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I'm always amazed that people in movies can have conversations while in a moving convertible, speedboat, or on a motorcycle.
Along this line; people in tanks or a Navy ship's engine room able to hear each other speak without screaming or headsets.
Helicopters that start up and fly in seconds
Bad guy tells hero the plan before leaving him alone in the room to be killed by machine/animal in private
A sniper from a half a mile away can quickly take aim and hit his target in seconds on the first try
Low rank bad guys can't hit target 10 feet away
Flying through air while blindly firing guns
Crime labs of the present having technology and speed of the future
The clothes street hookers wear.
Perfect hair wake up
Perfect hair convertable ride
Perfect hair motorcycle ride
Waking up from a nightmare will always cause the dreamer to suddenly sit boldly upright in bed.
How many times has that happened to you?
Depends on the nightmare. I almost drowned while making repairs to a ship. That was 1997. Had those nightmares at least once a year for ten years before they stopped coming
Movie grocery bags always have a piece of french bread sticking out of them.
Cops turn on their lights and sirens to respond to crimes in progress.
Dogs do what they're told to except for canned comic relief... which is just as unnatural.
Aliens are almost always weird insectoid creatures that want to kill us all just because we are there.
Somehow we always defeat the weird insectoid aliens with vastly inferior human technology.
Dying people always get to say something meaningful and heartfelt right before they die.
It's always easy and effective to shoot guns in both hands at the same time.
Otherwise invincible characters are always given 1 random weakness that is somehow always known by their enemy.
All people look good naked and nobody uses protection but somehow the babes never get pregnant and they don't need to wash up after they are done with the deed.
Regular cars make huge jumps all the time but don't get destroyed in the process.
A character gets $hIt-faced drunk but suddenly has an important idea or needs to do something and instantly becomes sober.
When an investigation hits a snag, the hero finds a shady business run by a dirty wormy guy who for some inexplicable reason always has the info they need and is also a big wussy who is easily intimidated. Mr Wormy is usually played by the same couple of typecast actors too.
The "bad part of town" always has the same couple of obvious movie hookers standing on a corner at night.
If there is a submarine in the movie, it will always emergency blow the tanks and leap out of the water like a breaching whale at least once for no good reason.
If there is a sword fight in the movie, the sword will never break unless a hero or villian needs to look desperate but he'll always have a *yawn* surprise hidden dagger on hand to keep the fight going.
If it is a WWII movie, it will inevitably have that somber, pensive trumpet music that reminds us of all of those WWII documentaries which used the same kind of music... mostly because those shows didn't have a budget to buy better background music when they were made.
A movie haunting will always result in driving someone to insanity and cause their eventual death.
A movie graveyard is always full of tall old Victorian-style headstones, even if it's a recent burial in the story.
Movie beaches are always full of beautiful bikini babes and ripped guys except for 1 humorous token fat person or elderly couple.
In a shoot out, the good guys are always able to hide themselves from the line of fire, but the bad guys are always out in the open and easily "picked" off.
In so many cop action movies, everyone always has these rapid-fire responses and commands to deliver to everyone else, without a moment of hesitation. This has always bothered me to the point where I can't watch most of these movies. There's not a second of deliberation in the exchange of the "lines". No conversations in real life actually flow like that. And evidence in crime investigations is always much to easy to find, or the technology is just too unbelievable.
Also, many times in movies these days, the female lead is way too young for the male lead. Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, and some others, I'm talking to you...
^ that reminds me of another one. Movie police station lobbies are always in a state of barely controlled pandemonium, as if the Apocalypse is in full swing on that night.
Cell phones being thrown out of a window, off a cliff, in the ocean or lake, etc. when the character is annoyed by someone calling them. How about just shutting it OFF? Would you throw your phone away whenever you were mad? yikes!
Sparking bullets - been around for a while though.
The cell phone thing gets me, too. I know they're not cheap - not the ones in movies, anyway.
Along this line; people in tanks or a Navy ship's engine room able to hear each other speak without screaming or headsets.
Helicopters that start up and fly in seconds
Bad guy tells hero the plan before leaving him alone in the room to be killed by machine/animal in private
A sniper from a half a mile away can quickly take aim and hit his target in seconds on the first try
Low rank bad guys can't hit target 10 feet away
Flying through air while blindly firing guns
Crime labs of the present having technology and speed of the future
The clothes street hookers wear. Perfect hair wake up
Perfect hair convertable ride
Perfect hair motorcycle ride
Apparently lovers wake up with good breathe also, since they start kissing on each other right away. Please, go brush your teeth!!
Apparently lovers wake up with good breathe also, since they start kissing on each other right away. Please, go brush your teeth!!
And no one ever has to pee right away upon awakening.
War Movie Cliches:
If the night before a battle some soldier takes out a picture of his wife and talks about how she will be having his baby next month and what a great future they will have....he is certain to be killed. If he is blown up in an explosion, only the picture of his wife will be left to be found.
You can generally rely on the members of a squad being killed in reverse order of how their names appeared in the opening credits.
All squads must be composed of:
Inexperienced lieutenant who is out to prove himself
Grizzled take no crap sergeant
Urban fast talking hustler type who always has some scam going
Silent, brooding, super competent in combat black soldier
Argumentative, complaining militant black soldier
Huge, slow witted white farm boy from some hick town
Newbie...nervous guy who has never been in combat before.
Latin or Native American soldier who we never learn much about and will be the first one killed..."Aw, they got Pedro."
Anytime any soldier remarks "It's awfully quiet out there", by law the soldier at whom this is directed is required to respond "Yeah, too quite."
All war movies which feature love triangles are resolved by the noble death of one of the soldiers, typically giving his life so that his rival may live and "...take good care of Betty...."
The one I hate is the big lunch room scenes where bullies harrass the uncool kids and there's never a teacher or adult in sight. And although they're not yelling the WHOLE room gets silent and watches.
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