Things I'm Sick of - Action Movie Cliche #39

[Sodalis]

hollywood things that annoy me

i don't know if this has been posted, but i wanted to do so before i forget:

*Monstrous animals are indestructible except for their achilles heel (whatever it may be).

I was watching a Sci- Fi movie over the weekend and there was a giant croc movie. It basically took ten shots to the head (shotgun) and kept on coming

oh yeah and:
*monstrous animals ignore all pain- stupidly crashing through concrete walls and doors as if it were not there- and then continue to come at the person...

I dont care how large andpowerful the croc is, it is not stupid enough to crash through a concrete wall (evenif it were able to) becaus the pain of it would deter it. I would accept running through a door or window, but not a steel/ concrete wall...

*no matter how advance the animal is, it's animal instinct always wins over.

In Deep blue sea, it was this close *squinting* to freeing itself and becoming the most dominant hunter in the sea. but the smell of blood drew it back long enough for LL cool J to shoot it witha harpoon connected to an explosive.
I am sorry- but if it were smart enought o trick the people (all doctors mind you) to sink the station and find an escape route- I think it would have enough restraint to escape instead of kill that stupid, bleeding girl...

*humans always win

 

[Gnarlo]

>>>Bombs: Why do bombers always use timers instead of remote triggering devices? And why do the heroes always find out about the bomb seconds before its to go off?? Recent favorite scene countering this notion: The Chronicle TV series where they find the bomb, it seems to have seconds left on the timer and one character is all pumped to do something about it, when his friends show him that there's still two more hours that he didn't see and he was all shaky and coming off his adreneline and fear saying, "Oh good, let's call the bomb squad." <<<

My favorite example of this is in Galaxyquest, when they disable the self destruct mechanism, and then watch in horror as it counts down and stops at 1, because that's what it always does in the TV show

 

[Hatchling Dragon]

My all-time favorite cliche: "You killed <whomever>, so now I must swear vengance!" While it can be a 'valid' reason to have the Protagonist take on the Villians I just wish someone would have a fit of creativity now 'n again.

This, and the "I have more Ego than God does." attitude, is why I'll never watch a Segal picture again. How someone can be so full of themselfs.... But that's a rant for another thread

Hatchling Dragon

 

[HeavyG]

Re: Re: Things I'm Sick of - Action Movie Cliche #39

The only movie cliche that bothers me is that most villians don't die by the heroes hand anymore- they die by falling and being impaled/crushed/whatever.

That's sooo true.

If I was a bad guy, I would really watch out for any pointed object jutting out from anywhere.
Especially if the camera zooms on it sometimes at the start of a battle.

 

[Ycore Rixle]

My least favorite movie cliche is that the bad guy is almost always a businessman.

Why can't the bad guy ever be an environmentalist, an animal rights activist, or a civil rights lawyer?

 

[Atticus_of_Amber]

Not a cliche

My least favorite movie cliche is that the bad guy is almost always a businessman.

Why can't the bad guy ever be an environmentalist, an animal rights activist, or a civil rights lawyer?

Ah, but that is one of the few realistic Hollywood conventions!

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I don't really hate much since I go to see action movies in order to see silly violence and stuipid one liners. But the slow motion thing is gettng annoyingly overdone.

As for the bad guys always miss problem, well it may annoy poeple but it seems to accurately model reality. I don't know how many shoot outs I see reported on the news end result hundreds of rounds of ammo fired, one guy shot in the leg. Wierdly enough if you consider us(american/UN forces) the good guys and the stats were right about that incident in samolia for black hawk down, 19 americans were killed over 1,000 samalians were killed. So, it may annoy you that bad guys' guns never seem to hit their target, but aparently the reality of gun fighting seems to be everyone always misses once anyone else is shooting back at them, you just win through numbers of bullets and blind luck that something eventually hits. I think the complaint should more be that the hero always hits, not that the villans always miss.

 

[DM with a vengence]

What I really hate is when its obvious that the bad guys should be hitting someone, but don't.

For example take the Archives Scene in Goldeneye. Bond is running on a metal grating, and below him are a half dozen Russian soldiers with AKs shooting.

The range is under 20 feet, and bullets are literally hitting the grating underneath Bond's feet, but he just keep running along.

You get the feeling that unless he's wearing bulletproof undies, the Bond girls won't have anything to do for quite some time.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

See that didn't bother me at least it was a metal grating deflecting the bullets. It annoys me more when they hide behind 1/4 inch plywood and that somhow stops bullets, even then though while physics wise I may be going what the????, movie enjoyment wise I'm going woo-hoo, stuipid one liners and people getting shot what more can you want for 10$.(by the way good thing about bay area of new york, matinee prices still exist. )

 

[|]emonix]

Everyones forgetting....

Uhhhh, everyone is forgetting the worst action flick of all time..... yea thats right, mission impossible 2 (mission Impossible 1 was great)

what a pos... crap like that should not belong in the industry, ESPECIALLY the part when Tom Cruise rides the motor cycle while being chased by 4 cars with guys shooting out of the windows. Every bullet just happens to hit a gas tank, a tire, or a person. Yet he is riding well over 50mph.....

Or when he Jumps off the Motor Cycle at the same time the bad guy does and collides in mid air with him....... o god thats sad
Law of physics says your speed X the speed of the object is how fast you will be going when u hit the target or somethin (not sure if its add or multiply...) lets say he was going 40.... 40 + 40 = 80.. he hit another guy going 80 mph

that was really a sad, sad day when i wasted my cash on that one

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