, at risk to my own. I've got a bloody great gash in my leg. The world looks like it's coming to an end. Get moving or I'll drown you myself.'
It's such a sledgehammer way to show her 'character'. It's like the writers are saying, 'You WILL like her! You WILL! She's sweet and lovely and wonderful and you WILL LIKE HER!' Why not just have her saving a basketful of kittens and have done with it?
It reminds me of the Rasta-biker/cop in the trunk scene in the otherwise excellent 'Thelma and Louise'. Callie Khouri is showing us the cop is OK, and trying to lighten the situation, because otherwise we might not be so happy about what Thelma and Louise have just done, but what a shame she chose to use such a stereotype character, who seems so out of place in the film, to do it.
Anyone else feels like saying, 'Get out, you're spoiling my movie' to a certain scene?